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Post by mdsizzle on Aug 23, 2020 23:22:00 GMT
I could probably be perfectly content with watching reruns of Top Gear/Grand Tour and Impractical Jokers for the rest of my life.
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Post by NAS on Aug 25, 2020 12:19:26 GMT
On Book's recommendation, we started After Life last night. While it drew some laughs (calling a pre-teen mouthy fat kid a cunt in the first 10 minutes? LOL), it sure the fuck is morbid. We'll continue to go with it. Gervais is awesome.
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Post by Corky on Aug 25, 2020 23:11:02 GMT
Just subscribed to Netflix on Comcast for the first time. Get the first month free. I suspect the wife will get the most enjoyment out of it as I am usually watching sports, reading or on here. But I will check out the movies. Right now she is watching a series called “The Crown”. Sounds like something from Great Britain.
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Post by dezaruchi on Aug 26, 2020 4:27:26 GMT
On Book's recommendation, we started After Life last night. While it drew some laughs (calling a pre-teen mouthy fat kid a cunt in the first 10 minutes? LOL), it sure the fuck is morbid. We'll continue to go with it. Gervais is awesome. Yes, it's some dark subject matter but it's hard not to laugh. Ricky Gervais is a comic genius.
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Post by dannycater on Aug 27, 2020 13:28:33 GMT
Ozark, Bosch--flat out 2 of the best shows I've ever seen for different reasons. Caught up to date on both. Breaking Bad, I literally just watched their first episode. Long way to go from here. Like it already. Atypical is very funny and smart, good teen-angst type show with parenting, fidelity and so many other subjects addressed within a show about an autistic teen.
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Post by dannycater on Aug 27, 2020 13:30:58 GMT
Okay, so far for me we have: Ricky Gervais 1 Ricky Gervais 2 Curb Your Enthusiasm Curb Your Enthusiasm--there was one signature episode that was as funny as I've seen. The Restaurant opening and the "car wash"...classic comedy, ultimate punchline at end of episode. Brilliance.
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Post by NAS on Aug 27, 2020 20:33:27 GMT
Ozark, Bosch--flat out 2 of the best shows I've ever seen for different reasons. Caught up to date on both. Breaking Bad, I literally just watched their first episode. Long way to go from here. Like it already. Atypical is very funny and smart, good teen-angst type show with parenting, fidelity and so many other subjects addressed within a show about an autistic teen. I love Ozark and Bosch! Breaking Bad took me a while to like. After the bike lock episode (you'll see), I stopped watching for years. I went back at it due to a major show hole and loved it the end.
I'll look up Atypical.
Thanks!
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Post by mdsizzle on Aug 27, 2020 23:44:57 GMT
Ozark, Bosch--flat out 2 of the best shows I've ever seen for different reasons. Caught up to date on both. Breaking Bad, I literally just watched their first episode. Long way to go from here. Like it already. Atypical is very funny and smart, good teen-angst type show with parenting, fidelity and so many other subjects addressed within a show about an autistic teen. Wow, you just saw the first episode of Breaking Bad?? There's like 100 seasons and there is a reason why everyone says its the best series ever... I envy you danny... I'd love get amnesia just to take that ride all over again. Recommendation.. wait till after the covid cup... this will make the off-season way shorter.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2020 0:42:58 GMT
We have actually never watched Breaking Bad before recently. We watched all the episodes of Better Call Saul and people said to watch BB to fill in some gaps.
I hated that show. OMG.
After about 5 episodes of talking about cancer I got out of my depression and stopped. Then I gave it another chance because everyone kept saying how great it was... they dialed back the cancer talk but I still thought it was boring. Oh well.
I got bored with Ozark too. Yikes.
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Post by bookboy007 on Aug 28, 2020 1:52:00 GMT
We have actually never watched Breaking Bad before recently. We watched all the episodes of Better Call Saul and people said to watch BB to fill in some gaps. I hated that show. OMG. After about 5 episodes of talking about cancer I got out of my depression and stopped. Then I gave it another chance because everyone kept saying how great it was... they dialed back the cancer talk but I still thought it was boring. Oh well. I got bored with Ozark too. Yikes. Same story as NAS on Walt. I borrowed the first three seasons back in the day of dvds. Watched the first season at a crawl and was bored and hated all of the characters. After six months she asked if I could give her the dvds back because she promised them to someone else. So I had to decide if I was willing to try again - glad I did. It has it’s weaker seasons and episodes but the finale is one of the best ever.
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Post by dannycater on Aug 30, 2020 14:14:34 GMT
Everyone you have to find this one, it's hard to find but if you do it's a great show...The Nightly News With Walter Cronkite.
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Post by mdsizzle on Aug 31, 2020 4:13:34 GMT
Everyone you have to find this one, it's hard to find but if you do it's a great show...The Nightly News With Walter Cronkite. I get my news from Weeksy... Cronkite ain't got shit on Weeksey!
