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Fighting Elegy posted:I've been hate watching Good Girls. I only have a few more episodes and then I'll be free of this curse the show has left on me (at least until there's a fourth season). She was very good in Mad Men. But she's also notable for the boobs. I heard somewhere a few months back that boob jobs in the UK skyrocketed back when Mad Men was still on the air and one of the reasons was Christina Hendricks. Like....there was a survey. Hughmoris posted:Just finished up The Knick. Fantastic show, highly recommend to anyone. VinylonUnderground posted:I just want to thank the general gooncensus for the Knick. I 100% never would have watched it. Three episodes in with my spouse and we are loving it. Just a great show. Bow taken. And Soderbergh is back leading the way for the third season currently in development.
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After finishing up Avenue 5 and The Knick, I need a new show to binge. How's The Sinner or Behind Her Eyes?
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Hughmoris posted:After finishing up Avenue 5 and The Knick, I need a new show to binge. The first season of The Sinner is really good. Later seasons are not as good, but not terrible. Unlike Behind Her Eyes, which is terrible. Also I feel like I'll be shot if I don't suggest you watch Jett. So watch Jett or Cactus will shoot me.
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Open Source Idiom posted:The first season of The Sinner is really good. Later seasons are not as good, but not terrible. Hmmmm. I've never heard of Jett but I do love me some Carla Gugino.
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Hughmoris posted:After finishing up Avenue 5 and The Knick, I need a new show to binge. Just watched both recently as it happens. I thought they were both solid B-to-B+ material. I don't agree that Behind Her Eyes is terrible. But it's not a bog-standard crime drama like you might think at first.
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Well I was looking for a new show to watch and I decided to finally check out Bojack Horseman. Just watched 9 episodes in one sitting, and I'd keep going if I didn't have work in the morning. It's good!
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ShakeZula posted:Well I was looking for a new show to watch and I decided to finally check out Bojack Horseman. Just watched 9 episodes in one sitting, and I'd keep going if I didn't have work in the morning. It's good! 9 eps in bojack is just getting started, you’re in for a hell of a ride
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Bojack Horseman gets loving wild in ways I’ve never encountered in other TV shows. Prepare for a lot of episodes that end with you sitting in stunned silence as the credits roll.
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Open Source Idiom posted:The first season of The Sinner is really good. Later seasons are not as good, but not terrible. Actually the penalty for not recommending Jett is getting tied up and having your face pissed on. Just for the record.
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Rhyno posted:Most nerds are obsessed with her because she was on that fuckin Whedon show. I felt it was more Super Troopers.
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I was unaware she was in any of those things, I imagine the vast majority of people know her from Mad Men.
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Spoilers for Person of Interest through the middle of season 3 (I think the last episode we watched was The Devil's Share - edit: this is not the episode I was complaining out, it is the one before The Devil's Share that made me so aggravated). Well, the episode where Carter got did dirty was probably the worst episode of this show I've seen. Carter dying in a stupid, easily forseen way. Carter, Finch and Reese seeming to completely lose their brains not thinking "Hey Simmons is still out there maybe he'll go after Carter so she should be wearing a loving VEST?!" And the absolutely mind-bogglingly ridiculous tropey dumb out of nowhere decision to have Reese and Carter suddenly be romantically interested in one another. That came out of absolute nowhere. We had to pause the episode at that moment, we were so flabbergasted. If there were hints or foreshadowing, we completely missed them because there was NOTHING there, nothing at all, and the writers/producers/whomever figured the audience needed the two main characters to be in love in order to increase the pathos at the end? Absolute horseshit. I don't know the reason why Carter was killed/written off the show, but there were a million ways to do that (she put away HR and actually does get the job with the Feds!) that would have been more elegant and interesting than just getting shot out of nowhere. It isn't going to stop me from watching the rest of the series, but that was a MAJOR low point for me. Good god. Ugh. Lucas Archer fucked around with this message at 18:50 on Mar 1, 2021 |
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VinylonUnderground posted:I felt it was more Super Troopers. Is this some weird joke about her ex husband?
