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Better Call Saul has gone through lulls where everything is a slow burn, but the acting, writing, and production have always been top-notch. It also felt like two very distinct shows for most of its run, with the Jimmy/Kim/Chuck/Howard legal drama and the Mike/Nacho/Gus/Salamancas cartel storyline. But the fifth season that just ended was probably the strongest season yet, and definitely the most exciting and tense, now that the two distinct storylines have fully merged. It has been in my Top Ten shows every year since it started, but four months into this year, I can't imagine a show coming along to knock it off my #1 position for 2020. I honestly think it's a better show than Breaking Bad at this point, but it has one more season (which is probably a long ways off) to cement my opinion one way or another.
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TMMadman posted:Yesterday I decided to turn on Dexter as my background noise show for the next few days, but I am absolutely not letting it run past season 5. Nah what you've to do with this one is find the old threads on here and follow them along while you watch the shows later seasons.
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Cactus posted:Nah what you've to do with this one is find the old threads on here and follow them along while you watch the shows later seasons. gently caress that poo poo. I ground through my hate watching and posting in real time and I'm pretty sure my fingerprints are all over a bunch of what I'm sure are terrible posts in those threads.
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Fair enough lol. Those threads were hate watching almost to an art form. Sooooo anyways, after the first episode of Tales from the Loop left me cold (I think I've overdone the genre sci-fi recently) I thought I'd change tack. I'm in the mood for one of those melodramatic comfy CW teen shows so I downloaded All American, and judging by the blurb and the bit of the 1st episode I'm currently into it seems like it's going to be a bit like the OC, or maybe Friday night Lights or something like that? Is this an apt assessment or have I misled myself?
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I just finished Breaking Bad. Never seen 1 minute of it before 2 weeks ago when I started. Season 5 had me get the bourbon out to get through and I barely drink by myself. Holy poo poo.
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Mental Hospitality posted:This is the order they appear on Amazon video: This is the correct order. I can't remember the exact juggling that went on with their broadcast, but Train Job was written to serve as a quick and dirty pilot and Serenity was later (doesn't do a terrible job, but is awkward in the wake of Serenity). On the bright side of things, you can move straight on to the movie Serenity instead of having to launch a fan-based campaign. If you enjoy the show, you'll enjoy the movie. I've rewatched it all recently and it hasn't lost much of its luster for me.
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TMMadman posted:Yesterday I decided to turn on Dexter as my background noise show for the next few days, but I am absolutely not letting it run past season 5. honestly only 1-3 stand up at all, and you can probably skip 2 if you're not a big Jimmy Smits fan
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saihttam posted:I just finished Breaking Bad. Never seen 1 minute of it before 2 weeks ago when I started. Season 5 had me get the bourbon out to get through and I barely drink by myself. Holy poo poo. It's so good. And one of the few shows to totally stick the landing, which excuses a lot of the missteps in the middle.
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Better Call Saul is the weaker for never doing anything as nutty as the plane crash
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High Warlord Zog posted:Better Call Saul is the weaker for never doing anything as nutty as the plane crash There’s still time 🤷🏻♂️
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Julio Cruz posted:honestly only 1-3 stand up at all, and you can probably skip 2 if you're not a big Jimmy Smits fan A Big Jimmy Smits Fan would make a pretty good user name.
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watching the Outer Banks. It's like stranger things but with older prettier teens searching for gold. It's ok, I'm 45 and male and this is probably more geared towards a 15 year old girl but it's watchable.
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Julio Cruz posted:honestly only 1-3 stand up at all, and you can probably skip 2 if you're not a big Jimmy Smits fan Jimmy Smits doesn't appear until season 3. Seasons 1 is the Ice Truck Killer, season 2 is Doakes/Lila and Lundy investigating, season 3 is Smits, season 4 is Lithgow and season 5 is Lumen/rapists and season 6 is Hanks/Olmos. I can't remember off the top of my head what was in 6/7 except for 7 being a lot investigation of Dexter and the stupid rear end ending.
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If I'm remembering correctly the end of season 4 is a really good place to just pretend the show ended there and walk away. I really enjoyed Lithgow
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TMMadman posted:Jimmy Smits doesn't appear until season 3. Seasons 1 is the Ice Truck Killer, season 2 is Doakes/Lila and Lundy investigating, season 3 is Smits, season 4 is Lithgow and season 5 is Lumen/rapists and season 6 is Hanks/Olmos. I can't remember off the top of my head what was in 6/7 except for 7 being a lot investigation of Dexter and the stupid rear end ending. As much as I hate thinking about this stupid show that I watched all the way through, I feel like season 7 had a (Russian?) mob boss and Yvonne Strahovski playing Poison Ivy. That's also the season where Debra knows Dexter is the BHB and they kill LaGuerta after two scenes of her doing very obvious "detective" work. Season 8 has Charlotte Rampling playing the Ikea Monkey.
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Apr 30, 2020 18:37
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101 posted:If I'm remembering correctly the end of season 4 is a really good place to just pretend the show ended there and walk away. I really enjoyed Lithgow My fantasy version of Dexter goes season 1, then season 4, then season 2 but ending with Dexter being caught and put in jail. That would have been one of the best serial killer shows ever made. Instead, it... isn't.
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Dexter was never even that great of a show, but when it got bad, it was one of the worst things.
