The TV shows you've seen recently thread.

[Don Rumata]

Up to ep3 of Money Heist season 3.
As expected, this season feels like superfluous stretch of the plot.

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

[Tasty]

https://twitter.com/chrishayner/status/1152776791141916672

[Tasty]

Flash looks like it has an entirely new direction...

Also Burt Ward will be in Crisis.

[Tasty]

https://www.dcuniverse.com/news/young-justice-and-doom-patrol-renewed-additional-seasons/

Looks like DCU shows will simulcast on HBO Max. This is a Good Thing and I'm glad Warners isn't mothballing DCU to prop up Max.

So confirmed:

- Young Justice Season 4
- Titans Season 2
- Doom Patrol Season 2
- Harley Quinn Season 1 = fall

Swamp Thing had me worried but it looks like it really might have just been a scheduling or tax credits issue.

[Bebpo]

Too Old to Die Young ep8 - well I guess that’s ballsy

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killing off your main character in ep8/10

Not sure what story’s left to fill another two episodes though

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Show is one of the most nihilistic shows I’ve seen. Feels like no point to anything.

[toku]

Brandon Routh playing superman again on arrowverse crisis on infinite earths. @tasty

[Tasty]

Brandon Routh playing superman again on arrowverse crisis on infinite earths. @tasty

https://ew.com/tv/2019/07/19/brandon-routh-superman-crisis-on-infinite-earths-arrowverse-crossover/

This is really cool.

[Bebpo]

Finished Refn's Too Old to Die Young

God, this show was trash. It picked up around ep4 or so and was at least interesting until ep8 and then nothing happens in the last 2 eps and people sit and read 5 minute long ridiculous Refn speeches stating his political and religious views. Can't believe I wasted 13 hours on this. At least the final ep was only 30 mins.

[Don Rumata]

Finished season 3 of Money Heist.
They clearly have no idea what to do with these characters anymore, this was a copy cat of the first 2 seasons, but stupider, with forced. in couples therapy drama.

Last episode was a tiny bit of fun at least.
Hopefully season 4 picks up with some more interesting development.

[Momo]

[Nuitangg]

Is the Expanse worth getting into?  First episode was 

[team filler]

 

[Don Rumata]

Is the Expanse worth getting into?  First episode was 

Yes, it gets quite fun, but it also has plenty of lows throughout.
I found especially annoying how it just drops some plotlines for no reason.
Season 2 lost me tbh, but then Season 3 ended on a high note.

Anything related to Earth's politics is kind of shit in my opinion, the Belters stuff is fun.

[jorma]

Is the Expanse worth getting into?  First episode was 

eh, it's noway near as approachable as game of thrones was if you haven't read the books and already know the background stuff imo

[benjipwns]

The Boys actually looks better than the book to me, I like it being a slight bit more humorous/fun as the series was pretty stupidly rough at times as Ennis kept trying to top himself. I assume Karl Urban just ordered them to give him a second season already. Although he makes me like Butcher too much compared to the book.



This probably more than any comic adaption to date makes me curious simply by what they might actually adapt considering it's on Amazon and not even tied to any of the namebrand comic publishers.

Also, I can't believe they cast Simon Pegg just as a joke reference to the book.

[Nuitangg]

I'll probably give the Expanse another go this weekend depending on how good The Boys is.

[Don Rumata]

Karl Urban should focus on getting that Dredd tv show started. 

[Madrun Badrun]

Watching the Sharpe series with Sean Bean.    So good. 

[D3RANG3D]

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07QQQ52B3

[benjipwns]

reviews sound good:

1.0 out of 5 stars
Not moral, sound, or good for the Young American community.
July 25, 2019
Format: Prime Video
It has a lot of swearing, x rated sexual context, and completely naked men. It repeatedly shows women being forced to give sexual favors (rape) by the superheros.

1.0 out of 5 stars
All it took was 1 minute to discover this is politically correct garbage.
July 26, 2019
Format: Prime Video
All it took was 1 minute to discover the motive of this distinguished mentally-challenged attempt at politically correct garbage. NEXT

1.0 out of 5 stars
At least with root canals they will give u laughing gas
July 26, 2019
Format: Prime Video
I don’t even know where to begin! I stopped after 5 episodes. I kept thinking it would get better. But it just never did. I was hoping for something funny. But it never was. I get it satire and it does a good job at poking fun but mainly of those who would be more conservative. Personally, I watch movies and TV programs to escape from the chaos. Just for a moment. Where are programs of hope and humor. People get enough of the whole SJWisms in every day life. So if you are needing that escape. Might want to pick a different program. However, for some, this series will be up their alley.

1.0 out of 5 stars
Why is watching gore and rape entertainment now?
July 26, 2019
Format: Prime Video
My 5 year old cousin got a hold of this show. She had been doing nothing but drawing dead bloody people since. This level of violence doesn't belong in any super hero context. And there are alot of youth that are going to be watching this, Sadly.

[Joe Molotov]

I was sold at completely naked men.

[CatsCatsCats]

So it’s liberal with the violence?

