Television Thread (NO ANIME ALLOWED)

The Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell miniseries is pretty good. We watched it probably ten years ago and then I read the book probably five years ago and now we just watched the show again. Makes me wish there were more shows or books like this.

Alternate history fantasy is a pretty good genre.

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#ShowsYoureThinkingAboutWatching

Spontaneously had the thought of curling up with a DVD boxed set of Six Feet Under and a DVD-equipped all-in-one Mac to send me back to a very specific sliver of time between Grade 11 and college.

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Iā€™ve also been wanting to rewatch Six Feet Under.
I watched the entire show on illegal streaming sites back in 2009, I think, but when I was halfway through the final season, it got wiped from all those sites and so I never saw the end of the show.

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In the middle of watching The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles

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Is that the one with Ryan Gosling as Indiana Jones or did I jsut invent a show that never existed?

I think youā€™re thinking of Young Hercules. Who would win in a fight: Young Indiana Jones, Young Hercules, or Young Sheldon?

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If you give a child a whip, they will not know defeat

Dutch ā€œQuirked Up White Boy Goated With The Sauceā€ Wagenbach: Halle Berryā€¦ Tyra Banksā€¦ BeyoncĆ©ā€¦?

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The audiobook read by Simon Prebble is great. Iā€™ve listened to it 3 times already. It used to be my go to sleep book. But I stopped relying on audiobooks sinceā€¦

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something about the way walt says ā€œfeeling under the weather? that would be the ricin i gave youā€ feels emblematic to me

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Goddamnit just reading that makes me want to watch Breaking Bad again

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Iā€™m watching the walking dead for the first time.
Lots of this is giving me resident evil 2 memories like the bus in the first couple episodes and this lover boy in the facility.

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this was how it felt watching the polls last night

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I finally got around to watching season four of Atlanta. It was pretty great, I knew it would be whenever I got to it. Iā€™m a bit wistful. Itā€™s as surprising as ever, never thought a show about the inner city would feature multiple episodes that make me feel nostalgic for the country life. Iā€™ll miss having a show that Iā€™ll never know what to expect from it, other than whatever it is Iā€™m completely down for it. That might be a kind of experience Iā€™ll never get again, but Iā€™m glad that it was an experience.

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Re The Shield season 4: phewā€¦ What a dip in quality

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What happens I forgot

Thatā€™s the one with Glenn Close as the departmental captain, thereā€™s the whole thing with the community leader who moonlights as a brutal drug dealer, and thereā€™s a multi-episode arc about how virtuous it is to brutalize criminals because of how they killed cops, someone says ā€œCarl & Scoobyā€ every 10 minutes at least for like a quarter of the back of the season. Tons of weird unnecessary callbacks to past episodes throughout the season and spreading plotlines super thin or they unspool in weird directions. Aceveda gets a sex worker to do r*peplay with him and his character is written in la way I found disappointing and kind of a waste of where he seemed to be going, I didnā€™t peg him for a weird petty ratfuck.

It was a big enough of a dip in narrative coherence that I looked up if this season was being produced during the writerā€™s strike lol. But I think it was maybe just Post 9/11 America Syndrome, seems like it was concentrating like mercury going up the food chain and concentrating into Season 4 of The Shield. Seriously just every ten minutes someone is saying ā€œthose were the guys who killed Carl & Scooby!!ā€ or ā€œwe need justiceā€¦ for Carl & Scoobyā€ or ā€œwhen Carl & Scooby arenā€™t in the scene anymore because they died, the other characters should be asking, where are Carl & Scoobyā€™s killers?ā€

Carl & Scooby

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Throughout Season 4 it also seemed like every problem had the same solution. Ok thereā€™s a big criminal we need to catch. Alright, ok, weā€™ll go terrorize some Californian small business owner, or bust into someoneā€™s house, without a warrant. Ok so we have detained a small criminal now. Looks like the small criminal wonā€™t give up the big criminal. Well how about we either a) circumstantially find some crime theyā€™ve committed b) blackmail or extort or threaten them. Great, now theyā€™re immediately giving up their superior with little to no resistance. I mean I know thatā€™s really the playbook for real dirty cops but it became breakneck and formulaic as Season 4 hurtled out of control. I actually watch police procedurals partially to seeā€¦ the procedureā€¦ you know?

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oh yeahhhhh. i agree, thereā€™s a drop off with glenn close and feels like the show is struggling to change gears. it picks back up again in a big way with seasons 5 and 6 imo.

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Yeah Iā€™m not not going to keep watching it but it got sloppy in Season 4 for sure. Kinda like, the writerā€™s room was getting tired of their own schtick sorta.

Iā€™m still entertained though, and itā€™s good to hear it picks back up.

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