It gets even better. And yeah, it's not really a pleasant show, but I think it's still an important one. How far in are you?
At Kal-Elk's recommendation I started watching Top of the Lake and I have to say, it's one of the most unsettling shows I've ever seen. Brilliant so far.
MicroMissles, November 10, 2013, 01:22:05 pm
I'm only on episode 2. But every single conversation up to this point has been awkward and tense. Especially conversations that involve the Mitchams.Oh shit, it hasn't even started to get tense yet. Well, obviously it has, but not like it will. I'm excited you're watching it, though! I thought it was one of the better shows I've seen.
MicroMissles, November 10, 2013, 01:48:52 pm
I've been binge-watching Leverage, and I just love it. It's a great mix between comedy and drama, with some great humor backed up with some serious and sometimes tearjerking moments.So, I enjoyed watching Leverage quite a bit, but... you understand it's crap, right? I mean, it's fun crap, but... okay, let me set the stage for you.
Locclo, November 11, 2013, 02:52:42 am
what the fuckI've been binge-watching Leverage, and I just love it. It's a great mix between comedy and drama, with some great humor backed up with some serious and sometimes tearjerking moments.So, I enjoyed watching Leverage quite a bit, but... you understand it's crap, right? I mean, it's fun crap, but... okay, let me set the stage for you.
Locclo, November 11, 2013, 02:52:42 am
In one episode, The Bad Guys are Monsanto. The Good Guy is a perky young woman who invented a potato which is better at being a potato. I think the hacker character describes it as "The iPhone of potatoes". Monsanto doesn't like this, because this woman's potato will single-handedly solve world hunger and therefore eat into their profits, so they want to confiscate the potato.
So an Escalade pulls out, and a stern looking businesswoman climbs out with two toughs in black suits behind her. The businesswoman explains to nice scientist that her potato was grown with Monsanto pesticides and is therefore Monsanto property. One of the toughs barges into her house and finds a potato and brings it to the businesswoman, who then puts it one of those silver briefcases with an indentation in the foam for the potato! They leave, triumphant.
Lemon, November 12, 2013, 12:55:34 am
I've been binge-watching Leverage, and I just love it. It's a great mix between comedy and drama, with some great humor backed up with some serious and sometimes tearjerking moments.So, I enjoyed watching Leverage quite a bit, but... you understand it's crap, right? I mean, it's fun crap, but... okay, let me set the stage for you.
Locclo, November 11, 2013, 02:52:42 am
In one episode, The Bad Guys are Monsanto. The Good Guy is a perky young woman who invented a potato which is better at being a potato. I think the hacker character describes it as "The iPhone of potatoes". Monsanto doesn't like this, because this woman's potato will single-handedly solve world hunger and therefore eat into their profits, so they want to confiscate the potato.
So an Escalade pulls out, and a stern looking businesswoman climbs out with two toughs in black suits behind her. The businesswoman explains to nice scientist that her potato was grown with Monsanto pesticides and is therefore Monsanto property. One of the toughs barges into her house and finds a potato and brings it to the businesswoman, who then puts it one of those silver briefcases with an indentation in the foam for the potato! They leave, triumphant.
Lemon, November 12, 2013, 12:55:34 am
I've been binge-watching Leverage, and I just love it. It's a great mix between comedy and drama, with some great humor backed up with some serious and sometimes tearjerking moments.So, I enjoyed watching Leverage quite a bit, but... you understand it's crap, right? I mean, it's fun crap, but... okay, let me set the stage for you.
Locclo, November 11, 2013, 02:52:42 am
In one episode, The Bad Guys are Monsanto. The Good Guy is a perky young woman who invented a potato which is better at being a potato. I think the hacker character describes it as "The iPhone of potatoes". Monsanto doesn't like this, because this woman's potato will single-handedly solve world hunger and therefore eat into their profits, so they want to confiscate the potato.
So an Escalade pulls out, and a stern looking businesswoman climbs out with two toughs in black suits behind her. The businesswoman explains to nice scientist that her potato was grown with Monsanto pesticides and is therefore Monsanto property. One of the toughs barges into her house and finds a potato and brings it to the businesswoman, who then puts it one of those silver briefcases with an indentation in the foam for the potato! They leave, triumphant.
Lemon, November 12, 2013, 12:55:34 am
Leverage is what most good genre TV is, for me-- unabashed in its ridiculousness. Yeah, it's silly and probably rubbish from a critical standpoint, but it's fun and worth enjoying unironically.
But I hate most serious genre shows, so my tastes are skewed towards things that wear their humor on their sleeves.
sherlockian, November 12, 2013, 01:18:55 pm
Also supernatural is not a show with good depictions of women, if that's a thing you care about. iirc one of the leads called the show "gratuitously misogynistic" which is enough for me to give it a pass.
kal-elk, November 12, 2013, 07:34:19 pm
I haven't heard too much about Sleepy Hollow; I'll definitely make the time to check it out. I tried to get into Once Upon A Time on multiple peoples' recommendations but it didnt really work for me. I can see how it would for other people, though!Also supernatural is not a show with good depictions of women, if that's a thing you care about. iirc one of the leads called the show "gratuitously misogynistic" which is enough for me to give it a pass.
kal-elk, November 12, 2013, 07:34:19 pm
For the record, if that's something that you care about and you still aren't watching Sleepy Hollow, the main female characters are all bad ass (and also the cast is predominantly people of color, and Amandla Stenberg, who played Rue in The Hunger Games last year, is set to play Orlando Jones' daughter.)
On Topic: I love Once Upon A Time despite it's horrible cheesiness, awful depiction of the way adoption works, heavy reliance on Disney, and general melodrama. The plot is just weirdly engaging enough for me to be entertained, and certain of the characters are really fascinating.
Same with Once Upon a Time In Wonderland, although the first episode's timeline is beyond confusing. It also doesn't lean heavily on family dynamics as plot points, so if you dislike family melodrama, Wonderland's probably more up your alley. Also, Naveen Andrews is playing Jafar.
sherlockian, November 13, 2013, 01:43:25 am
On Topic: I love Once Upon A Time despite it's horrible cheesiness, awful depiction of the way adoption works, heavy reliance on Disney, and general melodrama.Oh hey, what's up fellow Once fan!
sherlockian, November 13, 2013, 01:43:25 am
"My hair is turning white from fear. Yeah. I read on the internet that's possible."
I got started watching American Horror Story and it is cheese of the highest caliber. It'd be an amazing show if it knew how cliche it was and rolled with it, but as it is it's kind of just silly and dumb and up its own ass a bit. (Example: the pilot episode establishes a troubled couple with a distant daughter moving to a new creepy house with a magical down's syndrome girl living next door where the realtor selling them the house is legally obligated to tell them that the last owners killed themselves in a murder-suicide pact, and the distant girl thinks that's 'cool'. The girl also smokes at school and gets into a fight with the popular girls first thing, plus she cuts herself.
One of the scenes in an episode made me think it was some 70's gay porn parody. I mean, the guy literally said "that's not what your dick is saying," but no, that was supposed to be a really serious flashback to a hate crime.
