TV Series

[Ballymagash Blue]

Started Bosch last week following a recommendation on here. Nearing the end of season three. V good.

 

[7evens]

Started on Fargo the series last night, been putting it off as I didn't think it was my sort of program, got to S1E3 so far, it's not bad at all.

Season 2 is best.

 

[Banned Tosspot]

All the series are good. Still hopeful for more.

I can't get into Season 3. It's boring as fuck.

First season was brilliant and the second wasn't far off too.

 

[TheRemainsOfTheDave]

I can't get into Season 3. It's boring as fuck.

First season was brilliant and the second wasn't far off too.

I'd go 2nd, 1st, 3rd in order of best to worst. Series 3 is a lot creepier due to David Thewlis, and not as funny as 1 and 2, so probably not as appealing. Still enjoyed it myself.

 

[Bigga]

'Black Monday'.

Never thought I would laugh so much at a show about Wall St!!

It's 'Billions' on laughing gas!

Simply brilliant!

 

[Zin 'messiah' Zimmer]

'Black Monday'.

Never thought I would laugh so much at a show about Wall St!!

It's 'Billions' on laughing gas!

Simply brilliant!

Really?? I found it hammy as it gets

Then again, billions is average imo so maybe not surprising

Strange as the subject matter is something that normally pulls me in!

 

[TheRemainsOfTheDave]

Really?? I found it hammy as it gets

Then again, billions is average imo so maybe not surprising

Strange as the subject matter is something that normally pulls me in!

I was really looking forward to it, but turned off after ten minutes. Just seemed really basic coarse humour to me.

Billions is terrible now, too. The dialogue just gets on my nerves with the constant analogies and pop references.

 

[Banned Tosspot]

I'd go 2nd, 1st, 3rd in order of best to worst. Series 3 is a lot creepier due to David Thewlis, and not as funny as 1 and 2, so probably not as appealing. Still enjoyed it myself.

Just read that Chris Rock is in Season 4.

 

[TheRemainsOfTheDave]

Just read that Chris Rock is in Season 4.

Yes. Filming later this year, expect on telly Spring 2020? Hopefully.

 

[7evens]

After Game of Thrones finished I spread my TV viewing around a lot.

I started Lost and reached the end of the first season. I started What We Do in the Shadows and I'm halfway through that. I'm just about to get into Stranger Things 3 & Barry's second season. I finished Chernobyl. I'm re-watching BoJack Horseman for the fourth or fifth time and doing a podcast about it (plug! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/re-access-hollywoo/id1444410232). I flew through Russian Doll and Fleabag as well. I'm even enjoying Jane the Virgin's fifth season as a bit of light viewing. There's so much great television out there right now.

 

[Bigga]

Really?? I found it hammy as it gets

Then again, billions is average imo so maybe not surprising

Strange as the subject matter is something that normally pulls me in!

Er, it's a comedy...

It's overplayed on purpose, so yes, it's hammy!

Everything was big, big, bigger in the 80's!

You know that!

 

[Zin 'messiah' Zimmer]

Er, it's a comedy...

It's overplayed on purpose, so yes, it's hammy!

Everything was big, big, bigger in the 80's!

You know that!

Does it need to be hammy to get a cheap laugh??

There’s nothing subtle in the dialogue, stevie wonder could see the delivery, which unfortunately makes it quite plain...

I like a little more meat on the bone!

 

[Bigga]

Does it need to be hammy to get a cheap laugh??

There’s nothing subtle in the dialogue, stevie wonder could see the delivery, which unfortunately makes it quite plain...

I like a little more meat on the bone!

Meh, fair enough.

Sometimes, just sometimes, I like a little 'dumb' for comedy.

 

[Saddleworth2]

Watched the first series and thought it was terrible, didn’t bother with the 2nd.

Your loss mate. It is seriously good.

 

[Ban-jani]

Your loss mate. It is seriously good.

So I’ve heard.

 

[Summerbuzz]

Catch 22 didn't quite hit the heights but was well worth the 8 hours.

Currently being totally wowed by Too Old To Die Young. Miles Teller as a young, corrupt cop. Somewhere between Heat and Twin Peaks the Return. 3 Episodes in, this is awesome, awesome stuff.

 

[Ballymagash Blue]

I was really looking forward to it, but turned off after ten minutes. Just seemed really basic coarse humour to me.

Billions is terrible now, too. The dialogue just gets on my nerves with the constant analogies and pop references.

Billions has always been terrible. A total waste of Damien Lewis's talent.

 

[quiet_riot]

Currently being totally wowed by Too Old To Die Young. Miles Teller as a young, corrupt cop. Somewhere between Heat and Twin Peaks the Return. 3 Episodes in, this is awesome, awesome stuff.

Really? I'm going to need some convincing to continue after episode 1, 90 mins should have been 45, seems to be trying very hard to be weird and quirky. Miles Teller bizarre in his absolute non-acting.

 

[Summerbuzz]

Really? I'm going to need some convincing to continue after episode 1, 90 mins should have been 45, seems to be trying very hard to be weird and quirky. Miles Teller bizarre in his absolute non-acting.

I'd say give episode 2 a go because it's pretty different, but to be honest it still has the same very, very slow pacing. To me it makes perfect sense. They drift around the scenery and it all just gets worse and worse. You end up wondering what the hell anyone is thinking or feeling, and to me, that is the point. Miles Teller's thing is pretty clear in episode 3.

But for episode 1... yeah. I had that 'What the fuck are you all about?' moment, right after the job is done. He's just pacing around throughout the whole thing, basically staring into the abyss, and not really DOING anything apart, and I'm getting the vibe. Part of me wants to shout... SAY SOMETHING MAN! MOVE! WAVE YOUR ARMS! SCREAM! STOP WHERE YOU ARE, QUICKLY, DO SOMETHING ELSE! GO ANOTHER WAY! etc. I just sat there, felt a bit bleak, and angry at him and just thought.... ooops... he really is staring into the abyss and... it clearly doesn't matter to him. Why? Personally, I'm rather looking forward to that particular journey as the series moves on. I'm not sure there will be any clear reason... but.... let's say I thought one thing after that episode and probably quite another after this, and both of them are deliciously dark for this particular noir / crime afficionado.

But then again I have got wayyy too much time on my hand and really enjoy reading into character.

 

[markbmcfc]

Binged season 3 of Stranger Things in one evening. Utterly brilliant. Best of the three from a story and production perspective.

The Duffer Brothers are brilliant. As is Shawn Levy and the young cast.