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Aardvark! posted:I was unaware she was in any of those things, I imagine the vast majority of people know her from Mad Men. I only know her as Chair  (Another Period) For some actual content, because of the UK thread I've watched Derry Girls (both seasons - series) I liked it. I liked it a lot. Usually I feel like UK sitcoms lean more into drama than comedy, but this is an outright comedy. I had a good time and I'm looking forward to season 3. It also led me down an hour wiki hole learning all about the Irish Troubles. The only thing I knew about the Troubles is that it made Liam Neeson a racist! I really enjoy how almost every episode has a final image moment that has an emotional swing. I think all but 2 have a final image/scene that flips the emotion and it feels really good on my insides. We (gf and I) started This Country after seeing Daisy May Cooper on Taskmaster. It's good, but a little slower than Derry Girls. One of those mix a little drama with comedy deals. Oh and we also started The Magicians, but I'm not sure on that one. Some of the actors are not the best and the writing is a bit cheesy. I've seen it recommended a few times here, but I don't think I'm feeling it. We are only on episode 4 though so maybe we should stick with it? I'm almost hate watching it, but not quite there yet. An Ounce of Gold fucked around with this message at 00:42 on Mar 2, 2021 |
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Rhyno posted:Is this some weird joke about her ex husband? Yes.
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Hughmoris posted:Just started up Mr. Mayor. Hopefully Ted Danson can work his magic. Realize this is from a couple weeks back, but felt like I needed to say my SO and I are enjoying the heck out of this show. Weaponized Autism posted:I was also considering adding Justified as I've heard good things. How's the pacing on that show? Definitely a recommendation from me. Seasons two and three are probably the strongest, at least in my opinion, but the entire series is solid.
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Lucas Archer posted:It isn't going to stop me from watching the rest of the series, but that was a MAJOR low point for me. Good god. Ugh. It was apparently an adlib that they decided to keep in.
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RestingB1tchFace posted:And Soderbergh is back leading the way for the third season currently in development. Wait there's going to be a third season of The Knick? That's fantastic news, and I didn't expect it at all. Particularly given the way it ended.
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Fighting Elegy posted:I've been hate watching Good Girls. I only have a few more episodes and then I'll be free of this curse the show has left on me (at least until there's a fourth season). I didn't hate Good Girls but it was definitely dumb as poo poo. There were points where Christina Hendricks was making some sort of speech and she'd say "I'm really good at this" and I'd just yell at the TV "NO YOU loving AREN'T" because the whole thing is just one hilariously amateurish fuckup after another. It's like Breaking Bad if Walter White never successfully made any meth but just kept blowing up houses in the attempt while insisting he was a genius. I actually quite like the cast but jesus they deserved a better script.
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Ugh all done with fargo for a while. Season 3 dragged on, was boring a lot of the time, didn’t make sense other times, and man I just need a break. And that loving ending.
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nwin posted:Ugh all done with fargo for a while. Season 3 dragged on, was boring a lot of the time, didn’t make sense other times, and man I just need a break. And that loving ending. Yeah this is the consensus.
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Trig Discipline posted:Wait there's going to be a third season of The Knick? That's fantastic news, and I didn't expect it at all. Particularly given the way it ended. Not confirmed, but there's been a lot of chatter. Maybe it'll just be a Hannibal Season 4 situation, where nothing actually happens, but who knows? nwin posted:Ugh all done with fargo for a while. Season 3 dragged on, was boring a lot of the time, didn’t make sense other times, and man I just need a break. And that loving ending. Season 4 is worse. I've seen a lot of defences of the show that amount to "a bad season of Fargo is still better than most other television", to which I shall rebut: lol, no. I reckon Noah Hawley climbed up his own butt sometime around Legion Season 2 (does anyone remember that critics letter he sent out?) and I suspect he's choked to death up there.
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Open Source Idiom posted:I reckon Noah Hawley climbed up his own butt sometime around Legion Season 2 (does anyone remember that critics letter he sent out?) and I suspect he's choked to death up there. Legion season 1 is still one of my favorite seasons of television ever and I never finished the second season.
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showbiz_liz posted:Legion season 1 is still one of my favorite seasons of television ever and I never finished the second season. I didn't hate season 2 but it was definitely tough going at times. It's worth it sticking with it though because the climax of S2 is amazing and Season 3 is real good again
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showbiz_liz posted:Legion season 1 is still one of my favorite seasons of television ever and I never finished the second season. I didn't get far with that show because I can't stand extended dream sequences.
