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The Vosgian Beast posted:From what I understand, Homicide is REALLY hard to find on streaming, which is unfortunate considering how important it is to TV history and the police procedural as a genre Yeah it really was different. Can't put my finger on it really. EDIT: Just took a look on YouTube; there seem to be a ton of full episodes uploaded. C2C - 2.0 fucked around with this message at 02:51 on Apr 24, 2020 |
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So I’m about halfway through season two of Better Call Saul and everyone who said it was better than Breaking Bad was absolutely right. I watched the first four seasons of Breaking Bad when it was still airing but then I stopped for whatever reason and just got around to finishing it last week. I think waiting a few years to finish it really made me consider it in a different light. I remember I used to love the show, but when I got to the end this time all I thought was “Well, that was pretty good. New Mexico sure is beautiful.” I just found Walt to be kind of irritating and way too “cool” or whatever this time around. I was really impressed with Aaron Paul though, he was the best part. Anyway, Better Call Saul. Jimmy’s such a great character. He’s not a bad guy but he seems determined to screw himself over, while also being really sympathetic. The whole series has this air of tragedy hanging over it since Kim and co are out of the picture in BB and you know how it all ends up. Highlights of season two so far are Mark Proksch and that goddamn mesothelioma commercial.
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Apr 24, 2020 03:10
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C2C - 2.0 posted:Yeah it really was different. Can't put my finger on it really. Well, that makes it a lot easier.
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wizardofloneliness posted:So I’m about halfway through season two of Better Call Saul and everyone who said it was better than Breaking Bad was absolutely right. I watched the first four seasons of Breaking Bad when it was still airing but then I stopped for whatever reason and just got around to finishing it last week. I think waiting a few years to finish it really made me consider it in a different light. I remember I used to love the show, but when I got to the end this time all I thought was “Well, that was pretty good. New Mexico sure is beautiful.” I just found Walt to be kind of irritating and way too “cool” or whatever this time around. I was really impressed with Aaron Paul though, he was the best part. Kim becomes my favorite character, I've gushed about her a few times but drat what an actress.
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Apr 24, 2020 03:28
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As of the most recent episodes, Kim is now the main character of Better Call Saul and it’s wonderful.
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Apr 24, 2020 04:41
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Sir Not Appearing posted:Thanks for all the police procedural suggestions! One more I forgot, though it may not be quite what you are looking for ... Murdoch Mysteries. It's currently on Acorn but Netflix or Amazon had the early seasons. A turn of the century Toronto detective invents modern forensics using late 18th century technology, the early seasons have a definite steampunk vibe. The series has famous people appear as "guest stars", Tesla, Ford, Calamity Jane, Edison, Buffalo Bill, Jack London, Arthur Conan Doyle, Houdini, and many lesser knowns that I had to google. If you like true crime, I recommend Forensic Files which is on various streaming services last I checked. Each episode is 22 minutes with almost no fluff and the best narrator of all time. It is a highly addictive show but not for the faint of heart as it shows brutal crime scene photos. There is also a reboot, Forensic Files II which is off to a rough start. And Homicide Hunter: Lt Joe Kenda, reenacted cases narrated by the detective who solved them.
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Apr 24, 2020 08:21
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Jose Oquendo posted:Absolutely. I think probably the coolest scene of them all is when he is driving at night with Phil Collins playing and stops at a phone booth to call his ex. Do you remember what the Willie Nelson episode was about?
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I'm really digging the Ragnarok show on Netflix. Norse mythology stuff set in modern day Norway. Also, Bosch season 6 is real good.
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Apr 24, 2020 14:01
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What are some good shows that have possibly gotten less attention than they should because they were on some obscure network or streaming service? Like Audience. Have you ever heard of Audience? I haven't, but apparently it's shutting down.
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Apr 24, 2020 14:32
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:What are some good shows that have possibly gotten less attention than they should because they were on some obscure network or streaming service? Perpetual Grace, LTD is pretty much the golden child example but that's been discussed a bajillion times here.
