What shows are you watching?

[Ol Dirty Dastard]

Watched “They Call Me Magic” and it’s a great companion piece.

I find it weird seeing a man talk openly about cheating on his missus like that.
Pretty decent ball player though.

Wanna see this really badly but don’t have apple tv

[Seanny One Ball]

It’s on the site I sent you

[Fignuts]

Winning Time is so good.

Love the tension of the coaching situation.

[Seanny One Ball]

But what of the cycling?

[Ol Dirty Dastard]

Winning Time is so good.

Love the tension of the coaching situation.

Brody and Segal have been excellent together. Tracy Letts, who plays McKinney, is no slouch either. His reaction to hearing "the news" from Segal was on point.

As for Brody, I guess deep down it was always in some way going to be more focused on Pat Riley. So it makes sense that the performance is slowly but surely taking center stage.

[Seanny One Ball]

“Under The Banner Of Heaven” has a hell of a cast and source material.

It’s a mini-series too so I will definitely get into it, just trying to decide if it’s going to be now or when it’s all released so I can binge it…

[Sepholio]

Started watching Halo.

Way better than I was expecting. Not sure how it's gonna go overall but its off to a decent start.

[drave]

it is meh

[ClockShot]

On a whim, I started up Lost in Space on Netflix and started season 2. Liking it so far.

[Seanny One Ball]

Space Force got cancelled which is a shame because Steve Carrell and Ben Schwartz are a match made in heaven.
There were serious deficiencies in the other cast and the direction but to be fair the joke quality was pretty good.

[Seanny One Ball]

“The Man Who Fell To Earth” is pretty hacky so far, a lot like the film. It is a lot easier on the eye with the vastly superior cinematography, and soul with Chiwetel Ejiofor in the protagonist role and pseudo-Bowie as backup.

The story of this miniseries had better fix the original because it was pretty bad.

[Seanny One Ball]

Wow… episode 2 of “The Man Who Fell To Earth” was fucking great.
If it can hold that quality for the next three episodes this will be the best 5 part miniseries of all time.

5 part miniseries… what the fuck…

[Sepholio]

Was gonna pass on the live action Cowboy Bebop. The anime was as close to perfection as you can get and with the adaptation being canned after season 1, I didn't see much need to watch. Got bored and decided to watch anyways. Only a little ways in but it's better than what all the complaints I had heard made it seem. Hope it doesn't get terrible later.

I popped hard at the start of the second episode when the bounty hunter TV show came on. As soon as I heard the into for it I was marking out. Good shit there.

[Sepholio]

I think the way they handle Mad Pierrot will be the deciding factor on whether or not I approve of this version. If they ruin him they should all be ran out of the business, possibly even tarred and feathered.

[Sepholio]

it is meh

It would be far better if the Kwan arc didn't exist as a distraction/filler. Everything else is so much better than those parts.

[Seanny One Ball]

Somebody watch “Under The Banner Of Heaven” with me.

Andrew Garfield in a John Krakauer adaptation?
Yeah go on then. I promise not to cry if he doesn’t.

[Seanny One Ball]

John Krakauer is a great writer.
Not a reliable narrator, but no great writer is.

I just like how Emile Hirsch and Andrew Garfield are polar opposites in terms of acting but are both perfect leads in their respective adaptations.

I really hope Ben Foster gets to be in one too.

[Ol Dirty Dastard]

Wood Harris continues to kick ass as Spencer Haywood in Winning Time.

[Seanny One Ball]

Everything about it has been enjoyable.

I still can’t stop thinking about the bike accident.

[Ol Dirty Dastard]

Everything about it has been enjoyable.

I still can’t stop thinking about the bike accident.

IRL that legit fucked McKinney up for the rest of his life and may have even resulted in his earlyish death.

[Seanny One Ball]

Winning Time
Better Call Saul
Moon Knight
Outer Range
Under The Banner Of Heaven
The Man Who Fell To Earth
Godfather Of Harlem

I’m watching 7 shows right now…

[drave]

I'm watching nothing.

[Sepholio]

Oh man Cowboy Bebop handled Mad Pierrot perfectly. So much better than I had thought they would or even hoped for. The show deserved its second season based on this alone.

[Sepholio]

Also LOL at Spike and Vicious having a random conversation about shaving/not shaving their balls.

[drave]

Oh man Cowboy Bebop handled Mad Pierrot perfectly. So much better than I had thought they would or even hoped for. The show deserved its second season based on this alone.


RIGHT!?

[Sepholio]

V upset they aren't doing season 2. Didn't think I would feel like this man. Feels bad.

[Destor]

show was shit. 60% of the audience in ep 1 didnt return for ep 2 and by ep 3 the show was basically a private theater for you 3 assholes. lets not look back fondly on that fucking turd

[Destor]

HOW DO YOU MANAGE TO NOT EVEN GET EIN RIGHT

[drave]

better than Halo :D

[Destor]

i thankfully will never know

[drave]

Didn't even finish an entire episode. Honestly, outside of Halo terms, it could just be another Space Marine show.

[Destor]

it didnt look inspired...at all

[Fignuts]

Yeah, I've rarely seen an adaptation miss the tone and and atmosphere of the source as badly as Cowboy Bebop. If you want to change things up and do your own thing that much, then fine, but make something original then, instead of an adaptation.

