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[neorichieb1971]

The 3 themes that seem to stick out most of the seasons is - Robots, Stealing or having an alternative consciousness and monitoring/reviewing (either your own thoughts/memories or someone elses).

don't forget beastiality.

I don't know how one defines "Beastiality" in context of the show. Did I miss several episodes akin to Wolfman and American werewolf in London?

[BryanM]

It's not all about quantity, it's about what people remember. Perhaps in some dark future the yiff will oversaturate the market and such thin spice would be unremarkable, but we're not there yet.

I just view the show as a series of stand alone movies and skip the ones I don't want to see. I regret watching Hang the DJ, which could be summed up as "banging certain people feels better than banging some other people sometimes."

The problem is having to read a synopsis sometimes to the point of a complete spoil. Not all of them are as easy a sell as "Star Trek + Black Mirror".

[GaijinPunch]

I don't know how one defines "Beastiality" in context of the show.

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The whole premise of episode 1.

It was sort of a joke, but it has some truth.

[neorichieb1971]

I don't know how one defines "Beastiality" in context of the show.

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The whole premise of episode 1.

It was sort of a joke, but it has some truth.

Ahh.. That episode struck me as being against the grain compared to the other episodes. Considering where it sits in the order of the episodes I suppose anyone who liked it would have expected more like it.

[soprano1]

"Ugly Delicious", food documentary in Netflix. No bullshit, down-to-earth stuff. David Chang's opinions on certain topics are kinda dumb, but the rest is pretty good watching.

[Zen]

Black Mirror.- seasons 3 and 4

Past the cracks already apparent in season 2, season 3 and 4 are almost like a different show with only short glimmers of what made the first season interesting.
(Also, the self referential tedium of teddy bears and that fucking song, made old zen cranky )

I have seen it written, that the show should be viewed as a collection of unique stories, like the Twilight Zone. Some may appeal and some may not. I would disagree insomuch as the first season set a definite tone and theme that the later seasons clash with.

Speaking of which;"San Junipero"- Season 3 - is an old but good idea, done here in unfortunate farcical cringe

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cause in the groovy virtual world, straight women are interracial lesbians dontcha know!

If they had spent more time on the "living is in the now" theme, it might have achieved something worthwhile.

But it is in "USS Callister" - season 4 - that the long emerging boil finally busts its self flagellant Joss Whedon puss all over the innocent viewer (unless of course, you are into that whole thing. To each his own.)
It features John Walker Flint as "a woman in charge [fighting] against a small-minded, misogynist bully", a "misogynist" that also happens to be a gamer. Of course.

Also, for the love of GAWD! is it not apparent by now, that one cannot cuck the Shat!

STHAP!

I think it is also worth noting that Charlton Brooker is an hilariously self-unaware twat, who has made a career out of smugly mocking everything he himself eventually became. Nice one, Charlie!

[BryanM]

The Daly character isn't a misogynist, he's a psychopath.

You need to spend less time on the tweeter Zen, and more time in reality. Or at least your personal fantasy world.

That doesn't include "cultural" snowflakes from tweeter.

[Zen]

You do not care for my critique of "USS Callister" then, BryanM? What a shocker!

Chauvinist, Misogynist, Psychopath - its all the same in the eyes of the mighty WU! Get with the Third Wave already!

As for the rest; Its too vague a rant. Is it a an invitation back into your "Bush" commune?

[S_Fang]

Still watching Grimmʳᵉᵍʳᵉᵗᵗᵃᵇˡʸ and by season Four the signs of deteriorations are getting worse, just like necrosis on living beings.
Although, this series should be renamed in something like "Monsters Crime Investigation Unit (M.C.I.U.)" now that another character knows about this "world", so we have all of these people going out to solve crimes, because the saying "The more, the marrier" still applies to a super-human DC main character reject, which make the encounters with the monsters as threatening as a AAA videogame boss fight.

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Good thing that B̶u̶f̶f̶y̶ ̶r̶e̶j̶e̶c̶t̶ grimm Trebel left the primary spotlight alongside the other non-grimm in order to become proper W̶i̶n̶c̶h̶e̶s̶t̶e̶r̶s̶'̶ ̶k̶n̶o̶c̶k̶o̶f̶f̶ hunters, or else it would make the series more boring than a playthrough in God Mode.

But the issues are many and unfortunately is not only the procedural element, with cases that shifts between the decency and the "neat, but badly executed" (it does when it tries to hide their racism under the monster's cloack). I could ignore those, but I try to enjoy the whole package when I watch something, so no excuses regarding this element flying out of my zone.
The story arches of season Four managed to resolve faster than season Two and Three so far, which is an improvement but they are starting to feel less interesting and less rewarding:

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the whole trial held by the Monsters KKK was drawn out thanks to the members' stupidity, which was an excuse to watch some lame ass hard-boiled police work and lame ass showdown.