In five episodes I haven't been remotely scared, though I have laughed out loud and did a spit take once or twice.
Also the dialogue is...something. Words. Maybe?"My hair is turning white from fear. Yeah. I read on the internet that's possible."
eta: oh jesus the 'dark' teenage boy just gave the distant daughter a rose he painted black because, "I know you don't like normal things."
EYE OF ZA, December 19, 2013, 12:19:53 am
Fucking SOLD.I've been binge-watching Leverage, and I just love it. It's a great mix between comedy and drama, with some great humor backed up with some serious and sometimes tearjerking moments.So, I enjoyed watching Leverage quite a bit, but... you understand it's crap, right? I mean, it's fun crap, but... okay, let me set the stage for you.
Locclo, November 11, 2013, 02:52:42 am
In one episode, The Bad Guys are Monsanto. The Good Guy is a perky young woman who invented a potato which is better at being a potato. I think the hacker character describes it as "The iPhone of potatoes". Monsanto doesn't like this, because this woman's potato will single-handedly solve world hunger and therefore eat into their profits, so they want to confiscate the potato.
So an Escalade pulls out, and a stern looking businesswoman climbs out with two toughs in black suits behind her. The businesswoman explains to nice scientist that her potato was grown with Monsanto pesticides and is therefore Monsanto property. One of the toughs barges into her house and finds a potato and brings it to the businesswoman, who then puts it one of those silver briefcases with an indentation in the foam for the potato! They leave, triumphant.
Lemon, November 12, 2013, 12:55:34 am
As a follow up to my previous post about American Horror Story, it continues to be hilariously, cartoonishly dumb, and I haven't really seen any horror in it yet.
It's amusing to see how every female character along with the gay male characters are interested in babies. And in the episode I just watched, the gay couple wants to get babies, then kill then when they're one and a half years old, so they'll be 'cute' forever. (Because the house makes you a ghost stuck at the age when you died.)
It's pretty clear based on that scene that no one writing it has ever had children, is female, or known anyone who had children or is female. If you have to spend a literal eternity with a kid maybe try to aim for once they've stopped shitting themselves?
(As a side note, the one non-baby-crazy female character is like that for one episode then immediately gets retconned to being baby crazy.)
eta: By the way "superfetation" comes up so maybe that's where the Butt Ghost episode people learned about it.
EYE OF ZA, December 27, 2013, 10:35:00 am
I can't deny this is kind of making me want to hate-watch it some more. (Not helped by Juice's above reference to Darkplace, which is pretty much what AHS would be if it knew how ridiculous it was.)
TheCrawlingChaos, December 27, 2013, 01:47:42 pm
I can't deny this is kind of making me want to hate-watch it some more. (Not helped by Juice's above reference to Darkplace, which is pretty much what AHS would be if it knew how ridiculous it was.)
TheCrawlingChaos, December 27, 2013, 01:47:42 pm
I'm watching it, but that's because I have nothing else to do while playing Cookie Clicker.
The first season ended with the biggest attempt at horror the show's ever made for about ten minutes when the whole family comes together to scare a new family out of the house. Unfortunately, it still pales in comparison to the horror in such gut-wrenching films as Beetlejuice.
Then the next season starts off by tackling racism. Did you know racism is bad? Well, American Horror Story is going to tell you! A lot! In a really gentle way because they don't want to make anyone uncomfortable.
(The highschool shooter from last season is playing another character this season, and he's married to a black woman who's about as white as you can get.)
e: this season has fucking aliens, I'm going to be so pissed when they turn out to be just ghosts
EYE OF ZA, December 28, 2013, 07:25:10 am
Well. if you don't mind some spoilers for Season 3, according to Tumblr racism has been solved forever by the casting of Angela Basset as an extremely vindictive Marie Laveau who's out to punish the modern descendents of white witches from back in the day for the entirety of slavery, or so I've gathered. I'm taking this with a pinch of salt because Tumblr but it does at least sound interesting. I've always been a fan of the woman in question and as such am considering skipping to Coven just to see if it's any more engaging than Season 1.Luckily the focus of the second season has shifted off of racism. Unfortunately it now falls instead on homophobia in a lesbian-victims sort of sense. That is to say homophobia, Catholicism, rape, child abuse, and Nazi war crimes. I think maybe the writers don't actually know what horror is, so they're just putting in as many uncomfortable things as possible. Plus, due to it trying to be darker, the second season is more shitty Saw-ripoff and less hilariously dumb.
ETA: Zachary Quinto, you are so much better than this. What the hell are you doing.
TheCrawlingChaos, December 28, 2013, 02:19:18 pm
I considered watching AHS, but I've been put off by the promotional posters I keep seeing. I mean, what the fuck is this even supposed to be?
Moriarty, December 28, 2013, 05:31:12 pm
I considered watching AHS, but I've been put off by the promotional posters I keep seeing. I mean, what the fuck is this even supposed to be?
Moriarty, December 28, 2013, 05:31:12 pm
Animal Crossing: it's not a place you want to fuck around.I considered watching AHS, but I've been put off by the promotional posters I keep seeing. I mean, what the fuck is this even supposed to be?
Moriarty, December 28, 2013, 05:31:12 pm
A raccoon.
(https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/7795254784/hFD259B46/)
sherlockian, December 30, 2013, 12:59:07 am
I actually made this as a way to poke fun at the idea of getting cease and desist letters. At the time (October 2006) I had nothing to lose and my original intention was to call this "back to the future: the new official universal studios cartoon featuring the new Doc Brown and Marty McFly" and then I'd just sit back and wait for a letter from their lawyers to arrive. That's actually why it's so filthy. I was just looking to "troll" a big studio.
Then, as I began editing the radio play and boarding it, the two characters ended up becoming something different than just a bad impression of Doc and Marty from BTTF. They slowly became two of my favorite characters that I've ever voiced. I backed down on the cease and desist bait and changed the spelling of their names and whatever else I could still change. I mean, it's still ultimately a back to the future joke/ (parody?), but to me all these years later, these two characters have become something of their own. You'll see as you go through this website that these voices pop up in several of my failed pilots.
Naw, man, McCoy is where it's at. He might've had some of the worst effects budget and least attentive showrunners but I feel like he had some of the best premises and companions in the history of the show even if the former occasionally fell down in execution. (See also Rememberance of the Daleks and Battlefield, which have definite flaws but which are some of my very favorite episodes of all time.)
TheCrawlingChaos, January 07, 2014, 05:31:52 pm
Luckily the focus of the second season has shifted off of racism. Unfortunately it now falls instead on homophobia in a lesbian-victims sort of sense. That is to say homophobia, Catholicism, rape, child abuse, and Nazi war crimes. I think maybe the writers don't actually know what horror is, so they're just putting in as many uncomfortable things as possible. Plus, due to it trying to be darker, the second season is more shitty Saw-ripoff and less hilariously dumb.
EYE OF ZA, December 28, 2013, 05:39:45 pm
Hans Gruper, but close enough.
The person who breaks the revelation that the guy is a Nazi is Anne Frank.
Except she isn't Anne Frank but she's still right about the Nazi stuff because of narrative convenience.
