Binged on bith seasons of The Hollow Crown. Ben Whishaw great great GREAT as Richard II and then somewhat diminishing returns in the leads moving forward ( Hiddleston as Henry V, Benedict Cumberbund as Richard III). Overall pretty excellent TV Shakespeare.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Sunday, 22 May 2016 22:55 (seven years ago) link
yeah Whishaw is really good in that
didn't know the new ones had been on yet
― Number None, Sunday, 22 May 2016 22:58 (seven years ago) link
I've been torrenting since am in US and "Richard III" was up yesterday. Not sure when they will air in the US.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Sunday, 22 May 2016 23:01 (seven years ago) link
Cumberbatch does a fine job but he's a li'l bit hammier than I would've liked. The language, though... It's wonderful how these folks make it flow.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Sunday, 22 May 2016 23:05 (seven years ago) link
re: HaCF, s2 is really good. I actually started there and skipped s1 entirely.
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Sunday, 22 May 2016 23:07 (seven years ago) link
anyone watch outlander? i was surprised how much i liked the first season, even though the last couple of episodes veered unexpectedly into torture porn
― (main prostitute from Game Of Thrones) (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 22 May 2016 23:10 (seven years ago) link
shows I intend to watch but have failed to keep up on:
Daredevil (second half of season 1, season 2)The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (s2)Orphan Black (last season, this season)Game of Thrones
I am totally up to speed on Thomas & Friends, though! (please send help)
― DJP, Monday, 23 May 2016 14:47 (seven years ago) link
Yerman diesel is some prick
― Daithi Bowsie (darraghmac), Monday, 23 May 2016 14:50 (seven years ago) link
Diesel is terrible; this is mitigated by all of the other engines also being terrible
― DJP, Monday, 23 May 2016 15:17 (seven years ago) link
almost makes u sympathize w/ sir topham hatt
― Mordy, Monday, 23 May 2016 15:23 (seven years ago) link
You can definitely see why he decided to brick one of them up in a tunnel
― DJP, Monday, 23 May 2016 15:31 (seven years ago) link
I didn't realise The Fat Controller had been renamed Sir Topham Hatt, political correctness gone mad blah blah
Skarloey ftw
― Chicamaw (Ward Fowler), Monday, 23 May 2016 15:37 (seven years ago) link
― DJP, Monday, May 23, 2016 7:47 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
no no no stop it. anything but thomas
― Spottie, Monday, 23 May 2016 16:15 (seven years ago) link
is hollow crown on netflix/amazon yet?
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 23 May 2016 17:40 (seven years ago) link
Damien Lewis is britishes?? Just found out. Always trips me out when this happens and I feel dumb for never picking up on the accent which has to have broken thru at some point.
Anyway Billions is back and I'll probably watch and no I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.
― always be charging (rip van wanko), Monday, 23 May 2016 20:51 (seven years ago) link
Just discovered seasons 2 and 3 of Silicon Valley are available, so been binge-watching. It is such a treat! s1 wasn't this good iirc, although decent...?
― kinder, Monday, 23 May 2016 20:53 (seven years ago) link
it took s1 almost the whole season to get cooking
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 23 May 2016 20:55 (seven years ago) link
I can't get over how the main guy is a Dreamworks character come to life
― kinder, Monday, 23 May 2016 20:58 (seven years ago) link
Limitless has been cancelled:/
― Spottie, Thursday, 26 May 2016 05:41 (seven years ago) link
Boo :-(
― ailsa, Thursday, 26 May 2016 10:08 (seven years ago) link
BOO
― DJP, Thursday, 26 May 2016 14:23 (seven years ago) link
little spurpised they couldnt get one of the netflix/amazons to pick it up. seems like it had a bit of ground swell idk. i guess the DVR numbers were good but live numbers weren't. couldnt compete with the snoozefest NCISs and all those types
― Spottie, Thursday, 26 May 2016 16:18 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, I'm surprised that a smart little show like that couldn't get picked up, yet Blue Bloods still trundles on, clicheing away.
