[Tsundoku]

Yes.

[Slow Ben]

LFG!!!!!!

[Slow Ben]

Night Agent season 2. More of the same cheesy popcorn spy stuff. Easy to watch.


Started White Lotus season 3. Really enjoyed Season 2, plus Walt Goggins. Lets go.



Finishing up The Pacific, then im going to start diggin in to Ken Burns Documentaries. Started with the two my local library had in stock. The Civil War and The Vietnam War.

Apparently ive hit a new middle aged area where i fucking love historical documentaries.

[HoosierDaddy]

Severance Season 2 picks up where 1 left off. It's so good. So strange but so good.

[Abyss]

Slow Ben, on 25 February 2025 - 09:51 PM, said:

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Started White Lotus season 3. Really enjoyed Season 2, plus Walt Goggins. Lets go....

Watching this, enjoying but it feels as tho they're spending too much time setting up the characters and not enough moving them fwd. Most of what we needed to know we got in the first ep.
Still fun tho, and the narrative trick of showing the end point at the beginning to leave us wondering how we get there is well used here.

[Slow Ben]

HoosierDaddy, on 26 February 2025 - 07:37 PM, said:

Severance Season 2 picks up where 1 left off. It's so good. So strange but so good.

Hells yes, that’s next on my list.

[QuickTidal]

FRASIER reboot/sequel on Paramount+ Season 1 was good, but stuggled a little bit to be it's own thing or nail what made FRASIER so good, but Season 2 they've figured it out and every episode is great and hilarious. Well worth the watch.

[Abyss]

Abyss, on 21 February 2025 - 04:42 PM, said:

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The sequel series CITADEL: DIANA, goes for a more complex plot, to mixed results so far 4 eps in. Fun, drags at times, tries a little too hard to be clever and doesn't pull it off but the action is well done and the cast try really hard to sell it and mostly succeed.

Semi sticks the landing. Tries a little too hard to give the main characters emotional story beats at the expense of the wider cast and plot, but was mostly entertaining most of the time. It does build rather cleverly on events in CITADEL without directly tying in, even if some of it feels gratuitous. I suspect we'll watch the next one, CITADEL: HUNNY BUNNY eventually, if only because after linked American and Italian series I cannot not try the Indian take.

Next up, REACHER S3 and/or YELLOWSTONE 1923 S2. Both are rolling out weekly so with WHITE LOTUS S3 we find ourselves watching weekly eps vs marathoning.... i'm not loving it to be honest.

Finally watched all of S1 ep1 of ARCANE, very enjoyed, feels like i need to watch a few eps at a sitting and get into it. Ladybyss isn't a cartoon fan so i'll have to make some time for it.

[QuickTidal]

Abyss, on 27 February 2025 - 02:56 PM, said:

Finally watched all of S1 ep1 of ARCANE, very enjoyed, feels like i need to watch a few eps at a sitting and get into it. Ladybyss isn't a cartoon fan so i'll have to make some time for it.

The deliberate 3ep story arcs make it work well in 2.5 hour chunks. So that's probably the best bet, especially in S2.

[QuickTidal]

POKEMON HORIZONS the Series is finally on Netflix! Woot Woot!

[QuickTidal]

Re-watching BLADE RUNNER: BLACK LOTUS....and again aside from some hinky moments of animation, it's really enjoyable and gets me amped for BR2099. Elle is a great character exploring who she is and where she belongs.

[polishgenius]

Adolescence, the new four-part miniseries on Netflix, is absolutely incredible, vital telivision. It's not an easy watch at all - about the murder of a 13 year old girl by a classmate- but it's a masterpiece on every level- writing, acting, and the technical side. Each episode is an unbroken oner (and they're all true oners at that, no hidden cuts), and each one uses that for a different purpose that supports the story.

Episode 3, particularly, is one of the best episodes of anything I've ever seen.

[Slow Ben]

The Righteous Gemstones is fuhreaking hilarious. I love this show.

[Abyss]

BOSCH: LEGACY S3 just dropped 4 eps?!!??! As far as i can tell, w zero promotion? And it's being subtitled 'The Final Season'???????


*googles* .... huh... looks like the deal for four seasons got cut back, but seems like they went all in on S3, so no quality drop but Amazon isn't spending on marketing. Nice.

[QuickTidal]

MURDERBOT fans....here we go!

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

About to finish day three of my Easter fast, I decided to look for series on Hulu to binge to distract me... Andor is leaving Hulu Wednesday, so I thought oh, Star Wars, that might not be very good, but at least it ought to be relatively fast-paced and distracting.

Whoops.

Got through episode one. There was one good and absorbing scene---the long speech by the old police boss guy or whatever---and the acting and cinematography are okay, but the vast majority of the dialogue is insipid. It also doesn't help that the SFX and the fight choreography (what little there is of that) are distractingly bad.

Wonder if it's actually good good or if it's only critically acclaimed because it deals with themes and "complexities" outside the stereotypical purview of Star Wars series.

At any rate I doubt it will be very distracting. Bleh. Oh agonizing slog... the boredom is so much worse than the hunger pains... At least those are enlivening!

[Tsundoku]

At the risk of sounding cliched ... it gets better.

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

Tsundoku, on 18 April 2025 - 10:06 PM, said:

At the risk of sounding cliched ... it gets better.

So it starts getting good after what... 8 hours?

(Counting commercials, that is... five and a half hours in and while the dialogue has added some ok soundbites for the most part it's still extremely dull and uninteresting, as well as simplistic, superficial, and cliched....)

[Tsundoku]

Azath Vitr (D, on 19 April 2025 - 12:21 AM, said:

Tsundoku, on 18 April 2025 - 10:06 PM, said:

At the risk of sounding cliched ... it gets better.

So it starts getting good after what... 8 hours?

(Counting commercials, that is... five and a half hours in and while the dialogue has added some ok soundbites for the most part it's still extremely dull and uninteresting, as well as simplistic, superficial, and cliched....)

Ep 3 is when it picked up for me.

If you watch all of Andor season 1 and don't like it, then I would suggest you don't go any further because that's as good as it gets with Disney SW.
Well, so far anyway.

[Slow Ben]

Azath Vitr (D, on 19 April 2025 - 12:21 AM, said:

Tsundoku, on 18 April 2025 - 10:06 PM, said:

At the risk of sounding cliched ... it gets better.

So it starts getting good after what... 8 hours?

(Counting commercials, that is... five and a half hours in and while the dialogue has added some ok soundbites for the most part it's still extremely dull and uninteresting, as well as simplistic, superficial, and cliched....)

You’re literally the only person I’ve ever heard say they don’t like Andor.