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rez 01-21-2023 11:25 PM

binging that 90's show. pretty good

Seanny One Ball 01-22-2023 02:32 PM

I can’t further taint my memories of That 70’s Show, not after the Randy season and Danny Masterson stepping on the #MeToo gallows.

Seasons 1-7 still make it the best ever kids show.

Seanny One Ball 01-22-2023 02:46 PM

Currently watching a 90’s classic “Northern Exposure”. It has an absurdly high rating on IMDB which would be suspicious if the episode ratings weren’t so consistently high all the way through.

Three episodes in and I quite like it. It’s an odd mash up of genres, there’s a fish out of water basis surrounded by incongruous characters presented for appearances as though they are stock characters…then there’s the whole Native Alaskan/Native American thing which is familiar but totally different at the same time.
The attitudes are quite sharp too, it has some snappy dialogue which tumbles in at great pace every few scenes. The lead is Rob Morrow who I only know because he was nearly in The Island Of Dr Moreau but fled the shoot when he saw how fucked it was. Well he’s good in this, adept at playing a kind of Pre-Eisenberg arrogant talkative neurotic who excels at worsening a scenario before coming through in the clinch.

I assume some of you have seen it before, it was apparently a big hit. The female lead from Cliffhanger is in it, and Billy Drago’s son. He has better teeth than his dad at least.

Ol Dirty Dastard 01-24-2023 12:50 PM

Finished the first season of Succession. A challenging watch but a great show. Brian Cox is a powerhouse.

#1-norm-fan 01-24-2023 02:20 PM

It’s funny to think that “That 80’s Show” features the best comedic actor of any version of that show. (As much as I like Kurtwood Smith and Tommy Chong.)

Seanny One Ball 01-24-2023 03:17 PM

A great team will always be worth more than a decent side with one all star player in it.

Glenn Howerton as Dennis Reynolds is the only truly well acted character performance in the entire main cast of IASIP, only Cricket comes close and he’s supporting. I like the show more often than not but it would be far better with some other good actors in it. Danny Devito isn’t even trying and he looks like John Gielgud next to Rob McElhenny. How can the guy that creates the show suck so badly as a performer in it?

#1-norm-fan 01-24-2023 08:49 PM

I’ve also seen a few episodes of AP Bio and Glenn Howerton is fantastic in that too.

Personally I’m a big fan of Danny Devito’s awkward delivery on Always Sunny. It’s weird. It works. I don’t need him to show his acting chops. He did that early on in his run and I’m glad they went in a different direction.

Bad News Gertner 01-24-2023 08:56 PM

1000 Pound Sisters, My 600 Lbs Life and 1000 Pound Best Friends.

I'm a sucker for these kinds of shows

slik 01-25-2023 12:20 AM

Really enjoying The Last Of Us so far.

Never played the game so I have nothing to reference from it - series is excellent thus far. The opening scenes of episode 1 and 2 are particularly creepy.

XL 01-25-2023 08:55 AM

We’re doing a House MD rewatch/watching later seasons for the first time. It’s causing me lots of anxiety over what medical issues myself, wife, child, and one on the way could have.

Started AHS: Hotel to get a break. Wife not a fan of the gore. Back to House and anxiety it is!

drave 01-25-2023 08:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Bad News Gertner (Post 5599072)
1000 Pound Sisters, My 600 Lbs Life and 1000 Pound Best Friends.

I'm a sucker for these kinds of shows




1000 pound sisters....






Bitches be crazy

Seanny One Ball 01-25-2023 11:10 AM

And I would fuck 500lbs and I would fuck 500 more,
Just to be the man who fucks a thousand pounds of twin sized chubby whore

#1-norm-fan 01-25-2023 02:59 PM

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Originally Posted by XL (Post 5599112)
We’re doing a House MD rewatch/watching later seasons for the first time. It’s causing me lots of anxiety over what medical issues myself, wife, child, and one on the way could have.

Started AHS: Hotel to get a break. Wife not a fan of the gore. Back to House and anxiety it is!

All the criticisms of House being cringey and formulaic are absolutely fair but Goddammit I love House as a character. Top 5 all-time for me.

Seanny One Ball 01-25-2023 06:49 PM

One of my childhood best mates shared a room with Hugh Laurie’s nephew or God son or some such thing at uni…

Never been a fan.

XL 01-26-2023 02:53 PM

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Originally Posted by #1-norm-fan (Post 5599143)
All the criticisms of House being cringey and formulaic are absolutely fair but Goddammit I love House as a character. Top 5 all-time for me.

