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Rate the last TV show you've seen
Plugabugz:
--- Quote from: BlackNMild2k1 on April 29, 2020, 10:04:53 AM ---I heard about this but never even seen a trailer. So I don't really know more than it either exist or is in the works. I'll probably look it up later now that you reminded me.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CJ5p4XisHs
It's a Cinemax co-production with Sky so it will appear on US TV soon enough.
Plugabugz:
--- Quote from: Plugabugz on April 29, 2020, 09:32:08 AM ---Gangs of London - The director behind The Raid 1 and 2 made a TV series. That should be all i need to say to get BNM to watch it. It's incredibly brutal.
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So i binged the whole season. The show definitely didnt go as brutal as the first episode, but it was an interesting story with multiple different plots that often only brushed against each other.
I had one issue with the final episode and a single point which the entire series hinges on Shaun works out that Elliot is a cop because the other undercover cop had zero security locks on his phone containing all the photos and evidence but aside from that it was quite a ride. The actor who plays Ed Dumani was fantastic, he had such stage presence about him (compared to other people who was just merely acting; this will make sense in the show) while coming off as calm and collected even while everyone else is going nuts.
However, this show gets an 18 rating in the UK (the equivalent of a USA R rating?), and is equally graphic to match.
broodwars:
Been taking a break from gaming of late to try to catch up on something from my backlog: FarScape.
Several years ago, I started watching this series and got as far as, apparently, nearly the end of the 3rd season. However, for reasons I couldn't remember until recently, I stopped watching it. I couldn't remember what was going on in the show or who the characters were (a great sign of the quality of the show in general, I know), so I decided to start over.
I'm once again towards the end of the 3rd season and have almost caught up to the last thing I remember happening (the death of Talon). Overall, the show is still incredibly hit or miss, though the 3rd season is easily the most consistent. In general, though, the characters are fairly forgettable and interchangeable, and the standalone episodes fail more often than they succeed compared to the "storyline episodes." Go ahead, name a character trait of Chianna that doesn't involve her sexual promiscuity. I dare you. She's not "the thief", because she's downright bad at it and rarely attempts it. ALL of her plot threads involve characters she's screwed, metaphorically and often literally. Really, it's like that with all the characters, with only Chricton, Aeryn, and Scorpius standing out as more than 1 dimensional.
But oh boy, do I remember now why I stopped watching this show: a combination of pointless melodrama and the introduction of the worst character in the show: Jool. What...just what...were they thinking? Her whole THING is being Willie Scott from Temple of Doom, only she breaks out into ear-bleedingly shrill shrieks that literally cause metal to melt. On the subject of melodrama, I don't know why the show expects me to have ANY emotional investment in the death of Clone Chrichton when there is LITERALLY a BACKUP Chrichton back on Moya that we've been following as well.
The show is also next to impossible to watch without subtitles because even these BluRays have some of the worst audio mixing I've ever heard in a professionally-produced TV show. Characters constantly mutter their lines under their breath inbetween INCREDIBLY LOUD special effects and miscellaneous noises/music stings.
I'll give FarScape this: the show is so fantastically cheap that you could have probably filmed an entire season of Farscape on the budget for your typical Star Trek: TNG episode. To make up for this, this show is not the least bit afraid to get really, really, REALLY WEIRD and utterly goofy. It doesn't always work, but at least combined with the fantastic work of the Jim Henson company on the puppet characters it does give the show an identity.
Looking forward to finally getting to Season 4 and Peacekeeper Wars.
ThePerm:
Upload - Worth a watch. It's like San Junipero the TV show
Hollywood - I enjoyed season one, It starts off pretty interesting. It sort of devolves into fantasy history though. The last episodes might be too upbeat. But that might be the point. Being a better version of history.
For All Mankind - another show with revision history plot, but I think this one was better/more interesting.
BlackNMild2k1:
I liked Upload, up until right near the end.
I'm in for S2, but I just don't like some elements towards the end of the season finale there.
Robbie Amell did a good job, and Andy Allo was gorgeous, both extremely likable.
I kept seeing comparisons to The Good Place, but it's far from being anything remotely like The Good Place outside of the general theme of "Heaven" and "Afterlife".