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

https://i.imgur.com/heDVWxJ.png

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.