Then there are

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Juliette's sudden transformation with the sole purpose to f̶i̶x̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶a̶c̶t̶r̶e̶s̶s̶'̶ ̶s̶q̶u̶i̶n̶t̶ ̶ break up with Nick for "tah drama".

As well

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Adalind's return alongside the Royals, still behaving like a joke despite being one of the most powerful organization in the series. But those are not as funny as our blonde monster getting owned like a joke character in a Scary Movie.

This is bad, because those arcs are the only reason that justify enduring this shitty CSI-Supernatural-Harry Potter inbreed without cursing their creators and its fans.
Maybe a younger me would've liked this series better, but I'm not that person anymore.

It has a Damcle's sword on the head, so if it fucks up too much I'll quit.

[soprano1]

Cinema Through the Eye of Magnum (2017)
Documentary about Magnum Photos's famous photographers, and their amazing work during the 50's and beyond. I'm not a photography nut, but this was great watching.

[GaijinPunch]

Cinema Through the Eye of Magnum (2017)
Documentary about Magnum Photos's famous photographers, and their amazing work during the 50's and beyond. I'm not a photography nut, but this was great watching.

Never heard of this, but I follow many Magnum photographers, and of course buy their books. Thanks for the rec.

If you liked that, definitely check out:
- Everybody Street (Mainly NYC, but loads of cool shit from the 80s)
- Finding Vivian Maier

[soprano1]

Cinema Through the Eye of Magnum (2017)
Documentary about Magnum Photos's famous photographers, and their amazing work during the 50's and beyond. I'm not a photography nut, but this was great watching.

Never heard of this, but I follow many Magnum photographers, and of course buy their books. Thanks for the rec.

If you liked that, definitely check out:
- Everybody Street (Mainly NYC, but loads of cool shit from the 80s)
- Finding Vivian Maier

Thanks, I do remember the Vivian Maier findings back in the day. The doc aired last year on Arte, but I saw the BBC broadcast, maybe you can find that somewhere.

[GaijinPunch]

maybe you can find that somewhere.

I would assume so.

[soprano1]

maybe you can find that somewhere.

I would assume so.

Hah hah, I hope you understood what I meant.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGrvQ1c5khU

[soprano1]

Never heard of this, but I follow many Magnum photographers, and of course buy their books. Thanks for the rec.

If you liked that, definitely check out:
- Everybody Street (Mainly NYC, but loads of cool shit from the 80s)
- Finding Vivian Maier

Saw both already. Everybody Street was nice, loved the photos the photographers took in the late 70's/early 80's of the street gangs.
Finding Vivian Maier was a crazy detective story, this woman was eccentric as fuck, and her family story is bonkers as hell. But her work is just astounding: one may not like her theme of choice (I sure as hell do), but you can't deny her talent of capturing the moment.

[GaijinPunch]

Her reclusive nature was indeed weird, but I do love that they found the children she nannied to add to some of the mystique.

The only thing I can think on the horizon of photography docs are a kickstarter that just hit it's goal that should cover the works of Garry Winogrand.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/14 ... ographable

[soprano1]

Her reclusive nature was indeed weird, but I do love that they found the children she nannied to add to some of the mystique.

The only thing I can think on the horizon of photography docs are a kickstarter that just hit it's goal that should cover the works of Garry Winogrand.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/14 ... ographable

"All things are photographable"...
It's a romantic idea for sure. Thanks for sharing the link.

[Xyga]

Lost in Space (2018 netflix reboot)

Kinda shit.

Most episodes reek of low budget formula a la late 90's early 2000's us-canadian sci-fi show, lots of scenes hiking in nature, plastic exotic flowers and gear, and LOTS of crappy sentimental and broken moralist private chat scenes between annoying, cringey af characters, alternating like 1 minute plot/action, 10 minutes chat when it's not worse and yes most episodes are like that.

Only the pilot episode and maybe the second one are okay. Then if you really want to see how it ends just skip to the last ep even though it's a chore too like most of the show.

Honestly even the 1998 film is better in most areas (at least it's got Gary Oldman playing a decent asshole and better aesthetics)
...this much says enough I guess.

[Stevens]

First two episodes of Hip Hop Evolution on Netflix. It is really good if that's your thing.

[S_Fang]

So I dropped Grimm at the beginning of Season 6, because it was taking the piss waaay too much to endure through,

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not after pretending that a mass shooting in a police station nevere happened as well neglecting a possible character progression for Renard prepared from the previous season

just for the sake of not changing anything.
Then, after reading through some episode's plotlines, I decided to skip directly to the last episodes hoping for something big, because it seemed it had the cards right. Too bad those were played worse than a poker's noob (and I'm not a skilled player either):

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A trip through Mirror World let Bigger Blacker Skeletor to enter in the real world, killing any secondary character except the main one and Trubel (which destroyed all Black Claw because the writers have to butt fuck a wire hanger), but when everything went bleack the long-dead Mary and Kelly (Nick's mother and aunt) returns from the grave in some way in order to kill the monster.

