I don't know when it happened, but Banshee seasons 3 and 4 are now free on Prime. I watched seasons 1 and 2 a long time ago and was unwilling to pay to see the rest, but now I know what I'll be watching the rest of this month.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Thursday, December 5, 2019 8:38 PM (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink
I just watched the first half of the pilot and this is...terrible? Like, unwatchably bad.
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Sunday, 8 December 2019 19:17 (four years ago) link
it is a great show KEEP WATCHING goddamn you
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 8 December 2019 19:26 (four years ago) link
how many episodes until it's not dumb?
I was just settling into this display name, too
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Sunday, 8 December 2019 19:39 (four years ago) link
It’s in the so over the top it’s good category for me. Similar to Spartacus
― de-mamba mentality (Spottie), Sunday, 8 December 2019 19:54 (four years ago) link
wait what
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 8 December 2019 21:10 (four years ago) link
Nah. Give it two or three full episodes and you'll be hooked, I think. For those who aren't familiar, Banshee is a fucking blast. It’s about a criminal fugitive posing as the sheriff of the town of Banshee, PA (the “real” new sheriff was killed on his way into town, before anyone got a look at him), battling the local gangsters (some of whom are Native American, while others are outcast Amish) and pulling jobs of his own. Every episode features at least two sex scenes and two fight scenes, and you’re never quite sure if a dialogue scene is gonna suddenly turn into one or the other. People bleed a lot on this show. It’s pornographic, and I say that in the best possible way.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Sunday, 8 December 2019 21:12 (four years ago) link
the fight scenes have a great Billy Jack kinda 70’s vibe, it all feels like they’re really beating each other upit’s v enjoyable
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 8 December 2019 21:15 (four years ago) link
― de-mamba mentality (Spottie), Sunday, 8 December 2019 21:47 (four years ago) link
I never went back to it but yeah the appeal is its ottness surely, it’s like road house or something
― For how much longer do we tolerate trashed purdah? (wins), Sunday, 8 December 2019 21:50 (four years ago) link
I've seen the pilot and one later-season fight scene that was so OTT that Vox did a piece just about it. It was pretty silly but I see the appeal.
― WmC, Sunday, 8 December 2019 23:19 (four years ago) link
Yeah, here's the Vox article, and here's the fight they call out, which I just watched the other day and which left me literally breathless by the end. (Note that it begins with one character picking a severed ear from the previous episode's big fight scene out of the trash.) If this isn't your kind of thing, Banshee isn't for you. Period.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUjE0NlS7vI
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Sunday, 8 December 2019 23:31 (four years ago) link
spartacus the movie? or that dumb series? if it’s the dumb series then i agree
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 9 December 2019 00:41 (four years ago) link
I've never seen Spartacus the TV show. Is it any good? It's on Netflix...
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Monday, 9 December 2019 01:06 (four years ago) link
It gets to be great but it takes a little while to figure itself out. And you gotta be able to roll with the aesthetic.
The latter seasons are some of my favorite TV ever
― Simon H., Monday, 9 December 2019 01:22 (four years ago) link
also, iirc the only TV show of the last decade+ that literally had to recast its main role midstream
― Simon H., Monday, 9 December 2019 01:23 (four years ago) link
idk my impression was that Spartacus was as dumb as a naked box of hammers
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 9 December 2019 01:32 (four years ago) link
which is good if thats yr thing
Yah the show.. which is a top 5 all time show for me
― de-mamba mentality (Spottie), Monday, 9 December 2019 03:48 (four years ago) link
it definitely starts out that way, but it develops a rhythm and emotional register that makes it totally unique imho
― Simon H., Monday, 9 December 2019 03:55 (four years ago) link
plus hot naked people
― mh, Monday, 9 December 2019 15:44 (four years ago) link
Something Wild is on Prime, and I’m really curious to see how it looks now vs. 1986.
― ... (Eazy), Sunday, 22 December 2019 01:54 (four years ago) link
On Prime Now That You Could Be Watching:
Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019)Transit (2019)Hale County This Morning This Evening (2018)One Child Nation (2019)Fast Color (2019)Gloria Bell (2019)
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 22 December 2019 18:28 (four years ago) link
Good list: thank you.
― Alba, Sunday, 22 December 2019 20:16 (four years ago) link
After the first 35 minutes of sappy Tollywood, the Telegu film Eega / Fly (2012) opens up into the most fun I've had watching a CGI-heavy action film in years.
― The dead swans lay in the stagnant pool (Sanpaku), Wednesday, 1 January 2020 08:05 (four years ago) link
can't recommend transit highly enough
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Wednesday, 1 January 2020 08:31 (four years ago) link
it's very good!
― Nhex, Wednesday, 1 January 2020 08:52 (four years ago) link
Eega/fly was a lot of fun, but yeah, waiting for it to get going was tough.
― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Wednesday, 1 January 2020 09:04 (four years ago) link
Ash Is Purest White now up.
― Miami weisse (WmC), Sunday, 19 January 2020 20:30 (four years ago) link
Midsommar is up too.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Sunday, 19 January 2020 21:14 (four years ago) link
saw this post on twitter from Darren Hughes: “FYI, there's a bunch of '80s and '90s Taiwan stuff on Prime: The River, The Sandwich Man, Dust in the Wind, The Time to Live and The Time to Die, The Terrorizers, Growing Up.”
― Dan S, Monday, 20 January 2020 01:03 (four years ago) link
They're really pushing that "Hunters" show, which looks like "The Boys" with, um, Nazis.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 21 February 2020 14:19 (four years ago) link
reviews suggest it suffers from "Amazon syndrome" which has affected everything they've produced except Catastrophe: it's... okay?
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 21 February 2020 16:05 (four years ago) link
Catastrophe not produced by Amazon, they just bought US transmission rights & then co-funded later seasons (it's produced by mega-agency Avalon for Channel 4)
― Fantastic. Great move. Well done (sic), Friday, 21 February 2020 18:33 (four years ago) link
what exactly is Amazon syndrome / what are the symptoms? I associate Netflix syndrome w/ general mediocrity, poor pacing, and trend-hopping.
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Friday, 21 February 2020 18:34 (four years ago) link
otm about netflix. amazon seems like it hasnt set any type of standard yet.
― Thybulle on the Dash (Spottie), Friday, 21 February 2020 18:44 (four years ago) link
Netflix seem to be just about churning out new content these days (most of which is mediocre).Saw a few articles after BoJack's finale about how it would have been very unlikely to get a second season if it had debuted now rather than five years ago
― groovypanda, Friday, 21 February 2020 22:24 (four years ago) link
i consider amazon originals to consistently be subpar to netflix originals... which are mostly subpar to Hulu/HBO i guess
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 21 February 2020 22:45 (four years ago) link
this is Bosch slander
― mh, Friday, 21 February 2020 22:46 (four years ago) link
I’d rate Man in the High Castle over 90% of what I’ve watched on Netflixboth companies are shady about what qualifies as “original content” and like to blur the line by badging things as original to their service when they’re really just exclusive in one region, though. Fleabag wasn’t amazon’s, You wasn’t Netflix’s (and some people were very o_O when they figured out the latter aired on Lifetime of all places)
― mh, Friday, 21 February 2020 22:49 (four years ago) link
i tried to watch bosch but it was too stupid. and i was hoping it would be kind of stupid
― frederik b. godt (jim in vancouver), Friday, 21 February 2020 23:35 (four years ago) link
Does Man in the H Cast.get better? I watched all of the first season and it was fine at first, had a dip and then??? I didn't feel like continuuing. I was really meh about the three leads that I recall were supposed to be a love triangle?
― Yerac, Friday, 21 February 2020 23:40 (four years ago) link
I’m not sure what the origin story of Undone is - it’s on amazon - but it’s up with netflix’s best stuff (Russian doll, and the first seasons of glow and american vandal imo)
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 21 February 2020 23:42 (four years ago) link
It's been a while, but I think we made it through ... 2 episodes of "High Castle?" 3? Then we kind of looked at each other and said, you know, why are we watching this? Same thing with "Handmaid's Tale," tbh.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 21 February 2020 23:47 (four years ago) link
I got through two episodes of High Castle and then binged through the rest by reading their Wikipedia summaries instead. Good time saver. Was good on atmosphere but v. dull leads.
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 21 February 2020 23:53 (four years ago) link
the ad for hunters had me laughing.
pacino in his very arch, late period style:
"it's not murder...
it's mitzvah"
― frederik b. godt (jim in vancouver), Saturday, 22 February 2020 00:38 (four years ago) link
I’m not sure what the origin story of Undone is
It's an Amazon commission - notable that for their first animated series they went for a cosign from the creator of Netflix's first animated series.
― Fantastic. Great move. Well done (sic), Saturday, 22 February 2020 00:40 (four years ago) link
Man In The High Castle was a big disappointment after the pilot episode, they should have just made it a two hour movie
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Saturday, 22 February 2020 00:53 (four years ago) link
might have been one of those “gets good mid second season” shows tbhthey do kill Frank eventually and keep him offscreen enough before they do lol
― mh, Saturday, 22 February 2020 01:41 (four years ago) link
The shows I watch or have watched on Amazon are all really high quality imo --- Man In High Castle, Expanse, Red Oak, even the dumb Jack Ryan show is watchable (the dumbness is kind of inherent to Tom Clancy imo)
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 22 February 2020 18:26 (four years ago) link
Goliath, as I seem to be saying into the void, is fucking incredible
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 22 February 2020 18:29 (four years ago) link