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Quite liking Fallout. I wouldn’t say it’s great or anything - it’s just really well made, well acted, and has just enough compelling mystery to keep watching.

Also having never played the games, I had the impression it was going to be another dark and gritty post apocalypse show, but it’s actually pretty funny - the vibe kind of reminds me of Zombieland, just not as zany.

Read the Westworld thread scott and I think you'll find that lots of people, in fact, did not like it xp

The later seasons especially were pretty terrible

I loved the first couple of seasons of Westworld, and could have theoretically enjoyed following them into the second phase of the show (the last couple seasons with Aaron Paul). But it just got too convoluted. A lot of high-tech Scooby Doo villains.

I loved the first couple of seasons of Westworld, and could have theoretically enjoyed following them into the second phase of the show (the last couple seasons with Aaron Paul). But it just got too convoluted. A lot of high-tech Scooby Doo villains.

it's kind of funny to spend $153 million on a tv show so it can look exactly like a video game

Baby Reindeer on Netflix is getting a bit of buzz but feels like it should be getting a lot more?

Anyway, it's deeply harrowing but very very good

The most shocking thing for me is that the lead actor is the actual guy it happened to.

I'm sure it's out there and I could find it, but will admit to being morbidly curious about who the rapist is.

or who the spoiler is. oh wait its aldo! SOME people are still watching you know.

It happens about 10 minutes into ep4 so not really way into it, and isn't actually the focus of the story at all (though it does play into the plot considerably) - so is it really a spoiler? Really?

i like to know nothing before i see something. but i realize being on the internet is fraught with peril. i didn't know the thing about the lead actor either. so now that's all i'm thinking about while i'm watching. i mean i knew something bad was going to happen to him but i didn't know what exactly. but its cool. i'll live.

(having said that, i've probably given away tons of plot points on here before....but that's why god made hypocrites.)

That isn't the bad thing that happens to him.

Sorry, I forget that people don't often read articles and news stories about shows (see Doctor Who threads passim).

okay i've seen the whole thing you can say whatever you want now!

that was intense.

definitely worth watching. should probably come with a boatload of trigger warnings. its scary in a very real way.

memorable too! those two leads should win every award. jesus. they really dug deep.

first episode of park chan-wook's the sympathizer on hbo was excellent, i thought (i have not read the book)

Just finished Blue Eye Samurai. Fucking great. Thanks for the recommendations upthread.

Definitely not one to watch with kids though as there's a fair amount of nudity and sex (as well as all the gore and violence)

yeah, Blue Eye Samurai is so good

Loved the first episode of The Sympathizer, thought they did a great job capturing the tone of the book

I'm unfamiliar with the book, but I liked the first episode a lot as well.

I watched the first episode of the Starz pirate show Black Sails, new to Netflix, because people were talking on Bluesky about how good it is, but at the end I realized I was watching a show about pirates and spiked it.

I don't think I could watch a serious pirate show after Our Flag Means Death.

that's kinda like how i feel after watching that funny viking show on netflix. that show is so funny. kinda ruins vikings for me.

Oh is that good? Norsemen?

i thought it was really funny.

Apple also has a pirate show that looks terrible.

also CBS has NCIS: Barbary Coast coming out

I finished Black Sails but it doesn't pay off enough for me to recommend it. And early seasons were mandated to have tons of unnecessary sex and nudity, like GoT. ymmv may vary on that

unnecessary sex and nudity

I do not understand this phrase.

I did say ymmv

Big non-surprise but Fallout officially renewed.

https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/fallout-renewed-season-2-amazon-1235975879/

Anybody here fuck with Hazbin Hotel? I enjoyed the hell out of it. I heard about it from my middle schooler, who is probably a few years young for it, given the dark sex and drug content. And the level of sexual joking is probably 40% more than usually appeals to me. But it has very catchy, heartwarming songs, and a feel-good storyline.

Rushomancy has brought the show up on a couple of other threads, but I haven't seen anyone else talking about it.