A fine outcome worthy of a Grimm Borther's story, a proper way to respect the source,

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if it wasn't for the fact its body unleashed a portal to a world where everyone is safe and sound (unlike my sanity), with a flash forward with their sons and daughter still kicking monsters' asses, plus a multi-language "Thank you" (which I responded with "Fuck You" in all the languages I know)

.

I gave all the chances and endured all the stupid parts of this show, but is just a waste of potential and actors (I mean Monroe, Rosalee and Renard, with Bud too), with the fault shifting between NBC for not managing the show well and the writers for being a bunch of lazy, pedestrian (and possibly racist, according to some episodes) scammers. I dont' care if people liked it or part of it, is still a waste of potential which is worse than a space of money and time slot.
When the TV system will create something worthy of Grimm Tales' material that isn't the chewed-up, watered down version made by Disney? I don't know and I don't care because I'd rather read their bloody books.


I really need a mounth washer after that, which series (of any genre, country and year) do the forum suggests me?

[emphatic]

I really need a mounth washer after that, which series (of any genre, country and year) do the forum suggests me?

Have you seen Angel (the spin-off to Buffy The Vampire Slayer)? Whenever I feel the need to binge the Buffyverse, I always start with Angel, then do Buffy after and imagine it's the best prequel of all time.

[S_Fang]

I really need a mounth washer after that, which series (of any genre, country and year) do the forum suggests me?

Have you seen Angel (the spin-off to Buffy The Vampire Slayer)? Whenever I feel the need to binge the Buffyverse, I always start with Angel, then do Buffy after and imagine it's the best prequel of all time.

I heard of it when I used to casually watch Buffy during middle school, but never bothered with that. Some suggest to watch those back and fort or something like that, but it sounds kind of convoluted.
Maybe I'll check it out.

[emphatic]

I really need a mounth washer after that, which series (of any genre, country and year) do the forum suggests me?

Have you seen Angel (the spin-off to Buffy The Vampire Slayer)? Whenever I feel the need to binge the Buffyverse, I always start with Angel, then do Buffy after and imagine it's the best prequel of all time.

I heard of it when I used to casually watch Buffy during middle school, but never bothered with that. Some suggest to watch those back and fort or something like that, but it sounds kind of convoluted.
Maybe I'll check it out.

Back and forth, like as they were originally released? Me, I would just stick with Angel at first as it's a bit more mature and eases you into the Buffyverse, making watching Buffy more tolerable. There are plenty of fun cameos to watch out for throughout both shows, especially in Buffy, where they have some famous artists perform live at the nightclub they sometimes hang out in. The main archs of both shows are pretty epic, although I consider Angel way more bonkers, in a good way. Buffy has lots of quite serious teen angst issues thrown in and some of the best TV episodes I've ever seen.

[S_Fang]

I heard of it when I used to casually watch Buffy during middle school, but never bothered with that. Some suggest to watch those back and fort or something like that, but it sounds kind of convoluted.
Maybe I'll check it out.

Back and forth, like as they were originally released? Me, I would just stick with Angel at first as it's a bit more mature and eases you into the Buffyverse, making watching Buffy more tolerable. There are plenty of fun cameos to watch out for throughout both shows, especially in Buffy, where they have some famous artists perform live at the nightclub they sometimes hang out in. The main archs of both shows are pretty epic, although I consider Angel way more bonkers, in a good way. Buffy has lots of quite serious teen angst issues thrown in and some of the best TV episodes I've ever seen.

I hope Greenwalt, the same guy behind Grimm, was in a better shape in those days because I'd dislkike going through another shitshow. I'll check the shows regardless.

[BrianC]

Finished watching Gosei Sentai Dairanger. I enjoyed it quite a bit, though the ending reminded me a bit of Saved by the Bell. I liked it more than Zyuranger overall. Not that I didn't like Zyuranger quite a bit, but Dairanger wasn't quite as silly, though it still had some goofy villains and silly moments.

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The ending had cheesy costumes to make the characters look older and same actors playing their children. Reminded me of when Screech dressed up to look like his uncle Sam.

[lilmanjs]

Everything Sucks. Of course it got cancelled. If it isn't a huge ratings hit like Stranger Things, it seems Netflix will just can the show. Ohh well, I will still watch the rest of the show anyways!

[Stevens]

Season two of Santa Clarita. That shows got some fucked up writers.

[lilmanjs]

Season two of Santa Clarita. That shows got some fucked up writers.

It still manages to be a good show! I got into it for the lady from Dramaworld, and have been hooked.

[Stevens]

Oh I meant that in the best possible way.

[lilmanjs]

Detective Montalbano aka Inspector Montalbano
I like how crass and a big smart ass he is as a detective in this Italian series. Some tender moments, and some stuff comes at you unexpectedly. Good plots and I assume that is since they are based on a book series. Gotta find the rest of the series that has been released as the library only has the first 9 episodes.