What shows are you watching?

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

I just finished I, Claudius. The series is nearly 50 years old now, so the production is dated, but it is still a top drawer show. Sian Phillips as the scheming and murderous Livia is fantastic, and Derek Jacobi gives a great performance as Claudius as well. It was weird seeing Brian Blessed without his beard, and fairly subdued, but he gives a top notch performance as Augustus. I'd forgotten that Patrick Stewart was in it as Sejanus. Overall, its crazy how murderous the Roman imperials were back in the day.

I've also finished season 3 of Jack Ryan. I wasn't really feeling it; I don't know why.

I'm currently on season 4 of Nashville, but I'm starting to tire of it. I've also started rewatching Reacher.

I think I will rewatch Jewel in the Crown before watching all the current Taylor Sheridan shows (season 5 of Yellowstone; 1923; and Tulsa King).

[Sepholio]

Just started The Last of Us.

Kinda weird seeing agent Pena as Joel after having just watched Narcos.

Cocaine zombies.

[Lock Jaw]

Watched the premiere of The Last of Us as well..... seems like another dime a dozen post apocalyptic show, only without any sort of "interesting hook" so far.

Wish they didn't jump forward in time 20 years.... want to see a show about the collapse of society for once and not just skipping all of it...

Fear the Walking Dead was supposed to be that at first, and it was for like... a few episodes but then immediately went to "society is over" mode and became just the same as Walking Dead.

[Seanny One Ball]

El Vaq Tulsa King was pretty damned good, get on it.

[Seanny One Ball]

Paul T Goldman only has one episode left and it’s turning out to be quite an interesting, very odd and fairly funny/uncomfortable look at the sort of lunatic who thinks his life makes for an epic tale of heroism despite all evidence pointing to a fairly humdrum, desperate existence.

The guy himself seems like a sociopath, the sort of goofy guy that has sinister intent behind the Groucho glasses.

Made by the guy who did the last Borat film but it appears to be a genuine 10-year labour of love to get this weirdo’s story framed in a way that people can understand and digest appropriately.

[Sepholio]

Watched the premiere of The Last of Us as well..... seems like another dime a dozen post apocalyptic show, only without any sort of "interesting hook" so far.

Wish they didn't jump forward in time 20 years.... want to see a show about the collapse of society for once and not just skipping all of it...

Fear the Walking Dead was supposed to be that at first, and it was for like... a few episodes but then immediately went to "society is over" mode and became just the same as Walking Dead.

Man Ellie is weird. The way she runs in the background of the shot with agent Pena beating that soldier up with this maniacal look on her face....I dunno. So weird. Don't like this girl.

[drave]

they're goin for that vidya game realism

[Fignuts]

I have never been able to get behind movies/shows based on games that are already very cinematic experiences. It just feels incredibly redundant to me.

[Seanny One Ball]

Yeah… most great video games are like being inside a movie as a character already.

[drave]

I have never been able to get behind movies/shows based on games that are already very cinematic experiences. It just feels incredibly redundant to me.




I'd be down for a big screen (true to the story) of Shepard's Mass Effect story.

[rez]

binging that 90's show. pretty good

[Seanny One Ball]

I can’t further taint my memories of That 70’s Show, not after the Randy season and Danny Masterson stepping on the #MeToo gallows.

Seasons 1-7 still make it the best ever kids show.

[Seanny One Ball]

Currently watching a 90’s classic “Northern Exposure”. It has an absurdly high rating on IMDB which would be suspicious if the episode ratings weren’t so consistently high all the way through.

Three episodes in and I quite like it. It’s an odd mash up of genres, there’s a fish out of water basis surrounded by incongruous characters presented for appearances as though they are stock characters…then there’s the whole Native Alaskan/Native American thing which is familiar but totally different at the same time.
The attitudes are quite sharp too, it has some snappy dialogue which tumbles in at great pace every few scenes. The lead is Rob Morrow who I only know because he was nearly in The Island Of Dr Moreau but fled the shoot when he saw how fucked it was. Well he’s good in this, adept at playing a kind of Pre-Eisenberg arrogant talkative neurotic who excels at worsening a scenario before coming through in the clinch.

I assume some of you have seen it before, it was apparently a big hit. The female lead from Cliffhanger is in it, and Billy Drago’s son. He has better teeth than his dad at least.

[Ol Dirty Dastard]

Finished the first season of Succession. A challenging watch but a great show. Brian Cox is a powerhouse.

[#1-norm-fan]

It’s funny to think that “That 80’s Show” features the best comedic actor of any version of that show. (As much as I like Kurtwood Smith and Tommy Chong.)

[Seanny One Ball]

A great team will always be worth more than a decent side with one all star player in it.

Glenn Howerton as Dennis Reynolds is the only truly well acted character performance in the entire main cast of IASIP, only Cricket comes close and he’s supporting. I like the show more often than not but it would be far better with some other good actors in it. Danny Devito isn’t even trying and he looks like John Gielgud next to Rob McElhenny. How can the guy that creates the show suck so badly as a performer in it?

[#1-norm-fan]

I’ve also seen a few episodes of AP Bio and Glenn Howerton is fantastic in that too.

Personally I’m a big fan of Danny Devito’s awkward delivery on Always Sunny. It’s weird. It works. I don’t need him to show his acting chops. He did that early on in his run and I’m glad they went in a different direction.

[Bad News Gertner]

1000 Pound Sisters, My 600 Lbs Life and 1000 Pound Best Friends.

I'm a sucker for these kinds of shows

[slik]

Really enjoying The Last Of Us so far.

Never played the game so I have nothing to reference from it - series is excellent thus far. The opening scenes of episode 1 and 2 are particularly creepy.

[XL]

We’re doing a House MD rewatch/watching later seasons for the first time. It’s causing me lots of anxiety over what medical issues myself, wife, child, and one on the way could have.

Started AHS: Hotel to get a break. Wife not a fan of the gore. Back to House and anxiety it is!

[drave]

1000 Pound Sisters, My 600 Lbs Life and 1000 Pound Best Friends.

I'm a sucker for these kinds of shows




1000 pound sisters....






Bitches be crazy

[Seanny One Ball]

And I would fuck 500lbs and I would fuck 500 more,
Just to be the man who fucks a thousand pounds of twin sized chubby whore

[#1-norm-fan]

We’re doing a House MD rewatch/watching later seasons for the first time. It’s causing me lots of anxiety over what medical issues myself, wife, child, and one on the way could have.

Started AHS: Hotel to get a break. Wife not a fan of the gore. Back to House and anxiety it is!

All the criticisms of House being cringey and formulaic are absolutely fair but Goddammit I love House as a character. Top 5 all-time for me.

[Seanny One Ball]

One of my childhood best mates shared a room with Hugh Laurie’s nephew or God son or some such thing at uni…

Never been a fan.

[XL]

All the criticisms of House being cringey and formulaic are absolutely fair but Goddammit I love House as a character. Top 5 all-time for me.

Oh absolutely. I’m waiting for an episode where they get the diagnosis right first time and move on to another case rather than the “we’ve sussed it”, patient gets worse, “we’ve solved it!”, patient gets worse, “now we’ve solved it!”, patient gets better/rarely a patient dies.

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

I just finished watching a series from the 1980s: The Jewel in the Crown. It is a great piece of television; the acting is slightly dated, as TV has moved on, but still, a fantastic story. It is set in India during WW2, so you have that and the rising nationalist movement and then partition as a back-drop, but the story revolves around the rape of an English woman and the torture and subsequent false imprisonment of her Indian lover, and how those events reverberate in the lives of a set of other characters, most of whom don't know or ever meet the woman or her lover. It also doesn't shy away from the prejudices and bigotry of the period, both between the English classes and between the colonials and the Indians, but not in the preachy or ham-fisted way that things are done these days. It is a series that does not come along very often; it is up there with Brideshead Revisited as far as rare quality 80s television goes.

