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Thanks, was thinking more new stuff but from that list we've seen Fargo, Sherlock, Res Dogs, and Shogun. Wife has seen Frasier for sure (I've seen some), she thought Letterkenny was dumb. She'd probably like Sunny.
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jamny
Footballguy
I only made it a few episodes into S2 but I thought S3 was pretty good.
The Gator
Footballguy
I feel the same about The Night Agent and The Recruit. redundant
btw, The Pitt is great
Statorama
Footballguy
Timer - (Available on Amazon Prime). In the future, you can get a wrist implant that counts down to the day when the user will meet their soulmate. Within the rules this universe sets up, it's 100% infallible. Your timer doesn't start until your soulmate gets their timer. Now I'm a 'right side brain' kind of guy, so I'm immediately asking ALL the questions. But I let it go. As long as this world stays consistent with its rules, I'll play along. Emma Caulfield (Anya from Buffy) is frustrated because her timer hasn't started, and we go along with her on her journey to find her soulmate.
Is it light and fluffy? You betcha. Are there going to be some coincidences that you can call before the movie does? Mmm hmm. It's Rom-Commy. But after the movie was over, a strange thing happened. I wanted to talk about it. I usually just look at rom-coms (and to be frank, most movies) as disposable entertainment. But here it was, making me think things. Making me ask questions. I dig that! The ending doesn't give you the answers, but it makes you ask lots of questions (in a good way).
PSA: Please Note!! I'm not a fan of the first 10 minutes or so, as they setup this world and the protagonist. I almost shut the darn thing off. She starts off insufferable but gets more likeable as it goes along. If you go into this, know it gets a little rocky at first.
I also want to stress I'm not hard selling this thing. It is what it is. I liked it though.
Is it light and fluffy? You betcha. Are there going to be some coincidences that you can call before the movie does? Mmm hmm. It's Rom-Commy. But after the movie was over, a strange thing happened. I wanted to talk about it. I usually just look at rom-coms (and to be frank, most movies) as disposable entertainment. But here it was, making me think things. Making me ask questions. I dig that! The ending doesn't give you the answers, but it makes you ask lots of questions (in a good way).
PSA: Please Note!! I'm not a fan of the first 10 minutes or so, as they setup this world and the protagonist. I almost shut the darn thing off. She starts off insufferable but gets more likeable as it goes along. If you go into this, know it gets a little rocky at first.
I also want to stress I'm not hard selling this thing. It is what it is. I liked it though.
fatness
Footballguy
Just finished Season 2. Not as twisted on a personal level as Season 1 but still convoluted, good at ratcheting suspense up until the end, and very good. Storyline was more about government than was Season 1. Still, great show.
3 hour lunch
Footballguy
Through all 5 episodes of Paradise and pretty hooked. Not among the most plausible shows I’ve seen but entertaining for sure
BlackCrowes
Footballguy
I like it, but I thought Ep 5 was a bit of a letdown. Hopefully it rebounds
El Floppo
Footballguy
I like post apoc stuff, so I'm interested to see where this goes.
Hard not to compare to Silo, which is far superior.
Kind of on par with that Matt Dillon show Westward Pines (or something).
beer 30
Footballguy
Just finished S2 of the Night Agent and redundant is a good way to describe it. S1 was better, should have stopped there. Not sure I'm in for a S3.
Zow
Footballguy
So somehow this show got worse??
El Floppo
Footballguy
I was mostly in until that last episode ending.
ETA... NM- I was thinking of The Recruit. I didn't bother with NA S2.
Riffraff
Footballguy
Beast Games finale
6 players enter - 1 wins.
They had a chance for one of them to flip a coin - 50/50 chance to eliminate themselves OR double the pot to $10mil. The $5mil was already the most ever to be given in game show history. Doubling it would be 10 years worth of Survivor coin for comparison (actually more when there was an island given away and 2 Lambos, and lots of individual cash prizes).
6 players enter - 1 wins.
They had a chance for one of them to flip a coin - 50/50 chance to eliminate themselves OR double the pot to $10mil. The $5mil was already the most ever to be given in game show history. Doubling it would be 10 years worth of Survivor coin for comparison (actually more when there was an island given away and 2 Lambos, and lots of individual cash prizes).
$10mil it is on 'tails.'
6 platforms for the 6 contestants. They picked their spot based to stand on (1st person safe in previous round picked 1st). Each has a tube about 15 feet in front of each pedestal. You throw bouncy balls into each others tubes to eliminate them. Being in the middle pretty much sucks on this one as the far ends would take a pure lucky shot to make the opposite end. 2 will be eliminated in this contest.
