What have you been watching lately

Anaxagoras · Post by **Anaxagoras** » Fri Mar 10, 2017 4:38 pm

Just a general purpose thread.

I recently started bingewatching Homeland on Netflix. It's not a new series, but in a way that's better if you haven't seen it yet because there's already many seasons to watch. It keeps getting crazier with each season, but in a good way. I finished Season 2 and am on like the 4th episode of Season 3.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1796960/

ed · Post by ed » Fri Mar 10, 2017 5:42 pm

I've been watching A Place to Call Home, an Aussie sorta prime time soap. Oddly addictive with more than a bit of All My Children. Takes place in the 50's, gay children, children out of wedlock, evil step mothers. Really a guilty pleasure. I am glad you don't know who I am.

Anaxagoras · Post by **Anaxagoras** » Fri Mar 10, 2017 6:12 pm

A soap opera? Aren't those for chicks?

Not that there's anything wrong with that I suppose.

ed · Post by ed » Fri Mar 10, 2017 6:26 pm

Eat me.

It is a soap opera. I have found myself talking to the characters. It's embarrassing.

ETA

http://ew.com/article/2015/04/01/place- ... riod-soap/

Fid · Post by **Fid** » Fri Mar 10, 2017 10:18 pm

I recorded The Expanse on recommendation of Phil Plait but didn't start watching until last week. Damn! He was right it doth truly kick ass. Hey, I can forgive a whole lot in sci-fi but this only alerted my bullshit filters a couple of times.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3230854/?ref_=nv_sr_3

no one in particular · Fri Mar 10, 2017 10:23 pm

Fid wrote:I recorded The Expanse on recommendation of Phil Plait but didn't start watching until last week. Damn! He was right it doth truly kick ass. Hey, I can forgive a whole lot in sci-fi but this only kicked in my bullshit filters a couple of times.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3230854/?ref_=nv_sr_3

I liked the hell out of the first season. I plan to pick up the second season pretty soon. There's a separate thread about it hereabouts.

Fid · Post by **Fid** » Fri Mar 10, 2017 10:59 pm

Thanks, I looked up the thread in question good to know the sausage factory is up and running.

Anaxagoras · Post by **Anaxagoras** » Sat Mar 11, 2017 4:57 am

I am watching The Expanse too. At the very least I think it's the best current Sci-Fi TV series.

I mean, there is also Westworld and Humans, but those are differently focused on AI and whether it can be sentient and what that means.

The Expanse is more Space Opera, there aren't really even any robots in it that I can remember, are there? There's aliens, but curiously no robots given the level of technology. You'd think a couple hundred years in the future with colonies as far away as the moons of Jupiter and Saturn that AI would also be a thing, but it just doesn't seem to be a part of the story. You don't really notice their absence though unless you think about it.

Doctor X · Post by **Doctor X** » Sat Mar 11, 2017 6:23 am

Anaxagoras wrote:The Expanse is more Space Opera, there aren't really even any robots in it that I can remember, are there?

Tentacles?

What?

--J.D.

P.S. Actually, enjoying the old The Boondocks.

P.P.S. 24 Legacy: better than it sounds.

P.P.P.S. 地獄少女: because I am in the mood for a light-hearted comedy involving a girl damn'd for all eternity after the last thing she saw was her sweatheart shoveling the dirt over her.

[P.P.P.P.S. He has the last twenty-four minutes and twenty-seven seconds of Super Bowl LI on a continuous loop.--Ed.]

ed · Post by ed » Sat Mar 11, 2017 2:19 pm

Watched Elementary for a couple of seasons. Latest season got sorta preachy. It is almost as if they did focus group and identified what people like about the character and then started writing scripts to a formula. Come to think of it ...

Nyarlathotep · Post by **Nyarlathotep** » Tue Mar 28, 2017 12:36 am

Been catching Legion as it comes on (Season Finale is in a couple of days). Trippy as hell and I spend half the show wondering WTF is going on. But enjoyable. It's based off of an obscure X-Men character, though there is just about zero overlap with the X-men universe SFAICT. The only real crossover has been the big bad of the season.

Spoiler:

They also talk about the main character's real father, who is a well known character in the comics (

Spoiler:

) and they hint at his identity, but have yet to come out and say it.

In between I have been watching Vikings. Started watching it just as mindless TV to get my mind off of things, but I find myself quite liking it. It makes a mishmash of history, but handles the Viking era better than a lot of shows. Still fucks a lot of things up. Enjoyable though. There is a character named Floki who I identify with a lot.

gnome · Post by **gnome** » Tue Mar 28, 2017 2:01 am

Prediction: They won't come out and actually say it.

Spoiler:

Kind of like how Smallville wouldn't use the name "Superman" for the longest time.

ed · Post by ed » Tue Mar 28, 2017 2:03 am

Chicago Code

Not bad.

Nyarlathotep · Post by **Nyarlathotep** » Tue Mar 28, 2017 2:04 am

gnome wrote:Prediction: They won't come out and actually say it.
Spoiler:
At most they'll show a bald head in silhouette.
Kind of like how Smallville wouldn't use the name "Superman" for the longest time.