I've finished my second run through of Jewel in the Crown, and it is still top drawer. Part of me would love to see a modern adaptation of this story, but given the need to push 'the message' and the general poor TV writing of this current era, I think it would end up being butchered by some far-leftie virtue-signalling cunt.

I've watched five of the six seasons of Nashville. In-between the ridiculous storylines and the music, there has always been a bit of social commentary running though it, which I had no issue with. But with season 4 and especially season 5, they just went crazy with the preachy social justice shenanigans. I've started the sixth and final season, but again as always, its peak vanished after season 3.

I've also finished season 2 of Picard. I don't know why I subject myself to the modern Star Trek series, as they've turned out so naff. I haven't watched Strange New Worlds yet, mainly because I don't want to be disappointed again.

[Lock Jaw]

Just watched the Harley Quinn Valentine's Day Special

Never thought I'd see a show with a giant horny naked Bane humping buildings until they collapse

[drave]

that entire show's premise is being horny

[Seanny One Ball]

Been binge watching “Hell On Wheels” which is classic Western fare in a weekly tv format.
It’s nothing like Deadwood, but it is a grown up Western…lots of fucked up stuff happening in a less casual way.
Anson Mount and Common work well together. The whole show should have been about a white cowboy and a black cowboy being pals but the railroad theme is at least a good strong handle to grab onto.

[drave]

My wife approached me asking if I wanted to start watching Yellowstone, and then all the spin offs.




I teared up and told her "YEEE HAW" like a good Yank

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Been binge watching “Hell On Wheels” which is classic Western fare in a weekly tv format.
It’s nothing like Deadwood, but it is a grown up Western…lots of fucked up stuff happening in a less casual way.
Anson Mount and Common work well together. The whole show should have been about a white cowboy and a black cowboy being pals but the railroad theme is at least a good strong handle to grab onto.

Aboot fookin' time.

[Seanny One Ball]

I don’t think you have ever recommended it to me

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

I'm sure I did, but if I didn't, I should have.

[Seanny One Ball]

I’m finishing up season 3. Anson Mount looks a hell of a lot like Daniel Day Lewis at times, he pulls a certain shocked/angry face that probably sold him as the lead pretty fast. He’s a good actor too even if his storyline in this makes absolutely no sense at all.

[Seanny One Ball]

I’ve got several Western mini-series to watch when I finish Hell On Wheels.

Westerns are so good. All types of western…

[Seanny One Ball]

Season 3 of Hell On Wheels is short on storyline but over quota on the big acting moments.
Great stuff.

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

I've finished the sixth and final season of Nashville. What started as a ridiculous (but entertaining) show, became in its final two seasons a preachy, woke mess.

I'm rewatching season 3 of Westworld before I tackle its final season. It is a lot better than I remember from watching this season the first time round, though it does not touch the gloriousness of season 1.

I'm also rewatching season 1 of Carnival Row before I watch the second (and I believe final) season.

I'm hearing good things about the third and final season of Picard, though considering how low the standard was for the first two seasons, it might still only be average. I'll wait until all episodes are available before watching it.

I still got all those Taylor Sheridan series watch yet: season 5 of Yellowstone; season 2 of Mayor of Kingstown; Tulsa King; and 1923.

[drave]

Big same on Nashville. I don't really care what I watch, so my wife watches whatever most of the time. I also abhor country music.


The stories were entertaining but over the top for sure. But those last two seasons just became really stupid. Hell, nearly everything after Rayna's death felt..... directionless, really.

[Lock Jaw]

Started watching Picard Season 2 because I hear good things about Season 3 but don't want to skip Season 2.

Three episodes in, liking it a lot better than Season 1 already.... and I am a sucker for Star Trek time travel stories....

[drave]

I enjoyed the 1st season, just finished it a couple days ago. Looking forward to the rest of it.

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Just finished the first season of 1923. Taylor Sheridan bringing the goods again, though I don't think it reaches the heights of 1883; that series was top drawer. I think the Spencer Dutton/Alexandra storyline brings the show down a peg or two; it is fairly outlandish at times, even though still enjoyable to watch.

I'm around half-way through Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. Modern Trek has burnt me too many times, but I have enjoyed the show thus far. It still feels like it is written by 12 year-olds, but Anson Mount has kept it together.

[Evil Vito]

Ted Lasso season 3 trailer got me in the feels.

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I have to say, merely seeing him in the locker room without his trademark Richmond polo feels like serious foreshadowing.

I mean the logical end game for Ted's character was always that he'd return to the US to be with his son. So I assume the 3-season arc will stay true to that. But even if Apple begs them for more seasons they could continue to follow his character in the US.

Also seeing Nate sitting at his coveted window seat in the Greek restaurant but now he's all sad and alone. Damn.

[Lock Jaw]

Enjoyed Picard season 2. End was a bit weird but overall enjoyed it way more than the first season.

Was gonna wait until all of season 3 was out before watching it but watched the first episode. Was pretty sweet.....

[drave]

Liking it more than I thought.... so far. "Time travel" crap but with Q..... and in a way that so far, makes sense.


I'm 4 episodes in I think? Borg Queen just got her power back and they are looking for The Observer.


I'm generally against time travel plots, as they invite lazy ass writing. I'm hopeful this continues the way it has.

[XL]

Ghosts (UK version) S1. Easy watching. Enjoyed it. Moved on to S2. Think the US version is pretty much a scene for scene remake but with slightly different ghosts.

[Lock Jaw]

Three episodes into Picard season 3... only one more out.... damn... I should have waited cause I don't want it to stop.

Blowing the first two seasons outta the water. Beverly Crusher has a serious case of melty-face going on though... actress def decided to not age gracefully....

[Lock Jaw]

Just watched Picard S3 episodes 4 and 5, catching up to the present. Show is pretty freaking sweet..... looking more forward to new episodes of this than new Mandalorian episodes.

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

I'm currently re-watching seasons 1 to 4 of Yellowstone, before starting the new season. Addictive shit, this show.

I've also watched all but the final episode of Tulsa King. This has also been a great show; Stallone is fantastic.

Paramount should essentially just become the Taylor Sheridan Network.

[Lock Jaw]

Watched the new Picard ep.... show continues to be great...

Damn @ a freaking Professor Moriarty cameo....

Seems like they are bringing more attention to the whole dumb S1 thing where Picard died and is now a synthetic being thing... was hoping that they would just continue to downplay that aside from the few very quick passing throwaway references they have done already....

[Seanny One Ball]

I'm currently re-watching seasons 1 to 4 of Yellowstone, before starting the new season. Addictive shit, this show.

I've also watched all but the final episode of Tulsa King. This has also been a great show; Stallone is fantastic.

Paramount should essentially just become the Taylor Sheridan Network.


It pretty much is. Look at how many shows he is responsible for overall and how many he has going concurrently.
He’s a one man franchise machine.

[Seanny One Ball]

Unbelievably only one of his numerous projects has been given a mediocre reaction.

[Destor]

Just wrapped Dexter: New Blood. Pretty solid but not as good as I'd hoped. Better than s5 and onward but a far cry from s1, 2 and 4.

the show loses something with dexter not working crime scenes. I hadnt fully appreciated that aspect until it was lost. Not that it ruins the show or anything.

