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Finished Slow Horses. Great stuff, just renewed for Season 5. Finished Monarch, which was good. Finished All the Light we Cannot See. I thought it was good, but my wife said the book is much better. Mark Ruffalo is a terrible actor, but everyone else was good, especially the actress playing the blind girl, but also Hugh Laurie.
 
AreBee1969 said:
8 years late to the party but I watched the first episode of Patriot last night. Seems like an excellent dark comedy. My boss recommended it and says it will only get better.
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I'm later than you. I started watching last night. The first scene was surprising but got me hooked. My kind of humor.
 
HuskyHawk said:
Finished Slow Horses. Great stuff, just renewed for Season 5. Finished Monarch, which was good. Finished All the Light we Cannot See. I thought it was good, but my wife said the book is much better. Mark Ruffalo is a terrible actor, but everyone else was good, especially the actress playing the blind girl, but also Hugh Laurie.
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How could you finish Monarch? There are still two episodes.
 
'The Morning Show' has become my guilty pleasure. I enjoy watching a bunch of Alphas self-immolate as they try to maintain their place on the corporate food chain.

It's sort of a tongue-in-cheek version of 'The News', which was a bit too self important and Aaron Sorkin Preachy for my taste. Jennifer Anniston is doing a really good job.

I also started watching 'Slow Horses' and I'm enjoying it; the first four episodes of Season 1, anyway. Sometimes the dialogue gets a bit tricky what with the cockney accents but otherwise it's a good show.

Cannot wait for 'Shogun' to start Feb. 27th on F/X.
 
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Shogun looks incredible. I loved the first one even though Richard Chamberlain was miscast as Anjin-san.
 
Rich said:
'The Morning Show' has become my guilty pleasure. I enjoy watching a bunch of Alphas self-immolate as they try to maintain their place on the corporate food chain.

It's sort of a tongue-in-cheek version of 'The News', which was a bit too self important and Aaron Sorkin Preachy for my taste. Jennifer Anniston is doing a really good job.

I also started watching 'Slow Horses' and I'm enjoying it; the first four episodes of Season 1, anyway. Sometimes the dialogue gets a bit tricky what with the cockney accents but otherwise it's a good show.

Cannot wait for 'Shogun' to start Feb. 27th on F/X.
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Shogun does look good. I remember the original from way back. The trailer reminds me of Marco Polo which was an entertaining series a few years ago.
 
Used a Showtime free trial to watch the final 3 seasons of Billions. Been a couple years since I watched S3-4, so had to go back and fast forward thru a bunch of episodes to recall the plot lines. Thought S6 and much of S7 were a drag, but the series redeemed itself with the final 4 episodes in S7. I found myself getting really tired and annoyed with a few of the minor characters among the Axe/MPC sales team as I found them unnecessary and one-dimensional, even till the end. I predicted the defection of two of Prince's team to Chuck's team, but even with that, the speed at which S7 E11-12 closed out the series held a lot of "a-ha!" moments that were surprises. A bit too sentimental at the end.
 
HuskyHawk said:
Finished Slow Horses. Great stuff, just renewed for Season 5. Finished Monarch, which was good. Finished All the Light we Cannot See. I thought it was good, but my wife said the book is much better. Mark Ruffalo is a terrible actor, but everyone else was good, especially the actress playing the blind girl, but also Hugh Laurie.
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Interesting on Ruffalo...he seems to get pretty decent praise for his films...what don't you like?
 
HuskyDevil said:
Interesting on Ruffalo...he seems to get pretty decent praise for his films...what don't you like?
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He’s completely wooden. He is as hulk as well, just monotone dry delivery of limes. He rarely seems to be the character he plays. Contrast to High Laurie in this one is pretty clear.
 
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I've seen plenty of episodes of Hot Ones over the years on YouTube. Recently discovered Roku Channel has Season 3-15, so I've been picking thru those the last several days.

I never watched enough of them back to back before to recognize that EVERYBODY hates the #8 (out of 10) sauce Da Bomb. Apparently in addition to being insanely hot, it also tastes vile. There's simply no reason for it to exist, or for anybody to ever eat it.

It's pretty amazing how vast of a difference there is in among individuals as far as their tolerance for spicy things. Some are already struggling after #2 or #3, while others cruise through the whole thing without much trouble.
 
The Brothers Sun on Netflix. Great action, wonderful acting and a solid story about Taiwan Triads. Highly recommend, by the end of second episode you will be hooked (if action is your genre). Only 8 episodes, but hoping for a season 2.
 
I'm in season 3 of 5 watching Kim's Convenience on Netflix. Comedy based in Toronto about a Korean Family that owns a convenience store. At times I've laughed out loud, which is rare.
 
I finally started The Bear. Four episodes the first night. After two I paid the extra $8 to avoid commercials on Hulu because that was annoying as hell.
 
Anyone do Dr. Death on Peacock? Liked the first season and just wrapped the new, second season. Thought it was pretty good.
 
