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I've mentioned this before, but dude read the comics. The show is surprisingly faithful to the comics. It's a great read.
BEST TV Shows to watch... CURRENTLY...
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King of the Hill has been renewed for seasons 16 and 17.
Season 14 is the one that just aired and season 15 has already been completed and will air in 2026, so the show will be around for years to come.
Season 14 is the one that just aired and season 15 has already been completed and will air in 2026, so the show will be around for years to come.
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Don’t really care for IT all that much but I watched the first episode of Welcome to Derry. It was better than I was expecting, pretty crazy opening. Seems in line with the 2017 movie quality wise but quite a bit more R rated. We’ll see where it goes I guess. Could be decent.
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Already went through and finished it, but the missus and I watched Mr. Robot. I knew about this show for a while but only just got around to going through it.
It was pretty engaging right off the bat. Its weird but I was disappointed in the end, in a way - but I also was really happy it didn't end how I expected at the same time. The show started as a hacker type drama/mystery. Then moved on to psychological/thriller to almost sci-fi but ended differently. I dunno, hard to explain but a good ending.
Cool show. Rami Malek is one weird lookin' dude - almost looks like he didn't even need prosthetic teeth to play Freddie.
It was pretty engaging right off the bat. Its weird but I was disappointed in the end, in a way - but I also was really happy it didn't end how I expected at the same time. The show started as a hacker type drama/mystery. Then moved on to psychological/thriller to almost sci-fi but ended differently. I dunno, hard to explain but a good ending.
Cool show. Rami Malek is one weird lookin' dude - almost looks like he didn't even need prosthetic teeth to play Freddie.
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Agreed. I didn't have high expectations going in but the opening sequence was very good and then the kind of vague concept kept me going to the end. I don't think it's going to live up to either movie but I'm mildly intrigued.
The Chair Company is going to end up being amazing or terrible. Leaning toward the latter right now but if anyone can right a ship might as well be Tim Robinson.
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Any y'all assbutts check out Pluribus? First two episodes are out. From Vince Gilligan, the guy who did Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, and many of the good episodes of The X-Files.
Pretty interesting so far. Figures that there's only 5 other people left that speak English and they're all assholes.
Pretty interesting so far. Figures that there's only 5 other people left that speak English and they're all assholes.
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Currently watching Shorsey on Hulu. Fucking hilarious.Tried watching Letterkenny, but couldn't get into it, so I went back to Shorsey. I'm assuming Letterkenny gets better, since there are 12 seasons....
I never finished LK, never seen shorsey but Im aware of it being a spinoff, but I remember liking LK prob into season 3 or 4? Not sure. The priest was probably the funniest character to me. I should prob go back and check it out again.
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I'm 2 seasons into Shorsey. I liked the first better than the second. I'd be cool if they just made a talk show with that dude. Leave the story out. I just want to hear his conversations.
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First show that finally made me pull the trigger on Apple.
Loving it so far. Seehorn is so good, great premise, uncensored Gilligan is a nice touch. Killed those first two episodes pretty right away and then switched over to All Her Fault of all things but man, Apple and Peacock are killing it right now. Making me less interested than ever in trying to like Welcome to Derry.
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So I watched the fourth season of The Witcher over the course of the past week with the roomie.
It's....fine. It's...okay. Makes a lot of mistakes just as a TV show in general, not just an adaptation of the novels (at which it's terrible).
Liam Hemsworth isn't the worst thing about the season. He's serviceable as a replacement but he can never fill Henry Cavill's shoes. Cavill seemed almost possessed by the spirit of Geralt of Rivia. Cavill was the beating heart of the show. Hemsworth is a transplant-keeps it going but at about half speed. Not that the series was a must watch with Cavill but you always knew he would bring it with every scene he was in and he would fight to preserve the character as he believed it should be played. Which was the correct way.
The biggest problem with the season is the obvious contempt the writers have for the source material and they write it as though 'they can fix it', a problematic attitude that manifests itself far too often in these paltry adaptations. Even if someone hasn't read the books, anyone with even a mildly discerning eye can tell there is an agenda at play here, especially as it concerns the Lodge of Sorceresses. In the source material, they are complex women, fallible, each with their own individual ambitions that often come into conflict with one another. In the books and games, they decide to continue manipulating the rulers of the Continent by advising them, each with their own goals and desires, with a shared endpoint of controlling the entire land for their own aims. But their individual pursuits continue to come into conflict with one another and this causes many rifts and schisms between them but it also makes for some fantastic character driven drama. In the TV show, they're the Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants and lovingly share a common goal. It's such a loss for these characters to be stripped down to the gaslighting of current year feminist tropes. Again, even if you haven't read the books, the circle jerk is on full display.
