What are you binge watching?

[ZooCougar]

I was pretty disappointed in the first episode of season 3. A) The Mule feels like a character Foundation would have if it was doing a Yellowstone crossover episode, and B) If we are supposed to care about the Mule because he has extra good magic, I am going to lose interest in this show, which will suck, because I really liked Season 2.

Magic was how I lost interest in Dune Prophecy, despite really liking the characters. When magic becomes a plot driver, it becomes difficult to care about anything that is happening.

The Mule will be very difficult to portray on screen.

The first season LOL bad. It's like one part of the show was directed by morons and the other half were above.

I think Foundation is very hard to make cinematic. Anyone who has read the books or tried to knows what I mean. It's the Sci Fi version of Atlas Shrugged.

 

[ZooCougar]

I've been watching Murderbot and I have to say I've really enjoyed it.

It's pure garbage. Did he finally kill his humans yet? All of those people are awful and deserve to die horribly.

 

[ZooCougar]

I watched the first season, but didn't love it because it went too far afield from the books. How was season two?

Uptick. Good enough to look forward to season 3. The first episode was good. Ignore Mr. Strawman, he has terrible taste.

 

[CL82]

It's pure garbage. Did he finally kill his humans yet? All of those people are awful and deserve to die horribly.

Many.

I can't argue with you that it's not great in the [Insert whatever you think is great TV here] but it is entertaining at least to me.

I'll give the second season of foundation a shot. I don't have high hopes.

 

[nomar]

The Mule will be very difficult to portray on screen.

The first season LOL bad. It's like one part of the show was directed by morons and the other half were above.

I think Foundation is very hard to make cinematic. Anyone who has read the books or tried to knows what I mean. It's the Sci Fi version of Atlas Shrugged.

I liked Season 1 and really liked Season 2. Wasn't thrilled with S3 E1. But we'll see.

I totally agree that it's impossible do "right," but I can easily shrug off the incomprehensive parts and enjoy the cool parts, of which they are many.

 

[ZooCougar]

I liked Season 1 and really liked Season 2. Wasn't thrilled with S3 E1. But we'll see.

I totally agree that it's impossible do "right," but I can easily shrug off the incomprehensive parts and enjoy the cool parts, of which they are many.

So you're the one. The one person who liked it. I honestly thought they were going to cancel it. It wasn't as bad as Invasion though.

 

[nomar]

So you're the one. The one person who liked it. I honestly thought they were going to cancel it. It wasn't as bad as Invasion though.

Hey, I'm not the only one

Foundation | Rotten Tomatoes

Discover reviews, ratings, and trailers for Foundation on Rotten Tomatoes. Stay updated with critic and audience scores today!

www.rottentomatoes.com

I watched the first season of Invasion and that was enough

 

[Deepster]

Started watching "The Pitt" on HBO this weekend. An "ER" style hospital show, coincidentally starring Noah Wyle. Every episode is a shift in the ER with the usual crazy cases and characters. It was entertaining. Basically just a new, grittier version of ER for the most part.

 

[ZooCougar]

Hey, I'm not the only one

Foundation | Rotten Tomatoes

Discover reviews, ratings, and trailers for Foundation on Rotten Tomatoes. Stay updated with critic and audience scores today!

www.rottentomatoes.com

I watched the first season of Invasion and that was enough

You can’t trust that site.

LOL.

“A beautiful empty screensaver”

https://www.vulture.com/article/foundation-review-apple-tv-plus.html

“Loses itself”

Foundation’s first season loses itself in its century-spanning story

There’s always season 2.

www.theverge.com

Ouch

“

Foundation review – a galaxy of money can’t save Apple’s Star Dreck”​

Foundation review – a galaxy of money can’t save Apple’s Star Dreck

With a huge budget, a starry cast including Jared Harris and explosive interplanetary plot, this new sci-fi epic wants to be taken seriously. What a shame it feels so earnest and ropey

www.theguardian.com

 

[superjohn]

Started watching "The Pitt" on HBO this weekend. An "ER" style hospital show, coincidentally starring Noah Wyle. Every episode is a shift in the ER with the usual crazy cases and characters. It was entertaining. Basically just a new, grittier version of ER for the most part.

I wanted to love it but it fell into the Disney trap, was hoping we were getting past that and I just had to suspend my belief far too much to believe that was a single day in an emergency room. A serious show has to be tethered to some reality for it to be taken seriously, IMO.

Noah Wylie is very good on it though.

 

[nomar]

You can’t trust that site.

LOL.

