What TV Shows Are You Watching?

Grand Potentate said:
the wallander series are hit and miss. the previous one showing a "younger" wallander was pretty terrible. the older onew with kenneth brannagh were good but very slow.
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Yeah...I caught some of the KB ones. Can't remember if they were any good.
 
Can someone explain to me why the book of Boba fett suddenly turned into the Mandalorian?
 
Severance is fucking WEIRD so far. way beyond trippy weird.

the legend of vox machina was good if you like D&D type shows.
 
QuandoDio said:
Tbh I thought I'd hate when I saw trailers and they hype it was generating.

I was wrong. I really enjoy it. Sure, it can get mawkish -or is it intrinsically so- but it borders on excellent.
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I don't doubt the characters aren't likeable but a college American football coach dropped in to be a manager in the Premier League is unthinkable. I get man management is transcendent across all sports but there are also tactics to be considered.
 
Dropbear said:
+1
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prince nez said:
Because this is the way.
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If the Mandalorian is a good 1/4 of Boba Fett I doubt there is another series with him as the starring character.

I also read some online news sites saying it didn't use its platform to address diversity and other popular social items of the day. Were the various denizens on Tatooine not ugly enough? I think they were all equally ugly.
 
Fwiffo said:
I don't doubt the characters aren't likeable but a college American football coach dropped in to be a manager in the Premier League is unthinkable. I get man management is transcendent across all sports but there are also tactics to be considered.
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He was hired as a form of sabotage
 
Fwiffo said:
I don't doubt the characters aren't likeable but a college American football coach dropped in to be a manager in the Premier League is unthinkable. I get man management is transcendent across all sports but there are also tactics to be considered.
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That’s the whole premise. He is purposefully the wrong man for the job, yet he makes it work
 
Took me awhile to get back up to speed for Marvelous Mrs. Maisel season 4.
 
I'm currently re-watching Mad Men. Happy to say it hasn't dated at all, though I wonder with today's hypersensitivity around sexism / me too etc. whether it would be remotely as good were it made in 2022.
 
Good luck getting money for a television pilot in 2022 that showcases end of 1950s to 1960s values on misogyny, race relations, gender equality at work, treatment of gays, woman's trials and tribulations to divorce a man and abortion, casual slander of Jews, #metoo boss-secretary marriages, coloured domestic help, entrenched white anglo-saxon hierarchy in the workplace, rampant smoking, alcohol and cannabis in the office.
 
Fwiffo said:
Good luck getting money for a television pilot in 2022 that showcases end of 1950s to 1960s values on misogyny, race relations, gender equality at work, treatment of gays, woman's trials and tribulations to divorce a man and abortion, casual slander of Jews, #metoo boss-secretary marriages, coloured domestic help, entrenched white anglo-saxon hierarchy in the workplace, rampant smoking, alcohol and cannabis in the office.
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I saw last night that Amazon had added a 2 minute intro screen to one of the episodes basically apologising for the use of blackface by one of the characters. It's what a white person might have done in 1963 - especially one as old as Roger Sterling. Certainly the apologetic intro wasn't on the original DVD I had from 2010 or whatever.

What next? There'll be a 10 minute revisionist introduction to every fucking scene if they want to explain away the portrayal of the stuff you listed above. Maybe the revival will see Roger having a sex change and married to the black elevator steward.
 
prince nez said:
I saw last night that Amazon had added a 2 minute intro screen to one of the episodes basically apologising for the use of blackface by one of the characters. It's what a white person might have done in 1963 - especially one as old as Roger Sterling. Certainly the apologetic intro wasn't on the original DVD I had from 2010 or whatever.

What next? There'll be a 10 minute revisionist introduction to every fucking scene if they want to explain away the portrayal of the stuff you listed above. Maybe the revival will see Roger having a sex change and married to the black elevator steward.
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At least you were able to find the episode. On a loosely related note Jon Hamm's blackface segment on 30 Rock has been erased from the Internet. All the streaming services took it out (domestic or the known international giants) and it is deleted for anyone who posted clips of it on YouTube. The creators came out to apologise for it during the height of Black Live Matters and now you have to find it on disc if you still want to see it. The irony is the skit was about making fun of blackface by putting a blackface white with a black actor together.

