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Post by Aunt Alison on Jan 8, 2022 14:45:40 GMT
Really enjoying picking up my X Files rewatch after a break over Christmas. I’ve never done a full binge of this before so very happy that its even better than I remembered it being. No qualifiers or nostalgia goggles, its just excellent. I'm halfway through series 3 now and it really is good. There are a few instances where it touches on sexism as well, showing Scully having to put up with it or just calling it out
War of the Coprophages was amazing, "We're all gonna be bleeding from our nipples!" Mulder was such a dickhead not even entertaining Scully over her religious beliefs though and even straight up laughing at them after all the bollocks she's had to listen to from him
A couple of things that I remember from watching it in my yoof are how much I always liked Skinner and that I wanted one of their really powerful torches
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Post by スコットランド on Jan 8, 2022 15:38:48 GMT
I just finished S1 of Search Party, lots I don’t like about it but it was somehow compelling. No idea if I should go ahead with S2…
The characters are mostly such utter tests that it is off putting..
Hmmm.
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Post by simple on Jan 8, 2022 18:33:53 GMT
Really enjoying picking up my X Files rewatch after a break over Christmas. I’ve never done a full binge of this before so very happy that its even better than I remembered it being. No qualifiers or nostalgia goggles, its just excellent. I'm halfway through series 3 now and it really is good. There are a few instances where it touches on sexism as well, showing Scully having to put up with it or just calling it out
War of the Coprophages was amazing, "We're all gonna be bleeding from our nipples!" Mulder was such a dickhead not even entertaining Scully over her religious beliefs though and even straight up laughing at them after all the bollocks she's had to listen to from him
A couple of things that I remember from watching it in my yoof are how much I always liked Skinner and that I wanted one of their really powerful torches
There’s a run of episodes near the middle of season 3 where I felt like they get the characters and their relationship totally wrong. That’s one of the Grotesque is another and there’s at least one more, maybe two. Luckily it picks right back up after that. The episode called 3 from season 2 gets it similarly wrong. I think its probably a consequence of the show not being fully serialised so they occasional behave in service of a particular standalone episode even if it makes no sense in the context of the wider show. The 90s Star Treks from the same era are all guilty of it too. |
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Post by Blackmarsh63 on Jan 8, 2022 18:43:30 GMT
Binge watched The Tourist on iPlayer. Excellent stuff.
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Post by Aunt Alison on Jan 8, 2022 20:11:50 GMT
I'm halfway through series 3 now and it really is good. There are a few instances where it touches on sexism as well, showing Scully having to put up with it or just calling it out
War of the Coprophages was amazing, "We're all gonna be bleeding from our nipples!" Mulder was such a dickhead not even entertaining Scully over her religious beliefs though and even straight up laughing at them after all the bollocks she's had to listen to from him
A couple of things that I remember from watching it in my yoof are how much I always liked Skinner and that I wanted one of their really powerful torches
There’s a run of episodes near the middle of season 3 where I felt like they get the characters and their relationship totally wrong. That’s one of the Grotesque is another and there’s at least one more, maybe two. Luckily it picks right back up after that. The episode called 3 from season 2 gets it similarly wrong. I think its probably a consequence of the show not being fully serialised so they occasional behave in service of a particular standalone episode even if it makes no sense in the context of the wider show. The 90s Star Treks from the same era are all guilty of it too. There was the episode where they were being horrible to each other, which was pretty weird - I know it was suppose to be because the planets aligning was making everyone act weird (Syzygy) - but being so close to the one with Mulder being a douche and the comedy one, it just felt a bit off
Another thing I've noticed is just how many familiar faces show up in various places. Ryan Reynolds has a bit part in Syzygy. Jack Black and Giovanni Ribisi were in another one. Kurtwood Smith in Grotesque. Terry O'Quinn was in there somewhere
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Post by simple on Jan 8, 2022 20:18:53 GMT
Seth Green in one of the really episodes too.
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Post by Zomoniac on Jan 9, 2022 22:42:17 GMT
Anyone else seen Jimmy Carr’s new quiz show I Literally Just Told You? Episode 2 had me actually laughing so much my face hurt.
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Post by dfunked on Jan 9, 2022 22:55:39 GMT
You lost me at Jimmy Carr tbh...