Meanwhile, other characters have their arcs introduced and resolved in a single episode. Zoltan (who isn't even in the books during these parts of the story) and Yarpen have a long standing beef that is detailed and quashed in a five minute span. It feels like a table scrap thrown to the floor for the fans to eat after the writers have had their way with the material. It's contemptuous. Perceval has no actual reason to even be here at all in the TV version. Look. I'm just gonna say it. Real life dwarves have no business being cast in combat roles in shows like this. They can barely move as it is and it's not even remotely convincing. The guy that plays Yarpen is a small human being unafflicted by dwarfism so he can move around and look convincing when he fights. But when they cast real life people with dwarfism and I'm supposed to somehow believe they're all the same race, I just can't bridge that gap. Lord of the Rings figured out how to do this a quarter of a century ago. Surely those cinematic techniques are only easier to replicate today?
I will give the fight choreography high marks. The fighting in this show, when it isn't stunted human beings wobbling around, is quite impressive and a lot of fun to watch. It is quick, brutal, bloody and visceral. Swords flash, people die, blood spills. It's great, even if the effects for the blood, stabbing and monsters are sometimes painfully mediocre. All the same, the flashy fighting is a blast, and it's a pretty action heavy season. The fight with the ogre on the bridge swinging that triple bladed axe-anchor thing (a malicious and clever device), for all of its visual shortcomings, is still effective even if you have to meet it halfway in your mind.
If there are two bright spots in this season, they are Laurence Fishburne as Regis and Sharlto Copley as Leo Bonhart. When I first saw Fishburne was cast as Regis, I was like 'Netflix gonna Netflix' but in the following months I came to appreciate the decision more and boy, am I glad I did because Fishburne is amazing in the role. Or maybe he's just 'very good' when surrounded by mediocrity. But his Regis is excellent-the man can flat out act and I can't imagine anyone doing a better job at it than him.
Sharlto Copley, however, is fucking INCREDIBLE as Bonhart. This character is an irredeemable bastard but cheese and crackers is he living it up. This man is the most evil fuck I've seen on TV since Ramsey Snow and he enjoys it so much that you can't help but get swept up in it yourself. I found myself waiting for him to say the next brutal jape or inflict the next delightful cruelty on his victim, my popcorn ready. There's a scene where he sees two kids playing with a doll, he walks up to them, asks them who the doll is and when they say the name of the girl he's hunting, he takes it, looks at it curiously, slips it into his belt and walks away from them. He then inflicts voodoo like cruelties on it because he simply can't wait to torture Ciri once he has his hands on her. That's a fucking character, so over the top and loving it that you can't help but find it thoroughly entertaining. I would watch an entire series about this guy. Terrifying charisma.
I lament that we will never see Cavill, as Geralt, interact with Fishburne's Regis or Copley's Bonhart. Those would have been some magnetic scenes.
2.5 out of 5. It had its moments and then it had its 'moments'.
It's....fine. It's...okay. Makes a lot of mistakes just as a TV show in general, not just an adaptation of the novels (at which it's terrible).
Liam Hemsworth isn't the worst thing about the season. He's serviceable as a replacement but he can never fill Henry Cavill's shoes. Cavill seemed almost possessed by the spirit of Geralt of Rivia. Cavill was the beating heart of the show. Hemsworth is a transplant-keeps it going but at about half speed. Not that the series was a must watch with Cavill but you always knew he would bring it with every scene he was in and he would fight to preserve the character as he believed it should be played. Which was the correct way.
The biggest problem with the season is the obvious contempt the writers have for the source material and they write it as though 'they can fix it', a problematic attitude that manifests itself far too often in these paltry adaptations. Even if someone hasn't read the books, anyone with even a mildly discerning eye can tell there is an agenda at play here, especially as it concerns the Lodge of Sorceresses. In the source material, they are complex women, fallible, each with their own individual ambitions that often come into conflict with one another. In the books and games, they decide to continue manipulating the rulers of the Continent by advising them, each with their own goals and desires, with a shared endpoint of controlling the entire land for their own aims. But their individual pursuits continue to come into conflict with one another and this causes many rifts and schisms between them but it also makes for some fantastic character driven drama. In the TV show, they're the Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants and lovingly share a common goal. It's such a loss for these characters to be stripped down to the gaslighting of current year feminist tropes. Again, even if you haven't read the books, the circle jerk is on full display.