Once you can look back and see this season as an epilog it makes more sense but to get to its ending it has to double down on the weakest part of the original run: Dexter the Dad. Again to get to its ending it has to but 10 ep run is mostly dealing with Dexter from that angle and rarely from the seriel killer angle and nearly never from Dexter the blood splatter analyst.

It is a much better ending for the character than the original final season. Dexter always needed to die for poetic justices sake and he finally meets a fitting end. Having Harrison do it works. I do wish Batista had been more involved. Maybe cracking the Bay Harbor Butcher case in a larger way. I dunno.

It was pretty solid all in all. Perhaps the 4th or 5th best season. Cant decide if its better than season 3 or not but its up there.

[Seanny One Ball]

I loved every moment of it up until the finale.
I got it, I recognised its sense but I was crushed to see it end after such a resurrection.
I’m confident in saying it is the second best season behind season four which is probably the best season of tv I have ever seen.

[Seanny One Ball]

Dexter season four is just perfect. Only Better Call Saul or Breaking Bad can claim any such longevity of quality across an entire season.
The Sopranos didn’t even achieve it.

[Seanny One Ball]

I think Succession just started up again with a new season.
I can’t think of a smarter, funnier show. Another Destor suggestion.

[Lock Jaw]

Dexter season four is just perfect.

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[Destor]

I rank s1 and 2 of dexter pretty highly amongst all time great TV. S4 is right up but the first 2 seasons are really pure and focused in a way tv rarely ever gets. S3 struggles because its reeling from losing its antagonist and bookended against s4 it looks really weak in the rear view mirror. S4 has the same quality of writting as the 1st 2 seasons and arguably a more dramatic climax. I think how exceptional the first half of Dexter is makes its fall from grace cut that much deeper. Like Game of Thrones in a lot of ways.

S9 (fuck your rebranding) i dont think can match those 3 seasons. On reflection i definitely think its better than season 3 for sure though.

The Kurgan is great in s9. The moment he appears in 902 i was elated. The way they work him into the narrative and the way he interacts with Dexter in both The World of the Lie and in The World of the Truth is really well done.

All that said the show gets very caught up in the minutiae of his moutainman life and i think it leaves a bit to be desired. Contrasting it against the shows peak, and this season if very deserving to be considered against the best of its run, it just isnt as compelling as that upper echelon.

But we're talking about 3 of the best seasons of tv ever made. Its not really a besmirchment to not be as good as its peak.

And beyond that endings are hard. There's a ton of house keeping that goes into wrapping long form narratives that werent constructed to end. If you hold this ending up against its first ending...this is a masterpiece. So I'll def take it woth pleasure.

[Evil Vito]

Just a general Ted Lasso observation from something that happened in episode 2 of this new season. Having just re-watched the series with my girlfriend before the start of the new season, a lot of stuff is fresh in my mind so I appreciated this bit of writing that much more.

In a scene early in season 1, Roy Kent tells writer Trent Crimm "you're a colossal prick and you always have been". It's the only time they interact in the entire series until season 3.

In a scene from season 2 where Kent is a pundit asked to give his thoughts on a debuting 17-year old prospect, Kent gets super emotional and basically dismisses the entire pundit job, saying it's bullshit that they have to try to sit there and predict what a kid is going to do and judge them when they're not out there with them.

Now you get to the current season, Kent and Crimm are forced into interacting with each other, and Kent reveals that he's kept a newspaper clipping from when he debuted at 17 and Crimm wrote a scathing piece on how shit his debut game was. So in one moment they explained why Kent hated him and why he got choked up about young players being criticized.

[Lock Jaw]

Been watching Star Trek for some reason.... for as big a fan as I was growing up I never really watched the original series... seemed "cheesy" to me as a kid....

Now as an adult still seems cheesy but I can appreciate that

Only watched like 7 or 8 at the time of the above post, but I picked it back up again because Picard S3 has me riding high on the Star Trek brand right now.

Just finished S1 of the original show. Maybe been only 1 or 2 episodes that I started to get "bored" at, but enjoyed the rest.... pretty much all "new content" for me since I never really watched them as a kid as I said...

[Destor]

Original series?

[Seanny One Ball]

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That will always earn a rep from me.

Stop playing me homes.

[Seanny One Ball]

I must have repped you for that at least twice before - is what I’m really saying

[Lock Jaw]

Original series?

Yeah

[Seanny One Ball]

Another perfect season of tv is Deadwood season 1.
Seasons two and three are pretty swell too, especially that Dan Dority fight.

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

I need to watch the Deadwood film, which came out a few years ago; I think it is supposed to provide a more fitting conclusion to the series.

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Finished the fourth and final season of Westworld last night. Entertaining enough, but a shadow of its former greatness. I'm not surprised they didn't bother to go ahead with the originally intended final fifth season.

Earlier in the week I also finished the first part of Yellowstone's fifth season. It seemed to lack the humour of the earlier seasons, but thankfully toned done the social justice elements that usually revolve around the Monica character. I found it as entertaining as ever, but I feel they should probably make the second part of the fifth season its last.

I'm currently watching two other series at the mo: The Borgias, and Taboo. The first I've seen multiple times. The second is a BBC drama starring Tom Hardy, swaggering around Napoleonic-era London like a mad bastard, while battling the East India Company and others over a piece of land on the west coast of Canada, which promises fortune in trade in China for the one who can possess it. I'm enjoying it, but it suffers from being a BBC production: if it was a HBO show, it could probably go darker and grittier, which it would benefit from.

I've recently bought the first two seasons of Peaky Blinders, which I'll get to soon. I'm around ten years behind the times, but hey. I also need to watch the second season of Mayor of Kingstown.

[Seanny One Ball]

I need to watch the Deadwood film, which came out a few years ago; I think it is supposed to provide a more fitting conclusion to the series.


It gives it the conclusion it sorely needed, and does a fine job of it.
It’s not an explosive ending, much like how The Wild West just sort of stopped at the right time.

Garrett Dillahunt actually comes back to play a third character purely for a cameo.

[Seanny One Ball]

Timothy Olyphant is arguably the greatest TV leading man of our generation off the back of Deadwood and Justified.
Justified is one of the best shows ever made. It’s right up there with the very best. Every season a classic.

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

He does a far better job of picking TV roles than those for film, that is for sure.

[Ol Dirty Dastard]

god Succession is so good.

[Seanny One Ball]

Saving that for a binge

[Lock Jaw]

Picard S3 E09

Much feels at seeing the old set/ship again. Show really punching me in the nostalgia. I really wish this was S1 of the show and we didn't have to wait until S3 to get this.

Then you could still have had three seasons, but with the two after this being better.

Feel like the S1 & 2 characters like Rafi/Seven have very much been "thrown under" the unstoppable nostalgia force, but are still "just around" because they were "part of the cast" of the first two seasons. I don't mind them being pushed to the side because one didn't need to exist, and Seven is good to see but just in the wrong nostalgia party.

Also kinda feel a bit "bummed" at Borg ending up the big bad again, feel they are a bit "played". I actually "kind of liked" what they ended up doing in S2 with making Allison Pill a "good" Borg Queen and them wanting to join the Federation.... was a nice "change of pace".....

[Sepholio]

Picard stuff too

I was kinda hoping that the big bad may have been someone from the continuum and that Q had been holding them back the whole time out of his respect and love for Picard. Not really a spoiler but yeah. Borg again. Kinda anticlimactic how Jack was so easily "assimilated" too. Couldn't even put up a fight.

