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@jegga jeepers, I best get on and finish watching the last series so I will be up with the storylines!
@mariner4life if you are gonna kidnap people or put bombs in places, you deserve to be shot in the face!
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@mariner4life said in TV Serieseseses:
@jegga said in TV Serieseseses:
Strike back is being revived , more mindless violence and hot women . Sweet .
Good for everyone
Except the numerous ethnics who will get shot in the face
I'm watching an episode as we speak, 30 seconds ago an ethnic had a towel wrapped over his head before Charles Dance shot him in the face.
Also Rhona Mitra.
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@taniwharugby yeah that last one was decent too, no discernible plot but lots of hot women and people of a wide variety of ethnicities getting shot in the head .
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@Virgil said in TV Serieseseses:
So after spending 9 months in my List on Netflix finally gotten round to watching this unknown show called Stranger Things.
Not sure if anyone else has heard of it.
Pretty fucken good, great nods to the 80s with the John Carpenter synth music to the mix of watching Stephen King/Spielberg even X-Files.
With season 2 to be available later this year I look forward to catching that in 2019.It's not like me to finish a show miles before anyone else but there y'go.
It was bloody good if memory serves. Great nostalgia given those kids would all be about our age now. A great homage to a magical era.
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@MN5 said in TV Serieseseses:
@Virgil said in TV Serieseseses:
So after spending 9 months in my List on Netflix finally gotten round to watching this unknown show called Stranger Things.
Not sure if anyone else has heard of it.
Pretty fucken good, great nods to the 80s with the John Carpenter synth music to the mix of watching Stephen King/Spielberg even X-Files.
With season 2 to be available later this year I look forward to catching that in 2019.It's not like me to finish a show miles before anyone else but there y'go.
It was bloody good if memory serves. Great nostalgia given those kids would all be about our age now. A great homage to a magical era.
Stranger Things was great series, there have been a few similar sci-fi themed series recently, some good, some bad. I managed to get through the first seasons both Outcast and The OA but only because I had already invested some time in them. Of the two Outcast is the better IMO although all a bit loose in the plot. It has Gene Hunt and Data in it which ought to be good but you can't get past them being their previous characters. I've recorded the second series but haven't yet bothered to watch it. The OA was, just pretentious shite but this became more apparent as it went on. In the end it had the feeling of a vanity project.
Avoid
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@Catogrande said in TV Serieseseses:
@MN5 said in TV Serieseseses:
@Virgil said in TV Serieseseses:
So after spending 9 months in my List on Netflix finally gotten round to watching this unknown show called Stranger Things.
Not sure if anyone else has heard of it.
Pretty fucken good, great nods to the 80s with the John Carpenter synth music to the mix of watching Stephen King/Spielberg even X-Files.
With season 2 to be available later this year I look forward to catching that in 2019.It's not like me to finish a show miles before anyone else but there y'go.
It was bloody good if memory serves. Great nostalgia given those kids would all be about our age now. A great homage to a magical era.
Stranger Things was great series, there have been a few similar sci-fi themed series recently, some good, some bad. I managed to get through the first seasons both Outcast and The OA but only because I had already invested some time in them. Of the two Outcast is the better IMO although all a bit loose in the plot. It has Gene Hunt and Data in it which ought to be good but you can't get past them being their previous characters. I've recorded the second series but haven't yet bothered to watch it. The OA was, just pretentious shite but this became more apparent as it went on. In the end it had the feeling of a vanity project.
Avoid
I gave up on The OA after the first ep. It looked to have too much potential to be a waste of time so I waited to let others go through the pain first. Thanks for confirming.
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@Catogrande I liked Outcast, haven't started S2 yet though...isn't a must watch, but is a decent watch.
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TV shows being cancelled/renewed...
Some shite being renewed, makes oyu wonder about the audience!
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@taniwharugby said in TV Serieseseses:
TV shows being cancelled/renewed...
Some shite being renewed, makes oyu wonder about the audience!
@taniwharugby said in TV Serieseseses:
TV shows being cancelled/renewed...
Some shite being renewed, makes oyu wonder about the audience!
