the Last Man ending was such a cheesy cliffhanger - c'mon, they're not going to kill either of them
wrong! (although I agree it was obvious they weren't gonna kill Sudeikis)
This show... it's a lot of squandered potential but occasionally it is incredible and unlike anything else. In particular, the debuts for each season stand apart in that so far they have all been explorations of desolate landscapes and the insanity of loneliness, and packed with great imagery. This last one just holy shit - airfields full of corpses, cruising around abandoned cities in hazmat suits, paddling across empty oceans. Ballard would surely see it as an homage (or at least some kind of pop culture validation of his obsessions and themes). Unfortunately, after these episodes the show more or less devolves into a much less interesting comedy of manners that only fitfully engages with the much more interesting ideas at its disposal. idk maybe it's a budget thing.
― Οὖτις, Friday, 18 March 2016 18:53 (eight years ago) link
the most recent OJ 'jurors episode' had some classic bits.. the Seinfeld/Martin argument/vote, also the synth intro to 'Natural One' by Folk Implosion vibed well with the tone of the show. Dude playing Johnny Cochran is great, Travolta is terrifying
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Friday, 25 March 2016 17:17 (eight years ago) link
hearing 'natural one' in any context is p good tbh
togetherness got cancelled/not renewed. I watch it and like it ok but agree w this decision
― johnny crunch, Friday, 25 March 2016 18:05 (eight years ago) link
Man the People VS OJ is the greatest thing going. Don't know what crime they're going to do for a second season but can't see them doing a better job.
that's too bad about togetherness, I like that show! wtf it's not like HBO has better things to put up really.
my 10:
People vs OJBetter Call SaulWalking DeadThe FlashSupergirlTogethernessVEEPSilicon ValleyGame of Thronesnot sure of #10
― akm, Friday, 25 March 2016 19:59 (eight years ago) link
NCISNCIS: Los AngelesNCIS: New OrleansNCIS: MiamiNCIS: Little RockNCIS: BedrockLego NCIS: New OrleansNCIS: R'ylehNCIS: FlavortownFace-Off
― Star Wars ate shiitake (latebloomer), Friday, 25 March 2016 20:09 (eight years ago) link
very eclectic
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Friday, 25 March 2016 20:12 (eight years ago) link
Ppl vs OJ keeps getting better, i'm kinda blown away
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 25 March 2016 23:28 (eight years ago) link
Ten:
Better Call SaulBroad CityLast Man on EarthLoveFlakedLes RevenantsBob's BurgersReal Housewives of Beverly HillsVanderpump RulesBold and the Beautiful
Not on right now:The Great British Baking Show (S1 on Netflix)
― “I hate my wife. She doesn’t even have a dick” (sunny successor), Monday, 28 March 2016 19:26 (eight years ago) link
there are like 13 different websites recapping the people vs oj simpson each week as a "fact checking" feature
― Mordy, Monday, 28 March 2016 22:49 (eight years ago) link
dayumm tonight was good
― fappy bird (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 30 March 2016 03:22 (eight years ago) link
Gonna try out this new Hulu series The Path. I love stories about cults.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, 30 March 2016 12:08 (eight years ago) link
i was 11 when the oj trial was going on and i remember a few details from then - i remember watching the bronco chase (though i didn't know anything about oj holding a gun to his head during it, or that the police pulled them over and then let them go again). i also remember the gloves, and that fuhrman was a terrible racist. most of the details of the case tho i wasn't really aware of, and that includes the fuhrman tapes where he speaks openly about framing and beating black ppl (of course he uses a different word to refer to them). it's hard for me to have any sympathy for the LAPD or prosecution based on the facts presented in this show. i believe OJ did the crime but holy shit - if you're going to employ openly racist psychos who admit on hours of tape footage to planting evidence and then use them as key witnesses then you deserve to lose your case. the consequence of running a vile incompetent organization is that even when you're right you don't get to ask for the benefit of the doubt. i believe OJ absolutely should've been acquitted just based on the incompetence of the DA + LAPD. sorry if this is all 'duh,' it's just new for me bc i wasn't really aware of any of this background while it was happening.
― Mordy, Wednesday, 30 March 2016 16:58 (eight years ago) link
feeling really old here
― ulysses, Wednesday, 30 March 2016 17:10 (eight years ago) link
i believe OJ absolutely should've been acquitted just based on the incompetence of the DA + LAPD
oof, really? release a homicidal maniac to the street as an admonishment?
