The TV shows you've seen recently thread.

[Momo]

Jack Ryan got me on he espionage kick so I started watching Berlin Station.

Dig it.

I laughed at the SQL query talk during ep 1 of Jack Ryan, but it was a good show. Berlin Station was good too but I doubt many people would follow such a very British production.

Yous see this yet?

[Yeti]

Condor was really good

[paprikastaude]

Dark Crystal Netflix
It's too bad the main elves or whatever are hideous (but not in a good way like the other creatures) and the main main guy is the biggest bitch of them all. Every other visual though It was a little dumb when it went too much GoT at one point, but overall it was told well enough too.

[BlueTsunami]

Lodge 49 is 100% my jam

[VomKriege]

I liked Maniac a lot but it sort of fizzles out in the second half. I like the ending nonetheless.

[BlueTsunami]

I liked Maniac a lot but it sort of fizzles out in the second half. I like the ending nonetheless.

It needed to maintain that initial biting tone throughout the run. With that said, adore Fukunagas style so much.

[Dickie Dee]

On Becoming a God in Central Florida is the best show on TV right now

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Kirsten Dunst's post-preggers body is

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[BlueTsunami]

The noir episode of iZombie is so good

[toku]

 

[Momo]

my penis is so hard it can launch a tesla to space

[bluemax]

Dang Mr Robot came back with a bang.

[Don Rumata]

Ozark is so good. Finished with S2. I think in the second season it sort of gets away from its strengths at times and makes poor narrative choices, but overall it's finding its voice. The finale was bone chilling.

Closest thing to Breaking Bad, in terms of mood and pace, that i've found.
Not quite as good, but good enough.

[toku]

On Becoming a God in Central Florida is the best show on TV right now

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Kirsten Dunst's post-preggers body is

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honestly the most attractive she's ever been to me.

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On Becoming a God in Central Florida is the best show on TV right now

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Kirsten Dunst's post-preggers body is

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She looks like extra white trash old Kirsten Dunst but with big cans

[Nuitangg]

Finally caught up with Righteous Gemstones.  It's pretty hilarious with a lot more male nudity than I was expecting.

[Don Rumata]

Closest thing to Breaking Bad, in terms of mood and pace, that i've found.
Not quite as good, but good enough.

It falls short when you directly compare them. But in S2 they added some House of Cards to the mix and that was a winning formula.

Yeah, i like these breakneck paced shows, it's why i liked Sneaky Pete as well (though that's more light hearted, and it had Bryan Cranston as a bad guy) even if it means conceding some pretty big logical fallacies here and there.
But they share in the basic structure of a clever main protagonist caught between a rock and a hard place, making promises to A to pay B, and taking money from B to pay back A.

Ozark in particular has fun with the wife character, who for once isn't used as the nagging moral compass shielded from the horrors, but it's in on the action. It makes for a refreshing duo dynamic, despite the rocky marriage.

[Don Rumata]

I agree with all those points, actually.

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Ozark lives in the Breaking Bad timeline where they kill Jesse in season 1.

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[BlueTsunami]

Sweet mammy jammy

[Transhuman]

Is the show itself good?

[Steve Contra]

The Righteous Gemstones is really good altogether but the misbehaving song with Walton Goggins is about as a perfect moment as you could expect from a tv show.

[Don Rumata]

Riotus, speaking of spy TV shows, have you seen Little Drummer Girl? It's directed by Park Chan-wook (Oldboy, Handmaiden etc) based on Le Carrè's novel, and it's just 6 episodes.
I'm only 1 episode in, but looks very solid so far, great cinematography as expected.

There's a good cast too (Michael Shannon, Florence Pugh, Stellan Skarsgard).

[Don Rumata]

If you mean season 5, i watched that during last week, the show kind of goes ahead by inertia since like season 2, but it's still fun for me, in a dumb, campy way.
*slow motion walk with licensed song*

[naff]

only tv i've watched from this year is succession s2. looove it.

little drummer girl sounds good.

