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Mu Zeta posted:Finished both seasons of His Dark Materials and it's unbelievably boring. Good cast and production values. it looks expensive as hell. But nothing happens and even major character deaths are forgettable that I need a reminder that this person died in the recap next episode. You'd think a show about someone trying to destroy church and religion would be more exciting but it's more like watching Richard Dawkins walk to the corner store for coffee and a bagel.
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Thanks to the TVIV 2020 Poll and the recommendations in this thread I finally watched Ted Lasso. It was pretty great and pretty much what everyone said it was about being an overall nice show. If anything, people vastly undersold the pathos and legitimate drama of the characters. 10/10 Will watch again!
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Jan 26, 2021 15:27
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Rhyno posted:I just remembered what a piece of poo poo Jerry Doyle turned into post B5.
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Jan 26, 2021 15:31
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Rhyno posted:Oh I'm gonna watch the gently caress out of it in HD. It just sucks that so many great actors had to put up with his bullshit. The only truly offputting thing about Doyle’s B5 behavior (that I know) is his creeping on Andrea Thompson. The rest is just standard workplace politics chat. Other than that, JMS did a great job basing Garibaldi off of Doyle and Doyle did a fantastic job creating a compelling and nuanced fascist. And I’m not being snarky.
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Jan 26, 2021 16:35
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zoux posted:I would simply watch a better show about a space station in a contested region of space instead of the one with Microsoft Encarta tier SFX So maybe you should shut the gently caress up.
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Jan 26, 2021 17:05
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I enjoyed Resident Alien.
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Jan 29, 2021 15:49
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zoux posted:This is going to sound like a bit but I swear it happened. My roommates were watching that new Richard Hammond Tory Bellici shipwrecked show and as I walked past the couch on my way to bed I asked them how it was. They were like, "It's pretty good but the narrator sucks. Her script is overly expository and she sounds robotic." I stopped to watch for a second and sure enough the lady says "Tory runs down the beach" at which point one of them goes, hang on... I had this exact same thing happen to me with Undone. I was a few episodes in and suddenly there was a narrator, but it was at a trippy point and I thought it was a stylistic choice.
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Feb 4, 2021 15:28
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Mr. Nemo posted:So the stand is pretty underwhelming right? Halfway through I went back and watched the ‘94 miniseries and it’s leagues better. The characters are much sharper, the overall pacing is better. The current version has more time and more money but does a lot less with it. I mean, it’s still schlocky, movie-of-the-week fare, but that’s pretty much all of Stephen King. Gonz posted:Resident Alien has been really good thus far. Surprisingly good. ”I think there’s a mosquito in here.”
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Feb 5, 2021 16:00
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Open Source Idiom posted:"No one knows where great ideas come from, but you always remember where you were when they came. And in this case, my great idea came the moment I entered the exam room and realised I was going to cut the foreskin off this baby's dick and hand it to the sheriff." Alan Tudyk as an alien calling a 9-year-old boy poo poo-for-brains is all you really need from a scifi comedy.
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Feb 6, 2021 15:01
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abelwingnut posted:where are people at with 'a discovery of witches'? i watched the pilot, and it seems...a bit cheap? feels way more like a syfy pilot than something amc would put out. do the characters and story really go places from here?
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Feb 21, 2021 08:34
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We’re getting closer to that Onion headline about “Gattaca: The Series”
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Feb 25, 2021 16:19
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Jesus Christ, people! Just pirate everything.
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Mar 2, 2021 13:31
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Oasx posted:Debris reminds me a lot of Threshold, an excellent one season show from 2005, though Threshold had a much stronger cast. The first episode was decent, though the preview of the rest of the season seemed more intriguing. Iron Crowned posted:I don't remember Threshold, I kept trying to think of it, but my brain kept reminding me of Surface. feedmyleg posted:Currently piracy is less convenient than using actual streaming services, so it's more a rarity for me for when I want to watch something on D+. Otherwise with two taps I'm streaming whatever I want on my giant TV in good quality without having to download anything or wait for significant loading times or see an ad or having to plan ahead or having to keep up with what the best sketchy sites are. As far as I can tell, the only difference in the difficulties between piracy and legitimacy is that one of them doesn’t cost $10-$20 bucks a month per service to deal with a bunch of bullshit.
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Oasx posted:It came out as the same time as Surface and invasion, all three sci fi shows that only lasted a season. Surface got most of the attention but Threshold was the best among the three in my opinion. Among others it had Peter Dinklage and Brent Spiner on the cast. Yes!
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Mar 2, 2021 14:55
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Nah, those shows were far too close together to really be considered ripoffs. It was more like a sci-fi fantasy zeitgeist and Lost just picked up the biggest audience with its slight lead. I’d say the ripoffs were dreck like The Ev3nt. God that was poo poo.
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Mar 2, 2021 15:12
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Iron Crowned posted:They all came out like a couple years after Lost, I know this because I couldn't watch Lost due to working from 5:30pm to 4:00am, and I know I was watching The other shows live. Ah, the good old days before streaming I’m probably just being pedantic here (in other words, correct) but a lot of these shows weren’t so much copycats as they were rivals.
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Mar 2, 2021 15:32
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X-O posted:The worst of all those shows was by far Persons Unknown. The worst! Great, now I gotta watch this poo poo.
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Mar 2, 2021 15:34
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Oh oh oh... So now we can’t even say “The N Word?” First we can’t say the “N Word” but now you’re trying to say we can’t say “The N Word” even when that a not the word we were going to say??? You’re the real racists.
