[Macros]

How are the morons only realising now that its taking the absolute piss out of them.
Like a few eps into season 3 of the Boys, it's clearly making complete fun of tucker and Co, and all their complete bulkshittery, with homelander the ultimate scum bag

[HoosierDaddy]

 Tiste Simeon, on 08 July 2024 - 08:00 AM, said:

 Slow Ben, on 07 July 2024 - 09:14 PM, said:

Dark Matter on AppleTV is really damn good.


I loved the book, so I went into it skeptical, but they did a great job. All the changes they made for the show were either for the better or didn't affect the quality.

They also left it open to a season 2. Which could be cool, as long as they leave the Jason, Daniela, Charlie from the book/season 1 alone. But the my fleshed out multiple side characters and other versions of Jason enough that a season 2 could work.

Ah that's great to hear! I don't have Apple TV but I'm considering it for this show and a couple of others...

If you haven't watched Severance yet... make that the first thing you watch on Apple TV.

[Lady Bliss]

Has anyone actually watched interview with the vampire series? The reviews are good and I loved the books when I was a teen girl, but worrying that it is just a chick flick that will tarnish my high school memories.

[Tsundoku]

Yes please!

[Tsundoku]

 Tsundoku, on 06 August 2024 - 10:13 AM, said:

Yes please!

So I binged this today. An interesting reimagination of some of the mythology literally "up-dated".

By and large, I liked it. I thought the direction, acting (mostly), the characterisation and plotting were pretty good. Jeff Goldblum Jeff Goldblum'd really well and had a few moments where you were reminded that no matter how almost human and like a 6 year old having a tantrum he can seem, Zeus can still be a scary fucker when he wants to.
It says something in and of itself that I was able to binge the whole 8 x 45 min episodes straight pretty much without a break. It was very engaging.
Some online comments have been that it's a bit too slow at places but I did not find that to be the case. It may be that I have always had a fascination with Greek mythology but I think it was more than that.

A couple of quibbles:
They miss out on a lot of the other big hitters in the pantheon, but explaining it away as noone taking or returning Dad's call was quite droll. I guess they already had a pretty stuffed cast and everyone needed time to shine. Probably to be seen in a second season.
While the setup of the "plot" was well-beforehand and 99% off-screen, some of it seemed a little too pat. I know I know, with who was involved you can explain it away quite literally as deus ex machina but ...
There's a not-so-subtle second layer of messaging here and while I was able to switch off my irritation mostly while enjoying the story, it did tend to beat you over the head after about episode 3-4.

All-in-all definitely binge-worthy as previously stated, and I hope it gets a second season. Eight promiscuous and flawed deities out of ten.

[Macros]

Only Murders in the Building

Just started season 3, we're really enjoying this show

Very self aware in its delivery of gently mocking itself.

And dropping in Meryl Strep as an actress never quite good enough to land a major role is just so deliciously self indulgent jiggery pokery

[amphibian]

 Lady Bliss, on 30 July 2024 - 02:18 PM, said:

Has anyone actually watched interview with the vampire series? The reviews are good and I loved the books when I was a teen girl, but worrying that it is just a chick flick that will tarnish my high school memories.

Shockingly good. I think you'll enjoy it.

[Tiste Simeon]

 Macros, on 01 September 2024 - 09:17 PM, said:

Only Murders in the Building

Just started season 3, we're really enjoying this show

Very self aware in its delivery of gently mocking itself.

And dropping in Meryl Strep as an actress never quite good enough to land a major role is just so deliciously self indulgent jiggery pokery

One of my favourite shows recently, haven't started the latest series yet but it was hugely enjoyable!

[Macros]

Ah the Boys is superb, just hitting the jokes out of the park

I mean depressingly the jokes are based on a really fucked up reality we live in (thank you musk, Zuckerberg and Murdock, now there's a fucking Axis of evil if ever there was) but man some of the bombs are awesome

[Aptorian]

 Tsundoku, on 31 August 2024 - 01:23 PM, said:

 Tsundoku, on 06 August 2024 - 10:13 AM, said:

Yes please!

So I binged this today. An interesting reimagination of some of the mythology literally "up-dated".