Oh absolutely. I’m waiting for an episode where they get the diagnosis right first time and move on to another case rather than the “we’ve sussed it”, patient gets worse, “we’ve solved it!”, patient gets worse, “now we’ve solved it!”, patient gets better/rarely a patient dies.

El Vaquero de Infierno 02-10-2023 04:18 PM

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Originally Posted by El Vaquero de Infierno (Post 5478395)
I just finished watching a series from the 1980s: The Jewel in the Crown. It is a great piece of television; the acting is slightly dated, as TV has moved on, but still, a fantastic story. It is set in India during WW2, so you have that and the rising nationalist movement and then partition as a back-drop, but the story revolves around the rape of an English woman and the torture and subsequent false imprisonment of her Indian lover, and how those events reverberate in the lives of a set of other characters, most of whom don't know or ever meet the woman or her lover. It also doesn't shy away from the prejudices and bigotry of the period, both between the English classes and between the colonials and the Indians, but not in the preachy or ham-fisted way that things are done these days. It is a series that does not come along very often; it is up there with Brideshead Revisited as far as rare quality 80s television goes.

I've finished my second run through of Jewel in the Crown, and it is still top drawer. Part of me would love to see a modern adaptation of this story, but given the need to push 'the message' and the general poor TV writing of this current era, I think it would end up being butchered by some far-leftie virtue-signalling cunt.

I've watched five of the six seasons of Nashville. In-between the ridiculous storylines and the music, there has always been a bit of social commentary running though it, which I had no issue with. But with season 4 and especially season 5, they just went crazy with the preachy social justice shenanigans. I've started the sixth and final season, but again as always, its peak vanished after season 3.

I've also finished season 2 of Picard. I don't know why I subject myself to the modern Star Trek series, as they've turned out so naff. I haven't watched Strange New Worlds yet, mainly because I don't want to be disappointed again.

Lock Jaw 02-13-2023 06:08 PM

Just watched the Harley Quinn Valentine's Day Special

SPOILER: show
Never thought I'd see a show with a giant horny naked Bane humping buildings until they collapse

drave 02-14-2023 09:41 AM

that entire show's premise is being horny

Seanny One Ball 02-16-2023 07:59 PM

Been binge watching “Hell On Wheels” which is classic Western fare in a weekly tv format.
It’s nothing like Deadwood, but it is a grown up Western…lots of fucked up stuff happening in a less casual way.
Anson Mount and Common work well together. The whole show should have been about a white cowboy and a black cowboy being pals but the railroad theme is at least a good strong handle to grab onto.

drave 02-17-2023 08:33 AM

My wife approached me asking if I wanted to start watching Yellowstone, and then all the spin offs.




I teared up and told her "YEEE HAW" like a good Yank

El Vaquero de Infierno 02-17-2023 12:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Seanny One Ball (Post 5601931)
Been binge watching “Hell On Wheels” which is classic Western fare in a weekly tv format.
It’s nothing like Deadwood, but it is a grown up Western…lots of fucked up stuff happening in a less casual way.
Anson Mount and Common work well together. The whole show should have been about a white cowboy and a black cowboy being pals but the railroad theme is at least a good strong handle to grab onto.

Aboot fookin' time.

Seanny One Ball 02-17-2023 01:06 PM

I don’t think you have ever recommended it to me

El Vaquero de Infierno 02-17-2023 03:27 PM

I'm sure I did, but if I didn't, I should have.

Seanny One Ball 02-17-2023 04:07 PM

I’m finishing up season 3. Anson Mount looks a hell of a lot like Daniel Day Lewis at times, he pulls a certain shocked/angry face that probably sold him as the lead pretty fast. He’s a good actor too even if his storyline in this makes absolutely no sense at all.

Seanny One Ball 02-17-2023 04:10 PM

I’ve got several Western mini-series to watch when I finish Hell On Wheels.

Westerns are so good. All types of western…

Seanny One Ball 02-17-2023 05:07 PM

Season 3 of Hell On Wheels is short on storyline but over quota on the big acting moments.
Great stuff.

El Vaquero de Infierno 02-25-2023 09:47 AM

I've finished the sixth and final season of Nashville. What started as a ridiculous (but entertaining) show, became in its final two seasons a preachy, woke mess.

I'm rewatching season 3 of Westworld before I tackle its final season. It is a lot better than I remember from watching this season the first time round, though it does not touch the gloriousness of season 1.

I'm also rewatching season 1 of Carnival Row before I watch the second (and I believe final) season.