5 gang up on the nicest player (first one safe in previous round) as they all aim for her tube. Then dude next to her made a pact to not target each other (they are in the middle - easiest to make the shot). The near center dude eventually hits the first shot to take out the contestant on the other side of his pact partner. 1 eliminated. All but the furthest away started aiming for the far end contestant that was next to the eliminated one - she already has to shoot for closest tube that's 2 people away. Center area girl that was ganged up on offers pact to not target her if she doesn't reciprocate as hers is the closest one. End girl goes for another. Center lied and shot at the end girl. Retaliation shot went in and out. 3vs1 - feeling bullied.... but hits the center girl's - no in and out this time. 4 remain.
Buttons on platforms - all hold down the button and ahead of them the floor panels will light up in a pattern. First to lift their hand gets to walk the pattern by memory. Get it right and they select who to eliminate. The one picked on the previous round goes for it first. Dude in middle volunteered to assist, but he was targeting her in previous round. Trust is not there. She lines up to the left of the first tile, dude says it's 1 to the right. No trust, she steps and eliminates herself. Did walk the whole pattern correctly otherwise - ouch. 3 remain.
Social strategy - top 50 contestants were surveyed on who they would prefer to get eliminated. Now they try to remember who they helped and who they screwed over. Did they stand out either way as friend or foe? Twist - if one feels they are vulnerable they can take a $1mil bribe (nice visual of $11mil cash in $1 bills sitting there on stage). Coin flipper for the extra $5mil self-sacrifices and is a millionaire (before taxes) and likely 2nd most $ after the winner. He was wrong - 'mean mugger' (MMA fight face) would have been eliminated (was my guess as the people's choice). 2 remain
Angry face vs silver fox (as someone called him).
Her = spend it on herself and family. Him = donate to a cause to find a cure for the brain issue his son ails from.
They are 1 number apart of the original 1000. Pretty cool that they started off standing next to each other and end that way.
$10mil on the line
10 briefcases - on a spinnable circular table - 9 are empty, 1 has a check for $10mil. Flip a coin to see who goes first. She calls tails, he wins. He's blindfolded before pick, host shows the check in case 10. She can re-arrange the cases to any configuration. Host, camera team and support staff all turn their backs so no one knows. He'll take off the blindfold and pick a case. Mind games, bluff or no bluff?
If wrong, they take the case away. They would go back and forth until one of them finds the check. Read her like a book... he gets it on the first try.
LOL. Funny moment: Older boy asks him how he'll get the mounds of cash home.
Younger brother with the brain ailment stayed at home.
She turned down a $1mil offer earlier (twice). She'll get an additional $100k for a total of $190k.
50 world records broken by the game show, including largest payout.
Fun show.
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5 gang up on the nicest player (first one safe in previous round) as they all aim for her tube. Then dude next to her made a pact to not target each other (they are in the middle - easiest to make the shot). The near center dude eventually hits the first shot to take out the contestant on the other side of his pact partner. 1 eliminated. All but the furthest away started aiming for the far end contestant that was next to the eliminated one - she already has to shoot for closest tube that's 2 people away. Center area girl that was ganged up on offers pact to not target her if she doesn't reciprocate as hers is the closest one. End girl goes for another. Center lied and shot at the end girl. Retaliation shot went in and out. 3vs1 - feeling bullied.... but hits the center girl's - no in and out this time. 4 remain.
Buttons on platforms - all hold down the button and ahead of them the floor panels will light up in a pattern. First to lift their hand gets to walk the pattern by memory. Get it right and they select who to eliminate. The one picked on the previous round goes for it first. Dude in middle volunteered to assist, but he was targeting her in previous round. Trust is not there. She lines up to the left of the first tile, dude says it's 1 to the right. No trust, she steps and eliminates herself. Did walk the whole pattern correctly otherwise - ouch. 3 remain.
Social strategy - top 50 contestants were surveyed on who they would prefer to get eliminated. Now they try to remember who they helped and who they screwed over. Did they stand out either way as friend or foe? Twist - if one feels they are vulnerable they can take a $1mil bribe (nice visual of $11mil cash in $1 bills sitting there on stage). Coin flipper for the extra $5mil self-sacrifices and is a millionaire (before taxes) and likely 2nd most $ after the winner. He was wrong - 'mean mugger' (MMA fight face) would have been eliminated (was my guess as the people's choice). 2 remain
Angry face vs silver fox (as someone called him).