[nudemacusers]

Finished Refn's Too Old to Die Young

God, this show was trash. It picked up around ep4 or so and was at least interesting until ep8 and then nothing happens in the last 2 eps and people sit and read 5 minute long ridiculous Refn speeches stating his political and religious views. Can't believe I wasted 13 hours on this. At least the final ep was only 30 mins.

Don’t know how you didn’t see this coming 30 minutes in :p.

Show is the embodiment of self indulgent pretension. Does solidify refn as a hack auteur, so that's good.

[Madrun Badrun]

Sharpe's Gold was a bad episode.  Also he gets shot and stabbed like three times per episode lol

[Kara]

Watching the Sharpe series with Sean Bean.    So good.

[nudemacusers]

At episode 4 of the boys and it’s quite good; manages the edgy/funny/dark tone switching remarkably well.

[D3RANG3D]

[toku]

[EightBitNate]

Wow I really dislike that animation style.

[Borealis]

Wow I really dislike that animation style.

Not sure how to put it, but fps seems too low, like it's almost stuttering in some parts.


Given that it's also been renewed for a S5, more Expanse stuff:



 

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

Wow I really dislike that animation style.

its just rotoscoping

[Crash Dummy]

At episode 4 of the boys and it’s quite good; manages the edgy/funny/dark tone switching remarkably well.

yeah i'm enjoying too but, and this is more a reflection of myself, i get jaded at anything serious it wants to convey; like of course a corporation owns superheroes and of course it's all heavily focus tested with a marketing team and share price is everything.

i was half hoping for a kara-esque tax planner to show up and discuss if the heroes could be viewed as directors and operating overseas for extended periods of time could create an establishment, then they could assign dozens of cost centres per hero but kara then flips out and shouts transfer pricing is a big nothing that adds no value and creates nothing

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

I binged the shit out of the final season of Orange Is The New Black, and its a very satisfactory conclusion to whats overall been an incredibly consistent series.

Still character driven, still funny where it needs to be, still thought provoking and still asking pertinent questions about power dynamics and what the purpose of a prison is and what it should be, and still touching on contemporary issues without going too far down the 'ripped from the headlines monster of the week' territory.

Also actually makes an effort to do something tangible about the issues it raises instead of just finger wagging a 'bad guy' responsible for everything.

I guess a lot of trendwatchers fell off this when their blogs stopped gushing over it; obviously resetera which you'd assume would be a receptive audience DGAF because a new cape show landed at the same time

[Tasty]

Was a huge fan for s1-3, I think I saw 4 but wasn't too hot on it, need to catch up on 5 and now 6.

Definitely one of my favorite shows.

[Transhuman]

Wow I really dislike that animation style.

its just rotoscoping

Darkly looked better though. Undone just seems like it's too close to photorealistic. The animation in Darkly was more interpretive and less uncanny-valley.

[EightBitNate]

Wow I really dislike that animation style.

its just rotoscoping

It’s uncanny to me

[MMaRsu]

The Boys is really good

[TVC15]

Gregg Araki’s show was canceled. Probably because losers like you people are too busy watching comic book shows designed for the genetic underclass.



the sex scenes in this show

But really, fuck you guys for not watching this. Your loss.

Gregg Araki Hopes Canceled Starz Series ‘Now Apocalypse’ May Live Again at ‘a New Home’
https://www.indiewire.com/2019/07/gregg-araki-now-apocalypse-season-two-1202161587/

[EightBitNate]

Gregg Araki’s show was canceled. Probably because losers like you people are too busy watching comic book shows designed for the genetic underclass.



the sex scenes in this show

But really, fuck you guys for not watching this. Your loss.

Gregg Araki Hopes Canceled Starz Series ‘Now Apocalypse’ May Live Again at ‘a New Home’
https://www.indiewire.com/2019/07/gregg-araki-now-apocalypse-season-two-1202161587/

Oh I didn’t Gregg Araki was behind this show. I was wondering why the trailer seemed interesting to me, but wrote it off.

[MMaRsu]

Just finished The Boys season 1. That trailer is horrible, don't watch it. Just binge the show instead.

The trailer doesn't come close to how dark this series is. I mean it's pretty insane.

Bizarro Superman is the scariest thing ever

[Nuitangg]

The Boys is pretty great.

[Tasty]

Bizarro Superman is the scariest thing ever

That's incredible since he's one of the lamest jobbers in comics.

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Until Forever Evil where they make him Lex's mentally challenged son and it... kind of worked?

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And then they gave him his own Bizarro family and universe in Rebirth and that... also kind of worked?

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[toku]

[Don Rumata]

I guess it doubles as my opinion on the show:

I finished season 2 of Dark just today (binged it all in the last week or so) and i liked it.
I don't have a problem with the nihilism you mention, the show is almost completely devoid of any humor, but that shouldn't be a prerequisite i think (or Bergman would be a hack).
Regardless, if you like time travel stories, it's probably one of the best i've seen on the screen, this side of Primer (and significantly less complicated than Primer, lol).
It deals with all the usual plot points you find in all of them, such as time loops and paradox and so on and so forth, but puts them together with enough verosimiltude and breakneck pace to make it fun.

