The TV shows you've seen recently thread.

[Assimilate]

Well the real difference is Tyler Perry movies are primarily for black audiences specifically, while Black Panther was an all audience movie with a primarily black cast and is one of the most successful movies of all time, which is a pretty big deal since Hollywood has been pretty shy to put out movies with primarily black casts that weren't "black movies" with small budgets. So, in that sense, BP is a bit of a milestone, not because of the story or characters or anything.

Considering Marvel movies are putting up huge numbers regardless of cast, regardless of the movies being remotely decent, doesn't really mean much in this instance, now does it? Not to mention there's been black superhero movies that pulled in huge numbers. Blade? Or i guess that doesn't count.

The thing is this- SJ.Ws want to pretend it's important. They WANT to make it culturally significant, and Marvel/Disney played into it. It's that simple.  It's the same thing they're trying with Star Wars with this whole 'female empowerment' garbage in a franchise that most females don't give a fuck about, but in that instance it's backfiring.

[Stoney Mason]

wtf are you people talking about...

[Assimilate]

Well it seems assimilate has a drinking problem and has a hard time with coherent thoughts and topics, so it is hard to say. I think he's saying movies with black people and women are poopy.

Stro, the way you laugh at people on Ree is the way i laugh at you and the majority of people on here.

Sleep on that one.   

[TVC15]

btw Assimilate would be the first I put to the national razor, even before my political enemies.

[TVC15]

Oh honey.

http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=1795.msg40336#msg40336

[benjipwns]

that show is a lot like Star Trek: Voyager, the main character, Rory, is the villain

[TVC15]

Y'all are heartless cacodemons


Next you're going to say Gilmore Girls sucks

Y'all are heartless cacodemons


Next you're going to say Gilmore Girls sucks

Gilmore Girls? At least I was able to complete an episode of Dawson’s Creek.

I can’t find the thread, but at one point I tried binging Dawson’s while binge drinking. I woke up the next afternoon and couldn’t figure out how many episodes I watched or where I left off because every episode was basically the same.

Anyway, back in the day I was a thread-making god.  http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=1192.msg25185#msg25185

[TVC15]

Gilmore Girls is one of my favorite shows

I saw someone from your culture get beheaded in a Faces of Death film for saying such a thing.

[TVC15]

Man, if you can't enjoy Dawson's Creek or Gilmore Girls you really are dead inside. If only they had cannibal episodes

Well, I was trolling a little. I hate Dawson’s Creek. Gilmore Girls just isn’t my kind of thing, but I probably would have liked it back in, say, 2006, before I was completely ruined.  There’s a chance I could like it in the future if I ever end up unbroken.

[toku]

I don't think TVC really enjoys anything.

[TVC15]

I don't think TVC really enjoys anything.

For real. And I hate it. I know at least some of you think I like wallowing in my own misery, but I’d love to be better. This is no act or anything.

[benjipwns]

don't break kayfabe

[toku]

the expanse is so good fuck glad it got picked up by amazon

[team filler]

Westworld was fucking garbage. In the bad way, not the good, stupid but fun way it was around the middle of the season. Bad writing, bad story, overly complicated bullshit to SWERVE da internet and in the process completely destroying whatever semblance of plot and logic was left in the show (which wasn't much). I mean:

There is the real world

The physical theme park known as Westworld (along with the other themed parks, but we'll keep all of this as just physical Westworld)

A secret, digital back up of Westworld where Ford's consciousness lives and is able to essentially body hop via the internet I guess until it turns out he's mostly been a robot's imaginary friend. Anyway, somehow no one noticed or knew about this as Ford set it up on his own for lulz.

The "system" that runs everything, which takes the avatar of the boss' druggie son ( ) , and features digital recreations of both the real world and Westworld, as well as presumably unique locations like the library that holds the profiles for every guest ever I guess?

A sort of digital Valhalla for the hosts that exists on some other server somehow again that goes unnoticed by anyone, as Ford made it in secret for lulz one day, but now Delores knows about it and changed its "coordinates" so no humans could ever find it anyway. Even though no humans knew about it at all to begin with.

Now, you could just stop there and tap out but let's keep going:

William's quest all along is to...kill himself, both literally (which he COULD do at any point) and his digital self/profile/backup? Or is it to find out why he is the way he is? Is it both? Maybe. Maybe not. Maybe the one we've seen has been a host all along, or maybe the stinger was a simulation that all builds to the same moment no matter what like the Delos simulations.

Bernard kills Delores, but then puts her core into a host version of Tessa Thompson who even as a robot can't stop mouth breathing, Delores as Tessa kills the real Tessa, assumes her identity, leaves the park when the head of security also reveals himself to be a host (maybe?), goes to Arnold's house where she prints out her old body, presumably puts her brain core into that, but keeps Tessa Thompson's body around as well. Bernard also makes it out of the park and now the three of them (2? 2 1/2?) are in the real world, along with a few other cores and a  body printer so who knows how many hosts are in the real world now.

