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Season premier of Snowfall coming up in February. The final episode last season was a bit trope but it's an excellent show.
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I want to find a good series - i just finished New Blood and am in the middle of Book of Boba. I just couldn't finish Yellowjackets. Let's face it - it's a weak series when it all boils down to it.
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I watched The Undoing on HBO the past couple days. It's got Nicole Kidman, and Hugh Grant as a married couple that get tangled up in a murder. It's pretty good, up until the last episode. Then it's just ridiculous and stupid.
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The Giallo vibe of ZeroZeroZero is superb. It’s wild yet stylish and the synth throughout is perfection. Despite not loving a couple main characters, I’m thoroughly enjoying this.
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I watched season one and the first episode of S.2 of Gomorrah...it was good up until like episode 8 and then the writing fell off a cliff....I know it's 8 years old but will list my grievances in a spoiler. I think I'm on to something else...
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I did Station Eleven. I'll be goddamned if it isn't straight up compelling. It's pretty high brow. Normally high brow shit doesn't work for me, but this one did. It got it's hooks in me pretty good.
I do have to say you have to suspend your "cut the shit" reactions, because like most dystopians, there is a lot of shit that just won't work in real life, but whatever, it's a well told well acted compelling story. I don't know what you all think of Mackenzie Davis, but I'm a fan. Other than the Martian, the only thing I've seen her in is Halt and Catch Fire. She isn't particularly pretty, but she does it for me. She can be very pretty when she tries to be, and seemingly never wears a bra. :) But she carries a heavy load in this one and really knocks it out of the park. What she portrays is a very very complicated situation, and it's never not believable. They even ask her to do some physical stuff, which is a big ask as rail thin as she is and it was better than I expected. This one really asks a lot of the viewers. Accordingly I should re-watch it because it's a big watch. But it does a good job of swinging for the fences without getting overly preachy. I think there is a book? I haven't read it, but would be interested to hear from any that have. |
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I had a particular [as in specific and probably not all that universal] aversion to the narrative, as I hate the 'let's put on a play' narrative of comprehensive problem-solving. And I hate this notion that great works performed with heart will unlock truths in every hardened heart. It smacks of creative types jacking themselves off, and it happens everywhere. And that narrative was as central to this show as it could possibly be, but I didn't mind overly in the end, and it even managed to acquit that thesis fairly well. Overall a worthwhile experience. With that said, I think it's somewhat of a pale imitator of The Leftovers, which the production team oversaw just a couple years back. Not as apocalyptic, but every bit as emotional and resonant its themes. And I agree about MacEnzie Davis. She is not a 'stunner' but she is very engrossing, and it struck me she's a good deal like a young Meryl Streep. Pretty in a plain honest manner, but so expressive and engrossing that you lose yourself in her performances. Watch Meryl in The Deerhunter and see if you aren't thinking the same things about her you are MacEnzie in their respective performances. |
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The Leftovers didn't work as well for me as this did. I caught the first 2 seasons of Leftovers, and didn't bother with the third. I thought it did a nice job on the character stuff and right as it got in there it would dive back into weird ass shit, in my opinion needlessly. But maybe the 3rd season un****s it all, but whatever. I thought this was a better, more refined story, or at least approach. Davis has earned some rope from me. I'll watch her stuff. |
Just finished Station Eleven. Very eclectic. Slow, but the acting and character development was great. Totally unexpected story, felt pretty fresh compared to all the sequels and reboots we're usually complaining about.
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Single Drunk Female has your usual Loudermilk vibes for the gal set.
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This COULD actually be brilliant, first premise is Arnett is an investigator who always gets assigned celebrities as sidekicks who are 'doing research' for a role, . . . second premise is, the celebrities go into the scene with no direction except be yourself and go with it. Could be a trainwreck, could be a masterpiece.
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anything spooky to watch? Been a drought - thought it was getting better but availability and selection still suck.
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Trying to watch Dark on Netflix. This thing is really taking its time.
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I just started a Mike Flanagan series called The Haunting of Bly Manor.
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Resident Alien season 2 starts tomorrow. I really enjoyed the first season. First 5 minutes of S02E01...
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Martin Freeman gone full crackin' Scouse. Opt for closed captions.
Fairly run-of-the-mill narrative with a modern update, worth it for performances and dialogue. EDIT - after binging, it's . . . different from run-of-the-mill, at least different from what you expect at the outset. Kind of hard to encapsulate without spoiling . . . Curious what the take of others will be. <iframe width="645" height="363" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/dutsjEpqkXs" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe> |
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So, I stumbled upon this on Netflix, and immediately burned through the whole first season. It's not perfect, but it's one of the better trippy thrillers I've seen on Netflix in a while. The suspense is pretty intense in many parts. It's complex. There's a thousand different ways they could take the next season and most of them would be pretty cool.
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that Resident Alien apparently has quite a little following.