I wasn't really sold on episode 1 so i'd suggest to at least give it 3 or 4 episodes, to let the 50 characters set in your head a bit.
I honestly cemented who was who in which timeline, into season 2, so i guess it's normal to run mental connect-the-dots at first.

Casting director on the show should get a medal though, the way they chose various actors to represent the same character is really well done, as far as likenesses go, almost uncanny at times (i could recognize who they were even before the name drop, despite being a different actor).

Before watching i had seen people comparing it to Twin Peaks, and to be honest, aside from the general theme of parallel timelines, and a small town where everyone has a history/skeleton in the closet with one another, there isn't much else they share.

But it's a really gripping show, and the characters grow on you, even though in season 2 they sort of focus more on a couple of central ones, for better or worse, as the plot grows in scale.

--
I'll add a bit on the S2 finale:

really big spoiler on the very end/twist of season 2's finale

I didn't really like the multi-dimension twist, it feels like an excuse to drag the show a couple of more seasons, and it already has a milliojn threads as it is, does it really need a multiverse, too? EDIT: I actually read that S3 will be the final one, so maybe they're going somewhere with it, i'm cautiously optimistic

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[Dickie Dee]

Excited, but really hope they don't turn Ed Kemper into some Hannibal Lector bullshit

[benjipwns]

Bizarro Superman is the scariest thing ever

That's incredible since he's one of the lamest jobbers in comics.

spoiler (click to show/hide)

Until Forever Evil where they make him Lex's mentally challenged son and it... kind of worked?

spoiler (click to show/hide)

And then they gave him his own Bizarro family and universe in Rebirth and that... also kind of worked?

[close]

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He doesn't mean Bizarro as in Bizarro, he means the "Superman" stand-in in the series. Who is a drug-addicted madgod sex-criminal. In the comic he even dabbles in cannibalism and necrophilia during his even further descent from being totally unchecked.

Gregg Araki’s show was canceled. Probably because losers like you people are too busy watching comic book shows designed for the genetic underclass.



the sex scenes in this show

But really, fuck you guys for not watching this. Your loss.

Gregg Araki Hopes Canceled Starz Series ‘Now Apocalypse’ May Live Again at ‘a New Home’
https://www.indiewire.com/2019/07/gregg-araki-now-apocalypse-season-two-1202161587/

It's on Starz, of course it's cancelled before it should be. They're the new Fox.

At least they seem to have told him ahead of time unlike that time they forgot to tell all their shows they actually meant to cancel them not order new seasons.

[Tasty]

You know I knew that benjiboy

[Tasty]

And you didn't even comment on my own comic deep cuts

Even though everyone always does for yours

[benjipwns]

Blowing up Bizarro cures blindness is the only thing I recognize about Bizarro.

[Tasty]

benji am good

benji am VERY good

[EightBitNate]

Where were you when Mindhunter saved television?

[bluemax]

I'm on season 2 of the Boys, definitely a lot of changes from the comics. And judging from a wide angle shot early on they likely changed one of the core plot elements from the comic. It'll be interesting to see how it plays out.

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The Brooklyn Bridge is still there.

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[benjipwns]

they thankfully did not adapt the comic stories, there's common elements and bits here and there used but the episodes are mostly all new stuff, "The Boys" are actually assembled during the first season for example

i think they're also moving one of the latter plotlines up to the front end for season two

[Transhuman]

First ep. of Community was free on iTunes. I laughed out loud several times during a sitcom, and enjoyed a pilot/first episode. Two firsts.

How old is this thread???

I got a letter from downloading God of War PSP, so I started using MegaUpload links. There's always one up if you search around.

I've just been watching the new Heroes. It's of course gone absolutely nowhere and all the characters are distinguished mentally-challenged fellows.

By 2009 standards, that's an average sized gif

[Joe Molotov]

This thread was around when iTunes was still a thing, what a world.

[toku]

Some smart calls with the changes in The Boys. I like Ennis' work but he tends to go nasty for nastiness sake way too often, especially when he's working outside of the big publishers. The Boys is a great premise, you don't gotta take it too far and it'll still be good.

[TVC15]

Got back into iZombie. I left off on season 2 and now I’m almost done with 4. I love this show. Between this and Veronica Mars, may Rob Thomas 2 never have trouble getting a future project made.

[toku]

Super underrated show but I'm kinda glad its flown under the radar while still getting the chance to finish strong. Tasty always wants a new buffyverse show and Rob Thomas is about the only person I would want handling it.

[Don Rumata]

I ain't liking The Boys as much as you lot.
It's fun when it's cynical and gory and that, but when it tries to go deeper, it falls into the "I AM SILLY" trap a lot.
I was under the impression it was to be a "realistic take" on super heroes with and edgy bend, but really, it just trades one shallow cartoon depiction for another.
I actually wouldn't mind that, if it didn't have the "normal" guy self insert characters (the main guy and the super girl) as a juxtaposition to show just how silly these psychos are.
Like most superhero shows/movies it really talks down to the audience in an obnoxious way.

It's still fun to follow Butcher (as clichè as he is so far) around doing shit though.
And having supes as bad guys is infinitely better than watching shit like The Flash or whatever.