What are you binge watching?

[John]

Did anyone catch the first episode of True Detective Season 4? I thought it was slow and disappointing, but having watched the previous three seasons I know the show tends to layer on the plot so I'm hopeful for episode 2 and beyond.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Still catching up on Reacher season 2, but also tried out Gen V. Spin off from The Boys. Enjoyable, but wow do the creators of the show like exploding bodies and blood everywhere, as well as some grossness in other ways.

 

[Rich]

Anyone do Dr. Death on Peacock? Liked the first season and just wrapped the new, second season. Thought it was pretty good.

I won’t watch anything on Peacock after the NFL Playoff game PPV disaster.

 

[Rich]

Did anyone catch the first episode of True Detective Season 4? I thought it was slow and disappointing, but having watched the previous three seasons I know the show tends to layer on the plot so I'm hopeful for episode 2 and beyond.

Yeah, I hear you. I thought it started to pick up mid episode though, and I think it’s a lot of Jodie Foster having rusty acting chops after so many years producing/directing.

 

[storrsroars]

"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.

It's pretty good thru 1st two episodes. I was confused at first by the technique, but now enjoy the effect of putting Beane's adult character into the past to revisit clues as to what's developing.

 

[Kolumbo]

Not really binge watching, well maybe, but very intriguing. The Michelle Traconis trial started this week and this is the first video I watched. Lauren Almeida, the nanny for the Dulos family, is giving testimony of the day when Jennifer Dulos went missing.

 

[dvegas]

Looking forward to Griselda on Netflix (1/25/24), no way her family gets the injunction to stop it

 

[dvegas]

Not really binge watching, well maybe, but very intriguing. The Michelle Traconis trial started this week and this is the first video I watched. Lauren Almeida, the nanny for the Dulos family, is giving testimony of the day when Jennifer Dulos went missing.

It reminds me a bit of the OJ trial because not only because both cases are nuts, but that was the first high profile trial to be shown live on television. Court TV hired a Stamford attorney named Mickey Sherman (UConn grad, BA/JD) as their "Color Analyst." By 2011 Mickey was doing time in a fed pen for tax fraud. Small world

 

[nelsonmuntz]

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.

I really liked Ted 2. I can watch the scene where Ted and Wahlberg’s character meet Amanda Zeyfried’s lawyer over and over and laugh every time.

 

[nwhoopfan]

I've kinda stalled on the other 2 series I was working on, so I've started a rewatch of "Class of '07." Really enjoyed it the first time, and having a similar experience this time. That didn't seem to get much traction, but I give it a hearty thumbs up. It's absurdist, but it's funny, interesting characters, throws some twists at you.

I probably did a review of it before, but just in case it's the 10 year reunion at an all girls school up on a hilltop somewhere in Australia. One of the members of the class stumbles into the middle of the festivities, she didn't even know it was happening because she's been on a media blackout. She was just heading to her nearest disaster evacuation site. Turns out the whole world flooded and they find themselves on a small island, with no idea if anybody else is still out there. Rivalries, grudges and hurts from their school days quickly bubble to the surface again.

 

[Rich]

Yeah, I hear you. I thought it started to pick up mid episode though, and I think it’s a lot of Jodie Foster having rusty acting chops after so many years producing/directing.

Second episode was VASTLY improved- like 180 degrees. I do think it’s a matter of actor chemistry; sometimes it takes a few episodes to work through.

 

[Deepster]

American Nightmare (Netflix) - Three hour long episode documentary about a kidnapping in CA. The perfect length to keep it interesting with a handful of plot twists along the way. Amazing story.

 

[HuskyHawk]

The Continental. Started and didn't get all the way through episode 1 (needed to get to sleep, it is long). It's a John Wick prequel that tells the story of how Winston Scott (Colin Woodell) became the proprietor of the infamous hotel. It's set late 60s early 70s, with some good music (not always period), a fantastic 1969 Mustang Mach I and a look and feel that seems older and appropriate for the time. Mel Gibson does a nice job as Cormac O'Conner, who runs the Continental in this era. The casting is superb, including Ayomide Adegun as a young Charon. More miniseries than show, it seems promising if you like the world of John Wick.

 

[Kolumbo]

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.

Fargo - The Series!
I finished Season 2 which was exceptional. The acting and storyline is great and kind of reminds me of Pulp Fiction in some ways. Cold-Blooded, for sure. Jesse Plemons, I remember he gained like 50 lbs during Breaking Bad. Kirsten Dunst, Patrick Wilson, Ted Danson, Jean Smart, Bokeem Woodbine...just a great cast.

Constantly thinking of the original movie and how those actors all had the accents down. In researching, I just learned that the original woodchipper scene from the movie was based on the CT murder of Helle Crafts by her husband Richard. He was paroled in 2020. I did not know about this.

Murder of Helle Crafts - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Rich]

Fargo - The Series!
I finished Season 2 which was exceptional. The acting and storyline is great and kind of reminds me of Pulp Fiction in some ways. Cold-Blooded, for sure. Jesse Plemons, I remember he gained like 50 lbs during Breaking Bad. Kirsten Dunst, Patrick Wilson, Ted Danson, Jean Smart, Bokeem Woodbine...just a great cast.

Constantly thinking of the original movie and how those actors all had the accents down. In researching, I just learned that the original woodchipper scene from the movie was based on the CT murder of Helle Crafts by her husband Richard. He was paroled in 2020. I did not know about this.

