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I blew through the first two seasons of veep on Amazon prime to realize...it only has the first two seasons available
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# ? Jun 11, 2019 00:19 |
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# ? Mar 28, 2024 10:37 |
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Yeah, Amazon seems to have some kind of a "give them just enough to entice them to pay for the extra Amazon Prime Channel" deal with HBO/Cinemax. I have HBO so I don't notice it with their shows but Cinemax STILL doesn't have any decent stand alone streaming option in 2019 so its annoying that I can watch like the first two seasons of Banshee or Strike Back easily and conveniently but then if I want the rest it gets more complicated.
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# ? Jun 11, 2019 00:24 |
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If they don't have a standalone streaming platform, can't you subscribe to Cinemax through Amazon?
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# ? Jun 11, 2019 01:16 |
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Yeah, but I have a cable subscription with Cinemax so obviously I'm not gonna pay extra for it as an Amazon channel. Understandably Amazon's deal is to try and get you to subscribe to those channels, though. The issue is that Cinemax DOES have a streaming app, MaxGo, and as a Cinemax subscriber I have access to it on a computer, phone, or tablet. But it doesn't have Chromecast capabilities and there's no FireTV app so the only way to watch it on a TV screen is to Chromecast from a computer (and the website is real shaky). Its obviously a first world "complaining I can't get wireless while I fly through the sky like a bird" problem but its like one of the only cases of that left I can think of. I find it really weird they haven't updated that by now.
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# ? Jun 11, 2019 01:31 |
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Watched the new Black Mirror episodes. They felt less poignant, with more comedy and upbeat stories, but were pretty entertaining, especially because of the performances of the 'celebrity' actors. None of the episodes were particularly bad, even if they were a bit off brand for the show, but neither were any particularly good. Couldn't really get into Mr Mercedes, which I saw mentioned in the thread and decided to give a shot. I was three episodes in before I caught on that it was some Stephen King trash, which explained the gutless, uninspired story and simplistic characters. Great cast though. Sat through the first season, fast forwarding through the finale and the first episode of the second season, hoping it would take a turn somewhere and grab my interest, but that didn't happen.
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# ? Jun 12, 2019 10:37 |
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Inadvertently binging through Dead To Me and drat is this show amazing.
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# ? Jun 13, 2019 06:57 |
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I'm smashing through Designated Survivor S3 and this show has become absolutely epic lmao
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# ? Jun 13, 2019 12:52 |
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Netflix recommended How to get away with murder but I couldn't get through the pilot, too American. Every scene had to be the most intense and dramatic scene of the most intense and dramatic show with most intense and dramatic (and ultra cliche) characters you will ever see. I considered it would probably settle down in the series but the actors defaulting to angry for most emotions made them incredibly unlikable. Authority is not anger, projecting your voice isn't hollering.
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# ? Jun 13, 2019 17:48 |
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wormil posted:Netflix recommended How to get away with murder but I couldn't get through the pilot, too American. Every scene had to be the most intense and dramatic scene of the most intense and dramatic show with most intense and dramatic (and ultra cliche) characters you will ever see. I considered it would probably settle down in the series but the actors defaulting to angry for most emotions made them incredibly unlikable. Authority is not anger, projecting your voice isn't hollering. I didn't realise this was why I turned it off half-way through, intending to go back to it, but never did. You're exactly right though. All stakes are high stakes, woooo! kind of drama. Even the opening (?) scene with the hoohaa about the class being the most super important hardest class ever had me rolling my eyes. Like most of the people wouldn't be doing enough to get "just" a decent grade in the class leaving more room to focus on the rest of their classes.
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# ? Jun 13, 2019 18:59 |
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I seem to be watching Outlander. It's stupid and bad and I will probably finish it in a week...
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# ? Jun 13, 2019 20:01 |
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Watching Outlander because sci-fi time travel is my fav genre and then slowly realizing over the course of several episodes that I was actually watching a female audience-targeted pulp romance novel adaption was hilarious. I think it was the episode where the female protagonist get's basically coerced into marriage then locked in a room to have, initially hesitant (ofc), sex for literally the entire episode that finally got me to say "wtf am I watching" and go searching on wikipedia.
