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TV in May 2018 - What are you watching?
- Thread starter RatskyWatsky
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^^^Lol. I've never even watched the first season. There's too much stuff on Netflix to even try and keep up.
I'm halfway through the first season of Brockmire. God I really love this show. Shades of You're the Worst and Bojack Horseman.
Other than that I don't really watch much tv. The Americans has been great as per usual, more of a downer than its ever been. Also decided to start Cheers and I love Shelley Long.
Also I'm so disappointed in myself with how I'm kinda excited for Mayans. I'm desperate for Latino-American shows man.
Other than that I don't really watch much tv. The Americans has been great as per usual, more of a downer than its ever been. Also decided to start Cheers and I love Shelley Long.
Also I'm so disappointed in myself with how I'm kinda excited for Mayans. I'm desperate for Latino-American shows man.
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Vida just premiered and is pretty solid thus far - maybe give it a shot?
oddly, I don't care about seeing any German-American shows. lol
Didn't make it past the pilot of Ballers, but I'll be glad to watch another season of Insecure.
Oh man. I didn't watch the final season after Season 6(?) had 1hr+ episodes that each had singing montages. I may need to wiki the story though after a statement like that.
So happy this show will be back for a 6th season and looking forward to the season finale tomorrow.
I don't watch many reality shows, but I enjoyed World of Dance last summer. Will be watching it again for season 2.
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HOLY FUCK @ episode 2 of Patrick Melrose
One of the most enraging and horrifying episodes of anything I've ever seen. I feel like screaming right now.
One of the most enraging and horrifying episodes of anything I've ever seen. I feel like screaming right now.
I was planning to watch it after I eat breakfast and now I'm even more hyped.
ratsky putting that TV-ERA work in.
edit: I've watched it now, and HOLY FUCK doesn't even begin to cover it. Brilliant/horrifying. Hugo Weaving is terrifying.
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Oh great. I will be an emotional wreck tomorrow then. yaaaaaaaay.
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Not that I'm not already an emotional wreck (but for way better reasons) thanks to The Good Fight, not only was the latest episode another in a terrific run. They pulled the most bold ass stunt and just didn't care to let anyone know.
So background, in episode 3, season 4 of its predecessor show The Good Wife, this dude, a tech blogger at the time appears for about two minutes as a witness in the episode
Now flash forward six goddamn years, and we have a need for another witness for a different case. They cast the same actor (hell I wouldn't be shocked if they actually sought him out). What does this show do? Recycle an actor to play two different parts like almost every other show? No of course not, they keep shit consistent because it's The Good Universe and it truly has the deepest lore. Part of me wonders if there isn't a goddamn scene where he talks about his transition from tech blogging to comic books and they just cut it for time.
It's a million tiny details like this one that makes me love these shows so much.
I like the show and want to love it. S2 kinda lost me with its lack of cohesion on the road. I liked the first season a lot more where it was all based in one place. I realize the first season wasn't even in the comics though, it was sort of a prequel.
Yeah, it's the most harrowing hour of TV I think I've come across. HOLY FUCK is accurate.
The second season is even better! The third is not as great but still a lot of fun.
The 2nd season spent a lot of time in the same place as well and was one of the reasons I found it somewhat disappointing. The beginning of the season had some real momentum, then they just started to slow down.
I mean, S2 was a road trip. S1 was all about the town and church.
It started that way, the trio quickly became stuck in New Orleans and that apartment.
Ok, so I finished the first three-parter The Cuckoo's Calling (it even got the Cinemax bradning since it's on HBO here). It's a British detective show with all of its trappings. Nothing more, nothing less.
Is this your rebrand Cinemax? Both Britbox and Acorn TV exists you know.
You promised "fun, high-octane, action, pulpy, straight-to-series dramas done in a cost-effective way primarily as international co-productions."
But instead we get kinda dour British detective shows, this one is even less violent, features less sex, and doesn't even have a gimmick (or a killer soundtrack) like Rellik. Cinemax pls.
