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I'm always unexcited about spinoff shows. Almost none of them pan out. Saul was great in small doses and I have no desire for a full-on dose. I suppose we'll see.
Mankind's only chance is to harness the power of stupid.
Has anyone else watched Gotham? It's pretty good. My only gripe is the obviousness of the support characters so early on in the series. I guess it's for wider appeal.
Has anyone else watched Gotham? It's pretty good. My only gripe is the obviousness of the support characters so early on in the series. I guess it's for wider appeal.
I've been watching but it pisses me off that they introduced about 90% of all Batman characters within the first episode. The only franchise worse than this is Star Wars which apparently CANNOT tell a story anywhere or any time in that universe without R2-D2 in it. And C-3PO, Chewbacca, Bobo Fett (or his relatives) and anyone else they can manage to make excuses enough to squeeze into the "plot".
When will people realise that the point of spin offs is to expand a universe that people love and want to see more of? Not yet another f****** rehash of everything we've all seen two dozen times already!
I have plenty of more important things to do, if only I could bring myself to do them....
I've been watching but it pisses me off that they introduced about 90% of all Batman characters within the first episode. The only franchise worse than this is Star Wars which apparently CANNOT tell a story anywhere or any time in that universe without R2-D2 in it. And C-3PO, Chewbacca, Bobo Fett (or his relatives) and anyone else they can manage to make excuses enough to squeeze into the "plot".
When will people realise that the point of spin offs is to expand a universe that people love and want to see more of? Not yet another f****** rehash of everything we've all seen two dozen times already!
Pretty much what I was getting at, with slightly more rage.
I'm enjoying Gotham, but you're right, there's a little too many stories in the fire at once. I do like that it's more Jim Gordon's story than young Bruce, who frankly, would be boring if we focussed too much on his mopey self.
Donal Logue, guy playing Gordon's sleazy partner is awesome, I like him in everything, so it's odd to see him as a kind of bad guy. Well, not good guy. We shall see.
Finished watching Breaking Bad. It really was a great show, and for me the ending was perfect. I'll watch something... shorter, next. Rather than another multi series marathon. Probably True Detective.
Waded through the first two seasons of Sons of Anarchy over the past couple months, and likely will not go further. It's okay - many enjoyable moments. But it leans far too heavily on highly contrived plot situations and plot twists, and annoying episode-to-episode plot devices.
It really tries to straddle the line between the traditional episode-based TV show (where almost every episode has its own little stand-alone arc and there's a New Event, Characters React, Plot Twist, Solution, Ending), and the new long-form style where the overall plot and character arc blends pretty seamlessly between episodes. Because of this there's lots of seemingly pointless introduction and then disappearance of events or characters, just to create a bit of plot tension for one particular episode. And (at least by the end of S2) no one has yet to provide a decent explanation for why gangs seem to be interested in fighting over the shitty little town of Charming specifically.
Overall it got pretty tiring (exhausting, almost) by the end of the second season. I asked around and friends said that my complaints aren't really addressed in later seasons, and so I figured I would do what I didn't have the sense to do with Dexter, and drop it before I got too far in.
Mankind's only chance is to harness the power of stupid.
It seems like they want to make it their signature move to get an unexpected performance out of an underrated actor by throwing them in an unlikely role. I hear Colin Farrell is next up. Should be interesting.
I have plenty of more important things to do, if only I could bring myself to do them....
I don't know about that. Matthew McConaughey, Woody Harrelson, Michelle Monaghan...? That's about as All-Star a cast as any TV show could hope for. Maybe 3 or 4 years ago McConaughey's performance might have been a surprise, but we found out a while ago that he actually has this range.
Well, Boardwalk Empire is finally over. See: my above comment about getting out while I still have the chance. What a beautiful but thoroughly mediocre show; it amazes me that to the last, the showrunners somehow thought that Nucky Thompson was actually why anyone was watching Boardwalk Empire. The least interesting character in the entire cast, and from beginning to end they refused to let any of the infinitely better supporting characters get some well-deserved attention. So puzzling...such a waste of time.
Mankind's only chance is to harness the power of stupid.
I don't know about that. Matthew McConaughey, Woody Harrelson, Michelle Monaghan...? That's about as All-Star a cast as any TV show could hope for. Maybe 3 or 4 years ago McConaughey's performance might have been a surprise, but we found out a while ago that he actually has this range.
I think I saw True Detective before Dallas Buyers Club. Until recently has had a somewhat lightweight reputation.
Naw, he got rightfully pigeonholed during his terrible aughts run, but it's like he flicked a switch as soon as the decade ended. Since 2010 everything he's done has been really solid.
Mankind's only chance is to harness the power of stupid.
Finally on board with Breaking Bad (way late to the party, I know) and holy shit, what an amazing thing. :blink:
"I have a dream, that my four little children will one day live in a
nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin,
but by the content of their character." - M.L.King Jr
Does anybody watch Hell on Wheels? I'm on season 2, but since the pilot episode all I've felt is this is AMC's trying to create it's own Deadwood and failing miserably to have any of the things that made Deadwood great.
My stupid iPhone game: Nesen Probe, it's rather old, annoying and pointless, but it's free.
Was free. Now it's gone. Never to be seen again.
Off to join its brother and sister apps that could not
keep up with the ever updating iOS. RIP Nesen Probe.
