New season of The Expanse next FridayUndoneToo Old To Die YoungHalt & Catch FireLodge 49
― groovypanda, Friday, 6 December 2019 20:58 (four years ago) link
Undone is good, though be warned that it's about processing grief and trauma from the loss of a family member; but if you like the ostentatious style of American Gods, Undone's use of rotoscoping (animating over the filmed actors) enables it to depict the lead's emotional state in visually dazzling, emotionally-affecting magic realism-ish ways
maybe fun to watch with the boys: Amazon made two series of the superhero comedy / not-quite-parody The Tick, of which you don't need to know anything about previous TV or comics iterations to watch from scratch. (The showrunner is the cartoonist who wrote and drew the original run of comics, though, if you do happen to know of it.)
― insecurity bear (sic), Friday, 6 December 2019 21:10 (four years ago) link
The Tick is great!
― DJI, Friday, 6 December 2019 21:24 (four years ago) link
yes cosine H&CF and Lodge 49. If you haven't seen The Americans it's there. The Bureau is ridiculous but fun. Mr Robot?
― britain's secret sauce (seandalai), Friday, 6 December 2019 22:17 (four years ago) link
yeah the Tick is gr8
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 6 December 2019 23:39 (four years ago) link
Mr Robot has a pretty great first few episodes then tanks incredibly quickly
― Simon H., Friday, 6 December 2019 23:42 (four years ago) link
it had so much potential
― de-mamba mentality (Spottie), Friday, 6 December 2019 23:47 (four years ago) link
The Expanse is phenomenally good (trying to get through S3 before S4 drops) and Too Old To Die Young is really quite something, I admire it a lot.
― omar little, Friday, 6 December 2019 23:51 (four years ago) link
I am on board with Mr Robot until the very end (easy to say at this point I guess, I think there are three episodes left) but yeah nobody else I know irl made it through Season 2.
― britain's secret sauce (seandalai), Friday, 6 December 2019 23:53 (four years ago) link
I did cause I heard s3 was better; it was, but not by a big enough margin for me to not continue to be furious with it
― Simon H., Friday, 6 December 2019 23:55 (four years ago) link
The first 3 episode of Goliath S3 are as good as the show's ever been imo
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 7 December 2019 09:12 (four years ago) link
ta for all suggestions folks.i watched fleabag (uk = iplayer), and agree, it was bloody brilliant.re prime - spotted Tick in the list, and thought it looked good fun, so that's next on the list.
― mark e, Saturday, 7 December 2019 10:51 (four years ago) link
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