This show won awards.
EYE OF ZA, January 15, 2014, 03:24:13 pm
I'm also acquiring, via perfectly legal means, seasons 1 and 2 of Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror.No, most of them are even bleaker.
EDIT: Holy jesus fuck, are all the episodes of Black Mirror as fucking bleak as the first one?
CuddlePLEASE MAKE IT STOP SNOWING, March 04, 2014, 01:12:09 pm
The second episode has made me seriously reconsider my plans to get back on the exercise bike tomorrow. Ditto my plans not to drink whiskey tonight.EDIT: Holy jesus fuck, are all the episodes of Black Mirror as fucking bleak as the first one?No, most of them are even bleaker.
CuddlePLEASE MAKE IT STOP SNOWING, March 04, 2014, 01:12:09 pm
fluffy, March 04, 2014, 08:25:37 pm
The second episode has made me seriously reconsider my plans to get back on the exercise bike tomorrow. Ditto my plans not to drink whiskey tonight.EDIT: Holy jesus fuck, are all the episodes of Black Mirror as fucking bleak as the first one?No, most of them are even bleaker.
CuddlePLEASE MAKE IT STOP SNOWING, March 04, 2014, 01:12:09 pm
fluffy, March 04, 2014, 08:25:37 pm
CuddlePLEASE MAKE IT STOP SNOWING, March 04, 2014, 08:59:32 pm
Did... did Lumpy Space Princess just kill her boyfriend? I think that just happened.I just want to know what was going on behind the CN logo with the cat.
Runic, March 04, 2014, 08:28:16 pm
Did... did Lumpy Space Princess just kill her boyfriend? I think that just happened.
Runic, March 04, 2014, 08:28:16 pm
Since I'm not actually paying for the show and it recently came out on Netflix, I decided to try to watch American Horror Story's third season, which is about a witch school in New Orleans.Coven was probably the most enjoyable show to rip on the next day I've seen in a while, but yeah, fuck anyone who takes that show seriously. I think Leland Palmer plays the axe man of New Orleans iirc, so at least that's pretty cool
There's awful references about how MODERN everyone is like "oh, frat party, just got the tweet" and talking about how they're witches in an age of "twitter and facebook". Old narcissist slut witch wants plastic surgery to look younger. Young narcissist slut witch is a movie star who literally acts insane and no one calls her out on it, also gets date-raped in the first episode. Females Aged 13-24 Demographic Please Identify With This Witch is sarcastic and moody and basically the same character she played in the first season, except her witch power is that she can kill guys by having sex with them. Black witch is black and fat, so she worked at a fried chicken place in Detroit before coming to shitty Hogwarts. The racist from-the-1800's witch is there to be racist and edgy, but it's not like WE'RE racist, because she's being forced to be the black witch's slave. The witch with Down's syndrome has her part written better than it's been in the last two seasons, at least. And the headmistress witch is trying everything she can to have a baby.
Witches defined by beauty and/or vagina/womb: 4
Witches who are an easily defined stereotype: 5
Witches who help punch up the show's exploitation genre cred: 5
Total witches: 7
Oh, and there's zero fucking horror so far, because it's secretly American Shitty Drama Story.
EYE OF ZA, December 11, 2014, 06:54:58 am
Oh my god, I cannot stop watching Cutthroat Kitchen. Alton Brown is so sassy.
Slayer of Yaks, January 29, 2015, 05:25:44 pm
I'm four episodes into Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and I am loving this a whole lot.
fruithag, March 07, 2015, 04:01:26 pm
Not to go all brony here, but 70s' anime and 90s' lo-fi indie movies had a baby and called it Steven Universe. I liked their first batch of episodes, but they seem to have really hit their stride in balancing character development, vignettes about day-to-day life, and sci-fi space opera by the end of Season One.
CormansInferno, April 06, 2015, 08:18:41 pm
How come nobody told me 30 Rock was this funny?
Fanzay, May 08, 2015, 12:43:52 am
How come nobody told me 30 Rock was this funny?
Fanzay, May 08, 2015, 12:43:52 am
The scene in the pilot where tracy and liz are talking about white men putting AIDS in the chicken nuggets was the first time I ever really 'got' intersectional feminism
chai tea latte, May 08, 2015, 01:03:09 am
How come nobody told me 30 Rock was this funny?
Fanzay, May 08, 2015, 12:43:52 am
I'm sorry I'm not up to date on every goddamn show in the world, I'm working to rectify that. Dick.
Fanzay, May 08, 2015, 01:43:13 am
I'm sorry I'm not up to date on every goddamn show in the world, I'm working to rectify that. Dick.
Fanzay, May 08, 2015, 01:43:13 am
Cutthroat kitchen takes the best part of any televised cooking shows, lunatics and douchebaggery, and just totally runs with it
AgentCoop, June 16, 2015, 10:48:30 am
Sense8 starts kinda slow but evolves into something really good, powerful and clutching.The dialogue is textbook JMS (tell don't show, chew scenery) but if that means the plot is textbook JMS too I think everybody wins. (I'm really excited for the next few seasons. I was hoping they'd get more into issues of identity but that probably makes more sense later.)
Ambious, June 16, 2015, 04:08:51 pm
Also, I finished the season. Now, this is a show written by JMS with a name based on a word followed by a random digit and a five year plan baked into it. If anybody remembers the last show with those parameters, Babylon 5, the first season was like the k-mart, Gobots Star Trek that you got for Christmas one year and tried to smile because it was almost what you wanted, then returned to your room to lie in bed for sixteen hours brooding over the realisation that literally nobody knows you or understands what you want, and even when they try to love you it hurts. The second season, meanwhile, was like forgetting all your financial worries for an afternoon to walk to a locally-owned confectionery in a nice summer dress, feeling the apricity of the sun on your shoulders and the cool breeze on your legs, getting a banana split with chocolate, strawberry and vanilla ice cream, it tasting just as good as it's supposed to in the stories, and watching the Narn-Centauri War develop into one of the most stirring large-scale tragedies in any Space Opera.
Meanwhile, this season can best be compared to making out in an elevator with a tall chick you just met, that is to say, exciting, surprising, kind of awesome, somewhat awkward, unexpectedly tingly, ending in extreme anticipation of what might come next, and with a badass machete fight thrown in to the second half.
Can we hope for Sense8 to have the same incremental improvement with each season? It would make sense, since Babylon 5's first season was all about taking like 20 episodes to establish what 'normal operations' on the station looked like while moving the pieces into place and making the stakes clear for the real show about to start, while Sense8's first season basically does in twelve episodes what most shows do in 2 - establish all the characters, establish the basic conceit, then have them learn how to use their powers and demonstrate this in an adventure where they use all their combined talents to succeed. So maybe Season 2 will be when the real fireworks (plus an orchestra and several dilating vaginal cmonster cocks) will start.