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# ? Jun 13, 2019 21:10 |
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-Blackadder- posted:Watching Outlander because sci-fi time travel is my fav genre and then slowly realizing over the course of several episodes that I was actually watching a female audience-targeted pulp romance novel adaption was hilarious. I think it was the episode where the female protagonist get's basically coerced into marriage then locked in a room to have, initially hesitant (ofc), sex for literally the entire episode that finally got me to say "wtf am I watching" and go searching on wikipedia. LOL this is pretty much what happened to me too allthough I found it on Ronald Moore's IMDB. And the part of the show where it's a pulp romance novel isn't the dumb part.
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# ? Jun 13, 2019 21:13 |
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-Blackadder- posted:Watching Outlander because sci-fi time travel is my fav genre and then slowly realizing over the course of several episodes that I was actually watching a female audience-targeted pulp romance novel adaption was hilarious. I think it was the episode where the female protagonist get's basically coerced into marriage then locked in a room to have, initially hesitant (ofc), sex for literally the entire episode that finally got me to say "wtf am I watching" and go searching on wikipedia.
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# ? Jun 13, 2019 21:31 |
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Outlander is decent entertainment tough. I have seen worse historicallyish dramas (which is basically is plus a 20th century woman in the middle of it). Personally i don`t quite buy that her husband nr 1 would take her back but whatever, some people let themselves be taken advantage of, that is just life.
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# ? Jun 13, 2019 23:25 |
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mystes posted:The type of sci-fi time travel that's concerned more with the mechanics of time travel is pretty difference from the type of time travel story that's focused on what it's like for a modern person to live in the past. It's OK to not like the latter category without trying to turn it into a sexist thing. It's based on a romance novel and the major character beats bend to that genre's conventions, I don't think it's a sexist thing?
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# ? Jun 14, 2019 00:12 |
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Wallet posted:It's based on a romance novel and the major character beats bend to that genre's conventions, I don't think it's a sexist thing? stfu and cook me porridge, Sasanach
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# ? Jun 14, 2019 01:11 |
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Wallet posted:It's based on a romance novel and the major character beats bend to that genre's conventions, I don't think it's a sexist thing? I think the show's gender politics are pretty complicated. It's trying very hard not to be sexist but it's not always successful. BTW I would highly recommend watching Dark Season 1 before Season 2 comes out next week. The show is excellent. mcmagic fucked around with this message at 01:22 on Jun 14, 2019 |
# ? Jun 14, 2019 01:17 |
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mcmagic posted:I think the show's gender politics are pretty complicated. It's trying very hard not to be sexist but it's not always successful. It's set in the 1700's and at the latest the 1970's. Of course it's sexist. It's about a female nurse who travels back in time and place where gender roles are virtually set in stone. She gradually chips away at it until people take her seriously.
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# ? Jun 14, 2019 01:32 |
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I watched the first season and enjoyed it. She fretted a lot about being a bigamist and an adulterer, but is it really cheating if you’re stuck two hundred years in the past, though?
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# ? Jun 14, 2019 02:43 |
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Rocksicles posted:stfu and cook me porridge, Sasanach Yeah, no, the show definitely dips into sexism at times, but mystes seemed to be suggesting that recognizing the genre of the source material was sexist.
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# ? Jun 14, 2019 14:17 |
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Wallet posted:Yeah, no, the show definitely dips into sexism at times, but mystes seemed to be suggesting that recognizing the genre of the source material was sexist. Period romance = bad, gotcha.
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# ? Jun 14, 2019 14:56 |
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Rocksicles posted:Period romance = bad, gotcha. jesus loving christ
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# ? Jun 14, 2019 17:56 |
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My biggest problem with Outlander (I read the book a while ago, haven't seen the show) is the fact that the main villain turns out to be an evil gay rapist who kidnaps, rapes, and tortures the male main character for days, all of which is described in the book in graphic detail, and then the female main character cures the male main character of his post-rape PTSD via rough sex. People told me this book was "cute."
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# ? Jun 14, 2019 19:08 |
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showbiz_liz posted:My biggest problem with Outlander (I read the book a while ago, haven't seen the show) is the fact that the main villain turns out to be an evil gay rapist who kidnaps, rapes, and tortures the male main character for days, all of which is described in the book in graphic detail, and then the female main character cures the male main character of his post-rape PTSD via rough sex. People told me this book was "cute." shockingly, most suburban wine moms are massive homophobes.
