I just finished Season 1 of Killing Eve. It was pretty darn good.
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I just finished Season 1 of Killing Eve. It was pretty darn good.
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Villanelle is a pretty awesome character :up:
Jodie Comer has the most outrageous Scouse accent though. :cry:
"Chernobyl" is very good. Depressing, but still worth watching. :up:
Yeh I wanna catch that. Looks good.
Good Omens starts on Prime today, if any of you have read the Gaiman/Pratchett book. :up:
It's quite lovely :up: feels more Pratchett-y than Gaiman-y. Tennant comes across as a low-rent Bill Nighy impersonator at first, but quickly finds his stride.Quote:
Originally Posted by Timbuk2
I hope I can get my wife to watch Good Omens with me. :heart:
So this week I watched Billions s04e11.
Not as solid as the last ep but the characters and drama are so believable it makes it worth it. Really nice. :)
It kinda sucks that I can remember free TV shows before they became re-runs on paid 'retro' channels, but only because it makes me feel old. ;)
I used to love watching Kimba, the White Lion as a child, along with Johnny Quest. Funny how studios decided what to resurrect or re-make, and what my kids ended up watching in their own childhood years. Would that be the Lion King or Scooby-Doo phenomenon?
The Little Bear series was particularly good because the animation was true to the books. Ditto for Beatrix Potter's Peter Rabbit. Probably the only time animation lived up to its book origins. (Marvel and DC comic books don't count) ;)
She called it a tv-show for kids. :(Quote:
Originally Posted by rille
I can sort of accept that she won't watch st:tng with me but she refuses to watch anything sci-fi, fantasy and action related. *sigh*
Holy balls her real accent is nuts why didn't I think to watch an interview with her sooner :bulb:Quote:
Originally Posted by Timbuk2
Hearing a Scouser say "purple" is one life's underappreciated pleasures.
I just watched the last episode of the most recent season of Games of Thrones. It was hard to follow and honestly wasn't that engaging, so don't think I'll watch the next season when it comes on.
But I am continuing my British subjugation and watching "Crashing" and "The Bodyguard". :up:
Every episode of season three of Jessica Jones is better than every episode of every other Marvel show. Solid story, great plotting, decent dialogue, fantastic casting & characterization, and has even broken the curse of weird pacing that so marred the previous productions. Well, at least up to now; I've only seen the first half. Just incredibly satisfied right now.
I'm only up to episode two, but it does seem better than season 2 was. Low bars, though. I don't think I'd go so far to say that it's better than every episode of every other Marvel show - Daredevil Season 3 was a thing, and so was the Punisher arc of DD Season 2. I like how they seem to have really embraced the noir aspects this season.
I have been getting struck by just how unlikable Jessica has become though. I remember when she was the best part of Defenders, but the unrelenting brooding is wearing on me.
Exactly the opposite for me; I'm finding her less brooding and enjoying seeing her and the others going through their respective growth processes. The other shows were more focused on flashing the stereotypical accoutrements of superhero stories, and were hampered by the need for distracting crossovers and tie-ins, whereas JJ this season has had a clearer focus on its own substance. Whereas the first season dealt creatively but in a heavy-handed fashion with its core theme[s], telling a story about some cool people, this season skillfully paints a much more nuanced picture from multiple well-developed perspectives, creating a more complete—and more real—experience. Def. gotten a better grip of how to use the noir flairs effectively—almost never feels forced or out of place, just feels like a well-made production.
Let's face it, we'll never agree on a TV-show :o
I just finished season 2 of Fleabag (Amazon Prime), which is the end of the show entirely. I really liked it, the whole thing. Recommend.
I've been trying to get through the last season of Game of Thrones. I knew it wasn't well received going into it, but the first two episodes were good, and I really liked the second. The third made me angry. I kept going until the point where
Game of Thrones Episode 4:
I've been stuck at that point for a while, and I'm about to lose access to HBO again, but I think I'm done. I'll just try to convince myself that the series ended on a cliffhanger right before the siege of Winterfell.