[Crash Dummy]

new season of peaky blinders on netflix, so good!

[bluemax]

Finished off Righteous Gemstones and that was a fun season.

Also watched Mr Robot final season episode 2 and this show just keeps getting darker and more depressing. And more WTF. Really curious to see if they nail the ending.

The Righteous Gemstones is really good altogether but the misbehaving song with Walton Goggins is about as a perfect moment as you could expect from a tv show.

Uncle Baby Billy Freeman might now be my second favorite Walton Goggins role after Boyd Crowder.

[Dickie Dee]

The Righteous Gemstones is really good altogether but the misbehaving song with Walton Goggins is about as a perfect moment as you could expect from a tv show.

I've legitimately had it stuck in my head for a few weeks now. Brilliant stuff.

[Don Rumata]

new season of peaky blinders on netflix, so good!

I'm starting to get really tired of Arthur's plot armor, it's honestly getting ridiculous.
That cunt should've been dead for 3 season now.

[toku]

judy's story in this gemstones finale

  :'(

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[Crash Dummy]

new season of peaky blinders on netflix, so good!

I'm starting to get really tired of Arthur's plot armor, it's honestly getting ridiculous.
That cunt should've been dead for 3 season now.

true but at least he is falling apart mentally

[Bebpo]

Creepshow 2019 is so good halfway in. Feels straight out of the 80s & 90s comic horror camp. I’m sad it’s only 12 eps because I don’t want this to end. Hopefully they do a few seasons.

[team filler]

mr robot final season ep 2 is awful 

[Ghoul]

Just watched Nancy Drew reboot, trashy show but entertaining enough.

[Madrun Badrun]

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[paprikastaude]

just kill it altogether 

[Crash Dummy]

just saw that paul rudd has a show on netflix, anyone checked it out?

[Joe Molotov]

Just watched Nancy Drew reboot, trashy show but entertaining enough.

A trashy Nancy Drew

[CatsCatsCats]

Started the Paul Rudd netflix show, but identifying too much with his shitty self and finding it hard to watch lol

[BlueTsunami]

The Blacklist continues to be a fun background binge watch. One of the better action oriented binges. Watching Agent Ressler obliterate a lawn gnome with a kick out of frustration was one of the funniest scenes I've seen on TV. Also no one should have as much on screen charisma as James Spader.

[BlueTsunami]

The Blacklist continues to be a fun background binge watch. One of the better action oriented binges. Watching Agent Ressler obliterate a lawn gnome with a kick out of frustration was one of the funniest scenes I've seen on TV. Also no one should have as much on screen charisma as James Spader.

Hah; put S1E1 on about 30 minutes ago.

Guess Netflix decided to recommend it.

Itches that almost mindless procedural itch but keeps a strong thread going that connects everything. Seems to not take itself seriously at times too which is great, cuts through the dourness. That's all on Spader.

[CatsCatsCats]

Blacklist is p okay for what it is. Tom sucks

[EightBitNate]

Succession is amazing btw

[chronovore]

The Blacklist continues to be a fun background binge watch. One of the better action oriented binges. Watching Agent Ressler obliterate a lawn gnome with a kick out of frustration was one of the funniest scenes I've seen on TV. Also no one should have as much on screen charisma as James Spader.

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[Nintex]

First episode of Watchmen was pretty good.

[brawndolicious]

I binged The Righteous Gemstones in a day. I feel like everything that Atra has ever said about South Carolina was put into 4.5 hours of tv.

[Crash Dummy]

just saw that paul rudd has a show on netflix, anyone checked it out?

Living With Yourself is the goddamn funniest thing I have seen in a very long time.

word? i'll get on this once i'm done with bojack

[Madrun Badrun]

O its got Aisling Bea in it.  I'll watch that. 

