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The 100 again, Clarke is pretty much gonna go full  isn't she ?And I am sooo there for that, bring it.
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mfny posted:The 100 again, Where you at?
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Aug 4, 2019 08:54
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Rocksicles posted:Where you at? Season 2 Ep 12
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Aug 4, 2019 08:58
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Yeah, she earned her nickname throughout season 2 and beyond.
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Aug 4, 2019 09:00
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Its pretty crazy how this show just seems to keep one upping itself tbh, its like its in a race just to see how hosed it can make everything and everyone. And it somehow does not come off as being "try hard" in the bad way at least to me. Though I do read that it may get perilously close to this with the minor spoilers I've seen for latter seasons.
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mfny posted:Its pretty crazy how this show just seems to keep one upping itself tbh, its like its in a race just to see how hosed it can make everything and everyone. And it somehow does not come off as being "try hard" in the bad way at least to me. Though I do read that it may get perilously close to this with the minor spoilers I've seen for latter seasons. It really doesn't, it just plows through all it's faults with a small armies worth of dead bodies, you're too busy saying wtf to all the mentalness you forget about everything else.
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Aug 4, 2019 09:32
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wormil posted:warning, possible minor spoilers if you haven't seen The 100 I agree with a lot of what you said and I have to say the show gets way better on seasons 5/6 again. Seasons 3-4 really weren't all that good.
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Aug 4, 2019 12:18
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Cactus posted:Never heard of it, but those are the ones that sometimes surprise me. I'll check it out when not in work. I was also looking at Kim's Convenience since that was recommended to me elsewhere, is that in a similar mold? In terms of this criteria: "low-stakes family drama with some light comedy elements and good/likeable characters", I think Kim's convenience would fit that mold apart from the tension between father and son but that drama is not in your face.
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Aug 5, 2019 15:07
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I dunno if it counts as binging when there are only five episodes, but I just watched all of a Youtube series called The Gay and Wondrous Life of Caleb Gallo and it's pretty great. Here's an excerpt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbhcRKsRwFM
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Aug 5, 2019 16:02
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Cactus posted:Never heard of it, but those are the ones that sometimes surprise me. I'll check it out when not in work. I was also looking at Kim's Convenience since that was recommended to me elsewhere, is that in a similar mold? Kim's Convenience is so light and wholesome. You grow to love the characters and watching each one grow as a person. It's fantastic. I'd also recommend Schitt's Creek for a similar vibe.
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Aug 5, 2019 17:06
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Cactus posted:The 100 I liked a lot, but it has passed the point where I'll not catch up with it until it's finished. Has there been any indication it's reaching an end-point in the near-to-mid future? They just announced next season is the last season.
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Aug 5, 2019 17:39
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I bounced off schits creek for some reason, it didn't hook me. Either way Lovesicks first episode was promising and I'll queue up Kim's as well. After those I shall probably be in the mood for some Handmaids tale... nice bit of oppression porn to compliment all that family wholesomeness.
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Aug 5, 2019 17:54
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Cactus posted:I bounced off schits creek for some reason, it didn't hook me. Either way Lovesicks first episode was promising and I'll queue up Kim's as well. Yeah I never got into Schitt's Creek either, I watched a couple episodes but my intense hatred for Chris Elliot and the lack of any great jokes just didn't sell me on it.
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Aug 5, 2019 18:33
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Ishamael posted:Yeah I never got into Schitt's Creek either, I watched a couple episodes but my intense hatred for Chris Elliot and the lack of any great jokes just didn't sell me on it. It lacked that, for the want of a better phrase, "comfiness" that these type of shows absolutely have to nail to be watchable. And that's quite difficult because of how subjective and vague that X-factor quality is. Hats off to the shows that manage to hit that spot for a huge number of people. That is no mean feat.
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Aug 5, 2019 18:47
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Schitt's Creek took me a little over half a season to get into but when it finds its stride it's absolutely hilarious.
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It takes a while to get into it, but it's definitely worth it. The main characters being annoying at the start just makes their character arcs a lot more interesting and engaging over the seasons, and you end up rooting for them. Also, it's worth it for Moira's pronunciation of "baby" alone.
