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

[spikepipsqueak]

Me too, but it disturbed me, and I do understand Emily Lake's stance.

Fring raised ruthlessness to an artform. Even when we knew his backstory the contrast gave you the creeps.

I liked Mike. Again utterly ruthless but seemed to take the minimally damaging path where possible.

I think what raised the writing to the sublime was the ability to show the rounded individuals without descending into sentimentality.

 

[TV and credit cards]

When you know it's a work of fiction, it's easy to like and hate characters based on personality not morality.
Hank was the most detestable one. He was the good guy in all this but had the most obnoxious personality.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

SPOILERS

For me, The Boys finished probably like I should have expected. Portions were as I thought they'd be. I figured the CEO would come back and reestablish the status quo of sorts. They were building up Homelander to the sense where I was figuring only Homelander could end Homelander, and it a massive act of arrogance, he'd end himself by accident. Instead, they Deus Ex Machina'd it. Personally, I was hoping as the finale went on that the Deus Ex Machina version to end with Butch and Homelander in prison... together... without powers. It would have been poetic. Another thing, why would Sage do all of this in the first place, instead of just going to her bunker and cutting off the world? If she wanted to live comfortably, she'd need people to exist to make food stuffs, treat sewage, drinkable water.

The show ends, but I get the feel that this is setting up Post WWII Austria... where the supporters are now trying to come to grip with the failure that was what they believed was true. The US is in very sad shape, but at least the main characters are happy. Sort of end of Jedi, where you have a massive intrusion of tyranny across the galaxy, but the big bad is gone, so nevermind.

They are going Prequel... but why in the heck would you do that when the story of how it moves forward is much more rife with potential? There is a power vacuum to be exploited. Edgar is there, he knows how to manipulate things. Take a hobbled Vought and rebuild it in a pretty shiny way... all the while conniving some plot under the surface.

 

[DBT]

If you like Gothic horror, Penny Dreadful is worth watching. Timothy Dalton, Eva Green.....

 

[southernhybrid]

Being the insane dog lover that I am, I am hooked on "The Dog House". It's a British show about a lovely dog rescue operation. Each show introduces three people, couples, or families that want to adopt a dog. They are interviewed by the workers, who then try to find a good match. Then they are introduced to the dog in this nice little place, while the workers watch the interactions on their screens. It usually works out, but not always. At the end of the show, they show the dogs in their new homes, or say why it didn't work out. I'm on Season 5, which is currently the last season streaming on HBO. I read that the series just entered its 9th season, so I'm hoping more seasons will be streamed on HBO. For me, as one who has two rescue dogs, it's very heartwarming to see the dogs get rescued. Plus I wish we had such a fantastic place in the US as the one in GB. There are some nice rescue places here, but my current rescue came from the local, icky shelter. Dogs are so much better than humans. No dog would keep his human in a dirty cage with no bed. That's how the local shelter is, or was when we got Sunny.

Other than that, we are still addicted to "Law and Order SVU". We are on Season 23 now.

 

[spikepipsqueak]

I bought a second hand copy of Castle, season 1, the other day, because I missed the first few eps the first time around. Now I know what weird excuse they used for the situation.

I also got copies of Dylan Moran in Dublin 2002 and Billy Connolly. That was a few days ago and I've nearly stopped laughing.

 

[WAB]

Just suffered through the first episode of The Vampire Lestat. A mish-mash of awful music designed to sound like popular rock music, terrible pretentious narration by the title character, who goes sweatily stampeding through each frenetic scene like a grotesque mix of Jim Morrison and David Lee Roth, swiveling among repulsive and vacuous fans who look like they exist in one of Dante's circles of Hell. It's a throbbing heap of lousy music and messy debauchery, filled with ugly and stupid extras and lesser characters who are almost as sloppy and revolting as Lestat.

0 out of 10

 

[Patooka]

Just suffered through the first episode of The Vampire Lestat. A mish-mash of awful music designed to sound like popular rock music, terrible pretentious narration by the title character, who goes sweatily stampeding through each frenetic scene like a grotesque mix of Jim Morrison and David Lee Roth, swiveling among repulsive and vacuous fans who look like they exist in one of Dante's circles of Hell. It's a throbbing heap of lousy music and messy debauchery, filled with ugly and stupid extras and lesser characters who are almost as sloppy and revolting as Lestat.

0 out of 10

So, faithful to the source material then.

 

[WAB]

Just suffered through the first episode of The Vampire Lestat. A mish-mash of awful music designed to sound like popular rock music, terrible pretentious narration by the title character, who goes sweatily stampeding through each frenetic scene like a grotesque mix of Jim Morrison and David Lee Roth, swiveling among repulsive and vacuous fans who look like they exist in one of Dante's circles of Hell. It's a throbbing heap of lousy music and messy debauchery, filled with ugly and stupid extras and lesser characters who are almost as sloppy and revolting as Lestat.

0 out of 10

So, faithful to the source material then.

Not really.

 

[Colonel Sanders]

I just started rewatching The Americans.

It's so good.

My one problem with the first few episodes that's difficult to ignore is that the show shifts back and forth from the 1980s to the early 1960s and the main characters look exactly the same. There's almost no effort made at de-aging.

That aside, if you haven't seen it, see it. It's easy the best Cold War TV show ever made.

