I did. I thought it was a very good story that was well cast and filmed for a crime fiction series. The way the story unraveled and left off made for a nice appetizer for a 2nd season. Mostly though, I liked the French Pyrenees setting. Cool to see that part of the world, plus it felt warm here while watching it.

Just as a suggestion: skip s1e1 and start with s1e2. It’s an anthology series, so each episode is unrelated beyond the theme of dark near future so there is no harm in skipping around. . A lot of people have been turned off by first episode of series (I didn’t mind it) and stopped there.

Recommendation is usually to start with a different episode (take your pick) then watch S1E1 later.

That's exactly what I would've said 48 hours ago.

I kid you not, I like more shows on CW right now than I do on ABC, CBS and Fox combined. They have some pretty good shit. Surprisingly.

I did catch the Callister ep of Black Mirror. Also good shit

I have only watched the first season. I had no idea what the show was about or how it was set up and that first episode is definitely a big shocker.

I haven’t started season 2 yet but glancing at the episode descriptions they seemed quite odd. I’m guessing it’s pretty pointless to determine watching them based on those though.

Anyone watched or is watching Godless on Netflix? I’m about halfway through it and it’s really good if you like westerns.

Mad Men is truly outstanding.

Here is one so cool looking, that I'm thinking of finding a way to cheat to watch it since I know next to nothing about Amazon

Jean Claude Van Damme plays a washed up action hero, who comes back to showbiz... but the comeback is only cover for his new career as a James Bond-type spy hero

Looks genuinely cool and hilarious IMO

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Speaking of Amazon, The Tick got a 2nd season renewal today.

Watched it over the holidays and enjoyed it as well. Some of the visuals and scenerry were really great. Particularly if you have 4K HDR.

Anyone catch High Maintenance?

It's not 'must see' but it's pretty decent. It follows around a weed dealer in Manhattan, to serve as a surrogate/gatekeeper for the stories of his clients.

Season 2 premiered last night, and it's safe to say it made the best, most subtle [it doesn't even name the 'calamity' or the date or anything. It's treated as a 'generic' tragedy], use of the 2016 election by putting him as a fly on the wall as people were scarfing his product up with abandon the day after.


This is a short overview of the premise

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And here's a teaser for the season to come

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It used to be a web series before HBO bought it up, and the 2 seasons it was on youtube are archived here

https://mega.nz/#F!1VQm1DKA!rADF_L1buF77V8juTlnKAQ

Enjoying this series very much. Jeff Daniels is superb as a bad, bad man.

Love this show, definitely looking forward to season 2. I read some interesting articles about the creators in the past few days, too. Glad HBO brought it back.

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I have my DVR set to record these new series starting next week, I love crime dramas and watch a lot of reality crime shows.

Mosaic on HBO Monday 1/22 at 8pm. Stars Sharon Stone murder mystery based in Park City, UT. Those with smart phone will be able to navigate around the clues, Paul Rubens is one of the cast.

The Alienist on TNT Monday 1/22 at 9pm. Follows the first female police detective (Dakota Fanning) in NYC in the late 1800's as she tries to solve a serial killer mystery. They use emerging psychology and early forensic techniques.

Waco on Paramount (use to be Spike) Wednesday 1/24 at 9pm. A mini-series about the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas with Michael Shannon as the FBI negotiator.

Two returning series that I'm into.

Divorce on HBO, Season 2 episode 2 airs tonight at 10pm. Sarah Jessica Parker and Thomas Hayden Church (Sideways) got divorced in season 1, now they discover their new found single life.

Baskets on FX Tuesday 1/23. Season 3 starts this week starring Zack Galifianakis as twin brothers who are complete opposites. The main brother started in season 1 going to clown school in France and returns to America with a French wife who only wanted him so she could come to America. He ended up as a rodeo clown until they closed. Season 2 he traveled the country as a train hobo and found lots of trouble. Comedian Louie Anderson in drag plays his mother, and is convincing in the role. Very funny show in a dark way.

Great movie. Bruce Campbell's best. That's right, i said it.



This looks interesting.


Anybody watched "Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams" on Amazon?

