The TV shows you've seen recently thread.

[Stoney Mason]

Last two eps of Curb were lame. This was definitely the weakest season overall.

There were a couple of good episodes early on and funny moments within other episodes but yeah overall I thought it was the weakest season of the show run.

I miss Cheryl. You need a counter to kind of keep Larry in check a bit. Level him off. Without that, Larry can feel a little annoying as he is reacting to everything without any one to check him.

[TVC15]

Last two eps of Curb were lame. This was definitely the weakest season overall.

There were a couple of good episodes early on and funny moments within other episodes but yeah overall I thought it was the weakest season of the show run.

I miss Cheryl. You need a counter to kind of keep Larry in check a bit. Level him off. Without that, Larry can feel a little annoying as he is reacting to everything without any one to check him.

I felt similar to new Curb as I did to Logan Lucky. If you're going to make a big comeback after years of absence, "good" isn't going to cut it. If you're going to do one, there'd better be a good reason.

[Joe Molotov]

Anyone watch Dark? I saw it added to Netflix and then I read an article about it and sounded neat.

[Momo]

Anyone watch Dark? I saw it added to Netflix and then I read an article about it and sounded neat.

This is going to sound weird coming from a weeb and frequent watcher of Korean movies, but is it subbed? Somehow doesnt work for me if I dont even have a vague idea how the language works and it's not pleasing to hear.

[toku]

[Joe Molotov]

Anyone watch Dark? I saw it added to Netflix and then I read an article about it and sounded neat.

This is going to sound weird coming from a weeb and frequent watcher of Korean movies, but is it subbed? Somehow doesnt work for me if I dont even have a vague idea how the language works and it's not pleasing to hear.

You can watch it with an English dub or the original German.

[seagrams hotsauce]

Not getting a wipe this year so this better be good

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it'll probably be good

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[Skullfuckers Anonymous]

Not getting a wipe this year so this better be good

but,
https://twitter.com/charltonbrooker/status/935187089599148032

 

[Joe Molotov]

BBC getting ready to CUCK ON BRITIAN.

[TVC15]

DirecTV posted the rest of the season of Search Party! My night is set!

[Phoenix Dark]

DirecTV posted the rest of the season of Search Party! My night is set!

That's the show with Maeby from Arrested Development right? I need to watch S1, lot of ppl said it was very good.

[TVC15]

DirecTV posted the rest of the season of Search Party! My night is set!

That's the show with Maeby from Arrested Development right? I need to watch S1, lot of ppl said it was very good.

I love it. I can see some people not liking the characters, but if you hate white millenials, you’ll probably like it.

[Stoney Mason]

DirecTV posted the rest of the season of Search Party! My night is set!

That's the show with Maeby from Arrested Development right? I need to watch S1, lot of ppl said it was very good.

I love it. I can see some people not liking the characters, but if you hate white millenials, you’ll probably like it.

I made a similar comment about it earlier.

Just finished Search Party. Glad this is getting a second season. Doesn't sound like anyone watched it, but it's top notch.

Good show although I couldn't tell that early on. In fact I kind of disliked it after the first few episodes until I realized you are kind of supposed to actively hate everybody on it.

[TVC15]

Watching Mr. Robot S3 because I ran out of shit to watch. This got bad.

[Beezy]

Gonna check out Search Party since all the eps are available to stream on the TBS website.

[TVC15]

Despite every ep again being directed by Esmail, this doesn’t even look striking anymore.

[shosta]

Despite every ep again being directed by Esmail, this doesn’t even look striking anymore.

which ep are you on

[Spieler1]

Does anyone know whether there are any other eps of South Park left? Their schedule is really intransparent this year. I thought yesterday was the last one (for the third time or so), but it didn't seem conclusive at all.

[TVC15]

Despite every ep again being directed by Esmail, this doesn’t even look striking anymore.

which ep are you on

I quit sometime during the third episode.

[toku]

bad betty on riverdale last night

[benjipwns]

Does anyone know whether there are any other eps of South Park left? Their schedule is really intransparent this year. I thought yesterday was the last one (for the third time or so), but it didn't seem conclusive at all.

It was, season is over.

They do ten episode seasons.

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

I finished watching all the episodes from Curb Your Enthusiasm and it was the weakest season overall.  Reminds me a lot of Season 5 in terms of how it just kind of meandered around.  Not too many laugh out loud moments, which is pretty disappointing.  I'll always take Curb over no Curb but if this was the last episode, I'm fine with it.

[tiesto]

Girlfriend and I watched the first episode of Sons of Anarchy... not sure if I'm ready to make a 7 season / 13 episodes a season type commitment yet, nothing really pulled me in with the first episode the way something like Breaking Bad did. Anybody think the show's worth it?

[etiolate]

I think the show is worth it, but I got burnt out/disinterested in season 3. I have heard that s3 is its worst and most distracted season. So I will probably go back to it eventually. I haven't gotten to the Goggins character, so I know there's some good to come.

