What is the last Television series you watched?

[Quintus 5,399]

It's the anarchist subgenre of superheros though, Deadpool etc. Feels different enough from the interchange Marvel stuff. I'll watch it.

[Jay 37,323]

Right, the superheroes are the antagonists and the protagonists are people who want to kill them all led by Karl Urban.  Check out the trailer

 

 

[A24 4,327]

Don't you people check the upcoming TV shows thread?

 

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

Do they use computers to make those dogs look bigger in Game a Throans?

[Jurassic Shark 12,033]

Karl Urban? Isn't he doing LotR?

[Holko 9,499]

No, he's doing masturbation jokes in the MCU now.

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

Anyone else prefer traditional broadcast TV to new cable/streaming services?

[Jay 37,323]

No. 

[Jurassic Shark 12,033]

I really hate commercials.

[Quintus 5,399]

A resounding no to that one.

[A24 4,327]

1 hour ago, Jay said:

No. 

 

+1

[Jurassic Shark 12,033]

Just give the poor man a like, goddammit!

[Quintus 5,399]

Drax already likes his own posts enough. 

[A24 4,327]

1 hour ago, Jurassic Shark said:

Just give the poor man a like, goddammit!

 

One has to deserve it.

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

Nice to know people paid attention enough to my like meter to notice that it was going up at the time!

[Koray Savas 2,251]

No one was looking at the meter, just that the same non-posting member was liking all of your posts.

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

41 minutes ago, Koray Savas said:

No one was looking at the meter, just that the same non-posting member was liking all of your posts.

 

How people could see that is a mystery to me. Who goes looking at new members' profiles to see what they're liking?

[Koray Savas 2,251]

You don't need to go to anyone's profile, you see the names of the people that reacted to a post on the post itself.

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

People actually click on that to find out?

[Quintus 5,399]

Unfortunately for you, yes they apparently do.

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

Interesting. It's something I'd never take any notice of, so I assumed no-one else would notice either.

[Koray Savas 2,251]

What’s interesting is that you would go to the lengths of creating a fake account to arbitrarily increase something you think no one pays attention to. 

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

I wanted to be Number 1 on the Leaderboard! It's important.

[Quintus 5,399]

Nah, it's fuckin' sad is what it is!

 

 

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

It's sadly important.

[A24 4,327]

 

You're doing it again! 

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

Postcount is all that matters!

[Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488]

This means something. This is important.

[Quintus 5,399]

The OA cancelled at Netflix:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/oa-canceled-two-seasons-at-netflix-1229215

 

[Jay 37,323]

Yea, just saw the news myself.  We haven't even watched season 2 yet.  I wonder if it's worth it.

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

I never saw The OC.

[Quintus 5,399]

8 minutes ago, Jay said:

Yea, just saw the news myself.  We haven't even watched season 2 yet.  I wonder if it's worth it.

 

In the reddit thread where I saw the news it seemed to be full of gutted fans who are really disappointed, especially considering how much better than the first season they reckon it is.

[Marian Schedenig 8,179]

43 minutes ago, Quintus said:

The OA cancelled at Netflix:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/oa-canceled-two-seasons-at-netflix-1229215

 

Shame. S2 was weird (but so was the first one), and totally different. With all the half explained (at best) concepts and character arcs at play, they certainly could have made it work for a few more seasons.

[A24 4,327]

I didn't like the second season so it's okay. Yes, it was totally different, but not in a good way. I loved the mystery and vagueness of the first season. I didn't see that back in S2.

[Jurassic Shark 12,033]

I don't even know what you're all talking about.

[Jay 37,323]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_OA

[Quintus 5,399]

The first season was definitely a worthwhile odditiy, it had some brilliant moments, especially early on. It was a bit too airy fairy for me in parts though, and it did sag in the middle, there's no doubt about it. But maybe I'll see what reddit was saying about S2 after all, sometime. I wonder if it ends satisfyingly enough there.

[Jay 37,323]

I dunno, season 1 ended in a sort of half wrap-up, half new cliffhanger-y type way, and I'd imagine season 2 probably ends similarly.  But it's odd, for all the buzz season 1 got when it came out, Season 2 seems to have generated significantly less buzz.  I suppose the 2 1/2 years between seasons didn't help, plus the general fact there's just so much damn content these days, it's hard for anything to maintain a buzz for too long...

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

I finished The Act, the one about Dee Dee and Gypsy.

