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mllaneza posted:A buddy just shared in group chat that he loved the first episode of "See" and is hooked. Watched the first three episodes and it's suprisingly decent. Nothing earth shattering but I wasn't a fan of the trailer and yet liked the show so far (Jason Momoa is once again doing a good job, he might be typecast but it works just as it did in GoT). I think if you enjoy shows like "The 100" or post-apoc stuff in general you should give it a chance. The setting/world building has been interesting so far.
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Finished The Leftovers! I maybe admire it more than I love it, but I definitely liked that the entire show was far more about emotion and trauma and the connections between people than it was about the actual plot of the story. I'm always down for experimental television and this is maybe the most experimental show I've ever seen.
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showbiz_liz posted:Finished The Leftovers! I maybe admire it more than I love it, but I definitely liked that the entire show was far more about emotion and trauma and the connections between people than it was about the actual plot of the story. I'm always down for experimental television and this is maybe the most experimental show I've ever seen. Now watch Lost keeping in mind it’s about the same thing.
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beanieson posted:Now watch Lost keeping in mind it’s about the same thing. I actually watched all of Lost for the first time earlier this year, with my roommate who's a huge fan. IMO it holds up to binging, and the fact that you don't have to wait years for answers (plus the fact that you know from the start that that a lot of people hated the ending) makes it all go down a lot smoother than it maybe did when it was airing.
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LinkesAuge posted:Watched the first three episodes and it's suprisingly decent. Nothing earth shattering but I wasn't a fan of the trailer and yet liked the show so far (Jason Momoa is once again doing a good job, he might be typecast but it works just as it did in GoT). I think if you enjoy shows like "The 100" or post-apoc stuff in general you should give it a chance. The setting/world building has been interesting so far. My fav part of this show is the amazing number of belt buckles these blind people seem to be able to knock out.
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I watched season 2 of Jack Ryan and the plot made absolutely no sense.
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mystes posted:I watched season 2 of Jack Ryan and the plot made absolutely no sense. Oh good I’m just starting it. Season 1 didn’t make a ton of sense either, but it was a dumb fun ride.
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mystes posted:I watched season 2 of Jack Ryan and the plot made absolutely no sense. Venezuela bad, conflict minerals good, corporations bad, Jack Ryan good,
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Nov 3, 2019 03:47
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It's just weird because it's like they found the perfect combination of villain and MacGuffin that would make the plot completely fall apart at the end, and since the specifics are 100% irrelevant except as a vague excuse to drive the plot forward, I don't understand why they didn't just change it to anything else since it would make more sense.
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Nov 3, 2019 04:19
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It’s nice to see Jaqen H’gar again tho
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beanieson posted:It’s nice to see Jaqen H’gar again tho The only thing I've been thinking S2 has been pretty weak so far, but I'm only halfway in I feel like the best thing S1 had going was how much time it spent on the badguys, and here the Venezuelan president is just like "yep he's bad lets not waste time on that" he gets like all of one scene where he acts sorta intimidating...
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Nov 3, 2019 04:55
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awesome how easy it is to walk into port terminals. and ocean vessels. that scene reminded me of tampopo, actually. i kept waiting for ryan to make a rice omelette. until the mummy showed up. he didn’t suck ryan’s eyes out, unfortunately. what’s great is that it’s impossible for your suspension of disbelief to be broken in this series, since it never gets suspended in the first place
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Nov 3, 2019 05:34
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Even cooler how easy it is to meet with a sitting foreign president, tell him off, assault his head of security & not lose your job or anything lol
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i think it’s his awesome pomade. cia officers always have the best pomades e: maybe it’s a matte clay. wow what hair also, jaquen can really run with multiple stab wounds to the leg and his eye poked out. it’s as impressive as the non tissue thin trash bag he was using to suffocate ryan. venezuelan hotels really think of everything Red Dad Redemption fucked around with this message at 06:00 on Nov 3, 2019 |
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Nude Hoxha Cameo posted:i think it’s his awesome pomade. cia officers always have the best pomades The bag thing is a constant head wrecker in many shows, and Treadstone had the same thing happen this week, instantly the KGB agent ripped a hole in it.
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Nov 3, 2019 07:29
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Finished AHS Apocalypse. It was pretty good! I guess I'm glad I accidentally watched the first season thinking it was Apocalypse because I'd probably have been totally loving lost since the house plays such an important role. It was cool that the Hotel season also played an interesting part as well. I've only seen the first season, the hotel season, and now this and I've enjoyed them all. Though I think my favorite so far has been Hotel simply because the soundtrack loving ruled.
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The Freakshow season of AHS is really good in really horrifying ways. I've just seen that and Coven, but it just has to be one of their best.
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Man I’m finishing up Jack Ryan and this has gotten profoundly stupid. They’re storming the goddamn presidential palace on Election Day after already being outed as tampering with the election lmao. Michael Kelly tells Jim at one point “I know how much you want to assassinate this president but we don’t have authorization” as if they had any authorization to storm the palace in the first place  They straight up murder about 300 palace guards/soldiers during a party with a bunch of civilians present lol These aren’t the guards at the off books prison camp, these are guards protecting their main seat of government They made Jack Ryan (who’s already admittedly an unrealistic figure) and turned him into Jack Bauer. I can’t even begin to comprehend the fallout of their actions, they’d absolutely be sent to stand trial for all sorts of poo poo. beanieson fucked around with this message at 18:59 on Nov 3, 2019 |
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Nov 3, 2019 18:57
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beanieson posted:Man I’m finishing up Jack Ryan and this has gotten profoundly stupid. They’re storming the goddamn presidential palace on Election Day after already being outed as tampering with the election lmao. Of course that's ignoring the fundamental plot holes that there was no reason for the mining company to secretly launch a satellite (can you even secretly launch a satellite? I think even the US government announces that they are launching spy satellites) just for mining stuff and there was no reason for the president of Venezuela to kill a senator just to cover up a mining operation. Literally you could plug in "restaurant" in place of tantalum mining and the plot would make as much sense (namely none). The way this season should have played out is that Jack Ryan randomly tries to sneak into the mining site and gets caught. The president is like "Are you stupid? This is a mining site. You could have just asked," and deports him. He gets fired from the CIA since they can't believe what a complete idiot he is and the season ends after one episode with nobody getting killed. mystes fucked around with this message at 19:26 on Nov 3, 2019 |
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Nov 3, 2019 19:20
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Feeling very justified in deciding to skip the season after seeing the trailer atm
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For us, this season is working well as unintentional comedy, and we’ve been more or less riff-tracking it as we go. We’re also working through Deutschland 86, which is actually quite good.
