Penguin
Footballguy
It's a different take, basically Richard Sackler knew what he was doing was illegal and forged ahead destroying hundreds of thousands of lives. Who knew Ferris Bueller was so diabolic.
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Psychopav
Help us, Joebi-Wan Brynobi, you're our only ho
Couldn't get past episode one. The writing is embarrassing imo. I believed about a third of the dialogue. Maybe less.
JB Breakfast Club
Footballguy
Flew through Wrestlers (Netflix documentary) this week. Really well done profile of OVW and independent wrestling.
BlackCrowes
Footballguy
Not sure how I found it, but Secret State from 2012 with Gabriel Byrne was pretty good.
belljr
Footballguy
oh crap - i forgot they release these weekly im 3 behind lol THANKS!!!
El Floppo
Footballguy
northern exposure
Footballguy
How is that a different take than Dope Sick? They definitely laid out that Sackler knew he was bending and breaking laws and didn't care because nothing was going to stop him from getting what he wanted.
Eephus
Footballguy
Warners/Max got all that crappy but semi-popular Discovery+ reality content via the merger.
General Malaise
Poop Lord
Watched BS High today. Trying to conjure up a more dislikeable figure than their "coach". What a slime bucket.
Gr00vus
Footballguy
Started watching Foundation on Apple+.
It's been a while since I read the books, and they haven't really stayed with me, so I'm not looking at this from a purist perspective in terms of honoring the source material.
The first 3 or so episodes are pretty good. But since then, now that the plot armor has been established, it's a lot less interesting, particularly since they spend an inordinate amount of time in lengthy scenes of individual "drama" that really have no payoff or point. I do remember that the overall story, though it does have recurring characters, it isn't really about individual character development, it's a galactic historical fantasy. So far this production is reducing things to a small, individual scale all too often, with tepid results.
Maybe that improves over the remainder of the first season and subsequent seasons.
There's also a lot of unartfully executed exposition. Also, tons of t.v. "science" mumbo-jumbo that's eyerollingly bad. I'm not talking about the psychohistory premise from Asimov (which is problematic itsef), but scenes devoted (for example) to reminding us of how much of a genius a character is by having them engage in a sciency/mathy exercise born from some writer's fevered reimagining of what they learned in junior high geometry. With the character then saying to themselves, out loud, at the completion of this farce - "I'm smarter than any computer." And this was created before the writers strike.
It's been a while since I read the books, and they haven't really stayed with me, so I'm not looking at this from a purist perspective in terms of honoring the source material.
The first 3 or so episodes are pretty good. But since then, now that the plot armor has been established, it's a lot less interesting, particularly since they spend an inordinate amount of time in lengthy scenes of individual "drama" that really have no payoff or point. I do remember that the overall story, though it does have recurring characters, it isn't really about individual character development, it's a galactic historical fantasy. So far this production is reducing things to a small, individual scale all too often, with tepid results.
Maybe that improves over the remainder of the first season and subsequent seasons.
There's also a lot of unartfully executed exposition. Also, tons of t.v. "science" mumbo-jumbo that's eyerollingly bad. I'm not talking about the psychohistory premise from Asimov (which is problematic itsef), but scenes devoted (for example) to reminding us of how much of a genius a character is by having them engage in a sciency/mathy exercise born from some writer's fevered reimagining of what they learned in junior high geometry. With the character then saying to themselves, out loud, at the completion of this farce - "I'm smarter than any computer." And this was created before the writers strike.
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ericttspikes
Footballguy
The Jewel Thief doc on Hulu is pretty cool. Never heard of the story before. Was weird that the guy was video documenting his life since the 80’s, but that made it really interesting.
Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
I'll say it it for you - the production value is high but the story is nigh unwatchable.
Gr00vus
Footballguy
6 episodes in and it's definitely starting to feel that way.