People probably wouldnt have disliked this as much if it was an original ip. Writing was still bad, but it may have lasted long enough to turn itself around instead of being immediately cancelled.

[drave]

INdeed. Didn't they pitch it as a "shot for shot" remake of the anime early on?


I think I recall watching trailers that were comparing the 1st episode side-by-side to the anime, and it was pretty spot on.


Took a shit after that, and the only REAL good parts revolved around Mad Pierrot.

[Triple A]

Any1 ever watch the non-hit HBO show "Rome"

Watched the first season and a couple of episodes of season 2... really like it

Wasn't liking it for like the first half of the first season but then started getting very good imho!

[Fignuts]

INdeed. Didn't they pitch it as a "shot for shot" remake of the anime early on?


I think I recall watching trailers that were comparing the 1st episode side-by-side to the anime, and it was pretty spot on.


Took a shit after that, and the only REAL good parts revolved around Mad Pierrot.

Theres the occasional shot taken straight from the anime, but theres usually a brown or blue tint and all the color has been drained, making it look worse than the original.

Ironically, the best looking shots are the ones they came up with on their own. There are moments where the cinematography is very good. Thats the only really good thing I can say about the show.

[Lock Jaw]

I'd be interested to watch it as a guy who has never seen the anime and see what I think..... but it was canceled so I probably won't

[Destor]

don't worry its very bad on its own merrits

[Fignuts]

Even if you've never seen the anime, Ed is one of the cringiest things you will see on a show.

[drave]

Oh god..... I think I blocked that out..... and Ed was barely even there.

[Seanny One Ball]

Any1 ever watch the non-hit HBO show "Rome"

Watched the first season and a couple of episodes of season 2... really like it

Wasn't liking it for like the first half of the first season but then started getting very good imho!



Rome was a great show for the first season and still a damned good one for season two but I think they were spending too much on production so it got the axe.
I remember it fondly anyway, could well be worth watching again. The action scenes were pretty great.

[Seanny One Ball]

Trips you might enjoy Spartacus Blood And Sand if you like Rome.

[Seanny One Ball]

Watched the first episode of “The Pentaverate” and it is hot garbage with material Chuck Lorre would consider too broad and old hat.

Canada jokes in 2022.

Christ

[Sepholio]

Is that the thing with Mike Myers in it?

[Triple A]

Rome was a great show for the first season and still a damned good one for season two but I think they were spending too much on production so it got the axe.
I remember it fondly anyway, could well be worth watching again. The action scenes were pretty great.

wtf at suddenly getting a new monotone twink actor to play Octavian... old Octavian was way better... still on s2 episode 4 but damn...

[Seanny One Ball]

I think the original was too young, the time jumps forward a fair bit in season 2.

[Sepholio]

wow The Pentaverate is trash. If this is the kinda dreck Myers still wants to put out there then he needs to just suck it up and give the people Austin Powers 4 like they wanted 20 years ago.

[Sepholio]

The only value in this show is that its such a trainwreck that you kinda wanna see if it can possibly get any dumber. It does. Oh God it does.

[Seanny One Ball]

I did warn you man.

There’s material in there that wouldn’t have made the grade for Airplane! 2

[Sepholio]

Your warning wasn't clear enough and now my dick is caught in the ceiling fan. Thanks a whole bunch.

[Ol Dirty Dastard]

Myers’s newer stuff has a way of making you appreciate the older stuff less (partially because his shit is usually recycled from his older work)

[Lock Jaw]

Feel like Austin Powers 4 would suck now too

[Lock Jaw]

I mean the third one was already not great

[Seanny One Ball]

The presence of Michael Caine in a sequel guarantees a level of quality far below sub-standard and into MST3K territory.

[Seanny One Ball]

Watched the first episode of “The Pentaverate” and it is hot garbage with material Chuck Lorre would consider too broad and old hat.

Canada jokes in 2022.

Christ

Is that the thing with Mike Myers in it?

wow The Pentaverate is trash. If this is the kinda dreck Myers still wants to put out there then he needs to just suck it up and give the people Austin Powers 4 like they wanted 20 years ago.

I did warn you man.

There’s material in there that wouldn’t have made the grade for Airplane! 2

Your warning wasn't clear enough and now my dick is caught in the ceiling fan. Thanks a whole bunch.


You couldn’t tell Mike Myers was in it?
He’s 75% of the cast.

[Sepholio]

Hey he's still not automatically off-putting for me because I was a mark for Austin Powers and Waynes World when I was a kid.

[Sepholio]

Anyways, as I tend to do, I didn't watch one of the super popular shows that everyone was into when it was popular. Dunno why I tend to shy away from things everyone else loves, but it what it is and now I finally get around to watching something 73 years late.

This time it was Breaking Bad. I'm not even giving thoughts on the show other than to say I was an idiot for not watching this before. Oh and Walter is the fucking man. Predictably I followed up with El Camino and now I'm on to Better Call Saul. I really gotta stop doing this to myself. Maybe I'll watch Game of Thrones after this. Or The Sopranos. You get the picture.

[Seanny One Ball]

The Sopranos is a must-watch.

[Ol Dirty Dastard]

Sopranos instead of GoT. For God’s sake.

[Seanny One Ball]

Tyrion Walnuts

[Sepholio]

I was gonna watch Sopranos first until Dale suggested it. Def GoT now.

