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Binged through The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel season 2 on release night. Even better than the first season, and definitely becoming one of my favorite current shows. Surprised there's no thread yet.
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We finished Mrs. Maisel Season 2 last night and loved it. I thought everyone was acting out of character in the first Catskills episode, like boorish cartoon versions of themselves, but I guess it was just me being annoyed by how awful a two-month vacation with my family at a Catskills resort would have been. I loved Season 1, and Season 2 was equally great. It will make my top five shows of the year again, without a doubt. My favorite running gag (not really a gag) was Susie winning everyone over through persistence and her own kind of charm: the Stage Deli insiders, the two thugs (who were straight out of a Woody Allen movie, back when he made funny ones), the Italian family, the Catskills resort staff, the control room crew, and eventually even Sophie Lennon, the toughest crowd of all.
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Dec 10, 2018 15:24
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I really loved Maisel s2 but thought a few things made me like it slightly less than the first, mainly repeating points it felt like they’d covered in s1 and that Joel hadn’t gone away
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Dec 10, 2018 19:25
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My surprise enjoyment of the Castlevania anime and Devilman made me think I should try out Hero Mask despite it's insanely stupid name. I rank that decision up there with some of my all time greatest mistakes. I have less regrets about choosing drugs over who may have been the love of my life than I do about watching 4 episodes of that show.
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Dec 13, 2018 22:03
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I'm totally hooked on Mr Mercedes after blowing through S1 in a couple of days and now on S2E3. Brendan Gleeson is fantastic as expected but the Holly character is my favorite and quite the scene stealer. Happy to find out it was renewed for a 3rd season!
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Dec 14, 2018 01:13
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Best thing about watching House again is being able to skip all the Cuddy scenes.
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Dec 14, 2018 03:01
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Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:We finished Mrs. Maisel Season 2 last night and loved it. I absolutely loved it, it has incredible dialogue and the beautifully choreographed scenes they do every so often where everyone is shown at the same time are a joy to watch. I did feel it was more happy go lucky than season 1, however. Even though the characters were shown to be miserable and struggling with adversity, the overall tone was rather "everything will work out" while throughout the first season I was thinking "this is going to backfire horribly".
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Dec 14, 2018 08:50
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Watched Lucifer on Netflix. Just looked up the thread and holy poo poo this dude nailed it based off the pilot alone: Kin posted:This show is formulaic crime solving garbage for idiots except it's already jumped the shark by making the lead the loving devil. The only thing he missed is Netflix running a 10 episode season 4 (releasing in 2019). It's not bad, btw. My S1, S2 and S3 ratings would be 8, 7 and 5, respectively. It's a silly buddy cop procedural with a decent hit-rate on the dumb jokes. Angels and demons are like narrowly constructed humans rather than cosmic entities. They endlessly string along a limited set of plot points. The writing gets very 'soap opera' halfway through S3. I maybe skipped 10% of the series, overall. If you like the sound of 'silly buddy cop procedurals,' I'd deffo recommend S1.
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Dec 19, 2018 21:58
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Lucifer had an intriguing first season and some brilliant stand-alone episodes but otherwise is just as described above. I would have quit in S2 but my kids enjoyed it. There is talent and potential there, maybe Netflix can bring it out.
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Dec 20, 2018 00:20
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I barely remember the few episodes I saw, really.
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Dec 20, 2018 00:40
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I enjoy watching Lucifer
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Dec 20, 2018 01:01
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The guy playing Lucifer is great. Zoey, eh and most of the supporting cast is pretty good. I'm interested to see where they take it for the next season.
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Dec 20, 2018 02:03
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Binging the Last Ship now that it's finished and lmao season 4 truly is The Beard Season.
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Dec 20, 2018 02:41
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This whole time I thought y'all were talking about Luther and the descriptions were really confusing.
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Dec 20, 2018 03:46
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I hate Lucifer because they took one of the greatest comic books of all time and made it just another generic "quirky annoying but intelligent white guy solves crimes with a straight man minority/female sidekick" show and I just don't understand why anyone would do that
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Dec 20, 2018 14:28
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Story of Yanxi Palace
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Dec 21, 2018 03:52
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God, I loving hate DarkCrawler posted:I hate Lucifer because they took one of the greatest comic books of all time and made it just another generic "quirky annoying but intelligent white guy solves crimes with a straight man minority/female sidekick" show and I just don't understand why anyone would do that God, I loving hate procedurals, and I especially despise this loving dumbass formula.
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Dec 22, 2018 13:03
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Watching Agents of Shield season 5 now and it's alright I still think they stretch things way too thin at times so some episodes are completely dull. But overall I like the new plotline of "we went forward in time to the space apocalypse and then back to current time to try and stop the coming space apocalypse. Also, there are aliens everywhere"
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Dec 22, 2018 14:22
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-Blackadder- posted:God, I loving hate procedurals, and I especially despise this loving dumbass formula. The only good "interesting premise used for a procedural" show is Person of Interest because the lead isn't quirky/annoying and also they actually pay attention to their goddamn premise
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Dec 22, 2018 18:29
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The lead is like an empty nothing that grunts or whispers all his lines while doing karate kicks.
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Dec 22, 2018 18:42
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Mu Zeta posted:The lead is like an empty nothing that grunts or whispers all his lines.
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Dec 22, 2018 18:48
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I mean, yes, but they also hate cops and government surveillance and sometimes that's enough to balance the scales for me.
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Dec 22, 2018 18:51
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nerdman42 posted:I mean, yes, but they also hate cops and government surveillance and sometimes that's enough to balance the scales for me. Uh, do they? I feel like half the cast are heroic cops, and the show comes down on the side of the police being a good system infiltrated by bad people.