Was reading somewhere though where the show's creator has said he would like to bring the character on to the show, maybe in the second season.

Though....

Spoiler:

Nyarlathotep · Post by **Nyarlathotep** » Tue Mar 28, 2017 2:10 am

ed wrote:Chicago Code

Not bad.

Never heard of it? Sounds hospital related

ed · Post by ed » Tue Mar 28, 2017 2:16 am

Cop procedural. Pretty well acted not as over the top as Blue Bloods. Not as gritty as a cable show but entertaining nonetheless.

Seems we have seen 100's of series over the past couple of years.

We have the 7 minute rule. If a show does not grab us in that time it is bye bye. No reprieve.

Nyarlathotep · Post by **Nyarlathotep** » Tue Mar 28, 2017 2:30 am

If the concept grabs me, I give it three episodes. Some shows need a couple of episodes to "grow the beard"

If the concept doesn't grab me, then it doesn't even get seven minutes.

Anaxagoras · Post by **Anaxagoras** » Tue Mar 28, 2017 2:38 am

Legion, I don't suppose that is on Netflix? If it comes I shall probably check it out.

Nyarlathotep · Post by **Nyarlathotep** » Tue Mar 28, 2017 2:55 am

Anaxagoras wrote:Legion, I don't suppose that is on Netflix? If it comes I shall probably check it out.

Not on Netflix, yet, but I have been watching it on Hulu.

Doctor X · Post by **Doctor X** » Tue Mar 28, 2017 4:24 am

24 Legacy has been actually pretty good.

I have also been generally happy with the serialization of Joe R. Lansdale's "Hap and Leonard" series of books called, oddly enough, Hap and Leonard.

--J.D.

Fid · Post by **Fid** » Mon Apr 03, 2017 5:15 am

Oh yeah, I left out " Rick and Morty." Doth kick the ass.

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Wed Apr 05, 2017 11:42 pm

"Howard's End," just started "Young Mr. Lincoln"

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Sun Apr 09, 2017 2:32 pm

Stopped watching "Young Mr. Lincoln." Exceeded our glurge capacity.

Started watching "Becoming Jane." Too predictable.

Now watching "House of Cards"...the British Original, mind you...thus correcting a long-neglected deficiency in my education.

Anaxagoras · Post by **Anaxagoras** » Wed Apr 12, 2017 10:00 pm

Started watching the new season of Better Call Saul. Still good.

sparks · Post by **sparks** » Sat Apr 22, 2017 6:23 am

Watched two episodes of "The Expanse". Apparently, for me at least, it's an acquired taste.

Doctor X · Post by **Doctor X** » Sat Apr 22, 2017 6:31 am

I did enjoy the addition to the adaption of Mucho Mojo since it involved two great character actors:

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--J. "I've Never been Prouder to be an Atheist!" D.

Bruce · Post by **Bruce** » Sat Apr 22, 2017 11:18 am

Anaxagoras wrote:Started watching the new season of Better Call Saul. Still good.

Thanks for the reminder. Need to add it to my watchlist.

Doctor X · Post by **Doctor X** » Tue Apr 25, 2017 4:22 am

--J.D.

Anaxagoras · Post by **Anaxagoras** » Tue Apr 25, 2017 6:52 am

Eww, gross. She's like in her 70s dude. Dad would probably be happy to trade though.

ed · Post by ed » Tue Apr 25, 2017 10:30 am

Bosch. Remarkably good cop show set in LA

sparks · Post by **sparks** » Tue Apr 25, 2017 12:59 pm

Watched "Cloud Atlas".

(Where is my Kindle?)

ed · Post by ed » Tue Apr 25, 2017 2:30 pm

any good or self referential bullshit?

sparks · Post by **sparks** » Tue Apr 25, 2017 5:25 pm

May a thousand gators infest Lake ed....

ed · Post by ed » Wed Apr 26, 2017 12:44 am

I'm serious, damnit!!!

ed · Post by ed » Wed Apr 26, 2017 1:28 am

Exactly.

sparks · Post by **sparks** » Wed Apr 26, 2017 4:05 am

ed wrote:I'm serious, damnit!!!

Well, all the stories are supposed to be interconnected somehow, but I'll be damned if I could make heads or tails out of any of it. And the story line wherein the English is mangled so badly as part of the story, hell, I could only get 1 out of 3 words.

Doctor X · Post by **Doctor X** » Wed May 03, 2017 2:01 pm

--J.D.

Doctor X · Post by **Doctor X** » Sat May 06, 2017 6:29 am

Based on a recommendation from Anax's Me Mum the Australian Original Series Rake.

Law with disorder.

How can you lose with Priscilla Hugo "Mr. Anderson!" Weaving as a world renowned economist, cited by Warren Buffet as a genius, who also eats people?

--J.D.

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Sat May 06, 2017 11:13 am

Been watching "Shetland".

Pretty good, actually.

Doctor X · Post by **Doctor X** » Sun May 07, 2017 9:10 am

Whereas Rake has Sam Neil and the ending theme being a trash version of "How Much is that Doggy in the Window?"

"Woof! Woof!"

--J. "That's My Other Dog Imitation!" D.