And this shift in Season 3 made me wonder "what's the point". Compared to a show like Succession that really threaded the needle to get the audience invested in the characters, Barry just made me want to put the bullet in him myself. I sure as shit don't care for the gaggle of characters beyond Gene and Hank.

Yeah, that's why I think it's audience driven. I don't think Hader ever wanted to push it this hard to make you question yourself for rooting for Barry. But when people were still cheering for him after he'd pretty much established himself as a stone-cold murderer even out from under the grip of Fuches, what else could he do?

And the Hank/Cristobal thing has run its course as well.

The show was so great in season 1, still very good in season 2, but it's pretty much on fumes at this point. It needs to be done.

The Dave and Busters scene was pretty funny.

Jalapeño Poppers for the table please.

Yeah - watched the first 2 episodes and there's just not much meat left on the bone here.
Oh well - nothing lasts forever.

Barry has taken a Breaking Bad turn, it seems. Bleakness features heavily.

Anyone heard anything about this?

I absoultely loved Winslet in Mare of Easttown.

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I’m on season 5 of Bosch. God it’s really good!

I’m a total goober for Bosch. FWIW there is another series of it on Freeform or some shit. I think it is Bosch Legacy.

BEEF was perhaps the best thing Netflix has done.

I'll add Barry to the list

Just binged watched seasons 1- 3. What a wild show.

Snowfall's series finale was on this past week

Beef on Netflix was pretty damn good... my wife is giving it a 10/10. I would say a 9/10.

I thought it was a great ending to a great series. I was hoping for a non-cliche ending (like some long ago wronged guy), and glad they didn't do that. The final couple of episodes were definately rushed. The CIA guy's end was ominous.

Eh, disappointed because they shoehorned the morality BS at the end which was generic.

Maybe it’s known to others and I’m not aware but I just noticed Netflix now has season 6 of Better Call Saul available.

We don’t get AMC so this is the greatest day.

I started the Diplomat on Netflix.

I'm a bit of Keri Russell dude. I really really liked The Americans, and this had a bit of that feel.

I'm typically not much for political thrillers, but this one hooked me. I was all in on almost all the characters. There wasn't much that fell flat. The UK PM kind of did, but they pulled him back in a bit.

I might be off base, but they did a really nice job of presenting high level operators processing quickly. It's one thing to say, this character is a good foreign policy mind. It's quite another to actually make it feel organic. It was really good.

Moreover, they didn't hamfist shit together. Some of the timeframes feel unnecessarily constrained, but nothing feels dumb or forced.

Big thing is the characters are all compelling. And maybe more impressive, is both sides of every argument made at least some sense, even if it goes against the narrative of the protagonist. They did a really good job with all the characters. And they also did a nice job of not trying to tie these dudes to caricatures of real political figures. The president is kind of supposed to be a Biden type, but they changed a lot, but still made him an interesting and compelling character. The UK PM is supposed to be a bit of a Boris Johnson type, but they did a good job of separating the character from the public person.

It was really good IMO.

And I'm still a Keri Russell guy... It's worth a click.

https://imgur.com/zUkmYo0

Damn I didn't know that either!

I've been watching Florida man, not the best show ever but I've been entertained

I did too. I enjoyed it. It was better than I expected. Some of the compunding of ****ery was pretty funny, but I had a good time watching it.

Hat tip to DJLN for the recommendation

Every time I endlessly scroll through Netflix I check the Better Call Saul season count. Then BOOM!

If we both can stay awake for at least an hour after sundown ima look towards the quarter moon and envision that we’re watching it together

I have one more episode but yeah the whole thing is a wild ride lol

I've been told by a few people to watch Jury Duty through Amazon Freevee because it is hilarious. The setup: everything about the lawsuit (the judicial officers, other jurors, etc) is fake, except for one innocent guy who believes it is real.

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I have finally gotten around to The Wire. Almost done with season 1. I know gets a ton of praise and definitely hasn’t disappointed. Definitely the kind of show you are glad to have never seen until you start watching it.

I'm jealous. I wish I could watch it again for the first time.

It's the only multi-season show that I've ever really re-watched.

The Chosen

Still to this day, the best show I have ever seen.

I think I've watched the entire series 5 or 6 times now. At least once every other year. And I finally, after endless prodding, got my wife to watch it this past winter. I get thorough enjoyment from seeing someone experience the show for the first time.

Yeah, it's been the top of my television Mt Everest since I first saw it. And there's a decent gap between 1 and 2. Plenty of other great shows I've seen but fairly certain this will always remain my favorite by a margin.

You're in for a treat, Mr Tegu!

I just watched the episode with Weebo (spelling?) and his shocked reaction popular gif. That was hilarious and weird seeing the original. I had no idea where that gif came from until seeing it there but pretty funny having seen it hundreds of times before this.