[BobFromPikeCreek]

Ffffffuuuuuuuuck Search Party Season 2 is excellent.

[TVC15]

Ffffffuuuuuuuuck Search Party Season 2 is excellent.

It’s tense! Did you finish it?

[BobFromPikeCreek]

Ffffffuuuuuuuuck Search Party Season 2 is excellent.

It’s tense! Did you finish it?

There's only the six episodes out at the moment, no? If you meant caught up, yeah I watched the most recent two last night. Everyone's hitting rock bottom hard, and I have a feeling Portia's walking into some Harvey Weinstien shit (which, given that this was probably filmed long before the sexual assault stuff started coming out, is suprisingly timely).

[TVC15]

If you have a cable login, TBS put up all the episodes on their app

[BobFromPikeCreek]

Oh damn. I don't but if they're out there I'm sure I can get at em.

[TVC15]

Search Party would probably be far more popular if it was on Netflix. Nobody willingly watches TBS.

[BobFromPikeCreek]

Tru dat, but it probably also means the show's future is pretty secure since TBS isn't likely to drop its only original series with any critical prestige. Michael Showalter et al can probably run with this as long as they want.

[CatsCatsCats]

Just got ripped with wifey and started Kantaro: The Sweet Tooth Salaryman, lol wtf

[TVC15]

Liking Big Mouth so far.

[BlueTsunami]

Big Mouth is amazing. Just the right amount of crude to heart. Trust in Nick Kroll.

[Van Cruncheon]

DirecTV posted the rest of the season of Search Party! My night is set!

That's the show with Maeby from Arrested Development right? I need to watch S1, lot of ppl said it was very good.

I love it. I can see some people not liking the characters, but if you hate white millenials, you’ll probably like it.

i need to watch this

[BobFromPikeCreek]

Alright, downside to Search Party being on TBS and no one caring about it: I can't find the web-only episodes anywhere else No one cares enough to rip em

[toku]

[Cindi Mayweather]

Finished Godless. Incredible show. Makes you wanna start up a ranch and tame horses and live the quiet, simple life while smoking weed. Def got me in a western mood.

[BlueTsunami]

Dark. Oh man. Shits the Chrono Trigger of time traveling scifi shows. Fuck.

[zomgee]

This season of South Park was really good.

[Cindi Mayweather]

Dark. Oh man. Shits the Chrono Trigger of time traveling scifi shows. Fuck.

The shit is actually called Dark?

[BlueTsunami]

Dark. Oh man. Shits the Chrono Trigger of time traveling scifi shows. Fuck.

The shit is actually called Dark?

Germans be getting to the point

[Cindi Mayweather]

How can you watch it?

[Madrun Badrun]

With our eyes

[Cindi Mayweather]

Oh, it's on Netflix? Netflix has so many shows now it's impossible to keep up

[BlueTsunami]

Oh, it's on Netflix? Netflix has so many shows now it's impossible to keep up

Yeah it popped up like a week ago on Netflix to little fanfare from Netflix. I recommend going to the original German audio and use subs instead of listening to that awful dub.

[Tasty]

Started watching Dark. It's neat and has good direction but I think there's too many characters. Or maybe the German names are messing with me.

I like the feel though. It's like, existential horror.

[BlueTsunami]

Yeah the roster becomes massive, bur there's a point where the show tries to, via editing, make the transitions easier to follow and whos related to who.

And as much of a slow burn as it is, it ramps up ridiculously on the back half. So anyone who gets in, stick with it

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[Tasty]

Yeah the roster becomes massive, bur there's a point where the show tries to, via editing, make the transitions easier to follow and whos related to who.

And as much of a slow burn as it is, it ramps up ridiculously on the back half. So anyone who gets in, stick with it

Yeah I just got to that editing part, was pretty neat to see and cleared up a few of my questions. I'm on board with it now though, mostly for Ulrich and Mikkel's journeys. The first ep or two kinda meandered around who was a "main" character. I think suicide son is also sorta important? He hasn't really done anything yet though.

Spoilers up to ep4:

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My roommate remarked "this is a copy of Stranger Things" (missing kid, the police chief going rogue and attempting to break into a research place, the "past" being a version of the Upside-Down where you can *sorta* communicate with the normal world, etc.) and there are definitely similarities. The tone is completely different of course, and there's quite a bit of Lost blended in too in my opinion (mysterious growling unseen "monster," time travel, etc.) Which is great cause I love those two shows haha.

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[thisismyusername]

I know no one here no longer cares, but:

Walking Dead mid-season 8 spoiler:

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They're killing Carl off.

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Which is a HUGE departure from the comics. So, I'm going to go ahead and read the rest of the comics now. The thing is, my library doesn't have the Hardcover Compendium volume 11. What issue(s)/trades would I have to go for in the paperback version? Volume 21 or something?

Edit: Nevermind, found the issues I need. Wikipedia to the rescue.