At this point, there are too many shows, not enough writers - strike or not. We've got t.v. inflation, and while quantity probably results in more quality from a sheer numbers standpoint, I don't know that quality has increased proportionally with the increase in shows.
ericttspikes
Footballguy
Full Metal Jousting is streaming on Amazon Prime/Freevee. I remember watching this 10 years ago when it was on the History Channel and now rewatching with my family. This is what I wanted Medieval Times to be; full contact jousting. Kind of repetitive, but I stay for the dehorsings.
Gr00vus
Footballguy
@Andy Dufresne o.k. I've gone though the end of season 1, and it got worse with every subsequent episode. If I continued on it'd be a hate watch at this point.
Pure dreck. I imagine writers rooms for all these shows are self congratulatory circle jerk echo chambers in which a multitude of clowns gush over moronic dialog, characterization, theme and plot choices with each other. It's sad that all these opportunities are being squandered.
General Malaise
Poop Lord
I tried to watch Bama Rush on MAX and it broke my brain 30 minutes into it. Are these people for real? What a waste of my time.
Osaurus
Footballguy
Scary, isn’t it?
Runkle
Footballguy
Wish they made more of these. Guess it went south after the dude punched his horse.
IvanKaramazov
Footballguy
Very late to the party here, but I blew through Mad Men in about three months, and boy was that worth it. I had watched about the first two seasons (maybe) quite a while ago, but I gave up because the show just wasn't what I was expecting. In particular, I just didn't "get" Don's backstory and found that a distraction from the show I thought I was going to be watching, which I guess I thought was going to be a bunch of personal backstabbing in an ad agency in the early 1960s. Obviously the personal backstabbing is there, but with the passage of time I was able to re-set my expectations and jump back in, and it really paid off.
Having binged both Succession and Mad Men nearly back-to-back, I think there's a lot of value to binging these sorts of shows instead of dragging them out over years. These shows have a lot of character development and very subtle callbacks that would be easy to overlook if you're supposed to be remembering an episode that aired three years ago, but that are much easier to follow if you just watched that episode two weeks back. Breezy, uncomplicated shows that don't demand too much of the viewer (e.g. Game of Thrones) work just great on a weekly basis. This one was better to plow through all at once.
I had expected the finale to be more of a happy ending. Because I live in our culture and am online from time to time, I knew that the finale featured Don coming up with a particular famous ad, so I had psychologically coded that as "happy ending," when the ending was actually sort of pitch black. Big fan of that. In fact, I liked how they wrapped up every character's story line and thought everyone got a good send-off. I have no idea how this was received at the time, but I thought it was one of the better endings to a long-running show that I've seen in a while.
Having binged both Succession and Mad Men nearly back-to-back, I think there's a lot of value to binging these sorts of shows instead of dragging them out over years. These shows have a lot of character development and very subtle callbacks that would be easy to overlook if you're supposed to be remembering an episode that aired three years ago, but that are much easier to follow if you just watched that episode two weeks back. Breezy, uncomplicated shows that don't demand too much of the viewer (e.g. Game of Thrones) work just great on a weekly basis. This one was better to plow through all at once.
I had expected the finale to be more of a happy ending. Because I live in our culture and am online from time to time, I knew that the finale featured Don coming up with a particular famous ad, so I had psychologically coded that as "happy ending," when the ending was actually sort of pitch black. Big fan of that. In fact, I liked how they wrapped up every character's story line and thought everyone got a good send-off. I have no idea how this was received at the time, but I thought it was one of the better endings to a long-running show that I've seen in a while.
Finally finished my binge thru all 6 seasons of Justified. Timothy Olyphant is one of my favorites but I tried watching Justified years ago and gave up during season 1 because it was a typical cookie cutter, episodic show (ie catch this week's bad guy). Glad I tried again and stuck it out because it gets so much better season 2 and onward.
Zow
Footballguy
Agree with all of your points. The second half of season one isn't great and I almost bailed myself. Season two though is much better and I'm glad I stuck with it. I'd encourage you sticking with it a bit longer if you can.
ETA: I generally watched episodes just before bed after an edible so take that for what it's worth.
jamny
Footballguy
We're early in season 3 and liking it well enough. I thought last season was good, but I've always liked Margo Martindale. This season (3) hasn't been great so far. Hoping it picks up.
