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Streaming or currently airing TV shows (AKA Netflix thread) (15 Viewers)

jamny said:
I'm following along with the old FFA thread on The Leftovers as I go along. So far, by episode 8, no one has said they love the show, a bunch have given up and a lot of others are questioning if they'll continue. I guess it's safe to say it must get a lot better.
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This might be my favorite show ever made, but it does take a while, and as many have said Seasons 2 and 3 are the best.  I finally convinced my mom and her husband to watch it late last year, but they had to give it two tries.  I realized they'd been doing too much to try to figure out The Sudden Departure.  It's not something to figure out or try to explain, though you do get some idea of what happened by the very end.  You kind of need just to go with it.  Then it becomes more enjoyable.

Although Season 1 is my least favorite, the ending to the season finale made me burst into tears both times I've watched the series (I came to it late and did power-watches both times).  And of course Carrie Coons is one of the best actresses working today, and whoever plays her brother is equally stunning in his work.

Holy Wayne (the hugger) isn't himself in the show after Season 1, but his presence and activities in Season 1 are critical to the whole storyline in later seasons.

 
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krista4 said:
This might be my favorite show ever made,
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Wow

I knew going in this time, from friends that loved the show, that you just have to get past season 1. So I accepted it as a setup season to the rest of the story.

The most recent scenes with the cop and Aunt Lydia (Handmaids Tale) in the cabin were really good.

Agreed on Coons. She's really good. A rare talent to say so much with the slightest facial expressions.

Thanks for your thoughts on the show. It makes me look forward to what's to come.

 
hagmania said:
Legend of Vox Machina is a fun romp. It's the animated version of the wildly successful D&D actual play Critical Role.

It's extremely crass and entirely too over the top dramatic... so just like any tabletop RPG session. It's my one small gripe: I wish the dialogue was written for a series instead of in homage of their twitch sessions.

I can imagine it not landing with a lot of folks, but it worked for me, and I've only watched a handful of hours of their twitch streams. I look forward to the rest of the series. :)
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Wait, what happened to your web series?  Any second season?

 
jamny said:
Midnight Mass was not good.

A few cool scenes in the last couple of episodes but overall a waste of time. OMG...stop talking already! What a dumb show.
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Wow, I thought the show got better and better. Yeah the long monologs did kind of suck.

 
For me, Midnight Mass worked because of the writing. I loved how it set up the catholicism/monster comparison in ways that only works through mono or dialogue. 

 
El Floppo said:
For me, Midnight Mass worked because of the writing. I loved how it set up the catholicism/monster comparison in ways that only works through mono or dialogue. 
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It felt like it was written by two guys sitting around getting stoned. Nothing very deep or original. And not just long but everyone was speaking in a droning monotonous tone throughout. With only a few exceptions, the acting was not good. 

And it didn't work as horror for me either. Mostly cheesy, almost network TV level horror. It did have a fitting ending though. Exactly what it deserved.

 
lmao...I decided to look at some reviews for Midnight Mass. I had no idea it was from the same guy that did The Haunting Of Hill House, which I didn't like at all.

Some of my thoughts on that one:

Just watched the second episode.

Soooooooo boring. Not sure if we'll continue.
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Most people seem to enjoy it. It's just not my thing and my wife is definitely out. I know it's only two episodes but it looks to be what I was afraid it would be. A family drama with some horror elements. As I've seen in multiple reviews that I've read this morning, it's like This Is Us with ghosts. I doubt I'll go back to it.  
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I'll be sure to avoid anything Mike Flanagan puts out in the future.

 
jamny said:
lmao...I decided to look at some reviews for Midnight Mass. I had no idea it was from the same guy that did The Haunting Of Hill House, which I didn't like at all.

Some of my thoughts on that one:

I'll be sure to avoid anything Mike Flanagan puts out in the future.
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I loved Haunting of Hill House 

 
El Floppo said:
Haunting of Hill House was great TV. 

Jamny: Horror

KP: Humor
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:D

This ain't horror. I've been on a bit of a horror kick recently and that might affect my review here, having recently watched great horror movies like Audition, Martyrs, [REC] and The Wailing. This pales in comparison.

Love the replies here

one of my favorites:

Apparently people don't have conversations on that island. They just take turns monologing at each other. The writing was really bad.
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I normally do not watch cartoons geared towards kids, but I stumbled upon Infinity Train through HBO MAX.

If you play video games, you might rec the voice actor playing Tulip season 1 - (Ashley Johnson)

Good show, has some dark themes not suitable for kids.  Worth watching.

 
Legend of Vox Machina - Amazon Prime

10/10 show - if you are unfamiliar with Critical Role, It started as a group of friends came together to kickstart a show and play it on Twitch. The show is based on one of their campaigns.

