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Streaming or currently airing TV shows (AKA Netflix thread) (41 Viewers)

El Floppo said:
watched most of the two Netflix movies. 

the camp-kids vs aliens thing... floppinho summed it up from an 11yo perspective- "it was ok, but pretty stupid". from a grown up perspective... just stupid. and I recently caught Super 8, which on second viewing was pretty great.

the chinese earth-rocketship thing... woof. couldn't make it to the end. just idiotic from the giddyup. 
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badmojo1006 said:
Rim of the world 0.5 out of 5.

Started out OK, not horrible, but the last half was an Adidas ad. Very lame
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When They See Us is one of the best things i've ever seen on TV and the closest i've gotten to feeling inside the horrorshow of being trapped behind blackness since i first read Invisible Man 50 years ago.

 
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Family movie night and we watched the classic "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels". It still holds up as funny even if it's not quite hilarious. Michael Caine doing his finest David Niven impression for an entire still cracks me up. It's a throwback film in a lot of ways.

 
James Daulton said:
Finished up The Society.  Liked, didn't love it.  As is usual with these kind of shows, virtually none of the characters have any redeeming qualities and IDGAF what happens to them.  But it's got a supernatural element to it that I like. 
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Finished this weekend. Started out a little slow, but the final 4 episodes were really good.  

 
belljr said:
I think you should leave....is fantastic 
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:goodposting:

When this alias gets permabanned I'm coming back as Bart Harley Jarvis. Also the Fred Willard organist sketch and the motorcycle sketch are criminally underappreciated. I almost fell off the couch laughing when he called a car "two motorcycles with a little house in the middle."

 
Finally dove into Outlander yesterday.  5 episodes in and am definitely enjoying it.  Look forward to see where this leads. :popcorn:

 
TobiasFunke said:
:goodposting:

When this alias gets permabanned I'm coming back as Bart Harley Jarvis. Also the Fred Willard organist sketch and the motorcycle sketch are criminally underappreciated. I almost fell off the couch laughing when he called a car "two motorcycles with a little house in the middle."
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Their bones are money@#$@

 
Have done a Phoebe Waller-Bridge dive the past month or so. Incredibly talented writer and actress, damn. 

Fleabag (Prime)--Amazing two seasons, perfect ending

Killing Eve (Hulu)--Great first season, haven't seen two yet. 

Crashing (Netflix, not the Pete Holmes one on Prime)--great single season british comedy, hard to describe but worth the watch imo. 

 
ConnSKINS26 said:
Have done a Phoebe Waller-Bridge dive the past month or so. Incredibly talented writer and actress, damn. 

Fleabag (Prime)--Amazing two seasons, perfect ending

Killing Eve (Hulu)--Great first season, haven't seen two yet. 

Crashing (Netflix, not the Pete Holmes one on Prime)--great single season british comedy, hard to describe but worth the watch imo. 
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love fleabag. really enjoyed S1 of killing eve, but felt like S2 fell off quite a bit. haven't seen crashing- will look forward to it.

 
El Floppo said:
love fleabag. really enjoyed S1 of killing eve, but felt like S2 fell off quite a bit. haven't seen crashing- will look forward to it.
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Now that you mention it (and as my post was focusing on Phoebe Waller-Bridge vehicles)--PWB was not involved with Killing Eve season 2 as a writer (just as an executive producer, which could be an empty credit). I wonder if that could explain the drop-off. The first season walked a tightrope that easily could have veered off into ridiculousness at any moment, but somehow worked and said a lot at the same time. I could see a different writer butchering the characters, easily. 

 
ConnSKINS26 said:
Have done a Phoebe Waller-Bridge dive the past month or so. Incredibly talented writer and actress, damn. 

Fleabag (Prime)--Amazing two seasons, perfect ending

Crashing (Netflix, not the Pete Holmes one on Prime)--great single season british comedy, hard to describe but worth the watch imo. 
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Love both these. PWB is fantastic. She did a good interview on NPR's Fresh Air recently.

 
Started "The Terror" from AMC. I like it enough to keep going. Ciarin Hinds is a one of my favorite older actors. Saw him on Broadway even. 

 
The Bob Dylan Rolling Thunder Revue documentary is excellent.  Scorsese had access to incredible footage, both of the Revue's performances and backstage scenes.  One of the cardinal rules of film making is to show rather than tell.   This generally works but I think it helps to know some back story about Dylan in 1976 because there's no omniscient narrator to provide it.  

Dylan is at the center of the movie, mostly in archival footage but occasionally in recent talking head interviews.  Scorsese captures the spirit of Rolling Thunder by shifting focus to other characters who took part in the tour.  Some are obvious like Baez and Ginsberg but a guy like Martin von Haselberg, who shot a lot of the original footage (and later married Bette Midler) is almost as interesting as Dylan.  Or at least he thinks he is.

The film suffers a bit from the lack of a dramatic arc. The tour begins, the tour ends.  Characters enter, have their scene and are hardly heard from again.  Maybe this is the point, it's a continuation of the statement Scorsese made in The Last Waltz about rock 'n roll and the never ending road.  To put a period on it, right before the credits roll, Dylan and Joan Baez are heard singing "The Water Is Wide" while every Dylan tour date from 1975 to 2018 is listed on screen.

