Topic: What are you watching- TV shows

[Finlay]

good omens TV definitely weakened as it strained it's time constraint to fit in the conclusion.
 I enjoyed it, but episode 6 was weak.

[Padre]

Justified, seasons 1 to 6, have been very enjoyable, while I painted!!!

[Rowsdower]

I tried to watch Glow season 3 and gave up.
Everyone else has complained [at great length] about the pointless and needless sexual politics in it. My biggest complaint would be the camping episode. I mean, come on. A group of city girls go camping for the weekend and they DONT panic when It gets dark AND they manage to erect their tents immediately. I fond it harder to swallow then the 19 year old who was selling movie scripts

[Feanor Fire Heart]

Anyone checked out "Primal" yet on Cartoon Network's late night line up Adult Swim? I just caught the ending half of an episode. Its pretty dope. Its like the Conan the Barbarian stories/novels but if Conan was a caveman and teams up with a dinosaur. Its very brutal. Its made by the same guy that created Samurai Jack, Dexter's Lab, Powerpuff Girls, The Original 2d Clone Wars series, and Hotel Transylvanian. Definitely worth a watch!

[KTG17]

Walking Dead is the worst show on TV. What the hell do we have to do to get a decent plot going. I don’t even care about any of these fucking characters. God I miss seasons 1-4!

[Warlord]

Walking Dead is the worst show on TV. What the hell do we have to do to get a decent plot going. I don’t even care about any of these fucking characters. God I miss seasons 1-4!

I thought this was well known now?

[StealthKnightSteg]

Started watching Warrior (A Bruce Lee derived series), seen 2 episodes.. not sure yet if I like it.. the plot so far seems thin

[KTG17]

Walking Dead is the worst show on TV. What the hell do we have to do to get a decent plot going. I don’t even care about any of these fucking characters. God I miss seasons 1-4!

I thought this was well known now?

I can't help it! I don't have another show to watch in that time slot, when I am winding down from the weekend. So I keep watching, wishing it would get better.

[Cèsar de Quart]

Watchmen is kinda dumb but moderately intriguing.

His Dark Materials seems fine so far.

The Mandalorian was cool but a bit disconcerting. I still don't know if I like the main character but the worldbuilding and the ambience is great.

Mr. Robot is weaker than before but still good.

The Man is the High Castle is serviceable if a bit cliché.

Silicon Valley still is cracking.

That's all I'm watching right now.

[S.O.F]

The Witcher was okay good bits and bad bits. Though I hate that during the the bad bits I kept thinking that the old Polish TV series with Netflix budget would have been better.

Main gripe is Foltest, the books do an amazing job of both giving you a bunch to be absolutely revolted by the guy and then wed that to that he still has good qualities. The prefect grey character for a world very much about grey. This show not so much.

[Cèsar de Quart]

Honestly, I found the Witcher show to be quite good. My expectations were dirt-low after the trailers, but Cavill was decent in the role, the rest of the cast was good, the directing and cinematography were serviceable, and the script is quite good; the way they weave the first plot threads along the first season was clever.

But I was watching it with a friend and he didn't get half the plot. There's a lot of tell don't show involving kings and queens you've never seen or heard about before.

And I can't help but feel that the game still has one of the best production designs ever. The show pales in comparison, but it does try.

Pleasant surprise.

[The Black Knight]

As a naitive Polish speaker and a big fan of the Witcher book series I must admit I am a bit disappointed.

Book Geralt is a much wittier, more likeable character than Cavil's interpretation leads us to believe. He has his brooding moments for sure, but he is NOT Conan with batman's voice.

That being sad, Cavil's performance is the least troubling aspect. The story itself has been jumbled needlesly by forcing Ciri in early and expanding Yennefer's part to the point where I feel she's much more of a protagonist than Geralt. I'd much preffer having more time establishing the witcher as a character, than sitting through ciri pointlessly walking around forsests for most of the season. You know, the ole 'We HAVE to give her something to do, while we wait for the story to catch up'. Always a great idea.

As a result, many great, memorable moments have been cut or altered for no understandable reason and the whole thing feels very two-dimmensional. Not impressed Netflix!

