What TV are you watching and how would you rate it? [Revive from FRDB]

[crazyfingers]

Sony Bravia OLED 4K 55 inch. Picture so good some 4K content almost looks 3D.

Regular $1500 but Best Buy had it on sale for a grand so I snatched it up.

I like the OLEDs too.

It was January 2021 thought that I had* to stay at my parents vacant house and I brought my usual DVDs. A lot of Harry Potters especially. It was then that it became so obvious that while todays flat screen TV have great pictures, the speakers suck. I was watching on my parent's late generation Sony tube TV and the speakers were so much better. I was hearing stuff I never heard on my flat screens.

Since then I don't listen with the TV's speakers. Now in my basement room I have some powered psb speakers with a subwoofer attached to the LG C2 OLED via optical. Upstairs is a soundbar and sub.

* I had been visiting my mom in assisted living and next day I got a call that she had covid and I'd been with her for hours. So I packed and left with Walle and spent a week at the old house until I could get a test. My N95 protected me.

 

[DBT]

Just started the Man in the High Castle. Two episodes in, looks promising.

 

[Wiploc]

Rebecca, a Hitchcock film, from 1940.

I guess I can recommend it for film history buffs. Surprisingly good for its era?

Special effects sometimes impress, sometimes fail, and sometimes make you say, "Look, a special effect."

One major character has no motive, no basis for the way he or she behaves. She gives a false motive, but after it is exposed as false, we never get a real motive. One could call that realistic, I suppose, since we don't get to know why people do things in real life.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Just started the Man in the High Castle. Two episodes in, looks promising.

I liked it overall. However, it is a very slow burn though and they make a few choices in the plot that were unnecessarily convoluted to full-on unnecessary and stupid.

 

[southernhybrid]

Since Southpark has been doing a great job of satirizing Trump and his ass lickers, we've been watching each new episode and enjoying each one a lot. This last one was that Trump was fucking Satan. Each one has been very funny and in the world in which we live in, we all need a good laugh.

 

[GenesisNemesis]

Rewatching the old Beast Wars animated series from 1996. Loved this series when I was a kid and ReBoot. Have to rewatch ReBoot after.

 

[spikepipsqueak]

Have been bingeing Firefly for the last few days.


Then I'll binge Hustle.

 

[Politesse]

Rebecca, a Hitchcock film, from 1940.

I guess I can recommend it for film history buffs. Surprisingly good for its era?

Special effects sometimes impress, sometimes fail, and sometimes make you say, "Look, a special effect."

One major character has no motive, no basis for the way he or she behaves. She gives a false motive, but after it is exposed as false, we never get a real motive. One could call that realistic, I suppose, since we don't get to know why people do things in real life.

The housekeeper is a lesbian, the narrator is a golddigger, and Max is just sort of a jerk. It's completely impossible to determine what Rebecca was, due to several equally plausible but contradictory characterizations suggested by those who knew her.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Have been bingeing Firefly for the last few days.


Then I'll binge Hustle.

I liked Leverage better, a rare case of the US version improving on the original British concept.

Firefly is just sad. A great show that was fucked by Fox. Want to have my daughter watch it, but it is too mature for her still. Also will not like the torture or reavers.

 

[Shadowy Man]

Firefly is just sad. A great show that was fucked by Fox. Want to have my daughter watch it, but it is too mature for her still. Also will not like the torture or reavers.

Same here. Waiting for my daughter to get a little older. She has liked all of my other favorite movies so far (she’s going as the man in black from Princess Bride for Halloween this year!)

 

[Swammerdami]

I'm watching Evil Season 1 (2019); I'm in the middle of Episode 8. I'm not sure if I'll watch more seasons, but I am enjoying season 1. It gets high ratings: 7.8 IMDB and 96% Tomatoes. Those scores may be slightly too high, but I like it better than most of the TV and movies I've been watching lately.

The story is about demonic possessions but one needn't believe in a supernatural fiction to enjoy it. I do NOT like horror, but the horror here is kept very mild. The story is fun with engaging plots and excellent acting. (There was only one actor I recognized, but I couldn't place him. Google showed me he was Aasif from The Daily Show!)