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# ? Jun 14, 2019 20:38 |
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Rocksicles posted:Period romance = bad, gotcha. I actually thought the show was alright until it got into weird rape land, personally. I have not previously made any statements of preference for/against this show. Wallet fucked around with this message at 21:01 on Jun 14, 2019 |
# ? Jun 14, 2019 20:53 |
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I started watching The Hot Zone just now because I guess I'm on a miniseries kick because I finished Chernobyl. I guess I just enjoy the format's no-nonsense and direct narrative approach because they don't have a promise of future seasons and get everything done right in a handful of episodes the first time. I guess you can call it a binge because I'm likely pounding through all these episodes in a day or two. Rant aside, this is a really solid and tense series that I really get the impression is going to get more visceral later on.
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# ? Jun 15, 2019 23:11 |
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showbiz_liz posted:My biggest problem with Outlander (I read the book a while ago, haven't seen the show) is the fact that the main villain turns out to be an evil gay rapist who kidnaps, rapes, and tortures the male main character for days, all of which is described in the book in graphic detail, and then the female main character cures the male main character of his post-rape PTSD via rough sex. People told me this book was "cute." Season 4 gets REALLY dumb.
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# ? Jun 15, 2019 23:43 |
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The Americans. It's in my top five or ten all time greatest things I've ever watched. When you binge a series, how often do you feel like you want to know what happens next? Because this show put all of that into overdrive Cactus fucked around with this message at 01:44 on Jun 16, 2019 |
# ? Jun 16, 2019 01:41 |
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Cactus posted:The Americans. My roommate and I just started watching this and we're blazing through it.
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# ? Jun 16, 2019 03:35 |
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Justin Godscock posted:I started watching The Hot Zone just now ... Don't google anything about the real life events until after you watch the series because it will spoil it in more ways than one. It's not a documentary. The TV version is a bunch of bullshit and makes the scientists look like morons. And, the show gets Cabin Fever level of stupid after ep2
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# ? Jun 16, 2019 05:37 |
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I thought it was weird how the protagonist would talk about how it's the most urgent problem they ever faced but there's 6 episodes so nothing happens for a long time. A strange lack of tension throughout. In terms of storytelling and drama I prefer Outbreak and Contagion.
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# ? Jun 16, 2019 06:05 |
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From context it seems the series covers several months at least (quarantine was 21 days) but the two Chicken Littles are freaking out the entire time when literally nothing is happening. The CDC doc keeps pointing out that nothing is happening but the show portrays him as an rear end in a top hat. And Jahrling is portrayed like an incompetent man child but in real life he was the main guy and the scientist who identified the species of Ebola.
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# ? Jun 16, 2019 06:23 |
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Oh poo poo I forgot there was a Hot Zone series. I've read that book a couple of times, it's scary as poo poo.
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# ? Jun 16, 2019 08:14 |
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Trig Discipline posted:Oh poo poo I forgot there was a Hot Zone series. I've read that book a couple of times, it's scary as poo poo. And now I'm most of the way through the last episode and holy poo poo this sucks lol
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# ? Jun 16, 2019 17:01 |
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Old news I guess but just binged through Chernobyl fully expecting, when I started, for it to be some caricatured anti Soviet screed, and I could hardly have been more wrong. Excellent cast, performances, writing, effects. Even the topical elements felt fitting and not overly heavy handed, despite being directed at current events.