If so, I can only assume that Season 2 will be like, MDMA sex, or constructing a detailed socio-political monster cockogy with your friends out of a game of hitting each other with sticks on a beach on Canada Day, or watching your daughter graduate summa cum laude and tell her class that you're her role model, or watching the life drain out of Stephen Harper's eyes and seeing a flicker of fear and remorse in the last fraction of a second. idk, I'm just spit-balling the best things in the world, I don't actually have real life experience with most of these, sub in your own personal Lou Reed Perfect Day. Wait, wasn't that song about heroin? Maybe the second season will be as good as heroin.Quote from
True Detective Season 2 and I'm not enjoying it in the slightest.Definitely isn't wrong, but I'm still holding out hope that this season will pick up, because it hasn't been atrocious
Additionally, is it wrong that I liked True Detective more when it had the possibility of a kind of "mundane supernatural" feel. That maybe the hallucinations and shit weren't quite hallucinations?
(http://i.imgur.com/laExZS2.png)
Geremy Tibbles, July 01, 2015, 05:55:00 am
I haven't watched True Detective, but I would watch a show called False Detective about a dude pretending to be a detective and obstructing justice through his self delusion.watch true detective
A Meat, July 02, 2015, 05:37:18 am
Season 3 of Orange is the New Black is certainly a television show. It's very enjoyable, though as far as I've gotten (like 5 episodes in) there doesn't seem to be a major conflict to drive the season forward. Hopefully that changes soon.
Nikaer Drekin, July 04, 2015, 12:51:37 am
Season 3 of Orange is the New Black is certainly a television show. It's very enjoyable, though as far as I've gotten (like 5 episodes in) there doesn't seem to be a major conflict to drive the season forward. Hopefully that changes soon.
Nikaer Drekin, July 04, 2015, 12:51:37 am
I'm closer to the end now and some of the stuff that's happening does have a little more consequence to it. Still kind of feels like a season of subplots, with the whole "prison" element feeling more like an inconvenience to the characters (in a lot of cases) than anything else.
Nikaer Drekin, July 12, 2015, 08:40:18 pm
Finally catching up on Parks and Recreations.
It starts a bit slow which is why I couldn't connect to it at first, but I gave it another chance and I'm glad that I did.
Ambious, July 15, 2015, 04:15:51 am
People keep telling me to give Bojack another try but the first season was just awful. Is it actually better, or is there just more of it?Are you watching it solely as a comedy? Not to say it's not funny, but there is a lot of pathos. He wants to be a good person, but has trouble getting there. I'd say give it a try.
chai tea latte, August 24, 2015, 05:18:35 pm
i have enough of that already, but i'll give S2 a few episodes.People keep telling me to give Bojack another try but the first season was just awful. Is it actually better, or is there just more of it?Are you watching it solely as a comedy? Not to say it's not funny, but there is a lot of pathos. He wants to be a good person, but has trouble getting there. I'd say give it a try.
chai tea latte, August 24, 2015, 05:18:35 pm
eatenmyeyes, August 24, 2015, 06:07:40 pm
Started to get back into trailer park boys, and managed to get a friend into it as well, which I'm thrilled about. Also have finally been checking out The X-Files and have been really enjoying seeing the series come into its own. Watched the first two eps of rick and morty and want to watch more but I promised a friend I'd hold off on watching it so we can watch it together (she loves the series and wants to rewatch the first season with me).
Tiny Prancer, August 26, 2015, 01:01:15 pm
Go watch Fringe. It's good for you.
Vorko, October 23, 2015, 05:35:46 am
Go watch Fringe. It's good for you.
Vorko, October 23, 2015, 05:35:46 am
Some of Australia's best are in that show!
Ambious, October 23, 2015, 09:36:57 am
John Noble is amazing. He's going to be in Elementary this season as well as the world's worst dad. Again.
Vorko, November 01, 2015, 06:03:02 am
Go watch Fringe. It's good for you.
Vorko, October 23, 2015, 05:35:46 am
Some of Australia's best are in that show!
Ambious, October 23, 2015, 09:36:57 am
John Noble is amazing. He's going to be in Elementary this season as well as the world's worst dad. Again.
Vorko, November 01, 2015, 06:03:02 am
I've been watching Gotham on Netflix, and it's sometimes great, sometimes awful and mostly bland. Robin Lord Taylor is fucking amazing as Cobblepot, though. Worth watching for him alone, as well as a certain conundrum-geek. Also Ben McKenzie's facial expressions are great.
Fanzay, November 07, 2015, 04:44:00 am
Y'all should be watching the new With Bob and David on Netflix, because these old motherfuckers still got it.Mad seconded.
STOG, November 15, 2015, 10:16:46 am
Y'all should be watching the new With Bob and David on Netflix, because these old motherfuckers still got it.It's true
STOG, November 15, 2015, 10:16:46 am
Y'all should be watching the new With Bob and David on Netflix, because these old motherfuckers still got it.It's true
STOG, November 15, 2015, 10:16:46 am
chai tea latte, December 11, 2015, 10:31:06 am
Love came out on Netflix today. It's some kind of comedy TV show thing, ten episodes. I like it.
Paul Rust and Gillian Jacobs are in it.
speedbath, February 20, 2016, 12:34:03 am
Who wants to talk about the latest in modern television, The Wire?I'm always ready to talk about the wire
Turtle, May 04, 2016, 10:02:58 am
"24" was the Bush administration's favorite TV show. It was also a quasi-apocalyptic nightmare that reduced America to a cathedral of death worship. That is not coincidental.Quote from
I'm starting Deep Space Nine.it's the best star trek to binge watch and anyone who says otherwise is wrong, enjoy
Here we go
AgentCoop, June 06, 2016, 09:41:56 pm
I'm starting Deep Space Nine.it's the best star trek to binge watch and anyone who says otherwise is wrong, enjoy
Here we go
AgentCoop, June 06, 2016, 09:41:56 pm
chai tea latte, June 06, 2016, 10:05:51 pm
I've been watching the Israeli version of Bake-off, and it's so dissimilar to the Great British Bake-off that it's amazing.How much white phosphorus gets used in the BBC version?
A Meat, June 10, 2016, 06:34:55 am
I've been watching the Israeli version of Bake-off, and it's so dissimilar to the Great British Bake-off that it's amazing.How much white phosphorus gets used in the BBC version?
A Meat, June 10, 2016, 06:34:55 am
eatenmyeyes, June 16, 2016, 05:35:48 pm
Get hyped, folks. GET MOTHERFUCKING HYPED. (http://www.adultswim.com/misc/time-rift-secrets/samurai-jack.html)
CormansInferno, June 18, 2016, 03:15:42 pm
I don't remember Paul Hollywood and Mary Berry talking trash about each other in front of the competitors,on the other hand I have no idea what goes in a Cornish pasty, so it might be white phosphorus, so the two shows might share that in common.I've been watching the Israeli version of Bake-off, and it's so dissimilar to the Great British Bake-off that it's amazing.How much white phosphorus gets used in the BBC version?
A Meat, June 10, 2016, 06:34:55 am
eatenmyeyes, June 16, 2016, 05:35:48 pm
Wynonna Earp is not good.Are you watching Penny Dreadful? It is similar but better-produced and at least when you cringe at the dialogue it's b/c you're supposed to
It's cheesy and campy, but not audacious enough to pretend it's on purpose (it tries to, though).
