Netflix streaming: Black Mirror. Dark science fiction views (except for the disturbing first episode) of what technology, and populism, does to the weak masses. Each episode is one complete tale.
Just got caught up on the first 3 episodes this season. F'ing awesome show. It's just fun.quote:Originally posted by spo:
Banshee season 3
quote:Originally posted by The Old Man:
Netflix streaming: Black Mirror. Dark science fiction views (except for the disturbing first episode) of what technology, and populism, does to the weak masses. Each episode is one complete tale.
Been watching this. It is indeed disturbing, but hard to turn away.
quote:Originally posted by mneeley490:quote:Originally posted by The Old Man:
Netflix streaming: Black Mirror. Dark science fiction views (except for the disturbing first episode) of what technology, and populism, does to the weak masses. Each episode is one complete tale.
Been watching this. It is indeed disturbing, but hard to turn away.
White Bear episode--shudder.
Now go even more horifying (and funny) with Darknet. A Canadian horror anthology-- Don't click here
quote:Originally posted by GlennK:Just got caught up on the first 3 episodes this season. F'ing awesome show. It's just fun.quote:Originally posted by spo:
Banshee season 3
What do you think, GlennK? After a strong start the last 4 episodes have been kind of boring.
quote:Originally posted by spo:quote:Originally posted by GlennK:Just got caught up on the first 3 episodes this season. F'ing awesome show. It's just fun.quote:Originally posted by spo:
Banshee season 3
What do you think, GlennK? After a strong start the last 4 episodes have been kind of boring.
How did you find this week's episode? I think it brings this show back to where it should be
Just started watching "Better Call Saul" - essentially the prequel to Breaking Bad.
Starting off on a good note but have 2 more episodes to catch up
Starting off on a good note but have 2 more episodes to catch up
quote:Originally posted by ABryce:quote:Originally posted by spo:quote:Originally posted by GlennK:Just got caught up on the first 3 episodes this season. F'ing awesome show. It's just fun.quote:Originally posted by spo:
Banshee season 3
What do you think, GlennK? After a strong start the last 4 episodes have been kind of boring.
How did you find this week's episode? I think it brings this show back to where it should be
Yeah, even the episode before this weeks was good but it just has not been as fun of a show to watch. That pissed off marine may give us a few good episodes though.
Two things:
The addition of Ian McShane to the cast for the upcoming season of Ray Donovan has to be the best casting news I've heard in ages.
Better Call Saul has been a bit of a letdown... until the most recent episode. Jonathan Banks was freaking awesome. It was as good as some of the best Breaking Bad episodes.
The addition of Ian McShane to the cast for the upcoming season of Ray Donovan has to be the best casting news I've heard in ages.
Better Call Saul has been a bit of a letdown... until the most recent episode. Jonathan Banks was freaking awesome. It was as good as some of the best Breaking Bad episodes.
quote:Originally posted by sunnylea57:
Two things:
The addition of Ian McShane to the cast for the upcoming season of Ray Donovan has to be the best casting news I've heard in ages.
Better Call Saul has been a bit of a letdown... until the most recent episode. Jonathan Banks was freaking awesome. It was as good as some of the best Breaking Bad episodes.
Have 2 episodes to catch up on this. I'm still hanging in on this, but has felt a little effortful to get through some episodes. I wind up having my computer on and multi-tasking.
I'm hoping it picks up, but definitely not "Breaking Bad"
American Horror
Just finished season 2 (stared with season 4 and have been back-tracking)
This is a fantastic series. Jessica Lange is fantastic in all 3 seasons I have seen as have been all the other "consistent across seasons" actors
Just finished season 2 (stared with season 4 and have been back-tracking)
This is a fantastic series. Jessica Lange is fantastic in all 3 seasons I have seen as have been all the other "consistent across seasons" actors
quote:Originally posted by Parcival:
American Horror
Just finished season 2 (stared with season 4 and have been back-tracking)
This is a fantastic series. Jessica Lange is fantastic in all 3 seasons I have seen as have been all the other "consistent across seasons" actors
I really enjoyed "American Horror Story: Coven"
I've been watching Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt on Netflix. Not excellent, but quite cute; and still better than any sitcom on network TV I know of. I think Ellie Kemper is awesome. And Carol Kane makes anything great. I was never a fan of Tina Fey's while she was on SNL, but I've really enjoyed her work since then.
quote:Originally posted by Parcival:quote:Originally posted by sunnylea57:
Two things:
The addition of Ian McShane to the cast for the upcoming season of Ray Donovan has to be the best casting news I've heard in ages.
