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Travelers got wrapped up pretty well; it's probably my favorite time traveling show of the last few decades. I watched Solar Opposites, which I think was mentioned here. Run of the mill Justin Roiland show, pretty entertaining with the usual gags and twists, voice acting, and animation. Short and sweet.
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We ran out of the UK version of Taskmaster and started watching the Comedy Central version and...oof. I love Reggie Watts but he was a terrible choice to host Taskmaster. Watching Alex Horne banter with Greg Davies is one of the best parts of the UK version, but he and Reggie have zero chemistry.
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May 23, 2020 11:54
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I liked that half the actors in Travelers were in Continuum (is there a designated Canadian time travel acting troupe?), which made it feel a bit like an alternate universe spin-off at times.
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May 23, 2020 14:45
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Dicty Bojangles posted:I liked that half the actors in Travelers were in Continuum (is there a designated Canadian time travel acting troupe?), which made it feel a bit like an alternate universe spin-off at times. These shows are all filmed in Vancouver so there’s always a good chance of seeing familiar faces pop up!
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May 23, 2020 14:46
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Dead to Me S2 really ends with a whimper. First, the investigation storyline just ends with the detective deciding to let her go, the bad guy dirty cop that seems like he's gonna be the subsequent threat is arrested off screen, then it ends with randomness. *shrug*
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May 24, 2020 03:38
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A couple episodes into Season 4 of Law and Order: SVU, and so far it and the last couple of episodes of Season 3 have been fantastic
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May 24, 2020 03:59
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I watched the first season of Stranger Things when it first came out and never came back to the show. Started over and currently in the middle of season two.
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May 24, 2020 04:35
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Just finished Travelers Season 2, episodes 5 and 6, and the writers eerily predicted this entire COVID-19 pandemic back in 2017 and got so many of the chilling details spot-on.
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May 24, 2020 05:39
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Just finished seasons 1-3 of Ozark I’m loving it! Those wacky Byrds just keep getting into trouble. Laura Linney is phenomenal as Wendy.
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May 24, 2020 06:27
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Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:Just finished Travelers Season 2, episodes 5 and 6, and the writers eerily predicted this entire COVID-19 pandemic back in 2017 and got so many of the chilling details spot-on. Haha yeah I was watching this a couple months ago and was thinking this. People have said the same about the movie Contagion as well. Perhaps in situations like this human behaviour is really easy to predict? Cactus fucked around with this message at 12:44 on May 24, 2020 |
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May 24, 2020 12:42
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Gangs of London was pretty good. It looks like you're watching a lot of money on the screen for most of the action.
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May 25, 2020 04:56
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My mission to watch as much schlocky teen drama as I possibly can in this quarantine has led me to Roswell New Mexico This show moves fast. Checkov would be shot by his own gun as soon as he articulated his rule in this show. A secret? Next episode it's blabbed to pretty much everyone. A situation with some implications? Next episode opens having moved right past them and we're living in the new world. It is the antithesis to Lost or any of those shows where you think " WHY DON'T THEY JUST TALK TO EACH OTHER, TELL EVERYONE WHATS GOING ON?!?" Well, in this show that's all they do. I'm 8 episodes in to season 1 and I've been constantly amazed by how much people tell each other about what is going on. Most of the mysteries are solved five seconds later. I wish more, better shows adopted this philosophy. It's downright fresh. But it's still a schlocky teen drama though... lol
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May 25, 2020 10:13
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Trig Discipline posted:We ran out of the UK version of Taskmaster and started watching the Comedy Central version and...oof. I love Reggie Watts but he was a terrible choice to host Taskmaster. Watching Alex Horne banter with Greg Davies is one of the best parts of the UK version, but he and Reggie have zero chemistry.
