- Messages
- 12,262
What TV shows have you recently watched? No Spoilers please!
Advertisement
- Messages
- 2,033
It seems to have split opinion - I really liked it but maybe I’m a bit biased!
Currently watching Ozark (I know, I know, it’s been out for ages). Watched the first episode years ago and didn’t take to it, but really enjoying it now. Dexter season 9 after that I think, now it’s all been released.
Advertisement
- Messages
- 550
The books were fantastic, but I thought the last season was significantly less excellent than the first two or three seasons. I also thought Marco Inaros was horribly cast. Given what belters are and how they live, that they'd decide a guy wearing more make-up than Lady Gaga was who they were going to follow made 0 sense.
Jarred Harris is a brilliant actor and really brought Anderson Dawes to life. I would have been perfectly OK with the major plot changes surrounding him becoming the "Big Bad."
- Messages
- 12,262
- Messages
- 10,525
- Messages
- 1,414
Advertisement
- Messages
- 22,002
- Messages
- 397
- Messages
- 10,525
- Messages
- 550
- Messages
- 22,002
These days with streaming & recording people don’t watch tv to timetables.
I’ve been watching a lot of older shows I didn’t watch 1st & 2nd time around & I’d be less than impressed if someone posted the ending or a major plot line here so please don’t post any spoilers…
Btw what did happen to The Titanic?
I’ve been watching a lot of older shows I didn’t watch 1st & 2nd time around & I’d be less than impressed if someone posted the ending or a major plot line here so please don’t post any spoilers…
Btw what did happen to The Titanic?
Advertisement
- Messages
- 1,530
Don't many of them do though? I mean, Drummer's panda eyeliner
. Slightly related - a thing that used to bug me about the Belters' appearence was their hairdos. They seemed either very uncomfortable or requiring insane amount of product, which seemed impractical. But then it hit me - they're only uncomfortable or hard to slyle in full gravity! You don't need as much product to have your hair, say, stand vertical in microgravity, or your huge hair bun won't give you scalp pain because it's not weighted down. I highly doubt it was the thought proicess in hair and makeup department, but it's a nice little headcanon that makes me happier about what I'm seeing
.
- Messages
- 12,262
- Messages
- 16,739
- Messages
- 550
Belters have bugged me for a while. In season one when Avasarala had the belter terrorist up on hooks, all the belters looked like people that grew up in 0g. They were all very long and thin and tall. All of the extras were built that way. Belter patois was pretty heavy and they talked with their hands a lot, as one would do when you spend huge amounts of time in a pressure suit.Don't many of them do though? I mean, Drummer's panda eyeliner
Slightly related - a thing that used to bug me about the Belters' appearence was their hairdos. They seemed either very uncomfortable or requiring insane amount of product, which seemed impractical. But then it hit me - they're only uncomfortable or hard to slyle in full gravity! You don't need as much product to have your hair, say, stand vertical in microgravity, or your huge hair bun won't give you scalp pain because it's not weighted down. I highly doubt it was the thought proicess in hair and makeup department, but it's a nice little headcanon that makes me happier about what I'm seeing
Later seasons they started looking like punk rock hobbits and belter patois started sounding like piratespeak. It got so bad when Marcos started doing his Shakespearian Belter motivational speaking tour I had to turn the sound off.
The issue with the modern entertainment world is that it takes people a while to get to some series.
1. Its a mercenary streaming world where people burn through a streaming service before moving on to the next. Why subscribe to more than one at a time beyond an inability to say "no.". So people may not be back on the service where a series just dropped, for months.
2. Full season drops means people can be further ahead/behind even on the same series even when they are subscribing to the same service.
3. "It has been out for a month" doesn't cut it.
If it is a year or two old, people have probably had a chance to see it... But then you can run into cases where people just never knew it existed for obscure things like Being There, a great movie that some people do not know about. Like Idiocracy was the Trump presidency story, Being There was used to explain the Bush Jr presidency. So obscure stuff can always be spoiled.
Then there are horrifying cases where you find someone who has not seen something like Star Wars or Blade Runner and you wonder what they have been watching instead.
That said after a sad month finding that over the last 6mo Hulu didn't get much new content we have moved to HBOMax which seems to have a great quantity of new stuff. Right now it looks like it may last more than a month.
- Messages
- 1,414
I typically wait for a series to end before I binge watch it. Even if it was long running.
