I'm a couple of episodes into Better Call Saul S03. It's just so good.

Oh wait, have I seen that one already?

Ah okay.

Aaroncupboard wrote:

Finished Wild Wild Country last night. An absolutely outstanding documentary. I guess they were gifted with a great true life story that was utterly mental but the creation of the actual show was still of the highest quality. Great archive footage, brilliant music and a very good selection of talking heads. Loved every second of it.

Wasn’t the contemporary day commune shown right at the end depressing though??? All shareholders and iPads and stuff for kids to do?
Where’s the guns and orgies and poisoning’s?

g.man wrote:

Legion S2 Ep6. WOW! This show is absolutely killing it at the moment.

I'm a few episodes behind you, but agree it's excellent.  It feels maybe a little less focused than series 1, but it's luring me in again nicely.  It also feels like...
Anyway, I shall look forward to catching up...

Oh? I shall look it up.

afgavinstan wrote:

That NYT interview with the ArrDev cast... Uncomfortable.

 

I thought it was an interesting microcosm of the issue as a whole.  You have a woman quite clearly explaining that something was incredibly unpleasant for her, and a group of men insisting, "not to belittle her experience", that what she felt isn't relevant and anyway this stuff happens all the time and it's inevitable, so let's just forget about it.

MattyJ wrote:

Oh? I shall look it up.

It's here.

Mate's organised this to promote the campaign, pretty cool I think.

tin_robot wrote:

g.man wrote:

Legion S2 Ep6. WOW! This show is absolutely killing it at the moment.

I'm a few episodes behind you, but agree it's excellent.  It feels maybe a little less focused than series 1, but it's luring me in again nicely.  It also feels like...

Spoiler:

David is the disaster that Syd's wanting to prevent.

Anyway, I shall look forward to catching up...

Checked in here after ignoring the thread for 100 pages because I am also watching S2 of Legion, which is immeasurably better than all the Marvel pish on Netflix. So far I much prefer it to S1, which I thought fell into the trap of dragging out its build up to something that wasn’t really there. This is much more playful, and as ever the A.V. Club reviews are excellent. Episode 3 - which is the last I watched - starts with that excellent cheerleader tic thing, which is of course entirely true and I’m glad their reviews cover the episodes in such detail.

Temps, can you expand on your tweet about Legion? I'm not sure I follow.

I doubt it. For one, afaik, Netflix doesn't give notes, to it's entirely down to the production company. But also, Legion as a character is vastly different from the Defenders characters, so it wouldn't make sense.

I don't think anyone would seriously have attempted to make an omega level mutant with multiple personalities into a grounded and realistic show, whatever the platform.

As there would have been no possibility of any crossover due to the rights holders, there would be even less reason to attempt that.

Personally I wouldn't cross the road to watch superhero tv. It's just not my thing.
But Legion? Fuck me that's a whole other level of awesome tv.

One of Legion's great strengths is that it (mostly) ignores its source material, taking only what it wants, and making something more interesting with the results.  It's clearly Noah Hawley's thing, much more than it is Marvel's.  (And to be fair, it's to the latter's credit that they've let him play with their toys.) 

Also, I only discovered the other day that some of the weird cover versions that turn up in Legion are sung by Hawley himself.  (Apparently he did the same on Fargo.  Bloody showoff.)

Friday Night Dinner. Soooooooo good.

The next episode has The Punisher in it.