TV Serieseseses
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Finished Hunters (Amazon)
Was pretty good, seemed a bit of a mish-mash of styles, bit of Tarantino bit of others...
Slow burn for most of it, thought eps 9 & 10 were very good, the characters of Lonny, Travis & Harriet were very good...Jonah was annoying.
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Has anyone seen The Wire?
Just jokes I know who has and who hasn't..anyway I just finished it for the 4th time and daaaaaaaamn it is still awesome. Made my Mrs watch it, no phones allowed and in the past I said it takes 4 episodes to get into it..nah thats not enough, its at least 8. She didn't have a clue what was going on for a while, couldn't even understand the dialogue, on the one had you got ghetto street slang and on the other you have cop talk. By the end of the first season she finally clicked and loved it, even shed a few tears in parts.
So yeah, if you're quarantined and have some time on your hands there is 5 seasons of awesomeness awaiting.
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@Rembrandt by the same token I'm sitting down to watch Justified again this weekend, this time with Bonesetta. No phones is a great idea!
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@Bovidae said in TV Serieseseses:
I've got a box set of The Shield to watch sometime.
Assuming you haven't watched it already, as an FYI the first series is quite procedural like (IIRC) but by season 2 it just ramps up to season/show long narrative arcs.
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@Rembrandt said in TV Serieseseses:
Has anyone seen The Wire?
Just jokes I know who has and who hasn't..anyway I just finished it for the 4th time and daaaaaaaamn it is still awesome. Made my Mrs watch it, no phones allowed and in the past I said it takes 4 episodes to get into it..nah thats not enough, its at least 8. She didn't have a clue what was going on for a while, couldn't even understand the dialogue, on the one had you got ghetto street slang and on the other you have cop talk. By the end of the first season she finally clicked and loved it, even shed a few tears in parts.
So yeah, if you're quarantined and have some time on your hands there is 5 seasons of awesomeness awaiting.
I still have 4 seasons left of this...def need to get back into it!
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@Bovidae said in TV Serieseseses:
@Nepia Thanks for the info. I've never watched it before but I don't mind procedurals as I was a big fan of Law & Order.
Back in the day I could watch procedurals but since we've had peak tv I can't do it. Josh Whedon and Shawn Ryan (showrunner of The Shield) were a wee bit ahead of their time in and often had to do first seasons of procedurals to get their show on the air, before going full steam ahead with their narrative shows.
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@Bones said in TV Serieseseses:
@Rembrandt by the same token I'm sitting down to watch Justified again this weekend, this time with Bonesetta. No phones is a great idea!
Thanks for the reminder on this. It was a show I kept reading good things about but the combination of platform and other shows meant I fell behind and couldn’t be bothered binging to catch up.
Found all the series on amazon yesterday and hooked fast.
My only problem is that I was a big fan of Santa Clarita Diet and keep seeing similarities in the character (especially that shit eating grin).
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@Rembrandt i have never seen the Wire
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@mariner4life you've got your isolation plan then.
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pffft haha yeah right.
I have children. I won't get near the TV until 8.30pm
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I tried 4 or 5 eps of The Wire, wasn't for me
Had a look at Black Monday with Don Cheadle, only watched 1 so far but seems like it might be kinda Wolf of Wall Street without Margot.
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@taniwharugby said in TV Serieseseses:
I tried 4 or 5 eps of The Wire, wasn't for me
Had a look at Black Monday with Don Cheadle, only watched 1 so far but seems like it might be kinda Wolf of Wall Street without Margot.
i started that last night!
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Probably best to ask this here as more likely if others have noticed.
Has anyone else had an issue with VPN speeds in the last day or so?
Doesn’t matter what VPN I use but things have slowed to a crawl. I suspect ISP activity/throttling. They can’t see what you are doing on a VPN but can work out that you are using one.
It would make a bit of sense if they were trying to save bandwidth for work from home use but surely many workers are being asked to connect to work via VPN anyway. -
@taniwharugby said in TV Serieseseses:
I tried 4 or 5 eps of The Wire, wasn't for me
Had a look at Black Monday with Don Cheadle, only watched 1 so far but seems like it might be kinda Wolf of Wall Street without Margot.
Do not listen to this @mariner4life
The Wire might be the best show on tv, ever.
I’m struggling to think of a series I’ll happily re-watch multiple times, apart from the Wire or Band of Brothers.
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@Stockcar86 said in TV Serieseseses:
Duckman is 26 years old this year, and I have started watching the complete series again. It is amazing that back in the mid 90's something like this was commissioned and broadcast (on pay tv), and that it lasted 4 seasons.
This is the role that Jason Alexander was meant for, starting this mid Seinfeld run. So angry and deviant.
*edit, shit, posted to the wrong thread. Could a mod please move this to the TV Series thread
Done now - just doing some catch up on old threads and saw this.