I like programs that end, thus my favoring of a movie over a series. Although I have started watching "limited series" where they have 8 or so episodes with a resolution, so you aren't left hanging waiting for the next season. Or like I said earlier, it doesn't end up cancelled.
One of these days I intend to watch The Sopranos
I like programs that end, thus my favoring of a movie over a series. Although I have started watching "limited series" where they have 8 or so episodes with a resolution, so you aren't left hanging waiting for the next season. Or like I said earlier, it doesn't end up cancelled.
One of these days I intend to watch The Sopranos
I really dislike some streaming services deciding to go back to weekly releases for stuff.
You aren't convincing me to subscribe longer, you are convincing me to avoid subscribing until your series complete, as well as hating you, and speaking ill of you whenever I can.
I'm not staying subbed for 1 hour of content per week.
We are all used to binging. Rationing just breeds resentment or worse.
You aren't convincing me to subscribe longer, you are convincing me to avoid subscribing until your series complete, as well as hating you, and speaking ill of you whenever I can.
I'm not staying subbed for 1 hour of content per week.
We are all used to binging. Rationing just breeds resentment or worse.
- Messages
- 550
I don't want to spoil the ending of thaI typically wait for a series to end before I binge watch it. Even if it was long running.
I like programs that end, thus my favoring of a movie over a series. Although I have started watching "limited series" where they have 8 or so episodes with a resolution, so you aren't left hanging waiting for the next season. Or like I said earlier, it doesn't end up cancelled.
One of these days I intend to watch The Sopranos
- Messages
- 16,739
I don't really think this is a spoiler.
I was watching a show and DC's Poison Ivy was going to be fed a meal of "plant based proteins". I wouldn't think she'd eat plants as they are her friends. Shouldn't she be an all out carnivore if she can't live off of minerals, water, CO2, and sunlight?
I was watching a show and DC's Poison Ivy was going to be fed a meal of "plant based proteins". I wouldn't think she'd eat plants as they are her friends. Shouldn't she be an all out carnivore if she can't live off of minerals, water, CO2, and sunlight?
Advertisement
- Messages
- 16,739
OP
- Messages
- 18,074
- Messages
- 16,739
- Messages
- 1,414
OP
- Messages
- 18,074
- Messages
- 1,414
- Messages
- 146
- Messages
- 229
- Messages
- 637
- Messages
- 550
"The Last Duel"
I really like Ridley Scott directed movies. Adam Driver is a really good actor. Matt Damon might have been a bit miscast, but does a good job. Jodie Comer, who I had never heard of before this film, is excellent. Ben Affleck is terrible, but isn't really on screen enough to tank an otherwise really good film.
No spoilers, but I will say that anytime your wife/daughters complains that she wants to be a princess, have her watch this film.
I really like Ridley Scott directed movies. Adam Driver is a really good actor. Matt Damon might have been a bit miscast, but does a good job. Jodie Comer, who I had never heard of before this film, is excellent. Ben Affleck is terrible, but isn't really on screen enough to tank an otherwise really good film.
No spoilers, but I will say that anytime your wife/daughters complains that she wants to be a princess, have her watch this film.
Advertisement
- Messages
- 16,739
OP
- Messages
- 18,074
- Messages
- 16,739
- Messages
- 550
I love Z-Nation. The last season is kind of weak, but everything up to it is fantastically camp. And for a zombie show, it never, ever, ever forgets it is a zombie show. The characters all act like people caught up in the zombie apocalypse. There is an entire episode on it.
Zombie cheese wheel might be the best thing I have ever seen on the tube.
- Messages
- 2,913
- Messages
- 16,739
- Messages
- 16,739
OP
- Messages
- 18,074
- Messages
- 1,130
Advertisement
- Messages
- 2,913
- Messages
- 1,530
- Messages
- 21,388
- Messages
- 1,088
- Messages
- 229
- Messages
- 1,619
- Messages
- 12,262
Finished Ozark! Little slow this time. Thought it was over with this last episode. Was thinking worst ending even but than found on internet 7 more episodes coming so hope they finish if off well. Just heard that they’re putting out another season of the marvelous misses Maisel. That was a good show.Finished Ozark......Oh my cliffhanger again!
- Messages
- 789
OP
- Messages
- 18,074
Random Great Topic!
Today's Deals
Advertisement
Advertisement