TV: What TV series are you currently watching/recently watched?
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Finished watching Luther (not the movie yet), high level entertainment, not top tier but pretty close
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I just started the prequel. Not bad. First episode was a lot better than the second though.
Also two episodes into penguin.
Going to start watching the latest season of Fargo after those.
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How are you liking The Penguin? It's one of my favorite series over the last couple years.
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I’m enjoying it. I feel like it’s just about to get real good based on the last scene I watched and the reputation it has. I don’t know how to make spoiler tags here so my reply is a bit limited.
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Hell yeah! I'm glad you're liking it. Once it takes off it really never lets up.
Also, if you're on the computer you can click the 3 dots and then the little "eye with a line through it" icon, and then type what you want in the spoiler icon in between the code for the spoiler. I've marked it off 1, 2, and 3 for ya here in this screenshot. Hope it makes sense.
I quite enjoyed the recent season of Fargo. I think you'll enjoy it.
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Good to know. Haven’t read a single review of it. I loved the first three and liked the 4th one too.
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Taskmaster is one of my favorite shows and Junior Taskmaster is down to the finals and it is somehow just as good. None of these kids were professionals, the creators of the show sent letters to drama teachers in the UK asking which of their students might do well and all of them were so great, but this 9 year old from Scotland was by far the favorite of the fans. I think she could actually do well against the adults, she's brilliant
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Did you guys watch it on a streaming service? I signed up for Disney+ a couple weeks ago expecting Fargo to be on there but annoyingly it's not. Not sure why as it's an FX show.
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In the final season of six feet under and halfway through season 4 of The Wire and I'd say it's definitely say both are cementing themselves as some of my favourite TV shows of all time.
Idk if it was anyone else's experience with the wire, but it actually took me a while for me to really love the show. I started to appreciate it more with each coming season.
Idk if it was anyone else's experience with the wire, but it actually took me a while for me to really love the show. I started to appreciate it more with each coming season.
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It's on Hulu in US, don't know about Canada. My Disney+ also has some Hulu content so I think i mightve watched it there because there weren't any commercials.
I made it a few episodes into the wire and then gave up, gave it a shot because people always talk about how good it is but crime/detective/police shows are my least favorite genre so it's just simply not for me.
Really love six feet under though, it has one of the best finales too.
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Viewing the Watchmen series for the first time on a friend's recommendation. Has been a slow burn for me, but have liked it more with each episode so far. Have watched thru episode 6.
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Same. I watched the first episode because people always highly praise the show and it didn't do anything for me. It may grow on you and get better as the seasons progress, as people have said, but I don't care for procedurals like that, so I'm not really interested in spending time to watch more to find out.
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Oh it'll do more than grow on you and it's far from being just a procedural. There's certain people out there(not saying you) who already have their mind made up that they're not going to like The Wire just because so many people told them how great it is. The old hipster attitude. Mind you us fans of the show tend to be very passionate about it.
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DanDaDan Season 1 - 0.5 (Bad)
Watched this because I found out it was made by Science Saru and had music by Kensuke Ushio (I'm a massive fan of Masaaki Yuasa). Had the incredible animation/staging, good music, and 11-12 episode season structure I tend to like with their stuff, but outside of two promising episodes (1 and 7), turned out to be a pretty medicore and messy let-down that actually started to feel outright terrible to me after a certain point. Shame, because I was fairly intrigued after the first episode.
There's a lot of whiplash between endearingly wild eccentricity (nice excuses for animation to go wild, which I'm all for) and tropey zoomer toilet-humor obnoxiousness, it feels like it has no sense of direction/themes/meaning after a while, and while I was okay with the sexual gratuity in the first episode where it kind of made sense (despite being uncomfortable), after a certain point, it becomes painfully obvious that it's not done in service of anything (show barely even has themes of sexuality that might fit it, really)-- it's just bizarrely misplaced fan-service of minors that look it. It also might have by far THE most non-finale feeling finale I've ever seen.
That big set piece in episode 7 is nice in isolation, but even then, I couldn't shake off how typically emotionally manipulative in a Shonen-y way it was (if the majority of the season was like that, I would at least understand its popularity a little more). Really felt the lack of Masaaki Yuasa sensibilities in this one.
Watched this because I found out it was made by Science Saru and had music by Kensuke Ushio (I'm a massive fan of Masaaki Yuasa). Had the incredible animation/staging, good music, and 11-12 episode season structure I tend to like with their stuff, but outside of two promising episodes (1 and 7), turned out to be a pretty medicore and messy let-down that actually started to feel outright terrible to me after a certain point. Shame, because I was fairly intrigued after the first episode.
There's a lot of whiplash between endearingly wild eccentricity (nice excuses for animation to go wild, which I'm all for) and tropey zoomer toilet-humor obnoxiousness, it feels like it has no sense of direction/themes/meaning after a while, and while I was okay with the sexual gratuity in the first episode where it kind of made sense (despite being uncomfortable), after a certain point, it becomes painfully obvious that it's not done in service of anything (show barely even has themes of sexuality that might fit it, really)-- it's just bizarrely misplaced fan-service of minors that look it. It also might have by far THE most non-finale feeling finale I've ever seen.
That big set piece in episode 7 is nice in isolation, but even then, I couldn't shake off how typically emotionally manipulative in a Shonen-y way it was (if the majority of the season was like that, I would at least understand its popularity a little more). Really felt the lack of Masaaki Yuasa sensibilities in this one.
I've yet to find a show that comes even remotely in the same stratosphere as The Wire for me, personally. But yeah, it can take a while to warm up to if you're not used to the way it demands/requires attention to be given.
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