Oh god I thought I had wiped that garbage entirely from my memory until you brought it up here :eek:

To imagine Milch went from Deadwood to... that.

Book was great.

Antmeister and I finished The Witcher. Pretty solid show, can't wait for the next season.

Also, didn't know Henry Cavill was a gamer.

Gary Gulman -“The Great Depresh” is really good on HBO and 99% clean. Maybe 1 f bomb in a vignette

Dark on Netflix is really good and requires paying close attention.

Watched the first episode last night, agree. I thought I knew way more about this than I actually did, just from a single episode.

Just watched a fun documentary on prime called Nintendo quest. A guy has 30 days to acquire every original Nintendo game and he can’t use the internet. Was a really fun watch.

I finished Messiah. I thought the first half was very solid and then it really didn't go anywhere. They had a nice premise and no idea what to do with it.

The last half of the last season of Bojack Horseman dropped. Hate to see this show being over.

I was still midway through season 5. I finished that and am ready to start season 6, I just can't binge it. Some episodes require a few days before I can do another.

Now we are watching the 3rd season of The Crown. still good
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Yes, I'm fascinated by this series and ready for s4. There are events in the series that I look up to learn more (coal town disaster, prime minister that some thought to be a spy etc.).

My favorites are s1 & s2 when they focused on Elizabeth. Lots of history there that I did not know much about.

I've done the same thing Edward.

My wife and I both really enjoy the show. The only issue I've had with it is Helena Bonham Carter was a terrible choice for Margaret. Maybe it is my own mind, but she is too much like Bellatrix Lestrange to be Margaret.

I thought Carter was really good as Margaret.

I thought season three suffered because it didn't have a through line. Each episode was like the greatest hits of the decade rather than revolving around a central idea like seasons 1(her taking the throne) and 2(the relationship with Phillip).

I don't know if this is the right place but I just saw They Shall Not Grow Old on Amazon Prime. It's a documentary film by Peter Jackson using original footage of the First World War that is colorized and restored. No narrator, they use audio from WWI veterans telling their personal stories. Very well done. It brings that war alive in a way I haven't seen before.

I am enjoying Star Trek Discovery s2 much more than s1. The first season was mostly fighting, the second season is more true to legacy Star Trek with discovery, finding new aliens/species, dealing with moral situations etc.

1. First contact with the lost humans & the Pike's "barter"
2. The space alien's death & legacy (reminded me of that STNG Picard's flute/extinct people episode)

Love how they got Christopher Pike in to the picture and Spock (eventually, haven't gotten to that episode yet)

I absolutely hate "temporal distortions and like" plots.

And Spock, get a shave.

Teaser trailer for Stranger Things 4. Contains a spoiler if you haven't finished season 3, FWIW.

Anyone watching McMillions? First two episodes are good. I’m familiar with the story but it’s cool how in depth they go regarding the investigation.

I want to strangle Doug with my bare hands.

But yes, enjoying it.

Haha. My wife and I have mixed feelings about him. I think he is great TV but would probably want to shoot him with his own gun if I was in a room with him for 5 minutes.

I just finished it and yup, same as you and Lathum.

Since I'm feeling a little down... Lets face it, that documentary was tragic.. all around. My friend told me about a show called "Cells at Work!" It's an anime about blood cells doing their job but they're people. I expect to be entertained.

Finished Season 1 and 2 of The Sinner. Outstanding show. I'd say Season 2 was a little better than Season 1 and I'm looking forward to Netflix getting Season 3 (which started recently on USA).

I'm going to watch this when it's done. Can they really make 6 episodes out of this? My pet peeve of late is everyone trying to copy "Making a Murderer" and stretching out documentaries.

Mr.Robot.
I'm glad I didn't quit watching the show on the second season.
Awesome!

Watching the Counterparts on Prime. Another dimension like show like Man in the High Castle. I'm enjoying this one more.

Yeah. I thought the same thing. Someone did an hourish long show in it I saw somewhere along the way. So far it’s holding up. The bigger annoyance for me is I’ve gotten used to Netflix dropping the whole season of a show that I hate having to wait a week for each episode.

I just burned through the first 4 seasons of "The Magicians" on Netflix. I loved it. Super fun show. Closest thing to, say, the good years of "Buffy" I've seen for a while.

