BEST TV Shows to watch... CURRENTLY...
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I thought the last season was pretty cheesy but I like the creator (Rob Thomas, same guy who did Veronica Mars and Party Down) so I kept watching to the end.I will neither confirm nor deny that I’ve seen all of iZombie and enjoyed it.
But yeah, if you want an adult comedy superhero show then both Doom Patrol and Peacemaker are very good. If you want a traditional superhero show, Stargirl and Black Lightning both ended up being way better than they had any right to be. Better than the best seasons of Arrow or Flash, but sustained for an entire 3-4 season run.
I'm worried the final season of Superman and Lois will suck because they drastically cut the budget, cast, and episode count but they did an admirable job with the first three seasons.
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Veronica Mars remains his best work in my opinion. Except the Hulu revival mini season, fuck that noise.
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Huh, I had no idea iZombie, Veronica Mars and Party Down were all by the same guy. I have enjoyed them all to different degrees.
One of the Vertigo shows I kind of enjoyed that never gets mentioned is Swamp Thing. It wasn't great but it wasn't an embarrassment like I thought it would be. I don't know how well it would have handled some of the crazier parts from the comic but of the few episodes I saw it at least did an alright job of establishing the world and characters. It was still pretty cheap and a little cheesy but not to the degree of a lot of the CW junk is.
One of the Vertigo shows I kind of enjoyed that never gets mentioned is Swamp Thing. It wasn't great but it wasn't an embarrassment like I thought it would be. I don't know how well it would have handled some of the crazier parts from the comic but of the few episodes I saw it at least did an alright job of establishing the world and characters. It was still pretty cheap and a little cheesy but not to the degree of a lot of the CW junk is.
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Swamp Thing was okay but it was doomed from the start. Apparently they were supposed to get a gigantic tax credit for filming it where they did, but fucked up the paperwork and it didn't come through and the show ended up being like twice as expensive as WB expected. So they had to change the show on the fly to be much cheaper and shortened it from 13 to 10 episodes and canceled it right after the premier. No doubt if we'd gotten the full 13 episode season with the full budget it would've been a much stronger show.
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They murdered the Umbrella Academy series with season 4
It's over now with a half baked horrible ending but at least they got some sort of closure I guess which is more than can be said for most shows these days.
Season one was was fairly epic with every season getting progressively worse IMO
Season three making little sense and being highly forgettable.
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Yellowstone
Show is a current cultural icon so I felt I had to watch it.
Another in a long list of recent shows focusing on the power dynamic. Say Game Of Thrones, Vikings, Power, Sucession, House of Usher, Sons of Anarchy and more. I haven't watched many of these shows but the basic premise all appear to be the same.
Strongly dislike almost all the characters especially the daughter Beth, many are poorly written for and I feel the series leans heavily into tropes and stereotypes. Has an addictive soap opera feel that really you're just waiting for everybody to get their comeuppance.
Has flashback scenes with a different actor portraying Kevin Costner that I find silly because it seems to me he mostly appears the same since the mid to late eighties let alone 15-20 years ago.
It's crazy this show has or will have somewhere around 5 spinoffs.
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It's over now with a half baked horrible ending but at least they got some sort of closure I guess which is more than can be said for most shows these days.
Season one was was fairly epic with every season getting progressively worse IMO
Season three making little sense and being highly forgettable.
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Yellowstone
Show is a current cultural icon so I felt I had to watch it.
Another in a long list of recent shows focusing on the power dynamic. Say Game Of Thrones, Vikings, Power, Sucession, House of Usher, Sons of Anarchy and more. I haven't watched many of these shows but the basic premise all appear to be the same.
Strongly dislike almost all the characters especially the daughter Beth, many are poorly written for and I feel the series leans heavily into tropes and stereotypes. Has an addictive soap opera feel that really you're just waiting for everybody to get their comeuppance.
Has flashback scenes with a different actor portraying Kevin Costner that I find silly because it seems to me he mostly appears the same since the mid to late eighties let alone 15-20 years ago.
It's crazy this show has or will have somewhere around 5 spinoffs.
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Nah he’s right on Yellowstone.
It’s slow, overly dramatic, and everyone (mostly) is a terrible person, and most should be locked up in prison. And they really aren’t the “love to hate” types. Season 1 and 2 should be a single season and same with the subsequent two seasons.
I guess it’s entertaining I just don’t really get these type of shows.
I’m not sure who said it (Terry, 100proof?) but I’ll repeat it: the actress who plays Beth is filthy hot. Stupid attractive.
The shows, to me, felt like they had no idea where the story was going to go. And @Xavier they’re never going to finish this one so you mostly wasted your time, I guess.
I hear the one and done spin-offs are decent to good.
It’s slow, overly dramatic, and everyone (mostly) is a terrible person, and most should be locked up in prison. And they really aren’t the “love to hate” types. Season 1 and 2 should be a single season and same with the subsequent two seasons.
I guess it’s entertaining I just don’t really get these type of shows.
I’m not sure who said it (Terry, 100proof?) but I’ll repeat it: the actress who plays Beth is filthy hot. Stupid attractive.
The shows, to me, felt like they had no idea where the story was going to go. And @Xavier they’re never going to finish this one so you mostly wasted your time, I guess.
I hear the one and done spin-offs are decent to good.
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Haha yeah that might have been me. Not only is she hot as fuck but her character being such a nasty bitch makes her even hotter. Filthy hot is very accurate.
