Lethal Weapon is still awesome fyi
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 22 November 2016 02:46 (seven years ago) link
sorrry lol
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 22 November 2016 02:47 (seven years ago) link
Season 1 of The Missing is p incredible was that discussed anywhere? What do ppl think of the ending ??
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Tuesday, 22 November 2016 05:09 (seven years ago) link
i have just started watching & i really like it!
apparently s2 is a whole new & totally different situation, kind of a cool idea for the series
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 22 November 2016 05:52 (seven years ago) link
oh idk if it's being talked about on ILM but Soundbreaking on PBS is p cool
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 22 November 2016 07:02 (seven years ago) link
xps Yeah, I'm surprised how much I'm still enjoying Lethal Weapon
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 22 November 2016 08:00 (seven years ago) link
i don't remember the thread we discussed The Missing on but yes it was very good
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 22 November 2016 08:30 (seven years ago) link
I started Crashing, too, definitely more traditional than Fleabag or Catastrophe (the only British shows I've seen in a bit) but pretty good.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 22 November 2016 14:18 (seven years ago) link
Watched the first couple episodes of Divorce. SJP is doing kind of a nothing straight-woman performance, but the character-actor-support-stuff is good.
It's weird seeing a Sharon Horgan show in a upper-crust NY milieu though - it's like watching a show that's been Google translated.
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 22 November 2016 14:44 (seven years ago) link
next ep of divorce is written by hayes davenport, i am puuuuumped. i'm a couple eps behind so i haven't even watched the tom scharpling written ep yet!
― mint challop (Will M.), Tuesday, 22 November 2016 16:49 (seven years ago) link
I really liked S1 of The Missing, ending included. I'm watching S2 and it's gripping but perhaps more formulaic crimey drama with too many timelines to keep track of.
― kinder, Tuesday, 22 November 2016 17:10 (seven years ago) link
Crashing was ok, not as good as Fleabag.
― Stevolende, Friday, 25 November 2016 21:50 (seven years ago) link
Crashing was very BBC 3
― Number None, Friday, 25 November 2016 22:40 (seven years ago) link
WHY DID I WAIT SO LONG TO WATCH ATLANTA??
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 26 November 2016 00:29 (seven years ago) link
^this
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 26 November 2016 00:36 (seven years ago) link
Just finished Season 1 of the Swedish version of The Bridge. Really good.
Watched the Season 3 premiere of The Affair and am on board for that one as well. It's kind of amazing what a piece of shit the male lead is, and yet his two oldest children are so much worse.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Saturday, 26 November 2016 01:56 (seven years ago) link
ATLANTA PREMIERED LIKE TWO MONTHS AGO!!
― rip van wanko, Saturday, 26 November 2016 02:12 (seven years ago) link
lol but tv journalism has been talking about our post-Atlanta world
― mh 😏, Saturday, 26 November 2016 03:00 (seven years ago) link
just binged all of Search Party... pretty damn good!
Also knocked out four episodes of WestWorld. Also a good time.
― the notes the loon doesn't play (ulysses), Saturday, 26 November 2016 21:40 (seven years ago) link
i wasn't interested in search party until i saw michael showalter wrote it.
― Mordy, Saturday, 26 November 2016 22:37 (seven years ago) link
the payoff is earned but i wish i knew for sure it had been renewed? They leave the door open and the story more or less unfinished.... depending on how you'd like to define it.
― the notes the loon doesn't play (ulysses), Saturday, 26 November 2016 23:32 (seven years ago) link
I'm fairly certain it'll be renewed, assuming TBS is interested in building up their nascent comedy brand (or "comedy" in the case of SP)
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Saturday, 26 November 2016 23:38 (seven years ago) link
I violently disliked Search Party and regretted wasting my time on it - I watched the first four, fast-forwarded through the rest. Just felt shouty and unpleasant and overpleased with itself for bending the rules in a pretty predictable way. And no one talked like a human. What did you like about it?
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 27 November 2016 21:15 (seven years ago) link
I liked it as a statement on the desperate need for deeper meaning as you move out of your twenties and into your thirties; I liked that all the people were desperate and needy and horrible but not in any sort of a way that felt too false; I liked the acting in general and for the boyfriend in particular; I liked that it took chances (and sometimes failed) and tried out some new ideas
i did NOT like the soundtrack.
― the notes the loon doesn't play (ulysses), Sunday, 27 November 2016 22:06 (seven years ago) link
Lol, I mostly agree with you there, but I still hated it. Agree the boyfriend actor was really good.
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 27 November 2016 23:38 (seven years ago) link
I was really happy they pivoted away from making the boyfriend as awful as he was in the pilot.
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Sunday, 27 November 2016 23:45 (seven years ago) link
Yeah. I found the two blonde friends unwatchable though. In general the whole thing felt a bit idiot plotty, with meanness substituting for idiocy.