Its def not for kids under 13 as it has mature themes - If you like RPGS, DND or fantasy - it is a must watch

 
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wazoo11 said:
Legend of Vox Machina - Amazon Prime

10/10 show - if you are unfamiliar with Critical Role, It started as a group of friends came together to kickstart a show and play it on Twitch. The show is based on one of their campaigns.

Its def not for kids under 13 as it has mature themes - If you like RPGS, DND or fantasy - it is a must watch
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I'm very much on the fence on this three episodes in.

Full disclosure:  I have virtually no familiarity with Season 1 of Critical Role and I've never been a critter.  I've only rarely watched a feed of a session in its entirety.  But I've been enough into D&D the past few years that a lot of CR content has flashed through my YouTube feed, and I see why people respond to these guys as role players.

For the show, I thought a lot of the fourth wall breaking stuff didn't really work that well.  And I say that as someone who probably does a lot of that stuff when I'm playing a session.  But they're not doing a stream of sessions. They're trying to produce discrete 30 minutes episodes and I'm not sure having Scanlan just do his wacky Scanlan stuff in those episodes works when he really doesn't seem to have any connection (yet) to the D&D story they're telling or the D&D action they're getting into.  I think Episode 3 was a big step up in having a story with some connection to at least one character and action that mattered, but Scanlan still spent the whole big fight doing some type of Tom Jones thing at the dinner reception.  

I get how that works for the people who followed the streams, but the audience for this show has to be bigger.  And if they're not going to do a narrative conceit that shows the relationships between the role players as well as the relationships between the characters they play, then I don't think the show can really indulge those types of throw away moments all the time.  I felt the same about the consistent profanity.  I probably use profanity a fair bit at the table myself.  But that's always kind of an inside joke between me and the other folks at the table.  It's almost always "out of character."  Deliberately so.  But because this show only exists from the perspectives of the characters, those moments take me out of the show. 

Hopefully I'll like it better as the show becomes more story-centric.

 
Quick question, has anyone else here watched The Doom Patrol?? I am on season 2 episode 4 and i truly dont know wtf I am watching but I think I like it, kind of , maybe, sort of. Weird doesnt begin to describe it but has enough humour and whimsy to keep me coming back. Currently there are ghosts having sex on the ceiling but thank goodness the Sexperts have arrived to save the day! I kid you not. It is a DC comics property with Timothy Dalton and Brendan Frasier as main characters.

If you're looking for something different, odd and sort of cockeyed fun this may foot the bill.

PS- Its on HBO/MAX

 
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jamny said:
Midnight Mass was not good.

A few cool scenes in the last couple of episodes but overall a waste of time. OMG...stop talking already! What a dumb show.
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Your posting about this makes me wonder about your dedication to The Leftovers.   :lol:  

 
dutch said:
Quick question, has anyone else here watched The Doom Patrol?? I am on season 2 episode 4 and i truly dont know wtf I am watching but I think I like it, kind of , maybe, sort of. Weird doesnt begin to describe it but has enough humour and whimsy to keep me coming back. Currently there are ghosts having sex on the ceiling but thank goodness the Sexperts have arrived to save the day! I kid you not. It is a DC comics property with Timothy Dalton and Brendan Frasier as main characters.

If you're looking for something different, odd and sort of cockeyed fun this may foot the bill.

PS- Its on HBO/MAX
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We watched a few of these...stopped watching for no reason really. It was fun- reminded me a bit of Legion in a good way, but not as interesting (at least S1 Legion).

 
dutch said:
Quick question, has anyone else here watched The Doom Patrol?? I am on season 2 episode 4 and i truly dont know wtf I am watching but I think I like it, kind of , maybe, sort of. Weird doesnt begin to describe it but has enough humour and whimsy to keep me coming back. Currently there are ghosts having sex on the ceiling but thank goodness the Sexperts have arrived to save the day! I kid you not. It is a DC comics property with Timothy Dalton and Brendan Frasier as main characters.

If you're looking for something different, odd and sort of cockeyed fun this may foot the bill.

PS- Its on HBO/MAX
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The current season has lost me (not totally clear why, maybe it’s just gotten stale to me) but up to this point I enjoyed it. Fraser’s character is absolute gold. 

 
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dutch said:
Quick question, has anyone else here watched The Doom Patrol?? I am on season 2 episode 4 and i truly dont know wtf I am watching but I think I like it, kind of , maybe, sort of. Weird doesnt begin to describe it but has enough humour and whimsy to keep me coming back. Currently there are ghosts having sex on the ceiling but thank goodness the Sexperts have arrived to save the day! I kid you not. It is a DC comics property with Timothy Dalton and Brendan Frasier as main characters.

If you're looking for something different, odd and sort of cockeyed fun this may foot the bill.

PS- Its on HBO/MAX
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Doom Patrol is a truly bizarre show. Its ok. I havent watched the latest season yet.

 
A couple in to After-party on Apple (somebody in here mentioned it)...great cast and funny. The Rashoman approach gives each actor a chance to do their thing.