But yeah the show sucks, it started off strong but everything is drawn out and none of the main cast is even remotely likable. The big problem with the show is the same one that most of these family dynasty/corruption porn shows have and that's that the stakes are constantly being raised without any resolution or feeling of closure along the way. They just keep upping the ante and shit gets more and more ridiculous with no good way to wrap anything up in a satisfactory manner. Ozark is a prime example. But that was at least interesting enough to keep me watching till the end, I bailed after the second of Yellowstone and even that was being generous.
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She’s hard gay for Beth.
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I'll have to ask her about it.
We watched the first episode of that new Roman show on Peacock or Hulu (I don't remember which). The one with charioteering.
The first episode seemed extremely messy in terms of pacing. They tried to introduce too much in the premiere. I enjoyed it but I'm not sure what I was watching.
I also started watching Vikings: Valhalla Season 3 on Netflix. Bittersweet because my wife and I were watching it on premiere. I still enjoy the show very much and I like to imagine that she's watching it with me, in a sense.
We watched the first episode of that new Roman show on Peacock or Hulu (I don't remember which). The one with charioteering.
The first episode seemed extremely messy in terms of pacing. They tried to introduce too much in the premiere. I enjoyed it but I'm not sure what I was watching.
I also started watching Vikings: Valhalla Season 3 on Netflix. Bittersweet because my wife and I were watching it on premiere. I still enjoy the show very much and I like to imagine that she's watching it with me, in a sense.
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For me, the next show I anticipate watching is A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (a year away, unfortunately). It's a much smaller scale than either Game of Thrones or House of the Dragon. The principle character DOES get embroiled in politics to some degree but he isn't kingmaking, fighting in any rebellions or altering the course of geopolitical power in a major way. He's not rallying banners to fight in full scale war or negotiating alliances or anything.
Ser Duncan the Tall is just a wandering hedge knight, looking for work, trying to make a name for himself and getting caught up in the internecine struggles of others. Don't get me wrong: major political shifts DO happen because of his actions and his stewardship of his squire 'Egg', but he's not ambitious or seeking power and glory. He is my second favorite character in all of Martin's Westeros related works, naturally behind Jon Snow. He is uncommonly honorable for that world, and is always unsure of his ability to overcome the challenge. A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms anthology may be my actual favorite collection of stories from that world as well. And the stories lend themselves PERFECTLY to single seasons apiece. I feel that these stories are a better way to worldbuild than Martin's various bloated histories of Westeros (A World of Ice and Fire and Fire and Blood, respectively).
The first story, The Hedge Knight, shares more in common with A Knight's Tale than it does A Song of Ice and Fire, if I'm being truthful. It has shitty royals that he has to deal with (what feudal story doesn't?) but all of the character conflict is framed in the confines of a tournament. It's good shit, and I want that fat fuck Martin to write more Dunk and Egg. AFTER he finishes ASoIaF, of course.
Ser Duncan the Tall is just a wandering hedge knight, looking for work, trying to make a name for himself and getting caught up in the internecine struggles of others. Don't get me wrong: major political shifts DO happen because of his actions and his stewardship of his squire 'Egg', but he's not ambitious or seeking power and glory. He is my second favorite character in all of Martin's Westeros related works, naturally behind Jon Snow. He is uncommonly honorable for that world, and is always unsure of his ability to overcome the challenge. A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms anthology may be my actual favorite collection of stories from that world as well. And the stories lend themselves PERFECTLY to single seasons apiece. I feel that these stories are a better way to worldbuild than Martin's various bloated histories of Westeros (A World of Ice and Fire and Fire and Blood, respectively).
The first story, The Hedge Knight, shares more in common with A Knight's Tale than it does A Song of Ice and Fire, if I'm being truthful. It has shitty royals that he has to deal with (what feudal story doesn't?) but all of the character conflict is framed in the confines of a tournament. It's good shit, and I want that fat fuck Martin to write more Dunk and Egg. AFTER he finishes ASoIaF, of course.
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It would be a nice thought, on your death bed, that you knew you were going to have one last story to tell once you died.
I might prepare a series of time delayed dad joke posts for here.
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No, I don't think that's what's up.
I would be more likely to believe he's writing both books than that he's actually finished them. I don't think he'd announce the completion of A Dream of Spring because people might bypass The WInds of Winter as an intermediary novel that doesn't tell the end of the story. There are, no doubt, PLENTY of people that would buy and read it. But knowing that the last book is coming soon afterwards, it definitely represents a risk of lost sales.
But honestly, that's just wishful thinking. He's probably just too busy counting money and being afraid that people will hate the book version of the ending as much as they hate the TV show ending. He's admitted to being emotionally crippled by anxiety over finishing the story. But probably as emotionally crippled as he is by the mediocrity of the New York football Giants and the New York Jets.
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direct ancestor of The Wire. Great show for its time.
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Sucks, but at the end of the day, it doesn't affect the show to the same level as a Wonder Years or something.
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There's a 6 part doc-drama on Wyatt Earp narrated by Ed Harris on Netflix. Watched the first 2 episodes this evening and it's pretty good. Really high production values and shockingly good casting, really goes into detail on everyone and all the events that surrounded the shootout at the OK Corral and everything that followed it. The scope is way larger than I was expecting or knew about.
If you're into that stuff or even just a fan of Tombstone it's worth checking out. Although the music and sound effects are really distracting at times.
If you're into that stuff or even just a fan of Tombstone it's worth checking out. Although the music and sound effects are really distracting at times.