[Seanny One Ball]

Dale I have seen the first three seasons of Succession mate, just waiting to binge the final season.

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

I'm all up to date with season 3 of Star Trek: Picard and it is such a significant improvement on the previous two seasons, which were just bollocks.

It almost feels like a different show, which I assume is down to someone new taking over at the helm. Whomever is now in charge is clearly a fan of the IP, rather than wanting to use it purely as a vehicle for pushing 'the message.'

The show is still hamstrung to a certain point by the abysmal choices made in the previous two seasons, but if the IP is managed like season 3 from now on I think we'll see some good stuff develop.

My only real gripe is with having the Borg as the big bad once again. Voyager pretty much neutered the Borg as a scary villain, and this could have been an opportunity to do something more creative.

Also, the whole Enterprise-D is a bit much. I've enjoyed some of the fan service, but this went a bit too far.

[Seanny One Ball]

Hang on… Barry is back.
Season four of Barry is out now…

[Lock Jaw]

Seanny sounds like he is Barry excited.


I'll show myself out.

[Seanny One Ball]

Opening on a great joke too.
Everybody loves Barry!

[Seanny One Ball]

Not your joke btw…

[Seanny One Ball]

I actually mean to re-watch it all once it reaches a crescendo.
It’s as original in performance as it is in description, and that is saying a lot.
Bill Hader just knows good comedy.

[Ol Dirty Dastard]

Dale I have seen the first three seasons of Succession mate, just waiting to binge the final season.

Lol why are all your posts so oddly smarmy even when they should be innocuous?

[Lock Jaw]

Semarmy One Ball

[Lock Jaw]

I'm not crying, you're crying.

@Picard S3 finale

Didn't want it to end

[Lock Jaw]

Tried to post this "meme" on Facebook

https://i.imgur.com/heDVWxJ.png

But it told me that my post goes against their community standards and violates the rules about inciting violence

[Seanny One Ball]

Lol why are all your posts so oddly smarmy even when they should be innocuous?


That’s paranoia.

[Blonde Moment]

Lol why are all your posts so oddly smarmy even when they should be innocuous?

Just his style...
Its why I every GD post i read sounds like Scott Thompson in raging drag queen mode

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Finished the third and final season of Star Trek: Picard. It almost makes up for the tripe that were seasons 1 and 2. Thankfully, they did not indulge in any cheap meaningless deaths of one or more of the TNG crew.

[Ol Dirty Dastard]

Tried to post this "meme" on Facebook

https://i.imgur.com/heDVWxJ.png

But it told me that my post goes against their community standards and violates the rules about inciting violence

A lot of things were better than Mando season 3. For instance, Golden Girls season three was probably better than Mando season 3.

[Lock Jaw]

Finished the third and final season of Star Trek: Picard. It almost makes up for the tripe that were seasons 1 and 2. Thankfully, they did not indulge in any cheap meaningless deaths of one or more of the TNG crew.

Was worried the whole time that they would

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Perhaps it is my love for Jeri Ryan, who is still rockin' it in her 50s, but I'd like to see more Captain Seven.

If future series are helmed by Terry Matalas, I'm down for more ST in this post-Picard timeline. Just no more Borg, please.

[Seanny One Ball]

Just his style...
Its why I every GD post i read sounds like Scott Thompson in raging drag queen mode

Smarminess is obviously false friendliness or flattery, not condescension.
I am a condescending prick but I absolutely am not wasting my time trying to be nice to idiots.

Dale is very insecure about his intelligence so he doesn’t like to be corrected.

[McLegend]

Why the fuck is Golden Girls catching strays in this thread?

[Ol Dirty Dastard]

I like the Golden Girls!

[Ol Dirty Dastard]

Smarminess is obviously false friendliness or flattery, not condescension.
I am a condescending prick but I absolutely am not wasting my time trying to be nice to idiots.

Dale is very insecure about his intelligence so he doesn’t like to be corrected.

I mean, I've heard fairly intelligent people use words incorrectly. Not saying I'm one of those people! You smarmy fuck!

[Seanny One Ball]

Dale you took a swipe at me for saying I was saving Succession for a binge.
I have no idea at what point you detected any “edge” or smarminess because there was none when I said it.

Seems likely that you have had that sitting in your head and have lashed out at completely the wrong time.
There’s a lot of that going about right now. Maybe it’s a virus that only targets pretentious gimps.

[Frank Drebin]

I like Golden Grahams!

Fixed

[Seanny One Ball]

Cinnamon Graham’s were good.
Cinnamon on cereal can go wrong on you fast though. One bowl over the line.

[Frank Drebin]

Why did Dale have to mention Golden Grahams? Now all I can think about is eating a big ass bowl of them. Not going to stop thinking about it until I over eat some and get sick.

[Sepholio]

Golden Grahams are the cereal kept on hand in my house. Golden Grahams are love. Golden Grahams are life. I'm gonna eat some right now and think of all of you while I do it.

[Seanny One Ball]

I liked Fruit Loops whenever I was in North America. Our cereal here isn’t as sugary or as constipating. In fact Kellogg’s still probably holds the market here with his sex retarding corn concoctions.

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Finished all three seasons of The Borgias (again), and I've completed the first season of Taboo. Regarding the latter, Tom Hardy was great, but at the same time I had no real drive to finish it and kind of had to force myself in the end.

I'm into the early stages of the second and final season of Carnival Row. I might rewatch Arcane as well, which has been calling me.

[Seanny One Ball]

Rewatch “Sharpe” in all of its glory.

I am, it is damned fine viewing. Sean Bean’s ex wife had huge jugs man. Huge.

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

I rewatched Sharpe, including the 2000s episodes set in India, last year. Always good stuff.

[Seanny One Ball]

I’m thinking about doing a Hornblower watch.
I need something good and swashbuckling.

[Lock Jaw]

Finished Star Trek: TOS season 2

[Seanny One Ball]

Anyone else that watches “Barry” do you agree that Sarah Goldberg plays “histrionic talentless twat” pretty much perfectly?
That’s the most annoying woman since Elliot in Scrubs. Superb writing and acting, top drawer stuff. Bill Hader treading a fine line between comedy and high drama.

[Seanny One Ball]

That talent manager told her she had integrity too lol… such great writing.

[Ol Dirty Dastard]

Anyone else that watches “Barry” do you agree that Sarah Goldberg plays “histrionic talentless twat” pretty much perfectly?
That’s the most annoying woman since Elliot in Scrubs. Superb writing and acting, top drawer stuff. Bill Hader treading a fine line between comedy and high drama.

Fell off from Barry(I need to watch all of S3 still) but she totally is Elliott from Scrubs. I kept wondering who she reminded me of and you nailed it.

[Seanny One Ball]

Dude get on that, it’s just as good if not better every season. Season three was fantastic and season four is the finale.

[Seanny One Ball]

I would bang Sarah Chalke in Scrubs but not this broad. This one is not hot enough to get away with such behaviour.

[Ol Dirty Dastard]

I will have to. It’s really good but sometimes I’m too much of a wimp to deal with how dark it is.

[Ol Dirty Dastard]

Like I just want Barry and the Fonz to be besties and get up to shenanigans. It became very evident that this was not the trajectory—what with literally everything that’s happened on the show.

[Seanny One Ball]

Yeah it gets worse man, way way worse.

It’s still funny though, and in the darkest way to still get a laugh. Never cheap though.

[Seanny One Ball]

If Fonz/Barry chemistry is what you want, you’ll have to accept a shift in the dynamic.