[Destor]

i know youre not going to want to. i know this is going sound insane when the titme comes. stop watching after s4. that's when they pass the books. it holds itself together (to diminishing returns) for s5 and 6 and then becomes completely unwatchable. you wont want to. because s4 and up is amazing. but you should. you really really should.

[Destor]

sopranos however holds up throughout even with a heavily disputed ending (i love its ending)

[Ol Dirty Dastard]

Tyrion Walnuts

He’s more of a Sylvio. Tyrion Dante.

[Ol Dirty Dastard]

I was gonna watch Sopranos first until Dale suggested it. Def GoT now.

Lol fuck you

[Fignuts]

sopranos however holds up throughout even with a heavily disputed ending (i love its ending)

The ending is brilliant if you've been paying attention.

[Fignuts]

Watching All of Us Are Dead.

Its like live action High School of the Dead without the ridiculously gratuitous fan service....which is what made that show stand out. So this is fairly pedestrian by comparison. Dunno if Ill keep watching.

[Ol Dirty Dastard]

Sopranos ending ages like fine wine

[Seanny One Ball]

I’ve begun a “That 70’s Show” re-viewing.

So much stuff would not be ok now and was only gotten away with at the time because they play on “acceptable in the 70’s” constantly.

Fez calls people whores regularly. Kelso is a rapist in the making. Calling a guy Foreskin in an after school show… Everything Red ever says or does…

So fucking good.

The most self aware kids show. As an adult it is just a high level sitcom on par with Raymond but so much more harsh.

[Ol Dirty Dastard]

Feel like Red Foreman and Al Bundy are the 2 dads that middle-aged Gen-X dads annoyingly use as avatars for themselves. It's unfortunate because I love both characters but they're misappropriated.

[Sepholio]

Excuse me some of us model ourselves after Tim The Tool Man Taylor

[Seanny One Ball]

Speak for yourselves, I was always a Zelda Spellman mark.

[Seanny One Ball]

She was a fine piece of ace

[drave]

Feel like Red Foreman and Al Bundy are the 2 dads that middle-aged Gen-X dads annoyingly use as avatars for themselves. It's unfortunate because I love both characters but they're misappropriated.




What a dumbass post. Now run along before I put my foot in your ass, in a very non-loving way.

[Ol Dirty Dastard]

What a dumbass post. Now run along before I put my foot in your ass, in a very non-loving way.

https://d.justpo.st/media/images/2016/04/11/the-older-i-get-the-more-i-identify-with-red-forman-1460386426.jpg

[Ol Dirty Dastard]

https://img.ifunny.co/images/46ffbbbea19b66948f62dc97443352d17ed24fcc8c903184f17e6a61decb9d2d_1.jpg

[Ol Dirty Dastard]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ErikBNHWMAksW7V.jpg

[drave]

Definitely in camp Foreman.


Al is great too, but I Red is my spirit animal, lol

[Ol Dirty Dastard]

No. You are Drave. You aren't a television character.

[Sepholio]

drave*

[Jordan]

Started Animal Kingdom, very good!

[drave]

No. You are Drave. You aren't a television character.




I am. I am indeed a character. A filthy NPC who keeps the simulation running and then bloviates the wonders of reality to his family, who are just additional strings of code which will undergo a memory wipe after my departure.

[drave]

"bloviates" really??




Fucking etymology class sticking with me more than anything else after all these years

[Ol Dirty Dastard]

Bloviate is a cool word.

[Destor]

those characters are archetypal. its not that youre those characters its that those characters are you. thats by design. its whats makes them relatable.

[Ol Dirty Dastard]

Destor coming in with the John Madden colour commentary.

[Destor]

it wasnt my take that was low resolution

[Seanny One Ball]

If Andrew Garfield played Al Bundy we’d all cry our eyes out when we bought shoes.

Luckily it was Ed O’Neill so we all stuck our hands down our pants instead.

[Sepholio]

Can confirm that fondling your crotch def makes shoe shopping much more enjoyable.

[Supreme Olajuwon]

Just caught up on Season 3 of Barry. Hoo boy did they take a dark turn. But through the first 4 episodes it has been fantastic.

[Sepholio]

I'm caught all the way up on Better Call Saul now and wish that I had waited a couple months til it was over to start binging it >_<

[Seanny One Ball]

I guess I should watch “Barry” then.

I saw the first episode a couple of years ago but never continued.

[Sepholio]

BCS with one of those cliffhangers that makes me hate how evil and inhumane Hollywood can be >_< It should be a crime against humanity to make me wait after that.

[Lock Jaw]

Now that I'm done with BMW and GMW, catching up on modern shows... watching season 2 of Young Rock... I enjoy the show.

[Triple A]

Been watching "Veep" for the first time cause poopfromweiner dude once said he liked it and was looking for shows to watch...

Funny tbh... Got better as it went on. Wasn't sure about season 1. Feel like all of the writing was every character being like "Listen up, chucklefuck" or saying "Fuckistan" or "Whatever you say, Fuckface McFuck" and stuff... Really 2010 era writing... Was like "damn..."

But way funnier as it went on and stopped most of that type of stuff... up to season 4 now

[Splaya]

Binging 24 again. Loved the idea of season 1, season 2 dragged a bit after the midseason event, season 3 was very good. Now on Season 4 which is my favorite season because it spawned everything for the next 6 seasons of the show.