****ing awesome show. Probably not for everybody but I loved it. Both seasons.

Curious to see how good The Alienist is tomorrow night.

If you ever get to feeling down about how pathetic Nick's character is [Molly Shannon's husband], remember what he goes home to at night.

Yep, great show.

OMFG, the womynist pre-march meetup is one of the most hilarious bits on TV in a while, at least back to the end of Rick and Morty.

And the great part is that it's not at all played for humor, but you sense that it has a satirical soul nonetheless.

Like a cross between Woody Allen and Portlandia.

I won't spoil any of it, but I had to pause/rewind many many times to catch things I was missing through peals of laughter.

For those of you w/o HBO, it's on Dailymotion. Sound is for shit, but passable.

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6drqjn

Insomnia-binged this starting at Midnight last night. Not sure what to think. It was boring in spots and intriguing in spots, and there were some excellent twists that never ever 'fully' paid off. Wish there was more discussion of this somewhere so I could gauge my reaction better.

Soderberg's love affair with Jennifer Ferrin's face made it overall worthwhile, and Devin 'Buzz' Ratray was a lot of fun as a character, but I'm not fully sold.

One thing that nagged at me at the end. Was it just me, or

**EDIT: On Netflix


Enjoying he series "Dirty Money". Multiple part documentary about how corporations can be unscrupulous pieces of shit.

The episode on the local KC guy who started a payday loan business, got indicted, and lost everything and got 16 years in jail was pretty interesting.

And it was interesting because the guy was kinda doing illegal shit, but kinda not. Shady as ****? Yes. Illegal? Yea, I guess.

After watching it, im curious why he went to jail and the ****ers who brought on the 07/08 financial crash didn't.

Thought that Waco got of to a good start. Looking forward to this Wednesday

a web series presented by DUST...

i will start you off on this one first... great ending, only a couple minutes long ROFL


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They are turning 'Strange Angel' into a series

The show

http://www.cbs.com/recommended/news/...nd-the-occult/

The Book

https://www.amazon.com/Strange-Angel.../dp/0156031795

A Drunk History

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Saw season one a month or so ago. It's pretty awesome.

Watching this and REALLY like it. That description you posted is pathetic. Fanning is NOT the star. She is one of several, but not the lead. The lead is a psychiatrist, but the whole thing is set back in teh stone age of police work, trying to catch a serial killer.

Read the book by Caleb Carr 20 or so years ago and the series is true to the book. REally good!

What did you think? I've finished episode three, so not quite caught up.

Season 2 is every bit as good if not better. Probably a good thing I quit mushrooms decades ago.:D

gently has been cancelled by the way.

I haven’t laughed this much in a while. The detour is so well done.

Seyit ve Sura


Sheer torture though, heartbreaking like The Thornbirds. Why do they do this to us.

Must watch for all women tho'. Had to stop watching at points the torture was so unbearable. Not done yet. On another break.

It's a bit confounding, because Sam Bee is a co-producer with hubby Jason Jones. But it's so not up it's own ass in the ways that she is on her show.

It's almost like the show is reparations for Jason putting up with her perpetual temper tantrum.

Oddly as well, the only place I've seen Jason outside this show since they left The Daily Show, is several appearances on Gavin McInnes' youtube show.

I just finished the first two seasons of The Man in the High Castle on Amazon. I really liked it and definitely recommend it.

Yes, that one is excellent.

Back end of season 1 drops tonight.

Nice to have since the Olympics have KILLED new programming for the past couple weeks.

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It all burns tonight. I've enjoyed this one. Taylor Kitsch is really good here.

Culkin drives me nuts though. Been binging the first 5 today and it's better second time through, binged.

I stopped after ep. 1. Wasn't doing it for me at all. Found it boring af. Did it get better?

Just watched the push. Really interesting social experiment.

That Waco finale... Wow.

If I can find the time, there appears to be 3 mini-series worth binging in the upcoming month

Looming Tower - based on the Pulitzer Prize winning narrative of the intelligence failures between FBI and CIA leading up to 9/11

Flint Town - eyes on the street catalog of time spent in Flint MI with all it's present problems

Perhaps most intriguing - Wild Wild Country - documentary retrospective, using archival footage and current interviews regarding the controversy of the Commune/Cult of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh in Oregon in the early 1980s.

