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Post by muddyfunster on Jul 3, 2024 17:14:52 GMT
First episode functions as a recap and bridge between seasons but it's so artfully done. It's more like a jigsaw puzzle that gradually reveals itself and feels special as a result.
We're up to episode 9 and unfortunately it can't sustain that level but it's still a great watch.
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loto
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Post by loto on Jul 4, 2024 6:37:31 GMT
Binged the first four episodes of The Bear S3 last night. Loved the first episode, not sure the quality has been maintained though, just seems to be riffing from previous series.
Still great entertainment, very well acted and made, just hope there’s more stories to tell.
Edit - near the end now and it’s fucking brilliant television. Just amazing.
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minimatt
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Post by minimatt on Jul 5, 2024 21:20:36 GMT
other half is currently binging Bridgerton. every half hour she trys to explain some plot about lady whistlebum and marrying off daughters to the duke who's secretly banging their best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend
"you'd hate it" she says, before returning to the ipad
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Post by Dougs on Jul 5, 2024 22:14:44 GMT
Don't you just love those little summaries? I get them with either MAFS AUS or whatever crap film is being watched. I don't care, genuinely. If I did, I'd ask.
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Post by dfunked on Jul 6, 2024 6:53:43 GMT
Haha, I still get those excited updates a couple of times per episode with Emily in Paris, even though I abandoned it early on.
Absolutely no interest in the show, but I love the sense of enthusiasm.
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Blue_Mike
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Post by Blue_Mike on Jul 6, 2024 12:33:14 GMT
best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend Always should be someone you really love |
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Post by simple on Jul 6, 2024 12:51:31 GMT
Don't you just love those little summaries? I get them with either MAFS AUS or whatever crap film is being watched. I don't care, genuinely. If I did, I'd ask. We’re currently dual screening Love Island and the Euros most evenings so inflicting updates on each other Love Island on the tv, me streaming the second half of the 8pm kick off with my phone balanced on the arm of the sofa |
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Post by simple on Jul 7, 2024 20:07:06 GMT
Three quarters the way through The Bear S3 now. Absolutely tremendous showing from John Cena He really can’t do anything wrong at the moment |
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MolarAm🔵
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Jul 7, 2024 22:11:55 GMT
Eh? Which episode were they in? I didn't see them.
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Post by Bill in the rain on Jul 11, 2024 10:09:32 GMT
I never seem to watch TV shows these days. Back during lockdown I was binging shows by the dozen, but I kinda burned out, and then drifted away from a lot of the ones I was watching like Marvel and Star Wars.
I've started the odd thing over the past year, but rarely stuck with it even if I liked it. I seem to spend the time browsing youtube or reading these days. One of the only ones I stuck with recently was Wednesday.
Anyway, I tried the first episode of The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina and it seemed pretty fun.
I've not watched any of the other Archie/Riverdale stuff, though I heard it was better than you'd think, and it seems to have spawned a bunch of shows.
This one had a good cast and cinematography, though everything seems to have that these days. Gave me Wednesday vibes, with the main character being the main draw, and her attitude to stuff being interestingly unflustered. Oh, I just got cursed. That's kinda annoying, I'd better have a shower.
First episode was over an hour though. I hope that's a first episode thing, as I've learned I can't stick with shows with long episodes these days.
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Post by muddyfunster on Jul 16, 2024 14:28:20 GMT
We're watching Rome the HBO series from about 2007. It's bordering on softcore porn. Nudity and 'coitus' roughly every 10 mins. Half expecting a cameo from Shannon Tweed.
Otherwise it's aged fairly well. Plot is a bit contrived and I'm sure it's totally inaccurate but it's quite fun.
The endless shagging is genuinely getting a bit annoying. I guess if we watched it 2007 style and weren't binging two or three episodes at a time several nights a week it might be less distracting and more erotic.
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Post by Bill in the rain on Jul 16, 2024 15:27:37 GMT
That sounds very dodgy. You should watch something more serious and historical like Spartacus instead.
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Post by Dougs on Jul 16, 2024 16:31:25 GMT
I loved Rome, deserved more than 2 series imo. Titus Pullo was a great character
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Post by jono62 on Jul 16, 2024 17:32:17 GMT
Started watching Supacell. Started episode 2 and it's started well. Very South London.
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Post by brokenkey on Jul 16, 2024 17:43:08 GMT
I found bridgerton quite tolerable. S3 part 2 was a bore, but the rest was ok.
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zephro
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Post by zephro on Jul 17, 2024 8:45:52 GMT
I loved Rome, deserved more than 2 series imo. Titus Pullo was a great character Just pretend I Claudius is series 3 |
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Post by Bill in the rain on Jul 17, 2024 9:18:31 GMT
Sabrina continues to be pretty good, and surprisingly gory. It really is very similar to Wednesday. Makes me wonder if the wednesday creators had watched it.