― ailsa, Thursday, 26 May 2016 17:41 (seven years ago) link
i guess the DVR numbers were good but live numbers weren't.
Did the people who run the networks pay, like, zero attention when the music industry was ravaged by falling out of step with evolving methods of content delivery?
― Wet Food (Old Lunch), Thursday, 26 May 2016 17:52 (seven years ago) link
CBS always gonna play it safe
― Spottie, Thursday, 26 May 2016 18:06 (seven years ago) link
daaamn, that sucks
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Thursday, 26 May 2016 19:19 (seven years ago) link
The Night Manager was pretty good, but I thought the pacing was masterful. It was positively laconic for a good stretch and I was like, oh maybe I was mistaken in my belief that this was a spy/intrigue/action thing. Little did I realize I was like the frog in that slowly-heating pot of water.
― I Have A Hot Dog Stuck To My Neck (Old Lunch), Friday, 27 May 2016 13:10 (seven years ago) link
OK, I got pulled into Lady Dynamite
“But you have a Jaguar!” “Thank you! Actually, I have two. Three, if you count the third one.”
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 30 May 2016 08:11 (seven years ago) link
I turned the pilot episode of Lady Dynamite off after 8 minutes. Maybe ill give it a go again cos i like some of maria bamford's stand up
― Neptune Bingo (Michael B), Monday, 30 May 2016 09:21 (seven years ago) link
The pilot felt a little unpenetrable for me because it was so, so different than what I was expecting, but I got into the groove by the second episode.
― I Have A Hot Dog Stuck To My Neck (Old Lunch), Monday, 30 May 2016 18:16 (seven years ago) link
50% of the time it's hilarious and 50% of the time it is unbearably awkward
― Mordy, Monday, 30 May 2016 18:21 (seven years ago) link
it's going everywhere all at once. i don't know if i love it or not.
― ulysses, Monday, 30 May 2016 18:24 (seven years ago) link
the diane voice ep i couldn't even finish it was so painful to watch
― Mordy, Monday, 30 May 2016 18:26 (seven years ago) link
Anyone who drifted away from Maron is highly encouraged to take another look. I've always liked the show but they made a great decision last season to start veering away from the loose autobio angle. Marc fell hard off the wagon at the end of last season and has been in rehab for most of this season (after a stint of homelessness), and it's been brilliant. Also seek out the last couple from season 3 if you can find them (his talk show meltdown with Ken Marino was horrifying and hilarious).
― I Have A Hot Dog Stuck To My Neck (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 31 May 2016 17:14 (seven years ago) link
Knocked out the first two hours of "OJ: Made In America" last night and it's excellent.Samantha Bee / Jason Jones are straight up killing it right now; The Detour ended great and Full Frontal has become necessary viewing.Watched the first episode of The Girlfriend Experience and was pleasantly surprised by how solid and non prurient it is. Kinda excited and hopeful.I appear to have taped 85% of All in the Family. I've watched about three seasons. I may have burnt myself out.Still good: Amy Schumer, Veep, Silicon Valley, Adventure TimeStill need to have a go at: UnREAL, Outcast, nu-Roots, Casual, The Path, Vikings, Fear the Walking DeadComing soon: Mr Robot, Queen of the SouthNot that good these days: Last Week Tonight, Game of Thrones
― De La Soul is no Major Lazer (ulysses), Wednesday, 15 June 2016 14:45 (seven years ago) link
I watched the first few episodes of veep - is it worth revisiting? Or is that indicative of the show as a whole?
― inside, skeletons are always inside, that's obvious. (dowd), Wednesday, 15 June 2016 14:52 (seven years ago) link
veep just gets better and better. this season is the best one yet.