If you want to make a television pilot of comic book or science fiction characters of all races, genders, and sexual orientation - you'll certainly get funded in 2022.
 
caught the first two episodes of Minx on HBO Max (torrents). gotta say i was pretty impressed. smart, witty, funny, with a little nudity. this one could be a winner.
 
Grand Potentate said:
caught the first two episodes of Minx on HBO Max (torrents). gotta say i was pretty impressed. smart, witty, funny, with a little nudity. this one could be a winner.
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I wasn’t super impressed, though I’ll keep watching for a while. Great cast, but the plot is was kinda predictable and cliched: up-tight feminist meets liberated freaks. It just feels like something that would have aired on TV in the 90s, but with some penises and boobs. I didn’t really get any laughs, but it had some nice set-ups. Also, in before someone replies ‘woke’.

I started The Tourist lastnight, but fell asleep before finishing ep one. Too early to judge, but it has some potential. Irish guy wakes up after a car crash with amnesia in the Outback and has to figure out why people are trying to kill him.
 
Dropbear said:
I wasn’t super impressed, though I’ll keep watching for a while. Great cast, but the plot is was kinda predictable and cliched: up-tight feminist meets liberated freaks. It just feels like something that would have aired on TV in the 90s, but with some penises and boobs. I didn’t really get any laughs, but it had some nice set-ups. Also, in before someone replies ‘woke’.
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maybe but at least it was interesting and unique from the shit that's on now. its not exactly breaking bad but i think its worth a watch for now.
 
Bridgerton's second season has less sex.

Just reading about it...never watched it.
 
Fwiffo said:
Bridgerton's second season has less sex.

Just reading about it...never watched it.
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I actually started re-watching S1 on Tues or Wed to "prep" for S2. I stopped after less than 10 min.

I actually enjoyed S1 even thought I am not into period pieces. I just didn't want to push through again on S1.
 
ter1413 said:
I actually started re-watching S1 on Tues or Wed to "prep" for S2. I stopped after less than 10 min.

I actually enjoyed S1 even thought I am not into period pieces. I just didn't want to push through again on S1.
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Surely it's a period 'fantasy' show. I think I had this argument some pages back that coloured people were not gentry or aristocracy in the Regency period.
 
severance is starting to get really weird, and really good. i hope it doesn't end up like lost and get all spun out with no answers.

two more episodes of minx - still enjoying that one its fun and punchy.
 
I used my second AppleTV trial to watch WeCrashed. I usually just have it in my background. The Jared Leto character reminds me of one of my Russian friends who is constantly re-inventing himself to make money.
 
Watching Inventing Anna from Netflix. Pretty fascinating and it’s good storytelling if you like the investigative journalist meets fun scam artist type.
 
Grand Potentate said:
Watching Inventing Anna from Netflix. Pretty fascinating and it’s good storytelling if you like the investigative journalist meets fun scam artist type.
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She was paid for the rights to her story and this was the top streamed on Netflix when it was released.
 
Grand Potentate said:
Watching Inventing Anna from Netflix. Pretty fascinating and it’s good storytelling if you like the investigative journalist meets fun scam artist type.
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I started it when it first came out and stopped after ep2. I would need to rewatch/start. Character playing Anna was annoying. I guess she is doing a good job.
 
ter1413 said:
I started it when it first came out and stopped after ep2. I would need to rewatch/start. Character playing Anna was annoying. I guess she is doing a good job.
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no she stays annoying. but it was interesting watching here scam all these rich fucks.
 
Grand Potentate said:
no she stays annoying. but it was interesting watching here scam all these rich fucks.
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The real question is WYHI?
 
I don't understand women wearing glasses like that. The trend now is for transparent frames and/or oversized circular ones. It looks ghastly. It is the opposite of flattering.

But I have the same opinions about oversized shoulder pads.
 
Fwiffo said:
I don't understand women wearing glasses like that. The trend now is for transparent frames and/or oversized circular ones. It looks ghastly. It is the opposite of flattering.

But I have the same opinions about oversized shoulder pads.
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Sir, that was NOT the real question.
 
Fwiffo said:
I don't understand women wearing glasses like that. The trend now is for transparent frames and/or oversized circular ones. It looks ghastly. It is the opposite of flattering.

But I have the same opinions about oversized shoulder pads.
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She was arrested 5 years ago and had been wearing glasses like that prior.
 
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