For those with Disney+, we enjoyed The Americans. I found myself cheering for the Russian spies.
On Season 4 right now. I watched season 1 and 2 a few years ago and thought it was good but a bit slow. Season 3 was a total shift and its been excellent since.
I really liked the Americans, but it had a pretty rough stretch when it started delving into the teenaged angst realm. Thankfully it pulled itself out.
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I really liked the Americans, but it had a pretty rough stretch when it started delving into the teenaged angst realm. Thankfully it pulled itself out.
I’m in season 2 right now, I think I’m in that stretch.
Station Eleven is...a show I watched. I'm a little surprised at the praise it's received, although I do have to admit the good parts were really good, but for the most part it just seemed strange, slow, and boring. It never decides if it wants to be grounded or fantastical, although when it flirts with the former the show was much better.
Can't say I recommend this one unless you're out of things to watch.
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So, we're just going to ignore that Tyler blew up 3 people, 2 of which were children, and was planning to use the rest of them as suicide bombers at the airport because of his own original stupidity? All water under the bridge, let's walk off like Jon Snow and rule the Wildlings?
It's ok, son. You only brainwashed children and created a murderous, suicidal cult. What a stupid story.
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Station Eleven is...a show I watched. I'm a little surprised at the praise it's received, although I do have to admit the good parts were really good, but for the most part it just seemed strange, slow, and boring. It never decides if it wants to be grounded or fantastical, although when it flirts with the former the show was much better.
Can't say I recommend this one unless you're out of things to watch.
Spoiler!
So, we're just going to ignore that Tyler blew up 3 people, 2 of which were children, and was planning to use the rest of them as suicide bombers at the airport because of his own original stupidity? All water under the bridge, let's walk off like Jon Snow and rule the Wildlings?
It's ok, son. You only brainwashed children and created a murderous, suicidal cult. What a stupid story.
sorry Station Eleven fans, my brain categorically rejected that show. I simply could not relate to the way characters were reacting to each other, or to the collapse of civilization in general.
I could not even find validation of my opinion online, as the vast majority of written and video reviews love it. the only evidence I have that it might not be a universally accepted masterpiece is the google user review percentage:
but of course even then I didn't agree with that many of the negative users reviews because at least half of them were complaining about excessive wokeness or HBO libtards or something.
sorry Station Eleven fans, my brain categorically rejected that show. I simply could not relate to the way characters were reacting to each other, or to the collapse of civilization in general.
I could not even find validation of my opinion online, as the vast majority of written and video reviews love it. the only evidence I have that it might not be a universally accepted masterpiece is the google user review percentage:
but of course even then I didn't agree with that many of the negative users reviews because at least half of them were complaining about excessive wokeness or HBO libtards or something.
The amount of substance and style that feels like it was ripped right out of Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam trilogy is pretty remarkable.
At least a dozen times I said to myself that this sure reminds me of Oryx & Crake and The Year of the Flood, minus the absurd satire.
__________________ "It's a great day for hockey."
-'Badger' Bob Johnson (1931-1991)
"I see as much misery out of them moving to justify theirselves as them that set out to do harm." -Dr. Amos "Doc" Cochran
Station Eleven is...a show I watched. I'm a little surprised at the praise it's received, although I do have to admit the good parts were really good, but for the most part it just seemed strange, slow, and boring. It never decides if it wants to be grounded or fantastical, although when it flirts with the former the show was much better.
Can't say I recommend this one unless you're out of things to watch.
Spoiler!
So, we're just going to ignore that Tyler blew up 3 people, 2 of which were children, and was planning to use the rest of them as suicide bombers at the airport because of his own original stupidity? All water under the bridge, let's walk off like Jon Snow and rule the Wildlings?
It's ok, son. You only brainwashed children and created a murderous, suicidal cult. What a stupid story.
Your analysis of the good parts being really good is spot on. The overall narrative and character development of certain characters is awful, while others like Jeevan are really well done.
Just finished the first three episodes of From on Epix. It's a supernatural show about a town that traps people in it and at night, monsters come out to play searching for people to munch on. I've enjoyed it so far. Its creepy and pretty gory.
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I'm not sure why Euphoria gets so little love in this thread. Finale tonight was great, and it definitely it up there with the best on HBO.
We’re only 2 episodes in and it’s great. Different than a lot of shows we watch. But we’re really enjoying it.
Only ####ty thing is it’s on crave and I ####ed up and bought a Vizio which doesn’t have the app so I need the laptop to watch crave where my wife likes to watch shows. Somewhat annoying.
I watched 3 episodes of MacGruber and have no reason whatsoever to further pervert the the value of the film, which may be one of the most underrated comedies of all time.
The series has been awful.
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