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May 25, 2020 20:13
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I tried Solar Opposites and I loving loved it. I was feeling like poo poo because of some drama and it picked me right up. Laughed my rear end off even though I'm a weirdo who can sit through most comedies without laughing. It hits right where my brokebrain sense of humor is, and is much better for the lighter tone vis a vis Rick and Morty. R&M's shadow is going to loom large on this show, the animation and voices and writing are very similar when they're not the same. But the tone made me forget about R&M and I actually kind of like it better.
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May 25, 2020 20:16
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Watched through Godless the past few days. I'm disappointed, the show was drat near perfect until the last episode, which became a total nonsensical trainwreck.
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I didn't like Solar Opposites at all, but then again I'm not much of a Rick & Morty fan, either, and it felt like a pretty lazy copy off that block.
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May 25, 2020 23:52
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Just finished binging all of Normal People and feel almost let down by the lack of catharsis. Well acted though.
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May 26, 2020 00:56
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Pablo Bluth posted:Ron Funches is pretty much the only reason to watch it. The Scandinavians have made a good go at making their own versions; I recommend giving the Norwegian Kongen befaler a go. It manages to deliver some moments as good as anything the UK version has. Reddit will turn up copies with subtitles. Oh nice, thanks!
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Total Meatlove posted:Just finished binging all of Normal People and feel almost let down by the lack of catharsis. Well acted though. Yes they are supposed to be dumb kids but the sheer stupidity of some of the things they do is kinda frustrating. I still enjoyed it.
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May 26, 2020 02:53
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Watched an episode of Outer Banks and I would have liked it if the writing wasn't so bad.
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May 26, 2020 03:17
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My wife just told me she subscribed us to Starz because she wants to watch Outlander. I don't plan to watch it, but any other Goon recommendations for Starz?
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May 26, 2020 03:27
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The Grey posted:My wife just told me she subscribed us to Starz because she wants to watch Outlander. Party Down if you've never seen it.
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May 26, 2020 03:39
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The Grey posted:My wife just told me she subscribed us to Starz because she wants to watch Outlander. Be a good husband and watch it with your wife (she watched your bullshits shows). I know I had to watch every episode of Outlander... Spartacus and Black Sails are great, and your wife mat like them too (my wife did). Seconded Party Down!
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May 26, 2020 03:42
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I just watched the first two episodes of Gangs of London and halfway through I am thinking: drat, this is some well choreographed hyper violent stuff. Turns out it is made by my boy Gareth Evans who did "The Raid". I m not totally sold on it yet, some of the stuff is a bit cringey.
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May 26, 2020 06:17
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Found out all seasons of Alias are on Amazon Prime so I have been watching those.
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May 26, 2020 06:39
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Homecoming season 2: what if an okay 2 parter was stretched to fill the whole season?
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May 26, 2020 07:24
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Chef Boyardeez Nuts posted:Homecoming season 2: what if an okay 2 parter was stretched to fill the whole season? Yeah, I had the same issue with S1. Watched a few then the finale. Wouldn't recommend it unless you enjoy the tension of a meandering mystery.
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May 26, 2020 07:31
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nate fisher posted:Be a good husband and watch it with your wife (she watched your bullshits shows). I know I had to watch every episode of Outlander... I walked in once while she was watching it, and there was a prison scene where one dude was graphically raping another dude. Now I tell her I don't want to watch it because it has too much rape.
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May 26, 2020 13:00
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The Grey posted:I walked in once while she was watching it, and there was a prison scene where one dude was graphically raping another dude. Now I tell her I don't want to watch it because it has too much rape. Probably best you noped out at that point, it doesn't exactly let up on that sort of thing.
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May 26, 2020 13:15
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The Grey posted:I walked in once while she was watching it, and there was a prison scene where one dude was graphically raping another dude. Now I tell her I don't want to watch it because it has too much rape. Actually it is the most ‘rapey’ show I have I ever watched (before that? Oz maybe?). I just had this discussion with my wife (who is a fan of the books) during the last season about how the show averages a rape per season. We debated if the author has a rape fetish or if it is just a lazy way for her to show how brutal that world is. I don’t mind the show outside of that, but I can’t watch rape at all (man to man is bad, but it doesn’t affect me the way when I see a man raping woman. I can’t watch it at all). There was some backlash a few years ago against the show because of this, but all they have done is to put up a warning on the show (plus hotline number).
