i will look into it.
― ulysses, Friday, 27 May 2016 18:47 (eight years ago) link
watched the first season on your rec, Scott. really like it, though I was concerned that it lost a little momentum towards the end (while agreeing with you on the non-linear path being a strength). glad to hear season 2 is good.
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Friday, 27 May 2016 19:00 (eight years ago) link
oh good someone watched it!
the 2nd season is cool because both mom and dad have jobs and watching them interact with normal people is almost always awkward and entertaining.
― scott seward, Friday, 27 May 2016 19:57 (eight years ago) link
Not Netflix, but Mr Robot will be available to stream on Amazon Prime June 13th. I've been wanting to check that show out.
― Rod Steel (musicfanatic), Friday, 3 June 2016 01:16 (seven years ago) link
OOooooohhh thank you!! That is a great tip
― sexy dander (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 3 June 2016 14:01 (seven years ago) link
I just started season 2 of Gommorah, it is nothing spesh just more violent Naples mafia soap opera, but shot in magnificently real urban desolation locations and wonderfully bloody.
― calzino, Friday, 3 June 2016 14:15 (seven years ago) link
Ok Lady Dynamite is starting to win me over
― Neptune Bingo (Michael B), Friday, 3 June 2016 14:27 (seven years ago) link
not til month's end, but that fgti-scored semi-James Dean film Life is coming to N'flix
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Friday, 3 June 2016 14:30 (seven years ago) link
the kids and i really enjoyed watching angie tribeca on hulu last night. love rashida so much. a sledge hammer! for a new generation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKivuQ4HpF4
― scott seward, Wednesday, 8 June 2016 14:19 (seven years ago) link
i tried it but the jokes didn't really bite for me somehow? i dunno i usually love this sort of thing. maybe i just wasn't in the right mood.
scott if you liked that you should really try to, uh, obtain A Touch Of Cloth. unfortunately they only made two of them (or was it three?) but each one is as long as a movie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0FDAqS0Wy4
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 9 June 2016 10:39 (seven years ago) link
i would watch that. i kinda liked that angie tribeca wasn't non-stop sex jokes and was just silly. though i haven't watched them all yet. i don't want everything to be Airplane humor, but i thought it was a nice homage.
― scott seward, Thursday, 9 June 2016 15:45 (seven years ago) link
touch of cloth does occasionally veer too far into gross-out sex jokes. but the first one is near-perfect imo.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 9 June 2016 15:47 (seven years ago) link
Touch Of Cloth is the best of its kind since Police Squad
― my concern would only be that you don't have serenity. (stevie), Friday, 10 June 2016 09:48 (seven years ago) link
I can't believe none of you folks aren't raving about the stylish Italian organised crime series Gomorra. https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/9f/fd/67/9ffd67df17fee3ac7232787205eb3642.jpg
― calzino, Friday, 10 June 2016 22:54 (seven years ago) link
did anyone recommend the Ali Wong special yet? it is funny as fuck
― akm, Friday, 10 June 2016 23:54 (seven years ago) link
so the italian show is based on the movie? i still haven't watched the movie yet. which is on netflix.
― scott seward, Saturday, 11 June 2016 00:41 (seven years ago) link
This kicks off in July. The only reason I've known about it for so long is that it filmed in my little Atlanta 'burb (and further out in the boonies). But even if that hadn't been the case, I'd watch the hell out of it. Spooky mystery show starring Winona Ryder!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWxyRG_tckY
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 11 June 2016 00:54 (seven years ago) link
xp
it is a spinoff from the movie, but the only thing it shares with the movie is the theme of organised crime and the criminal hierarchy on the mean streets of Naples. I didn't think the movie was any great shakes tbh, the series however - I'm finding quite addictive.
― calzino, Saturday, 11 June 2016 10:30 (seven years ago) link
Stumbled onto Hinterlands - I'm only one ep in but it's good & bleak & basically all i want in a murder mystery detective show
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 12 June 2016 04:03 (seven years ago) link
Trophy Kids. Brutal. Parents are assholes.
― Jeff, Sunday, 12 June 2016 10:51 (seven years ago) link
ok hinterlands took a left turn into pointlesstown, it's not as great as first thought
so i tried Happy Valley instead YES
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 13 June 2016 05:56 (seven years ago) link
Love happy valley
― scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), Monday, 13 June 2016 11:40 (seven years ago) link
the end of episode 4 / start of episode 5 of the first series of happy valley has stuck with me, the brutality and the way they handled it.
