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What are you binge watching?

nelsonmuntz said:
Lily James is getting all the press for it and is good, but Sebastian Stan does a great job as Tommy Lee.
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In the clips I've seen, it's hard to watch Lily being so digitized. Just major CGI going on and it is distracting.
 
City on a Hill. Just started this. Kevin Bacon is good so far. When you marry a Boston girl, you're likely to consume any Boston focused stories. Not far into it yet, but this seems to coincide with the Whitey Bulger era and the crooked cops and feds have an element of realism. Renewed for Season 3.
 
Inventing Anna (Netflix) is promising through 2 episodes. This is a really good take on the total vapidity and stupidity of the rich and pointless. Arian Moayed (aka Stewy from Succession) is quickly becoming one of my favorite character actors.
 
HuskyHawk said:
City on a Hill. Just started this. Kevin Bacon is good so far. When you marry a Boston girl, you're likely to consume any Boston focused stories. Not far into it yet, but this seems to coincide with the Whitey Bulger era and the crooked cops and feds have an element of realism. Renewed for Season 3.
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There is a thread on here somewhere for this show. Came to it late myself.
 
Not really a binge watch per se, but I’m looking forward to the last season of Killing Eve.
 
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I watched "The Mick" while it was airing several years ago. Just finished binging the series again. It was a bit up and down, but had some great moments. One thing I'll say is that the main cast was all totally committed to it. Some really good physical comedy throughout. The funniest bits were so wrong, kinda felt guilty for laughing. Benny giving black eyes to all of his uncool classmates because he thought it would make them more popular (thanks to one of Jimmy's many terrible ideas) and Jimmy and Sabrina getting in a knock down drag out brawl with the women's junior national soccer team were among those inspired wrongness.
 
I binge watched S1 of The Righteous Gemstones and I really do love that show. This is the best show that crew has ever done and I don’t think they can top. As always, national treasure John Goodman is freaking perfect.
 
I enjoy shows that take me to a specific time and place.
Currently in season six of Seaside Hotel (PBS Masterpiece through Prime) Set in Denmark in the late 20's- 30's Very good
Just finished- All Creatures Great and Small- another PBS show which was perfect for our times.
Also, Shtisel on Netflx was excellent
 
Not sure "binging" applies, but watched the first 3 episodes of Our Flag Means Death. This is a comedy series from the often brilliant Taika Waititi (who plays Blackbeard). Set in 1717, it applies some fictional absurdity to the Pirate era, focused on Stede Bonnet, a real pirate who was landed gentry and set off to become a pirate. So far, it isn't as funny as Things we do in the Shadows. But it was getting better by episode 3 so we will stick with it. Joel Fry is in it, along with Kristian Nairn (Hodor).
 
Currently on Season seven of Monk. Tried to like it several times in the past, but could t get into it.

This time, I'm liking it.
 
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early, half hour episodes of gunsmoke, and early episodes of rifleman.
never saw this stuff before. the stark, brutal, moral choices presented in them (time and place) are thought-provoking, like the one where matt dillon has to deal with psyco-looney bin 'death wish' movie guy. marshall matt knows at once that this guy is no good, but a lot of people will die first before he gets taken out.
and, in the rifleman, chuck connors tells teenage dennis hopper that 'if i don't make it back, you will raise my boy.' they all just recently met!
harsh living on the frontier. don't go unless u have quick wits, and a quick trigger finger.
 
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Just finished After Party, that was a decently fun time.

Watching Severance as well. Intriguing beginnings with that one. Will definitely continue.

Working through Succession with the wife. Took a full season to completely hook me but it's truly great. Just slow going for us with the others shows taking up time.

Trying to watch Euphoria but its so stupidly over the top and implausible.

Stuck all the way through it with Peacemaker. Really didn't like it to begin with but it got better and better.

Rewatching Rick and Morty. It's so freaking hilarious. Anyone who grew up on The Simpsons and Futurama is destined to love it.

@ZooCougar gonna hop back into The Boys soon.

There are a million more shows I'm meaning to...
 
Mano said:
Just finished After Party, that was a decently fun time.

Watching Severance as well. Intriguing beginnings with that one. Will definitely continue.

Working through Succession with the wife. Took a full season to completely hook me but it's truly great. Just slow going for us with the others shows taking up time.

Trying to watch Euphoria but its so stupidly over the top and implausible.

