What TV SHOWS are you watching?

yeah, it's two completely different styles of comedic writing, which is what SNL can be so good sometimes, for the variety of it.

Black Jeopardy is really smart satire (like you see on Daily Show, Full Frontal and sometimes Colbert).

but the David S. Pumpkins thing is just total BALLS OUT comedic writing. it's either funny or it's a total disaster. i like those kinds of risks. After Kevin Roberts (Larry David) sketch, we're now seeing this is going to hopefully be a regular thing. The next time some random dude shows up in orange, i'm already going to be laughing.

Rafael Silva wrote: Season 3 of Black Mirror didn't work for me at all. I really enjoyed the first two seasons but the shift from dystopian/social horror to personal horror killed it for me.

Not sure how you see such a difference. Season 3 had some dystopian/social horror, and some previous season episodes had personal horror. I found all of the subjects in season 3 to be in a similar vein as earlier ones, and in some cases better realized.

That being said, my least favorite of season 3 is Playtest, which is the most personal horror one of the group.

Been watching Dark Matter on Netflix. I watched the first two pilot-y episodes and then stopped but have been speeding through the rest and am now into season 2. It's ... OK? "Dark" only in a very Canadian, relentlessly nice way? I can't make any grand case for it. It's competent ship-based SF where the characterization is thin but relatively well implemented, the plots are serviceable, the CGI is relatively minimal and not overly distractingly basic-cableish, the score is pretty atrocious and repetitive, the season 1 titles are MacPaint (slightly better in s2), and the creative people generally strike a tenuous balance between the familiar and the all-too-familiar. Imagine a less-funny/-warm Firefly with fairly clear character and situational analogues or, reaching back a bit further, a less-well-acted Blake's 7 with better budgets.

Companion show Killjoys does everything better.

JEM wrote: Companion show Killjoys does everything better.

I couldn't get past 2 episodes of Killjoys. Dark Matter is better in every way. Canadian Scifi TV Dome?

Hehe, probably would be a niche topic.

You're wrong though.

I consumed all of season 3 of Black Mirror in 2 days. Top notch stuff, can't recommend it enough. If you like sci-fi, I don't think you'll find anything better on television, and that includes Westworld.

I like sci fi, and based on the first episode, Think Westworld is crap. Black Mirror was generally awesome (not all episodes created equal). I'm very much looking forward to this new season.

I have never heard of Black Mirror until yesterday. I quick glimpse on what it's about and I see the first episode features pig-humping...

How graphic is it? I don't need shocks for shocks sake, so are the tales any good?

It's more psychological horror with the formula being: Take some currently popular technology/societal movement and apply reductio to it until it's terrifying.