 
"Ocean's 8" with Bullock, Blanchette, Kaling, Hathaway, Paulson, Bonham Carter, Awkwafina, and Rihanna.

Snoozefest. Not that the the other Ocean's movie were taut or anything but this just hums along without any real dramatic tension. It could be fun but I sort of feel it was miscast. 

 
Eephus said:
The Bob Dylan Rolling Thunder Revue documentary is excellent.  Scorsese had access to incredible footage, both of the Revue's performances and backstage scenes.  One of the cardinal rules of film making is to show rather than tell.   This generally works but I think it helps to know some back story about Dylan in 1976 because there's no omniscient narrator to provide it.  

Dylan is at the center of the movie, mostly in archival footage but occasionally in recent talking head interviews.  Scorsese captures the spirit of Rolling Thunder by shifting focus to other characters who took part in the tour.  Some are obvious like Baez and Ginsberg but a guy like Martin von Haselberg, who shot a lot of the original footage (and later married Bette Midler) is almost as interesting as Dylan.  Or at least he thinks he is.

The film suffers a bit from the lack of a dramatic arc. The tour begins, the tour ends.  Characters enter, have their scene and are hardly heard from again.  Maybe this is the point, it's a continuation of the statement Scorsese made in The Last Waltz about rock 'n roll and the never ending road.  To put a period on it, right before the credits roll, Dylan and Joan Baez are heard singing "The Water Is Wide" while every Dylan tour date from 1975 to 2018 is listed on screen.
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My father is/was on the business side of the music industry. Record executives, songwriters, performers, and the occasional pro athlete were his business. One of his clients was Dylan and he got on the road with them during the 70's. Diverse performers like Asleep at the Wheel, The O'Jays, and even Dylan got him on the road during their tours in the 70's. I had a RTR t-shirt from tour.  He eventually gave it up because it was tough to have a family and tour like those guys. That and they were pretty adept at ignoring his advice about their money. He always described Dylan is prickly while the O'Jays were just crazy on tour.

 
wife has been watching "How to Get Away with Murder" on Netflix

what a horrible load of shlock this is

these ensemble shows with 10+ semi-name actors running separate storylines are hard enough but when the writing is corny, the plots are bad and the acting is awful. well.. you have a network television hit, apparently but by god is it awful.

 
mr. furley said:
wife has been watching "How to Get Away with Murder" on Netflix

what a horrible load of shlock this is

these ensemble shows with 10+ semi-name actors running separate storylines are hard enough but when the writing is corny, the plots are bad and the acting is awful. well.. you have a network television hit, apparently but by god is it awful.
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The first season was decent, for awhile.. Then about half way through it became a "How to be shocking without really telling a story" and we lost interest fast. :bye:

 
mr. furley said:
wife has been watching "How to Get Away with Murder" on Netflix

what a horrible load of shlock this is

these ensemble shows with 10+ semi-name actors running separate storylines are hard enough but when the writing is corny, the plots are bad and the acting is awful. well.. you have a network television hit, apparently but by god is it awful.
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my wife watched this, so I watched a couple. just awful.

"white hat"

 
jdoggydogg said:
Why?

But seriously, this series is awful. 
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i was in a hotel that had HBO and couldn't fall asleep. as for the series, this is not the best of them for sure even if Soderbergh isn't directly responsible for this one. i think the first was fun and convoluted but i'm still mostly a fan of Soderbergh. he's an artistic omnivore and wildly talented even if the finished product is likely beneath him. he's dangerously close to that phase of his career that he's coasting (see Coen Bros, Scorcese, most notably) but whatever.

 
"Murder Mystery" - Adam Sandler, Jennifer Anniston

meh - it wasn't completely terrible, but it could have been much better.  Essentially a money grab for Sandler and Anniston.

 
Tales of the city. Horrible so far. I like a lot of the pieces but it plays like an after school special complete with the worst score on tv. My current position on Laura Linney is that she is either the best actress going or the worst. Ozark? Great. If his show is the evidence i would have to vote worst. 

 
Nick Vermeil said:
Tales of the city. Horrible so far. I like a lot of the pieces but it plays like an after school special complete with the worst score on tv. My current position on Laura Linney is that she is either the best actress going or the worst. Ozark? Great. If his show is the evidence i would have to vote worst. 
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We watched the first episode.

I remember watching the original series and finding it interesting- a lot of themes of never seen covered before.

Completely agree about this one- you nailed it with after school special. I think it's the writing, which confess across as disjointed and sophomoric.

Linneys character,iirc, was a wide-eyed bumpkin and the story lines centered a lot around letting her naivete substitute for the viewer getting to see everything the first time- which for homosexuality, nudity, drug use, etc, may have been the first time on network tv (PBS, anyways). That seems bizarre now, but again iirc, PBS's attempt at producing the follow-up was met with threats over funding...so I guess the ignorance/fear/naivete didn't go away. But at this point- linneys character, the words she's given and how she's playing it, just seems less naive and more idiotic. A fist bump? I still think she's amazing, but yeah- this is a stupid character and portrayal. Doubt I watch any more.

 
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