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lorddulaarsenal

Burnwinter wrote:
jones wrote:
I'm not sure you'll like it Burns tbh. It's fun enough but it gets really silly pretty often.

I was kinda veering away from it a little bit, but I've had strong recommendations from all and sundry. Not expecting it to be WINTER'S BONE, the TV series (which I'd enjoy but it'd be impossible to keep the standard up).

Besides I just watched THE LAST KINGDOM which was silly as fuck … I dunno. Maybe I should go catch season two of SUCCESSION before any of these.

I too had concerns that it wouldn’t be for extreme intellectuals like us Burnsy, but it’s proved a hit.

Darlene Snell is probably the best character I’ve seen in quite some while.

Burnwinter

"Extreme intellectuals" … do I detect a note of doubt there Dules? 😆

Gazza M

Klaus wrote:
Gazza M wrote:
Working may way through a handful of shows concurrently

Last kingdom
Dave
Insecure
Superstore
The Great
The Terror
John Adams
The men who built America
Gangs of London

Agree with Qwiss and Quincy on Superstore, it's probably the best non-animated American comedy around at the moment.

I always found John Adams incredibly overrated though, contrary to all the great reviews. It has a reasonably good cast and a decent budget, Stephen Dillane is especially good as Thomas Jefferson, but the story jumps through time in a very incoherent manner and some of the stages of Adams's life and career that they choose to focus on truly boggles the mind. It started out well enough but lost steam just a few episodes in. I think it's a bad show from a technical perspective too. The way they constantly tilt the camera in situations that don't call for it just makes it look like a parody of prestige tv after a while too. It reminded me of what Roger Ebert wrote about Battlefield Earth: "The director has learned from better films that directors sometimes tilt their cameras, but he has not learned why."

I didnt realise the revolutionary war ends when there's still 3-4 60 minute+ episodes left 😆

Definitely lost energy in the back half. Excellent cast though

Gazza M

arsedoc md wrote:
How do you guys watch so many shows, doesn't fatigue set in phew

ive been watching most of the ones on my list over the course of the last 12 months. Fulltime WFH has accelerated viewing habits a bit lately tbf

Qwiss

Quincy Abeyie wrote:
Yeah. The short scene transitions with customers doing stupid shit is especially funny if you've worked in a store because it's surprisingly accurate at times. Wonder how it will be when a certain cast member is leaving after this season though.

Yeah thats a bit worrying. Really like her in it. Did you read they didn't even get to shoot her last episodes?

Qwiss

arsedoc md wrote:
How do you guys watch so many shows, doesn't fatigue set in phew

I think I've watched one episode of The Trip to Greece this week and not much else. I watch hardly any TV these days. I watched Normal People recently, that was good. I plan on watching Snowpiercer soon, maybe today, maybe not.

I used to watch way more but I think theres a fairly big drop off in quality in the last few years and I'm really not interested in most of whats on nowadays. Especially in terms of prestige dramas.

banduan

Binged on both Dirk Gently and Russian Doll. Was actually surprised to find both enjoyable.

QuincyAbeyie

Qwiss! wrote:
Quincy Abeyie wrote:
Yeah. The short scene transitions with customers doing stupid shit is especially funny if you've worked in a store because it's surprisingly accurate at times. Wonder how it will be when a certain cast member is leaving after this season though.

Yeah thats a bit worrying. Really like her in it. Did you read they didn't even get to shoot her last episodes?

Didn't know that. I just assumed they'd make some sort of attempt to wrap things up in the season premiere and have her in at least that episode, but if this is the last we've seen of her I can't imagine a good way to go about it.

Qwiss

I haven't heard what they're gonna do. If she gets another show she might not be able to shoot with them before next season.

Gazza M

Finished dave. The show just about works as a mix of curb and atlanta, and most of the pieces surrounding the titular character are good - but i came away thoroughly disliking david 'lil dicky' burd and what he represents. entitlement seeps through the screen even though they try to mask it behind jokes. Him getting a starring role in a major cable show despite having no acting experience aside from a few viral music videos, and landing the exec producer of curb as the showrunner kind of underlines what im talking about. I was looking forward to this being a satirical takedown of white rappers, but it felt more like someone re-writing their own recent past. Perusing a few interviews of his over the last 5 years, he comes across as the quintessential deluded suburban middle class guy that not only overlooks the existence of the advantages he's had, but resents anyone that calls it out, and resents that he can't 'get away' with rapping about what black folks rap about. No surprise drake is his favorite rapper - that guy birthed dicky and his cornball ilk. That being said, he's a 'made' man with this show now, which ultimately felt like the slickest kind of reputation washing.