Whoops completely missed this. I love McMillions and Doug, he cracks me up.

I need to get to season 2. Really enjoyed the first season.

You would like Dark on Netflix if you haven't seen it.

We finished Ragnarok this week - a 6 episode drama from Norway produced by Netflix. Really, really enjoyable - sort of like American Gods in that it deals with some old Norse myths living in the present day, but focused around a younger cast of characters. Could easily have been cheesy given all the teenagers involved, but thankfully it was not.

Finished watching The Counterparts s2. Unfortunately, it was not renewed for a s3 but thought the s2 ending was pretty decent. Great series!

I'll check out Dark.

After three episodes I'm still trying to decide if I like Hunters.

It's an interesting premise, but really inconsistent. It feels like every good scene is followed by something equally terrible.

Thought it was one of the most pretentious and overwrought shows I’ve ever seen. Obviously the subject matter is about as far from it as you can get, but some scenes are so bad and heavily laid on it feels like they are almost shooting for comedy.

The concept for the show seems fine but the previews just make it seem like an over-the-top show. Something that Tarantino could maybe pull off but not necessarily anyone else. Might give it a shot down the line, but there is so much good TV going.

A heads up that it is a German show that is dubbed in English. The dubbing is actually really good. As someone who liked Counterpart, Lost, Fringe, and other shows like that, it's probably the best of them all.

Also season 3 will be the last so they have a conclusion lined up. Should be out some time in June I believe. Be prepared to Google stuff like bootstrap paradox and other terms.

Finished Cells at Work! Very cool "educational anime". Doctors on youtube have watched it and agree that it's accurate.

So now I'm going to the other side of the spectrum. I'm watching The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez. I'm 2 episodes in and it's hard to believe that there are monsters like his mom and the mom's fiancee. Just unbelievably sad. The system failed this poor kid and now he's dead. It's really hard to watch, but we need to hear his story.

Haji Giri on Netflix is real interesting. A Japanese/British crime show about a cop trying to track down his Yakuza assassin brother in the UK and prevent a Yakuza turf war from breaking out in Tokyo.

I saw that series and enjoyed it.

I finished ep 2 and not feeling the love. It's kinda slow. I assume it picks up soon?

Give it 5 episodes. Episode 5 has a big reveal that sets the show off and running. One of the few moments in my watching history where I was like "holy shit". If you're not hooked after that reveal, it's probably not for you.

I also think episode 3 gives a big hint to where things are going at the end. It started slow for me too but I hung with it because the reviews were so good. Didn't disappoint.

Episode 4 was amazing.

I'm with ya. I finished the last 2 episodes last night and I was thinking as I watched it, "Im never gonna be able to watch these again", just too much of an emotional beating.

Good to know. I read the first book in this series and wasn't sure about the show. Might have to give it a try now.

I finished Tokyo Trials on Netflix, a 4 part series about the Asian equivalent of the Nuremburg Trials.

For most this will be a boring series, it doesn't have action, love interest, no mystery of the outcome etc. But I found the show fascinating as it was about the tension was among a group of justices presiding over the trial of Japan's high level war criminals - their politics at play; their personal beliefs, egos, prejudices & motivations; how they interacted with each other etc.

There was an Indian justice who essentially did not want to convict any of them and now has a plaque at one of the Japanese shrines to the war dead including the war criminals.

If you like history and/or have a legal bent, I think you will enjoy this.

I am so angry at that worthless mom after watching Trials of Gabriel Fernandez. Dont watch this show unless you want to be angry at the end of it. That mom is such a coward.

Not sure it belongs in here since it's an AMC show, but liking Dispatches From Elsewhere so far. I'm only three episodes in and have no idea what's going on really, but two thumbs up so far.

Thought McMillions was still throwing heaters through episode 5, but the big reveal in episode 6 was meh.

Also the (lack of) jail time really grinds my gears. Just a silly lack of consequences.

Funnily enough I felt almost completely the opposite. An exercise in annoying narcissists talking shit for most of the series but I thought the final episode was well done. I agree on the lack of consequences but I thought the final episode did a decent job of providing the counter argument - many of the people who turned the tickets in were either deceived themselves or naive and hoping to improve their lot in life. I do think Jacobsen should still be rotting in prison, but we have a fascination with treating white collar crime with a slap on the wrist.

