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I'm sure this has been mentioned, Vice Principals (HBO) w/ Danny McBride and Walter Goggins. F'ing HILARIOUS!! It's only 2 seasons, so it's over quickly.

I'm almost finished w/ season 2 of Barry - very good, enjoyable.
 

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I'm sure this show has been covered - but... I just started binging Longmire.
Me gusto mucho.
Especially Deputy Vic.. dayum.

Tried watching it and liked it at first but then you realize every episode is the exact same story arc…and how many murders can this sleepy mountain really have…not buying it
 

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Other than that one main character dying (don't want to ruin it for others) I liked it too....and I understand why this character was killed, still was hoping it wouldn't happen

I get it but I also liked her dying…that whole family had a self destructive attitude like it was their lot in life. I think it played well
 

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i liked longmire at first but it got repetitive quickly and not long before you realize its just a low rent knockoff of yellowstone.
 

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Tried watching it and liked it at first but then you realize every episode is the exact same story arc…and how many murders can this sleepy mountain really have…not buying it
This could be said about Murder She Wrote. That show ran for like 20 seasons. How many murders happened in that small town?
 

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New series called “The Old Man” on FX, watched only 1 episode so far.

Don’t want to give too much, but Jeff Bridges plays an ex-government spook, and John Lithgow is government agent trying to catch him.

1st episode was pretty good. Gonna add it to the rotation
 

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New job has me travelling about a week out of each month. Using the flight time, and some late nite hotel time, to watch stuff. It's how I wrapped up Ozark. Son is encouraging me to watch S4 of Stranger things, but I'll wait for the back half to drop then binge it all at once.

Meanwhile, what I did watch on the last trip down was "Love, Death, & Robots". They released S1 a couple years back and it was decent. Basically each episode is an animated short by someone - a means to tell their story, their way, and s how off the latest state of the animation world. No two episodes are connected, and they vary with their use of animation - some futuristic, some artistic, some surreal. It won't be for everyone, but each episode is only 9-17min long, so it isn't a huge investment. Some were pretty meh, but many were pretty cute with their story, and most were impressive with the quality of the animation and how they applied it. Netflix recently dropped S2 and S3, so I'm working my way through those now. More of the same, very few meh, a few cute, still great animation. What appears to have shifted is rather than a bunch of independent animation artists, they are adapting stories from people and have a few core producers make a few of the episodes in each season. This keeps the variety of tales pretty diverse, but maintains the quality of production. Not a series you need to set time aside and watch, but if you need to kill sub-20min, it isn't a bad spend.

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Also, got ahold of pirated copies of Game of Thrones to see what all the noise was about. Yeah, I'm way after the curve, but I can tell why people were so impressed (at the time). I'll write more up on it once I finish, only on s5 of 8 right now, hooked by s1 and it is starting to feel like folks were surprised by their success and hadn't really thought though what to do after the first few seasons. It's still good, but the way characters are brought in nearly all the time and several are killed off along the way, is aggravating. Necessary, but aggravating.
 

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New Season 4 of Westworld is starting. And judging by episode one it's going to be a new and improved shyt show. It's hardly worth talking about. Remember how the original movie had an interesting concept and the first season of the TV show expounded on that to make a compelling, mind bending, science fiction based TV series? Forget all that. Instead we now have a girl-power, relationship heavy slog of a show. You know how you watch something 2/3rds of the way through you realize this is crap but might as well finish it? Yeah that's it. The episode drags on updating every character's story to yawn inducing boredom.

