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What TV SHOWS are you watching?
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Feelitmon wrote: I just watched my first episode of Black Mirror tonight, and I loathed almost everything about it. It's the episode about the kidnapped princess and an unconventional ransom demand.
That episode is dreadful, and the worst thing possible to put out as a first. If you watch anything else, I'd recommend the White Christmas special, and then San Junipero if you want something less horrific.
Last night I watched the second episode (15 Million Merits, I think it was called) and it was a huge improvement! A proper dystopia, some neat tech, and great "what would you do" moments. I'm glad to hear that the first episode is such an outlier. What a weird decision to lead with that one.
Yeah, that pig fucking episode... I liked it enough from a "this is what society is coming to" point of view to continue watching the series. But almost every other episode is better than that one. If you liked 15 Million Merits (one of my favorites), you should like a lot of the rest of them, though they do vary in quality.
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cranberries wrote: I just finished the second season of the British comedy Spy . It is sort of wacky and absurd, and good to watch while grading. I could see the show improving, but just learned that there will be no third season. Sad emoticon.
I have a bit of a crush on her. You can see her also in "No Heroics" a very typically British Comedy about a load of "crap" super heroes. She plays She Force the super strong girl. You should check it out. The Hotness!
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Not really but I have had it on constantly to catch up on the last 7 or eight seasons. Some better than expected, some just bad, none as bad as the Tomacco episode or the one with the lizards.
Takeaways:
- Homer whispering loudly is the least funny thing the show has ever done. Apparently the writers never noticed this fact.
- Spider Pig should never have been referenced again.
- Pretty funny to see Dr. Marvin Monroe again.
- Sex jokes on the Simpsons always feel awkward.
- The later seasons are way too influenced by Family Guy.
- "Adult Halloween" was hilarious.
- Is it just me or is Kirk Van Houten in like every episode from the past ten years?
- The only character overused more than Homer is Ralph Wiggum.
- It's weird but it feels like I've seen all of these episodes before, even the ones I haven't.
Still the best show of all time.
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I still love it and watch faithfully, but there were some very rough years there. I seem to recall the worst being around the 15 season point. Even then, there'd still be a great episode once in a while, and usually even bad episodes had a good laugh or two. Been pretty decent the past several years, though. Hard to ever compare anything to the quality of seasons 2-9, though.
I don't remember the Tomacco one at all, but maybe that's a good thing. There was one episode a while back involving Comic Book Guy and a racetrack, that I thought was the worst. Nothing funny or original the whole show, just a lot of dumb self-referential stuff. Ah, I found it... "Saddlesore Galactica." Hmm, that's also from season 11 like the Tomacco ep. That must have been where it really started getting weak.
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Weird, old-timey lounge music. Riddles within riddles. Funny stuff. A sarcastic talking Bluebird. Feels.
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The sleazy Roma crime figure tells Jeffrey the ex-spy, "Remember when you first came here and thought you could just open up shop, and I beat you?" Jeffrey: "Yes, I have arthritis from the broken bones." Oh, I forgot to mention that Jeffrey used to design magic tricks in Vegas, but he's kind of given up on life as his dreams have died and just wants to get by, so his wife has lost respect for him. And they have a son (and maybe a daughter--I got confused) who sort of knows they are crooked, at least with the psychic stuff, but doesn't know about the side job conning people. There are a lot of Chekov guns that get fired in the finale.
Basically, it felt like there were too many balls in the air, and it would have worked better had they simplified things a bit and had some better acting and fewer cliches. I thought Terriers did a better job of showing LA lowlifes. Still I speed-watched the whole dumb thing, staying up until 2:00 a.m. for the final episode, and it does have its moments. It's rated MA, but with the exception of a random boob in the first episode or two and some clunky f-bombs, it doesn't get too crazy. I found it hard to root for the couple, because they're just sh**ty people to begin with, and never seem to grow. It's a sort of diluted Breaking Bad with Roma, psychic powers and con games. I did enjoy indirectly learning about the Roma in L.A. and con games are always fun.
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Sons of Anarchy exceeded my limited expectations, at least in seasons 5 and 6. The plots continued to be somewhat absurd and the body count was insane, but the writing was just good enough that the excellent stars could sell it to me. Then a couple of major twists in late season 6 took two major characters out. The way one of those happened was so extreme that the writers might have felt trapped in a corner in season 7. What happened was so extreme that their stars might not be able to make it work, so they delayed revelation and reaction til near the end of the series. Fortunately, when the time came, the writers underwrote the scene, and let the actors tell some of it with body language and expression, and they did not disappoint. However, by season seven, it felt like the pace of the storytelling had slowed down somewhat, and the whole season might have worked with fewer episodes.
Sherlock is maddening. Cumberbatch and Freeman are great in the lead roles, but the writing takes too many chances and sometimes fails to fully convey the story. When the show is great, it is wonderfully witty and clever and fun. When the show stumbles, it is quirky and perplexing and a little too smug.
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