Unbelievably only one of his numerous projects has been given a mediocre reaction.

Just wrapped Dexter: New Blood. Pretty solid but not as good as I'd hoped. Better than s5 and onward but a far cry from s1, 2 and 4.



It was pretty solid all in all. Perhaps the 4th or 5th best season. Cant decide if its better than season 3 or not but its up there.

I loved every moment of it up until the finale.
I got it, I recognised its sense but I was crushed to see it end after such a resurrection.
I’m confident in saying it is the second best season behind season four which is probably the best season of tv I have ever seen.

Dexter season four is just perfect. Only Better Call Saul or Breaking Bad can claim any such longevity of quality across an entire season.
The Sopranos didn’t even achieve it.

I think Succession just started up again with a new season.
I can’t think of a smarter, funnier show. Another Destor suggestion.

I rank s1 and 2 of dexter pretty highly amongst all time great TV. S4 is right up but the first 2 seasons are really pure and focused in a way tv rarely ever gets. S3 struggles because its reeling from losing its antagonist and bookended against s4 it looks really weak in the rear view mirror. S4 has the same quality of writting as the 1st 2 seasons and arguably a more dramatic climax. I think how exceptional the first half of Dexter is makes its fall from grace cut that much deeper. Like Game of Thrones in a lot of ways.

S9 (fuck your rebranding) i dont think can match those 3 seasons. On reflection i definitely think its better than season 3 for sure though.

The Kurgan is great in s9. The moment he appears in 902 i was elated. The way they work him into the narrative and the way he interacts with Dexter in both The World of the Lie and in The World of the Truth is really well done.

All that said the show gets very caught up in the minutiae of his moutainman life and i think it leaves a bit to be desired. Contrasting it against the shows peak, and this season if very deserving to be considered against the best of its run, it just isnt as compelling as that upper echelon.

But we're talking about 3 of the best seasons of tv ever made. Its not really a besmirchment to not be as good as its peak.

And beyond that endings are hard. There's a ton of house keeping that goes into wrapping long form narratives that werent constructed to end. If you hold this ending up against its first ending...this is a masterpiece. So I'll def take it woth pleasure.

Just a general Ted Lasso observation from something that happened in episode 2 of this new season. Having just re-watched the series with my girlfriend before the start of the new season, a lot of stuff is fresh in my mind so I appreciated this bit of writing that much more.

Only watched like 7 or 8 at the time of the above post, but I picked it back up again because Picard S3 has me riding high on the Star Trek brand right now.

Just finished S1 of the original show. Maybe been only 1 or 2 episodes that I started to get "bored" at, but enjoyed the rest.... pretty much all "new content" for me since I never really watched them as a kid as I said...

Original series?

That will always earn a rep from me.

Stop playing me homes.

I must have repped you for that at least twice before - is what I’m really saying

Yeah

Another perfect season of tv is Deadwood season 1.
Seasons two and three are pretty swell too, especially that Dan Dority fight.

I need to watch the Deadwood film, which came out a few years ago; I think it is supposed to provide a more fitting conclusion to the series.

Finished the fourth and final season of Westworld last night. Entertaining enough, but a shadow of its former greatness. I'm not surprised they didn't bother to go ahead with the originally intended final fifth season.

Earlier in the week I also finished the first part of Yellowstone's fifth season. It seemed to lack the humour of the earlier seasons, but thankfully toned done the social justice elements that usually revolve around the Monica character. I found it as entertaining as ever, but I feel they should probably make the second part of the fifth season its last.

I'm currently watching two other series at the mo: The Borgias, and Taboo. The first I've seen multiple times. The second is a BBC drama starring Tom Hardy, swaggering around Napoleonic-era London like a mad bastard, while battling the East India Company and others over a piece of land on the west coast of Canada, which promises fortune in trade in China for the one who can possess it. I'm enjoying it, but it suffers from being a BBC production: if it was a HBO show, it could probably go darker and grittier, which it would benefit from.

I've recently bought the first two seasons of Peaky Blinders, which I'll get to soon. I'm around ten years behind the times, but hey. I also need to watch the second season of Mayor of Kingstown.