[Ol Dirty Dastard]

Lol I know. I’ve gotten far enough that there’s no turning back. I think i stopped after ep 1 or 2 of season 3. I will power through cuz it’s an easy binge watch.

[Ol Dirty Dastard]

Plus I’ve seen ads that were basically spoilers for S3

[Seanny One Ball]

It’s up there with the best shows for me. In a few years the world will look back and celebrate Barry as a real work of art. It is too smart for its own good right now, but people will catch up later. They always do.

[Seanny One Ball]

You fucking introduced me to it too!

[Ol Dirty Dastard]

Yeah I realllllly dug it. I think the layoff between S2 and S3 was too long for me and made it hard for me to sink my teeth into it. Felt a bit disconnected as a viewer—not cuz it was bad, just because I wasn’t as immersed in the world.

[Seanny One Ball]

There is a show called “Sprung” that I watched a while ago, last year? Anyway everyone should watch that if they can find it. These streaming services are their own worst enemy sometimes. Especially if the network is obscure and the show turns out to be incredible.

There are a lot of casualties of this. Lots of shit rising to the top instead.

[Seanny One Ball]

Yeah I realllllly dug it. I think the layoff between S2 and S3 was too long for me and made it hard for me to sink my teeth into it. Felt a bit disconnected as a viewer—not cuz it was bad, just because I wasn’t as immersed in the world.


This is why I love watching an entire show from start to finish with no threat of cancellation or between season breaks. I’m waiting for Succession’s last season to wrap before I binge it because you really do lose enthusiasm between seasons for even the smartest, best written shows. It happens at the worst times.

[slik]

Jury Duty on Amazon (its free to watch, you don't have to have Prime) was one of the best shows I've watched this year.

Very Joe Schmo - if anyone else remembers that series.

10/10

[Seanny One Ball]

Get off your low horse

[Lock Jaw]

Forced myself to finish watching the final season of The Goldbergs. I used to truly enjoy that show, but it clearly started to limp along once they abandoned the "autobiographical" gimmick for pure fiction, not to mention losing core cast members, first to death and then another sacrificed to HR.

Still stuck with watching it "just because".

Glad it is over, but at the same time I wish they did have proper knowledge that it was going to be their final season so maybe they could have maybe gone back to the "autobiographical" stuff for a bit and do a proper "wrap up".

[xrodmuc316]

4a7SAcLSuy0

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

I've finished the final season of Carnival Row, which I enjoyed. It is a shame that they cancelled it after two seasons, but they wrapped it up neatly enough.

I'm in the early stages of watching the first season of Your Honor, though it isn't really sitting well with me. For a supposedly morally upstanding individual, Bryan Cranston's character has taken to hiding his son's crime and the duplicity involved like a duck to water. Furthermore, the guy who plays his son irritates me.

I've also started a rewatch of The Wheel of Time. At the moment, I can't bring myself to rewatch Arcane; that first season was just too good.

[rez]

I'm pumped for:

New Always Sunny
New Black Mirror
New Surreal Estate
New The Righteous Gemstones

and also Twisted Metal

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Finished Rabbit Hole. I enjoyed the series, though it is not as clever as it thinks. I wouldn't mind seeing a season 2, but what I really want is another series of 24, which wraps up how Live Another Day ended with Jack being captured by the Russians. Let's do this, Kiefer!

I've dropped Your Honor, partly because the actor playing the son is such a mard ass, but also because something doesn't sit right with me about it.

I'm in the early stages of watching the first season of La Brea. It has a Under the Dome vibe going for it, which means it probably won't amount to much, and there are too many character that need to be killed off. At best, it is background programming.

I've also watched the first episode of Sleeper Cell; a Showtime series that came out around 2005, centring around an FBI agent's attempts to take down a jihadi cell. We'll see how that goes.

[Lock Jaw]

Finished watching Star Trek: The Original Series and followed it up by watching Star Trek: The Animated Series.

https://i.gifer.com/DeZe.gif

[McLegend]

Two episodes into Wing Commander Academy animated series. It’s surprisingly good. It takes place before all the games.

It use to be on Saturday mornings on USA Network, and only lasted a season. I discovered it because it was the 4th part of the “epic”’Saga of the Warrior king. Basically 4 different shows had the same character (The Warrior King) and object (Orb of power) in them, and it took place all on one Saturday morning in November of 96. There was no promotional material for it so if you just watched your show you had no idea it was a crossover. The shows and episodes are

Street Fighter -Warrior King
Savage Dragon-Endgame
Mortal Kombat Defenders of the Realm- Resurrection
Wing Commander- Recreation

The Wing Commander episode is far and away the best of the saga.

So it made me want to watch the whole series. So far at least 2 human people have died, and a large amount of aliens and alien cats.

I know nothing about the Wing Commander games, so I’m basically going in blind to this series.

[Frank Drebin]

V excited for new Black Mirror episodes. The last season wasn't too great but the Bandersnatch movie was top notch.

Been watching a few episodes with the lady to introduce her to it. Naturally I started with the "pig" episode.

Just watched San Junipero again and I still reiterate my feelings about it. A good episode. Not the best. Maybe not even top 3 or 4. My disdain over it is how people were falling all over themselves to say how great it was but I'm pretty sure that was virtue signaling to show how they aren't homophobs. Same with people doing the same over Black Panther. Another good but not great movie but it has to be great because that shows how cool I am with the sight of black people (on screen).

For those who love San Junipero I will take this opportunity to point out how "problematic" it is. In the first scene you get the more experienced girl forcing the other to drink alcohol, then trying to get her to come home with her and not taking no for an answer. If that was a dude plying the girl who just got off the bus into town with booze and insisting they had to hook up the show wouldn't exist now. Just saying.

[Frank Drebin]

Also, the idea of uploading your consciousness into the cloud is pointless. Its not you. Its just a rebuilt copy of you. You still die. Same as in Star Trek everytime they use the transporter. They break down all your matter, copy it, then rebuild it. It's still you in a sense but just a replica. You died when they broke you down in the first place.

[Seanny One Ball]

San Junipero is one of the worst episodes of Black Mirror, that and the one with the bees are probably the worst that spring to mind. Didn’t really like the pig one either to be honest…

[Lock Jaw]

I remember the one with the bees being one of my favourites

[Seanny One Ball]

I know

[Frank Drebin]

The bees one was good I thought.

[Seanny One Ball]

The worst three are:

Metalhead
Hated In The Nation
San Junipero


The best three are:

USS Callister
Crocodile
Nosedive

I also really love the “Shut Up And Dance” and “White Bear” episodes.

The only episodes I can respect are sharply written indictments, the way Rod Serling would write it given access to today’s allowances.

[Frank Drebin]

Nosedive is maybe my fav.

[Lock Jaw]

Nosedive/Callister def my top two

[Seanny One Ball]

That finale to “Barry” must be the most unpredictable, well written ending in the history of black comedy. The pacing of everything that happened was credible within the rules of the show and most importantly it caught me completely off guard in a good way.

People will talk about that ending for years, it is definitely one of the best I have ever seen.

[Lock Jaw]

Started in on the final season of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

[Destor]

Started in on the final season of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Ive got 4 eps left. Great show.

[Lock Jaw]

Such a stellar cast of characters. Getting ready to be "devastated" at never getting to see any big group scenes again.

[Destor]

I really want a series box set for this show. The writing, the cinematography, set designs, wardrobe, the cast, and some of the best oners ever put on the silver screen...i really like to own it

[Evil Vito]

Watched the Ted Lasso finale. Feeling emotional.