Still, I'll be watching - because I have no standards.
Ambious, June 19, 2016, 08:19:22 am
Get hyped, folks. GET MOTHERFUCKING HYPED. (http://www.adultswim.com/misc/time-rift-secrets/samurai-jack.html)
CormansInferno, June 18, 2016, 03:15:42 pm
Don't know if I'm that fond of Adult Swim handling a beloved childhood cartoon. Will it have the spirit of the original SJ or will it be an arbitrary grimdarkening with swear words and boobs?
MISANDRY CANNON, June 19, 2016, 07:28:07 am
That sounds suspiciously like Mystery Men, I'm assuming it's better?it's better
A Meat, June 19, 2016, 10:25:48 am
I don't know if you've noticed, but Stranger Things is pretty much a love letter to 80's science fiction horror and it's pretty good? Like, I've heard people talking about it, so I took the plunge myself because I'm a sucker for Stephen King inspired teleplays and The Stand TV miniseries is still my favorite Stephen King thing ever???? You should check both of these things out?????????
What??????????
STOG, August 10, 2016, 09:31:45 am
I tried watching the first three episodes of Rick and Morty.
I didn't really like it. Was all pop culture jokes, and just not too funny in general
A Meat, August 23, 2016, 02:15:18 pm
Opinion about rick and morty mark II:
Some of the episodes are good and funny , and some are downright embarrassingly bad, it's very hit and miss
A Meat, August 27, 2016, 07:40:45 pm
I've been watching Stranger Things and everyone else must watch it because it's fantastic
Kaleidoscope, September 04, 2016, 12:17:22 pm
Me too.I've been watching Stranger Things and everyone else must watch it because it's fantastic
Kaleidoscope, September 04, 2016, 12:17:22 pm
I just marathonned all of Season 1 of Stranger Things with my dad and it is FUCKING GREAT.
I want this soundtrack now.
Gyro, September 04, 2016, 08:33:46 pm
Why are so many people raving about Netflix's Series of Unfortunate Events... series? I've watched the first two episodes and it's not captivating me even slightly. Is this just my broken judgement? I don't want to sound like an asshole. Is it one of those things that gets a lot better? The titty joke made me laugh.
Tose, January 19, 2017, 09:47:02 pm
Waiting in line for Samurai Jack premiere + Q&A w/ Genndy.
CormansInferno, March 09, 2017, 08:44:00 pm
Waiting in line for Samurai Jack premiere + Q&A w/ Genndy.
CormansInferno, March 09, 2017, 08:44:00 pm
Watched the two new episodes and damn is this series just so good.
Sanguinary Novel, March 21, 2017, 11:37:02 pm
Putting this in the big TV thread because it's important, for just FOUR (that's right, 4) bux a month, you can legally help combat space imperialism and listen to some chill opera bangers. This is like one of the "least anime" anime ever, check it out it rules
(http://i.imgur.com/v301PVA.jpg)
AgentCoop, June 20, 2017, 02:03:03 pm
Yo my B, the sites down right now but it looks like HIDIVEPutting this in the big TV thread because it's important, for just FOUR (that's right, 4) bux a month, you can legally help combat space imperialism and listen to some chill opera bangers. This is like one of the "least anime" anime ever, check it out it rules
(http://i.imgur.com/v301PVA.jpg)
AgentCoop, June 20, 2017, 02:03:03 pm
And to whom should I be paying these 4bux?
LancashireMcGee, June 20, 2017, 06:37:15 pm
Rewatching Star Trek: TNG.
Darmok is probably one of the best written episodes of any TV show ever.
Ambious, July 15, 2017, 05:16:13 pm
GLOW on Netflix.
Really enjoyed. Finished it today. Last scene of the first episode and the conclusion of the Machu Pichu arc are my favorite moments.
I didn't even recognize that was Carlito in the scene and he was holding a damn apple.
znarf, July 01, 2017, 01:41:58 am
Interesting review! To me, Jenji Kohan shows start out strong and get weaker over time, so I really enjoyed the first season of GLOW but don't know if I'll end up liking the third.GLOW on Netflix.
Really enjoyed. Finished it today. Last scene of the first episode and the conclusion of the Machu Pichu arc are my favorite moments.
I didn't even recognize that was Carlito in the scene and he was holding a damn apple.
znarf, July 01, 2017, 01:41:58 am
Tried a couple of episodes and really didn't like it.
I found the writing lazy and the characters unoriginal.
The concept of the show is really good, but the execution is your basic Netflix formula of "boring and sad main character with an assortment of quirky and 'interesting' side-characters".
Did not surprise me one bit to learn it's from the same people who made "Orange is the new Black", not because it was bad but because it's basically the same show in a different setting.
Ambious, August 10, 2017, 12:07:36 pm
GLOW on Netflix.
Really enjoyed. Finished it today. Last scene of the first episode and the conclusion of the Machu Pichu arc are my favorite moments.
I didn't even recognize that was Carlito in the scene and he was holding a damn apple.
znarf, July 01, 2017, 01:41:58 am
Tried a couple of episodes and really didn't like it.
I found the writing lazy and the characters unoriginal.
The concept of the show is really good, but the execution is your basic Netflix formula of "boring and sad main character with an assortment of quirky and 'interesting' side-characters".
Did not surprise me one bit to learn it's from the same people who made "Orange is the new Black", not because it was bad but because it's basically the same show in a different setting.
Ambious, August 10, 2017, 12:07:36 pm
Is that based on the Chinese dating show? That's semi big over here (Aus) though I've not seen a lot of it myself.
FinchChunk, November 17, 2017, 07:15:59 am
Watching "Canada's Worst Handyman" and uh, is Nova Scotia the Texas of Canada?Alberta is the Texas of Canada in that they have oil, cowboy hats, and guns. Nova Scotia is not the Texas of Canada and in fact short of Alberta and BC (our Cali) our provinces and territories don't really map onto your states.
I also actually learned things about home improvement, so it's not the worst show.
Sanguinary Novel?, March 16, 2018, 05:56:10 pm
Altered Carbon: i really tried to like this, but it's bad. too bad to start watching again. if you like this i don't think less of you for it but i just can not bring myself to watch more than i have (2-3 eps?)Just started watching and it's biggest problem so far is it seems to be slavishly recreating the content of the book. Watchmen had a similar problem. I'll probably enjoy it because I have read and liked the book, but yeah not an easy one to recommend.
chai tea latte, March 16, 2018, 07:44:14 pm
I've explained Canada to Americans a lot recently, here's a more comprehensive entry:Watching "Canada's Worst Handyman" and uh, is Nova Scotia the Texas of Canada?Alberta is the Texas of Canada in that they have oil, cowboy hats, and guns. Nova Scotia is not the Texas of Canada and in fact short of Alberta and BC (our Cali) our provinces and territories don't really map onto your states.
I also actually learned things about home improvement, so it's not the worst show.