― Mordy, Wednesday, 15 June 2016 15:00 (seven years ago) link
I haven't loved this season of veep tbh; also think amy schumer show may be past its expiration date
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 15 June 2016 15:34 (seven years ago) link
i'm finding veep pretty consistent from season to season. schumer, as I'm prone to repeatedly saying, is extremely hit and miss but her hits are super solid and she has about a 50% signal to noise ratio so i'm willing to sit through some stinkers.
― De La Soul is no Major Lazer (ulysses), Wednesday, 15 June 2016 15:38 (seven years ago) link
Currently streaming Season 1 of unREAL and Season 2 of Banshee; winding down Person of Interest; gonna check out Animal Kingdom.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, 15 June 2016 15:47 (seven years ago) link
Veep is a weird show. It's often extremely funny, like I LOL more often during an average episode than maybe anything else on TV. Yet watching it is not an altogether pleasant experience because roughly 80% of the characters are basically complete unrepentant assholes. So basically individual lines and moments are often so great yet it kind of wears you down to watch certain characters just shit on other ones relentlessly, episode after episode. And I don't mean Jonah, because he's a dick himself (I'm about five episodes behind but I hear he has an unexpected renaissance coming). But like Mike and Gary and Catherine and Amy (though she can dish it out too) and the nice young guy with the glasses who's basically that Furlong's constant bitchboy.
― evol j, Wednesday, 15 June 2016 15:58 (seven years ago) link
the ability to find relentlessly unrepentant assholes' lives interesting is more or less necessary to enjoy the current golden age of teevee... see also breaking bad, better call saul, unreal, silicon valley, the americans, black sails, basically almost every highly acclaimed scripted show on right now!
― De La Soul is no Major Lazer (ulysses), Wednesday, 15 June 2016 16:01 (seven years ago) link
i like veep whenever i watch it but i can take or leave it so i often forget that its on
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 15 June 2016 16:05 (seven years ago) link
from what I've seen of the ones you listed (not Unreal and Black Sails), the main character(s) are anywhere from halfway to very sympathetic, with the exception of the last few seasons of Breaking Bad, and in that case pretty much every major player except Walter was likable to some degree.
― evol j, Wednesday, 15 June 2016 18:46 (seven years ago) link
the best comparisons I can make to Veep are probably Archer and (ironically) House. both of those shows kind of wear me down too, though I think Archer's gotten better. don't get me wrong, it's a very bold, ballsy thing to do, especially with Selina being a woman, not sure if there's ever been a show where the protagonist is female and a flaming asshole 98% of the time.
― evol j, Wednesday, 15 June 2016 18:51 (seven years ago) link
This show... it's a lot of squandered potential but occasionally it is incredible and unlike anything else. In particular, the debuts for each season stand apart in that so far they have all been explorations of desolate landscapes and the insanity of loneliness, and packed with great imagery. This last one just holy shit - airfields full of corpses, cruising around abandoned cities in hazmat suits, paddling across empty oceans. Ballard would surely see it as an homage (or at least some kind of pop culture validation of his obsessions and themes). Unfortunately, after these episodes the show more or less devolves into a much less interesting comedy of manners that only fitfully engages with the much more interesting ideas at its disposal. idk maybe it's a budget thing.― Οὖτις, Friday, March 18, 2016 2:53 PM (3 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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― Nhex, Sunday, 19 June 2016 02:28 (seven years ago) link
btw Angie Tribeca - this show busts my guts and i feel soooo bad about it, it's Police Squad! all over again, so shameless and punny
― Nhex, Sunday, 19 June 2016 02:30 (seven years ago) link
i wish i liked angie tribeca as much as i liked police squad... there's just something about it that makes the silliness boring to me
― a simba man (Will M.), Sunday, 19 June 2016 03:21 (seven years ago) link
it's worth restating that the OJ: Made in America documentary is excellent and I say that as someone who lived through it and wished desperately it would go away. This is good filmmaking.
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Sunday, 19 June 2016 05:25 (seven years ago) link
so good
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 19 June 2016 05:40 (seven years ago) link