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May 26, 2020 13:21
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The Grey posted:My wife just told me she subscribed us to Starz because she wants to watch Outlander. Outlander has it's moments btw but it's one of those bad shows that is kind of a fun hate watch too.
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May 26, 2020 14:08
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Ash vs. Evil Dead is a great show and should be on Starz. Everyone needs more Ash in their lives.
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nate fisher posted:Actually it is the most ‘rapey’ show I have I ever watched (before that? Oz maybe?). I just had this discussion with my wife (who is a fan of the books) during the last season about how the show averages a rape per season. We debated if the author has a rape fetish or if it is just a lazy way for her to show how brutal that world is. I don’t mind the show outside of that, but I can’t watch rape at all (man to man is bad, but it doesn’t affect me the way when I see a man raping woman. I can’t watch it at all). There was some backlash a few years ago against the show because of this, but all they have done is to put up a warning on the show (plus hotline number). Only seen an episode or two of Outlander and read none, but it's my general experience that historical romance as a literary genre is rapey as hell for whatever reasons. I doubt the books stand out on that front.
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May 26, 2020 16:30
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Killer robot posted:Only seen an episode or two of Outlander and read none, but it's my general experience that historical romance as a literary genre is rapey as hell for whatever reasons. I doubt the books stand out on that front. They dont , but they should. My wife likes it, the leads have a pretty steamy chemistry(they're husband and wife irl i think?) , so some of the sex scenes are pretty sus. Its well shoot, the costume and set design is gorgeous.soft erotica is not a bad thing to watch as a couple 
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May 26, 2020 16:41
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wormil posted:Watched an episode of Outer Banks and I would have liked it if the writing wasn't so bad. As someone who has lived on the Outer Banks, it's absolutely fascinating that every single detail about the area is wrong. I guarantee it was written by people that have never left California.
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May 26, 2020 16:44
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Mike the TV posted:As someone who has lived on the Outer Banks, it's absolutely fascinating that every single detail about the area is wrong. I guarantee it was written by people that have never left California. It's "created by" the Pate brothers who are from North Carolina. I only know this because they created Surface, which I used to like, and that was mostly set in NC as well. Don't know how much of it they wrote though. Not being argumentative, I haven't watched the show or ever been to the state, more just surprised I happened to know this obscure bit of trivia  I have no idea how much of this kind of stuff is on the writers in general though. Seems more of a production thing most of the time.
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May 26, 2020 17:24
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wormil posted:I have also been watching Banshee and that got pulled too. Do you have Amazon Prime? They have it.
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Gravy Jones posted:It's "created by" the Pate brothers who are from North Carolina. I only know this because they created Surface, which I used to like, and that was mostly set in NC as well. Don't know how much of it they wrote though. Yeah I understand that the filming happened in South Carolina, and I can easily ignore all of the weird location issues as a way that the producer got around it. It is funny that the island is covered in palm trees and plantation style homes. It adds to that weirdness by also having Adina Porter as the sheriff with a thick bayou accent. But besides that the locals use a lot of slang that doesn't exist there and there is a class divide in the show that doesn't really exist on the East Coast... it feels more like a poor copy of hill vs valley culture. I'm not really sure what about the Outer Banks as a location made it past the creative idea phase for the show besides the name and being a generic coastal area on the East Coast.
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Killer robot posted:Only seen an episode or two of Outlander and read none, but it's my general experience that historical romance as a literary genre is rapey as hell for whatever reasons. I doubt the books stand out on that front. They really went super rapey this last season too. It feels kinda forced.
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calandryll posted:Ash vs. Evil Dead is a great show and should be on Starz. Everyone needs more Ash in their lives. Absolutely this. The short episodes mean it's always moving toward a fever pitch of practical gore.
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