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Aug 5, 2019 19:03
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I personally got into it right away.
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Aug 5, 2019 19:07
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I did not like the characters for the first four episodes, but kept watching because it is perfect background TV. I ended up loving it because the main characters grow so much. Definitely find Chris Elliott's character annoying, though.
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Aug 5, 2019 19:13
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Heh, this is what I meant by it's so subjective. That said, the sheer number of people popping up to say no it's good, really - maybe I'll give it another shot one day, once I've exhausted a few more options.
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Aug 5, 2019 19:40
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Anyone else watching Euphoria? It is really fantastic but extremely dark at times. One of best shot shows out right now Mr Ice Cream Glove fucked around with this message at 22:27 on Aug 5, 2019 |
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Aug 5, 2019 21:56
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Scrolled thru the first 4 pages of the sub & didn't see a show thread (might've missed it). Currently binging Baskets on Hulu and I fuckin' love this show. Kinda' sad to see the next season will be its last but goddamn so many great moments already!
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Aug 6, 2019 02:46
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C2C - 2.0 posted:Scrolled thru the first 4 pages of the sub & didn't see a show thread (might've missed it). Currently binging Baskets on Hulu and I fuckin' love this show. Kinda' sad to see the next season will be its last but goddamn so many great moments already! I thought I was going to hate Louis Anderson in a dress but he owns that role so hard that you stop noticing it immediately. It’s honestly one of my favorite performances on TV and should be winning emmys left and right
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Aug 6, 2019 03:20
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I thought The Boys was bad loving rear end. Homelander is one gnarly dude
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Aug 6, 2019 21:06
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I suddenly remembered an old show I only saw once as a kid called Night Man. It's about a saxaphone player who can hear "the frequency of evil" and who don's a suit of batman like armor to fight crime. It's really bad. I love it.
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Aug 6, 2019 22:39
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I’ve just binged the final season of The Americans after a slightly below par season five. Absolutely incredible show, and the two leads absolutely deserved their Emmy nominations/wins.
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Toozler posted:I thought The Boys was bad loving rear end. Homelander is one gnarly dude This was surprisingly good. I went into cold and was not disappointed. The casting is great and anytime I feel like it went a little too far into the goofy range like the hospital baby scene, the actors just sell it and it worked for me. I think I'll go venture into The Boys thread and see everything I was supposed to hate!
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An Ounce of Gold posted:This was surprisingly good. I went into cold and was not disappointed. The casting is great and anytime I feel like it went a little too far into the goofy range like the hospital baby scene, the actors just sell it and it worked for me. it's still too early for the thread to eat itself, get in while the gettings good.
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Aug 7, 2019 15:15
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I just finished The Boys yesterday and its really great stuff My only complain is that the season seems to end so abruptly. It feels like is missing a couple of episodes to wrap things up
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Aug 7, 2019 15:48
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Elias_Maluco posted:I just finished The Boys yesterday and its really great stuff For what it's worth, they're already well into shooting season 2, posting my spy pic again: bring back old gbs posted:
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Aug 7, 2019 16:36
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We finished The Boys last night and it does end abruptly but I expected that being only 8 episodes on Amazon. Homelander could have been a cartoonishly dumb character but the actor sold it. No loving way I'd go into the thread.
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I was looking for a new procedural to half-watch while I did art, and I'm now well into season 2 of Elementary and loving it. I went back and read some critical responses from when the first season aired, and at the time almost everyone wrote it off as a lame BBC Sherlock clone, but it has a surprising amount of emotional depth, and a Sherlock Homes who feels to me like much more of a fully realized human being than BBC Sherlock's version does. As a New Yorker, I also think Elementary uses its New York City location really well, and as a lapsed beekeeper I was happy to see it get most of the details of bees and beekeeping right (at least in comparison to most TV shows).
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Aug 7, 2019 21:01
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SardonicTyrant posted:I suddenly remembered an old show I only saw once as a kid called Night Man. It's about a saxaphone player who can hear "the frequency of evil" and who don's a suit of batman like armor to fight crime. Yeah, that was based on a comic book that came out during the '90s glut. My favorite forgotten superhero show will always be M.A.N.T.I.S., featuring Carl loving Lumbly as a genius scientist who makes a superpowered armor suit to fight crime.