We only watch 1 episode a week. Not really into binging.
Wynn Duffy is my favorite
Capella
CAPELLODINHO
It’s hard for me to think of a better done show. I love the sopranos and Breaking Bad maybe equally to Mad Men but everything about Mad Men is so perfect. Just a perfect show for me. Loved the finale too after I absorbed it.
Peggy is my favorite tv character ever.
CletiusMaximus
Footballguy
PSA that HBO Max has just "quietly" added multiple seasons of the brutal British dating show Naked Attraction, in which awkward unattractive British people examine and judge each other's naughty bits, pick the one they like best, then go on a date. If you're ever really bored and looking for some mindless entertainment to pass the time, I recommend not watching this show.
IvanKaramazov
Footballguy
This sounds like one of those made-up shows that appears for 2 seconds in movies like The Running Man or Robocop where the writers use the existence of that show for world-building purposes just to show how dystopian everything is.
CletiusMaximus
Footballguy
This show is currently airing its 7th season. If it weren't British, I'd have to blame the Death/loss of Religion in America for this cultural phenomenon.
falguy
Inconceivable!
I've seen a few episodes and the bolded is the absolute truth.
The General
Footballguy
One of the best. Amazing to look at, amazing writing, amazing characters.
In a show littered with hundreds of great scenes this one always comes to mind
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Runkle
Footballguy
I'd seen the first 3-4 seasons, they were fine, but then the quality tailed off in later years.
Drunken knight
Footballguy
I am sure it has been mentioned
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Yo Mama
Footballguy
Yeah Reservation Dogs was excellent. I didn’t want it to end but they wrapped it up great.
Zow
Footballguy
Great show, but Sunderland 'til I Die is a far better version (though much more depressing).
jamny
Footballguy
I'm enjoying the new season so far. Even though I know how it ends. No spoilers.
zoonation
Footballguy
New season of Sex Education is out. Not as good as the first 3 seasons but still coming of age gold and Ruby features prominently this season, which is all that any viewer can ask for, really.
Also, it seems that the kids have moved to a school that is even more LBTGQ than the one they left. Didn't think that was possible but here we are.
Also, it seems that the kids have moved to a school that is even more LBTGQ than the one they left. Didn't think that was possible but here we are.
Bozeman Bruiser
Footballguy
I randomly found an Aussie show called Upright that ended up being pretty good awesome. A buddy road trip of sorts with Atticus Fetch from Californication (Tim Minchin) and some young chick who is famous for a Game of Thrones (Milly Alcock) prequel. The beautiful Australian scenery, comedic banter, and surprisingly emotional storyline that developed made the 30 minute episodes fly by. Another under the radar quality Aussie production in my opinion. Only available on Sundance and AMC.
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Zow
Footballguy
Yeah I bailed in the second season because, and while I know it's the theme of the show, the plotlines just seemed way too unrealistic for me. Maybe it's because I didn't get much action in high school and am jealous, but it just seemed too over-the-top for me.
snogger
Footballguy
yea, I'm watching.. Shocker I know..
Like it better than the Negan visits New York series.
Like they have Daryl helping rather than playing untrusting loner.
Tick
Footballguy
I recommend checking out the anthology they did, Tales of the Walking Dead. It was just a series of short zombie films. Apart from the crappiest episode (3), none of the rest tied in with anything else in TWD - they just were set in that world, so they didn't have to explain the rules or show the outbreak or anything, they could just build upon the foundation we already know. A few of them were really great - a Groundhog Day episode with Parker Posey and a neat opening love story with Terry Crewe and Olivia Munn. You could stop after the first two episodes, but 4-6 were worth watching too.
TheAristocrat
Footballguy
Is Mandalorian Season 3 just a bunch of video game side quests? I was worried about it in episode 3 and now am on 6.
I kinda have to finish this out. Please tell me it gets better.
I kinda have to finish this out. Please tell me it gets better.
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