Hoping to find some definitive reviews before I get too deep into any particular one, just to find it doesn't live up to expectations.

Starting Looming Tower tonight [first 3 eps up].

Liked the series, wish they would had gone a little deeper into Koresh. How he funded everything, how many guns they had.

don't spoil it for me please :D

Caught the first 3 of Looming Tower, and first 2 of Flint Town.

Looming Tower is a little sterile. Maybe I already know too much of the story they're telling. Maybe I'm distracted by the performers, so I can't get into the storytelling. Find myself mostly critiquing the product, the narrative decisions, the cinematic choices, more than experiencing it.

Flint Town is both traditional and immediate. It's about what you'd expect from a documentary of a city in crisis that focuses on the beat cops and the political landscape. A lot of it is like a cinematic version of COPS crossed with Errol Morris, with voiceovers narrating over cinematically framed details such as a cop staring down the road as he drives to a scene, or with fly-on-the-wall footage of city councilmen or officers shooting the shit or preparing for session. It's immediacy is setup by covering the logistical preparations for the Clinton/Sanders Dem debate, as well as a searing bit with the officers on scene of a young teen shot randomly in the middle of a blizzard. It also centers on the change in administration in Flint, which brought on a new police chief, with all that entails.
It will catch you choking up with sadness and desperation in some moments, and with optimism and redemption a moment later.

I finished Flint Town, very sad to see there are people so passionate about this town that been shit on for decades. Yet the greedy politicians are the ones keeping that place in the shitter. Some nights they only have 4 squad cars on the streets, that is insane for one of the top 10 crime ridden towns.

For no reason I can think of I started watching Hap and Leonard on Netflix today. About to finish season 1. So far a good show. I think season 3 starts tonight on Sundance.

Drops tonight.

Bunch of early 80s boomer hippies radicalizing in Oregon. Should be a rush.

this new season on netflix if funny as (almost) ever... really good season. lahey, RIP, was as great as ever!!! :D

bubbles: the beer guy says we can maybe earn 90 grand this year. (ricky, julian, bubbles)

ricky: get the **** out

bubbles: this means we can all make 30 grand this year

ricky: holy **** boys we are set for life

ROFL

Legion (Season 2) premieres tonight. Can't wait

Get in on this early, started last Sunday. Very promising

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http://www.metacritic.com/tv/killing-eve

channel?

BBC America

Watched Season 4 of Bosch. I have to say again how much I like this show.

I'm not into police procedurals and I'm not a fan of Titus Welliver but this show is ****ing good. Both on the cop side and the Titus Welliver performance.

It really got to me



The one thing that was kind of WTFish was

Anybody watch Bosch on Amazon? This one of the best written , most realistic cop shows I've ever seen. I just finished a binge of Season 4.

It's literally the post above you, dawg. :D

In other news, I had Troy: Fall of a City on while I was in the office. It isn't particularly good. The Theatrical one with Brad Pitt several years ago got lambasted because Pitt mailed it in. This is worse. They managed to make every character a sniveling ****. I think they were trying to make the characters struggle with the weight of their actions. It fell flat and was poorly acted overall. The action was bleh, except for a few cool things Achilles did (none of which were in the Hector fight BTW).

I mean, yeah. Helen of Troy had magnificent cans, but I don't recommend this one.

Agreed



also,

Its time to get onboard with The Terror, much like Sons of Anarchy... its as good as you'll get on regular cable

There is still a lot of places to go. Hopefully there is a season 5

We loved the first 3 seasons, and happily zipped through S4 in a handful of days. Still great. :D

YAS!!
 

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Created by Taylor Sheridan - say no more!