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Aug 7, 2019 21:49
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Speaking of procedurals, I started a show called London Kills and it's good. No buddy cop, rogue cop, or genius detective, no 8 episodes of red herrings followed by a random killer you saw for 5 seconds in episode one, just average intelligence cops solving murders. Sometimes they make mistakes. The lead male does have a mystery surrounding his wife but it doesn't dominate the story (yet).
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Aug 7, 2019 23:08
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I stopped keeping up with Elementary after a few seasons, so I don't know if it declined eventually, but what I saw was entertaining and anything that gets John Noble more work can't be that bad.
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wormil posted:We finished The Boys last night and it does end abruptly but I expected that being only 8 episodes on Amazon. Homelander could have been a cartoonishly dumb character but the actor sold it. No loving way I'd go into the thread. The thread is 100% positive, and people are still using spoiler tags oddly enough. Considering how long it's been out it's a weird amount of respect for late viewers
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bring back old gbs posted:The thread is 100% positive, and people are still using spoiler tags oddly enough. Considering how long it's been out it's a weird amount of respect for late viewers Wonders never cease. uvar posted:I stopped keeping up with Elementary after a few seasons, so I don't know if it declined eventually, but what I saw was entertaining and anything that gets John Noble more work can't be that bad. The writing got super lazy and it devolves into generic buddy detective and British mystery style where they introduce a bunch of red herrings, Sherlock is certain about one but wrong, then at the end pick one at random and discover new evidence proving he/she was guilty. Lucy Liu continued killing it as Watson. I gave up a few seasons ago.
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I've been binging through Stranger Things, and now I get the meme's from two years ago. Still the third season to go. Funnily, I started the series by really being skeptical after viewing the first two episodes, as in "why did they think that writing a meat-headed jock and his air-headed girlfriend or that lazy barely functional rear end in a top hat of a sheriff into major characters was a good idea". But then it sort of started to work and I actually have ended up liking most of the characters. I have also started to sour a bit on Mike, because of his whiny attitude and constant "lets do exactly the opposite and for no reason get away with it constantly all the time"-writing. Small children have plot armor and cannot die, off or on-screen because of regulations, I get it, but can you writers please stop rubbing it against my nose all the time. Definitely the "Best Stephen King filmatization" ever made, even if Stephen King had nothing to do with it.  EDIT: Unlike my last binge, Breaking Bad, Stranger Things also moves its plot a bit faster, the first two seasons had only one episode which I think was unnecessarily lifted into separate episode and could have easily been several-episode spanning B-plot. So thats a plus because my only real complaint about BB was that after almost every season my reaction was "that was cool as hell, but why was it telling 8 episode story in 13 episode season?". Der Kyhe fucked around with this message at 10:20 on Aug 9, 2019 |
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Aug 9, 2019 10:13
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We all know which episode you mean.
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Aug 9, 2019 10:34
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Lycus posted:We all know which episode you mean. Yeah, I guess its that obvious in hindsight but I went in completely blind, so I learned it by the end credits that it wasn't going to cut away from the Team Gluesniffers at any point. Der Kyhe fucked around with this message at 10:48 on Aug 9, 2019 |
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Finally caught up with The Boys. It's fairly well done. I really liked the portrayal of Hughie and Starlight, and how moments of realization/connection/introspection did not coincide with fight or flight moments and action sequences (writers of the second season of Star Trek: Disappointment, take note). The music used throughout was pretty great, too. The story felt a bit dense in some parts and a bit sparse in others; I would have loved more of a look at the world, the superheroes besides the ones related to the plot, for instance, but in episode 7 and 8 I felt that at times they were sort of stretching some arcs out to be able to land on a specific note, which made the character's interactions feel somewhat contrived. I hope the next season will make things more coalescent again. e: I was confused throughout why characters kept referring to Butch as British when he was clearly Australian, and it wasn't until I noticed Simon Pegg pronouncing some words in a weird way that I realised his character was supposed to be American. The language coaches working on this show must've been pretty cheap. Meatgrinder fucked around with this message at 13:02 on Aug 11, 2019 |
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