By and large, I liked it. I thought the direction, acting (mostly), the characterisation and plotting were pretty good. Jeff Goldblum Jeff Goldblum'd really well and had a few moments where you were reminded that no matter how almost human and like a 6 year old having a tantrum he can seem, Zeus can still be a scary fucker when he wants to.
It says something in and of itself that I was able to binge the whole 8 x 45 min episodes straight pretty much without a break. It was very engaging.
Some online comments have been that it's a bit too slow at places but I did not find that to be the case. It may be that I have always had a fascination with Greek mythology but I think it was more than that.

A couple of quibbles:
They miss out on a lot of the other big hitters in the pantheon, but explaining it away as noone taking or returning Dad's call was quite droll. I guess they already had a pretty stuffed cast and everyone needed time to shine. Probably to be seen in a second season.
While the setup of the "plot" was well-beforehand and 99% off-screen, some of it seemed a little too pat. I know I know, with who was involved you can explain it away quite literally as deus ex machina but ...
There's a not-so-subtle second layer of messaging here and while I was able to switch off my irritation mostly while enjoying the story, it did tend to beat you over the head after about episode 3-4.

All-in-all definitely binge-worthy as previously stated, and I hope it gets a second season. Eight promiscuous and flawed deities out of ten.

Binge watched it last weekend as well. Very enjoyable and keeps you hooked for each subsequent episode.

It sort of reminded me of Bas Lurmans take on Romeo and Juliet, doing a modern setting with President Minos as a dictator of Greek city state was a fun idea. Perhaps not as packed with creative reinterpretations as I'd had liked.

The ending definitely has you wanting for the second season.

As for Jeff Goldblum, like everything he does, you can't help but be charmed or enthralled but at the same time he's sort of become a caricature of himself. His portrait of Zeus is more like a spoiled manchild than that of a warrior god.

[Tsundoku]

 Aptorian, on 08 September 2024 - 08:56 AM, said:

His portrait of Zeus is more like a spoiled manchild than that of a warrior god.

To be fair, he did as directed. And Zeus definitely comes across as both in the myths.
The Greek gods behaved more liked spoiled very human brats on steroids than people who treated their roles and status with the dignity it deserved at all times. Power corrupts and all that.
By sheer coincidence I'm reading Miles Cameron's Against All Gods atm and his versions of the gods definitely come across like that. Human life means less than diddly squat to them.

[Aptorian]

Sure. But I'm generally annoyed with gods shown in movies or films. Unless they're outright disguising themselves, like a Loke og Odin in a bird costume, they should have a presence and power about them that sets them a part from mere mortals. Be that in the performance of the actor or via special effects. Gods should be godlike damnit!

[amphibian]

I finally finished Farscape after about a year or so of getting through episodes and the TV movie.

I now understand why this show limped through the seasons rather than being a truly great sci Fi show. There's too many lost in the dream world episodes, frequent skips of character motivations, a laziness in giving all the characters extreme combat skills relative to the bad guys, and occasionally a tendency for the story to just do crazy stuff for the hell of it (looking at the Jothee/Chiana and the video game storylines specifically).

The casting is also incredibly non diverse over the series, whether it's the main cast or the supporting roles or the background actors. It's genuinely bizarre - even 20 years ago - and damages enjoyment of the show now and likely then.

That being said, there are some truly great characters, some wild and good storylines, and a memorable show on the whole.

Mixed bag, wish it was better than it was.

[Mezla PigDog]

I watched 3 Body Problem on Netflix. It was good. Benedict Wong is excellent in it. Looking forward to season 2 but I'll never remember the plot when it comes around. Well, apart from the big plot feature that is.

My only gripes are that you can't scale up production of a novel material that fast and the friendship group is too cool given they are physicists.

[Abyss]

amphibian, on 08 September 2024 - 02:14 PM, said:

I finally finished Farscape after about a year or so of getting through episodes and the TV movie....

...Mixed bag, wish it was better than it was.

You capture my entire feeling about that show in that last sentence. It was such a '60% of the time it works very time' experience.

[Mezla PigDog]

I am halfway through The Perfect Couple on Netflix. Dysfunctional family trigger warning.

Highlighting the relentlessness of modern day TV watching, I had to start a list of all the stuff I want to watch on the platforms I have access too so as to have any hope of seeing any of them.