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# ? Jun 16, 2019 20:17 |
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I just bought and binged through the first and only season of Mob City, a 2013 neo-noir TNT series set in L.A. in the late 1940s. I love that era and everything associated with it -- hard-boiled crime/detective fiction, the aesthetics, the clothes, the music, everything. James Ellroy is my favorite novelist, L.A. Confidential is one of my favorite movies of all time, and I even liked Gangster Squad, which covers the same era and some of the same characters. Anyway, Frank Darabont was the Mob City showrunner, and the show was really well-made and looked extremely expensive. The cast was awesome, too: Jon Bernthal as the conflicted lead cop (who even gets into a brutal shoot-out on a merry-go-round, pre-Punisher), Alexa Davalos as the knockout damsel in distress/femme fatale (why did she never make it big?), Simon Pegg, Ed Burns, and three of my favorite character actors, Neal McDonough (in a rare straight man role), Robert Knepper as a psychopath prone to monologuing (too bad he turned out to be such a piece of poo poo in real life), and Patrick Fischler as a quietly intimidating Meyer Lansky. Sadly, TNT canceled it, so we only got those six episodes. It ended on a decent note, but set up all kinds of angles for a second season that never happened. I tend to enjoy those low-key TNT period piece miniseries, like The Alienist and I Am the Night. They always look great and are well-made, but they never get the buzz that HBO, FX, AMC, and even Showtime series get. But I really enjoyed this one. You can purchase the whole season as a download for $4.99 on Amazon. The weird thing is, I know I watched at least the first two episodes when they first aired, and some parts of episodes 3 and 4 seemed really familiar -- maybe from similar scenes in Gangster Squad or Ellroy novels. But I don't know why I never finished it back when it aired, because it was extremely my poo poo. Big Bad Voodoo Lou fucked around with this message at 13:55 on Jun 18, 2019 |
# ? Jun 17, 2019 00:13 |
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I remember watching Mob City back when it first came out, quite liked it, especially the big gun fight at the end and how it tied into real world history. Jon Berenthal was dope. Nice flashback for the thread. I find there's a lot of these little shows, miniseries and otherwise, that show up, are actually really solid, and then they just kind of get forgotten about. So it's nice to hear about them again so you can go back and check them out. Another good that one that deserves a (re)visit is 11/22/69, man this one hit me like a truck, really good.
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# ? Jun 18, 2019 00:33 |
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showbiz_liz posted:My roommate and I just started watching this and we're blazing through it. A feeling I found that this show evoked quite strongly, is the one where you find yourself in the middle of the fourth or fifth season, and you think back to the things that were happening in the first one or two seasons, and despite the fact that it was only a couple of days ago (I binged all 6 seasons in about 4 or 5 days) it feels like all that stuff happened months ago. I think that's a sign of really good plotting and pacing, where enough stuff has happened and enough paradigm changes have occurred that it can actually mess with your retro-active perception of the time you've spent watching. Another observation I made about The Americans was that although it's a fantastic show in many ways, to me it feels really cold and uninviting - which I suspect was by design because of the subject matter. It was one of those shows that when I was watching it I was fully immersed and all in to see what would happen next to these characters, but when I wasn't actively watching, the urge to pick it back up again was dampened because for me that warm comfy feeling I get with most shows I like when I'm thinking about them just wasn't there with this one. But after the GoT finale disappointment I needed to watch something that I knew would end well, and this definitely does that. We're not going to get one, but I would watch a Paige spinoff in a heartbeat.
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# ? Jun 18, 2019 01:42 |
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Cactus posted:A feeling I found that this show evoked quite strongly, is the one where you find yourself in the middle of the fourth or fifth season, and you think back to the things that were happening in the first one or two seasons, and despite the fact that it was only a couple of days ago (I binged all 6 seasons in about 4 or 5 days) it feels like all that stuff happened months ago. I think that's a sign of really good plotting and pacing, where enough stuff has happened and enough paradigm changes have occurred that it can actually mess with your retro-active perception of the time you've spent watching. Yeah, those are great points. It has this weird vibe of cold terror that permeates the entire series. I can't figure out why, but apparently we both felt it. It might be one of the best shows I've ever seen at building characters you absolutely love who do some absolutely wretched things. Definitely a severely underrated show.
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Trig Discipline posted:Just watched Chernobyl in a 24 hour period and hoooo poo poo that is some good TV. Yup. It was amazing television. I caught the first episode and then fell behind by a couple.....so I just held off so that I binge the entire five episodes. It's going to clean up at the Emmy's this year. Jared Harris has correctly stated that he really isn't that interested in making movies anymore, because television has eclipsed film in every way. And he's a really fantastic actor. He's been great in everything I've seen him in. Mad Men, The Terror, now Chernobyl. If he can keep making these great one off series, I'd say he's got it made.
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