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Dec 23, 2018 09:30
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I watched 3Below purely on the Guillermo del Toro credit. I assumed it was a feature film because of the Dreamworks Tag but it's actually a TV show. It's very cute and fun and now has me binging Troll Hunters as it's set in the same same setting concurrent to that show David E. Kelley style.
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Dec 26, 2018 06:49
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Getting close to finishing up S1 of Counterpart and I'm really digging it. Will likely let season 2 have some time to build up more episodes. Now I'm deciding between s2 of Mr Mercedes which I have a feeling I might not like because of how I'm imagining the supernatural elements playing out I don't really like psychological thriller type stuff and I'm imagining it being something sort of like that or 12 Monkeys which I keep hearing really good things about.
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Dec 26, 2018 11:51
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Drunk Driver Dad posted:Now I'm deciding between s2 of Mr Mercedes which I have a feeling I might not like because of how I'm imagining the supernatural elements playing out I don't really like psychological thriller type stuff and I'm imagining it being something sort of like that or 12 Monkeys which I keep hearing really good things about. I don't think you'll need to worry about Mr. Mercedes. Its characters only change their tactics, not their genre.
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Dec 26, 2018 12:33
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Just finished catching up with Preacher. Loved every minute. Herr Starr is loving hilarious. I can't wait for the next season.
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Dec 27, 2018 02:28
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I'm watching LOST for the first time with my new roommate (who loves it). We're almost done with season 4 and I've really been enjoying it the whole way through. I'm also reading Alan Sepinwall's episode reviews from when LOST was on the air, along with the comment threads. It's been a great way to get a taste of what it must have been like to watch the show as it aired and obsessively analyze every detail, but without the frustration of waiting months or years to find anything out.
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Dec 27, 2018 12:29
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inb4 wall of bad opinions. Hi mom!
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Dec 27, 2018 12:56
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showbiz_liz posted:I'm watching LOST for the first time with my new roommate (who loves it). We're almost done with season 4 and I've really been enjoying it the whole way through. I'm also reading Alan Sepinwall's episode reviews from when LOST was on the air, along with the comment threads. It's been a great way to get a taste of what it must have been like to watch the show as it aired and obsessively analyze every detail, but without the frustration of waiting months or years to find anything out. Good idea watching it with someone else. Honestly the LOST threads were better than the show itself in hindsight. Watching everybody react in real time as TWISTS got thrown out there was insanely fun
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Dec 27, 2018 14:28
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We re-watched Lost last summer and I still say it's one of the best OTA network TV series of all time: acting, characters, suspense, crazy plot twists that people still argue about, and arguably one of the best finales of it's time. But then 99.7% of all US network TV is pure poo poo. Edit, and yes, much more fun watching with someone who hasn't seen it.
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Dec 28, 2018 01:35
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"We have to go back" is one of the best tv moments of all time.
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Dec 28, 2018 02:47
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It's popular to bitch about it on the Internet, but Lost will always be one of my favorite shows.
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Dec 28, 2018 02:50
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Lost was one of my favorites for a long time until it wasn't. Probably the first non HBO show pre-DVR/streaming that I was dedicated to making sure I watched weekly no matter how difficult. I'm not gonna rehash the debates but it started to lose me when it started getting really, really out there and sci-fi. Not exactly my thing. In hindsight I think I might have received the final season and finale better under different circumstances. But I think those last couple of seasons kind of disengaged me from the characters too much for that finale to be a home run. But I think it probably would play a lot better in a binge without all that drama and wait in the real time run. I don't think that's me bitching. I really do think I'm probably irrevocably jaded and the finale and show as a whole SHOULD be held in higher prestige than I do. Those first few seasons are up there with like Friday Night Lights, the Wire, Mad Men, Breaking Bad, Shield, whatever for me.
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Dec 28, 2018 03:15
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showbiz_liz posted:but without the frustration of waiting months or years to find anything out. Well you never find anything out anyway so meh.
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Dec 28, 2018 05:01
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Unzip and Attack posted:Well you never find anything out anyway so meh. I don't think that's really fair, we've found out plenty already by the point I'm at (late season 4). Certainly not EVERYTHING, but a hell of a lot. But ultimately I'm watching to see what happens next, not to learn the Ultimate Grand Unified Theory Of LOST. My impression (which could be wrong, since I'm fairly unspoiled on what comes next) is that that's about where the dividing line between fans and ex-fans is - if you wanted all the puzzles solved elegantly and totally, you're more likely to have jumped off the LOST train than if you were just along for the weird ride.
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Dec 28, 2018 06:14
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Mu Zeta posted:"We have to go back" is one of the best tv moments of all time. You can tell that somewhere near the end of season 3 they got a firm date for when the show would end because at that point the show stops spinning its wheels and really loving moves along.
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Dec 28, 2018 08:59
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Letterkenny seasons 3 through 6 just became available on Hulu in the US so pitter patter let's get this guy a fuckin' puppers
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Dec 28, 2018 15:37
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Just finished the 8 episodes of Season 1 of Diablero on Netflix. It's entertaining, in the realm of Supernatural. Hellblazer and Grimm but set in Mexico so different culture, different type of villains but familiar rag-tag group of misfits trying to save the world from demons and monsters. Hope we don't have to wait too long for another season. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjFLxAB4vpA
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Lost is much better than people give it credit for, and it holds up pretty well on a binge watch, where most of the frustration people had with it watching it week by week, is removed. It's far from perfect - lots of red herrings, dropped plot points, and a considerable amount of filler in the first three seasons - you can tell it was bridging the gap between the classic television show model and modern ones. But still, it's a lot of fun, the characters are great, and there are so many memorable and incredible moments to make up for these things.
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