HuskyHawk said:
Finished Slow Horses. Great stuff, just renewed for Season 5. Finished Monarch, which was good. Finished All the Light we Cannot See. I thought it was good, but my wife said the book is much better. Mark Ruffalo is a terrible actor, but everyone else was good, especially the actress playing the blind girl, but also Hugh Laurie.
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I don't have an opinion on Mark Ruffalo one way or the other, however, he was very good in "I Know This Much Is True" on HBO, based on a Wally Lamb book.

Haunting story, set in a fictional town that's supposed to be Norwich, CT.

I taught at NFA for a while, hell of a place.
 
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nelsonmuntz said:
Tread carefully, because most Fargo fans are big Fargo fans. Myself included.

My ranking of the seasons:

1) Season 2
2) Season 1
3) Season 4
4) Season 3

But I am flexible on that ranking other than Season 2.
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Fargo - TV
I just started and I'm 5 episodes into Season 1 trying to decide whether to keep binging. I like it so far but it is slow and dark and not sure if it is worth it in terms of ROI. Shows like Sopranos and Breaking Bad seemed to have much more entertainment per episode. Great cast and acting but slow. I see a couple posts about Season 5 being great. I just read that each season was more or less stand-alone which is now a little more interesting so I am definitely going to finish Season 1.
"As an anthology, each Fargo season possesses its own self-contained narrative, following a disparate set of characters in various settings in a connected shared universe."
 
Fool Me Once on Netflix was good. I did a quick search and didn't see anything about it yet.

Adeel Akhtar is really good in his role.
 
Kolumbo said:
Fargo - TV
I just started and I'm 5 episodes into Season 1 trying to decide whether to keep binging. I like it so far but it is slow and dark and not sure if it is worth it in terms of ROI. Shows like Sopranos and Breaking Bad seemed to have much more entertainment per episode. Great cast and acting but slow. I see a couple posts about Season 5 being great. I just read that each season was more or less stand-alone which is now a little more interesting so I am definitely going to finish Season 1.
"As an anthology, each Fargo season possesses its own self-contained narrative, following a disparate set of characters in various settings in a connected shared universe."
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If there's one show you should give a chance it is 'Fargo'. It is one of the best scripted dramas of the last 20 years IMO. Stop watching at your own peril.
 
Episode one of 'True Detective: Night Country' was uneven. It should I think improve.
 
"Death and Other Details" is new on Hulu. 2 episodes available now, then will be 1 ep. per week. Solid start. Fairly classic detective genre. Always a pleasure to see Mandy Patinkin. I was unfamiliar w/ Violett Beane, but really enjoying her performance. Haven't seen much of Rahul Kohli since iZombie, I like him too. There's just something about Jere Burns, the man was born to play sleazeball characters. He was an excellent sleazeball in Justified.
 
nwhoopfan said:
"Death and Other Details" is new on Hulu. 2 episodes available now, then will be 1 ep. per week. Solid start. Fairly classic detective genre. Always a pleasure to see Mandy Patinkin. I was unfamiliar w/ Violett Beane, but really enjoying her performance. Haven't seen much of Rahul Kohli since iZombie, I like him too. There's just something about Jere Burns, the man was born to play sleazeball characters. He was an excellent sleazeball in Justified.
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Thanks, I was actually thinking about this but I forgot about it. I'll give it a look.
 
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Rich said:
If there's one show you should give a chance it is 'Fargo'. It is one of the best scripted dramas of the last 20 years IMO. Stop watching at your own peril.
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Muchas gracias. On to season 2.

So Gus puts 5 bullets into Malvo who is sitting on the couch with a broken leg. Gus gets a citation. That's it? He executes the prime suspect and they leave it at that.
 
Started Season 2 of Reacher. 2 episodes in. I like it, but I'm not sure I'm going to like it as much as Season 1.

I was just saying in the movie thread I see Lochlyn Monro in a lot of things, and here he is in this as well.

I thought one of the team of the 110th was Monica Barbaro. But apparently it's Serinda Swan, didn't even know that name. I think I'm fairly close on this celebrity look alike call.
 
nwhoopfan said:
Started Season 2 of Reacher. 2 episodes in. I like it, but I'm not sure I'm going to like it as much as Season 1.

I was just saying in the movie thread I see Lochlyn Monro in a lot of things, and here he is in this as well.

I thought one of the team of the 110th was Monica Barbaro. But apparently it's Serinda Swan, didn't even know that name. I think I'm fairly close on this celebrity look alike call.
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Serinda Swan is pretty much "wow" in this show. Didn't know who she was.
 
Rich said:
I think Serinda Swann was in a cop show with Dominic Lombardozzi called 'Breakout Kings', which I thought was incredible but only lasted two seasons:

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Breakout Kings - Wikipedia

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Seems she started on CW. That's no surprise, they have an uncanny ability to find "talent", often from Vancouver it seems (where they shot Supernatural and Smallville).
 
Ted - I got Peacock for the KC playoff game and I’m stuck with it for a month so I started watching Ted. The prequel series to the Set McFarlane films about the crude teddy bear that came to life. Actually pretty funny. 4 episodes in. It’s light and low brow but classic McFarlane funny.
 
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