Meanwhile, other characters have their arcs introduced and resolved in a single episode. Zoltan (who isn't even in the books during these parts of the story) and Yarpen have a long standing beef that is detailed and quashed in a five minute span. It feels like a table scrap thrown to the floor for the fans to eat after the writers have had their way with the material. It's contemptuous. Perceval has no actual reason to even be here at all in the TV version. Look. I'm just gonna say it. Real life dwarves have no business being cast in combat roles in shows like this. They can barely move as it is and it's not even remotely convincing. The guy that plays Yarpen is a small human being unafflicted by dwarfism so he can move around and look convincing when he fights. But when they cast real life people with dwarfism and I'm supposed to somehow believe they're all the same race, I just can't bridge that gap. Lord of the Rings figured out how to do this a quarter of a century ago. Surely those cinematic techniques are only easier to replicate today?
I will give the fight choreography high marks. The fighting in this show, when it isn't stunted human beings wobbling around, is quite impressive and a lot of fun to watch. It is quick, brutal, bloody and visceral. Swords flash, people die, blood spills. It's great, even if the effects for the blood, stabbing and monsters are sometimes painfully mediocre. All the same, the flashy fighting is a blast, and it's a pretty action heavy season. The fight with the ogre on the bridge swinging that triple bladed axe-anchor thing (a malicious and clever device), for all of its visual shortcomings, is still effective even if you have to meet it halfway in your mind.
If there are two bright spots in this season, they are Laurence Fishburne as Regis and Sharlto Copley as Leo Bonhart. When I first saw Fishburne was cast as Regis, I was like 'Netflix gonna Netflix' but in the following months I came to appreciate the decision more and boy, am I glad I did because Fishburne is amazing in the role. Or maybe he's just 'very good' when surrounded by mediocrity. But his Regis is excellent-the man can flat out act and I can't imagine anyone doing a better job at it than him.
Sharlto Copley, however, is fucking INCREDIBLE as Bonhart. This character is an irredeemable bastard but cheese and crackers is he living it up. This man is the most evil fuck I've seen on TV since Ramsey Snow and he enjoys it so much that you can't help but get swept up in it yourself. I found myself waiting for him to say the next brutal jape or inflict the next delightful cruelty on his victim, my popcorn ready. There's a scene where he sees two kids playing with a doll, he walks up to them, asks them who the doll is and when they say the name of the girl he's hunting, he takes it, looks at it curiously, slips it into his belt and walks away from them. He then inflicts voodoo like cruelties on it because he simply can't wait to torture Ciri once he has his hands on her. That's a fucking character, so over the top and loving it that you can't help but find it thoroughly entertaining. I would watch an entire series about this guy. Terrifying charisma.
I lament that we will never see Cavill, as Geralt, interact with Fishburne's Regis or Copley's Bonhart. Those would have been some magnetic scenes.
2.5 out of 5. It had its moments and then it had its 'moments'.
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Pluribus -
Still enjoying it as of episode 3. I think it's clear that the hive is trying to exert pressure on Carol in its own way -- taking away her power and then giving it back, taking away her grocery store and then rolling 10 trucks back there on a moment's notice to restock it. They want her to understand she's dependent upon them. It will be interesting to see how Carol weaponizes her knowledge that these crazy fucks would literally give her an atomic bomb if she asked. I also wonder if the concussion that Zosia suffered might in some way sever her connection to the hive, at least temporarily. Or maybe alcohol? She seemed to be taking tiny sips while drinking with Carol. Suspicious that Carol didn't actually get to see her at the hospital.
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Nearing the end of season 2 and loving it. Makes me want to check out the books the series is based on. The characters all have good development and complex motivations, plus most of them are super hot.
Lost Girl -
You can really see a lot of the DNA of what would become Wynonna Earp in this show. Not the highest budget but it makes really good use of what it has.
Still enjoying it as of episode 3. I think it's clear that the hive is trying to exert pressure on Carol in its own way -- taking away her power and then giving it back, taking away her grocery store and then rolling 10 trucks back there on a moment's notice to restock it. They want her to understand she's dependent upon them. It will be interesting to see how Carol weaponizes her knowledge that these crazy fucks would literally give her an atomic bomb if she asked. I also wonder if the concussion that Zosia suffered might in some way sever her connection to the hive, at least temporarily. Or maybe alcohol? She seemed to be taking tiny sips while drinking with Carol. Suspicious that Carol didn't actually get to see her at the hospital.
