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FLIPADELPHIA posted:God drat this is somehow even more powerful. Thanks for sharing this. That photo of Gordon chokes me up every single time I watch this scene. You’re welcome. It still gets me too. And as someone who’s finding his life path is taking him back home after being away for six years, the whole ending hits a bit harder.
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I've watched a lot of shows the past couple of years many of them based on recommendations in this thread. HACF is still one of the best out of everything I watched and even after a few months I still think about it all the time.
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drrockso20 posted:Just started watching Murder, She Wrote on Peacock and I can already tell I'm going to probably be enjoying this one have you seen Columbo? if not, you're in for a treat.
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Geekslinger posted:I've watched a lot of shows the past couple of years many of them based on recommendations in this thread. HACF is still one of the best out of everything I watched and even after a few months I still think about it all the time. If you or anyone else who loved HaCF hasn't seen Six Feet Under yet, I strongly suspect you'd really enjoy it. It's also a drama about flawed but relatable human beings where you end up feeling like they're real people you know personally and care about.
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Fate Accomplice posted:have you seen Columbo? if not, you're in for a treat. Not really, this kinda happened cause I saw a dumb meme about Columbo on Tumblr the other day, which led to a Wikipedia dive into all sorts of Detective shows and stories and on a whim I looked up some of these shows availability on streaming and saw it was on Peacock(along with Columbo incidentally) which I already had a subscription to
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I stumbled across Philly DA - Breaking the Law on the BBC iplayer. It follows the election of a progressive as the District Attorney of Philadelphia. I've binged the first three and a bit episodes.
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Mu Zeta posted:Does anyone like Yellowstone? I watched the laboriously long pilot episode and I think all the characters are either dull or I despise them. I can't really tell the sons apart because they all have big beards and cowboy hats. I'm not sure if I'm supposed to be rooting for the guy that owns a ridiculous amount of land and is the ultimate nimby that doesn't allow cities to build any housing. The same people who cried at the end of Sons of Anarchy think Yellowstone is the best show currently airing. Really the same people I know who think SoA was one of the best shoes of all time love Yellowstone. Myself I watched all 3 seasons due to COVID watching last year and it became my guilty pleasure show of 2020. It is not good, but I like it in some strange way (I’m not even hate watching). Shame since given the writer and cast this should have been pure gold.
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Fate Accomplice posted:have you seen Columbo? if not, you're in for a treat. Magnum P.I. can be a little uneven but is generally pretty watchable and not just in an ironic 80’s time capsule sort of way. I haven’t seen all that many Columbos but they’ve been good. Love the 90min episodes.
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FLIPADELPHIA posted:Just binged through Halt and Catch fire in like 2 weeks. I actually cried multiple times during the final season. That's a first for me. Halt and Catch Fire was very good. I've found that AMC is very trustworthy as far as their shows go. Obviously Breaking Bad and Mad Men were pretty groundbreaking. Better Call Saul is great. The mini-series The Terror (specifically the first season) was excellent. Quite a few other shows that I'll eventually get around to watching here someday. Don't think I've really seen it mentioned here much....but Bates Motel on A&E was super good. Been over for a few years now. Something else that I haven't seen mentioned much here.....Patriot on Amazon Prime. It's a real shame that it came and went without much notice or recognition. Only got two seasons....which is really unfortunate. One of the best shows I've seen in a while. Not really sure how you'd classify it.....but I'd put it as a drama/black comedy. Writing and acting both top notch. Humor was at times laugh out loud, but smart enough to not slap you in the face with it. I even feel like the last episode of season 2 (series finale) did a decent enough job of putting a bow on things. I'm sure the show runners had the thought that they'd maybe not see a third season. Think I am willing to say that it is the best (non-sit-comedy) show I've watched since Chernobyl a couple of years ago. RestingB1tchFace fucked around with this message at 00:14 on Jun 27, 2021 |
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Patriot is like, one of TVIV’s favourite shows. It’s fantastic.
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I’ve been watching Manhunt: Unabomber on Netflix and I’ve been really enjoying it. Paul Bettany is amazing as Ted Kaczynski, like I wouldn’t have even realized it was him had I not known otherwise. Mark Duplass as his brother is great too. Definitely scratching my crime dramatization itch Also I’ve somehow gotten into The Good Fight besides the Paramount+ app constantly loving up and making me restart it every episode 
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Zaphod42 posted:I've been jumping around binging a few shows, Stephen Root owns so much. He is never on the A-list but good god, I swear he shows up in every other show I binge and just absolutely owns every scene he is in.