[XL]

Stranger Things S4 Part 1
The Boys S3
The Outlaws S2
Inside No. 9 S7
The Orvillle S3
Ms. Marvel
Kenobi

[Seanny One Ball]

On season 4 of That Seventies Show in my re-watch.
Kelso and Eric are so good man… Kelso’s facial expressions destroy me. I will never not love that idiot Ashton Kutcher. He was great once.

Kurtwood Smith and Debra Jo Rupp are a mixture of solid and brilliant for the duration. How they got away with the things they said is due to real credibility. What a time it must have been.

I hope if I ever get dementia that I live in this universe mentally.
That would be cracking.

[Seanny One Ball]

The Boys season 3 episode 4 continues in the same level of brilliance as the previous three episodes.
This season is throwing big, brilliant scenes into every episode…sometimes twice…

It was already a great show but this is high paced and high budgeted stuff now. It’s turning into a perfect season.

[Seanny One Ball]

Actually this latest episode is just full of big brilliant scenes. Two is way too low given how many crazy things happened…

This is an all-time leader in the superhero genre. Nothing fucks with it as an adult orientated comic book adaptation.

Glorious.

[Triple A]

Some good episodes of "Barry" this season... whole season wasn't the best, but a couple of "classic" eps! Finale was very good and the motorcycle one...

[weather vane]

Just finished the finale. Very different season. I liked it.

[teamXtremist]

5 episodes into severance,and this Apple+ series is excellent. Anyone else seen it?

[Lock Jaw]

Have had a bunch of episodes of "The Goldbergs" on my DVR for awhile.... watched a couple... suuuuuuper awkward with Jeff Garlin being removed from the show... episode about the daughter's wedding and her dad reduced to an uncanny valley cameo made of old footage/sound bites and body double cut off by awkward framing and camera angles.....

[Triple A]

Been watching "Veep" for the first time cause poopfromweiner dude once said he liked it and was looking for shows to watch...

Funny tbh... Got better as it went on. Wasn't sure about season 1. Feel like all of the writing was every character being like "Listen up, chucklefuck" or saying "Fuckistan" or "Whatever you say, Fuckface McFuck" and stuff... Really 2010 era writing... Was like "damn..."

But way funnier as it went on and stopped most of that type of stuff... up to season 4 now

Really enjoyed "Veep"... finished watching it all and feel bad now that I'm done

Became more absurd after the first season or two, which I like... funny @poopfromweiner dude

[Seanny One Ball]

Ran out of great shows to watch so I started “Police Squad!” again.
I fell asleep recently when I tried to watch it for the first time in decades so I’m giving it another crack while I’m awake.

The sight gags are always good but the wordplay kills me.

“Cigarette?”
“Yes, I know.”

I hope it’s still better than The Naked Gun, those movies leant heavily into the slapstick and the ratio was a bit off between that and the jokes. As far as I remember there are more gag routines in this.

[Seanny One Ball]

I started “Barry” too. I saw the first two episodes. Episode two made me laugh for ages when the guy files Stephen Root’s teeth. I was cracking up at that, horrific but hilarious.

[Seanny One Ball]

I forgot about the bit at the credits where they “freeze frame” but really they just stay still in a goofy pose.
It’s the simple things like that which make it a classic.

[XL]

<s>Stranger Things S4 Part 1</s>
The Boys S3
<s>The Outlaws S2</s>
<s>Inside No. 9 S7</s>
The Orvillle S3
Ms. Marvel
<s>Kenobi</s>

Didn’t even get through episode 1 or The Orville though.

[Seanny One Ball]

“The Man Who Fell To Earth” started out much better than the film but the longer it has gone on the more insufferably familiar to the film it has become.
It’s the same huge potential wasted in slightly different ways but this time it’s worse because there was actual quality in this one. I understand the story is about humanity corrupting Newton, but now they’re just rubbing it in.

[ClockShot]

Finished off Lost in Space in Netflix. Good stuff. Wish it went longer.

Moving on to The Old Man over on FX. Start binge watching that On Demand.

[Evil Vito]

Severance was a total mindfuck and I loved it.

[rez]

Big Brother. Pretty realistic cast so far

[rez]

Hate to see Terrance leave, tho..

[rez]

Wish they'd stop with the token old person. I'd love to see am alliance of older peeps take the young bloods out

[Seanny One Ball]

Severance was a total mindfuck and I loved it.


Hmmm, Adam Scott in a critically acclaimed science fiction series.
I’ll give it a go.

[rez]

South Park Streaming Wars Part II

Oh, Randy.

[Seanny One Ball]

South Park has mostly sucked for the last few shows.

[#1-norm-fan]

Ran out of great shows to watch so I started “Police Squad!” again.
I fell asleep recently when I tried to watch it for the first time in decades so I’m giving it another crack while I’m awake.

The sight gags are always good but the wordplay kills me.

“Cigarette?”
“Yes, I know.”

I hope it’s still better than The Naked Gun, those movies leant heavily into the slapstick and the ratio was a bit off between that and the jokes. As far as I remember there are more gag routines in this.

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[#1-norm-fan]

Started getting into What We Do in the Shadows in the past few weeks. Pretty great.

[Frank Drebin]

South Park has mostly sucked for the last few shows.

Yeah. They're pretty much still doing it because co.edy central will keep throwing millions at them just for the ad revenue the show generates.

[Seanny One Ball]

Started getting into What We Do in the Shadows in the past few weeks. Pretty great.