“A beautiful empty screensaver”

https://www.vulture.com/article/foundation-review-apple-tv-plus.html

“Loses itself”

Foundation’s first season loses itself in its century-spanning story

There’s always season 2.

www.theverge.com

Ouch

“

Foundation review – a galaxy of money can’t save Apple’s Star Dreck”​

Foundation review – a galaxy of money can’t save Apple’s Star Dreck

With a huge budget, a starry cast including Jared Harris and explosive interplanetary plot, this new sci-fi epic wants to be taken seriously. What a shame it feels so earnest and ropey

www.theguardian.com

I'm not trusting anything. It has a 70% audience rating. That doesn't mean it's objectively good. It means exactly what I said: that I'm not the only one who likes it.

For virtually every movie & TV show in this thread, you can cherry-pick bad reviews. I can pick good ones, too. Metacritic, which is slightly more liable than RT, indicates that of the 38 critics' reviews, 55% are positive and 45% are mixed. AV Club: 83% positive. Variety: 80% positive. Etc.

Everybody's entitled to an opinion. You have yours about the show, which you share with others. I have mine, which I share with others. But it is indeed a fact that my opinion is shared with others.

And FYI, you're citing 3-year-old reviews, from Season 1. (Take a look at the comments under the Vulture review; the people excorciate the review.) As I said, I thought the show improved as it went along. Which wasn't surprising given the density of the plot etc.

 

[temery]

Started watching "The Pitt" on HBO this weekend. An "ER" style hospital show, coincidentally starring Noah Wyle. Every episode is a shift in the ER with the usual crazy cases and characters. It was entertaining. Basically just a new, grittier version of ER for the most part.

I like the show, but I don't know what kind of future it has in character development. The show is literally one hour of time representing one shift so at the end of the season they've completed one shift.

How is a doctor going to get a nurse pregnant? Become addicted to pain killers? ...

Imagine if the series lasts ten years. After ten shifts each character looks ten years older?

My guess is next year will be a season that is a year, at least.

 

[Deepster]

I wanted to love it but it fell into the Disney trap, was hoping we were getting past that and I just had to suspend my belief far too much to believe that was a single day in an emergency room. A serious show has to be tethered to some reality for it to be taken seriously, IMO.

Noah Wylie is very good on it though.

Yeah. In the first episode, they showed the ER waiting room packed wall to wall and I said "I've never seen anything close to that in real life".

We'll see how it goes. My daughter is going to be a nurse and we watched it together and were entertained for now.

 

[temery]

Yeah. In the first episode, they showed the ER waiting room packed wall to wall and I said "I've never seen anything close to that in real life".

We'll see how it goes. My daughter is going to be a nurse and we watched it together and were entertained for now.

I've seen inner city ER's as bad as that many times. Then the next day, one guy waiting for a band-aide. It all depends on day and time.

 

[ZooCougar]

I'm not trusting anything. It has a 70% audience rating. That doesn't mean it's objectively good. It means exactly what I said: that I'm not the only one who likes it.

For virtually every movie & TV show in this thread, you can cherry-pick bad reviews. I can pick good ones, too. Metacritic, which is slightly more liable than RT, indicates that of the 38 critics' reviews, 55% are positive and 45% are mixed. AV Club: 83% positive. Variety: 80% positive. Etc.

Everybody's entitled to an opinion. You have yours about the show, which you share with others. I have mine, which I share with others. But it is indeed a fact that my opinion is shared with others.

And FYI, you're citing 3-year-old reviews, from Season 1. (Take a look at the comments under the Vulture review; the people excorciate the review.) As I said, I thought the show improved as it went along. Which wasn't surprising given the density of the plot etc.

I said it improved dramatically. The first season is a pre school art project compared to season 2. That's objectively true.

 

[superjohn]

Yeah. In the first episode, they showed the ER waiting room packed wall to wall and I said "I've never seen anything close to that in real life".

We'll see how it goes. My daughter is going to be a nurse and we watched it together and were entertained for now.

Tried to put aside the absurdity of all that happening in one day. From what I've read they're incredibly accurate with the medical terms and procedures even though some of the procedures they're doing in this single day happen maybe once in a career or never happen in a career. The acting is good overall and there's a couple of moving scenes so it's better than most things out there now.

 

[Chuck]

My wife and I are not into horror movies, but our daughter talked us into trying The Haunting of Bly Manor. We liked it and we're now halfway into The Fall of the House of Usher. They have the occasional jump scare, but they aren't shocking.

Mike Flanagan uses most of the same actors in the shows. Usher is cool because it's based loosely on an Edgar Allen Poe short story and most of the characters are homages or references to other Poe characters.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

So you're the one. The one person who liked it. I honestly thought they were going to cancel it. It wasn't as bad as Invasion though.

I agree with Nomar on both Season 1 and Season 2.

 

[Fishy]

Tried to put aside the absurdity of all that happening in one day. From what I've read they're incredibly accurate with the medical terms and procedures even though some of the procedures they're doing in this single day happen maybe once in a career or never happen in a career. The acting is good overall and there's a couple of moving scenes so it's better than most things out there now.