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Full trailer for Strange Angel. (region locked to the US, will update later if I find a region free one... and remember that I said to update this post)
It looks pretty damn interesting at least. Then again, you can't really go wrong with a healthy mix of early days of rocket science + satanism
It looks pretty damn interesting at least. Then again, you can't really go wrong with a healthy mix of early days of rocket science + satanism
Oh, it gets more hilarious, depressing and amazing, just you wait!
On Ep11 S2 and damn, this show never lets Bojack (or the audience) of the hook does it? And Bojack continues to make horrible decisions.
One thing I'm not such a big fan of is Bojack's upbringing. For all the ways the show denies providing easy answers to life's dillemas, it's a bit disappointing they felt the need to "explain" Bojack's depression to be caused by his abusive parents.
Bojack Horseman is one of those shows that I need to watch.
I saw the first episode and liked it. And I hear it keeps getting better from there.
I saw the first episode and liked it. And I hear it keeps getting better from there.
So I caught up with Patrick Melrose again, and was left an emotional wreck again. I was promised a kinda amusing drama about addiction and childhood trauma, not the most gut wrenching meditation on the cycle(s) of abuse and its effects the small screen probably has ever produced.
To have the centrepiece of your entire episode be a conversation between two people, in a single space, with no accompanying music, with very little camera movement, and just rely on the words and the actors' ability to so utterly convey the intent and feelings of the scene is not your everyday occurrence. But Patrick Melrose pulled it off, and brilliantly at that. Benedict Cumberbatch is doing career best in the titular role, and as is pretty much every single one in the cast. The child actors are astonishingly good, I find it almost impossible to believe that the actor playing young Patrick is doing his first role.
The director, Edward Berger, doesn't put a single foot wrong throughout the entire episode and to cap it off he crafts some astonishingly well crafted long takes in the episode as well. And I would be remiss to not also say that the script by David Nicholls is absolute top tier being able to thread the needle perfectly on some touchy subjects whilst also writing some of the wittiest lines on TV (and the show I watched right before was The Good Fight, so it had some stiff competition). Granted some of it could be remains from the source materials, but since I'm not acquainted with that I'm delighted to hear them now.
I could go on listing just about every single aspect of the show, the production design, the cinematography, virtually all of it is impeccable.
It's haunting and harrowing television, but I'd be very surprised if it doesn't end up at the very top of my list of the year's best shows.
To have the centrepiece of your entire episode be a conversation between two people, in a single space, with no accompanying music, with very little camera movement, and just rely on the words and the actors' ability to so utterly convey the intent and feelings of the scene is not your everyday occurrence. But Patrick Melrose pulled it off, and brilliantly at that. Benedict Cumberbatch is doing career best in the titular role, and as is pretty much every single one in the cast. The child actors are astonishingly good, I find it almost impossible to believe that the actor playing young Patrick is doing his first role.
The director, Edward Berger, doesn't put a single foot wrong throughout the entire episode and to cap it off he crafts some astonishingly well crafted long takes in the episode as well. And I would be remiss to not also say that the script by David Nicholls is absolute top tier being able to thread the needle perfectly on some touchy subjects whilst also writing some of the wittiest lines on TV (and the show I watched right before was The Good Fight, so it had some stiff competition). Granted some of it could be remains from the source materials, but since I'm not acquainted with that I'm delighted to hear them now.
I could go on listing just about every single aspect of the show, the production design, the cinematography, virtually all of it is impeccable.
It's haunting and harrowing television, but I'd be very surprised if it doesn't end up at the very top of my list of the year's best shows.
I just discovered Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. Watching season 1 on Netflix, holy shit its brilliant.
Yep. It's simply an amazing show. Just when I thought I couldn't be any more of a Cumberbatch fan he goes and stars in this.
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This. All of this. It's putting everything else on TV right now to shame.