I have to say it’s actually better than the film.
I’ve refused to say that until now but it really is.

[#1-norm-fan]

I haven’t seen the movie yet.

I watched the episode where The Baron wakes up and wants to have a night on the town yesterday and was laughing so hard I got a headache.

[Fignuts]

Movie is great. You should try and watch it before you get to the end of the first season.

But I agree the show has surpassed it at this point.

[Seanny One Ball]

It’s the funniest comedy out right now. There’s nothing that has that high a laugh count.
The cameos are always fantastic too. It just keeps getting better, every season is top drawer.

It should hopefully be back on soon actually.

[#1-norm-fan]

Season 4 just started last week.

It was alright. (First 2 episodes)

[Seanny One Ball]

This happened the last time… they need to start advertising that shit

[ClockShot]

Primal season 2 is up and running.

Who knew a caveman screaming, a dinosaur roaring, and great music would make for an awesome show.

[rez]

South Park has mostly sucked for the last few shows.

Eh, it was cool to see Randy go back to being a "competent" person and geologist.

The cryptocurrency celebrity parts were kinda lame, tho.

[ClockShot]

Watched the season finale of The Old Man.

I kinda saw the twist coming. But I wish it went just one more episode to tie a couple things up. 7 is just an odd number of episodes for a season.

[Seanny One Ball]

Episode four of WWDITS is one of the best ever.
Joyously daft with the Vampire night market and the familiar fighting championship.
That’s the best of the new season but episode 3 was pretty great. Little Colin Robinson is phenomenal. He’s already ten times better than Groot or Grogu.

[Lock Jaw]

Watched the first episode of Paper Girls on Amazon Prime.... maybe the most faithful comic book adaptation I have seen... characters literally look exactly like their comic counterparts

[Lock Jaw]

Second episode starting to diverge from the comic a bit, but the characters still feel like the characters

[Lock Jaw]

Finished the season of Paper Girls (8 episodes). Really enjoyed it... diverged from the comic a lot, but still felt genuine to the spirit and to the characters....

Hope it gets a season 2... "fear the worst" for it because it is on Amazon Prime and was all released at once...

[#1-norm-fan]

Episode four of WWDITS is one of the best ever.
Joyously daft with the Vampire night market and the familiar fighting championship.
That’s the best of the new season but episode 3 was pretty great. Little Colin Robinson is phenomenal. He’s already ten times better than Groot or Grogu.

Episode 4 was pretty good but I’m not feeling the season so far. The nightclub thing has been too “cute” for my taste. Little Colin Robinson is a highlight though.

[Seanny One Ball]

It’s still funnier than anything else on right now

[XL]

Severance

[#1-norm-fan]

It’s still funnier than anything else on right now

Overall, I think I’d put Always Sunny above it but this has quickly become a possible top 5 all-time sitcom for me.

New episode last night was funny. Starting to turn around on the season.

[Seanny One Ball]

Always Sunny is very funny every now and then but it’s hit and miss overall.
I liked it a lot when I got to the later seasons but the last couple were mediocre. I need a much higher standard of performance if the material is going to be so predictable and weak.

2.5/4

[rez]

Mike Judge's Beavis & Butt-Head is fire (literally) so far.

[rez]

https://deadline.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Mike-Judges-Beavis-And-Butt-head-Special-One-pic.jpg?w=681&h=383&crop=1

[ClockShot]

Newest episode of Primal that just aired.

Good lord.

[Simple Fan]

Just watched Paper Girls. I like time travel stuff.b

[rez]

Just watched Paper Girls. I like time travel stuff.b

didja wipe, tho

[Seanny One Ball]

WWDITS has an episode coming up soon called “Pine Barrens”.

Could be risky, Pine Barrens is one of the greatest episodes of any show ever.

[weather vane]

White Lotus. Pretty awesome. Liked it a lot.

[Blonde Moment]

Latest Harley Quinn is pretty cute. Joke runs for mayor for his kids

[XL]

The Resort

[Seanny One Ball]

The Righteous Gemstones, it’s a lot better than any other tv stuff Danny McBride has done. Eastbound and Down was too mean spirited and that vice principals was hard to focus on because he was just playing the same guy he always does.

At least this time the supporting cast is deeper and more talented.

[Lock Jaw]

Watched the first episode of S3 of The Orville.....

Seems like maybe they cut out all attempts at humor from the show, or either it was just a super serious episode.... episodes also longer because of being on a streaming platform.... and honestly wish it was still 40-50 minutes instead, felt like it could have been condensed and tightened up....

[Seanny One Ball]

The show where the only thing funny is the name

[slik]

I never watched Game of Thrones but decided to watch House of the Dragon bc I like having a Sunday night show on HBO to watch

The first 5 to 10 minutes I was like 'I don't know if this is for me' but damn...hooked me like halfway through the first episode...really good

[Lock Jaw]

Holding out on that one, and also on the upcoming Amazon Lord of the Rings until I hear if one is really good or something.... feel like I only have room in my life for one or the other.... and even then I don't really have room.

[rez]

Told myself I wasn't going to watch it but damnit. House of Dragons ep 1 was damn good once the pacing picked up.

It doesn't seem to have near the budget GoT had...just so glad when the credits rolled D&D's bitch ass names weren't there.

[Seanny One Ball]

The Righteous Gemstones has a lot of very small dicks in it

[Helmsphere]

Why you got to talk about Danny McBride that way?