Also, it’s a TV show…

Not like they’re gonna show a slow day in the ER where everyone catches up on their Medicaid paperwork.

And Wylie is really, really good at this.

 

[nomar]

My wife and I are not into horror movies, but our daughter talked us into trying The Haunting of Bly Manor. We liked it and we're now halfway into The Fall of the House of Usher. They have the occasional jump scare, but they aren't shocking.

Mike Flanagan uses most of the same actors in the shows. Usher is cool because it's based loosely on an Edgar Allen Poe short story and most of the characters are homages or references to other Poe characters.

I watched Hill House and part of Usher. Midnight Mass is better than either, IMO.

 

[Fishy]

My wife and I are not into horror movies, but our daughter talked us into trying The Haunting of Bly Manor. We liked it and we're now halfway into The Fall of the House of Usher. They have the occasional jump scare, but they aren't shocking.

Mike Flanagan uses most of the same actors in the shows. Usher is cool because it's based loosely on an Edgar Allen Poe short story and most of the characters are homages or references to other Poe characters.

The last two episodes of Hill House is about as good as it gets.

My rankings….1) Hill House 2) Bly Manor 3) Usher 4) Midnight Mass

But I enjoyed them all.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

I am watching Three Women (Starz) because 1) I am too lazy to cancel my Starz subscription and 2) I was wondering why Shailene Woodley, who I think is an amazing actress, is wasting the prime of her career in supporting roles in movies that no one sees, or in limited series on networks no one can find. This is an actress that came out of the gate with 5 huge hits: The Descendants, the Fault in our Stars, and the Divergent Series, then was awesome in a limited run HBO series Big Little Lies, sharing screen time with some of the best Gen X actresses. Since then she has been doing mediocre art house flicks and box office bombs when she is not making limited run series for Starz and whatever Neon is. Of her big studio movies of the last few years, I get doing Dumb Money, a pretty good movie even though she had a minor role, but she was badly miscast for Ferrari. I made the following post in March 2017:

Woodley is a good agent from being the biggest female star on the planet. She is a very good actress and bankable star. All she is missing is some hardware.

If she is not punching her agent in the face every day after the last 5 years of her filmography, she is not serious about her career.

Anyway, back to Three Women. Realistically, no one is going to see this until it goes on Prime or Netflix. I am halfway through it. I really like Woodley and Betty Gilpin. Some of the rest of the cast looks familiar although I can't place them, but most of them are solid. The plot has some problems, particularly the plot line for DaWanda Wise's character, which I do not understand. The pacing is too slow, there are too many extended shots of characters just looking at stuff, and it is pretty man-hater-y, so don't watch if that is going to bother you.

But I like it. It is original, but not in a crazy way, and thoughtful, even though I do not agree with some of its message. It is possible to write shows and movies about regular people and still have it be interesting. If your choices are this or a Taylor Sheriden show, you won't like this. If you are looking for a show just trying to show interesting characters in the real world, it is worth giving it a chance.

 

[Waquoit]

I was wondering why Shailene Woodley, who I think is an amazing actress...

Not arguing, asking because I don't get it. I saw that Hawaii movie and I guess I didn't see what everyone else did. Not like Natalie Portman or Jennifer Lawrence. Then she hooks up with Aaron Rodgers... Could you (or anyone) suggest a couple of flicks that might help me see the light.

 

[nomar]

Not arguing, asking because I don't get it. I saw that Hawaii movie and I guess I didn't see what everyone else did. Not like Natalie Portman or Jennifer Lawrence. Then she hooks up with Aaron Rodgers... Could you (or anyone) suggest a couple of flicks that might help me see the light.

No, but this funny

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Not arguing, asking because I don't get it. I saw that Hawaii movie and I guess I didn't see what everyone else did. Not like Natalie Portman or Jennifer Lawrence. Then she hooks up with Aaron Rodgers... Could you (or anyone) suggest a couple of flicks that might help me see the light.

If you didn't like her in the Hawaii movie, I am not sure you will like her then. She did crush it in Big Little Lies despite sharing the screen with some A list actresses. She was pretty good in Dumb Money despite a relatively minor role.

She isn't a chew-the-scenery, classical theatre actress like Laura Dern or Julianne Moore (I can tolerate Moore because she will occasionally not take herself too seriously, I can't stand Dern). Woodley lets the dialogue and the story come to her, and doesn't try to dominate the movie. She doesn't have the annoying quirkiness that so many younger actresses have (Elle Fanning, Hannah Einbinder). I think she is like a younger version of Kate Winslett or maybe Minnie Driver or Glenn Close, where she has an A game, but she doesn't need to flex it every time. I think her look is great, because she is pretty enough but not strikingly beautiful, so she can play anyone. She just hasn't broken out.