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Mar 2, 2021 16:02
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space marine todd posted:drat, I was hoping no one would notice we are watching these shows high. The less gruesomeness, the better for our stoned idiot brains (Hannibal and The Knick are sadly out). Dispatches From Elsewhere and Lodge 49 are especially good, though the mystery box parts are more upbeat and whimsical than the shows you listed.
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Mar 5, 2021 15:56
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Alcohol.
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Brian Regan's new special is good.
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Stabbey_the_Clown posted:I'm trying to remember the name of a one-season TV show (maybe a summer show) from several years ago, where a female TV reporter's child is kidnapped and murdered, and a former cop-turned-PI ignores his mother(?)'s pleas to find evidence to get his mentally-challenged brother's execution stopped, and he ends up being captured by some organized criminal whose wife he was sleeping with. The reporter's life falls apart and she ends up strapping weights to herself and jumping into a lake at the same time as the PI is also dumped into the same lake by the criminals, they both die, only to wake up a week or so earlier, remembering everything, and they have to prevent the kid from being killed and find the real person who did the crime the mentally-challenged brother is going to be executed for.
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Mar 7, 2021 17:56
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People of Earth was good, got renewed for a third season, had that season completely written, and then got canceled out of nowhere before they started production. That was some bullshit. I recently rewatched Powerless, and while I can see why it got cancelled, I really enjoyed it.
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Open Source Idiom posted:Blame Wyatt Cenac suddenly leaving.TBS would have had to pay for the entire season to be rewritten again, which just wasn't going to happen. Oh yeah, Resident Alien is great.
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feedmyleg posted:From a tone/sense of humor perspective: if you like ____________, you might like Resident Alien? Northern Exposure if the doctor trying to get home is a hostile alien instead of a New York Jew. https://youtu.be/0fB1IVPlZsI
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Shageletic posted:I just meant the poster was confusing Donal Logue with this guy
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Cojawfee posted:Does anyone know of a decent website for tracking when shows are on and when they come back? I was using Followshows, but that seems to have died. I've been using https://www.pogdesign.co.uk/cat/ for years. I think a lot of others here have as well.
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Sirotan posted:"Fans are clamoring for Clarice" is a promo I just saw at the end of a CBS show. I forgot this even existed-did anyone here watch it and if so how bad is it? It’s a fairly typical procedural. The first couple of episodes are annoying with how Clarice’s comrades are pointlessly dickish, but that gets sorted out. The Silence of the Lambs background is purely for emotion and character development while the overarching plot (at least at this point) is a corporate conspiracy, so it’s not what you’d expect from the property.
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SimonChris posted:Are there any references to the Silence of the Lambs universe at all, or did they seriously just pay a licensing fee to call the main character "Clarice"?
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MiddleOne posted:https://twitter.com/saeedtaji/status/1372949606204649483 https://twitter.com/dyllyp/status/1373649594370772992?s=21 https://twitter.com/dyllyp/status/1373658227842244614?s=21
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Mar 21, 2021 19:30
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I know it’s been floated several times that Natasha Lyonne should be cast in a Columbo remake (correct), but has it been mentioned that Kate Mulgrew, who worked with Lyonne in Orange is the New Black, played Columbo’s wife in a spin-off series and could provide a link that would make the new series a legitimate in-universe sequel/continuation? How is this not already in production? Give me 10%
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Mar 24, 2021 16:03
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Chubby Henparty posted:Did anyone follow Reverie? That's a show I watched the pilot of and figured I'd seen every episode ever so didn't need to continue.
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Mar 27, 2021 03:01
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Oasx posted:Both Picard and Discovery started off good, but then ended up being kinda bad. But I will keep watching because I keep hoping that someone will realize why TNG was the best Star Trek series. Look who hasn’t seen DS9.
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Apr 6, 2021 12:26
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Chairman Capone posted:After you watch all of DS9 you should watch the documentary on it that's on Amazon Prime, Garak being intended to seduce Bashir is one of the things they talk about, IIRC. As well as how they viewed DS9 as a "Black show" despite the fact that it never got widely viewed as such. There was a fanfic about Garak and Bashir set 20 years later where they’re married. Robinson and Siddig performed it on YouTube: https://youtu.be/3Tq8zaSObWU
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zoux posted:Notice Iron Fist was trending on twitter and wondered why, turns out the people like the Shang Chi trailer so much it's retroactively making them madder about the show The madder people are correct. Sirotan posted:They are making another Downton Abbey movie, but this time with Hugh Dancy, Laura Haddock, Nathalie Baye and Dominic West. Release date of December 22. I like Hugh Dancy but his name sounds like the punchline or setup to a joke I don’t quite get. What do you call a big guy at the ballet? *stifling laughter* “Is Hugh Dancy there?”
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Apr 19, 2021 17:36
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And he’s married to...shutup shutup...an eclair...no seriously shutup Does anyone want a danish for breakfast?
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Apr 19, 2021 18:09
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Hughmoris posted:Retired Sheriff becomes a baseball announcer, or retired announcer becomes rural Wyoming Sheriff?
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Apr 21, 2021 17:54
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Debris is okay and this week’s episode was good, but it’s not quite where it needs to be. Right now it has the feeling of a promising show that gets cancelled in the first season because they were too timid with the plot progression.
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Apr 28, 2021 15:05
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Unkempt posted:Oh, like The Inhumans! There’s no need to choose violence.
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I tried to get into ATHF and The Brak Show based off their appearances in Sealab 2021, but man it just didn’t take.
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