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Finished Fargo season 1 and 2. Awesome show for sure. Props to whoever recommended it back in this thread.
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Yo! Me and GP and emph and probably a dozen other dudes. ^__^ It's ace ain't it, glad you enjoyed!
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MOSQUITO FIGHTER wrote:Finished Fargo season 1 and 2. Awesome show for sure. Props to whoever recommended it back in this thread.
You're in for a treat - season three is wiiiiild.
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X FIGHTER wrote:Finished Breaking Bad season 2 and 3. Awesome show for sure. Props to whoever recommended it back in this thread.There was a funny moment in the 1 season at a cafe which I even flipped via this tool. The series itself is a masterpiece!
One of the best series in history!

My pick is True Detective. Season 1.
Masterpiece!
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BIL wrote:Yo! Me and GP and emph and probably a dozen other dudes. ^__^ It's ace ain't it, glad you enjoyed!
Fo shiz!
emphatic wrote: You're in for a treat - season three is wiiiiild.
Also fo shiz!
Blackfieldling wrote: True Detective. Season 1.
Masterpiece!
Thrice fo shiz!

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Ozark season four is up. It’s been so long between seasons I forgot what happened and who half of these people are.
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Did Ozark Season 4 Part 1. Had to semi binge it while staying w/ a friend as I don't have Netflix. Usual solid quality as seen before.
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Been watching the Boba Fett show, it's entertaining enough. The vespa speeders were pretty cheesy, but it's fine it doesn't ruin it.

Only complaint is that it's very slow to develop, and it features flashbacks very heavily. I really hate flashback based storytelling, it's just so lazy.


I also finished up the Expanse. I was pretty disappointed that it got cancelled and the last season was so short. I really think they had an opportunity to keep it going. I know it was a pretty big draw for Amazon, so I wonder what the issue was.
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vol.2 wrote:I also finished up the Expanse. I was pretty disappointed that it got cancelled and the last season was so short. I really think they had an opportunity to keep it going. I know it was a pretty big draw for Amazon, so I wonder what the issue was.
Well one thing I do know is the character of Alex Kamal got killed off unceremoniously last season because the actor was being creepy with fans at conventions.

Also the books apparently have a long time skip after this point and all the actors would have to wear old people makeup.

I think the Expanse had an amazing setting and love the realistic physics special effects and soundtrack, but the characters always seemed flat to me. That and the actor playing James Holden is a charisma black hole so it's bizarre to me how everyone flocks to him. Luv Amos and Avisarala, though!



Just started rewatching Bablyon 5 for the first time in ten years. Cheesy production values aside, I'd put this alongside Breaking Bad as some of the best writing in TV history. I just watched an episode that deconstructed the flaws of Star Trek's prime directive better than the entire run of DS9.
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Mischief Maker wrote: I think the Expanse had an amazing setting and love the realistic physics special effects and soundtrack, but the characters always seemed flat to me. That and the actor playing James Holden is a charisma black hole so it's bizarre to me how everyone flocks to him. Luv Amos and Avisarala, though!
I didn't know about Alex, that's a shame. As far as Holden goes, I agree, but it never bothered me because they spent so much time on other plotlines that it didn't seem to matter that much. He was fine really, just not a strong leading actor.
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I have somehow really fond memories of Babylon 5, but maybe I am really just biased towards Harlan Ellison, whose influence on the show was often very clear.
Well, what I know is that he was a consultant and could apparently offer suggestions any time, and those would be usually incorporated in the scripts.

Would I need to dust off the rose-tinted googles and my "teen SF nerd fan" persona, to watch it now?
Chomsky, Buckminster Fuller, Yunus and Glass would have played Battle Garegga, for sure.
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Randorama wrote:Would I need to dust off the rose-tinted googles and my "teen SF nerd fan" persona, to watch it now?
I'm actually enjoying the show better the second time now that I know where the plot is going and I'm picking up on all the subtle foreshadowing.

The main things you need to brace yourself for are cheesy production values and occasionally hammy performances. And the fact that the show will mix equal parts heavy end-of-the-world A plots with goofy lighthearted B plots. I don't mind the show's aged CGI at all because of what they actually DO with the old-timey graphics.

No, the biggest pain-in-the-ass is HBO Max has several episodes with the audio out of sync. >:(
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OK & thanks, I am sold also because the wife never had a chance to watch it.
It will take more or less forever as we do not have the patience to watch more than 40-60 minutes of anything per day, but there is no hurry whatsoever.
Besides, I didn't watch it in English until the last season, so it should be interesting to discover the original version.
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Speaking of mixing end of the world plots with some comic relief, I'm currently rewatching Neon Genesis Evangelion. It's been literally decades since I've last watched it, but when I stumbled upon it while browsing Netflix, I thought: "Why not?"