Better Call Saul has been a bit of a letdown... until the most recent episode. Jonathan Banks was freaking awesome. It was as good as some of the best Breaking Bad episodes.
Have 2 episodes to catch up on this. I'm still hanging in on this, but has felt a little effortful to get through some episodes. I wind up having my computer on and multi-tasking.
I'm hoping it picks up, but definitely not "Breaking Bad"
Episode five is the weakest of them all. But episode six is brilliant.
Mentioned this in the binge thread already....
Black Sails
I think the 2nd season was better than the first.
Has anyone else seen this?
Black Sails
I think the 2nd season was better than the first.
Has anyone else seen this?
Just finished Deadwood - man was that a great show.
Sorry for double post
quote:Originally posted by Jcocktosten:
Just finished Deadwood - man was that a great show.
I'm looking forward to season 3 of Ray Donovan because Ian McShane (Al Swearengen) will be joining the cast. Paula Malcomson (Trixie) is already a main cast member on Ray Donovan and she's fantastic.
It'll be fun to see them together in a different context.
By the way, I wish someone would correct the spelling and punctuation errors in the title of this thread.
Berno--it's your move.
With the exception of trying to get rid of a ticket to Alinea last year, he hasn't posted here in years. I can't remember the last time I saw him at an offline either.
Watched the ESPN 30 for 30 titled Sole Man. Very interesting stuff.
The new Netflix show, Bloodlines, is excellent. It is a dramatic series about a family business in the Florida Keys. I have only seen the first three episodes, but I will certainly finish watching Season One.
Watching Netflix's Dare Devil series. Pretty good. More dialogue and much less CGI than a typical Marvel movie. Better dialogue and longer story lines than the ABC's Agents of Shield series.
The only thing out of place is the gritty Hell's Kitchen of NYC.
The only thing out of place is the gritty Hell's Kitchen of NYC.
quote:Originally posted by scbeerman:
The new Netflix show, Bloodlines, is excellent. It is a dramatic series about a family business in the Florida Keys. I have only seen the first three episodes, but I will certainly finish watching Season One.
Filmed on location in Islamorada, Key Largo and Tavernier. One morning they were filming at our normal coffee and dog walking location (at the park next door to the cafe) in Tavernier closing the store and a PA runs over telling us they were closed and we had to leave. FKG ignores the PA, walks into the Cafe and the owner says hi to her, tells her to go ahead and use the restroom and asks if we want coffee, free of charge because she was paid for the use of the premise all day. Worked out great.
Last night on Mad Men:
Ken Cosgrove: "You have to taste this. Chateau Margaux '53. Considered by some to be the best there is."
Ken Cosgrove: "You have to taste this. Chateau Margaux '53. Considered by some to be the best there is."
I like VEEP.
If you can find it, check out "The Enfield Haunting". It aired recently on SKY in the UK.
It's a 3-part / 3-hour poltergeist tale, based on an occurrence in the UK in the 1970s.
I'm not a big fan of "things that go bump in the night" movies, but this was extremely well done: the writing, cinematography, 1970s production design... but especially the acting.
Timothy Spall is phenomenal, but so are Matthew Macfadyen and Juliet Stevenson. Even more remarkable is the little girl played by Eleanor Worthington-Cox.
The scenes with Timothy Spall and Juliet Stevenson are heartbreaking.
TRAILER
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MBgShAfgP4
And a few clips:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-M-c04b6MSw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JISfsinEtRE
It's a 3-part / 3-hour poltergeist tale, based on an occurrence in the UK in the 1970s.
I'm not a big fan of "things that go bump in the night" movies, but this was extremely well done: the writing, cinematography, 1970s production design... but especially the acting.