It gives it the conclusion it sorely needed, and does a fine job of it.
It’s not an explosive ending, much like how The Wild West just sort of stopped at the right time.

Garrett Dillahunt actually comes back to play a third character purely for a cameo.

Timothy Olyphant is arguably the greatest TV leading man of our generation off the back of Deadwood and Justified.
Justified is one of the best shows ever made. It’s right up there with the very best. Every season a classic.

He does a far better job of picking TV roles than those for film, that is for sure.

god Succession is so good.

Saving that for a binge

Picard S3 E09

Picard stuff too

Dale I have seen the first three seasons of Succession mate, just waiting to binge the final season.

I'm all up to date with season 3 of Star Trek: Picard and it is such a significant improvement on the previous two seasons, which were just bollocks.

It almost feels like a different show, which I assume is down to someone new taking over at the helm. Whomever is now in charge is clearly a fan of the IP, rather than wanting to use it purely as a vehicle for pushing 'the message.'

The show is still hamstrung to a certain point by the abysmal choices made in the previous two seasons, but if the IP is managed like season 3 from now on I think we'll see some good stuff develop.

Hang on… Barry is back.
Season four of Barry is out now…

Seanny sounds like he is Barry excited.


I'll show myself out.

Opening on a great joke too.
Everybody loves Barry!

Not your joke btw…

I actually mean to re-watch it all once it reaches a crescendo.
It’s as original in performance as it is in description, and that is saying a lot.
Bill Hader just knows good comedy.

Lol why are all your posts so oddly smarmy even when they should be innocuous?

Semarmy One Ball

I'm not crying, you're crying.

@Picard S3 finale

Didn't want it to end

Tried to post this "meme" on Facebook

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But it told me that my post goes against their community standards and violates the rules about inciting violence

That’s paranoia.

Just his style...
Its why I every GD post i read sounds like Scott Thompson in raging drag queen mode

Finished the third and final season of Star Trek: Picard. It almost makes up for the tripe that were seasons 1 and 2. Thankfully, they did not indulge in any cheap meaningless deaths of one or more of the TNG crew.

A lot of things were better than Mando season 3. For instance, Golden Girls season three was probably better than Mando season 3.

Was worried the whole time that they would

Perhaps it is my love for Jeri Ryan, who is still rockin' it in her 50s, but I'd like to see more Captain Seven.

If future series are helmed by Terry Matalas, I'm down for more ST in this post-Picard timeline. Just no more Borg, please.

Smarminess is obviously false friendliness or flattery, not condescension.
I am a condescending prick but I absolutely am not wasting my time trying to be nice to idiots.

Dale is very insecure about his intelligence so he doesn’t like to be corrected.

Why the fuck is Golden Girls catching strays in this thread?

I like the Golden Girls!

I mean, I've heard fairly intelligent people use words incorrectly. Not saying I'm one of those people! You smarmy fuck!

Dale you took a swipe at me for saying I was saving Succession for a binge.
I have no idea at what point you detected any “edge” or smarminess because there was none when I said it.

Seems likely that you have had that sitting in your head and have lashed out at completely the wrong time.
There’s a lot of that going about right now. Maybe it’s a virus that only targets pretentious gimps.

Fixed

Cinnamon Graham’s were good.
Cinnamon on cereal can go wrong on you fast though. One bowl over the line.

Why did Dale have to mention Golden Grahams? Now all I can think about is eating a big ass bowl of them. Not going to stop thinking about it until I over eat some and get sick.

Golden Grahams are the cereal kept on hand in my house. Golden Grahams are love. Golden Grahams are life. I'm gonna eat some right now and think of all of you while I do it.

I liked Fruit Loops whenever I was in North America. Our cereal here isn’t as sugary or as constipating. In fact Kellogg’s still probably holds the market here with his sex retarding corn concoctions.

Finished all three seasons of The Borgias (again), and I've completed the first season of Taboo. Regarding the latter, Tom Hardy was great, but at the same time I had no real drive to finish it and kind of had to force myself in the end.

I'm into the early stages of the second and final season of Carnival Row. I might rewatch Arcane as well, which has been calling me.

Rewatch “Sharpe” in all of its glory.