And yes, this show is amazing in every facet. Lots of familiar actors I had no idea were in TV. But this below video showed up on my YouTube Abe is what finally got me to commit to watching it. It talks about the care they took in being realistic and all of the primary sources and experiences the production team had with the content and city and even I guess launching some acting careers for real people turned actors.

https://youtu.be/tlYDCuJ-c8s

Wee-bey! One of the things about The Wire is that you love the "bad" guys, often as much or more as the so called good ones.

Interested to see how you handle the switch during Season 2. It's jarring for a lot of people as it seems everyone you got familiar with the first season is put on the backburner and the story makes a strong pivot.

Big picture though, it's all connected and important.

I could never get passed the first few episodes. Should maybe be more patient with it. It just didn't grab me from the start.

It really is well written and builds the whole dynamic of characters with a big dose of reality. It doesn't start banging out all kinds of stereotypical shit from what a TV series needs to do each week. It will draw you in.

I STRONGLY recommend you watch again from S1 E1 and soak it all in. :thumb:

By S1 E7 or E8, you will not be able to stop watching.

This was actually the case for me a few years back. I think watched the first two episodes and quit but I realize now I didn’t fully understand the depth and complexity that it was going to be going for.

FROM has been a pretty good series. Season two just started.

Welcome to Wrexham is a very polished documentary of sorts. Really helps that Rob and Ryan are entertaining as all get out. Rob's really got that dog in him when it comes to business acumen.

This ended up playing a major role in this final season.

I’ve been really enjoying this season, more than last. There’s at least one true LOL moment from each episode.

I really enjoyed "The Last Ship" on HBO Max. It's been around a while (014-018)

I found no reference to it when searching this thread, but that could be my lack of searching skills.

Holy shit Barry is back this season. They've gone right back to the same tone that seasons 1 and 2 featured, nailing that juxtaposition of comedy vs. serious setting.

"We have this room for another houuuur". I died.

I enjoyed the first couple of seasons - then it kinda turned into a basic procedural. But it was at least an "America, **** Yeah!" sort of action procedural. And it came out at a time when every single show on television was steeped in moral ambiguity.

The Last Ship has none of that. There are the good guys and the bad guys and it's pretty obvious from the jump who is who. No heel turns to speak of, unnecessary twists. Just good ol' American horsepower kicking some ass.

It's pretty brainless entertainment but I mostly enjoyed it.

Yeah, I saw "Keri Russell in her return to television" and I'm sitting here like "wait a minute, The Americans ended like 4 years ago - she hasn't been gone for a decade fellas..."

And I don't see how any red blooded American Male could not be a 'Keri Russell guy'. If I ever find out the Americans used a stunt ass, I'm gonna be awfully bummed out because...dayum.

Taking a run at The Last Kingdom. Man that's a slog. And the pacing is somehow simultaneously dog-slow and lightning fast.

I mean 5 episodes in he'll have gone from an 8 year old second in line saxon heir to an adult Dane warrior back to a saxon elder who went from dating his childhood 'co-slave' to married to some fringe nobility to a father and then divorced. I mean damn guys. How are you gonna coax 5 seasons and a movie out of this?

The problem is that 90% of it seems to happen offscreen. On screen there have been like 3 critical conversations and a couple of battles. Then a lot of horseriding.

I don't know if its actually any good - I just find the subject matter interesting.

“The whole kit and the poodle.”

The bit with Gene doing a monolgue to tell his story about Barry, but occasionally mixing up the dialogue accents was world class stuff. It's just blowing my mind, and I'm glad they aren't trying to play this season as straight as they did in Season 3.

It’s getting darker in a way but it has the great comedy relief again which is big.

Thank you for your insight, I agree with you.

I did find that later in the series, they injected a lot of new twists/characters that made it very interesting to the point I had a hard time turning it off for the day. In fact, early on in the series I was concerned the plot may have been a result of the recent pandemic.

It is right in the wheelhouse of what I enjoy, as Sci Fi, Gore and police shows have no interest for me. Of course, being a Navy vet probably has some serious impact on my interest level. :thumb:
Also, the timetable of when it was filmed/produced, was prior to a lot of industry requirements for diversity, sexual and racial issues we see in the latest stuff that is often a turn off for this old fart.

I struggle to determine if it's good. At least as a historical production. The history is pretty hit or miss.

If you divorce yourself from the actual historical figures, it's pretty good. At least to the extent the characters became compelling. Ultimately, I ended up really giving a shit about the characters and the (historically inaccurate) story.

And the battle scenes are good. Really good. Worth the wait.

In short I came for the assling insults, stayed for the characters.

The Arseling insults just started.

So I think it may be picking up a little steam...