Timothy Spall is phenomenal, but so are Matthew Macfadyen and Juliet Stevenson. Even more remarkable is the little girl played by Eleanor Worthington-Cox.
The scenes with Timothy Spall and Juliet Stevenson are heartbreaking.
TRAILER
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MBgShAfgP4
And a few clips:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-M-c04b6MSw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JISfsinEtRE
Narcos
It's been 30 years since Ash Williams first did battle with The Evil Dead and the great Bruce Williams Campbell is back to kick their ass (and have his kicked) again. Ash vs. Evil Dead is simply wonderful return to the comic horror form for Campbell and his long time friend Sam Raimi. Good enough to just add on Starz to get it.
quote:Originally posted by The Old Man:
It's been 30 years since Ash Williams first did battle with The Evil Dead and the great Bruce Williams is back to kick their ass (and have his kicked) again. Ash vs. Evil Dead is simply wonderful return to the comic horror form for Campbell and his long time friend Sam Raimi. Good enough to just add on Starz to get it.
I just set a season pass for this on Tivo. I was flipping channels and saw the first episode last week and liked it enough to watch more.
quote:Originally posted by The Old Man:
It's been 30 years since Ash Williams first did battle with The Evil Dead and the great Bruce Williams is back to kick their ass (and have his kicked) again. Ash vs. Evil Dead is simply wonderful return to the comic horror form for Campbell and his long time friend Sam Raimi. Good enough to just add on Starz to get it.
I've been a fan for many years, Army of Darkness being my favorite. I'm going to have to figure out some way to catch this.
My favorite story being in Evil Dead 1 (or was it 2?) there was a big, bloated corpse/demon floating near the ceiling (on wires). Sam Raimi's brother, Ted, was forced to play the part. It took so long to get him into the make-up, and costume, and up on the wires, that by the time they got the scene set up, it was time for lunch. So they all took off to go eat, and just left him hanging there.
Sounds like something an older brother would do!
OK so I'm probably the last person in the western world to see it, but we just finished watching all 5 seasons of The Wire. Outstanding stuff. Great writing and some superb performances (McNulty, Bunk, Daniels, Rawls, Stringer) I think my order of preference for the seasons would be 2 (by a longshot), 1, 5, 3 and 4.
Now I'll have to read back through this thread to figure what other series I've missed over the past decade or so.
Now I'll have to read back through this thread to figure what other series I've missed over the past decade or so.
Nice Steve. Love the Wire. Funny though, season 2 was my least favorite.
I really liked how they worked the port workers story into it while maintaining the link with the drug dealing. Of course, now I know that is what they did with each successive season, but they did it with less success imo after two. The Baltimore Sun season was also really well done. Season 4 didn't do it for me at all and in fact we almost gave up on the series after 3 or 4 episodes of it.
quote:Originally posted by steve8:
OK so I'm probably the last person in the western world to see it, but we just finished watching all 5 seasons of The Wire. Outstanding stuff.
As I always say, it it weren't for The Wire; Battlestar Galatica would be the greatest dramatic series of all time.
quote:Originally posted by steve8:
OK so I'm probably the last person in the western world to see it
You're not the last.....
Latest shows added to my rotation:
The Bastard Executioner
The Player
Just DVR'd Agent X but haven't watched yet.
The Bastard Executioner
The Player
Just DVR'd Agent X but haven't watched yet.
quote:Originally posted by PD2K:
Latest shows added to my rotation:
The Bastard Executioner
The Player
Just DVR'd Agent X but haven't watched yet.
Watching The Player now, as it happens, but even after 5 episodes not sure I will stick with it. Amongst the other new network shows, liking Blindside though, no others have really caught on yet though I'm only a couple of episodes into most of them.
I haven't watched but I read The Player was canceled.
oh man I loved season 4. Chris and Snoop doing their thing and a great Omar season.quote:Originally posted by steve8:
I really liked how they worked the port workers story into it while maintaining the link with the drug dealing. Of course, now I know that is what they did with each successive season, but they did it with less success imo after two. The Baltimore Sun season was also really well done. Season 4 didn't do it for me at all and in fact we almost gave up on the series after 3 or 4 episodes of it.