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If you liked Knives Out and Only Murders in the Building, up your alley.
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Thoroughly enjoy watching Will Arnett, but it seems as though he can't catch on with anything substantive since...Arrested Development? Not sure if I'm overlooking something besides his voice-overs for Reece's Peanut Butter Cups. I know he has done a lot of animated kid's movies-- but I don't watch those. Undoubtedly someone will come along and lambaste me, pointing out the 50 projects he's produced or starred in over the past five years. But to me, he's either Gob Bluth or Stranz Van Waldenberg. |
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You might watch the whole thing without thinking of Arnett once, even though he's the lead voice, but it's truly a seminal work. Don't be off-put by the idea of animation, it's philosophical and wistful and even mind-numbingly sad at points, and also gut-bustingly hilarious most of the time. Also, if it seems trifling at first, stick with it. It has an endgame, . . . boy, does it have an endgame. There's an existing conversation in this thread, starting here https://chiefsplanet.com/bb/showpost...&postcount=985 EDIT - remove the trailer since it's in the link to the prior convo above.^^ |
Two of my favorite genres are historical dramas and comedies.
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Anyone watching Beforeigners on HBO Max? Season 1 was a bit slow, but season 2 has been great.
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I watched Boardwalk Empire on the recommendation of Twisted Chief.
It’s worth the time if you have HBO for something else. It does a LOT of things well. It manages a lot of personalities well. It does the period stuff awesome. Which I’m a total goober for. It mixes in some historical characters pretty well, and IMO does a really nice job with Lucky Luciano and Capone on later seasons. Also
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Maybe it is just my taste, I hate Scifi, horror and most foreign shows. I guess Hollyweird or American production quality has me spoiled. I tried watching that Gamorah show on HBO plus and it made me want to scratch my eyes out. Even gave it 4 episodes I think. |
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The Righteous Gemstones continues to be another Danny McBride/Jody Hill masterpiece. After watching this weeks episode I’m pretty sure McBride was inspired by Rising Sun 1993 with Sean Connery/Wesley Snipes.
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There are so many UTR movies or series that deserve watching with all the competition.
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And whomever cast the younger versions of the Gemstone clan knocked it out of the effing PARK!! It almost seems like a spinoff of just the teens showing how the adults came to be how they are would work in it's own right. EDIT - for those who skipped the credits, you missed an awesome credit music song [part of why I made the musical savante remark above], leaving it here for posterity . . . It's been in my head ALL WEEK.
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It's past time, I think it has to be said somewhere. . . Mandy Moore's work as Rebecca on This is Us deserves recognition as one of the great network drama characters ever.
I have to admit, I never 'expected much' from Mandy Moore. For the longest I had some mental mixup where I confused, or melded, her with Jessica Alba, a similarly attractive woman of the same age, but significantly less talented. Mandy inhabits the same character over a span of decades, often overlapping in the same episodes, and each instance is a fully realized chapter of the life of that character seasoned with heartbreaking and revelatory nuances across those decades. And never once do you think 'there's Mandy made to look younger' or 'there's Mandy in age makeup.' It's reliably, 'that's young Rebecca' and 'that's mature Rebecca' and 'that's mourning Rebecca.' And all of it seems natural, and often doesn't even seem like the same actress. It's a truly masterful performance . . . |
I checked out The Gilded Age the other day. Saw Carrie Coon and gave it a watch, I think I will stick with it.
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Glad you enjoyed, man. I've considered a rewatch of that one but there's so much else to get through. Is Ted Lasso a must-see, guys? I don't know why but I so very much prefer binge watching dramas over comedies. E.g., I recognize the brilliance of Schitt's Creek but it still seems too saccharine to plow through in binge fashion. |
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S2 is worth the watch, but some of the funny stuff missed, but worth the watch IMO. It's a light watch, but it tackles some fairly ambitious goals but manages not to get out over it's skis. It's not lifechanging, but after I binged S1, it stuck with me for awhile. |
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My wife picked the last show for us to watch and she picked this:
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I'm binging Roman Empire on Netflix. Best Roman history show I've seen. I love Roman history. That Claudius fella was shrewd af.
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I was legit teary eyed at the end. If you like Roman history, check out the History of Rome Podcast. They are like 20 minute episodes of super light and easy listening and it rolls through the entirety of Rome. I'm not all the way through it, but it is really ****ing good. And the manner in which he explains it makes it really easy to keep all the ****ers with the same names/changed names/weird names separate. |
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New season of Ozark finally started
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Gomorrah season 5 now on HBO Max. |
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I'm only 3 or 4 episodes in but the "Take Your Daughter to Work Day" bit made me laugh. It isn't the funniest show, but I've enjoyed it so far. |
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Yeah, it’s a satire of thriller movies/shows. Not serious. What was chalked up as bad writing was intentional tongue-in-cheek mockery of the genre. I enjoyed it a lot. |
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