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One of the most underrated shows in the history of television. I love Walton Goggins as an actor, he’s great in everything he is in.
Goggins is really good. He was fantastic in the Hateful Eight. My favorite Tarantino flick.
 

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I absolutely loved Deadwood. Rough language and pretty graphic but the characters were awesome. Ian McShane as the saloon owner was the best but so many great characters.

Tried to watch it last night and I guess Amazon gave up on us. We have to buy the first season now. :headslap:
 

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Tried to watch it last night and I guess Amazon gave up on us. We have to buy the first season now. :headslap:
That sucks. I still have Directv so I can watch on demand.
 

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I didn’t go through all 16 pages, slevin’s long winded descriptions were a little much to slog through, but I have a few if no one has mentioned them.

Yellowstone is a great show. I just started season 2.

CD mentioned Justified, also a fantastic series.

You - On Netflix. Really creepy stalker type thriller. Two seasons so far.

Nurse Jackie- Showtime on demand.

My guilty pleasure shows are 90 Day Fiancé(and all of its spin-offs), and Love After Lockup.

The wife and I record these and watch them the day after they air.

Yellowstone is a great show...so good. We also liked You a lot too.

We just watched Righteous Gemstones and that was solid
 

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Yellowstone is a great show...so good. We also liked You a lot too.

We just watched Righteous Gemstones and that was solid
I tried Righteous Gemstones and didn’t care for it. I really liked Vice Principals though, and I loved Eastbound and Down
 

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Some recents for me:

The Expanse - Prime (4 seasons)
Space Force - Netflix (1 season)
Hunters - Prime (1 season)
The Boys - Prime (2 seasons)
The Last Kingdom - Netflix (4 seasons)
Cobra Kai - Netflix (2 seasons)
Vikings - Prime (5 seasons)

I've just started watching Longmire on Netflix. Just a feel-good, old school sheriff show but very well done. And Katie Sackhoff (Starbuck from Battlestar Galactica) is a smoke show.
 

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I tried Righteous Gemstones and didn’t care for it. I really liked Vice Principals though, and I loved Eastbound and Down

Definitely not a show I loved but it was good enough. We’ve kind of hit a show rut
 

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Definitely not a show I loved but it was good enough. We’ve kind of hit a show rut

A lot of actors I like, but never seemed to truly hit it's stride. Was waiting the entire season for something really to hit, and it just lacked something that both Eastbound and Down (except for the last season) and VP's had.
 

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Some recents for me:

I've just started watching Longmire on Netflix. Just a feel-good, old school sheriff show but very well done. And Katie Sackhoff (Starbuck from Battlestar Galactica) is a smoke show.

Longmire is one of the best series ever.
 

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Some recents for me:

The Expanse - Prime (4 seasons)
Space Force - Netflix (1 season)
Hunters - Prime (1 season)
The Boys - Prime (2 seasons)
The Last Kingdom - Netflix (4 seasons)
Cobra Kai - Netflix (2 seasons)
Vikings - Prime (5 seasons)

I've just started watching Longmire on Netflix. Just a feel-good, old school sheriff show but very well done. And Katie Sackhoff (Starbuck from Battlestar Galactica) is a smoke show.
You used to be the coolest man in the universe....after reading this show list....what happened? :lol:
 

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Forgot a couple before.

I didn’t see American Horror Story mentioned. What a peculiar, but good, show. Also, Ratched on Netflix. It’s a prequel of sorts to One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, directed by the same folks that do American Horror Story.
 

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Yellowstone is a great show...so good. We also liked You a lot too.

We just watched Righteous Gemstones and that was solid

Yes- Yellowstone is one of the best shows out there but I'm still angry about this last season.
You is creepy good too.
 

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Longmire is one of the best series ever.

We’ve tried watching that and it was ok but we eventually just stopped. It’s supposed to be a smallish mountain town...how many murders can they have? I was waiting for a different story arc and it never happened
 

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Have you tried Chuck? Funny show - 5 seasons

action/comedy/spy/drama

I watched 3 episodes of The Expanse, it's not a good "treadmill" show so I aborted. I'm on episode 3 of Chuck. Pretty good so far. First season is 2008, so they have flip phones, which is funny. It seems enjoyable so far. Thanks for the recommendation.
 

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Have you watched Justified? Six seasons and one of my favorites




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Timothy Olyphant sighting, s2 mandalorian ep1
 

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Forgot a couple before.

I didn’t see American Horror Story mentioned. What a peculiar, but good, show. Also, Ratched on Netflix. It’s a prequel of sorts to One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, directed by the same folks that do American Horror Story.

Especially the first 3-4 seasons of AHS... were fantastic.
 

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The Queen's Gambit (Netflix)
Okay... I know... hear me out though. I'm not much for female character led dramas. However, occasionally, if the actress is attractive enough I can slog my way through. I've not seen Ann Taylor-Joy in any thing before but she has a face made for a particular flavor of porn which makes her watchable. She plays a chess prodigy (Beth Harmon) in the 60's who over seven episodes beats the snot out of everyone. Harmon has a bit of a love for tranqs and booze. The tranquilizers relax her to the point where she can see a chess board in her head and play chess on a more intuitive level.
Chess playing and chess watching makes up a lot of the screen time. No car chases, nothing blows up, not even any nudity. But the series is well written, avoiding cringy tropes. The janitor she, as a child, meets in the basement to learn chess isn't a perv. A couple adopt her and the father is not a perv. She does however learn that her crush is gay/bi or as he later describes it "curious". Can't have a story out of Hollyweird without at least one homo, though her charms are enough to eventually turn him straight. And it's implied that she has a one night stand with another woman but nothing more is made of it because... you know... that's normal behavior.
Other than that the dialog is refreshingly believable. Many times I expected the characters to say something stupid and instead utter reasonable responses. Harmon has a lot in common with Bobby Fisher who is said to have been so laser obsessed that he could rarely talk about anything other than Chess. Harmon, the character, however is a bit more personable. In the end ATJ is somewhat mesmerizing to watch do even mundane things.
Joe Bob says check it out.

ATJ, for research purposes
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I gutted through Bly Manor on Netflix. I do not enjoy slasher films, but do enjoy a well-made scary/haunted/possessed type flick. Bly Manor was done well enough, but man, it dragged. The end was OK, but you have to muscle through a lot to get there.

Away on Netflix was good. I love me some Sandy B. It was well-acted and the special effects were excellent. It attempts a more realistic look at what the early stages of space travel will be for humanity - loneliness, isolation from family/loved ones for years, incredible danger and little margin for error, etc. It is not like Star Wars or Star Trek at all. I'd recommend it. Because it was so expensive to produce, Netflix has pulled the plug, but the end of season 1 does sort of tie things up somewhat (not like Deadwood - that was a rotten ending to that series).
 

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