Will this have sufficient gratuitous nudity? It's been very sparse to this point...

I don't remember the frequency, but yes. Titties.

I am keeping up with Lucky Hank and becoming a big Bob Odenkirk fan. Recently watched season 6 of Better call Saul.


Cancelling 1899 makes no sense to me either. :banghead:

I started watching from S1 E1 and around E4 I kept missing them.

want to get caught up as I really like it. Another show that contains a lot of originality.

Yeah - The Citadel is good shit.

A) Stanley Tucci rocks
B) Priyanka Chopra is just laughably attractive.

The premise is just so ridiculously over the top but there's a slight twist on it that is pretty damn good.

Oh, and I don't think Richard Madden is a very good actor but this is an audition reel for the next James Bond for him. Right age, right look, can do athletic and suave.

I don't know if he has the acting chops for it, but it's not like all the Bonds have been great actors. This seems like it might be a no brainer.

I don't think he's horrible. There are some really goddamned good performances that are on film these days, so it isn't really fair to compare what he's doing to Succession or whatever. Plus, Gossling, who can act, was really meh in Gray man, also directed by the Russos post Infinity War.

So yeah, ****ing put his ass as Bond and make movies and shit.

Catching up on the Presige TV podcasts with Bill Hader and they do a weekly episode recap.

Yeah - Hader HATES Barry. "He's thoughtless and selfish and just not very bright. He sees things and he acts without considering how those actions haunt people..."

The only silver lining I see here is that he seems to dislike Fuches even more and blames Fuches leaning into Barry's issues, exacerbating them and using him for his own purposes once he realized he had a father-figure level influence over Barry.

So it may end up Fuches that ends up with a big shitburger to eat, but I still don't see a happy ending for Barry.

He's definitely retconned Barry from Season 1 and 2,who was a much more meticulous and cunning character. Barry didn't make too many mistakes until Hader decided he was disgusted with audiences rooting for him.

That said, Season 4 has still been on enjoyable.

Barry hasn’t been the same since Fuches outed him.

I don't know that it is a "must watch", but Sanctuary on Netflix is another bizarro Japanese series about Sumo wrestling. And Season one ending in a cliffhanger indicates there is a season two. It was fascinating, but might not fit a lot of people's taste.

Tried to get into the Godfather of Harlem but lost interest around episode 5.

This weeks episode was soooooooo heavy handed.

Bill. Dude. We get it.

Anyone watching Silo on Apple TV? Only 2 episodes out right now but looks promising.

I just finished watching all the seasons and the movie with my wife....all in all pretty good show and I will miss the Utred character.

Destiny is all.

Sally's pretty hot as a trashy brunettte, not gonna lie...

I made a post about Sarah with dark hair about a year ago, it looks very good on her.

They (Barry show) seem to have glossed over

It’s time for Season 3 of The Righteous Gemstones. I’m ready.

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"From" - reasons to watch? Hannah Cheramy.

Moms is no slouch either, Catalina Sandino Moreno

That show is beyond bad though, imo

Its like Lost meets some awkward made for TV Stephen King adaptation aired on the WB during the 2000s

Really good last episode of Barry, this show is just so well executed. Just wish Hader didn't feel the need to castrate his main character.

If the writing remains honest, I just don't see any way Barry makes it out of that garage.

I mean Jim Moss hasn't really hidden his intentions at any point and Barry has no allies left. Clearly Hank and Fuches saving the day would be forced as hell.

But yeah, Hader's loathing of his character has really made landing the plane here a bit of a chore.

EDIT: Unfortunately I forgot that Hader isn't doing his after-show interviews anymore 'in solidarity with the screenwriters strike'. That's a bummer as I'd like to get a little more insight as to his thinking this season.

You've said it best, but I think it's pretty easy to predict

Yeah, that was the only 'out' I could come up with as well. But again, that just feels so cliched and forced.

And honestly it'd be a little disappointing to me. I mean hell, I'd have been just fine with the last scene of this episode being the last scene of the entire series. Jim deserves that moment.

This is on Hulu, also it is on Disney+ I believe. I started watching and couldn’t stop, 6 episodes available now. Final 2 episodes will be released next week.
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I found this yesterday and watched the trailer. I absolutely cannot wait to clear my TV queue and get properly into it. Looks absolutely outstanding and the reviews back that up.

Muppets Mayhem on Disney. Some of the better comedy writing I've seen and the cameos are great. Plenty of humor for adults that finds a way to keep it kid friendly. Perfect example is an episode where the band goes on an acid like trip from 30 year old expired marshmallows.

Ghosts of Beirut on Showtime. One episode released thus far. True story.

Homeland-ish vibes. Looks like this will be really enjoyable.

Anyone watching White House Plumbers?

The Merry Wives of Windsor.