― fappy bird (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 30 March 2016 17:31 (eight years ago) link
it's not like karmically just, but it is legally just. you can't do that shit and then complain when you fail to indict someone i don't care how good the forensic evidence is. the guy who collected all the forensic evidence turned out to have tape footage saying that he believes in framing black ppl. if that's the kind of organization you're running you deserve whatever you get in the courtroom imo.
― Mordy, Wednesday, 30 March 2016 17:38 (eight years ago) link
i hope that the case served as a wakeup call to the dept that they had become epic failures at any kind of prosecution of justice. if it did and led them to revamp and fix their shit then maybe it was even karmically just in the long run.
― Mordy, Wednesday, 30 March 2016 17:39 (eight years ago) link
Trying to think of 10 that are actually all current not just things that i'm watching on d/lded files.
I did really enjoy The Night Manager and want to read the original book its been heauily morphed from. Interesting cos the tv series seems to rely on day to day technology that I doubt was around when the book was written.
Also Happy Valley, I really like Sally Wainwright's writing. I went through a binge of watching a lot of the tv stuff last year. Noticed taht when Wainwright left the Manchester police series she began the writing standard became really cliched.Enjoyed Last Tango In Halifax even if it is a rom-com. The backstory is well done or make taht plural since there is a bunch of stuff going on at any given time. I'm just watching the Lecturer husband of Sarah lancaster in that in Fresh meat and wonder if he's in danger of becoming typecast.
Walking Dead. I watched teh first series of taht then didn't watch it for several years until around teh time I read the book World War z and started watching a couple of zombie things. This was by far the more intelligent.
GothamQI which just stopped recently i think and i think that must mean that Stephen fry has left without there being a very large fanfare about it, unless I missed an episode.
Fresh Meat which I think has just come to the end. Unless Josie continues with her new housemates. But I'm watching it through from the beginning and realising taht I don't think I've seen any of the first series before or the first couple of episodes of teh 2nd.
Better Call Saul which may well be an improvement on the series it spun off, good that that was.
Marvel's Agents of Shield is still good. As was Agent carter.
& I'm still watching Grimm.
FlashBlindspot Just watched through Man In the hIgh castle and really want to read the book. Look forward to the 2nd season.Daredevil was great too.
Lucifer is enjoyable trash.
trying to think of other stuff I've really got into recently.Watched all of the Gordon ramsay makeover shows in a bing that extended either side of Xmas. Meant to do taht with most of David Attenborough which i d/lded around the same time but not got as far as I'd like. Still may just get further into that.
I just checked out Broad city thanks to this thread and the episode I watched was quite good. So will probably look further into that.Watched through the Unbreakable kimmy Schmidt over the last couple of weeks thanks to mention elsewhere on here.Need to finish off the most recent series of Ripper Street.
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 30 March 2016 18:20 (eight years ago) link
First two episodes of Happy Valley are great; it's basically "bad things happen to bad people / bad things happen to good people: the show"
― ulysses, Monday, 4 April 2016 13:40 (eight years ago) link
^season 2 natch
ended up watching an episode of The Carmichael Show out of curiosity... it's somehow pretty good? How did that happen?
― ulysses, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 07:31 (eight years ago) link
I caught most of an episode of that too and found it pretty strange. It felt like everyone else in the cast besides Carmichael was in a normal family sitcom while he was just this guy kind of wandering through the scenes commenting on what he was seeing. I suppose that could be an interesting dynamic if carried further out, but in this case I think it's just a function of him being a really bad actor.
― evol j, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 13:13 (eight years ago) link
I'll give you two guesses as to what actually happened, and the first one doesn't count
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 15:24 (eight years ago) link
enjoying:
60 days innaked and afraidgirlsfuck that's deliciouscatfishbroad citynew girlvinyllast man on earth
returning soon & expect to enjoy - veep, catastrophe
new stuff that looks interesting & will check out - girlfriend experience, the detour
― johnny crunch, Friday, 8 April 2016 13:23 (eight years ago) link
WTF is Fuck That's Delicious and how is that real
― My Whole Existence Is Flan (Old Lunch), Friday, 8 April 2016 13:25 (eight years ago) link
action bronson's eating show on vice
― ulysses, Friday, 8 April 2016 13:47 (eight years ago) link
how could anyone regularly watch ten television shows?
― Keks + Nuss (contenderizer), Friday, 8 April 2016 14:08 (eight years ago) link
you mean like only 10?
(i've got about 20 active shows in my filter right now... i'm behind on everything, but still)
― yellow despackling power (Will M.), Friday, 8 April 2016 14:50 (eight years ago) link
I have the patience and wherewithal and sometimes even the active desire, but time and focus are often lacking.