[Momo]

dont really like this trailer, cant really make out what this season wants to be about.

[benjipwns]

Despite every ep again being directed by Esmail, this doesn’t even look striking anymore.

which ep are you on

I quit sometime during the third episode.

Started watching it as we come down the pike, this was my favorite of the first four I've watched so far. On The Farm with Tyrell. Bearded Tyrell was a hundred times better looking than "Perfect for Elliott" Tyrell.

I love Irving. I hope he's never actually explained beyond a car dealer who's writing an amazing novel that I paused to read and also takes care of stuff for this crazy criminal organization. Even if he is taking away Dom time.

Season has been completely obsessed with repeated shots so far. And speaking of repeated shots, literally, dudes getting shot in a car with the same framing then reveals the shooter.

Glad it finally addressed the time though.

The whole meeting that Whiterose has with the Alex Jones type dude is funny, I liked that she was thinking early about who to support in the 2016 election.

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Joanna nooooooo...if anyone can come back from the dead though, it's her.

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I liked in the autopsy scene how Dom was the only one who noticed and reacted to the weirdness of the dude taking endless photos every five seconds. Some of those were probably for that dude's "personal collection" if you know what I mean.

Got spoiled about an upcoming twist before I started, but it's being telegraphed so hard at this point I just want to get to it and past it already.

I want Angela to knock me out with drugs and be continuously left at her place without knowing how I got there.

I do wonder if the show has entered scope creep though, that was always my fear, and this point 4/10 episodes through the third season, all four have essentially promoted a significant scope creep over season two. I'll report more later as this was my key focus. The second season did so well at keeping things low and moving pieces into place, but this seems like it's still doing it but for a higher scale series of events which I don't know it can maintain.

Best touch was revealing that others know/knew about Mr. Robot too. I like those backwards reveals. Really the best stuff the show has done has been all of those.

[benjipwns]

ALSO THOSE DANG CHINESE AND THEIR BITCOIN

[CatsCatsCats]

Just got ripped with wifey and started Kantaro: The Sweet Tooth Salaryman, lol wtf

This show is pretty great advertising for Japanese tourism, I’ve never wanted to visit more! The eclair episode with his mom will definitely stop me from recommending it publicly tho

[chronovore]

Finished s2 of Daredevil. It's kind of a shitshow. I loved it until the end, when it felt like a big rush to get all the big players in one location to finish the season, as forced as the beginning of any 1970s MARVEL TEAM-UP. The pacing of the last few episodes is just horrible.

Karen/Blacksmith/Punisher

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Karen Page realizes Clancy Brown is the Blacksmith in the weirdest, dumbest way — Frank's no mathlete, but you'd think he could have figured out more about his CO than Karen does, in the Blacksmith's study, before she's even given a bourbon. But she can't get away from him, they drive some weird distance to the forest, and Frank is leading Blacksmith into the woods, but it happens to be Blacksmith's kill shop? Was this where he was taking Karen? I guess it makes sense, except then it's just complete coincidence that Frank chose the correct side street from which to sideswipe the car.

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Elektra/Stick/The Hand

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The idea that Elektra is a (the?) Black Sky is dumb. Stick had previously mercilessly killed one who was just a child, when he and Matt first teamed up at the docks. But Elektra was just a child when Stick found her, I guess he has since decided that a Black Sky is irredeemable… so why heal her at Matt's apartment just to send incompetent killers after her?

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Scott Glenn is perfect in the role of Stick, regardless, but this war arc thing is just poorly presented and the little fake-out/reverse-fake-out at the closing scene was thrilling but utterly cheesy.

Nobu

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Daredevil gets his ass stomped in the first fight, where Nobu dies in a fire. But in later fights Nobu's ability seems to wane inexplicably, and I guess being repeatedly resurrected could take it out of you, but it is so unevenly presented.

Also, ninjas kidnapping a busload of previous victims? I swear, I thought that was a Kingpin move when I saw it. Ninjas with guns in a bus? I'm having some thematic dissonance.

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Also, the white chick with the redhead bobbed cut with The Hand has a better Japanese accent than any of the actual Asians in the show.

[Cindi Mayweather]

Anything Elektra related in s2 was God awful and the Punisher was the sole redeeming part of the season. Season 1 was considerably better.

[Cindi Mayweather]

I watched South Park season premiere last night (late I know) and that was the most pointless take on current events and the rise of white nationalism I have ever seen. What a muddled message after advertising it was about "white nationalism". It's funny to see the show that commented on and went after everything (even drawing Muhammad amid death threats) be so toothless. It's like they've lost their balls as soon as they realized they have a sizable alt-right audience. Pathetic.

[CatsCatsCats]

Remind me what episode that is? There’s some over arching stuff this last season I thought was really good with the Heidi character.

[zomgee]

I think that was "White People Renovating Houses" which was a weak opener, but it gets phenomenally better. It would also help towards the end of the season if you gave seen the movie.