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Jun 27, 2021 00:42
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I binge watched all of Bosch last year during the height of the pandemic because I was basically out of new things to watch. I wrote it off because I always felt like Titus Welliver was going to try to sell me Comcast cable, plus not really into cop shows. I was pleasantly surprised by it though. Enough to keep watching. Well it's back now, for a final(?) season. About halfway through the episodes but they go down smooth. Also, the lieutenant calls a bunch of cops incels lol.
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HOLY gently caress posted:I’ve been watching Manhunt: Unabomber on Netflix and I’ve been really enjoying it. Paul Bettany is amazing as Ted Kaczynski, like I wouldn’t have even realized it was him had I not known otherwise. Mark Duplass as his brother is great too. Definitely scratching my crime dramatization itch They did a couple of those, I enjoyed the Richard Jewell one.
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HOLY gently caress posted:Also I’ve somehow gotten into The Good Fight besides the Paramount+ app constantly loving up and making me restart it every episode Speaking of, I've been re-watching The Good Wife and it continues to be excellent. Except for the Kalinda's husband plot.
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RestingB1tchFace posted:Patriot on Amazon Prime. I have good news and mixed news.
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And I have bad news about that mixed news: https://twitter.com/stevconrad/status/1223121931764785152?s=21 https://twitter.com/stevconrad/status/1223136000999903232?s=21
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HOLY gently caress posted:I’ve been watching Manhunt: Unabomber on Netflix and I’ve been really enjoying it. Paul Bettany is amazing as Ted Kaczynski, like I wouldn’t have even realized it was him had I not known otherwise. Mark Duplass as his brother is great too. Definitely scratching my crime dramatization itch The paramount + app is terrible. I keep it because I love the content but the app is the worst. Well the worst before I signed up for peacock which is somehow even worse.
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I have a Fire TV Cube and the new UI they have for that is absolutely horrendous. "Continue Watching" is 2 screens down, and the search button is off to the side now and you have to click a button to tell it you want to type instead of speak. Absolutely mind boggling. The only thing I'll give them is that their skip forward/backwards buttons are amazing. So much better than fast forwarding for a couple seconds with the little picture preview that takes forever to show up.
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Jun 28, 2021 17:46
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Zaphod42 posted:I've been jumping around binging a few shows, I was really excited when Tatiana Maslany showed up in Perry Mason but disappointed when there was only 1 of her in the show.
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Mental Hospitality posted:I binge watched all of Bosch last year during the height of the pandemic because I was basically out of new things to watch. I wrote it off because I always felt like Titus Welliver was going to try to sell me Comcast cable, plus not really into cop shows. I was pleasantly surprised by it though. Enough to keep watching. I watched it all this winter and am finishing the last season now. It sounds like a spin off is coming, but don’t look into the plan until you are finished with season 7. It doesn’t feel like they are trying too hard, but it is a nice final season, giving lots of characters one last chance to shine. Incel cop story so good, nice junk food side story.
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I don't care at all about any of the dumb Avengers/Thor movies and sure as hell didn't sit through many of them, but Loki seems good to me so far as a standalone.
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Solaris 2.0 posted:Stephen Root owns so much. He is never on the A-list but good god, I swear he shows up in every other show I binge and just absolutely owns every scene he is in. My favorite role for him is probably when he played a vampire in True Blood. Your Gay Uncle posted:I was really excited when Tatiana Maslany showed up in Perry Mason but disappointed when there was only 1 of her in the show. She was pretty great. I was only sorta into Perry Mason at first, but the religious plot actually got me on the edge of my seat to find out how they'd resolve the conflict. I was pretty bummed when I finished S1 and Amazon jumped me to a different show, and I realized that there's only 1 season out so far. When are they going to take binge-viewing to the next level and drop multiple seasons at once? 
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The church storyline is a dud imo. I couldn't believe they spent that much time on it.
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It didn't even need any of the "Perry Mason" characters in it at all, could have easily been "L.A. Crime Stories" or "Drunk Detective Lawyer" something something. Evil Groucho Marx guy was cool.
