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I binged through The Shannara Chronicles on netflix the other day. It's pretty bad but also entertaining, a bit like fast food really. My favourite part is all the weird subtext suggesting the Elves are running an Elfpartheid regime over the other races.
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Drunk Driver Dad posted:I've thought about watching that. I haven't read the books and not sure if I intend to or not, but I do enjoy some trashy rear end genre fiction sometimes. Is 1 season all there is or going to be? IIRC it's been on netflix forever with just that 1 A second season was ordered by MTV so guess it will probably broadcast this year.
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Jan 16, 2017 10:52
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mcbexx posted:Started watching "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency" (finished E05) and I can say with confidence that it's easily and by far the weirdest, most surreal show I have ever watched. It's really good. There's absolutely no filler in the writing whatsoever.
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Jan 21, 2017 03:12
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Astrofig posted:I'm about halfway through Thirteen Reasons Why, and somehow they managed to make it even more depressing than the book. Well-done. I got about 2 thirds of the way through the first episode before I switched it off out of annoyance. The dead girl comes off as a narcissistic bitch and the rest is boo-hoo sad teenagers stuff. I have personal history with depression and suicide and the idea that someone would have enough wherewithal and emotional intelligence needed to pull off the central plot premise while suffering a suicidal episode is absurd. So instead the dead girl just seems like a manipulative rear end in a top hat who forgot that you don't get to see your plans come to fruition if you're dead.
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Apr 30, 2017 00:52
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Just finished watching The Mist. It was pretty good but also very Stephen King so the drama never rises much above the pedestrian. It does feel like it could quickly veer off into Lost shittery without good direction. Also the mist is totally the Warp from warhammer/Conan stuff
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Aug 29, 2017 13:18
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Sloth Life posted:Started Travellers! I really like it. It makes a nice change of pace from Altered Carbons relentless dourness (funky and gorgeous but dour). I just finished binging through seasons 1 and 2 and was pleasantly surprised. It's probably one of the most nuanced explorations of concepts like faith, destiny, pre-determination etc that I've seen in pop TV.
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Mar 3, 2018 01:46
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Cactus posted:I like this because it totally isn't how I chose to see the show at all (but it still holds up as an analysis) - I saw it as a lighthearted romp where people from the future travel back in time to gently caress poo poo up, fall in love, and engage in time-travel shenanigans! On that level it succeeded for me, and I'm glad to see it also succeeds for those that choose to engage with it in a deeper, less superficial way in order to go looking for symbolism, metaphor and all that good stuff. If you like time travel shenanigans you should check out 12 Monkeys. It focuses less on relationships and beliefs and more on turning it's plot and timeline into a spaghetti mess of causality loops.
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Mar 6, 2018 13:49
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Elias_Maluco posted:I started this series yesterday and so far.. it seems kinda bad? Mediocre actors, bad dialogue, weak characters and the plot seems to move way too fast The characters and acting improves as the series goes on but it never relents from the breakneck plot speed. They pack a crazy amount of stuff in 13 episodes which is where most of the fun of the series comes from.
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Mar 8, 2018 10:02
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I watched through Troy: Fall of a City and despite some clunky writing it was pretty good. The Iliad is one of my favourite stories so I was predisposed to enjoy it and I suspect the show leans a bit to heavily on the fact that the story and characters are so well known. It'd be interesting to hear what someone who isn't familiar with the story made of it. I was also pleasantly surprised that the costumes and scenery was all fairly period accurate for a tv series except for the horses. Achaeans didn't really ride horses but the chariots were good.
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Apr 14, 2018 02:30
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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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I've been watching Titans. It's OK except for the parts involving Robin which are boring and poo poo.
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Jan 13, 2019 04:40
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Up to episode 3 of Another Life. Who let these children crew a space ship?
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Jul 25, 2019 11:51
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Up to episode 8 in Another Life. The show has steadily getting better as it kills off characters. I think that's the series twist; there were never any aliens instead it was all a hoax to send all the biggest assholes and drama cows in NASA on a suicide mission.
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Jul 26, 2019 08:55
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I've been watching Messiah and it's pretty interesting although I suspect it may be a bit slow for people not from a religious background. The show can't seem to decide how it wants to portray the US. The US is clearly the Roman Empire analogue in this story but so far the writers have been pretty milquetoast on depicting realistic imperial brutality.
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Jan 5, 2020 03:08
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I've been watching Dark and it's really great. Winden sure is one tawdry little town.
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C-Euro posted:Watched a bunch of Midnight Mass on Netflix today. It's good! Pretty creepy, and several one-take monologues with a camera that very slowly zooms in, if that's your get-down. Midnight Mass gets pretty wild by the end. Especially after the vampire Jonestown scene.
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