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 27 November 2016 23:50 (seven years ago) link
i guess it never felt mean to me? and the climax felt very much earned: the terrible search for meaning proving utterly false, but now the journey has created a whole series of life-changing situations. it owes a lot to "how to get away with murder" imo except without serious exploration of race or gender
― the notes the loon doesn't play (ulysses), Sunday, 27 November 2016 23:56 (seven years ago) link
guys..... honestly watching a show like Atlanta has been a kind of "raise your standards" moment for me. i think it may have just kneecapped Westworld, for instance.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 28 November 2016 00:33 (seven years ago) link
Fleabag's writer Phoebe Waller-Bridge was featured in an interview in the Guardian Weekend Magazine yesterdayhttps://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/nov/26/phoebe-waller-bridge-kate-tempest-conversation-fleabag
― Stevolende, Monday, 28 November 2016 00:48 (seven years ago) link
I didn't enjoy the Atlanta pilot, does it improve/change?
― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 28 November 2016 01:02 (seven years ago) link
i think it gets better but i also loved the pilot a lot.
― the notes the loon doesn't play (ulysses), Monday, 28 November 2016 01:07 (seven years ago) link
PBS chat show ep of Atlanta is all time
― Gukbe, Monday, 28 November 2016 04:50 (seven years ago) link
the latest rectify was best tv ep of the year
― Spottie, Monday, 28 November 2016 06:52 (seven years ago) link
"Insecure" finale was excellent.
― Ross, Tuesday, 29 November 2016 05:22 (seven years ago) link
watched all of fleabag yesterday & loved it
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 29 November 2016 12:19 (seven years ago) link
Seem to be in bits every week watching Rectify at the moment. So great
― groovypanda, Friday, 2 December 2016 23:22 (seven years ago) link
I liked the early, less relationship-centric eps of Insecure best.
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Friday, 2 December 2016 23:26 (seven years ago) link
I said earlier (prolly on the Atlanta thread, but definitely before Rectify started back up) that Atlanta was show of the year unless Rectify knocked it out the park, and goddamn if they aren't swinging to the sorry I don't know why I embarked on a metaphor about a sport I know nothing about. But Rectify this season seem to have doubled down on everything that made it great in the first place, these characters are so well defined that it is encroaching on my real life, in that when I consider how my actions will affect various people I have to stop and think which of them are real and which of them are just on Rectify, oh dear looking back at that it doesn't make me seem overly well-adjusted but I get by.
In other news, I am very much enjoying Search Party.
― Jonathan Hellion Mumble, Saturday, 3 December 2016 01:23 (seven years ago) link
I just started Atlanta today finally & I love it. The vibe, everything. Real good.
Checked out the Great *American* Baking Show this week & am ok woth it, it's not up to the original but has the same nice vibe about it, quirky bakers. Hosts are a bit ehhhh but i can deal.
You're The Worst season finale was a+, such a great weird show.
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 4 December 2016 06:48 (seven years ago) link
First ep of Search Party has been pretty tough to get through.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 6 December 2016 04:53 (seven years ago) link
So much shouting. That doesn't change, either. Bail while you can.
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 6 December 2016 12:41 (seven years ago) link
Saw the first episode of Chewing Gum and not sure I can get my wife to return to it. She did make it through two episodes of Fleabag, which I hear gets better and richer as it goes along, so there's hope there. She's pretty put off by the (now long-running) trend of TV comedies being little more than terrible people behaving terribly, whether for sheer discomfort (Curb Your Enthusiasm) or total chaos (Always Sunny), but she seems to have the least patience for shows like You're The Worst, which I think are great and rewarding, but I concede you have to make it over a couple of hurdles first to find the humanity in all the horribleness. I think she prefers the more innocent mutual insult society of shows like Happy Endings or even Party Down.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 6 December 2016 12:41 (seven years ago) link
Totally. Use of Roches' Hammond Song at the end was A++++++
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 6 December 2016 12:45 (seven years ago) link
I'm like halfway through season two of Rectify and I'm not enjoying it very much (I don't care for any of the characters). Does it start to pay off a little more, or is this more or less the vibe the whole way through?
― Evan R, Tuesday, 6 December 2016 15:44 (seven years ago) link
rectify seemed well done but it made me sort of nauseous to watch it? like if someone intelligently cast and directed a particularly bleak recurring nightmare i have.
― A big shout out goes to the lamb chops, thos lamb chops (ulysses), Tuesday, 6 December 2016 17:06 (seven years ago) link
I've burned through eight episodes of Pitch over the last two nights. Season finale is tonight (Thursday), so I have one more to watch plus that.
I love everything about this show, hope it comes back. And I hope it comes back with another ten episode season, because it could get bloated otherwise. It's super lean right now.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 8 December 2016 05:31 (seven years ago) link
xp I loved S1 of Rectify, but I was so bored with the first ep of S2 that I've never gone back.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 8 December 2016 05:33 (seven years ago) link
u should def go back
― Spottie, Thursday, 8 December 2016 05:44 (seven years ago) link
yeah s3 and s4 of Rectify >>>>> s2 (which I agree took a bit of a dip)
in retrospect, everyone really underrated the hell out of The Girlfriend Experience, which is back next year with the same creatives but a different cast/premise.
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 05:02 (seven years ago) link