[Destor]

Just finished Better Call Saul. Every now and again a show ends show perfectly that it makes you chuckle at all the shows that didnt stick the landing. Masterful.

[slik]

I really like House of the Dragon so far

I should probably watch Game of Thrones at some point

[Seanny One Ball]

Just finished Better Call Saul. Every now and again a show ends show perfectly that it makes you chuckle at all the shows that didnt stick the landing. Masterful.


That whole second half of the last season was just perfect.
That they made a heist episode and got away with it using Cinnabon…

Better Call Saulwas a fantastic tv show on its own, but as part of a greater universe it really is poetry in motion.

Vince Gilligan is a genius.

[Destor]

i could rave about the 1000 brilliant things the show did on its way to bringing it to a close but i think the thing that struck me most as a piece of writing is they managed to write a story that both has Saul face justice and let Jimmy cleanse his soul AND get the love of his woman AND not be idealic. Its just outlandish they managed this.

[Seanny One Ball]

Yeah it should have been a stretch but within the confines and rules of the show, it worked beautifully. I was very happy with it.

[Seanny One Ball]

Dear TV writers, this is what happy customers look like.

Destor take a picture with me!

[Destor]

What they did here shouldnt even be technically possible. Im just dumbstruck. The 4 things they managed in the finale should be completely at odds and yet if you look at the show in totality it was always where we were heading. This is crafting years out with deliberate beats being hit along the way to bring us to a conclusion that is poignant, heart felt and precisely perfect to a level that borderlines absurdity.

Better Call Saul stands with the best shows ever made as a peer among giants that has few rivals, fewer equals, and fewer still betters and that's if it has any at all.

Once a box set is released im going to do a breakingbad/saul rewatchand if they dropped the box set tomorrow it wouldnt be soon enough.

[Seanny One Ball]

This new Mike Tyson show is really quite good. Well written, brilliantly acted and the chemistry is all great. The real Mike seems to hate it but it has humanised him even more so than his own documentary did. That was a good documentary but it focused on the rape and then it turned out director James Toback was a creepy rapist type so now I just watch everything Tyson because it’s endless train wreck.

[Seanny One Ball]

Ok… the Buster Douglas thing…

That might be the funniest piece of non-drunk history I have seen. They used a weightlifter on all of the juice to play Buster Douglas lol…

I wonder if all of his losses will be shown as against giants of various proportions…

[Lock Jaw]

Damn.... Paper Girls canceled by Amazon after one season.... Damn...

[Seanny One Ball]

You are such an Asian

[Supreme Olajuwon]

Late to the “I Think You Should Leave” party

But yes, this is excellent

[Simple Fan]

Damn.... Paper Girls canceled by Amazon after one season.... Damn...

Yeah that sucks.

[Lock Jaw]

Just finished doing a rewatch of Arrested Development season 1-3.... will probably not continue with season 4/5.....

[Fignuts]

Binged almost all of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners tonight. Holy crap its good.

[Seanny One Ball]

Just finished doing a rewatch of Arrested Development season 1-3.... will probably not continue with season 4/5.....


Season 1-3 are so tight that the later seasons are immediately painful. The magic was gone…

[Seanny One Ball]

New Beavis and Butthead cracked me up. Nothing between us but chapstick lol…then the Dangerfield routine.

Great Beavis episode.

[Lock Jaw]

Season 1-3 are so tight that the later seasons are immediately painful. The magic was gone…

Think the only good thing that came out of the new seasons was the "Hello Darkness My Old Friend" bit..... good meme.... but not gonna watch it just for that....

[Lock Jaw]

Watched the first episode of the new season of The Goldbergs to see what they would do after kicking Jeff Garlin off the show for saying vagina too much.....

Just said that his character died offscreen.... damn... first they legit lose George Segal and now another member of the family killed off...

Should probably have just ended the show.... used to really like it cause of the "interesting" autobiographical twist where it would show his actual home movies of the stuff that was going on and give hints about his actual future, etc...... feel like it has long past the point of being actually quasi-based in reality though.....

[Seanny One Ball]

It would be great if his real dad made uncomfortable vagina jokes to children and also lost his job irl.
Maybe Jeff Garlin is a method actor.

[weather vane]

Reservation Dogs so good.

[ron the dial]

Reservation Dogs so good.

dude that season finale had me balling. such a great show.

[Sepholio]

Love Reservation Dogs

[#1-norm-fan]

@Seanny, Have you finished this season of What We Do in the Shadows and if so, what were your thoughts?

Found it pretty lackluster overall with some wonderful highlights here and there.

[#1-norm-fan]

Late to the “I Think You Should Leave” party

But yes, this is excellent

This show gets me crying laughing. The Santa Claus action movie trailer/interview from the latest season was so fucking ridiculous.

[weather vane]

That show is unreal. Detroiters too.

[ron the dial]

detroiters was ace

[Lock Jaw]

Binging Harley Quinn season 3..... "emotional" @ hearing Matt Ryan as Constantine again....

[Lock Jaw]

Finished up the season.... the show is just top notch...

[Seanny One Ball]

“Sprung” was marvellous stuff. I watched for Garret Dillahunt and stayed for Martha Plimpton’s finest ever performance. That’s a 3.5/4 show out of nowhere.