70% of the season focused on Maeve and her quest for her daughter, which had no impact on anything, was a complete waste of time, and all of her agency and seemingly magical powers and specialness were in fact all part of Ford's plan anyway, as she was his favorite, and his digital self that body hopped through the internet (although I think at that point Bernard had disabled him so it was actually Bernard's subconscious that told her this?) told her so. Her story, her liberation, the daughter, the trek to NipponWorld, all a complete waste of time and utterly meaningless on anything in the show.

Jeffrey Wright, this wonderful actor, spends roughly 80% of his screen time utterly confused and making utterly confused faces and that's how you know the show is cerebral. Oh yeah, and he ends up being revealed to have been created by another host, not Ford.

Oh, and the cowboy hats are magical brain scanners.



For all the twists and turns and BIG THEMES and all that bullshit, the actual story is some old dude got bored and decided to activate all the cheat codes and see what happens.

[Borealis]

Westworld S2's best episodes were spent developing some sort of character like Delos in EP4 or Akecheta in EP8. It's particularly disappointing they've spent so much time creating a non-linear narrative with so little payoff. I think a lot of time was wasted in Shogunworld too.

Hopkins stands out again and of course, Wright is wasted as Stro points out. Something really needs to be done about incompetent Delos Security, because although I enjoyed most moments with the 'human' staff, those assault/combat scenes completely destroy any suspension of disbelief.

On another front, the last season of 12 Monkeys is shaping up well. Very happy to see a time travel show with multiple seasons worth of narrative planning in mind.


May jump the gun and binge all of The Expanse's S3 sooner if Amazon transfer the broadcast rights away before it's meant to drop on Netflix.

[Momo]

watching the expanse finale, fancy just showed up, so glad to see him

[Assimilate]

i forgot about the hats being brain scanners 

[toku]

[Tasty]

Man I have like half the show to marathon before this comes back

[CatsCatsCats]

RPDR:

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why was Aquaria the only one smart enough to choreograph some shit? The other queens looked like they knew they lost

[close]

[Borealis]

Young Justice S3 pushed back to 2019.

[TVC15]

RPDR:

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why was Aquaria the only one smart enough to choreograph some shit? The other queens looked like they knew they lost

[close]

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What happened with Asia was even worse than I imagined when I read the spoilers. What was she thinking? She was like playing with her costume for 3/4ths of the song, in addition to the butterfly holocaust(/spoiler]

[close]

[Tasty]

Young Justice S3 pushed back to 2019.

Ugh.

This better have Tim graduating to Red Robin or I'll fucking riot.

Actually I asked Weisman about it on Twitter and he said the more tweets he gets about requests for s3, the less he's actually able to do (somehow.)

[Momo]

[CatsCatsCats]

RPDR:

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why was Aquaria the only one smart enough to choreograph some shit? The other queens looked like they knew they lost

[close]

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What happened with Asia was even worse than I imagined when I read the spoilers. What was she thinking? She was like playing with her costume for 3/4ths of the song, in addition to the butterfly holocaust(/spoiler]

[close]

Yeah that did not go over well

[CatsCatsCats]

Westworld kinda sucked yeah

[Beezy]

Has anyone else watched s6 of Voltron? Only 7 eps, but a lot was revealed this time around.

[Momo]

Power is back friends! So is GLOW!

Also new

[chronovore]

The Purge could be a fantastic format for various stories; the key is portraying human drama while a looming threat is on the verge of ingress.

[StealthFan]

Enjoyed The Living And The Dead

[Momo]

[chronovore]

Looks like the TRUE DETECTIVE season 2 we deserve.

[Momo]

Glow episode 8 friends

[seagrams hotsauce]

^i thought season 1 was good, but season 2 was stellar. probably the biggest step up between seasons of any netflix show, maybe the only one for that matter. really enjoyed it

[BlueTsunami]

GLOW is still the best Netflix show

Some inspired framing in some of those shots. Man, TNT has upped their game.

[toku]

TNT lowest key doing good work. On the surface a lot of their stuff seems to be standard network tv shit but they seem to know this and go about the execution differently enough that it works. Sometimes its their casting sometimes its actual direction/writing.

I've been impressed enough by last og and fucking claws to take note of them while they're running in the bg at least.




USA was in a similar place but they've sorta settled into a groove where TNT still seems willing to play it wild and loose.

[Beezy]

Glow episode 8 friends

Chola Junk Chain is my new crush.

[Mupepe]

I watched like 5 episodes of Dear White People at a friends last night. It was way too internet for me. It was like watched Reeeeeee in tv form. I wasn’t sure if it was super melodramatic in some sort of self aware way or if it was in earnest. Awful.

[Boredfrom]

Westworld misanthropy gets annoying by the end of season 2. Hope Nolan starts taking his pills again, because he is drinking a lot of his Kool aid.

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I really enjoyed all until The Forge stuff was really hammering “human are assholes because Delos was an asshole to Logan a million of times”.