I am, it is damned fine viewing. Sean Bean’s ex wife had huge jugs man. Huge.

I rewatched Sharpe, including the 2000s episodes set in India, last year. Always good stuff.

I’m thinking about doing a Hornblower watch.
I need something good and swashbuckling.

Finished Star Trek: TOS season 2

Anyone else that watches “Barry” do you agree that Sarah Goldberg plays “histrionic talentless twat” pretty much perfectly?
That’s the most annoying woman since Elliot in Scrubs. Superb writing and acting, top drawer stuff. Bill Hader treading a fine line between comedy and high drama.

That talent manager told her she had integrity too lol… such great writing.

Fell off from Barry(I need to watch all of S3 still) but she totally is Elliott from Scrubs. I kept wondering who she reminded me of and you nailed it.

Dude get on that, it’s just as good if not better every season. Season three was fantastic and season four is the finale.

I would bang Sarah Chalke in Scrubs but not this broad. This one is not hot enough to get away with such behaviour.

I will have to. It’s really good but sometimes I’m too much of a wimp to deal with how dark it is.

Like I just want Barry and the Fonz to be besties and get up to shenanigans. It became very evident that this was not the trajectory—what with literally everything that’s happened on the show.

Yeah it gets worse man, way way worse.

It’s still funny though, and in the darkest way to still get a laugh. Never cheap though.

If Fonz/Barry chemistry is what you want, you’ll have to accept a shift in the dynamic.

Lol I know. I’ve gotten far enough that there’s no turning back. I think i stopped after ep 1 or 2 of season 3. I will power through cuz it’s an easy binge watch.

Plus I’ve seen ads that were basically spoilers for S3

It’s up there with the best shows for me. In a few years the world will look back and celebrate Barry as a real work of art. It is too smart for its own good right now, but people will catch up later. They always do.

You fucking introduced me to it too!

Yeah I realllllly dug it. I think the layoff between S2 and S3 was too long for me and made it hard for me to sink my teeth into it. Felt a bit disconnected as a viewer—not cuz it was bad, just because I wasn’t as immersed in the world.

There is a show called “Sprung” that I watched a while ago, last year? Anyway everyone should watch that if they can find it. These streaming services are their own worst enemy sometimes. Especially if the network is obscure and the show turns out to be incredible.

There are a lot of casualties of this. Lots of shit rising to the top instead.

This is why I love watching an entire show from start to finish with no threat of cancellation or between season breaks. I’m waiting for Succession’s last season to wrap before I binge it because you really do lose enthusiasm between seasons for even the smartest, best written shows. It happens at the worst times.

Jury Duty on Amazon (its free to watch, you don't have to have Prime) was one of the best shows I've watched this year.

Very Joe Schmo - if anyone else remembers that series.

10/10

Get off your low horse

Forced myself to finish watching the final season of The Goldbergs. I used to truly enjoy that show, but it clearly started to limp along once they abandoned the "autobiographical" gimmick for pure fiction, not to mention losing core cast members, first to death and then another sacrificed to HR.

Still stuck with watching it "just because".

Glad it is over, but at the same time I wish they did have proper knowledge that it was going to be their final season so maybe they could have maybe gone back to the "autobiographical" stuff for a bit and do a proper "wrap up".

I've finished the final season of Carnival Row, which I enjoyed. It is a shame that they cancelled it after two seasons, but they wrapped it up neatly enough.

I'm in the early stages of watching the first season of Your Honor, though it isn't really sitting well with me. For a supposedly morally upstanding individual, Bryan Cranston's character has taken to hiding his son's crime and the duplicity involved like a duck to water. Furthermore, the guy who plays his son irritates me.

I've also started a rewatch of The Wheel of Time. At the moment, I can't bring myself to rewatch Arcane; that first season was just too good.

I'm pumped for:

New Always Sunny
New Black Mirror
New Surreal Estate
New The Righteous Gemstones

and also Twisted Metal

Finished Rabbit Hole. I enjoyed the series, though it is not as clever as it thinks. I wouldn't mind seeing a season 2, but what I really want is another series of 24, which wraps up how Live Another Day ended with Jack being captured by the Russians. Let's do this, Kiefer!