Bunch of early release prisoners move in together and take on the Covid society. It’s consistently hilarious and the acting styles mesh like butt skin on a burn victim.

[Fignuts]

Finished the latest season of what we do in the shadows. All in all didn't quite hit as strongly as other seasons. Kid Colin was funny at the start, but wore thin with me after a while, and the whole nightclub thing wasnt hitting either. Still head and shoulders above most stuff out there though

[Fignuts]

Oh I will add however that the House Flipping episode was fantastic.

[XL]

Finished rewatching Brooklyn 99 S1-7. Can’t find S8 on a streaming platform in the UK.

[Seanny One Ball]

WWDITS did have a weaker season. It will recover hopefully, and if not the first three seasons will still guarantee it legendary status.

[Lock Jaw]

Been binging The Flash season 8.... had watched the five part Armageddon story and then no more....

Arrowverse and Flash definitely past its prime.... but I dunno.... gonna miss it and the "wholesome style"....

[Lock Jaw]

Been rewatching Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist.... such a shame it got canceled.... want more....

[Seanny One Ball]

Jane Levy shows get cancelled.
It’s a shame because she’s great, I liked Suburgatory a lot.

[Seanny One Ball]

Binging “Barry” this week because I watched a couple of episodes a while ago and then forgot about it. I’m kind of glad I did because I didn’t know anything about it and honestly it turns into a Sopranos-style tour de force fairly quickly.
You can’t even call it a comedy really, if it’s a comedy then my theory of The Sopranos being a comedy has to hold water.

It is exceptional television though, it is equal to every other truly great show in that it enforces its rules on you and you bend to them because the quality is so thickly portioned across the table.

The drama is actually better than the comedy, the comedy is purely a relief by season 3.

So much fucked up stuff happens. It’s very well put together. Also the action scenes can be great, that whole Taekwondo episode was just magic.

[Seanny One Ball]

Every episode of Barry moves forward. Some shows are terrified of progress because it signals the end.
Changes come thick and fast in Barry.

So far this is a 4/4 show.

[rez]

watching all the spooky shit on Netflix and Shudder

[Seanny One Ball]

Barry was fucking incredible…

Roll on season 4.

[Seanny One Ball]

Now onto Fargo season 4. I have kept it in reserve because it was never going to disappoint me.
There is too much quality on demand right now…

[Seanny One Ball]

@Seanny, Have you finished this season of What We Do in the Shadows and if so, what were your thoughts?

Found it pretty lackluster overall with some wonderful highlights here and there.


It was the worst season, and the tragedy is that because the previous seasons were so strong it’s actually hard to tell if it was bad or simply not as good.

Nadja was particularly annoying this season.

[#1-norm-fan]

Yeah. Especially with the night club storyline I felt like this season got too cute and campy at times. Deviated from the usual vibe of the show too much. Jokes seemed kinda lazy too.

[#1-norm-fan]

I still need to watch the movie. My big concern was that I would be comparing too much but after a down season it might be a good time.

[Seanny One Ball]

The movie is an all time horror-comedy classic.
Watch it ASAP.

[Seanny One Ball]

I watched every episode of the hit 1990’s show “Fantasy Football League” on YouTube over the last week. Football currently annoys me but if we could go back to the 90’s I’d love it again.

Dion Dublin the horse cocked warrior sells houses now.

[rez]

One of the twists of Interview with the Vampire I called.

[Seanny One Ball]

I’ve been looking for a good show to sink my teeth into and there are a lot of options so I went for “The Expanse”.
I saw an episode a year or two ago and it was ok but it didn’t blow me away, it has great reviews and I have been told to just press on through season 1 so that’s what I’m doing.
The cast is extensive and the sets have a lot of money behind them so hopefully it’s worth the hours I’m about to devote.

[XL]

Watched The Devil’s Hour starring ex-Doctor star and Lewis Capaldi’s second cousin once removed Peter Capaldi and the guy who plays Commissioner Pete Savage in The Batman. Pretty good.

[Seanny One Ball]

The Expanse is pretty good so far. It’s a mystery spread across the solar system.

The best thing so far has been a piece of imagery used immediately after a terrible act of terrorism perpetrated by the UN of all people. So far so good.

[slik]

Season 2 of The White Lotus so far is fantastic.

[Seanny One Ball]

I’m onto season3 of The Expanse and it is a very solid science fiction effort. Wes Chatham is an anchor but I sort of wish he was the lead. Steven Strait annoys me.

[Helmsphere]

I've heard great things. Just hard for me to go down the science fiction road for space stuff.

Says the guy with some much merchandise of Monkey fighting warriors from space.

[XL]

Watching Reboot on Disney+.

[Lock Jaw]

#NotMyReboot

[Seanny One Ball]

Tulsa King

Sylvester Stallone plays a mafioso who gets out of prison after 25 years and is sent to Tulsa by the boss he did the time for.
If that doesn’t pull you in it’s by Ty Sheridan. I swear that man is his own industry now.

[Seanny One Ball]

I don’t want to get my hopes up too high after this opening episode but this has huge potential. Stallone was the right man for the role.

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Any1 ever watch the non-hit HBO show "Rome"

Watched the first season and a couple of episodes of season 2... really like it

Wasn't liking it for like the first half of the first season but then started getting very good imho!

The first season of Rome was gold, and then before they even started filming season 2 it was announced that it would be cancelled, and they ended up trying to cram 2-3 seasons worth of stories into one, and suffered for it.