Sanguinary Novel?, March 16, 2018, 05:56:10 pm
Canada's provinces break down into a couple simple groups. The West (BC) also includes The Prairies (Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba) even though culturally BC is kind of sui generis and the prairies are where hardworking honest folk mine uranium and grow wheat and rapeseed. Then there's Out East, which is Ontario (somehow the province 'where everything happens' is also the most boring) and Quebec (they're french, love unions, and hate Islam). The Maritimes is all the formerly thriving small communities where now everyone's on employment insurance because the jobs done moved away, eh? used to be you could 'walk across to europe on a road of Atlantic cod' but overfishing and fish stock depletion means there isn't very much cod anymore, and there isn't very much anything else either.
The Territories are different. they're very sparsely populated, and very cold. a can of Coca Cola costs twenty five dollars, and there are no jobs. there's probably 1-3 towns per territory and everything else is just...wilderness. now you know more about canada (turtle island) too!
chai tea latte, March 16, 2018, 07:44:14 pm
Ugly Delicious: extremely good, one of the best formats i've seen in a food show. if more food tv becomes like Mind of a Chef or this, it will be a very good thing.Ya boy doesn't have netflix, but I've convinced a friend to watch it with me. I'm pretty hype.
Ontario is Canada's population center. Toronto is a sprawling nightmare whose suburbs continue through Hamilton. Depending on where you draw the line, Toronto is anywhere from ~3 million people to ~11 million. (Canada's total population is, last I checked, ~36m.) Toronto (and all of southern Ontario) is the other conservative area, but it's a damn populous one. This is the biggest and most important province, and the most generic. Toronto has some nice punk bands.
nuffkins, of all people,, March 19, 2018, 01:06:36 am
if all you want is supernatural horror and camp you should watch Penny Dreadful instead, which at least takes that desire seriously and delivers some goddamn delicious pulp to go with it
chai tea latte, April 19, 2018, 03:18:03 pm
Does anyone have any thoughts on To Catch A Predator? I've been watching and rewatching it for years now, the original series, Predator: Raw, even the newer thing, Hansen Vs. Predator. It's a great show IMO, but more interesting than that to me is the huge societal impact it's had, both in the US and abroad. There's just so much stuff to talk about with so much depth and nuance that I wouldn't be surprised if someone made a podcast about it (ngl I'd definitely listen to it). Any thoughts?
Wrought, May 17, 2018, 08:13:15 pm
Also, a few of the episodes were directed by Hiro Murai, who did the music video for Childish Gambino's "This is America." Adam Bozarth, May 18, 2018, 02:15:51 am
I started watching Bill Hader's new show Barry, and it is really good.
Adam Bozarth, May 18, 2018, 02:15:51 am
What I really want is a new season of Work of Art, and it'll never happen.
Cyborguinary Novel?, May 18, 2018, 05:21:50 pm
I also just wrapped up The Tick, Season 1, on Amazon, and it is fine. It wasn't laugh-a-minute like I was hoping from something with The Tick in it. It was more like an Arthur origin story. I am hoping the next season will actually serve the titular character better. Peter Serafinowicz starts the series with this bombastic energy that is near deflated by the last scene of the season. There are some really solid bits throughout the season, however, that made it worthwhile for me. The episodes I liked the best featured retired superdog Midnight, voiced by the animated Tick's Townsend Coleman. Since this series comes from Tick creator Ben Edlund himself, I have to respect what he was trying with this decades-old character.
Adam Bozarth, May 18, 2018, 02:15:51 am
Not sure if this is the place for comedy specials, but goddamn Hannah Gadsby's Nanette is really good!
Edit: Huge Content Warning!! Hannah talks about some really heavy shit, include sexual assault, violent homophobia, and mental illness. Watching it at work was kinda a mistake.
Sanguinary Self-Help Novel, June 26, 2018, 03:11:19 pm
Not sure if this is the place for comedy specials, but goddamn Hannah Gadsby's Nanette is really good!
Edit: Huge Content Warning!! Hannah talks about some really heavy shit, include sexual assault, violent homophobia, and mental illness. Watching it at work was kinda a mistake.
Sanguinary Self-Help Novel, June 26, 2018, 03:11:19 pm
So it gets better? We probably watched 10 minutes waiting for it to get intense but turned it off because the show seemed about as boring as Gadsby described herself.
This is sorta related but has anyone ever seen that one Tig Notaro routine? Supposedly the most powerful stand up ever since she had just been diagnosed with cancer but still went out there and did her thing. I wanted to know if it was REALLY as awesome as I've been led to believe.
Bunnybread, June 29, 2018, 02:44:12 pm
I guess I'll put this in here?
Started watching She-Ra on Netflix because it looked cute and I heard it was making dudes angry. I am loving it to bits. It's predictable (kids shows often are, whatever) but it's SO cute and I love the characters a lot. I can understand how this is making weird gross dudes angry because she has SHORTS ON under her skirt when she transforms, what a concept, and her neckline is just that -- a neckline, not a mid-chest line. Glimmer made me gasp when I first saw her because she has actual big size thighs and is still a main character who isn't there for gags. Everyone is so precious and I'm excited to see how the show fills the distance between the obviously lined up plot points.
beelzeboob, November 28, 2018, 08:44:35 pm
As someone who could only make it through a handful of the new My Little Pony episodes before realizing it was literally just a show for little bitty kids that wasn't shitty about gender -- is it worth watching at all beyond maybe just an episode to see what the fuss is about? My nephews aren't into it, just like they aren't into MLP, so I don't actually have an obligation to sit through it (they do like some stereotypically "girly" stuff, just not these specific franchises).
But so many people have such strong fucking opinions about it, and have written so many, MANY fucking words about how either masterful or repugnant it is, that I don't know if there's anything actually interesting there beyond just being a fun cartoon that maybe isn't all weird about girls. I say this as someone who was generally ambivalent about the original MLP and She-Ra as a kid (but Rainbow Brite and Jem were my fucking jams. And I have A Lot of opinions about Disney princesses. A Lot).
Ramona Chingona, November 28, 2018, 09:11:24 pm
Frank West has been showing a small group of us American Horror Story season one and MY GOD THERE'S SO MANY FUCKING GHOSTS AND THEY'RE ALL FORGETTABLE.
Shell Game, December 03, 2018, 08:51:21 pm
It is extra fitting in this show's case i guess. Wow it's so bad.Frank West has been showing a small group of us American Horror Story season one and MY GOD THERE'S SO MANY FUCKING GHOSTS AND THEY'RE ALL FORGETTABLE.
Shell Game, December 03, 2018, 08:51:21 pm
"Fucking ghosts" works as both a expletive AND a noun!
Supermarket Christmas Novel, December 03, 2018, 09:01:16 pm
It is extra fitting in this show's case i guess. Wow it's so bad.Frank West has been showing a small group of us American Horror Story season one and MY GOD THERE'S SO MANY FUCKING GHOSTS AND THEY'RE ALL FORGETTABLE.
Shell Game, December 03, 2018, 08:51:21 pm
"Fucking ghosts" works as both a expletive AND a noun!