And yeah, the big reveal (as in who was the informant) was very meh and crammed in at the end. Not my favorite series and I’m not sure how it got such good ratings.

You're both wrong. McMillions had some draggy parts (like the whole episode with Gloria Brown), but it worked to establish how many of these people got drug into this. Sure, she wanted the money, but when it came time to do it, I really think that she basically only did it because she was afraid of Jerry Colombo.

Also, Special Agent Doug was nice to actually see that there are, you know, PEOPLE in law enforcement and not just power hungry automatons.

Really enjoyed it, start to finish.

I hear TIGER KING on Netflix is pretty nuts, so that's probably my next go-to.

Tiger King is definitely nuts.

I watched all of Tiger King yesterday. Super nuts!

Raising Dion is fun, in a cheesy comic book kind of way. The tone of it sorta sits somewhere around the Marvel Netflix universe shows and something like The Arrow in its peak, but it gets a little dark at times.

Yeah, at first I was kinda like this is too kid-like for me, but kept watching because it's filmed and set in Atlanta and I wanted to go "I know where that is". But it gets dark real quickly midseason and becomes something really interesting.

If you want more there's some gems on the Joe Exotic youtube channel. That guy filmed everything. As far as the documentary goes did you notice when the employee got her arm bitten off he took the time to change into an EMT jacket with badge before responding, in episode 2. For some reason that had me rolling all night.

Holy crap I hadn't noticed that, I'll have to go back and re-watch that part. I just remember being floored at his reaction after it was over. "I will never recover from this financially" or something to that effect. I couldn't believe it.

I was so bummed to find out Joe Exotic didn't even sing his own songs.

two episodes into Tiger King, its absolutely bananas, I'll probably finish it tonight.

Ozark is such an awesome series. It gets better each season.

I have found the whole bit with the therapist particularly humorous.

The actress who plays Mya is a grad school friend. This is potentially a big break for her.

I love Ozark. Cant wait for the next season and being a Missourian the locations are recognizable.

Also, Watch Badland and blood Father. 2 very good action movies. Badland was a Western really well done. Followed the script but was really good. Father Blood was just a fun romp. Mel Gibson and Selena Gomez worked well together.

Started Man In The High Castle yesterday, ep 2 tonight.

The problem I'm sensing thus far is that the universe is exponentially more interesting than the characters we've been given as inhabitants. And the acting is, umm, I'll go with uneven.

Absent the current real world situation, I can definitely say that this wouldn't have gotten an ep2 look here following S1 E1

Yep... that was my exact issue, although I'm not sure I expressed that well enough to my wife. We lasted the entire first season until the plot issues drove me too nuts.

Yes. The universe had so much potential. And it was wasted. I made it through season one. Started 2 and quit. Just couldnt do it.

The world was interesting, the characters were not. I think I made it through 2, but had no will left to care beyond that.

I mean that's just a factor of Philip K. Dick's work in general. Very interesting ideas - terrible characters.

The characters get better (MUCH) later on, but the world building suffers as the showrunners start writing beyond the book.

I liked the Smith family and Tagomi. The weakest character just happened to be the protagonist, and that doesn't work well. The series ending, really all of the last season, was not good.

Childan got really good as well. And the freedom fighters - Wyatt and the Black Communists - were well done. And as far as casting, I think they hit it out of the park with Himmler.

I enjoyed the Communists, it was just odd that they showed up in the last season as major players, but didn't have a place in the story previously. I forgot about the Chief Inspector. I loved him.

I think the in world reason the BCR didn't rise up until S4 is because they were mostly just a support group for black people who had 2nd class rights, until

I just didn't like that the people who brought down the Japanese didn't have a part in the story until the last season.

I still don't know why Tagomi was not in the last season. I assume it was contract related, but killing him in between seasons was a big blow to the story.

I don't think I'd go as strong as 'terrible', but even as someone who has read just about everything PKD ever wrote, the characters are definitely support pieces for whatever the concept/idea he's writing about is, with a few exceptions.

HBO makes programming available free as part of #StayHomeBoxOffice

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/02/enter...ing/index.html

The promotion kicks off April 3, and will include free streaming of such series as "The Sopranos," "The Wire" and "Veep," as well as HBO documentaries and an assortment of Warner Bros. movies. Many of the films are aimed at kids or a family audience, such as "Pokemon Detective Pikachu," "Smallfoot" and "The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part."