[Lock Jaw]

I really want a series box set for this show. The writing, the cinematography, set designs, wardrobe, the cast, and some of the best oners ever put on the silver screen...i really like to own it

Just watched 3 episodes in a row..... episodes are like 50+ minutes but always seem to just fly by and at the end it is like "Aw, it's over already?"

[Ol Dirty Dastard]

Ive got 4 eps left. Great show.

how do you feel about Gilmore Girls?

[Destor]

506 made me cry. Show is ridiculously good.

[Destor]

how do you feel about Gilmore Girls?never seen it. I dont even know what its about. Ive heard good things though

[Lock Jaw]

I think it's about some girls with the surname Gilmore.

[Destor]

I heard it was about some girls who wanted to be fish but they couldnt breathe underwater

[Ol Dirty Dastard]

You just see Gilmore Girls DNA all over Maisel (actors, execution, joke style, dialogue rhythm, etc.). Maisel is much funnier and better acted with a far superior premise with a broader appeal. But Gilmore Girls has its charm if you get over the fact it's written for 15-year-old girls and their moms.

Maisel's final season was fulfilling, with some (expected) bumps along the way. I'll say more when Destor is done because I don't want to spoil anything.

[Seanny One Ball]

Gilmore Girls is a fag show

[Ol Dirty Dastard]

Like you said, Seanny, I know who I am.

[Ol Dirty Dastard]

(a fag)

[Ol Dirty Dastard]

Join the ranks! Embrace your inner cocker sucker and know true happiness!

[Seanny One Ball]

There was a less gay but still very gay show called “Being Erica” that women also mistakenly believed to be intelligently written. Her brother got bummed by a whole fraternity.

[Seanny One Ball]

They could bring it back as “Being Erica’s Brother” and every episode is another frat guy going all “The Accused” on him with a broom handle.
It would still have a higher laugh count than the Gilmore Girls.

[Ol Dirty Dastard]

Yeah I wouldn’t say Gilmore girls is all that funny. It definitely tries to be but is too lost in its quirk/butthole. I think I just like it because of the heart and the world building. Plus I have a soft spot for the shows of that era.

[Ol Dirty Dastard]

I also like Lauren Graham. Again, not super funny, but she's charming and self-assured as a performer.

[Seanny One Ball]

She was alright in Bad Santa but that’s about it. She even sucked in Curb.

[Seanny One Ball]

The only shows from that time that matter are sitcoms, Oz and The Sopranos.

Grounded For Life was underrated!

[Ol Dirty Dastard]

Yes! Grounded for Life! Holy shit I totally forgot that show existed.

[Ol Dirty Dastard]

Also Curb existed in that time period. It’s that old. I think it started in 2002.

[Seanny One Ball]

Curb started in 1999 with a special, probably served as a pilot for the show which started in 2000.

[Seanny One Ball]

I think I started watching it around ‘04, pretty sure I was out of school.
It’s essentially the same character as Alan Partridge, cultural differences aside. It’s hard not to see the influence, in fact that’s how my mate sold the show to me.

[XL]

The only shows from that time that matter are sitcoms, Oz and The Sopranos.

Grounded For Life was underrated!

I’d add X-Files to that.

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Buffy, you bastards.

[Destor]

I watch buffy once every year or two.

[Ol Dirty Dastard]

Buffy bordered on appointment-watching in the late 90s.

[Seanny One Ball]

Buffy was pretty good for a few seasons. The ensemble got too big for my liking though.

Wonder what the guy that played Xander is up to these days…

[Seanny One Ball]

Well that wasn’t surprising but it was quite a sad little Wiki search. That guy is going to get sober and then suddenly drop dead.

The best “I wonder what that guy is up to now?” searches were the gay cop in The Shield and half sack from Sons Of Anarchy. Nutters.

[Ol Dirty Dastard]

Lol poor xander

[Ol Dirty Dastard]

Yeah things haven’t been good for Nicholas Brendon.

[Lock Jaw]

One episode left to go in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

Won't be able to watch it until Tuesday though....

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Buffy was pretty good for a few seasons. The ensemble got too big for my liking though.

Wonder what the guy that played Xander is up to these days…

Buffy suffers from what a lot of top TV shows succumb to: the first three seasons are gold, and then the decline sets in and is terminal.

[Destor]

Buffy suffers from what a lot of top TV shows succumb to: the first three seasons are gold, and then the decline sets in and is terminal.
Strongly disagree. The highschool era is definitely great but 5 and 6 are the best 2 seasons of the show. Marti Noxon taking over as show runner for season 4 while Joss worked on Firefly left it in shambles (but s4 has some real high points Emmy nominated "Hush," Spike being the funniest character on television and Anya's fear of bunnies in Fear Itself.)

Season 7 however has about 5 quality episodes. Namely Conversations with Dead People (featuring Pedro Pascal,) Him (as funny as any Buffy ep,) Slefless, Lies My Parents Told Me, and The Killer in Me. Its a mess of a season.

But the show kicks it into its 2nd phase when they leave high school and maybe you prefer it but the idea that the spike years are "downhill" is just ridiculous. Anya > Cordy as the hapless comic relief and Spike > Angel as the towns vampire we dont stake. Season 5, despite Dawn is the strongest written season complete with the most powerful 42 minutes ever put to TV with The Body and s6 is is the funniest season as a whole with what most people consider the best big bad outside of s2.

tl;dr dems fighten werds

[Destor]

But as far as best buffy seasons if anyone picked 2,3,5 or 6 i really couldnt give any push back on any of them. All 4 are extremely excellent.

[Destor]

Now my pick for best season is s5 of Angel but thats a whole other conversation...

[Destor]

Oh! S7 also has Storyteller. Great ep.

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

The latter seasons of Buffy are still watchable, and as you pointed out there are quality episodes, but for me there is something lacking.

Spike is always glorious.

[Seanny One Ball]

I just spent good time trying to pinpoint when I stopped watching it and it was pretty much the moment Marc Blucas showed up. He played some muscular action man and I’m sure Buffy beats him up before they fuck or some shit.

Whatever… every show like that is just trying to be Kolchak again.

[Destor]

Buffy rant inbound:

Buffy couldve had 4 reasonable end points across its run.

The 1st is the s1 finale. Season 1 was low budget Californian spin on the classic monster tropes. And season 1 had a fully realised narrative that wrapped the plot and all subplots up with a bow. Had it not gotten picked up for a second season that wouldve been a perfectly good ending.

But it did get picked up and good for me that it did. The next two seasons are the peak of the shows ratings and are the rest of the high school run. By the end of season 2 all the remaining classic horror monsters had been used save Dracula and the romeo and juliette arc had been fully played out to wonderfullytragic ends. S3 really devles into the interpersonal relationships in the biggest way yet and becomes the blueprint for the rest of the series in many ways. When its all said and done Angel leaves the series and highschool comes to an end.

"Oz: Guys. Take a moment to deal with this. We survived.

Buffy: ..It was a hell of a battle.

Oz: Not the battle... High School."

And right there you couldve ended the series. I think a lot of people did even before the s4 struggles. Buffy for them was a highschool drama and in that vein it had ran its course. S3 has some outstanding episodes though one of my favorites being The Zeppo. Always look forward to seeing it come around when i do a rewatch. Top 10 ep for me easy.

Season 4 definitely lost a lot of viewers, Seanny included. Martin Noxons military antagonists clashed against the freedom of the themes the college setting provided and the scripts and new chracters were over all pretty weak. Spike and Anya are what hold the season together though. Theyre never not funny. And The Yokko Factor is peak interpersonal conflict. The final 10 min is just outstanding. Worth the seaspn build up for that alone.