If anything, I actually enjoy it more than the first time around so far. While I do like the remakes (haven't watched the fourth movie yet), they lack a certain grittiness the original series has and I don't think they nail the balance between all-out action and advancing the plot quite as well as the original series does.
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Still watching Babylon 5, just finished watching one of my favorite episodes, "Passing Through Gethsemane," and thankfully HBO Max had the sound properly synced this time.

To me it's the equivalent of DS9's "In the Pale Moon Light."

Brad Dourif is the man.
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emphatic wrote:
MOSQUITO FIGHTER wrote:Finished Fargo season 1 and 2. Awesome show for sure. Props to whoever recommended it back in this thread.
You're in for a treat - season three is wiiiiild.
To be honest I’m not really enjoying season three all that much. The setup just isn’t as fun to me as season one and two. I honestly am considering stopping here.
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I actually prefer Season 3 mainly for the cast. Varga is one of the best Coen related villains, and I got a school boy crush on both Carrie Coon and Mary Elizabeth Winstead. The cherry on top is Ray Wise.
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MOSQUITO FIGHTER wrote: To be honest I’m not really enjoying season three all that much. The setup just isn’t as fun to me as season one and two. I honestly am considering stopping here.
Did you see it the whole way through?

I'm watching Reacher now on Amazon. Never read the books, so my only previous knowledge of the character comes from the Tom Cruise movies. :oops: It's a pretty fun show.
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Fargo S3 is certainly a stranger beast than the first season's '96 redux, and the second's universally manful 1970s SUPER COP drama. It took me a second watch to really warm up to, the obvious highlights aside (splendidly hideous Vic Varga, and teh rovely miss MEW Image).

Once I'd adjusted to the meandering pace, I grew to love its maturing of the series' playful surrealism. Opposite the first two seasons' intermittent flares of unreality, S3 maintains a subtly knowing fever-dream hue, with sparingly gorgeous indulgences of pure Lynchesque complementing the fine-spun threads of tragedy. Fargo always had a unique hybrid of warmly wistful and bone-chillingly brutal, with S3 reaching an almost fairytale melancholy... the old stuff, from harder times, where heads roll on red snow.

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Despite the setup being firmly familiar - smalltime crooks tumbling into black farce, petty greed arousing some greater demon and its lethal enforcers, as intrepid cops strive to comprehend, never mind combat the evil mess - it lands very differently from the first two. I love 'em all. Still need to catch up to S4, god dammit.
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I just found out about this series called Resurrection Ertugrul. Just a few episodes in. I can’t believe how insanely long it is. Hundreds of hour long episodes per season. Seems really well done too. It’s a Turkish TV show. I’d probably watch all of these if it was in English. I don’t mind watching foreign movies but foreign language series is a bit much for me to bear. Don’t know how far I’ll get into this but it seems really awesome and well done so far.

Checked out Pam and Tommy on Hulu. So hilarious. Way better than it has any right to be.

Also really excited for the new Vikings: Valhalla on Netflix. Should be awesome! It’s from the same production team as the original History channel Vikings series which is by far my favorite tv series of all time.
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I'm really loving Yellowstone. The first episode was very dense, but from episode 2 and onward, it's like crack cocaine.
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EkN8Wt ... 59&index=1

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Beloved auld classic of fin de siècle Channel 4, a much funnier place back then. Image Are you familiar with Brass Eye and Black Books? Different genres (news media satire and sitcom respectively), similar quality from a few of the same people. Peeps are always telling me to watch The IT Crowd on similar recs, but I'm a procrastinative bastard w/me ents!
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Vikings Valhalla was awesome. I finished it over the weekend. First episode was kinda whatever then it really picked up nicely. King Forkbeard is definitely the man. I mean just look at this guy. What a kick ass beard. Total badass.

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Mischief Maker wrote:Garth Marenghi's Darkplace

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EkN8Wt ... 59&index=1

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I've been watching Gotham for the first time. A very mixed bag. The Bruce Wayne actor is whiny and horrible and I hate watching him. The cops are mostly great, and I really like the actor that plays Victor. All in all it's a successfully diverting diversion of a show, but it's nothing you need to waste your life on if there is something better to do. Prime fodder for having on in the background while doing other stuff.
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vol.2 wrote:I've been watching Gotham for the first time. A very mixed bag. The Bruce Wayne actor is whiny and horrible and I hate watching him. The cops are mostly great, and I really like the actor that plays Victor. All in all it's a successfully diverting diversion of a show, but it's nothing you need to waste your life on if there is something better to do. Prime fodder for having on in the background while doing other stuff.
It's very drama, very theatre in tone IMHO. Yes, it's okay background noise while you browse forums. :lol:
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I've gone through Better Call Saul seasons 1-3 (will do 4 and 5 before Season 6 starts in April). Very enjoyable the second time through. I had forgotten quite a few of the finer details.
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Yellowstone and 1883, both great.
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Better Call Saul Seasons 4-5. Given the slow rollout of the last few seasons, and definitely the 2 year gap between 5 and 6, I highly recommend the rewatch. It did not disappoint.

Euphoria Season 2. Great stuff, as usual.
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