The programming will be available to stream without a subscription on HBO Now and HBO Go. Other series included in the promotion are "Succession," "Barry," "Silcon Valley" and "Ballers," as well as the older titles "True Blood" and "Six Feet Under."

Awesome. I want to watch the Deadwood movie and Ballers.

If you have time and are looking for another HBO show to watch Succession may be the best show on HBO right now.

The Deadwood movie does not appear to be part of the free offerings, FWIW.

Netflix second season of "Sunderland 'til I Die " is up. Really enjoyed season one, had no idea there would be another.

Me too!

She is the only likable FBI character. :D

Watched the first 4 episodes of McMillion over the weekend. Talk about desperately needing an editor. The first four episodes could have easily been shown in 30-45 minutes.

I want to punch Doug in the face.

We finished The Handmaids Tale last night. Really good show if not a bit repetitive at times.

Started Tiger King. WTF.

Think we are going to do Ozark next.

The Outsider, on HBO, is very good. Definitely one of the better Steven King adaptations.

Got CBS Access to watch ST Discovery & Picard.

Have finished watching them so watched the remake of Magnum PI (only s2 though, no idea why s1 is not available). Overall a good effort but lacking.

1) Retained Magnum, TC and Rick quirky interrelationships but the actors just don't work for me. Primarily the Magnum actor
2) Higgins is female. There's the slapstick humor and dissing but its not as good
3) The plots are shallow but stay true to the original Magnum series.
4) Detective Tanaka is okay. Don't mind him being more aloof than original

It's probably just me and my yearning for days past but the formula isn't working for me.

Really enjoyed this series - season one was such a downer, which makes for some pretty incredible television at times but I may have actually enjoyed season two a bit more.

Some really cool behind the scenes stuff with the new owners, who are real characters and a few more wins doesn't hurt!

I can relate a lot to Sunderland fans as a fan of Buffalo sports. Lots of losing and poor ownership over the years. I hope things turn around for them.

Yeah, I got a free month offer, so we are watching Discovery (and then Picard) - my wife is a massive Star Trek fan, I'm just Trek-curious but know a decent amount of the series without watching. It's pretty good so far. Though the spore drive thing is strange and I'd imagine ends up not working out (otherwise all the Federation ships in TNG, DS9, etc would have them).

Same thought crossed my mind early :)

S3 of the acclaimed Israeli production "Fauda" is now on Netflix.

fwiw

I enjoyed the previous 2 seasons. It's got the obligatory radical muslim extremists but also shows regular Palestinian people which I appreciate.

Speaking of Discovery, the first season was good. The second season was just bad. Oh well, now onto Picard.

Not sure why but Netflix has been suggesting "Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories" as something I might like for a while, I guess it noticed I watched "Jiro Dreams of Sushi" a year or two ago. Finally gave it a try on friday.

It's strange, 30 minute self-contained episodes, each one focusing on a different customer or two at a small overnight diner in a side street of a busy nightlife district of Tokyo. There's one character who appears in every episode (The Master, the diner's chef), and a handful of recurring characters (an old guy who sits at the bar, three gossiping women), but the main characters in each episode only appear in their own story then aren't seen again.

The further it's gone, the more I've liked it, I've got 1 episode to go in season one and Netflix has a second season.

Two thumbs up from me.

I've seen it and enjoy the shots of the "master" making the food. It's pretty light weight in plot but if I'm ever in Japan, I plan on visiting a similar restaurant down an alley at 11pm.

Yeah, the plots can be a bit lightweight, and the acting can be over the top, I think it's just the strangeness of it all to my Western sensibilities that keeps me coming back.

And The Master. The Master is cool.

The wife and I are burning through "Kim's Convenience" right now. Very fun little show.

Stayed up late to finish Ozark last night. Great show. Going to catch up on Brockmeir next then have to find a new drug.

Yeah, Ozark is great. Could have done without the GILFy thing though.

My wife and I have been binging Ozark the last few weeks. Currently on S3E7, so almost done. I really enjoyed the first season, but feel like it maybe jumped the shark in season 2. I really haven't cared for season 3, but perhaps the last few episodes will redeem it.