I'm hearing good things about the third and final season of Picard, though considering how low the standard was for the first two seasons, it might still only be average. I'll wait until all episodes are available before watching it.

I still got all those Taylor Sheridan series watch yet: season 5 of Yellowstone; season 2 of Mayor of Kingstown; Tulsa King; and 1923.

drave 02-26-2023 11:00 AM

Big same on Nashville. I don't really care what I watch, so my wife watches whatever most of the time. I also abhor country music.


The stories were entertaining but over the top for sure. But those last two seasons just became really stupid. Hell, nearly everything after Rayna's death felt..... directionless, really.

Lock Jaw 03-06-2023 08:35 PM

Started watching Picard Season 2 because I hear good things about Season 3 but don't want to skip Season 2.

Three episodes in, liking it a lot better than Season 1 already.... and I am a sucker for Star Trek time travel stories....

drave 03-07-2023 08:51 AM

I enjoyed the 1st season, just finished it a couple days ago. Looking forward to the rest of it.

El Vaquero de Infierno 03-07-2023 02:21 PM

Just finished the first season of 1923. Taylor Sheridan bringing the goods again, though I don't think it reaches the heights of 1883; that series was top drawer. I think the Spencer Dutton/Alexandra storyline brings the show down a peg or two; it is fairly outlandish at times, even though still enjoyable to watch.

I'm around half-way through Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. Modern Trek has burnt me too many times, but I have enjoyed the show thus far. It still feels like it is written by 12 year-olds, but Anson Mount has kept it together.

Evil Vito 03-08-2023 10:03 AM

Ted Lasso season 3 trailer got me in the feels.

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I have to say, merely seeing him in the locker room without his trademark Richmond polo feels like serious foreshadowing.

I mean the logical end game for Ted's character was always that he'd return to the US to be with his son. So I assume the 3-season arc will stay true to that. But even if Apple begs them for more seasons they could continue to follow his character in the US.

Also seeing Nate sitting at his coveted window seat in the Greek restaurant but now he's all sad and alone. Damn.

Lock Jaw 03-14-2023 01:39 AM

Enjoyed Picard season 2. End was a bit weird but overall enjoyed it way more than the first season.

Was gonna wait until all of season 3 was out before watching it but watched the first episode. Was pretty sweet.....

drave 03-14-2023 08:16 AM

Liking it more than I thought.... so far. "Time travel" crap but with Q..... and in a way that so far, makes sense.


I'm 4 episodes in I think? Borg Queen just got her power back and they are looking for The Observer.


I'm generally against time travel plots, as they invite lazy ass writing. I'm hopeful this continues the way it has.

XL 03-14-2023 11:43 AM

Ghosts (UK version) S1. Easy watching. Enjoyed it. Moved on to S2. Think the US version is pretty much a scene for scene remake but with slightly different ghosts.

Lock Jaw 03-15-2023 11:26 PM

Three episodes into Picard season 3... only one more out.... damn... I should have waited cause I don't want it to stop.

Blowing the first two seasons outta the water. Beverly Crusher has a serious case of melty-face going on though... actress def decided to not age gracefully....

Lock Jaw 03-20-2023 11:41 PM

Just watched Picard S3 episodes 4 and 5, catching up to the present. Show is pretty freaking sweet..... looking more forward to new episodes of this than new Mandalorian episodes.

El Vaquero de Infierno 03-21-2023 12:54 PM

I'm currently re-watching seasons 1 to 4 of Yellowstone, before starting the new season. Addictive shit, this show.

I've also watched all but the final episode of Tulsa King. This has also been a great show; Stallone is fantastic.

Paramount should essentially just become the Taylor Sheridan Network.

Lock Jaw 03-23-2023 10:41 PM

Watched the new Picard ep.... show continues to be great...

SPOILER: show
Damn @ a freaking Professor Moriarty cameo....

Seems like they are bringing more attention to the whole dumb S1 thing where Picard died and is now a synthetic being thing... was hoping that they would just continue to downplay that aside from the few very quick passing throwaway references they have done already....

Seanny One Ball 03-24-2023 07:25 AM

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Originally Posted by El Vaquero de Infierno (Post 5605289)
I'm currently re-watching seasons 1 to 4 of Yellowstone, before starting the new season. Addictive shit, this show.

I've also watched all but the final episode of Tulsa King. This has also been a great show; Stallone is fantastic.

Paramount should essentially just become the Taylor Sheridan Network.


It pretty much is. Look at how many shows he is responsible for overall and how many he has going concurrently.
He’s a one man franchise machine.


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