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.