I recently watched House of Dragon, which I liked, though it lacks the humour and verbal jousting of GoT; it is kind of like season 5 of that show. After HoD, I decided to re-watch GoT, and I'd forgotten just how good seasons 1 to 4 were, and the crap-fest it became in season 6 to 8. It saddened me.

I'm about 3 years behind the times, but I'm watching Chernobyl at the mo, and it is very good.

I've stayed away from The Rings of Power; sounds like an absolute shit-fest of wokery.

[Seanny One Ball]

Chernobyl would be a perfect show if it didn’t blame the scientists so much.

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

I finished Chernobyl and it was pretty darn good. I'm a low-key Jared Harris mark, so I tend to enjoy anything that he is in.

I recently bought the fourth season of Westworld, so I'm going to re-watch the previous ones before starting on that.

I've also gone a bit old school and I'm on the first season of Miami Vice. I'm loving the 80s cheddar, and the woman who plays Gina Calabrese is an absolute dime.

[Volchok]

The wife and I have been watching Yellowstone, on season 3 now.

[Blonde Moment]

Started watching North of 60.

[slik]

Season 2 of The White Lotus is excellent so far, better than season 1

[Seanny One Ball]

Tulsa King still going strong, just finished “The League” which has to be one of the most hit and miss comedies I have seen. The good was great, but the bad was pathetic. The wife was particularly terrible and it even made me lose respect for Mark Duplass to a degree. You’re better than that role and show buddy.

[Seanny One Ball]

Taco looks like a less retarded, burn out version of Will Ferrell

[drave]

Jon Lajoie. Canadian Comic, pretty funny.

[Seanny One Ball]

Yeah he was good, Kroll also superb. Paul Scheer was phenomenal.

[drave]

Genitals.

[Seanny One Ball]

It did feel a bit like a worse “It’s Always Sunny” only with the veneer of societal success draped across its bastards.

[weather vane]

Started watching North of 60.

TEEVEE

[weather vane]

Season 2 of The White Lotus is excellent so far, better than season 1

So so so good.

[Seanny One Ball]

Tacoma FD is pretty funny, started watching that. Anybody from Broken Lizard is ok in my book, they’ll and the Reno 911 guys have very reliable chemistry. Very easy viewing.

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Amongst the other things I'm watching, I'm currently on season 1 of Nashville. It is trash tv, but enjoyable trash tv.

[Seanny One Ball]

Hayden Panettiere one of the most beautiful women ever to walk this earth

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

You'll enjoy watching the show then.

[drave]

It isn't terrible. My wife watched the whole thing, and I just kinda don't care what's on TV so I watched too.


Not a country music fan either, so that part sucked. Hayden Panettiere's character goes through some serious shit that she went through IRL, at the same time it was happening on the show. Pretty effed up.

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

It says something about season 2 of Westworld when I'd rather watch Nashville instead; season 1 was so glorious.

[Seanny One Ball]

Tacoma FD is great stuff. Kevin Heffernan is world class at playing a hilarious chubby tosser and Steve Lemme is a virtuoso merrymaker of all seasons.
If you liked anything Broken Lizard ever did then this is the new ground zero. It does make me miss the others though, at least until the cameos.

[Seanny One Ball]

Season 1 Episode 7 of Tacoma FD is one of the funniest things I have ever seen. The ending is perfect comedy.

[rez]

I'm watching SurrealEstate again. Syfy had cancelled it after season one but uncancelled it and they just wrapped up filming season two. It's on Hulu.

[Seanny One Ball]

Tacoma FD is a 4/4 show when the jokes line up, 3/4 at worst.
I love the brains behind it.

[Lock Jaw]

Watched the Murderville Christmas special.... kind of wish it was just Will Arnett and Jason Bateman for the whole thing

[Seanny One Ball]

I was tempted to watch that but our Murder in Successville is leagues ahead of yours

[Lengua]

Tacoma FD is a 4/4 show when the jokes line up, 3/4 at worst.
I love the brains behind it.

Quite a fan of the show. Hoping we see a new season pop in a few months.

[Seanny One Ball]

It’s a glorious show

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

I, Claudius is finally on Britbox. I'm down with that shizzle.

Fuck you, Seanny (in advance)!

[Blonde Moment]

8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown
Nice way to close out an annoying day

[Seanny One Ball]

I, Claudius is finally on Britbox. I'm down with that shizzle.

Fuck you, Seanny (in advance)!


You Clavdivs

[Seanny One Ball]

8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown
Nice way to close out an annoying day


LOL @ naming a network show that’s on repeat on several channels at once.
R.I.P. Sean Lock, killed by being forced to work with spastics

[XL]

Watched The Traitors. A reality-game show type that I don’t usually go in for but this was captivating.

S2 of American Horror Stories. Average.

[Destor]

Doing a rewatch of breaking bad. Show is just as good on multiple viewings. Took 4 days off from my schedule between the 2nd and 3rd season to watch some movies but im really eager to jump back in. Really a testament to just how good the show is.



Easily top 5 of all time.

[xrodmuc316]

Yeah he was good, Kroll also superb. Paul Scheer was phenomenal.

Rafi is the star of that show!!! :rofl:

[Seanny One Ball]

Paul T Goldman is getting dark now, was hoping for that.

Great show.

Tulsa King also very good.