[team filler]

mr robot final season ep 2 is awful 

ep 3 is  but back to form

[Don Rumata]

The Affair almost done (second to last ep. aired yesterday).
I'd really like to ask the writers what their mental process was, to have such well written and interesting duo of main characters, and constantly insert them in this soap opera level drama bullshit, for no reason at all.
If they had made a season 6, i'd expect them to have an alien invasion.

[Ghoul]

binged Bojack series 6 part one at the weekend, it's okay, but it's deffo past it's best.

[paprikastaude]

I started it recently and it was okay. Never too hilarious, but overall engaging. Stopped halfway through 5 for now, since the humour and the way it tries to be melancholic becomes repetitive and wears thin after a while. I like how you can spot when Trump was elected, because it starts to preach at a certain point. 

[chronovore]

Netflix' Daybreak is a quasi-YA mishmash of Ferris Bueller's Day Off and The Walking Dead and/or Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome.

It's not great. I enjoy the fact that Matthew Broderick is on board for this tribute to his 2nd best film, and I like the 4th wall breaking narrative in this context — but there is far too much telegraphing and not enough gonzo (I prefer Savage Steve Holland's 3 O'Clock High's style).

[Potato]

The Affair almost done (second to last ep. aired yesterday).
I'd really like to ask the writers what their mental process was, to have such well written and interesting duo of main characters, and constantly insert them in this soap opera level drama bullshit, for no reason at all.
If they had made a season 6, i'd expect them to have an alien invasion.

I couldn't make it past halfway of season 2 of The Affair.

[Don Rumata]

The Affair almost done (second to last ep. aired yesterday).
I'd really like to ask the writers what their mental process was, to have such well written and interesting duo of main characters, and constantly insert them in this soap opera level drama bullshit, for no reason at all.
If they had made a season 6, i'd expect them to have an alien invasion.

I couldn't make it past halfway of season 2 of The Affair.

2 of the characters (Noah and Hellen) are really good, but the whole mystery murder plot is out of place shit (and in further season they come up with even stupider shit).
Allison is alright, and Cole is shit, instead.
Thankfully he

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dies offscreen

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in the last season, lol.

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

I'll watch any old scifi shit that gets broadcast, so I'm going to recommend the critically panned Another Life on netflix as a really great hatewatch.

Because it's not a scifi show. Its a low budget teen horror flick, where its a bunch of stupid self-obsessed millenial arseholes acting like dicks, and then being killed off one by one.

Its glorious

• It doesn't know wtf it wants to be, so half the show is an Arrival knock off with scientists on earth trying to figure shit out and the other half is a BSG reboot knock off with a crew in space potentially representing whats left of humanity all alone and out for vengeance
• It has a pretty great conceit, that it has a ton of backup characters in stasis, so whenever their computer guy (or whatever) gets red-shirted, they just defrost a new one
• It makes a super strong case that we should probably let the military handle shit like deep space expeditions, and not just a bunch of random fucking millenials who wanted to live their best life and do the most stupid shit you can imagine

  renewed for another season 

[Tuckers Law]

Watched Carnival Row, figuring maybe it would scratch that Game of Thrones-itch.  Based on some of the writing I could see future seasons really going off the rails, but so far 

The creature design on the show, though 

[bluemax]

Mr Robot is almost over and the show just keeps getting bleaker. After episode 3 I thought maybe Elliott had a chance at some happiness, and then episode 4 happened.

[Madrun Badrun]

Taskmaster is really just killer

[Madrun Badrun]

Jack Ryan season 2 is out now.  Been looking forward to it. 

[BlueTsunami]

I find Living with Yourself fucking hilarious and the way they treat the premise feels novel to me.

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you're expecting the typical adversarial relationship but it is way more existential than what it could have been[/b]

It feels like Adaptation but from multiple PoVs

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[Borealis]

Liking the Ducktales reboot, dig the visuals + humour, but there are some absolute episodes peppered throughout S1. Of course, usually the ones excluding Scrooge and the boys.


Really enjoyed Black Spot off Netflix, I'm hoping there's an S3 as I've read S2 didn't get any good numbers in France.