 

[Patooka]

Just suffered through the first episode of The Vampire Lestat. A mish-mash of awful music designed to sound like popular rock music, terrible pretentious narration by the title character, who goes sweatily stampeding through each frenetic scene like a grotesque mix of Jim Morrison and David Lee Roth, swiveling among repulsive and vacuous fans who look like they exist in one of Dante's circles of Hell. It's a throbbing heap of lousy music and messy debauchery, filled with ugly and stupid extras and lesser characters who are almost as sloppy and revolting as Lestat.

0 out of 10

So, faithful to the source material then.

Not really.

Just saw the episode. Agree to disagree; IMO it is the same level of quality as Anne Rice's novels and that god awful movie.

 

[WAB]

Just suffered through the first episode of The Vampire Lestat. A mish-mash of awful music designed to sound like popular rock music, terrible pretentious narration by the title character, who goes sweatily stampeding through each frenetic scene like a grotesque mix of Jim Morrison and David Lee Roth, swiveling among repulsive and vacuous fans who look like they exist in one of Dante's circles of Hell. It's a throbbing heap of lousy music and messy debauchery, filled with ugly and stupid extras and lesser characters who are almost as sloppy and revolting as Lestat.

0 out of 10

So, faithful to the source material then.

Not really.

Just saw the episode. Agree to disagree; IMO it is the same level of quality as Anne Rice's novels and that god awful movie.

I haven't read the Rice novels for thirty years, but I remember liking them. But even if, let's say the books sucked, the problems with the program I described have little to do with the quality of the original novel, or the original film (which I liked).

Neither the book or the original film is responsible for the terrible music, the terrible camera work, the terrible editing, the lurid make up and costumes, or the terrible cliched acting, the terrible cinematic cliches, and least of all for the horrible, execrable performance of Sam Reid. He's been good in other things, but is hopeless in this.

 

[spikepipsqueak]

Is this the same thing as Interview with the Vampire?

 

[TV and credit cards]

Rewatched season one of Mindhunters. Ed Kemper wasn't nearly as scary this time around but the character development in this series is so good, it was worth watching again.

Started in on Legends on Netflix. This is surprisingly good. It covers Margaret Thatcher's war on drugs, specifically the undercover Customs operations. It's a solid eight.

 

[Harry Bosch]

I just started rewatching The Americans.

It's so good.

My one problem with the first few episodes that's difficult to ignore is that the show shifts back and forth from the 1980s to the early 1960s and the main characters look exactly the same. There's almost no effort made at de-aging.

That aside, if you haven't seen it, see it. It's easy the best Cold War TV show ever made.

Great series. I need to rewatch. I watch an episode of new show; then alternate of an older show. Currently rewatching 24. The Americans was great. Clearly though, the greatest most realistic TV show about the cold war was Get Smart though!

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

I just started rewatching The Americans.

It's so good.

My one problem with the first few episodes that's difficult to ignore is that the show shifts back and forth from the 1980s to the early 1960s and the main characters look exactly the same. There's almost no effort made at de-aging.

That aside, if you haven't seen it, see it. It's easy the best Cold War TV show ever made.

Great series. I need to rewatch. I watch an episode of new show; then alternate of an older show. Currently rewatching 24. The Americans was great. Clearly though, the greatest most realistic TV show about the cold war was Get Smart though!

I'll need to try The Americans.

How much of 24 can you rewatch? That show's first season was absurdly awesome. Second season pretty good (if you ignore scenes with his daughter). Third season was a stretch. Then it seemed to become right-wing terrorist torture porn. As much as I enjoyed 24's first few seasons (I bought a DVD player when the Season One DVDs came out), I've had no interest to rewatch it in 20 years. It is one of the only TV shows I have on DVD I didn't rip for the Plex Server I have.

 

[Harry Bosch]

I just started rewatching The Americans.

It's so good.

My one problem with the first few episodes that's difficult to ignore is that the show shifts back and forth from the 1980s to the early 1960s and the main characters look exactly the same. There's almost no effort made at de-aging.

That aside, if you haven't seen it, see it. It's easy the best Cold War TV show ever made.

Great series. I need to rewatch. I watch an episode of new show; then alternate of an older show. Currently rewatching 24. The Americans was great. Clearly though, the greatest most realistic TV show about the cold war was Get Smart though!

I'll need to try The Americans.

How much of 24 can you rewatch? That show's first season was absurdly awesome. Second season pretty good (if you ignore scenes with his daughter). Third season was a stretch. Then it seemed to become right-wing terrorist torture porn. As much as I enjoyed 24's first few seasons (I bought a DVD player when the Season One DVDs came out), I've had no interest to rewatch it in 20 years. It is one of the only TV shows I have on DVD I didn't rip for the Plex Server I have.

I really loved 24 the first 5 seasons. But yea, they are all a stretch! Season 6 was okay. Unwatchable after that. Another great classic show is Fringe.

 

[Playball40]

If you like Gothic horror, Penny Dreadful is worth watching. Timothy Dalton, Eva Green.....

Billie Piper!

 

[Patooka]

Is this the same thing as Interview with the Vampire?

It is season 3 of the same show. Kind of like how Babylon 5 had a different name for each season.

 

[Patooka]

Pluribus.
Created by Vince Gilligan (Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul), this one feels like a big miss. There's maybe 2 1/2 episodes worth of plot thinned out across 1 season. Slow doesn't even begin to describe the pacing.

The Boroughs
Think of it as the cast of Stranger Things 50 years later basically. It got cancelled but the first season is pretty self contained. Not bad for a binge.