What tv shows are you watching

[shack]

I just started watching Ripley. I'm confident that I will like it.

This was at the beginning of July.

I thoroughly enjoyed it. It was dark, suspenseful, some violence but it was brutally portrayed. You felt like you were there. Intricate plot but written perfectly. I didn't see any holes in the plot.

It seemed the artful way they filmed it totally matched with all the works of art shown. And filming in black and white helped set the dark theme of the movie. It takes place around 1961, mainly in Italy and again, they captured the feel of that time so well.

Highly recommended. It is both fine and refined cinema. Not sure if IV has seen. It seems that it would be right up his cinephile alley.

 

[onomatopoeia]

The Kids Are Alright:

This show was on ABC, Tuesday nights opposite NCIS in the 2018-19 network season, cancelled after one season/ 23 episodes. I had never heard of this show before someone requested it on torrentday. It is or was streaming on Amazon. I've watched and enjoyed the first four episodes.

In style, it's similar to The Wonder Years, 'nostalgia with hindsight' narrated by the adult version a central character. This is a filmed 'funny drama' about a Catholic family in the summer of 1972 who have eight sons. The show had 97% fresh reviews on rottentomatoes, but viewers' numbers dropped to about half between the premiere and the finale.

I like the 'single camera' filmed comedies as opposed to sitcoms with a laugh track, be it canned or from a non-impartial audience at a taping. After Seinfeld, I didn't enjoy any comedies with a laugh track, so I rarely watch CBS.

 

[shack]

The Kids Are Alright:

 

[chardacerjade]

House of the dragon is going good. Good show and suspenseful. Ser Christian Cole gets on my nevers. Lucky guy he got with two Queens. But I hate that rule 34 exist. There must be a Alicent and Rhaenyra duo with Ser Crispy Chicken (Christan Cole)out there too scared to look. Only happens in porn because the characters hate each other.

 

[Toxboy75]

Rewatching Rookie Blue and Suits on Netflix right now.

 

[Sonic Temple]

Completed

 

[Muchadoaboutnothing]

Great show -

I cried

 

[Valcazar]

Finally started catching up with House of the Dragon and it isn't really that good. Probably won't finish.

 

[Butler1000]

Just finished the new Batman:Caped Crusader Animated series on Prime.

Throwback to 40's noir, not a kid show. People clearly die. With heroes and villains. Very well done. Nice writing. Done by the creator of the 90's benchmark series.

Recommend for fans.

 

[Robert Mugabe]

Shamefully admit. Coronation Street. For decades. Used to be a cozy reminder of blighty. Now it's as evil and treacherous as the rest of the world. But spins along at a pretty good pace.

 

[unassuming]

Don't have Crave or Netflix..... Been watching Silver Screen and Rewind channels, lots of good old flicks, fun to watch the style of acting and the dialogue style back in the day.

Have also been watching the Hollywood Suite channels, particularly like the 70's and 80's film channels.

 

[SexB]

After I finished watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer, I felt like I had to watch Angel.

The first season was a bit uneven but it feels like they learned from their mistakes and the second season has been a big improvement so far.

Honestly, I was just happy to see Cordelia back. I keep jokingly saying that her high school graduation present must have been a boob job because she definitely went up a cup size and I saw some stills from a movie where Charisma Carpenter had a couple topless scenes and the girls are definitely augmented!

Plus they've also brought Darla back so I'm enjoying seeing Julie Benz spectacular cleavage in the flashback!

 

[onomatopoeia]

The Shivering Truth, (adult swim, 2018-20, 13 episodes, approximately 11.3 minutes per episode).

I downloaded this show last year, and have just started to watch it.

From wikipedia:

"When announced in a press release by Adult Swim in May 2017, The Shivering Truth was described as "a delicately crafted, darkly surreal anthology comedy, a miniature propulsive omnibus cluster bomb of painfully riotous daymares all dripping with the orange goo of dream logic. A series of loosely-linked emotional parables about stories within tales that crawled out of the deepest caverns of your unconscious mind and became lovingly animated in breath-slapping stop motion – in other words, it is the TRUTH" "

I would describe this show as what you would get if filmmakers like David Lynch and David Cronenberg directed episodes of Robot Chicken.

If that sounds like something up your alley, the full series is now available for online viewing and/or download here:

The Shivering Truth S01-S02 2018-20 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

The Shivering Truth S01-S02 2018-20

archive.org

My uploads are the MPEG4 and MATROSKA versions, but only the H.264 versions can be VIEWED online, (these are compressed versions generated by the site, and generally of lower quality than the uploaded files).

Online viewing: select a file from the list below the video player, and click the white arrow. The video screen controls are the same as on YouTube.

Download: Hover your mouse pointer after the blue MPEG4 link, (season 1), or after the MATROSKA link, (season 2), until a blue downward-pointing arrow appears. Left click this arrow to see the files list. Right-click a file -> 'save link as...' to download.

 

[xmontrealer]

Just finished watching The Mayor Of Kingstown season 3 on Paramount +

Similar in quality and tone to the first 2 seasons. Amazes me that the star, Jeremy Renner, came back from his overturned SnowCat injuries and was able to do the new season.

 

[NotADcotor]

Just finished Fallout which was pretty good and Catch 22 which was OK
Gave up on about to die about 10 minutes it, it just seemed meh.
Just finished JK to Roppozensho which was pretty good but the ending was just OK
Gave up on Taxi Driver 2 because no sound when I put the files on the usb key to watch on the TV and I can't watch stuff on the laptop
Giving my military valentine and The Player 2 a shot.
About half way through Always on the Move

 

[Jenesis]

Restarted StarGate

 

[opieshuffle]

For the Star Wars bashers... I've watched all th emovies and many spinoff shows and I don't disagree about most of it being crap! But Andor on Disney+ was very well done! Much darker and more intense.
Also... for the Trekkies, I think Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is VERY well done! The "retro" styling of the sets is beautiful, along with solid plots and dialogue, mixed with some great actors.

 

[unassuming]

Seinfeld!!!!! watch all the reruns everyday, best comedy ever!!!!

 

[SexB]

I just started the new season of Umbrella Academy.

I'm not sure if I want to binge it or draw it out since this the final season.

 

[Ebony Booty Lover]

I just watched the first episode of Mixed-ish, and it was amazing. Hope the rest the season is this good. It's awesome for anyone born in the 70's that grew up in the 80's. It's set in the 1985 so the main character is one year older then me when this is all taking place.

I really enjoyed it.