What are you binge watching?

[temery]

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms was fantastic.

Good guys are good.

Bad guys are bad.

No shades of gray.

Just a couple guys in the world trying to do something good with their lives and some great writing.

I like it enough to keep watching, but it seems like just an average Robin Hood type series. Everything has been very predictable.

 

[CL82]

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms was fantastic.

Good guys are good.

Bad guys are bad.

No shades of gray.

Just a couple guys in the world trying to do something good with their lives and some great writing.

Love the books for the same reason, and of course the humor. A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is to GOT what The Hobbit is to LOTRs in many ways. It's set in the same universe but has a decidedly lighter tone.

 

[Bomber36]

Love the books for the same reason, and of course the humor. A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is to GOT what The Hobbit is to LOTRs in many ways. It's set in the same universe but has a decidedly lighter tone.

Well, except for all the brutal deaths thus far, although it’s pretty light for the GOT universe.

 

[ZooCougar]

I don’t think it’s that much lighter. I won’t give anything away but a guy with a caved in head and a few other things were heavy.

It’s just a stripped down story that had a very limited setting. Not everything has to be epic and galaxy brained to be great.

 

[ZooCougar]

I like it enough to keep watching, but it seems like just an average Robin Hood type series. Everything has been very predictable.

It has literally nothing to do with Robin Hood. Are you sure you aren’t watching Robin Hood?

 

[Bomber36]

I don’t think it’s that much lighter. I won’t give anything away but a guy with a caved in head and a few other things were heavy.

It’s just a stripped down story that had a very limited setting. Not everything has to be epic and galaxy brained to be great.

I just mean in amount of deaths. Not necessarily how they dined.

 

[temery]

It has literally nothing to do with Robin Hood. Are you sure you aren’t watching Robin Hood?

Robin Hood type show - He and his Amber Alert squire will continue wandering around the Seven+ Kingdoms, helping those who can't help themselves, but leaving things worse than when they arrived.

 

[ZooCougar]

I just mean in amount of deaths. Not necessarily how they dined.

Still doesn't align with reality.

Robin Hood type show - He and his Amber Alert squire will continue wandering around the Seven+ Kingdoms, helping those who can't help themselves, but leaving things worse than when they arrived.

Go water board yourself.

 

[Palatine]

Jury Duty (Prime) It is very silly but it had myself and the Mrs. laughing. All the jurors, the judge, etc, are actors -- except one guy who thinks he is part of sequestered jury. So the show is mostly written with improv when they interact the guy. It's basically a prank show.

James Marsden plays himself as a reluctant juror who couldn't get out of jury duty. He is very funny. Like I said, a lot of it is silly, so I understand if that is not your sense of humor. But the set up works. You will know by the end of the first episode if you like it or not.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Re-engaged. Am halfway through season 3, and the show gets better. The plotlines are more realistic, although they still occasionally go off the rails.

The actors literally get better over time. The Yazmin (Marisa Abela), Robert (Harry Lawtey) and especially Harper (Myha'la) characters were not believable in season 1, but the actors have gotten a lot better, and as a result, the characters are more layered and credible. Rishi is a great character, and deserves more screen time.

The guest characters have gotten better. Kit Harrington plays an upper class dip****, but does a great job with it, making the character interesting and even compelling rather than a caricature. This is a tough role, and the best acting I have ever seen Harrington do. Sarah Goldberg (from Barry) is very good as a hedge fund manager.

It still has the GenZ issues of being overly self-obsessed and dramatic. The plot armor around the three main characters is also a little thick.

Season 4 of Industry is entertaining.

Miriam Petche, who plays the oddly named Sweetpea Golightly, could be a star someday. She is really good and kind of just has "it".

 

[temery]

Scrubs reboot.

Salli Richardson-Whitfield from Eureka (Dr. Blake) was asked about a Eureka reboot - "Who wants to see a series come back just so they can see who has aged the worst." (Paraphrasing)

I loved Scrubs, and I'll give the reboot a chance. But the old scrubs hijinks doesn't work 20 years later.

The IMDB 8.4/10 rating is very generous.

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[Deepster]

Finished Knight of the Seven Kingdoms in 2 viewings. Liked it so much more than the crappy House of the Dragon.

Part of why I was disappointed by GoTs final season was they spent years developing characters and story arcs and in the last season, Dany was flying a dragon entirely across Westeros in a half hour. The Hound and Arya type relationship was what made that series great and that’s what they’re doing here and I loved it.

 

[Alum86]

Scrubs reboot.

Salli Richardson-Whitfield from Eureka (Dr. Blake) was asked about a Eureka reboot - "Who wants to see a series come back just so they can see who has aged the worst." (Paraphrasing)

I loved Scrubs, and I'll give the reboot a chance. But the old scrubs hijinks doesn't work 20 years later.

The IMDB 8.4/10 rating is very generous.

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Reboot is terrible. It’s a 30 minute T-Mobile commercial.
Needs more of “the Todd.”

 

[temery]

Reboot is terrible. It’s a 30 minute T-Mobile commercial.
Needs more of “the Todd.”

I'm hoping they plan to develop the younger characters and slowly fade out the older crowd (still 20 years younger than me) to supporting roles.

The problem with the younger characters is either:

1) A rush to, or no time for character development
2) Bad casting
3) Bad acting

The first few episodes of the original scrubs did an incredible job and character development. This reboot seems like a rush to try to re-create something that was great 20 years ago.

The first few episodes of the reboot should have only had one or two from the original cast, adding originals (not the vampires) slowly, or a frequent cameo appearances.

Having JD and Elliot, now divorced is going to be lame. JD is going to date a new hottie every two or three episodes, just like 20 years ago.

They're going to try to sell the "JD and Elliot" getting back together, and it's going to lame. If they try to set up a hottie of the week for JD who's in her 20s, it's gotta be gross. If they try to find him 50 year-old hotties for JD, that's not gonna be nearly as well. Maybe just go around they'll give Elliot a new love interest every two or three episodes and make JD jealous.

 

[Deepster]

Been nerding out on Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.

1) Duncan the Tall is referenced 3 different times in GoT. One time is Joffrey commenting "Sir Duncan the Tall has four pages?" in some historical book he's flipping through and insinuating he accomplished some pretty great things. Another time is one of the old Maesters telling a story about how Duncan the Tall didn't stand for a house or for power, but stood for honor. That was clear in the first season and obviously going to be a theme in the series.

2) There's a theory that Brienne of Tarth is a descendant of Duncan the Tall, which is pretty cool. There's detail around that if you search quickly.

George RR Martin is either a genius or a madman or both.

 

[Chin Diesel]

Jury Duty (Prime) It is very silly but it had myself and the Mrs. laughing. All the jurors, the judge, etc, are actors -- except one guy who thinks he is part of sequestered jury. So the show is mostly written with improv when they interact the guy. It's basically a prank show.

James Marsden plays himself as a reluctant juror who couldn't get out of jury duty. He is very funny. Like I said, a lot of it is silly, so I understand if that is not your sense of humor. But the set up works. You will know by the end of the first episode if you like it or not.

Watched that a while back. It is a bit odd of a show. It seems crazy time-wise how they had to actually produce the show with everyone but one guy and then do the fake production of the documentary.