 

Well made show with a lot of suspense as it becomes more dark and disturbing in its last few parts. Poor Gypsy's lived a twisted life but seems to have a good heart despite her ordeal. Even more dark and disturbing is that weirdo she picked up with, god this is flyover country, huh. And so more TV shows are being shot in anamorphic – is that even necessary? Well it looks good at least.

[A24 4,327]

 

Watch this on Netflix. It's pretty good (except for the terrible final episode), then again, I'm a sucker for subject matters like these. 7/10

[publicist 4,643]

 

In hope of a fast-moving media/politics narrative i turned to Showtime's recent series about liberal boogeyman Roger Aisles, creator of Fox News, who's dishonorable exploits on the media front became devoured by #metoo claiming that label for Ailes' misogyny and rampant sexism. Take your pick which is worse, which also is 'The Loudest Voice's narrative problem: though centered on Ailes, there's not much of a character study here but a checkbox of big events in US media history (the forming of Fox News, 9/11, the rise of Trump) with Ailes spearheading them, uttering his Bond villain readings of the gullible american mind at every turn to the shock and dismay of his staff and, occasionally, even his boss/mogul Rupert Murdock, not known for his scruples, either.

 

Now, for a country where hip cynism rules tv since at least 30 years, it's hard to fathom that Ailes' corrupt media politics were that big of a shock to people laughing at Mayor Quimby every week, let alone career-hungry media folk. In the series, though, everyone besides Ailes reacts with wide-eyed shock when he again and again orders perfectly understandable breaches of journalist ethics needed to further his fascist agenda - after working for the Fox News channel for years, how believable is it that his network people still didn't get the beat?

 

It's slick and entertaining in the way these high-production value things usually are, Russell Crowe is probably a bad Ailes impersonator - apart from being irritated by the constantly visible line where his bald plate is taped on, i found his voice sounds much too booming and classically trained - but he gets the idea across of how such a person might move through life, which is good enough. But again, with an actor as accomplished as Crowe, wasn't it possible to focus more on what made Ailes tick like he did? A few glimpses of his childhood (coming much too late in the 7-episodes run) just aren't enough to explain this guy, who, like many others before and probably after him, is made by the system he was born into. A series about Ailes practically begs for a socio-cultural analysis on the United States, but for 'The Loudest Voice', flat stating of questionable agendas is enough. 

 

His treatment of women is the only element where the series now and then opens up a bit: Crowe in these scenes of #abuse #powerplay sometimes projects a focused stillness that gets across a certain messy appeal: disgusting as he may be, it's this special blend of power and attention that didn't seem so objectionable/abominable to some of his prominent victims as they later claimed. Such complexities that belie our superficial, outrage-prone social media narratives are in dire need here. All in all, it's too bad they didn't take more of a chance with this - after all, there is some Shakespearean depth in the character itself, but you can still watch it for a breezy explanation what made Trump possible in 2016, a topic, though, that is about as welcome now as another round of failed Brexit negotiations . 

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

Does it cover Roger's fascination with sexy women's legs?

[publicist 4,643]

It does, though once you saw a Transformers movie this seems a mild peculiarity.

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

Women's legs in high heels and high cut skirts is a particular display of femininity that's a real turn-on. It pleasures my eyes while listening to the news and political commentary.

[publicist 4,643]

And shuts off your brain while doing it.

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

And long after Ailes has gone, the station still does it, for which I am grateful.

[publicist 4,643]

Of course it does, it serves morons and these are in good supply.

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

It's certainly better than the other boring news stations that carry on like the sky is falling just because a bloke they oppose is leader.

[publicist 4,643]

I think what the show hits rather well is how nihilist Ailes' mantras were and how fast he corrupted the whole country with it. 'Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people', indeed. Though what imho makes such US versions of The Sun & Co. so deplorable is the lack of humour: i had the privilege once to study brit tabloid journalism and most of this stuff, awful as it was, had a leery sense of fun about it. Watch those Fox hosts and their pitiful self-righteous anger and poor semantics is just tiresome.

[Bespin 8,480]

I started "Another Life" on Netflix, a new Scifi TV series.

 

Already in the first two episodes, there are flashbacks, visions of dead characters and dream sequences.

 

I've stopped it. That's a big turn off for me.
 

I saw that before... Com'on, prove me you are able to tell a story.
 

Moreover, in that series a woman screams in EVERY SINGLE EPISODE.

 

NO. NO. NOOOOOOOOOOO.

 

Take me by the hand and tell me your story, don't use "tricks".

 

Tell me a story from the beginning to the end... and in chronological order.

 

Are they still directors who can do that these days?