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Post by dannycater on Sept 8, 2020 14:34:28 GMT
We have actually never watched Breaking Bad before recently. We watched all the episodes of Better Call Saul and people said to watch BB to fill in some gaps. I hated that show. OMG. After about 5 episodes of talking about cancer I got out of my depression and stopped. Then I gave it another chance because everyone kept saying how great it was... they dialed back the cancer talk but I still thought it was boring. Oh well. I got bored with Ozark too. Yikes. Same story as NAS on Walt. I borrowed the first three seasons back in the day of dvds. Watched the first season at a crawl and was bored and hated all of the characters. After six months she asked if I could give her the dvds back because she promised them to someone else. So I had to decide if I was willing to try again - glad I did. It has it’s weaker seasons and episodes but the finale is one of the best ever. I'm in season 4, I think the idea is to hate most of the characters--that's its charm in a way. Besides the cerebral palsy teen, and quite possibly Hank (and you hate both anyway for their personality traits/character flaws), the other characters are basically "breaking bad." But then Sopranos, Ozark were the same. There are ton of layers--Pinkman character right up there with one of the more complex character (caring, careless, good guy, bad guy, hothead, asshole, relationships with parents and Walt, loyalty, and you end up caring a lot for him) as I've ever seen in a TV drama. Pinkman = Christopher from Sopranos. The writing is terrific. Great show, season finale of season 3 was riveting.
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Post by NAS on Sept 8, 2020 18:23:35 GMT
We are onto The Umbrella Academy.
So far it's pretty good!
The Boys Season 2 is on a slow drip release, so we're waiting for all episodes before starting it.
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Post by bookboy007 on Sept 8, 2020 18:29:35 GMT
We are onto The Umbrella Academy. So far it's pretty good! The Boys Season 2 is on a slow drip release, so we're waiting for all episodes before starting it. Umbrella Academy is on our list. How's The Boys? I don't know if I have a platform where I get it, but I keep seeing commercials for season two, so I'm intrigued.
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Post by bookboy007 on Sept 8, 2020 18:36:38 GMT
Same story as NAS on Walt. I borrowed the first three seasons back in the day of dvds. Watched the first season at a crawl and was bored and hated all of the characters. After six months she asked if I could give her the dvds back because she promised them to someone else. So I had to decide if I was willing to try again - glad I did. It has it’s weaker seasons and episodes but the finale is one of the best ever. I'm in season 4, I think the idea is to hate most of the characters--that's its charm in a way. Besides the cerebral palsy teen, and quite possibly Hank (and you hate both anyway for their personality traits/character flaws), the other characters are basically "breaking bad." But then Sopranos, Ozark were the same. There are ton of layers--Pinkman character right up there with one of the more complex character (caring, careless, good guy, bad guy, hothead, asshole, relationships with parents and Walt, loyalty, and you end up caring a lot for him) as I've ever seen in a TV drama. Pinkman = Christopher from Sopranos. The writing is terrific. Great show, season finale of season 3 was riveting. I don't see the Jesse-Christopher thing at all. Except maybe what happens to their girlfriends. Christopher was always comic relief for me. His fascination with getting into the movie business - Pork Store - was priceless. Jon Favreau on Swingers vs the Godfather. Christopher's reaction to finding out that Adriana's a rat. And the funniest episode ever when he and Paulie Walnuts are trying to kill that Russian and he escapes in the woods. All brilliant. But I never had an ounce of feeling for the guy whereas Jesse gets you into some of that empathy for a guy who can't help but fuck up either because he's a junky or damaged or compromised by the people around him.
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Post by sandogbrewin on Sept 8, 2020 19:28:44 GMT
Recorded a bunch of Alain Delon and Warren Beatty movies on TCM last week.
The art house, “French new wave” in the t0s definitely pushed the boundaries.
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Post by dannycater on Sept 8, 2020 19:39:51 GMT
I'm in season 4, I think the idea is to hate most of the characters--that's its charm in a way. Besides the cerebral palsy teen, and quite possibly Hank (and you hate both anyway for their personality traits/character flaws), the other characters are basically "breaking bad." But then Sopranos, Ozark were the same. There are ton of layers--Pinkman character right up there with one of the more complex character (caring, careless, good guy, bad guy, hothead, asshole, relationships with parents and Walt, loyalty, and you end up caring a lot for him) as I've ever seen in a TV drama. Pinkman = Christopher from Sopranos. The writing is terrific. Great show, season finale of season 3 was riveting. I don't see the Jesse-Christopher thing at all. Except maybe what happens to their girlfriends. Christopher was always comic relief for me. His fascination with getting into the movie business - Pork Store - was priceless. Jon Favreau on Swingers vs the Godfather. Christopher's reaction to finding out that Adriana's a rat. And the funniest episode ever when he and Paulie Walnuts are trying to kill that Russian and he escapes in the woods. All brilliant. But I never had an ounce of feeling for the guy whereas Jesse gets you into some of that empathy for a guy who can't help but fuck up either because he's a junky or damaged or compromised by the people around him. Christopher got into drug use, Christopher was a hothead who caused a few headaches for Tony and crew, and at the end of his character and the late reaction to his GF death and the unsure feeling between Tony and him. But I agree, Christopher was funny and his character did provide comic relief (as did Paulie and him together--Russian in the woods one of the best episodes ever on TV...ketchup packets, holding out on Christopher). Similarity in the way Walt is like a father to Jessie the way Tony protected Christopher as family (nephew) despite other Mobsters upset with Christopher's faults/actions but kind of the son he wished he had as far as the Mob. It wasn't dark though the way it is with poor Jessie. The empathy part is up for debate, I liked Christopher. SPOILER ALERT--Tony kind of did what Walter did but with Jessie's GF at the end....PS My favorite line in Sopranos is Christopher's late to a meeting. walks in and Silvio asks "why you late?" ... Christopher: “the highway was packed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive”...fucking brilliant idea to quote Springsteen and of course the poking fun and homage at Silvio's real-life actor.