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Nearing the end of season 2 and loving it. Makes me want to check out the books the series is based on. The characters all have good development and complex motivations, plus most of them are super hot.
Lost Girl -
You can really see a lot of the DNA of what would become Wynonna Earp in this show. Not the highest budget but it makes really good use of what it has.
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Pluribus -
Carol is finally asking the big questions to the hive. The fact that reversing the process seems to be possible makes the deaths Carol accidentally caused hit much harder, but it also gives her a clear goal to focus on. Presumably she'll be meeting up with the Uruguayan man at some point.
The Magicians -
This show moves really fast. Not a lot of shows made good use of the old 22 episode per season format, but I feel like this one would've benefited from it a bit. The 13 episode seasons are really good but sometimes I feel like there isn't enough time to breathe. There's not a return to the comfortable status quo before the next catastrophe hits so sometimes they're not as impactful as they could be.
Lost Girl -
Show really seems to be hitting a groove. Just finished season 2. Very Buffy-esque in the sense of how the main character reacts when learning about the lore and the rules of the world and her supposed place in it. She sees the bullshit with an outsider's perspective and refuses to accept it. The complete opposite of a story like, say, Harry Potter where the main character ultimately learns nothing and ends up joining the fucked up system that created all the issues in the first place after defeating the villain (Harry ends the story as a slave-owning cop working for an inherently racist institution and sending his kids to a school that has 25% of its enrollment being nazis).
Carol is finally asking the big questions to the hive. The fact that reversing the process seems to be possible makes the deaths Carol accidentally caused hit much harder, but it also gives her a clear goal to focus on. Presumably she'll be meeting up with the Uruguayan man at some point.
The Magicians -
This show moves really fast. Not a lot of shows made good use of the old 22 episode per season format, but I feel like this one would've benefited from it a bit. The 13 episode seasons are really good but sometimes I feel like there isn't enough time to breathe. There's not a return to the comfortable status quo before the next catastrophe hits so sometimes they're not as impactful as they could be.
Lost Girl -
Show really seems to be hitting a groove. Just finished season 2. Very Buffy-esque in the sense of how the main character reacts when learning about the lore and the rules of the world and her supposed place in it. She sees the bullshit with an outsider's perspective and refuses to accept it. The complete opposite of a story like, say, Harry Potter where the main character ultimately learns nothing and ends up joining the fucked up system that created all the issues in the first place after defeating the villain (Harry ends the story as a slave-owning cop working for an inherently racist institution and sending his kids to a school that has 25% of its enrollment being nazis).
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If you're looking at the demon hunting genre of TV there's nothing since Buffy that measures up to the first two and a half seasons of Wynonna Earp.
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The Edge of Sleep- So apparently this is based on a podcast that is somehow connected to Markiplier, who is some sort of influencer or streamer? I don’t really know or care.
It’s a 6 episode psychological horror series on Amazon. It’s about a guy that suffers from night terrors, him and his buddy/co worker go to a party and soon discover that anyone who goes to sleep dies. So essentially overnight almost the entire population dies.
It has a very synthwave meets psychedelia vibe. Clearly inspired by stuff The Void, Beyond the Black Rainbow, Mandy, Stephen King, Lovecraft etc. It’s not particularly original but works well enough for what it is.
It’s quite clearly a movie that was cut up into episodes and it really hurts the pacing.
The acting and writing are okay, nothing great but it suits the show‘s low budget look and feel. It reminds me a lot of early stuff from Benson and Moorehead.
It’s worth checking out if any of that sounds interesting. It does end on kind of a shitty cliffhanger setup for the next season though.
It’s a 6 episode psychological horror series on Amazon. It’s about a guy that suffers from night terrors, him and his buddy/co worker go to a party and soon discover that anyone who goes to sleep dies. So essentially overnight almost the entire population dies.
It has a very synthwave meets psychedelia vibe. Clearly inspired by stuff The Void, Beyond the Black Rainbow, Mandy, Stephen King, Lovecraft etc. It’s not particularly original but works well enough for what it is.
It’s quite clearly a movie that was cut up into episodes and it really hurts the pacing.