I've dropped Your Honor, partly because the actor playing the son is such a mard ass, but also because something doesn't sit right with me about it.

I'm in the early stages of watching the first season of La Brea. It has a Under the Dome vibe going for it, which means it probably won't amount to much, and there are too many character that need to be killed off. At best, it is background programming.

I've also watched the first episode of Sleeper Cell; a Showtime series that came out around 2005, centring around an FBI agent's attempts to take down a jihadi cell. We'll see how that goes.

Finished watching Star Trek: The Original Series and followed it up by watching Star Trek: The Animated Series.

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Two episodes into Wing Commander Academy animated series. It’s surprisingly good. It takes place before all the games.

It use to be on Saturday mornings on USA Network, and only lasted a season. I discovered it because it was the 4th part of the “epic”’Saga of the Warrior king. Basically 4 different shows had the same character (The Warrior King) and object (Orb of power) in them, and it took place all on one Saturday morning in November of 96. There was no promotional material for it so if you just watched your show you had no idea it was a crossover. The shows and episodes are

Street Fighter -Warrior King
Savage Dragon-Endgame
Mortal Kombat Defenders of the Realm- Resurrection
Wing Commander- Recreation

The Wing Commander episode is far and away the best of the saga.

So it made me want to watch the whole series. So far at least 2 human people have died, and a large amount of aliens and alien cats.

I know nothing about the Wing Commander games, so I’m basically going in blind to this series.

V excited for new Black Mirror episodes. The last season wasn't too great but the Bandersnatch movie was top notch.

Been watching a few episodes with the lady to introduce her to it. Naturally I started with the "pig" episode.

Just watched San Junipero again and I still reiterate my feelings about it. A good episode. Not the best. Maybe not even top 3 or 4. My disdain over it is how people were falling all over themselves to say how great it was but I'm pretty sure that was virtue signaling to show how they aren't homophobs. Same with people doing the same over Black Panther. Another good but not great movie but it has to be great because that shows how cool I am with the sight of black people (on screen).

For those who love San Junipero I will take this opportunity to point out how "problematic" it is. In the first scene you get the more experienced girl forcing the other to drink alcohol, then trying to get her to come home with her and not taking no for an answer. If that was a dude plying the girl who just got off the bus into town with booze and insisting they had to hook up the show wouldn't exist now. Just saying.

Also, the idea of uploading your consciousness into the cloud is pointless. Its not you. Its just a rebuilt copy of you. You still die. Same as in Star Trek everytime they use the transporter. They break down all your matter, copy it, then rebuild it. It's still you in a sense but just a replica. You died when they broke you down in the first place.

San Junipero is one of the worst episodes of Black Mirror, that and the one with the bees are probably the worst that spring to mind. Didn’t really like the pig one either to be honest…

I remember the one with the bees being one of my favourites

I know

The bees one was good I thought.

The worst three are:

Metalhead
Hated In The Nation
San Junipero


The best three are:

USS Callister
Crocodile
Nosedive

I also really love the “Shut Up And Dance” and “White Bear” episodes.

The only episodes I can respect are sharply written indictments, the way Rod Serling would write it given access to today’s allowances.

Nosedive is maybe my fav.

Nosedive/Callister def my top two

That finale to “Barry” must be the most unpredictable, well written ending in the history of black comedy. The pacing of everything that happened was credible within the rules of the show and most importantly it caught me completely off guard in a good way.

People will talk about that ending for years, it is definitely one of the best I have ever seen.

Started in on the final season of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

Ive got 4 eps left. Great show.

Such a stellar cast of characters. Getting ready to be "devastated" at never getting to see any big group scenes again.

I really want a series box set for this show. The writing, the cinematography, set designs, wardrobe, the cast, and some of the best oners ever put on the silver screen...i really like to own it

Watched the Ted Lasso finale. Feeling emotional.

Just watched 3 episodes in a row..... episodes are like 50+ minutes but always seem to just fly by and at the end it is like "Aw, it's over already?"

how do you feel about Gilmore Girls?

506 made me cry. Show is ridiculously good.

never seen it. I dont even know what its about. Ive heard good things though

I think it's about some girls with the surname Gilmore.