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Post by dannycater on Sept 8, 2020 19:51:59 GMT
On Favreau, when I first saw Swingers in the theater, I crawled into my seat, ducked my head and squirmed during the entire sequence when he calls the chick from the bar because he got her number and couldn't wait the required few days to call...absolute carwreck and I still can't watch that scene as it's too painful. You just feel like every guy feels like when they make a complete idiot of themselves in a potential dating situation--just it was on steroids and you don't think someone is that desperate or insane. You're saying "no, don't do it!!!!!" as it's happening....felt similar when the first GF chooses meth/Jessie over an AA meeting.
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Post by NAS on Sept 9, 2020 0:00:58 GMT
We are onto The Umbrella Academy. So far it's pretty good! The Boys Season 2 is on a slow drip release, so we're waiting for all episodes before starting it. Umbrella Academy is on our list. How's The Boys? I don't know if I have a platform where I get it, but I keep seeing commercials for season two, so I'm intrigued. The Boys is really good. It's an interesting take on super heroes. Wait. Come back. Don't just dismiss it because you are super heroed out. It's not yay here comes the dude with the extra abilities to save the world. It's different than anything else and hooooooooboy is the character Homelander a fucking dick. It's on Amazon Prime here. It's worth finding!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2020 2:09:48 GMT
I don't see the Jesse-Christopher thing at all. Except maybe what happens to their girlfriends. Christopher was always comic relief for me. His fascination with getting into the movie business - Pork Store - was priceless. Jon Favreau on Swingers vs the Godfather. Christopher's reaction to finding out that Adriana's a rat. And the funniest episode ever when he and Paulie Walnuts are trying to kill that Russian and he escapes in the woods. All brilliant. But I never had an ounce of feeling for the guy whereas Jesse gets you into some of that empathy for a guy who can't help but fuck up either because he's a junky or damaged or compromised by the people around him. Christopher got into drug use, Christopher was a hothead who caused a few headaches for Tony and crew, and at the end of his character and the late reaction to his GF death and the unsure feeling between Tony and him. But I agree, Christopher was funny and his character did provide comic relief (as did Paulie and him together--Russian in the woods one of the best episodes ever on TV...ketchup packets, holding out on Christopher). Similarity in the way Walt is like a father to Jessie the way Tony protected Christopher as family (nephew) despite other Mobsters upset with Christopher's faults/actions but kind of the son he wished he had as far as the Mob. It wasn't dark though the way it is with poor Jessie. The empathy part is up for debate, I liked Christopher. SPOILER ALERT--Tony kind of did what Walter did but with Jessie's GF at the end....PS My favorite line in Sopranos is Christopher's late to a meeting. walks in and Silvio asks "why you late?" ... Christopher: “the highway was packed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive”...fucking brilliant idea to quote Springsteen and of course the poking fun and homage at Silvio's real-life actor. I think it’s an understated point that Adriana, when she was young and fresh, was an absolute knee-shaking smokeshow in her day. Thats all I got.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2020 2:17:10 GMT
I decided to give Rectify a shot. It’s kinda interesting. A little slow, but his adaptation back into life outside prison after 20 years is interesting, especially with him being a bit of a broken, introspective oddball. Going back to trial should be good.
Usually the prisoner-adapts-to-freedom story involves an old guy. Here, the guy was imprisoned as a teenager, supposed to get the Death Penalty, than plops onto the street in his late 30s? He’s kind of in a state of arrested development among other things.
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Post by kelvana33 on Sept 9, 2020 13:08:43 GMT
I don't know why, but I like the Life Below Zero show on National Geographic. I respect people who go off the grid.
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Post by NAS on Sept 9, 2020 13:16:12 GMT
I don't know why, but I like the Life Below Zero show on National Geographic. I respect people who go off the grid. Is Fletcher on it?
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Post by bookboy007 on Sept 9, 2020 14:55:15 GMT
I don't know why, but I like the Life Below Zero show on National Geographic. I respect people who go off the grid. Is Fletcher on it? There's coffee all over my keyboard.
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