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Qwiss

I've started watching Vikings, its pretty good.

Daz

It is. Gets even better from season 2 onward when the budget is a bit bigger.
I've been sick last couple of days so have gotten around to watching more of Ozark. Really liking it.

banduan

Two Netflix animated series:
Disenchantment 5/10 - barely comedic, half-interesting characters with pretty animation.
Final Space 7/10 - doesn't try too hard to be funny, memorable characters, strangely moving. Ends poorly.

QuincyAbeyie

I thought I'd catch up on all the shows that I'm currently watching during the summer, but I just don't feel like watching any of them. Instead I binged through Big Little Lies in a little over a day. Was never boring, and I'm looking forward to season 2 as everything wasn't resolved. The "plot twist" was pretty obvious, but I don't think it was that important anyway. The casting is obviously very good. It's great that television has reached a point where most actors and actresses will accept a role if it's the right one.

arsedocmd

Yea, just watched Big little lies myself 2 days ago. Didn't find anything novel in it worthy of the rave reviews. Just heavyweight casting. Some strange edits, and noir-ish filming for what is probably a regular drama underneath the extravagant packaging. Monterrey is a beautiful place btw-not fully captured in this series-, as I've said before in this forum somewhere.
Wouldn't have bothered with the second season but they got meryl streep on.

arsedocmd

Veep is bloody brilliant btw. Julia Louis Dreyfus is a queen!

Two episodes into silicon valley- good laughs but I suppose the california IT guys would enjoy it much more than non IT guys

QuincyAbeyie

arsedoc md wrote:
Some strange edits, and noir-ish filming for what is probably a regular drama underneath the extravagant packaging.

Probably is, but I'm a sucker for that stuff.

goon

arsedoc md wrote:
Monterrey is a beautiful place btw-not fully captured in this series-, as I've said

It looks amazing in the series so if it's not fully captured then it must be something else.

Agree that it's the cast that makes the show a success.

QuincyAbeyie

Yeah, in fact it looks so good that it seemed more like a dream world than something real.

Klaus

Just finished Sharp Objects. I thought it was incredible.

Have to say I liked Disenchantment. I didn't think I would because people have been tearing into it, but it really got going after a few eps. If they can make longer and less serialised seasons in the future it has potential to be as good as anything else Matt Groening has done.

Coombs

I liked it, too. Few episodes on the early third of the series were just fucking around, but when picked up it flew by us, ended up disappointed it was over.

est

True Detective season 3 coming up in January. They just released a short trailer. Looking forward to it.

Burnwinter

Mahershasa Ali is a good pick. Not so sure about the time-shifting narrative they appear to have set up, but the whole thing looks a bit less prone to farce than the second season (which I still liked to be fair).

est

Both previous seasons also had time-shifting. Worked pretty nicely, especially in season one.

MistaT

Just binged Yellowstone, which I had high hopes for. Was a fairly weak showing unfortunately, which contrasts most of the other quality work Taylor Sheridan has done.

The show brought in far too much action and flew past all of the opportunities to deepen dialogue and characters, all in favor of gimmicks that aren't really fitting for a "western".

flobaba

Jack Ryan

QuincyAbeyie

I like Jack Ryan so far. Only watched two episodes, but the action scenes are well done, Krasinski is likeable and the plot, while not original, is entertaining enough.

Klaus

I tried a few episodes of Jack Ryan too but I just got angry. I don't see how this show can be spun in any way as morally defensible. Everyone involved in it should be shamed. There's legit a scene where a fucking drone pilot saves a woman from being raped by firing a missile. 😆

QuincyAbeyie

I don't care much about that. I don't tend to connect TV shows with real life. Same goes for those who thinks video games normalize violence. I just don't think that's how it works.

[spoiler]There's also the scene where the drone pilot accidentally kills an innocent father, or the scene where FBI decides to only evacuate the president from a hospital full of people when there's a bomb threat. It's not like they're trying to shine a bright light on them.[/spoiler]

goon

I don't connect TV shows with real life much either, but holier than thou 'good guys' who can do no wrong, or only do wrong when faced with an impossible decision do piss me off, nobody is that 'pure'. I loved The West Wing but that was an aspect that really irked me.

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