The acting and writing are okay, nothing great but it suits the show‘s low budget look and feel. It reminds me a lot of early stuff from Benson and Moorehead.
It’s worth checking out if any of that sounds interesting. It does end on kind of a shitty cliffhanger setup for the next season though.
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I've watched the first two episodes of MGM+'s take on Robin Hood and I must say I'm really enjoying it so far. They are doing weekly releases but the first five are out now. Pretty well done, good acting and the actors for Robin and Marion have great chemistry. As a costume drama, it's pretty much what you expect out of shows like this after Game of Thrones. Lots of conniving nobles stabbing good people in the back, people being betrayed and murdered, etc. etc. etc. It even roots Robin pretty well as a saxon who has hid lands taken from him by Normans so the injustice of the entitled class against the commonfolk is being set up to inspire Robin to have personal stakes in it. It starts at 'the beginning' but I'm not sure if there will be any time jumps, if Robin will end up in the Crusades or whatever. It's trying to honor commonly accepted history as far as the era well enough but there are a few minor liberties. All in all, a good time two episodes in!
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I'm up to speed on Robin Hood on MGM+ and it's everything I hoped it would be so far. I'm loving it and can't wait for the next episode. This one is firing on all cylinders. I could nitpick a few minor details about the show but for the most part, they are 'getting it right'.
Stranger Things Season 5 is, so far, not that good but it has some moments. Too many characters with nothing important to do so the plot manufactures roles for them that simply aren't necessary, most of the kids are annoying now and the monsters are only as powerful as the plot requires them to be and that changes from episode to episode.
Will is fantastic in this season. They finally gave him something to do and his character is coming full circle. A very good actor that is finally getting a chance to show out, as well. His interactions with Maya Hawke's Robin are great for his development as a character coming to terms with who he is and overcoming his anxiety about it is a necessary hurdle for the character to realize his full potential.
Eddie was the best character this show ever produced and he's still dead. But we still have to deal with fucking Max, who sucks. Awful character.
Vecna looks phenomenal in this season. They really went all out on his effects. Still suffers from the 'bad guy throws the important characters around but murders the red shirts with a gesture' problem these kinds of shows suffer from. Vecna should be straight up slaughtering these annoying pests that have thwarted him at every turn whenever he can. The cast desperately needs whittling down.
Stranger Things Season 5 is, so far, not that good but it has some moments. Too many characters with nothing important to do so the plot manufactures roles for them that simply aren't necessary, most of the kids are annoying now and the monsters are only as powerful as the plot requires them to be and that changes from episode to episode.
Will is fantastic in this season. They finally gave him something to do and his character is coming full circle. A very good actor that is finally getting a chance to show out, as well. His interactions with Maya Hawke's Robin are great for his development as a character coming to terms with who he is and overcoming his anxiety about it is a necessary hurdle for the character to realize his full potential.
Eddie was the best character this show ever produced and he's still dead. But we still have to deal with fucking Max, who sucks. Awful character.
Vecna looks phenomenal in this season. They really went all out on his effects. Still suffers from the 'bad guy throws the important characters around but murders the red shirts with a gesture' problem these kinds of shows suffer from. Vecna should be straight up slaughtering these annoying pests that have thwarted him at every turn whenever he can. The cast desperately needs whittling down.
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Finished season 4 of the Magicians.
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Pluribus was really awesome this week.
Manousos steadfastly refusing to accept anything from the hive even to his own detriment and even going out of his way to leave payment for the supplies he takes from abandoned homes and cars along the way is a fun angle to explore.
Meanwhile, the hive essentially put Carol in solitary until she broke. Seeing her break down at the end when Zosia returns was a gut punch.
Manousos steadfastly refusing to accept anything from the hive even to his own detriment and even going out of his way to leave payment for the supplies he takes from abandoned homes and cars along the way is a fun angle to explore.
Meanwhile, the hive essentially put Carol in solitary until she broke. Seeing her break down at the end when Zosia returns was a gut punch.
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Pluribus is by far the best show of the year. Not close. The Chair Company was fun, The Rehearsal was very good, but it's just not close at all.
I finished The Monster Inside Me and it was oddly fun as hell. Another white lesbian author that's recently separated but Clair Danes and Matthew Rhys are really good. Soapy or maybe pulpy? Works out fine.
I finished The Monster Inside Me and it was oddly fun as hell. Another white lesbian author that's recently separated but Clair Danes and Matthew Rhys are really good. Soapy or maybe pulpy? Works out fine.