Her = spend it on herself and family. Him = donate to a cause to find a cure for the brain issue his son ails from.
They are 1 number apart of the original 1000. Pretty cool that they started off standing next to each other and end that way.
$10mil on the line
10 briefcases - on a spinnable circular table - 9 are empty, 1 has a check for $10mil. Flip a coin to see who goes first. She calls tails, he wins. He's blindfolded before pick, host shows the check in case 10. She can re-arrange the cases to any configuration. Host, camera team and support staff all turn their backs so no one knows. He'll take off the blindfold and pick a case. Mind games, bluff or no bluff?
If wrong, they take the case away. They would go back and forth until one of them finds the check. Read her like a book... he gets it on the first try.
LOL. Funny moment: Older boy asks him how he'll get the mounds of cash home.
Younger brother with the brain ailment stayed at home.
She turned down a $1mil offer earlier (twice). She'll get an additional $100k for a total of $190k.
50 world records broken by the game show, including largest payout.
Fun show.
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TheAristocrat
Footballguy
Did you lose a bet or what happened?
beer 30
Footballguy
Hard to imagine but yeah. I had already just started fast forwarding through the half of the shows that were in Farsi so that helped but then the ending was just, well...wow. Won't say it was the worst I've seen but I'd listen to the argument.
No, if you've run across any of my previous efforts on this board you'd know the answer. I'm stupid
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Navin Johnson
Footballguy
Anyone catch 'Paradise'? Think it might be on Hulu but it's on Disney over here
El Floppo
Footballguy
I think we were literally just talking about it. go way up the page like a few posts.
Zow
Footballguy
Not good? It looked interesting but I was turned off by its low rating.
Nick Vermeil
Footballguy
Low excite.
The best part of Suits was the Mike/Harvey banter interactions. Then add in Louis Litt as the punching bag and it was great. Not sure they can capture that well enough. I will give it a shot but I don't have high hopes...................greenback boogie!
CGRdrJoe
Footballguy
it says i need mgm to watch this
northern exposure
Footballguy
The Hunting Party? Interesting it was getting some "The Black List" comparisons prior to it airing.
Tick
Footballguy
Yeah, it veered toward Resident Evil when some video game boss showed up during the big fight, otherwise it was really good. Nothing about that Offerman episode was expected, but it was a beautiful story.
Don Quixote
Footballguy
Catching up on season 2 on Severance and regretting leaving it off my 70. I was so-so on Season 1, but Season 2 is taking things to the next level.
fatness
Footballguy
Night Agent is sublimely bad, like True Blood.
BLOCKED_PUNT
Footballguy
thanks for this
I watched a few episodes of 30 Rock and I didn't like it that well. Same with Always Sunny Maybe I'll pick up Lost again. Several of those I've already seen.
my hulu backlog is
Pancho Villa: The Centaur of the North
Once Upon a Time
Dark Marvels
Dark Side Of The 2000s
The Mega-Brands That Built America
Dark Side of Comedy
We Were the Lucky Ones
Feud
Food Tech
American Horror Story
Fleishman Is in Trouble
Cheese: A Love Story
The Americans (I have watched season 1 though)
The Booze, Bets and Sex That Built America
Under the Banner of Heaven
Schitt's Creek
The Patient
Dopesick
Devs
The Great
Letterkenny
M*A*S*H
Once Upon a Time
Dark Marvels
Dark Side Of The 2000s
The Mega-Brands That Built America
Dark Side of Comedy
We Were the Lucky Ones
Feud
Food Tech
American Horror Story
Fleishman Is in Trouble
Cheese: A Love Story
The Americans (I have watched season 1 though)
The Booze, Bets and Sex That Built America
Under the Banner of Heaven
Schitt's Creek
The Patient
Dopesick
Devs
The Great
Letterkenny
M*A*S*H
We'll just have to see how bad some of these are
BLOCKED_PUNT
Footballguy
BLOCKED_PUNT
Footballguy
Scrubs, Cheers, Futurerama and X-files are solid. the uk version of Shameless is on there. I enjoyed Terriers, the first 5 or 6 seasons of How I meet your Mother, Boston Legal, You're the Worst, Homeland, Trust, Rescue Me and Better Things.
hope that helps a little
CGRdrJoe
Footballguy
mr. inbetween
Riffraff
Footballguy
Only 2 episodes thus far. It has the Blacklist 'bad person of the day' per episode feeling and the lead is pretty raw in acting.