― koogs, Monday, 13 June 2016 11:59 (seven years ago) link
haven't watched season 2 yet but season 1 of happy valley is amazing
― dan selzer, Monday, 13 June 2016 12:08 (seven years ago) link
yeah it's great
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Monday, 13 June 2016 12:39 (seven years ago) link
I've watched a few episodes of the new Voltron series:
a) I did not expect to laugh so much at it. Hunk especially is genuinely funny to me.b) I did not expect Hunk, Pidge and Lance to actually have personalities or to be anything more than background wallpaper, as that's how I remember them from the original showc) I'm enjoying the hell out of it
― STOP KILLING ANIMALS, THEY'RE MINT (DJP), Monday, 13 June 2016 13:26 (seven years ago) link
Lady Dynamite is something special imo. Not a show you'd binge-watch tho
― Neptune Bingo (Michael B), Monday, 13 June 2016 13:28 (seven years ago) link
Comet w/ Justin Long & Emmy Rossum by the guy who created Mr. Robot. Got terrible reviews and I see why (very Eternal Sunshine+500 Days of Summer+mumblecore) but it was strangely compelling.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 14 June 2016 13:04 (seven years ago) link
i keep getting stuck on happy valley. i've started it twice. get a little further each time though. i'll go back to it. kinda reminds me of a laughless fargo.
i still haven't finished lady dynamite either.
i started watching southland on hulu...
― scott seward, Tuesday, 14 June 2016 13:35 (seven years ago) link
i was impressed with the episodes of southland i watched because i actually got nervous/scared watching a stupid california cop show. there is that jittery random violence energy to it.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 14 June 2016 13:37 (seven years ago) link
also they opened the first episode of the first season of Southland with just the intro of "School" by Supertramp and that is something i totally would have done. if i had been in the position to do it.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 15 June 2016 00:11 (seven years ago) link
the morton downey jr. doc is worth a watch. never heard of the guy before, a total piece of shit but fascinating all the same
― Neptune Bingo (Michael B), Wednesday, 15 June 2016 16:50 (seven years ago) link
well consider yrself lucky
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 15 June 2016 16:57 (seven years ago) link
you might be lucky to have missed his reign of terror. certainly the genesis of a lot of american t.v. ugliness. i never missed his show.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 15 June 2016 16:59 (seven years ago) link
lucky x-post
― scott seward, Wednesday, 15 June 2016 17:00 (seven years ago) link
Never heard of Morton Downey Jr. before (we never got those kinda shows in Finland), but reading at the Wikipedia description of his show, I was wondering, is that what Weird Al Yankovic was parodying in UHF?
― Tuomas, Thursday, 16 June 2016 09:35 (seven years ago) link
Was it an episode of Morton where racist pos Th0m M3tzger got enjoyably strangled on set?
― scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 16 June 2016 12:04 (seven years ago) link
Geraldo
― remove butt (abanana), Thursday, 16 June 2016 20:39 (seven years ago) link
The era of skinheads on talk shows was a prime period of my life. My sister was friends with one of the SHARP guys, the good skinheads, who were on that geraldo episode immortalized so well by the Beastie Boys.
"you're all mixed up, like pasta primavera. Yo why'd you throw that chair at Geraldo Rivera?"
― dan selzer, Thursday, 16 June 2016 21:29 (seven years ago) link
pablum puker
― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Thursday, 16 June 2016 21:31 (seven years ago) link
Aquarius was pretty good, though I am a fan of Manson stuff + Ellroyesque crime fiction
― sarahell, Thursday, 16 June 2016 21:41 (seven years ago) link
I'm in the middle of Aquarius myself right now. Haven't made up my mind about it yet tbh.
― scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 16 June 2016 22:17 (seven years ago) link
very much has the feel of a 3/4-constructed pulp history series that'll be halfway forgotten in a few years time
duchovny kind of floating through episodes being chill somehow carries it along
― μpright mammal (mh), Friday, 17 June 2016 14:59 (seven years ago) link
Jaco Pastorius doc is solid
― Al Moon Faced Poon (Moodles), Saturday, 18 June 2016 22:10 (seven years ago) link
Just watched (Dis)Honesty: The Truth About Lies. Nice little pop-psych documentary centred on a lecture by Prof. Dan Ariely about the state between telling ourselves we're good people and still being able to lie in good conscience. It cycles through about 15 different types of lie/liar anecdotes in an hour and a half and still manages to resolve satisfactorily. Maybe the most interesting parts for me were the insider insights to sport corruption and the stuff about how lying over time changes your brain.
Now to watch Pretty Little Liars season 7! Everyone is excited.
― It certainly is punk of the Church of England to think that way (tangenttangent), Saturday, 25 June 2016 21:49 (seven years ago) link
Saw that Spotlight is now streaming, but can't remember if it was on Prime or Netflix.
― Rod Steel (musicfanatic), Wednesday, 29 June 2016 23:31 (seven years ago) link
netflix. just watched it. oof.
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Thursday, 30 June 2016 04:31 (seven years ago) link
Guys whoa Happy Valley. This thread is working!
― Hadrian VIII, Thursday, 30 June 2016 14:14 (seven years ago) link
right!?
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 30 June 2016 14:20 (seven years ago) link
my gal got into Last Tango In Halifax after we finished the second season of Happy Valley and she seems to be loving it though it's a bit soapy for me.
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Thursday, 30 June 2016 16:42 (seven years ago) link