Honestly stop here. The ending is insulting.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wraith
It's been a bit of a hit here in the UK ... people do say they really liked it.Quote:
Originally Posted by EyeKhan
We watched the first three episodes of S1 and just couldn't get into it. Neither of us liked the main character. And I'm not sure the viewer is meant to like her but she irritated me. Didn't have any desire to see more of her.
Phoebe Waller-Bridges herself is hilarious though.
I had the EXACT same experience. After episode 3 I decided if it didn't improve immediately, I'm done. And it did. A lot. And the end of season 1 crystallizes in a way, for me anyway, that I've never experienced before. You're in the setup, which feels like a weird, unhappy jumble, that all comes together beautifully. Trust me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Timbuk2
I second. It is literally not worth your time to just be annoyed and disappointed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lewkowski
So I'm still totally in love with Legion's insanity.
Where are you watching Legion? Hulu? Its not on Amazon or Netflix...Quote:
Originally Posted by Wraith
Amazon. I paid the $20 for the season. Season 3 will show up on Hulu eventually if you don't want to pay the impatience tax. The first two seasons are already there - it looks like they lag by about 9 months.Quote:
Originally Posted by EyeKhan
There's a flying mecha-narwhal. I don't regret my purchase.
When they see you. Hard to watch, but what was hard to digest that Oprah special at the end of the series. You just sat through 4 episodes of 5 innocent lives being destroyed and then you get a chat show with a woman who is at least partially responsible for the extent of the destruction. Injust incarceration is bad enough, but to have to register as a sex offender makes it all but impossible to make a new start. And that is exactly what Oprah campaigned for years ago.
I watched the first episode. Hard to watch for sure, and i imagine the next episodes won't be any easier. I wasn't aware there's an oprah special in the end though.
Ooh S4 :)
Gone beyond the books then.
Nope, there are more books in the series! I stopped reading at this point
The one review I saw was negative, but I'm really liking the new season of Veronica Mars. I like the focus on the mystery, and it's done well - there isn't any reliance on idiot balls to move the plot forward. It helps that I'm a sucker for anything noir. First episode was kinda boring though.
Okay, getting into Halt and Catch Fire. It's the prequal to San Junipero.
I started to watch a Danish show called "Follow the money".
Might be a bit hard to get hold of but I recommend it. :)
My review of the MacGyver reboot: a constipated Lucas Till (Mac) uses a chemical reaction to create smoke as a distraction. The smoke is labeled "smoke distraction" in a techy font to help the viewer understand that it is smoke and that it's a distraction. Good job #MacGyver :up:
No really this guy is a butthead and the people running the show are 80% butts and 20% heads.
Recently watched a show on Netflix called Insatiable that is hard to describe but I would recommend. My wife watched it, then struggled to describe it but recommended we watched it together and I thought it was great.
A black comedy, it is ostensibly about a teenage girl formerly fatty Patty who suddenly finds herself attractive and gets thrust into the world of beauty pageants while seeking revenge on those who wronged her in the past.
I wouldn't though say it was either a typical 'teen drama' or a 'beauty pageant' show, its hard to describe other than black comedy but I'd recommend giving it a go.
I'm enjoying an Amazon Prime series that I'd never heard of until after its final episode aired in May: Sneaky Pete.
Bryan Cranston was a co-creator and actor, but it was killed after 3 seasons. Just as well, since I usually lose interest when serials go on and on, for years and years, like a fucking TV soap opera. Limited series are easier to binge-watch. ;)
I'm enjoying The Boys on Amazon Prime. About as subtle as a two by four to the face but highly enjoyable. What if 'super heroes' were a bunch of absolute assholes?
I just finished Season 2. This show is fantastic. I'm paying the impatience tax for sure.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wraith
Suffered through Another Life recently so you don't have to. Fast Forwarded through quite a bit of it.
Spoiler:
I'm almost done watching Merlin. I really don't see how this show lasted 5 years. The character development is horrible, the writing is bad and forces the characters into decisions that make no sense or requires them to forget any lesson they learned previously. The acting to stress the difference between good and bad is so far over the top its comical.
The alien episode must have been when the writers knew they weren't getting renewed and just said fuck it.
And yet you've watched 5 seasons, and intend to finish it? :weird:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ominous Gamer
Gambler's Fallacy