Supermarket Christmas Novel, December 03, 2018, 09:01:16 pm
Shell Game, December 04, 2018, 12:22:28 am
I think we're gonna be going through as many seasons as we can tolerate.It is extra fitting in this show's case i guess. Wow it's so bad.Frank West has been showing a small group of us American Horror Story season one and MY GOD THERE'S SO MANY FUCKING GHOSTS AND THEY'RE ALL FORGETTABLE.
Shell Game, December 03, 2018, 08:51:21 pm
"Fucking ghosts" works as both a expletive AND a noun!
Supermarket Christmas Novel, December 03, 2018, 09:01:16 pm
Shell Game, December 04, 2018, 12:22:28 am
So very, very bad - a tryhard ghost sexcapade that proves neither scary nor titillating. You are made of much stronger stuff shell
Supermarket Christmas Novel, December 04, 2018, 12:25:59 am
Watching through all the Arrowverse shows in chronological order (not quite airdate order, there's slight reordering all throughout to link all the crossovers up right) is a task that starts off reasonable, and then slowly reveals itself to be insane. It's doubly awful if you try doing it in Australia without a VPN, where all the shows are on different streaming services, except for Supergirl which is on none of them.
Still makes it weirdly satisfying to watch and see all the more minor crossover details turn up between shows that indicate you actually are seeing all this unfold in the right order. It also makes Arrow metatextually hilarious, because you can see the exact moment in season 2 where they decide what they want to do with The Flash and how they need to make Arrow a little more fantastical to have the two fit into the same world... and then realize when the first season of The Flash starts that they did not do enough because Arrow characters turning up in The Flash feels weird every time.
Cleretic, October 01, 2018, 05:04:49 am
I guess I'll put this in here?
Started watching She-Ra on Netflix because it looked cute and I heard it was making dudes angry. I am loving it to bits. It's predictable (kids shows often are, whatever) but it's SO cute and I love the characters a lot. I can understand how this is making weird gross dudes angry because she has SHORTS ON under her skirt when she transforms, what a concept, and her neckline is just that -- a neckline, not a mid-chest line. Glimmer made me gasp when I first saw her because she has actual big size thighs and is still a main character who isn't there for gags. Everyone is so precious and I'm excited to see how the show fills the distance between the obviously lined up plot points.
beelzeboob, November 28, 2018, 08:44:35 pm
I really like the art direction and design of the show (The backgrounds in particular are simply wonderful) but feel it's held back a bit on the writing leaning a bit too heavily on the expected tropes associated with its demographic (That being kids aged 6-12ish): The bar has been raised quite high for kids' shows of late by your Steven Universes and Voltrons and whatnot and, while She-ra is certainly doing alright thus far, I hope the writing team is able to step up their game a bit as the series moves on.
KingKalamari, December 05, 2018, 10:01:18 pm
I agree! I think it could do with some genuine foreshadowing rather than in-your-face blunt not-really-twists that we all saw coming a mile away. THAT SAID... it's a kid's show. Kids AREN'T as good at picking up on tropes because they haven't seen them before. She-Ra is immeasurably better than the other things I've seen the 10 year olds in my life watching ("Loud House" etc), as well as other kids shows I'm fond of myself (Miraculous Ladybug sucks so bad in this department), because it actually has an intentional plot and character development, cliche though they may be. I'm hoping that it does up its standards a bit, but even if it doesn't, I don't think that kid shows should be held to the same standards as adult media. It does what it sets out to do well, which is provide a simplified plot for kids to get invested in.
beelzeboob, December 06, 2018, 09:18:35 am
Double is super good. I wasn't super fond of the ending though.
Vinny Possum, December 19, 2018, 02:39:35 am
Double is super good. I wasn't super fond of the ending though.
Vinny Possum, December 19, 2018, 02:39:35 am
So, since you seem to be in-the-know, would you have any recommendations for where to go from here? I figure the most natural thing is to go to the next series, OOO, but the first of the Heisei series, Kuuga, also looks interesting.
LancashireMcGee, December 20, 2018, 07:27:41 pm
Double is super good. I wasn't super fond of the ending though.
Vinny Possum, December 19, 2018, 02:39:35 am
So, since you seem to be in-the-know, would you have any recommendations for where to go from here? I figure the most natural thing is to go to the next series, OOO, but the first of the Heisei series, Kuuga, also looks interesting.
LancashireMcGee, December 20, 2018, 07:27:41 pm
It depends! Kabuto is also a good intro series. Gaim is super good but very modern (read: toy sales centered) and a bit dark. Faiz is in my opinion the best series I've seen so far, but I might not have liked it as much if I didn't get a feel for the genre. I'm watching Den-O right now and it has a similar vibe to Double, at least tone wise.
Vinny Possum, December 21, 2018, 01:37:08 am
Happy! is a really good show. Movie? It's a miniseries by the guy who did the Crank movies.
SATAN MILKSHAKE, December 15, 2018, 12:51:16 am
I think we're gonna be going through as many seasons as we can tolerate.It is extra fitting in this show's case i guess. Wow it's so bad.Frank West has been showing a small group of us American Horror Story season one and MY GOD THERE'S SO MANY FUCKING GHOSTS AND THEY'RE ALL FORGETTABLE.
Shell Game, December 03, 2018, 08:51:21 pm
"Fucking ghosts" works as both a expletive AND a noun!
Supermarket Christmas Novel, December 03, 2018, 09:01:16 pm
Shell Game, December 04, 2018, 12:22:28 am
So very, very bad - a tryhard ghost sexcapade that proves neither scary nor titillating. You are made of much stronger stuff shell
Supermarket Christmas Novel, December 04, 2018, 12:25:59 am
Shell Game, December 04, 2018, 12:46:55 am
The Arrowverse shows all have a specific moment when they get good, either in general or specifically at the thing they end up being good at.
Arrow's is either Slade Wilson's first appearance in flashbacks, or the season 2 episodes that have a pre-Flash Barry Allen, depending on if you consider season 1 even the same show as the rest.
The Flash generally knows what it should be right from the start, but Captain Cold's first appearance in season 1 is when it hits its stride.
Supergirl lights up the moment that Superman turns up at the start of season 2.
And Legends of Tomorrow has glints of what it should be through the first season and a half, but it all comes together when they decide the timecrime of the week will be George Lucas not going into filmmaking.
EDIT: To clarify, I'm not sure why I'm still watching through all these shows, but I think at this point it's to get more weird D-list DC characters to look up and boggle at.
Cleretic, February 23, 2019, 03:22:18 am
I'm still watching Flash and Supergirl out of pure momentum. Flash still has good episodes and plotlines, but Supergirl is complete and utter shit and I hope it gets cancelled so I can stop watching. I know no one is making me but just like you said, it has occasional good moments which make me still watch despite them being very few and very far apart.I think Arrow is the only oen that actually needs to get retired, but I think all four need a bit of a difference in approach.
I gave up on Arrow earlier this season and I could never really pick up Legends. I hope they retire the Arrowverse and put more attention in the Titans continuity.
Ambious, February 23, 2019, 10:18:07 am
-Arrow, yeah, needs to end. There's only so much you can wring out of it, and they've run out of that (and I'm still going through the archive, it goes on for several seasons after the point I'm at). They can take a cue from Iron Man in the MCU though, basically just make him the Crossover Guy; he's still good, he just doesn't really have the juice for more stories focused on him.