Hope Season 3 finally give us no more cartoony human characters.

[close]

[Freyj]

Was gonna cancel HBO now that Westworld is done but Sharp Objects is good shit 1 episode in.

[TVC15]

Goddamn, that first episode of Sharp Objects is fucking great. Like really, really great.

[Tasty]

Was gonna cancel HBO now that Westworld is done but Sharp Objects is good shit 1 episode in.

Gillian Flynn

Marti Noxon

[TVC15]

Was gonna cancel HBO now that Westworld is done but Sharp Objects is good shit 1 episode in.

Gillian Flynn

Marti Noxon

Amy Adams drinking like I used to for most of my 20s and early 30s

[Tasty]

Not dying early of cirrhosis like TVC

[Momo]

I dont really 'get' Sharp Objects yet, there was way too much focus on Amy's character and too little on whatever is supposed to push the plot forward.  It's beautifully shot and I love the music, I only really found one scene annoying - where the liquor store owner looks at his watch a)It's obvious as fuck b)she could be buying it to drink at a party later, buying sealed alcohol isnt the same thing as hitting a bar at 9am. I get what they were saying but it was silly.

[TVC15]

I dont really 'get' Sharp Objects yet, there was way too much focus on Amy's character and too little on whatever is supposed to push the plot forward.  It's beautifully shot and I love the music, I only really found one scene annoying - where the liquor store owner looks at his watch a)It's obvious as fuck b)she could be buying it to drink at a party later, buying sealed alcohol isnt the same thing as hitting a bar at 9am. I get what they were saying but it was silly.

Nah. The only bad part was the Gloria Steinem poster. Big Media is trying to force that ho into the rematch of the three-way with Camille Paglia and Susan Sontag that I’m about to have as I fall asleep.

[Momo]

What the fuck is 'nah' as a response to what I posted.

[Crash Dummy]

luke cage s2 - zzzzzzzz only a few eps in but so far this not just bad inline with other marvel tv shows but fucking boring, nigel's accent is the best thing so far

[TVC15]

What the fuck is 'nah' as a response to what I posted.

You were making criticisms and I shot them down.

Anyway, I was wary when I was going to bed, but I’m now a convert: boys, Gloria Steinem’s pussy tastes like sweet butter.

[Momo]

What the fuck is 'nah' as a response to what I posted.

You were making criticisms and I shot them down.

ok, well

[Purrp Skirrp]

Tales from the Tour Bus was good. I never cared for country but you don't have to to appreciate it.



Next season they're focusing on funk

[TVC15]

What the fuck is 'nah' as a response to what I posted.

You were making criticisms and I shot them down.

ok, well

I feel bad for using your post to make a joke last night, so I’ll give you a real response.

Re: the watch scene. I generally liked that the episode went to drastic lengths to accurately depict the minutiae of how hardcore alcoholics operate. We see alcoholics in like every gritty crime series and frequently in general dramas, but I’m not sure I’ve ever seen the daily operational processes get as much detail as they do in this episode. With that in mind, I think the watch shot was just the show overshooting a bit and adding another detail that was just a bit much. It was like a half second shot, so I’m willing to forgive it.

[Momo]

It was way too much, I dont think the general audience is that stupid to not realise she has a drinking problem after the first 20 mins of the show, the way they kept on going deeper to the point of 'hey look drinking at 10am!' was weird and slows everything down. I don't know the book but I assume this is a mystery/murder drama and not primarily a character study and if I'm right about that I'm going to be disappointed if that feels rushed when looking back at this episode.

[TVC15]

It was way too much, I dont think the general audience is that stupid to not realise she has a drinking problem after the first 20 mins of the show, the way they kept on going deeper to the point of 'hey look drinking at 10am!' was weird and slows everything down. I don't know the book but I assume this is a mystery/murder drama and not primarily a character study and if I'm right about that I'm going to be disappointed if that feels rushed when looking back at this episode.

I don’t know anything about the book, personally. For me, this was great for one episode. It was a different take on the rote alcoholic detective trope, and I felt it spoke to the realities of living with trauma while simultaneously teasing at what that trauma might be. Then we got the biggest tease at the end of the episode. Now, if every episode dedicates this much time to it, I’ll probably feel differently.

The mother, a significant portion of her screentime displays her drinking habits. She’s clearly a different kind of alcoholic. I think the show is saying something there, too, but we really have to learn more about dat enigmatic mother more.

This is clearly going for a Faulkner-ish southern gothic vibe, so I’d expect a lot of unspoken character development and character study-type material in addition to the mystery itself.

[TVC15]

Oh, also, as far as scenes like the watch being too extra, I saw a number of people comment that the show makes Missouri seem too deep south. Some said the accents were too much, some argued otherwise, but everyone seems to agree that the amazing mansion is waytoo southern for missouri.

[BlueTsunami]

 

[toku]

[Momo]

oh yeah

[toku]

[HardcoreRetro]

Faces of Death

Give Traces of Death a try, I think that has more real footage.