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New TV show to watch?!
January 5, 2016 at
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We just finished Making a Murderer...it wasnt bad.
What else is really good right now? I'm eyeing The Expanse, but not sure my wife would be able to handle it.
What else is really good right now? I'm eyeing The Expanse, but not sure my wife would be able to handle it.
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Like anyone in the lounge needs proof that I'm older than most of you, excluding MLV of course.
took a couple weeks to run through Mr. Robot, [imdb.com] and my response was basically "meh." after hearing a lot about it being the breakout hit of last summer (coming out of left field from USA), i found the character interactions frustrating, some of the surrounding subject matter boring or inaccurate (i work in enterprise IT), and the big twist pretty cheap with at least one noticeable hole in a previous episode. i really like the base concept/Elliot character, but the second half of the season felt like season two of True Detective: a showrunner getting high on his own supply too often and indulging in his own vision to the point the show suffered, especially when characters launched into yet another monologue about how democracy is dead and modern life is empty and devoid of true meaning.
my current drama is The Knick, [imdb.com] a period drama about the Knickerbocker hospital in NY at the turn of the 20th century. the pilot was too busy for its own good, but it had a lot to cover in an hour, and as the different characters and subplots have deepened, it's gotten much better. Clive Owen is amazing as a renowned surgeon with a opiate problem (much easier back when it was legal/commonly prescribed) and anchors the setting well, allowing the myriad of other goings-on to rotate around him at various distances. racism and classism are major themes, and even though they are used bluntly at times, it helps to remember it is set less than 40 years after the Civil War and in a nation that mostly still believes in manifest destiny. each episode is getting better and better, and now that's i'm four in, i now genuinely look forward to the next one.
Another great series from Vince Gilligan, creator of the best TV drama Breaking Bad
It's like the old Johnny Quest cartoons, but if JQ was tripping on acid having flashbacks of all his over the top adventures.
The last full season(season 5) is located on THIS page, as are the first SIX episodes of this season. Unfortunately it requires a cable provider log-in to view them I guess since the videos never seem to play for me.
http://www.adultswim.c
There's also sales on the DVD/Blu-Ray sets on occasion on Amazon or other sites and they're frequently posted on SD if you wanna catch up before watching any of season 6(current season).
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It's really funny. And if you are anti-Obama, anti-Clinton, Republican, or just conservative, this is the show for you.
I got my husband and youngest son to watch a single episode and they are completely hooked. They're binge-watching it on Netflix now.
It's really funny. And if you are anti-Obama, anti-Clinton, Republican, or just conservative, this is the show for you.
I got my husband and youngest son to watch a single episode and they are completely hooked. They're binge-watching it on Netflix now.
Although I'm pretty sure I saw those little bits on TV Land as I was passing that channel by on the way down to the USA Network to watch yet another marathon of NCIS.
Although I'm pretty sure I saw those little bits on TV Land as I was passing that channel by on the way down to the USA Network to watch yet another marathon of NCIS.
It's hilarious. And again, this is coming from someone that stopped watching TV when Friends ended and reality TV took over the airwaves.
It's hilarious. And again, this is coming from someone that stopped watching TV when Friends ended and reality TV took over the airwaves.
It's hilarious. And again, this is coming from someone that stopped watching TV when Friends ended and reality TV took over the airwaves.
Mostly the Marvel stuff on ABC. Plus, we still do Walking Dead, and have taken quite enthusiastically to The Expanse from SciFi (I still refuse to call it SyFy), so we have to get that one a bit more...creatively.
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Mostly the Marvel stuff on ABC. Plus, we still do Walking Dead, and have taken quite enthusiastically to The Expanse from SciFi (I still refuse to call it SyFy), so we have to get that one a bit more...creatively.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt41590...fn_al