Fuck I see what you mean! Two Broke Girls has been cancelled. Why? What the hell are people watching,
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@taniwharugby I find it funny that shows are cancelled in the US before they even air in NZ. And we wonder why free-to-air TV is dying here.
I personally watch so few TV series on TVNZ/TV3 because they are dominated by fuckin' reality shows or inane comedies. Two shows I do watch have now been relegated to the 11 pm slot, which means they obviously don't rate here. Both have been renewed anyway.
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Basically the only show I watch on free to air is George Clarke's Amazing Spaces.
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I do like this review:
ONE of Australia’s most controversial reality shows has upped the stakes and blindsided a fresh bunch of straight couples by tricking them into marrying a stranger.
During Monday night’s premiere of Seven Year Switch, viewers watched on as four seriously unhappy Aussie couples separated and switched partners in an attempt to save their crappy relationships.
But, in a delicious twist, the couples were slapped in the face with a new rule they didn’t see coming. Once it was too late for them to back out of the experiment, it was revealed they’d have to marry the stranger they’re paired with. Complete with rings.
In a hot second the series turned into Married At First Sight and I was half-expecting one of the wives to peel a rubber mask off her face to reveal herself as Nadia.
I personally believe this is how all reality shows should operate from now on. I want to see a bunch of losers who think they’ve signed up for My Kitchen Rules going about their business during the first home kitchen challenge and then all of a sudden they’re locked in the house and it’s revealed they’re on Big Brother.
Going on this show to save your marriage is kind of like becoming a Catholic as the plane’s crashing down. And what makes this series better than other dating shows is these people are already coming into the experiment with years of deep-seeded resentment and hate. We don’t have to wait several weeks for it to develop.
STACEY LOUISE AND SARGE
First up we meet Stacey Louise and Sarge. They’ve been together two and a half years and have somehow dodged the “seven year” part of the Seven Year Switch criteria. Our first introduction to this Brisbane couple is through a driving lesson where we witness Sarge trying to teach Stacey Louise how to drive a manual because women are dummies. He’s yelling out of frustration. Maybe Stacey Louise is a really terrible driver. Or maybe she’s just so mortified to be seen in this pile of crap that her body has begun involuntarily convulsing at the wheel.
“I’m Derek. Although everyone calls me Sarge these days,” he informs us. I feel confident in assuming no one in his life actually calls him Sarge but he just desperately wants them to. Sarge and Stacey Louise are both personal trainers and they say their love for each other blossomed over the shared dream of having their own boot camp business which is really quite a modern tale of romance. In their minds, I can tell they think they’re just like Michelle Bridges and Commando. They’re not.
Now, when it comes to Sarge, I don’t know whether the really fitted army print tees he insists on wearing every day came before or after the nickname but his wardrobe is solely made up of them so get used to it.
While they’re putting groceries away in the kitchen, a fight breaks out. We stand back in silence and awkwardly watch on.
“I can never tell what’s my food or not! Because you always put your food on my shelf,” Sarge yells at his partner. “Like, there is such a systematic approach to fridges and you just mess it up! It’s making sure you’ve got a system so you know where everything is!”
There are two types of people in this world: the kind who organise the food in their fridge like they’re ancient files in a museum archive. And the kind who just place the new food around the three half-full cartons of expired milk and avoid the vegetable drawer because there’s a bag of spinach in there that’s rotted so badly the leaves have not only wilted and decomposed into mulch, it’s actually now just liquid. Sarge is the former.
“I feel controlled,” Stacey Louise says, surprised that a man who insists on being called Sarge might have a rather dominant personality.
I should point out now, Stacey Louise does a fake cry that she thinks is convincing but it totally isn’t. She pulls it out during several of the fights we witness between her and Sarge and she does it again when she has to say goodbye to him on the day of their switch. I think she thinks it’s cute but it’s actually just real creepy and annoying to watch.
MICHAEL AND FELICITY
This young couple of five years had a kid three months after meeting at the pub and have put their wedding on hold.