I've heard that its humor is the kind of try-hard edgelordy stuff that's kept me at arm's distance from even sampling the pilot (which I believe is on YT).

I've never played "Fallout," but we've now watched two episodes of the show. It's ... OK. Good acting, solid FX. It's so self-consciously strange, though, that I can feel my wife debating whether to watch or cut n run in real time. I sense she'll sit through one more, and if episode three doesn't snag her, she may move on.

i'm a little torn about continuing as well. and i too have watched the first two episodes.

might just continue with The Expanse instead and go back to Fallout at a later date. things are getting good in season 2 of The Expanse.

i did take that little Baby Reindeer break and watched that quickly. thank god those episodes weren't 40+ minutes each.

is anyone else going to watch Baby Reindeer? i almost felt like starting a thread for it after watching. it gives you a lot to talk about.

Costas Mandylorian (Leee) at 11:38 18 Apr 24

I've heard that its humor is the kind of try-hard edgelordy stuff that's kept me at arm's distance from even sampling the pilot (which I believe is on YT).

I'm three episodes in scott xp

Kind of enjoying it but it's very uncomfortable (and excruciating) viewing at times

I like profanity and think it is often very funny, but at the same time, I rarely use it in real life and I'm also sometimes really conscious about its use in music and movies and whatnot. It often just seems so lazy to me, enlisted not even for shock value but as a placeholder for something much better or more clever.

"Kind of enjoying it but it's very uncomfortable (and excruciating) viewing at times"

oh i definitely squirmed in my seat. but it definitely has that forward momentum that makes you want to keep going. for something that is not a horror movie it gets to fear and panic in a way that a lot of horror movies never get to.

i don't need anything excruciating i'd rather watch columbo

I stopped the first episode of Fallout after 15 minutes or so (right when the attack on Vault 33 began) and last night I just skipped to episode 2 and watched it all the way through. It was a little better but I still didn't like it enough to continue.

was the action sequence in episode 2 of Fallout supposed to deliberately evoke the turn-based combat of the first two games? Cos it was so clunky and laboured

Show is ok so far, but the pacing seems off generally

"i don't need anything excruciating i'd rather watch columbo"

yah, fair enough. i get it. i went on a serious monk/columbo binge last summer.

baby reindeer is definitely not for everybody. but it can also be really funny! i mean the guy IS a comedian. those jarring juxtapositions of tone are what make it so..uh..jarring.

we've been watching a lot of Monk lately!

Fallout is definitely going for broad and cartoony. if it weren't so insanely violent and bloody i would say it was for kids. but maybe that's just what kids watch now. i mean younger kids. not teenagers.

i've been watching the French Monk too. i'm always up for a quirky cop.

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81gamtpgrZL._AC_UF894,1000_QL80_.jpg

people should definitely get on Baby Reindeer though

it's gonna be topping lots of EOY charts for sure

Late Night With The Devil is streaming on Shudder. It was… fine. The Creepshow PBS episode was better.

I'm tentatively intrigued by this adaptation of One Hundred Years of Solitude, which is apparently an entirely Latin American production, shot in Colombia:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG45GfgD2JU

It'll be 16 episodes long, release date TBD.

We are halfway through S2 of The Expanse. It is so good. There are a few actors you wish would be a little better, but the effects look great, not overdone or cheap looking, space combat is terrifying, and the plot is leisurely in the best way. The setup with the mormon ship was so long game! Characters generally act like human beings instead of plot advancing props. I really love this show.

we are still enjoying it as well. maria is a little worried that Holden's face might start to wear on her. it is punchable at times.

16 Apr 24

It happens about 10 minutes into ep4 so not really way into it, and isn't actually the focus of the story at all (though it does play into the plot considerably) - so is it really a spoiler? Really?

Just watched Baby Reindeer in two sittings. One scene with the father had me in floods. Kind of impressed he fessed up & used some of his genuinely awful early career jokes.

Brutal stuff.