The show survived and got to its next potential ending, and in my opinion the best ending outside of season 1, which season 1 is pretty objectively is the most tightly written. As fan though s5 is the most satisfying. This marked the end of the shows run on the WB so killing your protagonist before jumping networks is a pretty ballsy play. But s5 has some really high highs. The Dawn character gets some flack but she occupies very little screen time and any season that has something as powerful as The Body, the most grueling 44 minutes ever aired on network TV, cant be bad. And out of the 22 eps theres some real bangers. 12 classic eps at minimum. Oh we finally get Dracula.

The UPN seasons have the 4th ending and its the worst potential ending out of any of them but im getting ahead of myself. Season 6 is a fucking master piece. It has the longest hot streak of top tier eps in the series. It juggles, and satisfies like 5 subplots built across the season and has a climax on par with anything in the run. All the while being incredibly funny. Plus Buffy fucks a building to rubble. Cmon.

Season 7 is a convoluted mess. Its has some cool shit though. Nathon Fillion as Caleb is just fucking aces. "I aint done with you yet...bitch." is one of my favorite villain moments ever. And what happens next is one of my favorite hero moments ever. Principle Wood is the series first top tier new character in years, maybe since Anya all the way back in season 3 really. But ultimately its too busy and unfocused. The overarching plot being about all women instead of the gang detracts from the comradery thats been the core of the show up until this point. Oh! Andrew is great. Theres a new character from s6 that works out great. Fuck the whole Trio is just aces cant believe i skipped over them.

Anyhow looked at from a distance the show reinvents itself multiple times across its run and is very distinct from itself. I think thats to its benefit. Season 7 sucks because well it wasnt meant to be the last season and SMG said she was done so they just had to make it work but i think the show was getting better and better the further away they got from being a teen highschool drama. Which isnt to say i dont love the highschool seasons because i really love those 3 seasons.

This is all to say nothing of Angel which i also think got better as it went on with season 1 being VERY meh and s5 crushing all the other 11 buffyverse seasons pretty easily. A Whole in the World alone...fuck...so good. Smile Time... anyways before i get distracted thats a whole other rant..and honestly there's not much id reather talk about at length than buffy the vampire slayer.

[Destor]

Finished Maisel. Its perfect. I wont go further until lockjaw finishes it but yeah. Loved it.

[Ol Dirty Dastard]

There was one ep that didn’t land for me and it was the roast (I know LJ was that far). Like there were things that were fun about it but it came across like “we can’t tie these loose ends up so let’s tie them all up in one episode that doesn’t require any real cohesiveness.”

I loved the finale tho.

[Ol Dirty Dastard]

The guest cast for the roast almost made up for the fact that the episode was a total cop out.

[Destor]

I thought that was the best episode of the entire series

[Destor]

You arent hearing what happened. You're hearing the legend of what happened. Everyone is an unreliable narrator. So it gives the audience a window into what would've been 20 seasons to work through but it also lets the stories be ridiculous and as funny as they need to be to suit the moment. Excellent narrative device.

[Ol Dirty Dastard]

Just didn't do it for me. Good performances but lazy writing.

[Destor]

On top of the various casting choices (shout out to Danny Strong aka Jonathan from Buffy) the emotional core of the ep is such a peak. The falling out in the synagogue with Midge and Susie is the most well acted scene in the series AND the resolution with the video at the end got me pretty good. Just loved it.

[Destor]

Just didn't do it for me. Good performances but lazy writing.Strongly disagree on that 2nd part

[Ol Dirty Dastard]

Excellent narrative device.

It was more device than an episode of television.

[Destor]

We atleast agree the finale was great.and it was.

[Destor]

It was more device than an episode of television.
I dont see narrative devices as dirty words. But ok.

[Ol Dirty Dastard]

i liked the penultimate episode too. The scene with Abe at the table with his cohorts was captivating.

[Destor]

Tony Shalhoub could easily win an emmy for it

[Ol Dirty Dastard]

I dont see narrative devices as dirty words. But ok.

They aren't but they have to jive. I didn't feel it jiving. Felt more like jamming together non-fitting puzzle pieces.

I imagine ASP wanted to do that episode to build the legend of Susie and had it in mind for a while. But it was overegged pudding, IMO.

it's funny because that's basically the only episode of the entire run i didn't care for lol. Maybe i'll watch it down the line and feel differently.

[Destor]

To each their own. I could defend it but we'd be arguing over taste. I think it was very satisfying inside the confines of how the narrative was being doled out all season and it served to set up the final scene of the series and it managed to be extremely funny and having moments of peak sadness and tears of catharsis all inside 50ish minutes. It really blew me away with how tightly written it was.


You shouldn't be able to pull all that off inside 1 hour of tv. And you say they didnt, so fair enough. If i were to nominate an ep for this season to win the emmy, it would be that ep and that scene from the synagogue if the scene id send in.

[Ol Dirty Dastard]

Yeah I wouldn't begrudge anyone for liking it. TBH I'd prefer you did. It's a great show and i'd hope people love all the eps even when i didn't. The cast and crew deserve it.

[Destor]

I REALLY want a box set

[BCWWF]

PBS, currently

[rez]

Buddy that lives down in Austin got to see the first 2 eps of S3 TRG. He usually doesn't get pumped for shows but said they're fucking hilarious.


(The Righteous Gemstones Season 3, Episodes 1 and 2 @ ATX TV Festival)

[Lock Jaw]

Finished up Mrs. Maisel

Definitely "teared up" a little during her final performance and when she got invited to the couch after.

Was also very touched @ Abe's storyline of finally realizing his daughter was amazing and being proud of her. The restaurant scene in the penultimate episode was incredible, and then just the recognition that Midge finally gets from him in the final episode is great. And of course the scene where Abe and Rose chase taxis is just hilarious.

Also enjoyed Moishe and Shirley's final scene together where they explain the shower mishap. Was a weird choice not to have Moishe in the final performance studio audience... I guess just one last little joke about how the Maisels are just weird unreliable people... but I would have rather had him present.

Weighing in on the roast episode... I definitely get where Dale is coming from and I tend to lean more in his direction than Destor. I liked the episode but it did feel a bit too much "let's wrap up all these future plot threads we set up".

But on the other hand it set the stage for the wonderful final scene of the series with old Midge and Susie watching TV together on the phone.

[Destor]

Obviously theyre putting a bow on everything but the question is is it a satisfying way to do it. I say its emphatically very satisfying. Instead of pulling the story away from the focus to tie up the 10 or so side characters they weave the central arc into several side arcs AND its not bogged down by tedious exposition.

Its as sharp and punchy as the rest of the show. With some of the higest drama in the series. Im all for it. Most shows wouldve given an episode to each side plot and then crammed our protagonist into 3 ep arc. Thats lazy writing. This was clever, fresh and economic. I dont see the negative.

[Ol Dirty Dastard]

what's most important is it was super weird watching Frank from Succession in Maisel.

[Seanny One Ball]

Where are all the straight guys at

[Destor]

Posting on Instagram probably

[Seanny One Ball]

Those are just confusing gay guys. Everything is so hard to identify nowadays.

Trannies are the fools gold of the sexual spectrum. Nobody wants it really, but some people will keep it once they have sunk the cost.

[Seanny One Ball]

Hmmm, the lyrics to “I Wanna Be Adored” are more accurate than “Fool’s Gold” if you want to apply that crack to the music of The Stone Roses.

I don't have to sell my soul
He's already in me

[Seanny One Ball]

Is he in you like Elliot Page was in Ellen Page all along, or is he in you like when your bike seat snaps off and you try to ride it anyway?

