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What TV are you watching and how would you rate it? [Revive from FRDB]
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Amazon Prime, Netfix maybe. Great series. As I said, with so many characters it's hard to make out who's who at first, but it just gets better and better as the story unfolds.
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Seasons 1-4 are remarkable. Seasons 5-6 start suffering from underinvestment and poor adaptation of the books to the screen. SyFy had an absolute grand slam with this show and then they dropped it, which Amazon picked it back up but didn't provide enough money. If anything deserved to have money for production, it was this series.
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Just started reading the book series, so far it looks promising.
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Prior to 2018 it was Netflix and Foxtel, but nowadays it's only Amazon Prime
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I just watched the six episodes of the British 2024 mystery thriller A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (now on Netflix). Some years ago there were some murders/disappearances/suicides in a small town, never properly solved. A clever teen-age girl decides she will pursue the mysteries over the objections of living relatives of the deceased.
Lots of clues, lots of suspects, lots of plot twists (too many?), lots of danger. This may be an excellent series, perhaps worth more than its 6.6 IMDB rating, if complicated mysteries are your genre. It isn't my genre and I completely lost track. I watched it all anyway just to see it unfold.
The female lead is played by the American 22 year-old Emma Myers. I predict awards for her.
Lots of clues, lots of suspects, lots of plot twists (too many?), lots of danger. This may be an excellent series, perhaps worth more than its 6.6 IMDB rating, if complicated mysteries are your genre. It isn't my genre and I completely lost track. I watched it all anyway just to see it unfold.
The female lead is played by the American 22 year-old Emma Myers. I predict awards for her.
hurtinbuckaroo
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I also just finished watching this, and would rate it 7.5-8. Emma Myers was quite good in the lead role. It took me a few minutes to realize that she was also Wednesday Addams' roommate Enid in "Wednesday". You're right, there were plenty of twists; I still haven't resolved one of them, so I have to figure out what I missed. But the writers gave her the right amount of deductive reasoning skills to make it plausible while not turning her into a teenage Sherlock Holmes.
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Lately when I watch a movie or TV series, I click to Wikipedia and read their 2- or 3-word synopsis of the genre, almost always in the first sentence.
I see that The Wire, Breaking Bad, The Sopranos, and Dexter are all shown as "crime drama." Boardwalk Empire and Justified are also "crime drama" but with a one-word prefix, respectively "period" and "neo-Western." OITNB is "comedy-drama" and Succession is "satirical black comedy-drama." Mad Men is "period drama." These brief genre names do not give much scope for nuance.
The Diplomat is shown as "political thriller." This is ridiculous. It is "political drama" or better "political comedy-drama."
This begs the question, WHY do I bring up The Diplomat, a series I reported on 4½ months ago?
BECAUSE The Diplomat is one of the very VERY best TV series ever. I'm happy to RE-watch its Season 1, rather than clicking aimlessly on mediocre Netflix offerings.
Rejoice! Season 2 is coming on Halloween!
I see that The Wire, Breaking Bad, The Sopranos, and Dexter are all shown as "crime drama." Boardwalk Empire and Justified are also "crime drama" but with a one-word prefix, respectively "period" and "neo-Western." OITNB is "comedy-drama" and Succession is "satirical black comedy-drama." Mad Men is "period drama." These brief genre names do not give much scope for nuance.
The Diplomat is shown as "political thriller." This is ridiculous. It is "political drama" or better "political comedy-drama."
This begs the question, WHY do I bring up The Diplomat, a series I reported on 4½ months ago?
BECAUSE The Diplomat is one of the very VERY best TV series ever. I'm happy to RE-watch its Season 1, rather than clicking aimlessly on mediocre Netflix offerings.
Rejoice! Season 2 is coming on Halloween!
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I am still pissed off by the fact that Michael Jackson's Thriller is completely unrelated to the eponymous genre, and instead is all about horror, which is a totally different thing.
Worse still, very few people even noticed.
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I aspire to become a Neo-Western Think Piece before I die.
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Are you aware that I almost always cite the IMDB (Internet Movie Data Base) rating in my comments here?
And are you aware that I'm aware that it's easy to find 10-paragraph synopses, 2-paragraph synopses, and 10-word synopses of movies and TV series?
I click to Wikipedia and read their 2- or 3-word synopsis (of "genre") because -- call me a pervert if that turns ya on -- that's what I'm looking for.
unapologetic
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Er, no I obviously wasn't aware of your posting history. Should I be? No offence was meant.
Ya want a cookie?
Swammerdami
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There's much I do NOT know about the Web. My son was startled last week that I'd never heard of 
Steam (service). But it might be unusual to discuss series and movies on a message-board never having heard of IMDB!
Had you offered a 1-paragraph essay contrasting Wikipedia and IMDB for quick glances, that might have been interesting.
But as it was your comment seemed like pure snark, like asking if someone was aware that 2+2=4 in a math thread.
Sorry if it wasn't intended as snark.
If you are trying to give the impression that you are NOT snarky, this was a very unsuccessful effort!
Steam (service). But it might be unusual to discuss series and movies on a message-board never having heard of IMDB!Had you offered a 1-paragraph essay contrasting Wikipedia and IMDB for quick glances, that might have been interesting.
But as it was your comment seemed like pure snark, like asking if someone was aware that 2+2=4 in a math thread.
Sorry if it wasn't intended as snark.
If you are trying to give the impression that you are NOT snarky, this was a very unsuccessful effort!
unapologetic
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I am capable of snarky and not snarky at the same time. Your indignation turned on my snarkyness.
You really need a cookie.
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I like the Reception section for TV and movies on Wikipedia. It's a nice compilation of reviews. The only comments I have to discount for are the usual complaints about a movie being too long and the lack of courage to fairly review anything DEI related.
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I think I‘lol need to go practice walking on eggshells before engaging with you. Wow.There's much I do NOT know about the Web. My son was startled last week that I'd never heard of
Had you offered a 1-paragraph essay contrasting Wikipedia and IMDB for quick glances, that might have been interesting.
But as it was your comment seemed like pure snark, like asking if someone was aware that 2+2=4 in a math thread.
Sorry if it wasn't intended as snark.
If you are trying to give the impression that you are NOT snarky, this was a very unsuccessful effort!