― My Whole Existence Is Flan (Old Lunch), Friday, 8 April 2016 14:53 (eight years ago) link
I'm probably actually watching ten-ish shows right now but at least half of them are no longer airing.
― My Whole Existence Is Flan (Old Lunch), Friday, 8 April 2016 14:55 (eight years ago) link
oh if we're coutning shows not currently airing my list is at like 80. it's fucking bad
(i am going to have to cull A LOT bc i was already behind before i got a new job and a gf... yeesh)
― yellow despackling power (Will M.), Friday, 8 April 2016 14:56 (eight years ago) link
2nd season of iZombie was a blast, and the finale was great. Not sure where they're gonna go with Blaine and also after the first episode of Liv being estranged from her little brother and mom because of her refusal to donate blood for a transfusion nothing else is mentioned about it for the rest of the season which seems a little odd.
Ravi is the best and Steven Weber was gold throughout.
― pandemic, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 15:14 (eight years ago) link
I was going to list the shows I'm currently watching but, due to lol toddlers, my list ends up looking like:
Thomas and FriendsPeg + CatWild KrattsOdd SquadSesame StreetCurious GeorgeNature CatBlack-ishAmerican Dad!Super Why
― i like to trump and i am crazy (DJP), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 15:48 (eight years ago) link
I think it's just Bojack Horseman and The Returned (french version obv.) for me, everything else is just OK
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 15:56 (eight years ago) link
due to lol toddlers, my list ends up looking like
The first 10 seconds of the trailer for last week's Peg+Cat special episode was the greatest thing I've seen on TV in a while.
"Space . . . vast, peaceful, silent . . . except for the gigantic singing pig heading towards earth!"
― early rejecter, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 16:18 (eight years ago) link
oh don't get me wrong, Peg + Cat and Odd Squad are actually both flat-out awesome and I'd recommend either to anyone, almost regardless of whether they have kids or not
― i like to trump and i am crazy (DJP), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 16:49 (eight years ago) link
(there is a special place in Hell reserved for everyone involved with Thomas and Friends, though)
these days it's
OctonautsWild KrattsZoboomafooSuper WhyMagic School BusCreative Galaxy
― nomar, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 17:00 (eight years ago) link
Octonauts is the best of that bunch though they're all pretty damn solid kids' shows
oh and
Lily's Driftwood BayPuffin RockTumble Leaf
― nomar, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 17:01 (eight years ago) link
and then Game of Thrones I guess, I haven't been watching much TV for adults lately apparently.
― nomar, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 17:02 (eight years ago) link
I have substituted Diablo III for a lot of the time I was spending on television, apparently
― i like to trump and i am crazy (DJP), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 17:22 (eight years ago) link
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I've got to watch the 2nd season of the Returned tv series yet. I picked up the novel and hadn't previously realised it was by a black american author so not sure what that's going to mean.
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 17:28 (eight years ago) link
i work on thomas and friends ebooks once in a while and imo they're actively evil
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 18:17 (eight years ago) link
sir topham hatt is a monster
― nomar, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 18:20 (eight years ago) link
if i'm remembering right there was an episode where Henry didn't want to come out of a tunnel or something and Topham Hatt decided to wall him up inside the tunnel, 'cask of amontillado' style, as punishment.
― nomar, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 18:21 (eight years ago) link
I have complained (only partly facetiously) about Thomas and Friends' monstrous pro-coal agenda on some other thread
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 18:23 (eight years ago) link
oh its only a coincidence that the cleaner-burning diesel fuel engines are typically the "bad" engines, you say?
xp: oh my god I saw reference to that in an episode we were watching over the weekend; I think I was so startled that I was momentarily paralyzed
― i like to trump and i am crazy (DJP), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 18:23 (eight years ago) link
i have deeply confused british friends of mine by referring to him as "sir topham hatt" instead of "the fat controller." anyway yes literally everybody in thomas and friends is a horrible asshole and he's the worst
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 18:24 (eight years ago) link
it was in the episode/movie that introduced Luke, who was harboring a TERRIBLE SECRET, and Thomas was asking all of the other engines what the worst thing they'd ever done was and Henry's was "get walled into a tomb by The Fat Controller"
although tbf if I was running a system full of talking trains and they all called me "The Fat Controller", I'd be walling up some motherfuckers too
― i like to trump and i am crazy (DJP), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 18:25 (eight years ago) link