jones

Gazza M wrote:
Finished dave. The show just about works as a mix of curb and atlanta, and most of the pieces surrounding the titular character are good - but i came away thoroughly disliking david 'lil dicky' burd and what he represents. entitlement seeps through the screen even though they try to mask it behind jokes. Him getting a starring role in a major cable show despite having no acting experience aside from a few viral music videos, and landing the exec producer of curb as the showrunner kind of underlines what im talking about. Perusing a few interviews of his over the last 5 years, he comes across as the quintessential deluded suburban middle class guy that not only denies the existence of the advantages he's had, but resents that he can't 'get away' with rapping about what black folks rap about. That being said he's a 'made' man with this show now, which feels like a bit of reputation washing. No surprise drake is his favorite rapper - that guy birthed dicky and his cornball ilk

Read similar stuff about the show. Never watched it, never heard a song of the guy but just looking at his face I've to wonder why you'd listen to him or even put yourself through watching him

Gazza M

I knew very little about him other than a handful of pop songs my nieces and nephews listen to, but seeing as though it was produced by FX and (somewhat) hiphop flavored i thought id try it. The overall show is actually solid as you'd expect when you see the production talent behind it, but the 'star' at the centre of it is a major weak link

Burnwinter

Watched the first episode of CHERNOBYL last night. Grim.

Just watching it going "He's now dead. Those guys will die. Those kids are all going to die" in my head. The cosmic horror of radioactivity.

Asterix

It is pretty grim, and many who did survive didn't have a very nice quality of life. But it is also amazing that people in certain situations did survive.

FEBravo

Burnwinter wrote:
Watched the first episode of CHERNOBYL last night. Grim.

Just watching it going "He's now dead. Those guys will die. Those kids are all going to die" in my head. The cosmic horror of radioactivity.

It is grim but I thought it was really well done. Not really sure of the point of starting not at the beginning, especially after you finish the series. I actually went back to watch the first 10 minutes and made much more sense. Overall, I thought it was quite well done and reasonably accurate historically (with some obvious embelishment)

Qwiss

jones wrote:
Gazza M wrote:
Finished dave. The show just about works as a mix of curb and atlanta, and most of the pieces surrounding the titular character are good - but i came away thoroughly disliking david 'lil dicky' burd and what he represents. entitlement seeps through the screen even though they try to mask it behind jokes. Him getting a starring role in a major cable show despite having no acting experience aside from a few viral music videos, and landing the exec producer of curb as the showrunner kind of underlines what im talking about. Perusing a few interviews of his over the last 5 years, he comes across as the quintessential deluded suburban middle class guy that not only denies the existence of the advantages he's had, but resents that he can't 'get away' with rapping about what black folks rap about. That being said he's a 'made' man with this show now, which feels like a bit of reputation washing. No surprise drake is his favorite rapper - that guy birthed dicky and his cornball ilk

Read similar stuff about the show. Never watched it, never heard a song of the guy but just looking at his face I've to wonder why you'd listen to him or even put yourself through watching him

Haven't watched the show and only heard him in short bites here and there but he's a complete charisma blackhole. As soon as you see him you already can't stand him. Then the more I see of him the worse it gets.

goon

Space Force is atrocious.

Burnwinter

CHERNOBYL was great. I found the final episode with the trial scenes less enjoyable, it felt more fictionalised (even though it wasn't any more fictional, it just felt that way with the obviously anti-realist, Sorkinesque trial speeches).

It's a meaningful story about institutional failure and also the enforced heroism of the people involved—especially the miners, soldiers and divers who were conscripted into the clean-up. The explicitly anti-Soviet side of it was a bit annoying, since you can easily point to similar disasters provoked by other regimes or companies.

Skarsgard, Watson and Harris are great in it, each one sympathetic and reflecting a different emotional position.

Daz

Yeah I really enjoyed Chernobyl too Burnsy.
I finished season 3 of Ozark a couple of days ago and it was also really good. Probably the best season yet because the plot was a bit simpler and more believable. The second last episode in particular was excellent and genuinely gut wrenching. The guy playing Ben Davis was particularly good. Don't think I've ever seen him in anything else before.

goon

Burnwinter wrote:
CHERNOBYL was great. I found the final episode with the trial scenes less enjoyable, it felt more fictionalised (even though it wasn't any more fictional, it just felt that way with the obviously anti-realist, Sorkinesque trial speeches).

It's a meaningful story about institutional failure and also the enforced heroism of the people involved—especially the miners, soldiers and divers who were conscripted into the clean-up. The explicitly anti-Soviet side of it was a bit annoying, since you can easily point to similar disasters provoked by other regimes or companies.

Skarsgard, Watson and Harris are great in it, each one sympathetic and reflecting a different emotional position.

You should watch Dark Waters.

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