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Post by rawshark on Jan 10, 2022 0:35:52 GMT
Plumped for the Apple TV free trial so catching up on series 2 of Ted Lasso. About five or so eps in.
Really disappointing. It’s like they took the positive feedback about the series being feelgood from season 1 and turned that up so much that they made it really twee. Everyone just fucking loves each other so much. Did they forget football was a game filled with unbearable arseholes or something?
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Post by Danno on Jan 10, 2022 8:14:24 GMT
Just watched the first Toast of Tinseltown. Evidently it's reached the point where they can 'get' whoever they want to cameo. Had a decent amount of laughs, although others mileage may vary. Just Matt Berry reading silly names would be enough for me, they get me every time. Larry David within the first minute. It’s like Nirvana! Scroll down for some Berry trainguy.co.uk/ |
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Post by simple on Jan 10, 2022 10:10:20 GMT
The Post-Modern Prometheus is the weirdest X-File yet. Not the plot itself or that its a comedy episode but everything about how its shot. They’re really on a run of confidence and having fun with the format by this point.
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Post by Immaterial on Jan 11, 2022 9:30:50 GMT
Around the World in 80 Days is weirdly enjoyable- obviously massively tweaked to today's society rather than the Victorian world it depicts, but still good.
Thanks to this thread, just started watching Toast of Tinseltown. user ClemFandango has really let himself go.
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Post by dogbot on Jan 11, 2022 9:47:59 GMT
Based on some chatter here, we've started watching Bosch S1. Which I'm really enjoying.
It's nice to see Titus Welliver do something other than the worst Oirish accent in history.
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Post by Bill in the rain on Jan 12, 2022 0:29:19 GMT
I did what I always do, and instead of watching the apparently good show that everyone else is watching and talking about (eg: The Witcher s2 or Boba Fett) I started watching some random and probably not very good old show that caught my eye.
Lost Girl is a bit of a Buffy-like 'monster of the week' show, except the main heroine is a Succubus so she gets her power from shagging and can charm everyone by touching them and getting them horny. (unsure if that bit is problematic)
Oh, and if they're human and she shags them then they're toast.
She's also apparently good at fighting for some unexplained reason.
I have a soft spot for 'monster of the week' shows, but I have to remember to pace myself because if you binge them then it's easy to burn out on them.
I couldn't resist the description, but tbh I expected it to be cheap crap, but it's actually ok. Probably not great or anything, and it feels a bit 90s for a 2010 tv show, but it went for 5 seasons so it must have had some viewers.
I still don't get why it's called 'Lost Girl' though. Dumb name.
All it really needs is a couple of kick ass main characters, some banter and I'm easily pleased.
It's either this or Dark Matter, or maybe I should just use my free time to watch The Witcher or that boring sounding show about a rich family.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2022 0:56:16 GMT
I watched a few episodes of Lost Girl here and there, but I wasn't a big fan. It was typical Canadian SyFy schlock IMO.
but I also wasn't big on Buffy, so it being Buffy in a middle aged goth bar wasn't a plus.
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Post by lexw on Jan 12, 2022 1:02:42 GMT
Based on some chatter here, we've started watching Bosch S1. Which I'm really enjoying. It's nice to see Titus Welliver do something other than the worst Oirish accent in history. He's profoundly not the Bosch of the books (somewhat necessarily, given Vietnam was about 50 years ago), but he's actually a more engaging character, especially from S2 onwards, than that guy. Asshole, but engaging. Eventually there's another detective who is so interesting I wish he had his own show, though (S3 or S4 I think). But anyway all of Bosch is pretty highly watchable if you like some combination of LA and crime procedurals. |
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Post by Bill in the rain on Jan 12, 2022 3:18:34 GMT
I watched a few episodes of Lost Girl here and there, but I wasn't a big fan. It was typical Canadian SyFy schlock IMO. but I also wasn't big on Buffy, so it being Buffy in a middle aged goth bar wasn't a plus. I'm kinda a sucker for Canadian SyFy schlock so I'm probably right in the target market then  I feel bad for comparing almost every SyFy (was this actually SyFy?) show to Buffy, as none of them even come close, but so many of them are clearly inspired by it and I'm not sure how else to describe them. 'middle aged goth bar' makes me feel old though, as I took it as just being similar to the bar in Buffy. I guess the relative age to me hasn't changed much  |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2022 4:47:35 GMT
Just started watching the Will Smith series on Disney that he's done with a national geographic (I think it's called "Ends of the Earth"). So far it's really enjoyable. I've only watched about 20 minutes, but he's fun and send genuine and the photography is really good.