But I just realised it has 20 episodes per season! I didn't think they did that anymore. I was expecting max 6!
Not sure I can do 20...
They really should do a Sabrina cameo in Wednesday though.
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Post by zisssou on Jul 17, 2024 10:10:12 GMT
For some reason we're punishing ourselves re-watching Dawson's Creek. Nostalgia is a hell of a drug. I think we're on about the 6 episode, where the majority of the plots have revolved around Dawson's parents infidelity, Joey pining for Dawson and of course Pacey banging the teacher.
The Pacey plotline has just ended within one episode, which I found really jarring, as it went from them both banging each other, to everyone at school knowing about them, then a committee hearing (where Pacey said it was all not true), then the teacher fucks off out of state quitting her job. Today that plotline would be dragged over 10 episodes, so in some ways it was kind of nice to get it all out the way.
I can't wait to see what hijinks our cast of 30 year olds acting as 15 year olds get up to.
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Post by simple on Jul 17, 2024 10:18:59 GMT
For some reason we never got around to the final season of Sabrina but it was a really fun show. I liked that it could do funny and dramatic without doing a Buffy getting too overwrought.
Jeff from Coupling took a bit of getting used to being in the role he had though.
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Post by Bill in the rain on Jul 17, 2024 13:10:58 GMT
I think I watched a fair bit of Dawson's Creek back in the day, just because it was on at a convenient time. But I can't remember *any* of the plot or what its hook was, or even if it had one.
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Post by Bill in the rain on Jul 17, 2024 13:15:58 GMT
For some reason we never got around to the final season of Sabrina but it was a really fun show. I liked that it could do funny and dramatic without doing a Buffy getting too overwrought. Jeff from Coupling took a bit of getting used to being in the role he had though. Not sure if I've got to Jeff yet, but I'm not sure I'd recognize him even if i had. Eowyn was enough of a shock.
*looks it up* Whoa! I would not have got that that was him! He has an ace deep voice though.
The only real issue with it so far is that it's 99% built on the performance of the main character. The guy playing her cousin (RIP) has/had great charisma. Actually, some of the adults are good (Missy from Dr Who, Jeff(!), the aunts), but all her friends are pretty anonymous, and the school stuff is mostly getting in the way of the fun.
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Post by zisssou on Jul 17, 2024 14:21:31 GMT
I think I watched a fair bit of Dawson's Creek back in the day, just because it was on at a convenient time. But I can't remember *any* of the plot or what its hook was, or even if it had one. The hook is the teen angst. Actually there are some nods to classic films like The Breakfast Club. |
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Post by Dougs on Jul 17, 2024 14:27:32 GMT
So much angst.
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Post by Syrette on Jul 17, 2024 16:32:27 GMT
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Post by simple on Jul 17, 2024 18:31:02 GMT
For some reason we never got around to the final season of Sabrina but it was a really fun show. I liked that it could do funny and dramatic without doing a Buffy getting too overwrought. Jeff from Coupling took a bit of getting used to being in the role he had though. Not sure if I've got to Jeff yet, but I'm not sure I'd recognize him even if i had. Eowyn was enough of a shock.
*looks it up* Whoa! I would not have got that that was him! He has an ace deep voice though.
The only real issue with it so far is that it's 99% built on the performance of the main character. The guy playing her cousin (RIP) has/had great charisma. Actually, some of the adults are good (Missy from Dr Who, Jeff(!), the aunts), but all her friends are pretty anonymous, and the school stuff is mostly getting in the way of the fun.
Agree that the friends are a bit lame. The girl playing Sabrina herself is great too. Some surprisingly dark horror-adjacent scenes along the way for such an easy show to watch. |
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Post by zephro on Jul 17, 2024 22:07:35 GMT
I also found it hard to not find Jeff From Coupling being serious and not a slapstick Welshman difficult. Also explaining Jeff from Coupling to my American wife...
Though it also has Sue White from Green Wing.
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Post by Bill in the rain on Jul 18, 2024 1:30:01 GMT
I imagine it's like watching The Walking Dead and trying to get around Andrew from Teachers as a gritty US sheriff!
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cubby
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Post by cubby on Jul 18, 2024 5:40:14 GMT
Egg??
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Post by Dougs on Jul 18, 2024 5:42:02 GMT
He's only and ever egg
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Post by Bill in the rain on Jul 18, 2024 6:18:27 GMT
Yeah, he's Egg too, but Egg and Simon (not Andrew, silly me) are pretty similar characters. Post apocalyptic US sheriff is a whole new thing.
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