Felicity says trouble began to surface in the relationship when she started up her business making paleo baked goods and honestly this doesn’t surprise me. New figures from the ABS show paleo baked goods are responsible for the incline in divorce and separations in both metropolitan and coastal areas around Australia. I’ll even admit my last long term relationship was brought down by a paleo ball. It’s a silent killer and more of us need to speak up. Anyway, for Michael and Felicity, their relationship is crumbling like a Pete Evans-certified brownie.
JOHNNY AND TRACEY
In Adelaide, we meet Johnny and Tracey. They’ve been together for 11 years, have a few kids and have just finished a 12 month separation but still want to give their marriage another go.
We see them fighting over dinner and it moves into the kitchen. Above them on the wall, decorative plywood cut-outs of the words “relax” and “enjoy” taunt them and their sinking marriage.
It’s clear Tracey’s more excited for this whole experiment than Johnny. On the big day of their switch, she shoves him into a Kia Carnival and yells “have fun!” She’s also dressed like one of those Jenner girls.
MARK AND KAITLYN
I don’t even know where to begin here. OK. Kaitlyn’s from Florida and here’s a photo of her:
She wants Mark to propose so she can have kids, but he says he won’t do that until Kaitlyn grows up a bit.
“You don’t need to raise your voice and yell out details of personal things on the tram,” he tells her during an argument. This instruction is vague yet alludes to an oddly specific incident and I can only conclude Kaitlyn once yelled out the size of Mark’s penis on public transport.
While Mark’s out with the boys, Kaitlyn stays at home and alternates between calling him on handset, calling him on speakerphone, and texting him.
Packing for their time apart, Kaitlyn decides it’s the perfect opportunity to pull out her vibrator to Mark’s horror.
“Why do you have a problem with my vibrator?!” she screams, wagging it in his face.
THE SWITCH
Freshly separated and liberated from their crumby marriages, everyone’s feeling much lighter and happier. The multi-million dollar waterfront mansions they’re now living in for three weeks have a lot to do with this change in demeanour but no one admits that. Each person meets their new “partner” and there’s no real disgust.
But then things take a turn. Each new couple finds two boxes and a note.
“In order to invest in the experiment you’ll need to feel a sense of partnership. The best way to do this is to take part in an experimental marriage. With these rings you become husband and wife,” the note reads. Inside the ugly boxes are ugly rings.
It seems these couples, who signed up for Seven Year Switch, have been blindsided into being contestants on Married At First Sight and it’s really quite a terrific moment. These bozos thought they’d just be shooting the breeze with a stranger in a cool house for a few weeks, but instead they’ve been tricked into marriage by experts.
Felicity isn’t thrilled by the turn of events.
“I’m engaged. So for me to do that I would have to take my (ring) off. And that’s just a bit weird,” she tells her new husband Mark. “I think it devalues the importance of and how special a marriage is.”
She says she’d be “extremely disrespected” if her real fiance Michael agrees to wear the ring and hopes Kaitlyn feels the same. “I just wouldn’t do that to another girl,” she says thoughtfully.
Cut to Kaitlyn, and she has no problem doing this to another girl. She’s totally psyched about the wedding rings and she’s made Felicity’s fiance Michael propose several different ways before reciting vows she’s written on the spot.
Will the surprise marriages be the decision that fast tracks the demise of at least one relationship and causes a bitchy confrontation between two ladies who haven’t even met yet at a reunion episode that’s several weeks away?
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@antipodean i saw the first episode. They are 8 of the worst people ever.
Stacey Louise has big tits
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@mariner4life said in TV Serieseseses:
@antipodean i saw the first episode. They are 8 of the worst people ever.
Stacey Louise has big tits
Can you be be a bad person and have big tits? I'm torn here . To be one of the worst people ever you should have no redeeming features and yet she clearly has two.
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@taniwharugby said in TV Serieseseses:
TV shows being cancelled/renewed...
Some shite being renewed, makes oyu wonder about the audience!
This one makes me laugh.....
The Blacklist: Redemption (acquired by TVNZ) Seasons: 1 Status: Cancelled
Someone will be in the shit for that purchase.Blacklist was a heavily promoted and reasonably successful show for TV3. Looks like TVNZ tried to be clever and grab this one out from under them. Fail.
