The TV shows you've seen recently thread.

[Transhuman]

Just watched Bargain after not knowing anything about it beforehand. Holy shit what a show. Took me an embarassing amount of time to realise the entire show was a single tracking shot (with splices). The low quality CGI for the environment in certain scenes occasionally crappy, but aside from that it might be my favourite new show of 2023 (or 2022 if you live in Korea). Not sure how you'd watch this since it's on Paramount+ (and fuck that) but if you do, avoid reading too much because it makes the first episode waaay funnier.

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[Bebpo]

Finished Castlevania Nocturne. Was decent. Not good enough to care about outside of the action sequences, not bad enough to drop. Hope S2 is a bit better while keeping the nice action animation.

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[Bebpo]

The Fall of the House of Usher - Pretty good, but I still prefer Hill House. Was entertaining throughout but all the kid stories just felt like filler since they were just caricatures in pulp horror tales.

For Flanagan TV, I think Hill House is fantastic, Midnight Mass was mostly good but shat the end, and Usher is entertaining but shallow mostly and maybe a bit long.

Still need to see the "weak" ones that most people said skip with Bly Manor and The Midnight Club. If you include his film catalog I still think Hill House is his best work. Dr. Sleep was pretty good considering the source material is totally middling and he made a better film than the source. Rest are all pretty good/solid mostly. 

[Transhuman]

As someone who saw the entirety of Fall of the House of Usher, Midnight Mass and Midnight Club, I can guarantee you that Midnight Club is good. Although I thought Usher sucked and that Mass was only okay, so grain of salt.

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

Yeah, I enjoyed Midnight Club, but I also liked Doctor Sleep a lot, so....

The Midnight Club is really good; really solid premise executed very well, and not at all as YA as I was worried it might be - all the characters are believable and rounded.

Season 1 ends on a kinda sorta cliffhanger, and I'd love to see a Season 2, but even if that never happens its a really solid little stand alone anthology series with an interesting framing narrative, and the nice conceit of the storytellers also being the actors in the individual stories.

[Transhuman]

Yeah, I enjoyed Midnight Club, but I also liked Doctor Sleep a lot, so....

You liked Doctor Sleep?? What a fucking loser.

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I like Doctor Sleep way more than The Shining

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my only problem with dr sleep. is that they should have had the director make his own version of the shining first instead of trying to make it a sequel to kubrick's version of the shining. I like what the director did, but it felt like he had to keep drawing back from something that didn't quite fit to what he was doing.

[Transhuman]

My only problem with Doctor Sleep is that out of all the Stephen King books, Rebecca Ferguson had to star in the only one with no sex in it.

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