Remember how Season 3 ended with the apocalypse, Bernard wakes up years later covered in dust implying the an end of the world scenario? Apparently the writers don't. Caleb is back in his old construction job with no robot helper and his human co-worker even comments that nothing has really changed since the "riots". So "hosts" are apparently outlawed however Charlotte has a host factory and has the MIB do her dirty work. He's trying to kill Maeve which makes sense I guess. But for some reason he's also trying to kill Caleb who is minding his own business raising his family with his racially diverse wife because of course she is. Even Dolores has a black roommate and surprisingly they are not in a lesbian relationship - the writers missed a load of woke points. Dolores has been reprogrammed and is in the real world... or a simulation - not sure. Hosts are outlawed as far as I know. Then she gives a big monologue how she's just a girl in the big city looking for love blah, blah blah. And the big, final reveal is that Teddy is back. I guess the writers forgot that he was permanatly in the Sublime.

The behind the scenes story is that the show runners are the husband-wife team of Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy (gawd forbid she takes his name). Jonathin (who goes buy Joni - of course) ran the first season but turned it over to his wife after that. She replaced all the first season writers and the rest is feminist infamy. I'll watch the rest of the season but if it's not a bigger train wreck than the last I'll eat my shorts.
 
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Also, got ahold of pirated copies of Game of Thrones to see what all the noise was about. Yeah, I'm way after the curve, but I can tell why people were so impressed (at the time). I'll write more up on it once I finish, only on s5 of 8 right now, hooked by s1 and it is starting to feel like folks were surprised by their success and hadn't really thought though what to do after the first few seasons. It's still good, but the way characters are brought in nearly all the time and several are killed off along the way, is aggravating. Necessary, but aggravating.
Don't watch anymore. You've reached the point where the show goes down hill. Basically everything that was great about Season1-4 is lost in the following seasons. The Prince-that-was-Promised is meaningless. Jon's death/resurection is never brought up again. Bran's powers do nothing other than confirm Jon's parentage which is also dropped as a plot line. The white walkers are a one episode inconvenience. All the witty banter is gone since they didn't have GRRM's writing to adapt. Tyrion is no longer a political master mind. The master of spies just follows Tyrion around listening to cock jokes. Characters act uncharacteristically and basically everything that made season's 1-4 good is gone.

If I could do it over I would have stopped after season 4 and just wait for GRRM to finish the books because you are really going to be pissed off if you watch until the end.
 

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New Season 4 of Westworld is starting. And judging by episode one it's going to be a new and improved shyt show. It's hardly worth talking about. Remember how the original movie had an interesting concept and the first season of the TV show expounded on that to make a compelling, mind bending, science fiction based TV series? Forget all that. Instead we now have a girl-power, relationship heavy slog of a show. You know how you watch something 2/3rds of the way through you realize this is crap but might as well finish it? Yeah that's it. The episode drags on updating every character's story to yawn inducing boredom.

Remember how Season 3 ended with the apocalypse, Bernard wakes up years later covered in dust implying the an end of the world scenario? Apparently the writers don't. Caleb is back in his old construction job with no robot helper and his human co-worker even comments that nothing has really changed since the "riots". So "hosts" are apparently outlawed however Charlotte has a host factory and has the MIB do her dirty work. He's trying to kill Maeve which makes sense I guess. But for some reason he's also trying to kill Caleb who is minding his own business raising his family with his racially diverse wife because of course she is. Even Dolores has a black roommate and surprisingly they are not in a lesbian relationship - the writers missed a load of woke points. Dolores has been reprogrammed and is in the real world... or a simulation - not sure. Hosts are outlawed as far as I know. Then she gives a big monologue how she's just a girl in the big city looking for love blah, blah blah. And the big, final reveal is that Teddy is back. I guess the writers forgot that he was permanatly in the Sublime.

The behind the scenes story is that the show runners are the husband-wife team of Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy (gawd forbid she takes his name). Jonathin (who goes buy Joni - of course) ran the first season but turned it over to his wife after that. She replaced all the first season writers and the rest is feminist infamy. I'll watch the rest of the season but if it's not a bigger train wreck than the last I'll eat my shorts.
Sooooo.... no tits?
 