 
The General said:
We enjoyed this quite a bit. Well told. 
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Enjoyed Maid too. But, man, it was hard at times. A lot of people's lives just suck through no fault of their own. And even well-meaning government programs are too often inefficient and ineffective. They did a very good job showing that frustration, among other things.

 
BeTheMatch said:
Enjoyed Maid too. But, man, it was hard at times. A lot of people's lives just suck through no fault of their own. And even well-meaning government programs are too often inefficient and ineffective. They did a very good job showing that frustration, among other things.
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Yep. Most real life stories certainly have it much worse. The makers of the show did a great job not getting too after school specially. 

The main girl also crushed it.  She is real life daughter of Andie McDowell and hasn’t been in much but she carried the show. 

 
The General said:
Yep. Most real life stories certainly have it much worse. The makers of the show did a great job not getting too after school specially. 

The main girl also crushed it.  She is real life daughter of Andie McDowell and hasn’t been in much but she carried the show. 
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I wanted to kill Andie McDowell, which was obviously what they were going for basically. I've got a mother a little too similar to her character, so it was almost physically uncomfortable for me to watch the scenes with her in it.

 
Through 2 seasons of The Leftovers.  Man, a few of those episodes late in season 2 were hard to watch as it jumped the shark big time.  Hoping season 3 gets better.

 
Count me as an endorser of Killing Eve. Sandra Oh is hard to look at but Jodie Comer is not. But both give great performances - the whole cast does, really.

Just the right amount of very funny humor too.

 
Gilroy34 said:
Probably.  There were just so many things that made no logical sense.  Incredibly frustrating.
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we're talking about a show centered on the premise that a percentage of the world's population literally disappears in the blink of an eye.

but yeah- this show most definitely isn't for you, it sounds like.

 
El Floppo said:
we're talking about a show centered on the premise that a percentage of the world's population literally disappears in the blink of an eye.

but yeah- this show most definitely isn't for you, it sounds like.
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Oh I get it is science fiction.  But that shouldn't mean almost every character is bat #### crazy making stupid decisions.

 
Gilroy34 said:
Through 2 seasons of The Leftovers.  Man, a few of those episodes late in season 2 were hard to watch as it jumped the shark big time.  Hoping season 3 gets better.
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S1 is interesting for Carrie Coon. She doesn't have incredible range in her acting skill, but she's well cast and her part is well written. She's phenomenal in this show. I don't think all the other parts are well written though. There is a strong cast here and much of what happens does so because you have people like Paterson Joseph and Ann Dowd and Michael Gaston turning small parts with questionable dialogue into something better.

Justin Theroux is a mediocre actor in just about anything else. But surrounded by far better actors around him, he's almost sympathetic.

S2 and S3 fall apart.

It's sadness porn for over privileged white liberal yuppies.

It should have ended at S1. The scene where everyone is at the table and confessing their flaws and worst fears was a very honest take on how people actually cope with long lasting pain.

If Carrie Coon is to be given credit for anything, she helped to create a middle aged over privileged white woman character who didn't immediately make the audiences' eyes bleed over what made her broken ( Unlike Skylar White, Betty Draper, Julia McNamara, Carmela Soprano, the list is pretty much endless)

People like Nora Durst don't exist. Women like Nora Durst don't exist. That she wasn't a total mercenary in her condition should have been the first big neon sign that she's not functionally plausible.

Nora Durst is hopefully implausible. Which fits the premise of the entire show.  She appeals both to what people want and more importantly what they think they want.

S1E6 was the show's peak and the end of S1 was it's logical conclusion.

 
Bracie Smathers said:
Looks pretty funny.

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Netflix@netflix

Marshawn Lynch, Sharon Stone, Annie Murphy, Conan O’Brien, Ken Jeong and Kumail Nanjiani are here to help Will Arnett solve a brutal murder — the only catch is, they weren't given a script. Welcome to Murderville, a new improvised comedy series premiering February 3
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Watched the first episode.  I like the concept.   But I think its tough to pull off.    It was ok. Ill watch the the whole thing, the best parts are when they break 

 
Archive 81 pretty darn good through 6 episodes.  Creep factor.

Boba Fett is frustrating.  The gang grouping around getting ready to fight the spice trade is awesome, along with Mando returning and his sweet new ride.  But, Luke training the baby yoda (some wacked out voice over thing and shotty puppet special effects) might be the worst thing I've ever seen on tv.  

 
PhillipPhoto said:
Archive 81 pretty darn good through 6 episodes.  Creep factor.

Boba Fett is frustrating.  The gang grouping around getting ready to fight the spice trade is awesome, along with Mando returning and his sweet new ride.  But, Luke training the baby yoda (some wacked out voice over thing and shotty puppet special effects) might be the worst thing I've ever seen on tv.  
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@shuke Did you get any farther into this one?

   It seems like something right up my alley, but was waiting for any more input before starting.  

 
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