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Apr 24, 2020 15:42
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Medullah posted:Perpetual Grace, LTD is pretty much the golden child example but that's been discussed a bajillion times here. Watching that is what got me to that question. I signed up for a trial of Epix and couldn't believe all this original programming I'd never heard of. And I look it up and some of it is very well reviewed and regarded.
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Apr 24, 2020 15:49
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Beastie Boys Story is really good.
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Apr 24, 2020 15:57
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beanieson posted:As of the most recent episodes, Kim is now the main character of Better Call Saul and it’s wonderful. 
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Apr 24, 2020 16:23
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Holy poo poo Community is ridiculously good. If I've wandered in here and posted that before, I'm...no, I'm not sorry. I just sat agape in disbelief after the "Cheers." "M.A.S.H." "Fawlty Towers, I win," exchange, like nothing I've seen since Frasier e so far everything I've rushed in to excitedly post about a year after everyone's done with it has started out great and then rapidly declined (everyone was right about Westworld season 2, but the pilot was still incredible). I really hope that's not what happens here
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Apr 24, 2020 19:21
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Community has held up really well except for disproportionately leaning on gay jokes early on. Oh and I still can't bear to watch the gas leak season. So loving terrible.
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Apr 24, 2020 19:29
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Hubbardologist posted:Community has held up really well except for disproportionately leaning on gay jokes early on. Yeah I ran into that a little, at least it's mostly Chevy Chase doing it to sort of make his character look shittier. No idea what the gas leak is, now I will purposely try to like it
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Apr 24, 2020 19:30
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Inspector Hound posted:Holy poo poo Community is ridiculously good. Sorry but unfortunately Community has a massive drop in quality in season 5. (At least I think that's the season it happened.)
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Apr 24, 2020 19:33
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Yep, it's mostly Chevy Chase's lines (though I think Ken Jeong has a handful). Admittedly I think they were going for "homophobes aren't funny," but at the same time it felt like it was there to appeal to the homophobes. Gas leak season is the entirety of season 4, after NBC kicked Dan Harmon out as showrunner for being an unreliable alcoholic. The result was that the characters basically don't act like themselves, the plots are contrived, and the jokes are pretty meh. After Harmon came back in season 5 the characters refer to the year in which there was a gasleak at the school causing them to behave strangely. editing to say that the show recovers strongly in season 5, and season 6, which was part of Yahoo's ill-fated streaming service (lol), is surprisingly good.
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Apr 24, 2020 19:38
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IShallRiseAgain posted:Sorry but unfortunately Community has a massive drop in quality in season 5. (At least I think that's the season it happened.) S4 is the gas leak, non-Harmon season. S5 + 6 have Harmon back but never quite hit the heights of 1-3, although 6 has its moments.
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Hubbardologist posted:and season 6, which was part of Yahoo's ill-fated streaming service (lol), is surprisingly good. This reminded me of a show that is an answer to this: Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:What are some good shows that have possibly gotten less attention than they should because they were on some obscure network or streaming service? Other Space was a show that got one season on Yahoo's streaming service and I thought it was great. It was created by Paul Feig and had a cast full of great improvisors, and Joel Hodgson and Trace Beaulieu from MST3K. I don't know if it's available anywhere but there are only 8 episodes so it's worth the time.
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Guidance about/from the Community posted:Hey, three seasons is quite a bit, I'm looking forward to it. It seems like either Waco is stupid, or it's completely accurate and everyone involved was stupid.
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Apr 24, 2020 19:59
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The Midnight Gospel is a hell of a trip. Basically, this dude visits simulated planets and interviews its denizens while their respective worlds are destroyed around them for his interdimensional podcast. It's completely absurd and I love it.
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Apr 24, 2020 20:25
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Oh wow from what I heard I thought it was more on the line of recorded podcast episodes they then went and made some animation for which sounded terrible. Something closer to very popular in the early 2000's "Drinking Out of Cups" video.
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Apr 24, 2020 20:59
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Netflix's Extraction is pretty good. It's like if someone took a WWE direct-to-video script and made it with Chris Hemsworth and a decent action director.