Stuck all the way through it with Peacemaker. Really didn't like it to begin with but it got better and better.

Rewatching Rick and Morty. It's so freaking hilarious. Anyone who grew up on The Simpsons and Futurama is destined to love it.

@ZooCougar gonna hop back into The Boys soon.

There are a million more shows I'm meaning to...
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I’m waiting for a few more episodes to launch before starting Severance.
 
ClifSpliffy said:
early, half hour episodes of gunsmoke, and early episodes of rifleman.
never saw this stuff before. the stark, brutal, moral choices presented in them (time and place) are thought-provoking, like the one where matt dillon has to deal with psyco-looney bin 'death wish' movie guy. marshall matt knows at once that this guy is no good, but a lot of people will die first before he gets taken out.
and, in the rifleman, chuck connors tells teenage dennis hopper that 'if i don't make it back, you will raise my boy.' they all just recently met!
harsh living on the frontier. don't go unless u have quick wits, and a quick trigger finger.
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Surprised you aren’t watching Seal Team on CBS there Calr.
 
8893 said:
Anyone start watching "Nine Perfect Strangers" on Hulu yet?
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I'm WAY late to respond, but halfway thru the series now. It's kinda slow, intriguing enough to continue. A lot of build up, I sure hope there is a pay off.

Probably my biggest reason for watching it is Grace Van Patten, I've really become a fan of her. There are some big names in the cast, but she holds her own.

Also, while it's fairly weird, this is by far the closest to normal thing I've seen Samara Weaving in. She's usual in totally gonzo, over the top, crazy violent stuff (Mayhem, Guns Akimbo, Ready or Not).
 
Watched a 4 part miniseries on Hulu "Safe Harbour.' Fairly good, got melodramatic at times with a bit too much dumb from too many characters. But it has Phoebe Tonkin in it so that makes it all worthwhile.
 
ZooCougar said:
I’m waiting for a few more episodes to launch before starting Severance.
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I watched a couple and it was too plodding. I may go back to it after the season
 
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Just finished up Season 3 of Snowpiercer. Sean Bean is quite good as Wilton. Ultimately this show based on a movie is much better than the move. It's not great, but surprisingly kept me entertained. Good character development can solve lots of problems. One neat trick is that each episode has an initial few minutes narrated by one of the characters from their view and it constantly changes.

Started the latest season of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. This remains a great show. Rachel Broshanan is indeed marvelous in more ways than one. They seem to be taking her to slightly darker places ala Lenny Bruce.

Started season 6 of Outlander on Starz. If you haven't watched it, it really is well done. There is a dash of fantasy (time travel via standing stones), and more than enough romance for your significant other (or you), but also a lot of gritty history/war/action, starting around the time of the Jacobite rebellion. Some of it is pretty brutal and they do a decent job of showing how a fairly modern person would need to adapt to that time. The series of books is wildly popular, and the show took it to another level. So much so, that the Scots had to finally build a proper museum at the Culloden battlefield because so many people were coming to visit it.
 
I'm three episodes in to a new HBO series from Australia called, The Tourist. Basic premise is a guy is in a car accident and wakes up with amnesia not knowing who he is or why people are trying to kill him. Some good humor mixed in as well.

 
Pssh, a disaster? Like the Hindenburg? Like Syracuse’s coaching succession plan? I think not.
 
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HuskyHawk said:
By the end I thought it was pretty good. But the route it took to get there could have been a lot better.
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Yeah, I’m kind of fading on it because it deviated so much from the books. It’s OK, but not as good as I had hoped for
 
HuskyHawk said:
I didn't read the books. So no preconceptions of what it should be.
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I tried to read the first one. It really wasn’t my bag. But I know enough about it that the tv show has been made in a way that it will appeal to people who even have a IQ of 90.

Also. The TV show has as one of its most dramatic moments a point where Hari is telling another character about how an individual can change the course of history, literally contradicting the whole philosophy contained in Asimov’s books.

It would be like making a show about where instead of turning the other cheek he put on a skull r shirt and started calling himself The Punisher.
 
ZooCougar said:
Also. The TV show has as one of its most dramatic moments a point where Hari is telling another character about how an individual can change the course of history, literally contradicting the whole philosophy contained in Asimov’s books
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Yeah, that’s wrong. The whole Mule thread in the books shows that not to be true. If it were true, then the second foundation would be entirely unnecessary.
 
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