muscles like this! posted:

He's a tech billionaire and an evil sorcerer!

Snak posted:

Its definitely worth a watch. It's 3 seasons, less than 60 episodes total. Great cast.

McSpanky posted:

Onigami Nanashi posted:

I looked through the first couple pages of the forum and I didn't see a dedicated Emerald City thread.

I've seen all the episodes so far despite not knowing a single other person who's actually watching it. I don't have high hopes for it being renewed for a second season but I'm enjoying myself right now for the first. It doesn't hurt that the actor who plays Lucas is hot like fire.

Gonz posted:

Oh, Carrie is indeed a realllly bad mother, but that was more of a "Somehow Dar knows who did the bombing and is protecting them" sort of comment.

Rhyno posted:

There are three fights over the course of Banshee's run that are brutal in a way unlike anything I've ever seen on television before.

Hood vs Sanchez

"Hood" vs the Albino

Nola vs Burton

Leviathan posted:

man, no homeland thread still. weak

less laughter posted:

Likely mandated by HBO when it was still going to be on their network. It's what they do.

Open Source Idiom posted:

My god I just finished Slings And Arrows for the first time. It's so, so good -- the King Lear season in particular. Absolutely amazing. For those of you who haven't had the pleasure, it's a Canadian comedy/drama about a theatre trying to put on various Shakespeare plays, and the difficulties involved. Each season focuses on a different Shakespeare, and part of the difficulty involved in mounting the production lies in the events behind the scenes beginning to mirror the events in the actual plays. Which should be a recipe for high fructose corn syrup, but it ends up not being at all.

The entire thing is so gentle and funny for the most part, but then the final season just really rakes the entire cast through it -- but the thing that really gets me is how grounded and realistic it is. Despite having supernatural elements it's never particularly genre, and despite being a drama It's never melodramatic. Even when it's funny all the characters are themselves first, and joke machines second -- except for the two comic relief characters, who both turn out to be deeply unbalanced people.

It's so, so good, and I think it's crazy that no-one really talks about it. I mean, you see it turn up in the occasional top ten lists, and critics like Sepinwall and Nussbaum talk really highly of it when it does come up. David Simon, who made The Wire, talked about how much he admired the show (and you can see it shares many of his sensibilities, if a completely different subject matter). Hell, Todd Vanderwerff did a whole big retrospective for the Av Club about five years back, back when the Av Club was a respectable name and had the content and coverage to back that name. But I don't think I've ever seen a show fall into complete obscurity so, so quickly.

It's really very good.

Qmass posted:

I am re-watching deadwood. My opinion, that deadwood is the greatest show of all time, remains unwavering. Those that disagree, suck cock by choice!

Aphrodite posted:

@Midnight is also now about Chris Hardwick's wife stories, and sometimes jokes.

X-O posted:

Pretty much everything from minute one of @Midnight was pre-written by the people on the show. Not that it really matters, but it was almost all pre-written.

Pedro De Heredia posted:

So there was no build up to storylines that had been built up?


I'm not sure where you're getting that this was supposed to be one of the most cathartic moments in the whole series. Not from the books, since it hasn't happened there. Not from the series, since it is not a cathartic series.

Snak posted:

Oh, definitely.

But does scandal have like, clones and stuff? That might make me start watching it.

OldSenileGuy posted:

I'm on the second to last episode of Timeless and I only now just realized they named a character "Rufus Carlin"

I can't decide if that's awesome or eye-rolling

OldSenileGuy posted:

The first episode of S3 of Fargo is already leagues better than anything in season 2.

Lycus posted:

I haven't watched Fargo S3 yet, is the thread turning on it? Right on schedule.

Arist posted:

lol people are getting pretty desperate to hate on fargo at this point

OldSenileGuy posted:

Hot take: This season of Fargo is easily the best one and S2 is the worst by a country mile.

Shageletic posted:

Are you kidding me? I love John Le Carre. I love character studies (hence why Mad Men is my fav show of all time). And guess what, I also know how to spell.

Americans was a slog through a nasty muck of unchanging character dynamics, tedious side plots, and a general grayness stuck in only type of tone (grim). Hence why I bounced out during the second season.

There's some good things to be said for it, like it not being apologetic about what it wants to do. But people not liking it (which comes from them experiencing as "bad", by the way") doesn't deserve the snide post you just dished out.

Rhyno posted:

Because he's been trying to get another Wayne's World or Austin Powers film going for close to 10 years and nobody wants anything to do with either property anymore.

X-O posted:

I never liked the Austin Powers or Wayne’s World movies (I did like the SNL sketches though) but I think So I Married an Axe Murderer is a super underrated gem of a comedy movie.

Rhyno posted:

He should have made that into a franchise.

Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:

"Oh Hello" is one of the funniest things I've ever seen in my life. My wife and I were laughing hysterically almost the entire time. My comedy nerdery has rubbed off on her, and her old-school theater dorkiness has infected me, so we were pretty much their target audience. We both love John Mulaney, but I could never get into Kroll Show, mostly for some of his other obnoxious characters. I was vaguely familiar with Gil and George and "Too Much Tuna," but she watched it pretty much completely cold. I wish I could watch it again for the first time, but I'm sure it will have a lot of great re-watch value, unlike most stand-up specials.

I think it will be very polarizing, but I loved it, and I will be fascinated to know who else loved it, and who hated it. By the way, Mulaney is touring again this fall!

Snak posted:

Origin is much better than The Wolverine.

McSpanky posted:

Yeah I should've thrown "in a perfect world" in there.

try the new taco place posted:

It sounded like a bad idea 6 years ago and then I heard Rihanna was playing the big Psycho part recently, but then I watched every other show. And now people are saying it deserves legacy Emmys right next to The Leftovers 🤔

muscles like this! posted:

Shooter is going to have some problems going forward with season 2 as Ryan Phillippe has somehow severely broken a leg in an accident unrelated to filming the show. They still have two episodes left to film which is going to be awkward to film around.

Snak posted:

Yeah, I actually somehow forgot until watching the first ep just now that there was a reason I should watch it besides the praise.

But for real, the first 4 seasons of Dawson's Creek are great tv.

edit: 17 and a half minutes into Don't Trust the Bitch in Apt 23 and it's one of the best comedy pilots I've ever seen.

edit: 19 and a half minutes and this show is genius. Who lost their job for not advertising this at all?

zoux posted:

Well I guess I mean a western set in the Wild West era

IRQ posted:

Aren't there supposed to be a bunch of other theme parks of different eras as part of that whole fiction?

esperterra posted:

How's her acting in it? I love Biel and will watch anything she's in, but I would never pretend she's a very good actress.

Been a while since she's done much, though, so maybe she's improved!