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Finished Primal and thought it was fantastic. The use of bright colour and gradients was beautiful. Direction was also really solid. Action-packed with moments of respite that washed over wonderfully.
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Halfway into season 2 of Vis a Vis, catching up to my wife so we can watch further together. What a boring series. Hardly anything happens, "emotional" moments are so unearned that they become laughable and characters seem to forget everything they do / say when a scene ends. Anyone who watches this that knows if it gets any better?
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I'm rewatching Red Dwarf for the first time in probably 10 years and while the whole show holds up great, holy gently caress, how did I never properly appreciate Chris Barrie the first time around? Rimmer is hot! No matter how hard they try to make his character pathetic and unlikable, he's still dummy hot.
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Acht posted:Halfway into season 2 of Vis a Vis, catching up to my wife so we can watch further together. I got bored at the end of the first season because things got really far fatched and after the first episodes of the second season I quit. Especially that villain boss woman is ridiculous (forgot her name) and the way the protagonists family handles things is from planet nonsense. Also some timeline issues I couldn't get over it like her father and outside badguy searching for the treasure at exactly the same time just to name a single thing. Fake edit Actor playing her brother must the worst actor I've seen in a while
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Klaaz posted:I got bored at the end of the first season because things got really far fatched and after the first episodes of the second season I quit. Especially that villain boss woman is ridiculous (forgot her name) and the way the protagonists family handles things is from planet nonsense. Also some timeline issues I couldn't get over it like her father and outside badguy searching for the treasure at exactly the same time just to name a single thing. Everything you have said, I have said to my wife as well. Literally, all of these points.  Still can't believe she got the series recommended as "Orange is the New Black, but cooler!"...
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Watched the first half of apparently the last season of BoJack Horseman. Still very solid, well crafted, clever, poignant, even scathing or outright funny at times, it makes me look forward to its concluding half next year. I arrived at the end of season 4 of Babylon 5 and am reluctant to start season 5. I feel I've seen the best it's had to offer and can no longer stomach the bad. I only got through season 4 by fast forwarding through any scene with the female lead alien in it, so maybe it's time to at least give it a break. Started Succession and I am only 2 episodes in and very intrigued to find out where it's going. I love the little jangly music they play that mimics the disjointedness of the characters and their relationships, it's got an almost eerie quality to it, like I'm watching horror or a thriller. edit: empty sea posted:I'm rewatching Red Dwarf for the first time in probably 10 years and while the whole show holds up great, holy gently caress, how did I never properly appreciate Chris Barrie the first time around? Thread says you last rewatched it in December of 2013, so more like 6 years ago than 10. You were going on about Barrie back then, too, which is why I mention it: have you ever watched The Brittas Empire? Because that's like 6 seasons of comedy tailored entirely to him and his unlikeable git schtick. Meatgrinder fucked around with this message at 00:10 on Nov 6, 2019 |
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Yeah I loved See too. Lots of visceral action in interesting set pieces. They aren't introducing too much world either. It's like three places and that's just great. Anti-Westeros. And out of AqaurMun, Khal Drogo and Baba Voss in this, I like him best as Baba.
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Nov 6, 2019 02:08
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I started binge watching Justified since i just finished deadwood and i needed more timothy olyphant justifiably shooting people in the chest. so far, i'm getting my fill
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Nov 6, 2019 02:49
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Santa Clarita Diet is fantastic.
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Lampsacus posted:Yeah I loved See too. Lots of visceral action in interesting set pieces. They aren't introducing too much world either. It's like three places and that's just great. Anti-Westeros. Don't forget Declan Harp
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Totally echoing the Jack Ryan S2 riffing. It was kind of entertaining but holy poo poo what a terrible loving plot. Season 1 at least had some great character interaction. All the ones here just make no goddamn sense. Plus they did my boy Habib Marwan dirty by giving him such a minor role.
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I started Lodge 49, I had this idea it was about some kind of supernatural/magical stuff (not sure why) but I am 4 episodes in and it is just a super-low-stakes drama with some likeable characters and absolutely no plot. Does this show go anywhere?
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Nov 6, 2019 15:23
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Kinda no and kinda yes but it’s loving awesome either way
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Lodge 49 is a slow bloomer but when it does boy howdy is the fruit worth the ride.
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Just a heads up, a second series of The End Of The F***ing World dropped 2 days ago. Very curious how they figure the story could be expanded upon, but it seems to be getting critical acclaim.
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a new season of midnight diner is (finally) out we’re just starting in, so too soon to review, but we loved s1 and have high hopes
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Meatgrinder posted:Just a heads up, a second series of The End Of The F***ing World dropped 2 days ago. Very curious how they figure the story could be expanded upon, but it seems to be getting critical acclaim. This show is so good. Season 1 was great. Season 2 is great.
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mcmagic posted:This show is so good. Season 1 was great. Season 2 is great. Seconding this. Very good show and new season.
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