The problem with Marco Polo is there's too little Marco Polo in it.
"I have a dream, that my four little children will one day live in a
nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin,
but by the content of their character." - M.L.King Jr
I just tried the search for this and nothing came up, so I'm going to add Broadchurch to the list. I finished on the first series lastnight so that I could start on series 2 which started here this week. Murder investigation into a boy at a seaside town, David Tennant and Olivia Colman are in it. It's on US Netflix.
I haven't seen it but there is an American remake version called Gracepoint, with Tennant as the same character but with an American accent. Apparently its not as good as the original.
My stupid iPhone game: Nesen Probe, it's rather old, annoying and pointless, but it's free.
Was free. Now it's gone. Never to be seen again.
Off to join its brother and sister apps that could not
keep up with the ever updating iOS. RIP Nesen Probe.
Are we talking about the same show? I guess it's a matter of opinion, to each their own.
Hah - exactly. I personally found the show to be fairly polarizing - as in very critical viewers didn't like it at all, whereas friends who were casual viewers seemed to enjoy it. (As might be obvious from this thread, I`m in the former camp. )
That became particularly obvious after I looked up online reviews. Marco Polo was excoriated by "critics", but Joe Public seems to have enjoyed it. In fact on the Rotten Tomatoes page, I see that it has a brutal 27% critics score but a 93% audience rating.
I really think it was a terrible show - at least from the 5 or 6 episodes I watched before I couldn`t take it any longer. But obviously many people must have liked it.
Mankind's only chance is to harness the power of stupid.
My stupid iPhone game: Nesen Probe, it's rather old, annoying and pointless, but it's free.
Was free. Now it's gone. Never to be seen again.
Off to join its brother and sister apps that could not
keep up with the ever updating iOS. RIP Nesen Probe.
I can't believe nobody has mentioned Sense8! I was very skeptical at first, because the idea behind the serious sounded a bit odd, but after watching it, I think it's genius — pure, unadulterated genius. I watched it before I knew that the Wachoskys banded together with JMS, and after finding out JMS was involved, I was extremely happy. Especially for Netflix and its worldwide audience, the series is just such a great fit.
I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it.
"I have a dream, that my four little children will one day live in a
nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin,
but by the content of their character." - M.L.King Jr
Sense8.......I can't do it, I just can't give the Wachowskis another chance. They don't deserve it.
The praise is coming from someone who loathed their last movie, Jupiter Ascending. Hated that thing. According to what I have read, JMS has prepared a 5-season story arc, and that's what is leaving me hopeful about the prospects of the series beyond season 1.
I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it.
I mean.....every reviewer that I would trust seems to think that Sense8 is utterly and brilliantly insane in its ambition, and also utterly, completely terrible.
There are people who really like their approach to filmmaking. I personally think the original Matrix is the only movie they have ever made that could be characterized as something better than "good" (and it was truly great, however damaged by what came later); I consider every other project they have made to be "bad". So you may want to add salt appropriately given my objectively hater status.
Everything I have heard about Sense8 suggests it's their standard M.O, but even more insane. I fold!
Mankind's only chance is to harness the power of stupid.
I mean.....every reviewer that I would trust seems to think that Sense8 is utterly and brilliantly insane in its ambition, and also utterly, completely terrible.
Their Rotten Tomatoes score is 70 % with an audience score of 92 %, that's quite good I think (although I don't claim Rotten Tomatoes is the only meaningful measure of quality). The series takes 2-3 episodes until you can keep track of all the main characters (there are 10~12 of them, so that makes things harder on the audience initially), but I can tell you that I enjoy the series on multiple levels: Just the atmosphere and the conflicts (such as HIV and fake medication in Africa, being transgender, dealing with the loss of loved ones, alcoholism, violence, lavish Indian weddings, the role of women in South Korea) are worth it by themselves IMHO. Some tiny pieces which decorate the plot are just amazing, e. g. when one of the male characters experiences the period of another (female) character. It's still too early to tell whether the overarching story that delves into the background will make sense or not. The first season just focuses on the characters coming to grips with each others presences.
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I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it.
I am excited to see what Show Me A Hero will turn out to be. I've got the first two episodes to watch.
I've also been enjoying Mr Robot and Halt and Catch Fire.
The Brink is pretty good so far. The Strain is actually getting better; the first season, in fact the first couple episodes, it was pretty boilerplate but it has started to grow a bit.
Possibly the single most un trendy, un nerdy. Un fashionable show in Netflix. BUT... just love Miss Fishers Murder Mysteries. Australian show set in 1920s Melbourne. Straightforward murder of the week but the characters are so brilliantly written and played by a cast that is just spot on. So not brain food but glorious TV.
This space for Hire! Reasonable rates. Reach an audience of literally dozens!
I'm really looking forward to this series. Halloween cannot come soon enough.
First episode was ****ing awesome! Definitely good to have Ash back. Had some great laughs and some genuine creepy moments. Seems like they may be ignoring Army of Darkness, though, as Ash didn't mention the events from that movie when he was talking about his past.
'The Man In The High Castle' on Amazon Prime. Based on a Philip K Dick book, set in 1960s America if Germany/Japan won WW2. 2 episodes so far, the rest of the series is released later this month. Good stuff so far.
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