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What TV SHOWS are you watching?
dysjunct wrote: Spouse has been watching THE MAID on Netflix, which I guess is critically acclaimed, but man, I just have no patience for this kind of thing anymore. Sad sacks with sad lives, who make bad choices and surround themselves with toxic people, then it all plays out sadly.
I can’t even be in the room when this is on, even if I’m doing something else. I can just read the news or go on a stroll through downtown if I want to see that kind of thing, no need to waste my limited entertainment time on it.
I feel the same. My job lets me watch life play out for households behind about 150 doors. I see enough of the sad sack stuff irl, that I have no desire to fill my head with it in the evening. I feel bad because my wife still digs a lot of it, but I just can't sit through 45 minutes of dysfunctional family theater.
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More often than not I'm stuck watching shows with no hope whatsoever, generally picked by my wife and daughter where almost inevitably a woman or girl is being victimized. These shows sell.
Plenty of shows pointed at the male audience as well with similar levels of dour. The Boys was just a wallow in shit as far as I was concerned. Just a bunch of people you hope die before the end of the show because they suck, and because they're so two-dimensional. At least with The Maid there were some all-star performances by the people on screen, particularly the lead, her mother (Andie McDowell who was magnificent in it) and the man that played her husband.
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I suspect it is gonna be a shocking transition to Wheel of Time. Witchers costuming and vibe is so on point, it works so well with the limitations it has. Hope S2 really kicks it up.
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This is a weekly drop after the first 3 eps (which seems to be the new streaming model) but like most shows these days, it is a straight linear story with no real attempt to follow a three act structure within each ep, so weekly drops are kinda tortuous story wise.
And YES! there is braid pulling, just not the way you'd expect.
Consider me cautiously optimistic that this show will stumble into greatness like Spartacus or Buffy after a bit of ironing out the kinks.
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Now that Foundation is done I finished off the last five episodes over the last three days. When I resumed Empire was going off Trantor for the first time in generations and for the life of me I couldn't remember why that was important. I think it is a visual masterpiece. Set designs are fantastic, displays of the technology are perfect. It's a pretty good soft sci-fi. A little too much space magic to be a true portrayal of Foundation. Spoiler for the show compared to a 70 year old book:
Also the empire is still intact and at the height of it's power and some tech is just PFM (pure f(&@$ing magic). After Hari's arranged death he sends one copy of his brain via a chip in the cryo escape pod that Raych is supposed to take where it becomes a full fledged AI sent out to manage and setup the second foundation. Meanwhile his actual body is put in a space casket and launched into the deep where nanobots somehow mine asteroids enroute to Terminus setting up an all powerful floating obelisk that somehow has a field that knocks out everyone in a certain radius. Oh and it has another AI copy of Hari that lives in stasis. Not a recorded message as in the books, but an AI. No where else in the show do we see this technology (such as empire creating an AI of Cleon).
Also the reason Empire went off-Trantor was ostensibly to ensure that a major religion has a pro-Empire successor during the selection process. Importance-wise the reason we are showed that particular story is to tell us the Cleon clones don't have a soul but the last remaining robot from the robot wars does (UUUGGGHHHH!!!!!).
Overall I liked the season, but not as a drip. This is a story to watch over a single week, not ten. It's just not Foundation. It's an echo of Asimov's story. Story is good enough and I'll watch season 2, it's just not hard sci-fi like the books are.
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Is it great? No. But it's good enough that I'll watch it all.
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I'm not sold on the portrayal of the main trio yet, but the dialogue and cadence of their speech is pretty damn good.
Style though is exceptional. Not just the music, but visually it looks great.
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It’s magnificent.
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Sagrilarus wrote: The Great is back (Hulu) and it’s not great.
It’s magnificent.
HUZZAH!
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First episode of BeBop had about 500 gunshots in it. the lead actress is a machine gun. I watched about a third of the show on mute, because I don’t listen to gunfights in TV shows anymore. The scenes with it in this were pretty gratuitous including in the first three seconds of the episode.
Typical American remake of a foreign show. Step 1 — add more gunfire. Sometimes I wonder if it’s paid product placement. And I think this is a legit remake of an existing episode from the cartoon version. Seemed pretty familiar.
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Bebop: Neither one of us had familiarity with the animated version, so the live action is working pretty well. Vicious is a cartoon character in his own right. We had to get used to the episodic nature of the shows where there isn't a direct link from one epi to another other than the larger plotline. Art direction is wonderful.
The Great: Enjoyable show. Peter is an utter boob. Mean Girls in the age of Russian Enlightenment. What's not to love.
Wheel of Time: Never got into the books as I leaned more into Moorcock, Rawn, Robert Adams, etc. WoT just didn't grab me. The show is pretty good so far, 3 epis in. Effects are decent for television. I hate the rogue and maybe I am meant to since he seems destined for a redemption arc. The ginger comes off like a spoiled man-child when his girlfriend tells him she is thinking about being a wisdom. I would like to see a count of every fantasy series that has that one person who has a katana.
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