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Jan 12, 2022 10:36:57 GMT
I'm watching the Dynasty Warriors movie! It's really bad!
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Post by dogbot on Jan 12, 2022 12:05:38 GMT
Based on some chatter here, we've started watching Bosch S1. Which I'm really enjoying. It's nice to see Titus Welliver do something other than the worst Oirish accent in history. He's profoundly not the Bosch of the books (somewhat necessarily, given Vietnam was about 50 years ago), but he's actually a more engaging character, especially from S2 onwards, than that guy. Asshole, but engaging. Eventually there's another detective who is so interesting I wish he had his own show, though (S3 or S4 I think). But anyway all of Bosch is pretty highly watchable if you like some combination of LA and crime procedurals. I wasn't aware of the books, tbh. But season 1 has been good so far. We'll definitely be proceeding. |
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Post by スコットランド on Jan 12, 2022 13:20:56 GMT
Have watched first 2 episodes of Station Eleven, not quite sure what to make of it....
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Post by lexw on Jan 12, 2022 16:58:36 GMT
I wasn't aware of the books, tbh. Yeah I only came across them because I generally like crime stuff set in LA, and people had been threatening to adapt them for decades. The basic approach is similar - the main character is a slightly-jaded but incorruptible LA police detective who loves jazz and was a tunnel rat in a major US military adventure, and who, personality-wise, is kind of a jerk. Tunnels weren't as important in Iraq/Afghanistan so they don't play up that element quite as much on the show. They take stuff from the books but re-arrange it quite a bit, update it to account for modern technology, and follow the character chronologically, which the books don't (the S1 "Dollmaker" stuff is the 3rd book, and the S3 plot is the 1st book and also has stuff from book 7 and so on) and retcon in plots from later books which should always have been there (which actually helps the character a lot). I'd honestly love to have seen them done as a 1990s period piece, but I think the update probably works better. |
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Post by jono62 on Jan 12, 2022 19:11:03 GMT
I am up to Bosch season 5 and still enjoying it. His daughter looks constipated in every scene.
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Post by simple on Jan 12, 2022 19:15:44 GMT
Restarted Daredevil on Netflix since I never finished it or fully committed to the Marvel Netflix Universe. I remember thinking this and Punisher were best of the five but I don’t think I finished any of them.
X-Files rewatch is approaching the point where Carter originally intended to end things so it’ll be interesting to see how things go since I’d never have been aware of that first time around.
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Post by スコットランド on Jan 12, 2022 19:45:02 GMT
Just watched the first episode of Beforeigners, really like the idea behind it.
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Post by Tomo on Jan 12, 2022 20:10:28 GMT
I'm watching Queen's Gambit, which is really very good so far.
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Post by dfunked on Jan 12, 2022 20:34:10 GMT
I need to pick something new... Started the new season of Dexter and changed my mind after 10 mins.
Possibly Bosch or Queen's Gambit, although most likely the latter as I fancy something shorter.
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Post by geefe on Jan 12, 2022 21:44:26 GMT
Bosch really is great. Pretty consistent.
Started series 2 of The Expanse. It's skirting a thin line of me binning it.
Just saw about 10-15 minutes of that new BBC "high quality drama" Rules of the Game. Fucking dreadful. Seriously, what the fuck are they doing with the licence fee money?
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Post by simple on Jan 12, 2022 22:15:25 GMT
I watched the first episode of that last night.
I’ve got a relatively high tolerance for BBC/ITV drama but this was a bad one. Its so tedious when everyone has a dark secret and no one talks straight. It obviously feels like its making a Big Important Point about workplace culture but its was such convoluted nonsense.
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Post by simple on Jan 13, 2022 9:43:44 GMT
On the X-Files; up to season 6 now and I know the show has been built on the balance of scepticism and belief but it is getting a bit silly that despite seeing actual monsters nearly every week for five years and being the victim of multiple alien procedures Scully still doesn’t buy Mulder’s theories.
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