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I'm 2 eps into True Detective....let's not forget spoiler tags!!
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@MiketheSnow said in TV Serieseseses:
Oh yes
Good grief. Can they really keep milking this show and make it interesting? Started out amazing but I’m fairly sure I gave up when the hundreds of bullets aimed at Negan all miraculously missed just so he’d be around to be the bad guy for yet another season.
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@MN5 said in TV Serieseseses:
@MiketheSnow said in TV Serieseseses:
Oh yes
Good grief. Can they really keep milking this show and make it interesting? Started out amazing but I’m fairly sure I gave up when the hundreds of bullets aimed at Negan all miraculously missed just so he’d be around to be the bad guy for yet another season.
I gave up when I couldn't distinguish the plot from one season to another.
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@taniwharugby said in TV Serieseseses:
I'm 2 eps into True Detective....let's not forget spoiler tags!!
Seal Team Six makes an appearance. -
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@NTA said in TV Serieseseses:
Shogūn
Based on Clavell's book
Two episodes have been aired
It is very goodOne of my read once a year books. I hope it sticks reasonably to the characters, even if there is no way they can do the full story. I hope we don't see a watering down of the brutality and beauty of the book. The events less important than the characters and the atmoshhere
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@NTA said in TV Serieseseses:
@Machpants some pleasant gets their head cut off at random in the first episode. So there's that
Well that's in the book!
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@Catogrande said in TV Serieseseses:
@Kruse That's Innuit woke you racist.
First nations enters the chat.
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@Kruse said in TV Serieseseses:
Anyway - always suspected (spoiler alert) - that they'd try to step back from the supernatural side as it got to the end, while leaving an element of "ooohhh... perhaps...?" in the background. Which... yeah, duh - but... they did kinda overplay the scooby-doo shit early on.
Isn't that a common TD theme?
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@antipodean said in TV Serieseseses:
True Detective Season Four
Outstanding. Issa López made a worthy successor to the first season.
I thought it was absolute shit.
But then, it was featuring a culture other than european-white-men.
In fact - some (paranoid-delusionals) - might consider it was pushing a culture other than WMA.
So yeah - probably not your cup of tea.3 episodes in and I can't quite make up my mind up. The Inuit side of things I actually quite like and adds a lot to the acting and atmosphere, but I hope it improves - bit underwhelming at times
I wanted to like it.
Found the two main characters distinctly unlikeable.
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Most TV shows are complete shit. David Chase has stated that they are now written so that people can still follow them if they are using their phone throughout.
Tokyo Vice season two is very good. Best thing on TV by a mile. Looks great too. Night time shots are very nice.
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Too Good to Be True (TV Series 2024) ⭐ 5.6 | Drama, Thriller
Too Good to Be True: Created by David Leon. With Kara Tointon, Allen Leech, Charlie Hodson-Prior, Sara Powell. Rachel, a single mother and cleaner, is offered a better job by a wealthy businessman. She accepts, but grows suspicious of his motives as she becomes more involved in his affairs.
Yeah just fucking don't, ok? Unless you're @Kruse
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@Tim said in TV Serieseseses:
Most TV shows are complete shit. David Chase has stated that they are now written so that people can still follow them if they are using their phone throughout.
Tokyo Vice season two is very good. Best thing on TV by a mile. Looks great too. Night time shots are very nice.
Are you talking recent or in general ?
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@Tim said in TV Serieseseses:
Most TV shows are complete shit. David Chase has stated that they are now written so that people can still follow them if they are using their phone throughout.
Tokyo Vice season two is very good. Best thing on TV by a mile. Looks great too. Night time shots are very nice.
Are you part of the marketing team for this show? As this is the second time in a couple of weeks you've posted this. Season 1 was ok, but it must have made huge improvements in S2 for it to be the best thing on TV.
I don't have Paramount Plus anymore so will have to wait to confirm your hype.
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@Nepia said in TV Serieseseses:
@Tim said in TV Serieseseses:
Most TV shows are complete shit. David Chase has stated that they are now written so that people can still follow them if they are using their phone throughout.
Tokyo Vice season two is very good. Best thing on TV by a mile. Looks great too. Night time shots are very nice.
Are you part of the marketing team for this show? As this is the second time in a couple of weeks you've posted this. Season 1 was ok, but it must have made huge improvements in S2 for it to be the best thing on TV.
I don't have Paramount Plus anymore so will have to wait to confirm your hype.
Are you forgetting @Tim 's nightly drunken "This is the best thing EVER!" posts during Season 1?
I started S1 - but never finished. It did look good, but to be honest - I'm usually doing something else in parallel when watching TV. So - I'm part of the problem as Tim describes it - the target audience who is happy with simple stuff for half-attention.
For certain shows - where the visuals, subtitles, and/or storyline demand full attention - I'll try to focus properly - but at the time I'd started trying Tokyo-Vice - I just didn't have the time to give that full attention.
I'll give it another go at some point -
Started watching Gangs of London S2 last night...
... I'd forgotten how little fucks they give.
If you haven't seen it - be prepared for very little fucks given, particularly when it comes to niceties. I don't know how accurate the portrayals are of motherfuckas getting choked out, or hitting the ground off a high-rise building, or being stabbed by a carving fork in the face, or being shot in the chest by a shotgun, or being smashed in the head by a sledgehammer, or being shot point-blank in the head by a boring old pistol, or any of the other shit that has already gone done in first couple of episodes... but I've decided that this show is about as close to the real thing as I'm willing to experience. -
@Tim said in TV Serieseseses:
Most TV shows are complete shit. David Chase has stated that they are now written so that people can still follow them if they are using their phone throughout.
Googled his comments and interesting - not sure on the attention span bit though. Couple of thoughts:
A lot of modern TV series are actually quite hard to follow - even sans phone - and require a lot of focus. We're watching True Detective and finding ourselves re-winding to catch the nuance and layers (I wonder if the writers understand the technology of the media better than we realise ...) In contrast, Endeavour, which is the best TV series I've seen in 10-15 years, is much easier to follow.
Think streaming could be the biggest change with a one-size-fits-all revenue model. The days when the likes of Steve Bochco could produce a Hill Street Blues, target a specific audience and charge a premium for advertising are sadly gone.
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The Lazarus Project
Pretty decent series (2) about a secret team who have developed a time machine of sorts that is able to 'reset time' back to a 'checkpoint' if required (to avoid world war, mass extinction event etc)
Last few eps of S2 did start to get very confusing with multiple timelines going on, I think I understand how it ended
Also just started Constellation, with Noomi Rapace, is another sci fi with Rapace the main character who against all odds, makes it back from ISS, only to find she is losing parts of her life.