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Don't watch anymore. You've reached the point where the show goes down hill. Basically everything that was great about Season1-4 is lost in the following seasons. The Prince-that-was-Promised is meaningless. Jon's death/resurection is never brought up again. Bran's powers do nothing other than confirm Jon's parentage which is also dropped as a plot line. The white walkers are a one episode inconvenience. All the witty banter is gone since they didn't have GRRM's writing to adapt. Tyrion is no longer a political master mind. The master of spies just follows Tyrion around listening to cock jokes. Characters act uncharacteristically and basically everything that made season's 1-4 good is gone.

If I could do it over I would have stopped after season 4 and just wait for GRRM to finish the books because you are really going to be pissed off if you watch until the end.
Soooo.... are there still tits after Season 4?
 

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What The Wtf GIF by Justin
 

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Don't watch anymore.

I did. Finished all damn 8 seasons. Biggest takeaway is not to binge an 8 season show in the short time frame I took it on....my arse is killing me from sitting too much (and work ain't real happy either). Without knowing where/when the books drop off and the show writers started winging it...it's noticeable. There is a clear shift after about s4.

I'll give partial credit for NOT throwing new characters in all the way up to the end as other (Ozark) shows have done to move the story along. And, I'll give kudos for managing and entwining so many characters and story lines to keep the interactions somewhat fresh and interesting. BUT, this had and endgame which other shows (Ozark, Stranger Things) didn't seem to be moving towards, which rewards the viewer with a clear destination. Maybe it was my arse, maybe it was the show, but the war with the undead both lived up to the hype and expectation AND seemed to drag on a bit more than needed. The last few episodes seemed to be trying to tie up character stories, determine who to kill off and who lives and does what. Endings never leave people happy, but I was ready for it to end and won't complain much about how they went about it. I think part of my problem is the length. I kept wanting to feel like a movie with the expected finale, but it kept going, and going, and going. Again, an 8 season binge is not advised.

Were there characters I felt were handled wrong, or poorly, in the end, somewhat. Jon Snow is a btch, having dodged his destiny but ending up where he did. I wanted to like the Kingslayer more, but he got his appropriate ending; and Cersie should have been dealt with more harshly. While I appreciate the irony of the Hound catching up to the Mountain and after having fought the undead, and their ending is probably appropriate, it still kinda sucked in that he came around to be a 'good guy' and ended up that way. Arya's whole 'coming of age' getting f'd in the war to end all wars then heading off for the uncharted world is trying too hard with a character who was still too young/small, IMO. Sansa is a bitch too. Yeah, she upheld the North but she's still a btch. Mother of Dragons shifting her mindset over the final episodes wasn't expected, but not out of the likely endings...she was hot, but it seemed she was more a mechanism to end things than having any sort of point or meaning. I'd hit it, twice. Perhaps my fav coming out of the whole thing was the Night King, when he raised all the dead it kinda was a 'fk yeah' scene, but when he dragged the one dead body from the lake and revived it that was more of a 'no fn way! (YEAH!!)' type thing. Well played. Expected, but well played. Anyone else...f'em, not worth remembering. Oh, and Bronn, he was a fav thru the last several seasons with his honey badger attitude to most things, including his ending situation. Imp was perhaps the centerpiece of the cast, and while done very well through a myriad of situations and evolutions, I was still left with a 'meh' regarding his ending.


Soooo.... are there still tits after Season 4?

Noticeably different from the first 4 seasons. You get about one scene every 3-4 episodes, some good, none really bad other than a side boob of Arya (never wanted to see that). Perhaps the best is when Cersie is marched through the city bare arsed nekkid.
 

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Watched Mare of Eastown on HBO - Kate Winslet plays a burned out cop investigating a missing girl and two murders of local young woman. It's a 7 episode mini-series. Good watch, I'd give it a 4 out of 5 rating.

We finished The Staircase, about a guy charged w/ killing his wife who was killed on as stairwell in their house. It's sort of a remake of an actual documentary. It's a good watch, but very frustrating in parts. Colin Firth plays the husband.

Watched the first episode of Your Honor w/ Bryan Cranston as a judge. It has potential.
 

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