Murder of Helle Crafts - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Yeah, season 2 was really good. Season five was a masterpiece.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Got a little bit into episode 4 of Gen V. There was a scene that was just way, way too gross. I stopped, done with that series. The creators probably need psychiatric help.

 

[Monte]

Women's Basketball

 

[HuskyHawk]

Got a little bit into episode 4 of Gen V. There was a scene that was just way, way too gross. I stopped, done with that series. The creators probably need psychiatric help.

I got past that, but it is indeed too much.

 

[87Xfer]

American Nightmare (Netflix) - Three hour long episode documentary about a kidnapping in CA. The perfect length to keep it interesting with a handful of plot twists along the way. Amazing story.

Been wondering about this one. I'll have to check it out.

 

[nwhoopfan]

I got past that, but it is indeed too much.

There was something similar they already did in The Boys, but not quite as bad. Plus that series is just better.

 

[Rich]

Been wondering about this one. I'll have to check it out.

Watched 'Queenpins' on NFLX last night with the wife. It was highly amusing. Not a five star movie or anything close but Kristin Bell always spices things up and she did a good job here.

 

[BullDawg]

Can’t binge it cause it’s rolling out episode by episode on AMC, but I’m enjoying Monsieur Spade. Clive Owen is quite good.

 

[AreBee1969]

Started a new show and sadly had to go to sleep. It was pretty binge worthy. Slow Horses on Apple+. Stars Gary Oldman as a disheveled, outcast MI5 director. Jack Lowden plays Cartwright a young agent, who is sent to the outcast bunch Oldman runs, called Slough House. Slow Horses is the name M15 has for these misfit agents. Kristin Scott Thomas is good as an M15 director at the main HQ. Olivia Stone plays Sid, a young agent also sent to Slough House, but one who isn't such an outcast. I couldn't remember how I knew the actress, but she's Alicent Hightower in the new GOT prequel. Some other name actors in smaller roles, This is quite well done, the pilot starts fast and then is slow as hell, while the whole dynamic of Slough House and the characters are introduced. But it's worth the wait and picks up after that.

Watched the first four episodes of Slow Horses. You guys have some serious street cred with The Warden. Oldman is freaking fantastic.

 

[oldude]

Just watched the 1st episode of Masters of the Air. and yes, I’m hooked. The first episode spends a lot of time on the technical elements of flying a B-17 combat mission including: mission briefing, pre-flight check list, takeoff & landing, etc. The episode also deals with granular issues like landing in a strong crosswind, landing without landing gear, air sickness and so on.

The 100th does fly their first mission to attack the German U-Boat pens at Bremen and (spoiler alert) they get shot up badly, and even worse, the clouds are so thick over the target area that they are forced to scrub the mission and drop their bombs in the channel.

 

[storrsroars]

Good thing I watched it before reading ^

Next time, use the mask icon to hide the spoiler, please.

 

[storrsroars]

Got a little bit into episode 4 of Gen V. There was a scene that was just way, way too gross. I stopped, done with that series. The creators probably need psychiatric help.

I got past that, but it is indeed too much.

There was something similar they already did in The Boys, but not quite as bad. Plus that series is just better.

This is not the type of series I would normally watch, and having had to watch enough of that episode to get to the scene in question just confirms that. However, I did want to see what the fuss was about, and I thought it was funny. It's absolutely the kind of thing that would appeal to the incel audience that watches this tripe.

 

[Bomber36]

If you want to learn a bit more about Rugby, might I suggest this series? Now streaming on Netflix.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Fargo - The Series!
I finished Season 2 which was exceptional. The acting and storyline is great and kind of reminds me of Pulp Fiction in some ways. Cold-Blooded, for sure. Jesse Plemons, I remember he gained like 50 lbs during Breaking Bad. Kirsten Dunst, Patrick Wilson, Ted Danson, Jean Smart, Bokeem Woodbine...just a great cast.

Constantly thinking of the original movie and how those actors all had the accents down. In researching, I just learned that the original woodchipper scene from the movie was based on the CT murder of Helle Crafts by her husband Richard. He was paroled in 2020. I did not know about this.

Murder of Helle Crafts - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Season 2 is my favorite of Fargo. Jean Smart is fantastic as the local mob boss barely holding things together because her sons are total idiots and keep screwing up.

 

[Rich]

Finished ‘Murder at the End of the World’. Reaction: Really? THAT’S the payoff????

’Brothers Sun’ on NFLX is surprisingly entertaining.
’Criminal Investigation’ on Apple TV+ is…I don’t know where this is going, series, anthology, nothing after this season….

Going to start ‘Justified: City Primevil’ and ‘Griselda’ at some point. Also looking forward to ‘Masters of the Air’.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Amazon has a new series Mr. and Mrs. Smith that is only vaguely related to the movie w/ Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. I watched the first episode. Barely made it through that. Totally boring, inane dialogue, seems to be going nowhere. Stars Donald Glover and Maya Erskine. The characters appear to have no spy craft and no particular skills to speak of, no idea why they were selected. The first five minutes had a different spy pair that was quickly killed off, played by Alexander Skarsgard and Eiza Gonzalez. Based on the first 5 minutes compared to the next 50 some minutes, they should've kept Skarsgard and Gonzalez.