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An Ounce of Gold posted:Oh and we also started The Magicians, but I'm not sure on that one. Some of the actors are not the best and the writing is a bit cheesy. I've seen it recommended a few times here, but I don't think I'm feeling it. We are only on episode 4 though so maybe we should stick with it? I'm almost hate watching it, but not quite there yet. I may be the resident Magicians tankie, but I predict you will hate watch until you suddenly realize you love it. The early season and a half are almost directly cribbed from the book, which suffers from what I call the Quentin/Holden problem. Basically Quentin is written as an audience surrogate specifically for the demographic that the author/show was aiming for. He's the bland, literal straight man who exists to have the world's rules explained to him and to have more interesting characters bounce off him from the periphery. That's fine and may even be kind of useful on a broad level eventually everyone gets hip to the new world and the boring guy is still there. The show figures this out pretty early and in mid season 2 you can see the ship correct itself and move Quentin back into the ensemble and by the later half of season 3 "Quentin isn't the main character you loving idiots" is explicitly text. It will always be cheesy though. (20 second clip late season 3. It doesn't really spoil anything other than the existence of a Maguffen and illustrates how far they get from angsty magic Melrose Place)
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Legion seemed like it had a lot of potential but it never quite got anywhere with it. All the random monkeycheese stuff never had any clever payoffs, it was just there to be quirky. *Random cow appears* Season 1 was fine, the others less so
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I wonder if it would hold up better binged. The highs were great but god drat those interludes.
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An Ounce of Gold posted:Oh and we also started The Magicians, but I'm not sure on that one. Some of the actors are not the best and the writing is a bit cheesy. I've seen it recommended a few times here, but I don't think I'm feeling it. We are only on episode 4 though so maybe we should stick with it? I'm almost hate watching it, but not quite there yet.
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nwin posted:Ugh all done with fargo for a while. Season 3 dragged on, was boring a lot of the time, didn’t make sense other times, and man I just need a break. And that loving ending. UO but despite all its flaws, Varga was easily my favourite villian
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Trig Discipline posted:I didn't hate Good Girls but it was definitely dumb as poo poo. There were points where Christina Hendricks was making some sort of speech and she'd say "I'm really good at this" and I'd just yell at the TV "NO YOU loving AREN'T" because the whole thing is just one hilariously amateurish fuckup after another. It's like Breaking Bad if Walter White never successfully made any meth but just kept blowing up houses in the attempt while insisting he was a genius. Your description of the show made me laugh so hard that I'm going to check it out just for fun.
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Chef Boyardeez Nuts posted:I wonder if it would hold up better binged. The highs were great but god drat those interludes. I'm not sure this is a solution to a show being protractedly boring and / or bad.
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Wafflecopper posted:I didn't hate season 2 but it was definitely tough going at times. It's worth it sticking with it though because the climax of S2 is amazing and Season 3 is real good again Counter-argument: the end of S2 is complete garbage, as bad as the end of GoT, and the whole thing has its wheels come off during that last episode.
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Ishamael posted:Counter-argument: the end of S2 is complete garbage, as bad as the end of GoT, and the whole thing has its wheels come off during that last episode. I remember all the speculation at the time about the chapter that's missing from the end of that season, only for it never to be followed up on. That finale has a great fight scene, and at some point Amber Midthunder became an actual actress, which is nice, but the entire show is such a mess.
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Open Source Idiom posted:I remember all the speculation at the time about the chapter that's missing from the end of that season, only for it never to be followed up on. That fight was definitely cool, it is too bad the story went sideways so quickly and fell apart.
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Anyone missing Cameron from Halt and Catch Fire should probably watch Startup, H&CFs older, edgier (not in the lame sense) sibling. Izzy is basically the same character only crazier.
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This is a long shot, but has anyone seen The Circuit? I’ve liked Aaron Pederson in most of the other things I’ve seen him in but the first episode of this didn’t really do it for me. Probably won’t continue but I know sometimes it takes an episode or two for a show to find it’s groove. Also found Monday Monday which is an ok office sitcom and mainly fun for having a pre-Lucifer Tom Ellis.
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Chef Boyardeez Nuts posted:I may be the resident Magicians tankie, but I predict you will hate watch until you suddenly realize you love it. This was my experience. Three episodes in to Bring It On, Ghost on netflix. Hell of a premise: Dude has massive sexual tension with his ghost roommate who helps him solve ghostcrimes along with a third-wheel slovenly monk wannabe. I'm curious to see whether this will take an awful turn or become transcendent.
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