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It's the edgy prestige version with an expensive WW1 scene for no reason
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Keyser_Soze posted:I don't care at all about any of the dumb Avengers/Thor movies and sure as hell didn't sit through many of them, but Loki seems good to me so far as a standalone. It’s definitely watchable, but I don’t love it. Be prepared for lots of scenes of Loki and some other character going round and round in pointless conversation to pad out episode time, and tons of exposition to get us oriented to the new setting. The retro aesthetic is cool (but Maniac did it better.) I think part of my problem is that I just watched WandaVision which, while not perfect, seemed like it actually had something to say, while so far Loki seems like it’s checking off some box in the 10 year plan of Marvel spin-offs. I’m also not totally feeling the Owen Wilson character. I’m probably being over critical but there you are.
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At 3 eps in to Wandavision, it wasn't really apparent what the show had to say, either. I did find the "everyone look shocked/terrified and run on queue" scenes to be less believably performed, or presented, than anything else I've seen in the mcu. But I'll watch any of that marvel superheros stuff. I'm very happy they're being done competently now, and not more of the fantastic 4 film tier garbage.
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B33rChiller posted:At 3 eps in to Wandavision, it wasn't really apparent what the show had to say, either. These episodes are twice as long so we are more around episode 6 of Wandavisions run.
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finally finished Fringe. not a bad show, but probably wouldn't have watched it all if it wasn't for the Walter Bishop character. currently half-way through the first season of The Americans and really like it so far
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Chef Boyardeez Nuts posted:I have good news and mixed news. Thanks for the heads up. I'll finally get to put that worthless channel to use.
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RestingB1tchFace posted:Thanks for the heads up. I'll finally get to put that worthless channel to use. There you go. There you loving go.
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1000 Sweaty Rikers posted:currently half-way through the first season of The Americans and really like it so far It's so good, I kinda want to watch it again sometime soon. We're almost through season 1 of Buffy, and it's corny as gently caress but it's fun. We're also starting Halt and Catch Fire, and are about three episodes in. We watched this first season when it first came out and really liked it, but just didn't stick with it when later seasons came out.
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1000 Sweaty Rikers posted:finally finished Fringe. not a bad show, but probably wouldn't have watched it all if it wasn't for the Walter Bishop character. Yeah Walter rules. Too bad the show seemed more interested in Dawson's Creek guy. I really liked it up until like the third big alternate universe twist and then it felt like the show wasn't going anywhere.
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1000 Sweaty Rikers posted:currently half-way through the first season of The Americans and really like it so far
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RestingB1tchFace posted:Thanks for the heads up. I'll finally get to put that worthless channel to use. lol did you miss my post right after
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Mental Hospitality posted:I binge watched all of Bosch last year during the height of the pandemic because I was basically out of new things to watch. I wrote it off because I always felt like Titus Welliver was going to try to sell me Comcast cable, plus not really into cop shows. I was pleasantly surprised by it though. Enough to keep watching. There's a spinoff coming starring.....Bosch
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Bosch question. We watches S1 a while ago, but my recollection is when we started S2 it looked to be all about sexual violence stuff and my wife didn't want to deal with that for a whole season. Do the later seasons have a lot of that too (vs. just dudes getting murdered), and are the seasons independent enough you could skip to S3 and not be totally lost?
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Apple TV is making a big push to be a major player in the streaming service . 'The Morning Show' was good. 'Ted Lasso' was very good. 'The Shrink Next Door' looks like it could be great. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PG3-xG6yncc And I am also VERY excited for 'Foundation'....based on a classic novel written by one of the all time great science fiction authors, Issac Asimov. Holy smokes.....just watched the trailer.....that looks incredible. Wasn't sure how an adaption would work for something like this. Just way too ambitious a novel....like Dune or Hyperion....where a film just wouldn't be long enough to capture it. But a big budget television show could definitely do it justice. Doesn't appear that they are cutting corners here....which is good. Looking forward to seeing Lee Pace in another co-leading role....after the very good, 'Halt and Catch Fire'. And then of course.....Jared Harris is great in everything. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok5iYzDo9QI RestingB1tchFace fucked around with this message at 18:26 on Jun 30, 2021 |
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Anorak Revolution posted:It seems that about everyone here at some point fell in love with a tv show on the first viewing and blew through a complete season (or series) on DVD in a space of a few days/weeks. Television has been a superior medium to cinema for around 15 years now.....imo. Obviously HBO has been creating top notch stuff for over 20 years.....but channels like AMC and FX have been doing it for a while now, too.
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