[S.O.F]

The Scout Trooper opening to the last episode this season of the Mandalorian is comedy gold

[Feanor Fire Heart]

We're halfway through the Witcher and so far its pretty good. We're not familiar with the source material, even though I have Witcher 3 on steam (I never got around to it) it definitely make me want to load it up and try it out with the Mrs. spectating.

[S.O.F]

We're halfway through the Witcher and so far its pretty good. We're not familiar with the source material, even though I have Witcher 3 on steam (I never got around to it) it definitely make me want to load it up and try it out with the Mrs. spectating.

I've had a rewatch over the holidays and I stand by my good and bad issues with the series. I think the major issue is that they wanted to steam roll the first two short story set up novels to get to the core 5 book saga. Which I then leave to the next season to help but the first with say a 10 episode run and a more faithful story retelling and not working in the Ciri bits until midseason would have been far better.

In general the extra Yen time works out fine and is done in a way that can work well enough it is the Ciri (and Niflgaard attached to it) stuff which really makes for the worst bits.

Also do play the Witcher 3 it is quite the game. You would add to the insane bump the show has given Steam stats since the series came out, topped out at 95 thousand active after release has managed 72 thousand in the week since the show came out, 4.5 years after release.

[Rowsdower]

Re-watching the Ozark before the next season is released.
EVERY character on that show is evil. I hope they all meet their ends fittingly; especially that super bitch cartel lawyer.

[Warlord]

Watched the first episode. Seemed like a more drama filled, no laughing, and more consquence filled version of Arrested Development.

I like Arrested Development. Ozark seemed too heavy for me. Almost like trying to be the next Breaking Bad. And I didnt watch or like Breaking Bad.

[ZeroTwentythree]

Started watching Dark on Netflix. One of my new favorite shows. I jokingly refer to it as ”Stranger Peaks”.

It defaules to English dubbed because we're in the US and partway through the first episode I told my wife, ”I don't know if I can keep watching this if they don't have an option for subtitles with original audio. Luckily they did and it was a vast improvement. We've watched 7 episodes of the first season so far.

On the topic of audio tracks, the sound reminds me of a Aronofsky film, and in particular the repetitive music reminds me of Requiem for a Dream. But where that soundtrack was drilling home cruel, tragic reality, this one drives you further into the dark (right?) unknown.

[Feanor Fire Heart]

So I finally took the plunge and started Castlevania on Netflix. I finished seasons one (4 episodes all about 25 minutes long) and have started season 2 (8 episodes). They just released season 3 which is 10 episodes.

Wow.  This is good. The best way I could describe it is: its and adult Avatar the Last Airbender if it was written by the guys from Metalocalypse. I get A:TLA feeling when the team interacts with each other, the humor (but on an adult level), how one user uses magic looks like bending, and with Dracula being like the Fire Lord the team is trying to take out. The setting, subject matter, and visual brutality is more like a serious version of Metalocalypse. It does not pull punches with the brutality when all hell breaks loose (literally). Expect gore. I wont spoil it, but of the 4 episodes of season 1, the first episode sets up the story with episodes 2-4 about the team forming and their backgrounds. Its loosely based off the game Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse for the NES. Its surprisingly good.

I found it funny that all priests, bishops, and archbishops dress like modern day Cardinals. Historically speaking, I do believe the Catholic church was not influential in Wallachia during that time period (or ever), it should be the Eastern Orthodox church. Also based on the years given, Dracula (Vlad III) would be the ruling Prince of Wallachia. But hey its a fantasy story from an 80s NES game so w/e. Its just fun.

Definitely worth a watch.

[Rowsdower]

Ozark season 3 was quite sluggish. I was hoping it would wrap everything up but it seems set for another season.
Fortunately, Helen Pearce got what she deserved!

[Mathi Alfblut]

Me and the wife have started on Fairy tail. We have plenty of stuff to see now

[GamesPoet]

PBS ... "World on Fire".

And "Baptiste".

[GamesPoet]

By the way ... Sean Bean is in "World on Fire".  I'm told before taking the part he asked if his character dies in it, and was told no, so he decided to take the part.

[ZeroTwentythree]

Finished both seasons of Dark. On of my favorite shows in a while.

Sic Mundus

[Rowsdower]

I think Richard Sharpe is the only one of Sean Bean's characters not to die.