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TV Tuesdays Free Talk
Have you watched any TV shows recently you want to discuss? Any shows you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here.
Please just try to provide fair warning of spoilers if you can.
So I've been continuing the Netflix series Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, based on the comic book of the same name in the "Sabrina universe". It's okay. Very "young adult" but it's pretty good quality. I used to watch the 90s series when I was a kid, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, so … you know, nostalgia and all that.
And Nostalgia the other day got to the point that I literally fired up the 90s pilot for Sabrina. It was… alright. Starts slow, but it's a pilot, so I kept an open mind. Oh and it has a laugh track… but it's a pretty silent one, so I don't really notice it I guess.
Anyway, the pilot gets to the point where Sabrina meets with the "high council of magic" or something. Big dude with curly hair starts talking in a booming voice and… I blink a few times… is that seriously Penn Jilette? Shit, it fucking is. I start laughing at the idea that Penn Jilette is playing a powerful wizard as head of the witches council, right up until the camera pans to the silent guy next to him and you already guessed who that is, at which point I completely lost it.
I'll finish the first season at least, just for that. It's a cute series. Also I'm agonizingly bored.
What are you talking about? Did you mean to reply to me?
I did not. My mistake. I’ll fix it.
We started watching Killing Eve. Such a great show! Psychopaths make for great villains and that show might have created a classic one. I guess Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Fleabag) also brings that hint of humor (although it's really not a comedy?) which is a nice addition. Like, this could be a dead-serious thriller and I appreciate that it happily does the weird/fun bits to keep things going. Though it can also get quite dark, wow. She's not a comic book villain, this is some under-the-skin psychopath shit. I hope it doesn't get lost in its "it was my plan all along" twists for season 3. Let's see.
I just binged through The Midnight Gospel last night. A reddit comment said it best that this is a mixture of Adventure Time, Rick and Morty, and Superjail. While the first two have dedicated fanbases, I see this show being a little too "out there" and grotesque for the average viewer (it's no coincidence it was released on 4/20).
That being said, I think the subject matter (death, enlightenment, meditation, psychedelics) is often untouched by mainstream television, and when it is, it's usually relegated to Adult Swim late night programming. I think this is a testament to the open variety of content during the golden age of television we supposedly are living in. Taboo subjects can find their niche, and with Netflix, they can find their distribution and audience.
While the show itself is full sensory overload, I applaud the effort and hope that it inspires more earnest attempts to address human experience and consciousness.
This sounds very patronizing. It also happens to be false.
My intention was to point out that TMG seems geared towards a niche psychonaut audience rather than more mainstream "stoner" shows. I'm sorry if I came off as pretentious, so I found some critics with similar sentiments so it's not just coming from one viewpoint.
RogerEbert.com:
LA Times:
Decider.com:
Collider.com:
Anyways, I thought the show was intriguing enough to finish the season, and I like seeing boundaries pushed with new media so I gave a review. It seems from other posts that you have other opinions, which can be simultaneously valid. Let's leave it at that since this isn't the hill I want to die on.
ABC dropped a trailer for Agents of SHIELD season 7 today and I am pumped. Comes out May 27. Looks like it'll be a lot of fun.
I just started watching La Casa de Papel/Money Heist on @Omnicrola's recommendation. From the trailer alone I could tell it was right up my alley, and I'm really liking it so far, for the most part... but I'm three episodes in (the original hour-long episodes, I just finished where everyone went onto the rooftop) and I'm really having trouble excusing the rash, impulsive decisions people are making apparently just to move the story along. Does it get any better? I mean, I get that it isn't a crack team of master criminals and everything, but they spent five months plotting to steal 2.4 billion euros. Am I really supposed to believe they're this emotionally unprepared?
It seems that the writing is very good otherwise though. It's not melodramatic and I can already tell the characters have depth to them. It's just that some people are doing some things which usually have some justification but with the setup of the story are downright stupid. I don't know if it's supposed to be all that Spanish passion coursing through their veins or what.
Eh, I mean it gets pretty rediculous the further you go. It was apparently a bomb in Spain but after Netflix got it it's popularity exploded and they made more seasons. So it's not really that great in a critical sense, but it's very entertaining if you remember not to take it too seriously.
Damn. I'm going to give it a few more episodes, maybe try to do the whole first season, but that doesn't sound promising.
IMO, it should have been just 1 season, but Netflix picked it up and they felt they needed to continue the story. I did like the first season and finished 2 & 3, just seeing there is a season 4 now.
I just dropped it last night. I made it through to the end of episode 7 but the preview for episode 8 pushed me over the edge. There's a VERY good show hidden in there but @cwagner was right, more telenovela BS is gradually getting shoehorned into the story.
I've watched all but the last episode of Home Before Dark. While I don't usually like the genre of precocious child does something implausible, it's been a good watch! From reading the description of the last episode, I gather there will be a season 2, eventually. I'm glad. I'd like to watch more.
I watched the last episode last night and I really liked how the season ended! I definitely recommend this show.
I watched the last season of Future Man on Hulu, it's dumb, it's television, pretty much comfort food I started, saw in the back in the fridge and figured I should have that before it goes. It was okay.