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BurntCornMuffin posted:The Midnight Gospel is a hell of a trip. Basically, this dude visits simulated planets and interviews its denizens while their respective worlds are destroyed around them for his interdimensional podcast. This is the new Pendleton Ward show, right? Aside from being geared more toward adults, is it closer in tone to Adventure Time or Bravest Warriors?
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Big Mean Jerk posted:This is the new Pendleton Ward show, right? Aside from being geared more toward adults, is it closer in tone to Adventure Time or Bravest Warriors? its closest in tone to an acid trip
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Finished Bosch and found it to be another great season. I can’t think of many shows that are as consistently good after 5 or 6 seasons. I actually think the later seasons have been better than the first few. I was worried that the defense lawyer was going to pull some poo poo with Bosch’s daughter like claim some kind of tampering or collusion with Bosch but thankfully they didn’t go that way I also was laughing at how fast Bosch’s daughter made her heel turn from principled future defense attorney to ruthless prosecutor Also it can’t be said enough how much his house owns.
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John Gabrus of the actionboyz podcast described Bosch as “for dads, by dads” and it’s stuck in my head anytime I hear about the show
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Inspector Hound posted:Hey, three seasons is quite a bit, I'm looking forward to it. I haven't watched it but I 100% can promise you if everyone in it looks stupid and evil then yes it's accurate, militia freaks jerking off over it aside it's a pretty huge black spot for a reason. Also speaking of shows for dads I've gotten super into Longmire. I'm only a bit into season 2 so maybe it'll poo poo the bed later but this is a neat kinda 'modern western' that actually does a good job handling native stuff and all.
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Watched the first 3 episodes of Waco, and man what an uneven series. I am completely fascinated by the true events and it has many great actors (mostly a really amazing cast), but it comes across as TV movie of the week. I have never seen a series go so easily from A+ acting to bad cheesy acting in same scene. Edit: Perfect examples of this would be scenes with Michael Shannon and his wife, and the ATF guy and the PR person just to name a few. They are just bad scenes. nate fisher fucked around with this message at 04:31 on Apr 25, 2020 |
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Disposable Scud posted:which service streams Popeye episodes Amazon has a cartoon from the 80s that takes place years after Popeye married Olive Oyl and they have a son. Bluto has a son too with someone. I could only stomach one episode because it was bad.
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Deadite posted:John Gabrus of the actionboyz podcast described Bosch as “for dads, by dads” and it’s stuck in my head anytime I hear about the show This is precisely what it is but it’s also a good fun police procedural.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:This is the new Pendleton Ward show, right? Aside from being geared more toward adults, is it closer in tone to Adventure Time or Bravest Warriors?
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Disposable Scud posted:which service streams Popeye episodes I believe most of the old ones are up on Youtube now since Europe views him as Public Domain.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:What are some good shows that have possibly gotten less attention than they should because they were on some obscure network or streaming service? Counterpart and Banshee
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Big Mean Jerk posted:This is the new Pendleton Ward show, right? Aside from being geared more toward adults, is it closer in tone to Adventure Time or Bravest Warriors? I’m a huge adventure time fan and found the new show to be completely insufferable  it’s exactly like listening to your friend that just got high for the first time ramble for 20 minutes.
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Watched Undone Season 1 in one sitting tonight. I love rotoscoped, metaphysical stuff.....which this was. To be fair, that's kinda' my experience with this style since Linklater brought it to the fore. Odenkirk is great; can't wait for Season 2.
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I've been making my way through Curb Your Enthusiasm for the first time, and I've got to say it's one of the funniest shows I've seen in a long time. I'm halfway through season 4 though, and something seems different about it, not in a good way either. I don't know how to say it, but it seems like the writing is trying too hard at this point to be funny. I googled a couple "seasons ranked" lists, only to find that season 4 is regarded as one of the best. Maybe it's just me 
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Binging several seasons back to back is a different experience than watching seasons as they aired. So your take could be completely different due to how you are watching. That said you are talking about the subjective, and you are not wrong either way.
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