Babylon Berlin streaming on Netflix is getting 5 star reviews which is well deserved. It is a German production that is dubbed over in English which works well enough. Story is fantastic. You'll learn a lot about the Weimar Republic if you look things up, and you'll learn that the Nazis didn't just pop-out-of-nowhere but were the result of, not just chaos but desires but happens when other plotters plan to overthrow the new republic and return the Kaiser to power. This alone with the communist unrest mixed in.

https://www.vogue.com/article/babylo...netflix-review

The 16-part German period drama Babylon Berlin, which starts streaming on Netflix today, is lavish, epic, dizzyingly complex, and (through the four episodes sent to me early) as satisfying as anything I’ve seen in months....

It’s also similarly expensive. One of the immediate pleasures of this sprawling crime story set in 1929 Weimar Republic Berlin—which is full of unknown-to-me, hugely talented German actors and has as thickly braided a plot as a Tolstoy novel—is the millions thrown at the screen (it’s reportedly the most expensive German-language show ever made).

Is anyone watching Patrick Melrose?

Simultaneously better and worse than I hoped/expected.

Worse, because even in the 5-hour format, there simply isn't time for all the signature prose from the source to play out.
Better, because it seems to be rounding into a truly innovative take on the usual tales of wealth and addiction and depravity. This is because BC plays him as someone legitimately traumatized and legitimately trying to better himself.

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The [truly] depraved are juuuust a little more depraved, and the idiots juuuuuust a little more idiotic, and the journey juuuust a little more plausible, because, even though the intoxication scenes are dramatic, the milieu is played with restraint. The horror and tension of his childhood is palpable, although almost entirely unspoken or unremarked-upon.

Just finished 1st season of Rain on Netflix. Very enjoyable.

Thank you - noted.

not being nit picky but you DO mean The Rain, right?

Enjoying The Handmaid's Tale. What a crazy scenario but somehow believable and unsettling. Brutal at times.

One of my sisters likes that one. I just don't get Hulu.

BTW, I forgot to say Babylon Berlin is a crime drama—mafia-like types, drug running, weapons running thriller in a historical period. So it has plotting Bolsheviks, plotting Monarchists who want to return the Kaiser to power, current Social Democrat govt, corrupt cops, flappers, transvestites and gays which were normalized during that era of debauchery and I reckon eventually Nazi's will enter. It starts around 1928/29.

Gavin & Stacey

It's a cross between 'the office' and 'arrested development'. it's actually not a new series at all.


I don't have all night to describe all the nuances, just check it out if you feel like it...

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fuggin' hell... it's even funnier when i rewatch the teasers after watching the show for the first time ROFL

Never seen it, but I know it gave Corden his big break. Always mix it up with 'Ned and Stacy' [which I also never watched] in my mind, or at least I have a mental image of them being similar shows.

What would you compare it to, humor-wise?

Also, chuffed to see Adrian Scarborough in the first clip. Loved his character in Blunt Talk [a show I recommend if you missed it].

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trying to think, but really, it's quirky like the office and arrested. story lines aren't as nuanced, but the cringe comedy is there throughout.



it's not pg rated, but not nearly as rough as say shameless.

the only thing i had a hard time getting past is stacey's damned voice. it's like listening to peggy bundy only higher pitched voice ROFL

I liked this show a lot.

Plus the lead has great tits.

Why in the world would you watch it dubbed though? Subtitles are so much better.

I don't know about that, but okay if it you think so.

Because that's how Netflix provided it—so no choice.

Plus it didn't even have closed captioning.

I finished the last season with the finale about a half hour ago of The Americans. It was really good, but I was not that happy with the finale. It was sad. Burov didn't deserve what he got or their children.

Sure seemed like they ended it so there would be a spinoff with the daughter continuing in their line of work.

My sister tells me that is excellent. I just don't get Hulu.

Just go through the settings

:facepalm:

My settings are usually always on for captioning, then I use the button on my remote for on/off. Perhaps I should have checked the settings again. Then again, I didn't turn it on, someone else did.

New Kimmy Schmidt is outstanding. New AD is, somehow, off. I hope the second is better.

Anyone catching 'Strange Angel?'

On CBS All Access, started this week.

Has a decent pedigree and dramatizes an already fantastical true story. The story of Jack Parson.

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Giving it a chance, but I don't know if a serious treatment over 10 episodes can eclipse the summation from one Drunk History segment.

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