The TV you like thread - The Bear and Badger

Unlikely

Only knows it to two decimal places. Nerd fail.

MattyJ

tin_robot wrote:

Yossarian wrote:

Just spotted that BBC2 has picked up Atlanta, first couple of eps on iPlayer. Seems decent enough so far.

Yep, I've enjoyed them. I thought the second episode was incredible, it handled some fairly extreme tonal shifts with panache, and a lot of it was brilliantly observed. It's a shame we're so far behind the US though (where the second series is just finishing.)

The entire series is amazing and I highly recommend it. Like you said it's very well observed and handles some serious matters well

Paul the sparky

The Mist is piss poor then.

yourfavouriteuncle

Yeah, it’s future is definitely looking murky.

Gremill

pantyfire wrote:

Gremill wrote:

pantyfire wrote:

Billions is brilliant, like Spartacus brilliant.

I watched 3 episodes of it, then decided I hated all of the characters too much to continue. Bunch of cunts.

You are meant to dislike them all. They are all driven arseholes but just happen to be on different sides I think you'd have issues if you were rooting for either of them tbh.

Yeah, I get that, but I just didn’t find anything interesting on anything either side or that the story was telling me to hook me into the show. Couldn’t give shit one about those people in that world.

WorKid

Paul the sparky wrote:

The Mist is piss poor then.

Yeah. Fucking awful.

JonB

Gremill wrote:

pantyfire wrote:

Gremill wrote:

pantyfire wrote:

Billions is brilliant, like Spartacus brilliant.

I watched 3 episodes of it, then decided I hated all of the characters too much to continue. Bunch of cunts.

You are meant to dislike them all. They are all driven arseholes but just happen to be on different sides I think you'd have issues if you were rooting for either of them tbh.

Yeah, I get that, but I just didn’t find anything interesting on anything either side or that the story was telling me to hook me into the show. Couldn’t give shit one about those people in that world.

Yeah, it’s just hard to care about anything anyone says or does. Still, we’ll probably give it a few more episodes.

Yossarian

Gremill wrote:

pantyfire wrote:

Gremill wrote:

pantyfire wrote:

Billions is brilliant, like Spartacus brilliant.

I watched 3 episodes of it, then decided I hated all of the characters too much to continue. Bunch of cunts.

You are meant to dislike them all. They are all driven arseholes but just happen to be on different sides I think you'd have issues if you were rooting for either of them tbh.

Yeah, I get that, but I just didn’t find anything interesting on anything either side or that the story was telling me to hook me into the show. Couldn’t give shit one about those people in that world.

That’s pretty much how I felt about Mad Men.

Blocks100

Lord_Griff

Unlikely wrote:

Only knows it to two decimal places. Nerd fail.

IDGI, it would be hard to measure 0.1% or less of a pie.

WorKid

Tell that to my brother. We've had fights over smaller discrepancies I'm sure.

poprock

The Handmaid’s Tale S2 started as bleak as all hell. No easing in whatsoever, just horror upon horror from the get-go. Also no recap and straight into continuation from the final scene of S1, so if you’re at all fuzzy on how S1 ended, go remind yourself before watching.

As with the first season, I find myself wondering why I’m watching it. Scene after scene of horrific torture, both physical and psychological. It’s not entertainment. It is compelling though. I think S2 is making it even clearer that this isn’t some far-fetched imaginary dystopia, it’s taking what has happened in distant nations over and over again through history and mapping it on to modern America. Realising that makes it even more terrifying.

On a totally different note, Patrick Melrose is great stuff so far. Episode one was 100% The Cumberbatch Show, a fucking masterclass in acting, but episode two belongs to Hugo Weaving. Amazingly menacing performance.

I noticed at the end of the credits that my friend is the executive producer and now I’m super bloody proud of her. It’s brilliant.

Blocks100

poprock wrote:

So if you’re at all fuzzy on how S1 ended, go remind yourself before watching.

I never get a fuzzy feeling from watching the Handmaid's Tale.

Stopharage

poprock wrote:

The Handmaid’s Tale S2 started as bleak as all hell. No easing in whatsoever, just horror upon horror from the get-go. Also no recap and straight into continuation from the final scene of S1, so if you’re at all fuzzy on how S1 ended, go remind yourself before watching.

Not sure where you watched it, but the version Channel 4 aired yesterday had a recap at the start.

WorKid

Fargo done.

2>>1>3

poprock

Stopharage wrote:

Not sure where you watched it, but the version Channel 4 aired yesterday had a recap at the start.

Really? Wow. Must have been fast. I switched on a couple of minutes after nine and things were already, erm, progressing quite far!

Gremill

Watching Handmaids Tale tonight, so I can ffwd through the fucking ads.

Just finished episode 11 of Punisher - in which he fights off the death squad in the HQ warehouse. Fucking brutal stuff, visceral as all hell. It’s interesting how they’re having a discussion as the series progresses about the rights and wrongs of gun control but then are absolutely unflinching in showing the effects of a shotgun blast to a face. Some have said that the show is pro-gun but I’m not so sure that in the face of such unsparing graphic violence that this is the case.

Kow

Out of boredom I watched the first episode of Lost in Space. I was pleasantly surprised, as I had expected drivel. Plenty of family friendly tension. Will watch more.

pantyfire

That family can't take a shit without a near death experience.

Djornson

This Atlanta thing is alright

pantyfire

Yeh, watched them all now, it gets better as it goes as well.

Boolitt

Preacher season 3 starts 24th June yay

bad_hair_day

God help me fit it in.

g.man

I hope it's a damn site better than the HOT PISS that was Season 2.

bad_hair_day

Found them never less than entertaining but agree they stretched it too thin.

mannaboy

Preacher season 2 failed to deliver on the great season one build up, I’ve just about forgotten how shite it was, so will tune in.

Been catching up on season 3 of The Expanse and it’s still a great space based show. Unfortunately Sci-fi have pulled the plug on season 4, in the hands of the streaming gods to pick up now.

Also watched a few eps of Legion season 2, not grabbing me like the first, probably because I assumed wrongly that there’d be less psychological shenanigans this time round and it appears they’ve double downed on that stuff.

Gremill

g.man wrote:

I hope it's a damn site better than the HOT PISS that was Season 2.

I never watched past episode 1 of season 2. Not because I didn’t enjoy it - it was a hell of an opener - but I just didn’t bother in the end. Was it that bad?

Kow

I gave up about 4 or 5 episodes in, just didn't seem to be going anywhere.

The Daddy

Me too. It wasn’t bad as such, just not good either.

yourfavouriteuncle

WorKid wrote:

Fargo done. 2>>1>3

The order doesn’t matter. They are all brilliant

Howdy, Stranger!

Categories