Drawbacks thus far:
- Pilot episodes are always an intro to the characters and an easy solve for time savings - no problem.
- It was multiple weeks between episode 1 and 2 - easy to forget anything about the first one and the characters.
- No 'A' level star actor/actress like James Spader or Mandy Patinkin / Joe Mantegna to lean on. You can see the 'notch below' acting too much.
- Need more of a team of experts, but they may be showing another addition - unsure. Missing the usual stereotypes. Not a 'procedural' drama (Criminal Minds) where everyone has a line and higher technical details.
- Second episode is 'all too easy'. Very surface level - pretty much all they had to do was watch the un-destroyed camera feeds to get hints and exact names. Basement scene was pretty dumb.
Both in regards to the wheelchair doc wanting to protect the killer and that opening 1 airway across the room clears out the entire room of gas instantly.
Hoping it gels, but definitely not Criminal Minds level. Will give it a few more episodes to see if it finds it's feet.
belljr
Footballguy
It's recorded. Probably going to watch the Saturday night live special and the race
Yambag
Footballguy
100%, even though they don't connect, Mrs. Yambag and I just rewatched season two to get in the zone.
TheAristocrat
Footballguy
I'm in for more White Lotus
northern exposure
Footballguy
beer 30
Footballguy
Cool story about Gabriel Basso and his ability to fight, Bas Rutten on Gabriel Basso fighting
FarFromHome
Footballguy
Just finished American Primeval. I really enjoyed it. That time period was so dark and a real stain in the history of mankind. Just a brutal time. Decent cast. Decent storyline. Solid overall. The story of Amish and Jacob really sums up how silly it all was and they ended it nicely. It really humanized how simple life should be without the greed.
FYI. I turned Horizon off after an hour or so. Just bad.
jamny
Footballguy
We're up to S7 and it's been solid throughout. Hasn't gotten repetitive at all. Yeah, less adult humor but still consistently funny. Gene is my favorite. Love Teddy too.
Tick
Footballguy
I had only seen one episode before this, and it happened to be episode 2 (lost in the crawl space). Luckily, I finally watched The Shining between then and now, so the bar scene made more sense.
northern exposure
Footballguy
The cast was very good. Especially Shea Wigham as Jim Bridger. He has always been $, since I noticed him as Eli Thompson in Boardwalk Empire. The young actress playing Abish Pratt was just in The Agency as the agent in training.
I couldn't place the actor playing Isaac. Then I looked it up and realized he was from the Friday Night Lights TV series.
Betty Gilpin as Sara was very good too.
Great synopsis. I agree with all your observation/points. It has potential but needs to step up a bit to get there.
One thing I will add on the "set up control center immediately" trope............drawings of building systems. They always get the blueprints and they are always accurate and at your fingertips. Never happen in real life....hahaha
The Gator
Footballguy
Zow
Footballguy
Apple Cider Vinegar (Netflix ) - 6/10
Story primarily focuses on an Australia social media influencer and app creator who lied about numerous serious medical ailments including brain cancer and her career path. There is a secondary character that is a similar influencer with actual cancer but who got famous due to rejecting western medicine and choosing alternative treatments and sold organic juices promoted to heal serious medical ailments. Their stories intertwine as they rise and fall. This is loosely based on a true story.
It's a decent enough of an interesting story, and the actress playing the main character does a fantastic job, but I give this show a relatively low rating (and Mrs. Woz agrees) because it's 6 episodes when it should be three episodes max or maybe a movie. Most of the characters in the world were very unlikeable with a few decently likeable characters only appearing as minor roles. And, frankly, 6 one-hour episodes in the world was just too much.
Story primarily focuses on an Australia social media influencer and app creator who lied about numerous serious medical ailments including brain cancer and her career path. There is a secondary character that is a similar influencer with actual cancer but who got famous due to rejecting western medicine and choosing alternative treatments and sold organic juices promoted to heal serious medical ailments. Their stories intertwine as they rise and fall. This is loosely based on a true story.
It's a decent enough of an interesting story, and the actress playing the main character does a fantastic job, but I give this show a relatively low rating (and Mrs. Woz agrees) because it's 6 episodes when it should be three episodes max or maybe a movie. Most of the characters in the world were very unlikeable with a few decently likeable characters only appearing as minor roles. And, frankly, 6 one-hour episodes in the world was just too much.
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