Cleretic, February 23, 2019, 06:29:11 pm
-Arrow, yeah, needs to end. There's only so much you can wring out of it, and they've run out of that (and I'm still going through the archive, it goes on for several seasons after the point I'm at). They can take a cue from Iron Man in the MCU though, basically just make him the Crossover Guy; he's still good, he just doesn't really have the juice for more stories focused on him.
Cleretic, February 23, 2019, 06:29:11 pm
Well, shit. Sorry about being psychic without telling anybody, guys.
Cleretic, March 06, 2019, 11:01:52 pm
I stalled out watching Twin Peaks like 2 episodes before the end of season 2 a while back, so I'm adding that back on to the pile of stuff I'm watching. I keep hearing spoilers for stuff in the show I haven't gotten to yet, but stuff like "David Bowie is recast as a talking teapot" mean nothing out of context, so I still feel like the ending/prequel movie/new season are a total mystery.
sambair, March 10, 2019, 06:35:22 pm
taking another crack at finishing Mad Men, halfway through the second season. it's good shitHonestly top ten all time for me
chai tea latte, March 25, 2019, 12:07:37 pm
Love, Death & Robots is just a lot of interesting and different animation techniques wasted on Reddit-level writing. Such a shame.
Ambious, March 23, 2019, 11:33:01 am
Love, Death & Robots is just a lot of interesting and different animation techniques wasted on Reddit-level writing. Such a shame.
Ambious, March 23, 2019, 11:33:01 am
Some episodes are pretty good, but when it gets bad, it gets bad. "Three Robots" was painful.
"Suits" is my favorite so far.
Spenny, March 26, 2019, 12:03:12 am
Love, Death & Robots is just a lot of interesting and different animation techniques wasted on Reddit-level writing. Such a shame.
Ambious, March 23, 2019, 11:33:01 am
Don't know if there's a sci-fi show better than ds9 won't be taking constructive criticism about this postthis but Babylon 5
AgentCoop, April 30, 2019, 05:20:31 pm
Tuca and Bertie is absolutely delightful, and everyone should watch it if only to encourage more female-written and female-focused shows like it. Apparently it's only the first or maybe second woman-helmed adult-focused cartoon that's actually gotten a full and well-publicized season, which is insane, but I can't think of a better standard-bearer if it manages to improve the genre.
Given that, though, it feels a little weird that the thing I'd most congratulate it for outside of that is how well they did the male lead. But I actually think that factors in a little more than first seems, because Speckle's role is very much what's typically a female role in other shows: The balanced, level-headed person that acts to tell the main characters that they're Wrong And Bad (basically, the wife character in... literally anything I can think of that has 'the wife character'). But they remember to make sure he's always got a pretty good point, and that he's a pretty fun character to have in a scene no matter what he's doing--mostly just by having the most fun they can with making him a really boring guy.
Cleretic, May 12, 2019, 04:47:05 am
So the new Ducktales reboot just did a huge tribute episode to Darkwing Duck and, as Darkwing was one of the first shows I ever gave a shit about, I am giddy as a five year old. Sadly they have not yet explored the white hot sexual tension between Darkwing and Negaduck that was apparently in the original.
KingKalamari, May 17, 2019, 07:16:12 pm
S2 killing eve
I can't decide if I want to be Villanelle or marry her
chai tea latte, May 31, 2019, 08:19:20 pm
Jesus Christ did none of you live through the past two decades or what?
chai tea latte, June 07, 2019, 02:34:07 pm
Ganymede pointed out that people could get me to watch American Horror Story but they couldn't get me to watch Jojo's Bizarre Adventure.
Look. I only watch bad things with groups of people so we can hate them together. Otherwise I don't really watch TV. I don't even own a cable/subscription.
Shell Game, October 08, 2019, 12:29:09 am
why did i wait so long to watch venture brothers, holy fuckIt just gets better and better
Mix, October 18, 2019, 04:11:34 am
What's good and airing
chai tea latte, November 26, 2019, 07:26:05 pm
am watching but you reminded me to catch up on s4 so thank you dude!!What's good and airing
chai tea latte, November 26, 2019, 07:26:05 pm
If you're not already watching it: The Good Place. Better hurry though: It's 5 episodes away from the series finale!
KingKalamari, November 27, 2019, 09:41:53 am
Cool im gonna watch netflix witcher nowWhat did you think of it?
Agent Coop Time!, December 22, 2019, 10:04:25 am
The romulans turned Geordie into a sleeper assassinFor a show about the death, and subsequent discovery of a lost family, of Data there had been a significant lack of Gordie this Picard season.
Agent Coop Time!, February 09, 2020, 11:36:06 pm
damn did i really fucking marathon five seasons of project runway in the past weekhell yes king
Mix, March 23, 2020, 06:06:33 am
Quarantine Sopranos RewatchDamn the sad tale of Bobby Baccala always gets me. "That's Karen's last ziti," etc. This show does it all
Agent Coop Time!, March 22, 2020, 10:22:25 pm
Does anyone else watch the Magicians? I didn't really like the first season at the time (it got super dark), but it's kind of the perfect genre show for me. Stylish, clever, fun, creative and dark enough to keep the stakes high. Like Buffy without all the Buffy, ya know?
I Liked That Joke, January 19, 2020, 12:49:27 am
It's unfortunate that only the teleporting guy and the main gay man who is friends with that mean lady are the only likeable characters.Does anyone else watch the Magicians? I didn't really like the first season at the time (it got super dark), but it's kind of the perfect genre show for me. Stylish, clever, fun, creative and dark enough to keep the stakes high. Like Buffy without all the Buffy, ya know?
I Liked That Joke, January 19, 2020, 12:49:27 am
I've seen through season 4. It's a very watchable trash show. I strongly dislike its heavy reliance on gratuitous sexual violence as a way of generating cheap drama/backstory but other than that it's got some good queer rep so I'm glad it did so well. Buffy without the buffy is a great logline for it.
ClaraTinSoldier, July 01, 2020, 04:29:33 am
[Asimov] wasn't writing about the distant future. He was writing a post-World War Two environment. He was talking about Nazi Germany. He was talking about being a Jew who had emigrated from Russia. He was talking about the old empires of Europe collapsing and the ascendancy of America. The first thing I said to the Asimov Estate is that Asimov crafted Foundation to be a mirror so I need to write about what's happening now. I need to write about Brexit, MeToo, the ascent of nationalism again. I need to write about climate change.
do you remember like a year ago when Apple said oh we're going to film an adaptation of Asimov's Foundation novels in Ireland, the famously completely unfilmable thing? Well, they filmed it, and the first two episodes are out, and they are very good.Update:
chai tea latte, September 29, 2021, 05:58:49 pm
The Great Pottery Throw-Down has been pitched more and more, recently, as 'the successor to Great British Bakeoff".Yo, this sounds killer and I'm gonna look into it. We loved Bakeoff and I love pottery.
chai tea latte, February 01, 2022, 07:50:59 pm