UK Netflix to show new Rick and Morty on day of broadcast
So that's this Sunday. Although it doesn't go out until 11:30 pm in America, so not sure when on Sunday they'll put it up. Still, avoids the need for piracy.

Raiziel wrote:

I think Supernatural is the worst shit ever created, so Grimm is a step up. A small step up, mind, and I'd never recommend it to anyone.

Having watched both, I'd say supernatural season 1-5 is pretty watchable and fun. After that it gets quite rubbish. Grimm started OK and would have been better as a 10-12 episode a season show. Too much filler in a 24 episode season. I got bored after season 3 and never went back.

Gremill wrote:

monkey wrote:

UK Netflix to show new Rick and Morty on day of broadcast
So that's this Sunday. Although it doesn't go out until 11:30 pm in America, so not sure when on Sunday they'll put it up. Still, avoids the need for piracy.

About fucking time a content provider just gave us what we want when we want it. I'm happy to pay.

Excellent news

Paul the sparky wrote:

nick_md wrote:

Just finished fargo s3, best tv I've seen in ages. Want to watch it all over again, so much better than s2, which I thought was fairly shite all in all, despite the love it gets.

Spoiler:

Varga was really a fantastic character, I hope we see him again. Couple of questions I have, which may be due to inebriated viewing, are: what happened to Uri? Why didn't Mr. Wrench kill Meemo when he got the jump on him at the meeting between Nikki and Varga, in the hotel?

Spoiler:

Yuri is dead innit? Dunno what that bowling alley was supposed to symbolise but I think he got a glimpse of hell in there. I don't know who that guy was either, I thought he was some kind of avenging angel or something but he fucked over Nikki in the end with that bible quote holding her up long enough for the cop to intervene. I think the deaf guy left the little fella alive because they wanted Varga to personally attend the next meeting, which he might not have done if they'd previously shown their willingness to murder. Maybe. Or they didn't want to kill them all until they knew the money was in the case? Iunno.

US cartoons have been in such rude health for so long now it's going to be worth a half-season minimum.

Junk TV. Guilty pleasures. First Dates has me smitten.

nick_md wrote:

Paul the sparky wrote:

nick_md wrote:

Just finished fargo s3, best tv I've seen in ages. Want to watch it all over again, so much better than s2, which I thought was fairly shite all in all, despite the love it gets.

Spoiler:

Varga was really a fantastic character, I hope we see him again. Couple of questions I have, which may be due to inebriated viewing, are: what happened to Uri? Why didn't Mr. Wrench kill Meemo when he got the jump on him at the meeting between Nikki and Varga, in the hotel?

Spoiler:

Yuri is dead innit? Dunno what that bowling alley was supposed to symbolise but I think he got a glimpse of hell in there. I don't know who that guy was either, I thought he was some kind of avenging angel or something but he fucked over Nikki in the end with that bible quote holding her up long enough for the cop to intervene. I think the deaf guy left the little fella alive because they wanted Varga to personally attend the next meeting, which he might not have done if they'd previously shown their willingness to murder. Maybe. Or they didn't want to kill them all until they knew the money was in the case? Iunno.

Spoiler:

Shit I can't remember any bowling alley, just read the wiki entry for the episodes and it still draws a blank. Think I need watch that episode again when less twisted.

Rewatched, good ep. Great series.

Aaroncupboard wrote:

Finished Season 2 of Black Sails this afternoon. Absolutely cracking series of TV.

I spent the first two seasons fast-forwarding past all the Nassau bits. The land-based actors and characters were largely terrible, struggling to work with abysmal, cliche-laden writing. But the next two seasons are much better, and though the acting doesn't really improve beyond the mains, at least those lubbers are given a bit more to work with. Some of them finally get out to sea, etc.

Brooks wrote:

US cartoons have been in such rude health for so long now it's going to be worth a half-season minimum.

I never watched The Simpsons beyond season 7 at the time (save a couple of episodes from 12), so I've gone through them until the end of S12 over the past couple of years. S8 was the last really good year. I think that they made two great mistakes after the Millennium: they didn't argue for lengthy, two-year-plus breaks in-between seasons; and they refused to start ageing the characters.

Homer's 34 in 1990, and ‘about’ 38 in 2000, so there was an admission. At around the same time that Homer was revealed as 38, Bart made a joke about how he should be 21. Beavis and Butt-Head were run into the ground during the '90s, but made a welcome return in 2011 and haven't been seen again. If only The Simpsons had limited themselves to 10 episodes per year at the most...

I wouldn't have aged them in realtime, though. Probably one year in their lives for every two or three in ours. Futurama suddenly felt fresh in '99 because Fry was 25 (y'know, and the space stuff). Bart should be 38 himself now, but he'd be 19 or so at post-Millennium half-speed. They've missed out on so much potential evolution as a family, and that's my main reason for being unable to watch any of the later episodes.

WorKid wrote:

My main reason is that the jokes were weak as piss.

They walked themselves into a stale corner by refusing to adapt. You can't keep reworking the same jokes, and they've missed out on so much emotional content via stasis.

It actually worked in their favour for their first ten years. The comfort of continuity. But now they feel like relics.

The only character to age a year officially, from 7 to 8. A few years after that, they really turned on Mike.

WorKid wrote:

I remember Lisa had a birthday. Happy birthday Lisa.

Disguising links to country as other things is the way forward for me.

Escape wrote:

I never watched The Simpsons beyond season 7 at the time (save a couple of episodes from 12), so I've gone through them until the end of S12 over the past couple of years. S8 was the last really good year. I think that they made two great mistakes after the Millennium: they didn't argue for lengthy, two-year-plus breaks in-between seasons; and they refused to start ageing the characters.

Homer's 34 in 1990, and ‘about’ 38 in 2000, so there was an admission. At around the same time that Homer was revealed as 38, Bart made a joke about how he should be 21. Beavis and Butt-Head were run into the ground during the '90s, but made a welcome return in 2011 and haven't been seen again. If only The Simpsons had limited themselves to 10 episodes per year at the most...

I wouldn't have aged them in realtime, though. Probably one year in their lives for every two or three in ours. Futurama suddenly felt fresh in '99 because Fry was 25 (y'know, and the space stuff). Bart should be 38 himself now, but he'd be 19 or so at post-Millennium half-speed. They've missed out on so much potential evolution as a family, and that's my main reason for being unable to watch any of the later episodes.

I wouldn't have aged the Simpsons at all. I don't think that is their problem. Cartoons enable you to freeze the age of the characters, and I don't think they should give that up.

The world the Simpsons came in to no longer exists, and the shows it was sending up are long gone. It has evolved as a show, although it's never going to find that same groove again now it is essentially the establishment.

Diluted Dante wrote:

I wouldn't have aged the Simpsons at all. I don't think that is their problem.

No other cartoon's had nearly as long a run, to the extent that I was Bart's age when I started watching it. The best part of my lifetime later, they haven't dared tackle what was so obviously going to make them an anachronism. It might not be their primary problem, but it became the Stampy in the room as the '90s closed.

They just needed to have had the balls to upset a lot of people at the time, trusting those same people to see the wisdom in it a few years later.