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mllaneza posted:I'll agree with that. It wasn't ever going to be timeless, but what it was was pretty entertaining, and the cast chemistry was amazing. Is S5 available for streaming anywhere? I'm just about to finish S4 on Netflix.
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Apr 30, 2020 21:38
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clown shoes posted:Season 5 of BCS won't drop on Netflix until like right before Season 6 premieres. I figure that, but wondering if it's streaming anywhere else, locally or internationally. Have VPN, will travel.
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clown shoes posted:Dexter was never even that great of a show, but when it got bad, it was one of the worst things. I remember it being able to reach some pretty high highs early on though Anyone know if any of the books are worth reading?
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It wasn't the first to do it, but Dexter came at a time where having an outright Bad Person as your protagonist was relatively new to mainstream TV and I think that gimmick feeling fresh for its time gave the show more legs than it ever would have had otherwise.
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Dexter always sounded like the backstory to some fourteen year-old edgelord’s assassin D&D character to explain why his murderous loner would be ok joining the party.
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Apr 30, 2020 23:21
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Your Pretty Face Is Going To Hell has completely hit the spot for my sophomoric comedy needs. I love it.
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Wife has been watching Ozark. I'm not sure I want to, even though I like Jason Bateman and Julia Garner -- I've already seen Breaking Bad and Justified, how much more do I need? I've finally been watching Westworld myself, and The Plot Against America, which has an amazing cast but is depressing as all hell.
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Memnaelar posted:I figure that, but wondering if it's streaming anywhere else, locally or internationally. Have VPN, will travel. Season five is out here on Netflix in South Korea.
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cryptoclastic posted:Season five is out here on Netflix in South Korea. Booyah. Thanks, my friend.
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Caught the Dave finale tonight. Loved it, as I did most of the season. That Breakfast Club appearance was a great final scene.
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Klaaz posted:I found the first couple episodes of BCS rather boring and never went back to it, should I? (love Breaking Bad though) Breaking Bad was great. I've found that I like BCS even more.
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101 posted:If I'm remembering correctly the end of season 4 is a really good place to just pretend the show ended there and walk away. I really enjoyed Lithgow Season Four with Lithgow playing the Trinity killer was fantastic. Show obviously couldn't hit those heights again.
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I'm still watching All American despite it probably being the most derivative CW teen drama I think I've seen to date. They must have a master template script for these shows where they just swap out character names. Every character archetype, every plot beat, situation, theme is present, identical to all the ones that have come before. It's cheesy, it's cringey, it's predictable. Everyone is impossibly beautiful. There's already a love triangle! Or possibly even a love square, not sure yet. But it's also like wrapping myself in a warm, familiar blanket and remembering the simpler beforetimes. My initial impressions were correct in that the show it reminds me of the most so far is, six episodes in at least, the OC. And, like that show, I'll probably binge until I've had my fill of the formula, except this time I expect that to happen sooner since I can't see it changing things up in a big way. Taking risks isn't generally what these shows do. My eyes roll at least three times per episode, but there are times in life when this is exactly the type of show I need, and this is one of those times.
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The thing about Dexter is it was pulpy trash. It was entertaining trash but it was in that "prestige tv" period where the cable networks were upping the game for v shows so people kind of elevated Dexter to this level where it was supposedly "prestige" with the HBO shows and stuff like Mad Men or the Shield. I think the showrunners themselves became convinced of it too. But it wasn't. It was just fun pulpy trash being done at a higher quality than network tv. At least until it wasn't. I did a rewatch some time ago and bailed mid S3. I think it mostly peaks in S2 and is downhill from there, but it still stays fairly entertaining until after S4. But really S2 is a perfectly good place to just cut and run. You've got most of the fun you're ever gonna get from it and the longer it goes the stupider it will get.
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C2C - 2.0 posted:Your Pretty Face Is Going To Hell has completely hit the spot for my sophomoric comedy needs. I love it. The last season was not very good, but the foot cult episode might have been the best thing they've ever done. The Torture Con one was good, too.
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D-Pad posted:Gangs of London is extremely the poo poo I decided to check out the first episode after seeing the trailer and ended up marathoning the entire series in a day. The cinematography and choreography were fantastic.
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Watching through a Korean Drama called Hospital Playlist episode 3 and one of the characters had a patient of his go braindead after having successfully completed a transplant on him discharging him on a holiday, dedicated to children. He also then finds out that his wife visiting him, because she works in another country, wants to divorce him, went to a restaurant with another man and that they caused him son to have a peanut allergy. He then has to cut up this same man so that his organs can be used to help others. FUUUCK...what a day. Also pretty standard for a korean drama, kinda.
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loving gave up on All American. Soundtrack got too insipid and it started annoying me more and more with how predictable it was. Been watching Outer Banks instead and that gave me the comfy blanket feeling while actually being a decent fun tv show as well. Someone before said The Goonies and I can definitely see the comparison.
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Just wrapped up Witcher I am so glad I gave this show a chance. Absolutely loved it Next up Penny Dreadful
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Buckle in. I'm surprised there was any set left with Eva Green chewing the scenery like a carpenter ant. I'd say it's more of a "fun" show than a really good one. Still, I like pulpy horror stuff and Eva Green is amazing in it.
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