[Ol Dirty Dastard]

All this complaining about gay guys makes me think Seanny doth protest too much.

Just admit it, you're one of us.

[Ol Dirty Dastard]

At the very least I'd like to think I've infected you with the gay.

[Seanny One Ball]

Calling everybody and everything gay is the most woke thing anybody could ever do.

Full circle, unlike gay bottoms.

[Ol Dirty Dastard]

go woke, go broke(n butthole).

[Evil Vito]

Set my DVR to record the new episodes of Always Sunny that start tonight, and I already cracked up at the name of the second one.

[Lock Jaw]

Didn't even know it was happening until I saw my recordings just now. Just watched the first episode.

Nearly died laughing at Mac and his nuts

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

I've finished all three seasons of the Australian comedy-drama, Mr. Inbetween, which revolves around a free-lance hitman, as he juggles his criminal and family lives.

It's simple and doesn't break any new ground, but it's done so well. The series is the best show I've seen in awhile. I'll have to go back to the bollocks that is La Brea until I discover something else.

[Evil Vito]

I doubt I'll be keeping Peacock once the free version goes away for Xfinity customers in a couple of weeks. So I've watched half of Bupkis and I find it the perfect type of off-the-rails.

I didn't know I needed to see a coked up Bobby Cannavale singing "My Sacrifice" in a child's face until I saw it.

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Finished season 2 of La Brea. What a load of bollocks.

I'm currently in the middle of re-watching Arcane. Fuck, this series is fantastic.

I'm also in the early stages of watching season 3 of The Great. It remains entertaining, but they have toned down the more bonkers aspects of the series, which is to its detriment.

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Over the past couple of days I've zoomed through the 8-part Netflix documentary on the Tour de France, which centres around the 2022 edition of the tour.

I thought the series ran out of steam once it got into the final couple of episodes, but otherwise I found it quite interesting. I don't think you need to be a fan of the tour to appreciate the series and the stories it tells. I didn't know that a few years prior to coming to prominence, Jonas Vingegaard (winner of the 2022 tour) was working in a fish packing warehouse; looked like a bleak existence to spend the next 30-40+ years of your life living.

[rez]

Just finished the first episode of the new Black Mirrors. Great ep

[rez]

holy shit. ep 2 is fucking the best episode of tv i've watched this year.

[rez]

trying to milk these out. time to watch the season premiere of the righteous gemstones

[rez]

nm. doesn't premiere until 10pm eastern. wtf

[Lock Jaw]

Me after watching the first episode of the new Black Mirror season

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[Lock Jaw]

Been also watching Star Trek: TNG after finishing TOS.... "Whoa" @ this first season episode that I have no memory of that ended with Picard and Riker phasering a dude until his face melted, his head exploded, then his chest burst open and a big Alien-esque parasite/worm popped out of it........ that's pretty hardcore for Star Trek, especially TNG.

[Lock Jaw]

holy shit. ep 2 is fucking the best episode of tv i've watched this year.

Just finished episode 2, was good, but not better than episode 1 by any stretch

[Seanny One Ball]

I watched episode three “Beyond The Sea”. One of the best ever episodes, felt like Charlie Brooker taking the piss out of Hollywood by mimicking and surpassing Hollywood endings.

Unforgiving stuff but funny that even Brooker knows Aaron Paul must cry.

[Fignuts]

New season of The Righteous Gemstones.

Amen.

[Seanny One Ball]

Watching “Centennial” a 1978 tv series about the history of a fictional town in Colorado which starts in the late 1700’s up until the 1970’s.
I’m only two episodes in but they are film-length so I’ll try to watch one a night. It’s good stuff, Robert Conrad and Richard Chamberlain play fur trappers that deal with the native population in the opening episodes and a very young Stephen McHattie appears momentarily too.

So far it’s classic fare in that they are fully PG in the sex and violence but ruthlessly glib about massacres, bigotry and generally distasteful attitudes. Basically you will see violence but it will be pretty unrealistic yet garnished with some breathtaking nastiness or worse, apathy.

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

I'll have to check this series out.

Of course, Seanny my boy, you still need to watch Jewel in the Crown.

[Seanny One Ball]

I’m too wrapped up in Westerns now. I should never have broken the seal, now I can’t stop.

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

I guess Doctor Quinn: Medicine Woman and the the 90's Magnificent Seven series, with Ron Perlman and Michael Biehn, are also on your to watch list?

[Seanny One Ball]

One was bad with a big budget, one was bad without.
So no.

[Seanny One Ball]

I’m really enjoying “Centennial” so far. A Mennonite kissed a girl and got accused of rape so now he is being shunned. Lad just bought a wagon, no doubt he will flee to pioneer the plains or something.

[Lock Jaw]

I watched episode three “Beyond The Sea”. One of the best ever episodes, felt like Charlie Brooker taking the piss out of Hollywood by mimicking and surpassing Hollywood endings.

Unforgiving stuff but funny that even Brooker knows Aaron Paul must cry.

Just watched this one, was incredible but devastating.

[Seanny One Ball]

More episodes need Culkins

[drave]

1883 - 3 episodes in and I don't wanna stop.


Tremendous.

[Seanny One Ball]

I’ll go to my grave racing about the brilliance of that series. I tried to get into “Yellowstone” after I finished it but it’s just not the same.

Sam Elliot has never had a finer role.

[Seanny One Ball]

I think it was episode 2 or 3 where he had a speech about gunfire cutting down forests that stole the show. Top class.

[drave]

Yes! Heard that one last night and COT DAYUM son.....


“During the war, we fought a battle at this place called ‘The Wilderness,’ because there was nothin’ around but the wilderness. I fired my rifle so many times it melted. Just drooped like rotten fruit. So I killed with my pistol. And when I ran out of bullets I killed with my sword. And when my sword broke I killed with my boots and bare hands. When the battle was over and I looked behind me, the wilderness was gone. Not a tree left standing; chopped down chest high by bullets. We killed five-thousand men that day. When I say killing you means nothing to me, I mean it. Killing you means nothing.”

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Finished Amazon's Citadel.

A derivative spy show kept afloat by Stanley Tucci's charisma and Priyanka Chopra's pouty lips.

I still need to finish the last 4-5 eps of season 3 The Great, but we've got new Witcher and Jack Ryan coming out over the next couple of days.

[rez]

I watched episode three “Beyond The Sea”. One of the best ever episodes, felt like Charlie Brooker taking the piss out of Hollywood by mimicking and surpassing Hollywood endings.

Unforgiving stuff but funny that even Brooker knows Aaron Paul must cry.

[rez]

Kudos to Seanny for not drooling over the Loch Henry episode. Scott!

[Seanny One Ball]

Scott is a surname, not a nationality

[Ol Dirty Dastard]

Warrior got uncancelled on HBO. Gotta watch Ep1 of season 3 after I remember wtf happened in the previous 2 seasons.

[Destor]

Finishing black mirror today. Ep4 was dog shit.

[Seanny One Ball]

I looked at the synopsis of each episode and only episode 3 sounded remotely entertaining. Based on what I did see of the others I’m not sure if changing the theme is a great idea this far into the game, it’s not like horror offers more than science fiction does for a writer and you can see Brooker struggles with it as a genre because his best episode is sci-fi in disguise.

Just remake “Solaris”, Charlie. Everybody else has had a go.

[Destor]

If you want "red mirror" to be a thing just make a spin off.

[Seanny One Ball]

I’d like a “Red Shoe Diaries” remake done in a similar style.