Television 2018

[falafel]

I’d be interested in what your impressions are after the second season finale.

I'm done!

Spoiler for Thoughts on Season 2:

I liked it.

[Art Vandelay]

can the thread title be changed to reflect it is almost the year of the optometrist!

Just finished Succession season 1. My favorite show in a long time. Haven't stared S2 yet, as I'm worried it can only go downhill

LOVE the Logan Roy character. Took me awhile to figure out he was the villainous Treadstone/Black Brier director in the first two Bourne movies.
Who knew the younger Culken brother was so dang funny- and small. He looks to be 5'6" 135lbs

[UVACoug]

I'm seven episodes through season 2, and although it definitely requires some thought, I don't think it is overly complicated. I like it as much as, if not more than, season 1.

I’d be interested in what your impressions are after the second season finale.

[falafel]

Finally decide to watch the second season of Westworld. I wasn't a big fan of the first season, so I'm not really sure why I even watched it. There were some interesting things in the second season that made me like the series as a whole better, and a couple episodes were brilliant. But the show as a whole really is a complete mess. The showrunners (Jonathan Nolan (brother of Chris) and his wife Lisa Joy) intentionally try to confuse the audience and it makes everything incoherent. I don't mind shows that make you think, but I really see no point to the type of mind-fucking they like to employ.

I'm seven episodes through season 2, and although it definitely requires some thought, I don't think it is overly complicated. I like it as much as, if not more than, season 1.

[jay santos]

The new nature series Serengeti on Discovery Channel, first episode was really good I thought.

[UVACoug]

Finally decide to watch the second season of Westworld. I wasn't a big fan of the first season, so I'm not really sure why I even watched it. There were some interesting things in the second season that made me like the series as a whole better, and a couple episodes were brilliant. But the show as a whole really is a complete mess. The showrunners (Jonathan Nolan (brother of Chris) and his wife Lisa Joy) intentionally try to confuse the audience and it makes everything incoherent. I don't mind shows that make you think, but I really see no point to the type of mind-fucking they like to employ.

[clackamascoug]

Chernobyl is the highest rated show on IMDb now. What a fantastic show. Loved it. Coach recommended the Chernobyl podcast as a listening guide. It follows the episodes and features the creator. One thing he said at the outset of the first episode of the podcast is that this is more about the heroes of Chernobyl and not the state politics. That really brought into focus how much worse it could have been and how many gave their lives to mitigate even further catastrophe.

Also, Russia is planning their own miniseries on Chernobyl focusing on how the CIA is responsible the disaster.

Those damn satellites - used lasers to breach the core. Death to USA.

Of course you know more about that than anybody - or do you?

[Surfah]

Chernobyl is the highest rated show on IMDb now. What a fantastic show. Loved it. Coach recommended the Chernobyl podcast as a listening guide. It follows the episodes and features the creator. One thing he said at the outset of the first episode of the podcast is that this is more about the heroes of Chernobyl and not the state politics. That really brought into focus how much worse it could have been and how many gave their lives to mitigate even further catastrophe.

Also, Russia is planning their own miniseries on Chernobyl focusing on how the CIA is responsible the disaster.

[old_gregg]

Damned pinko commies.

that’s the whole point of the show man!!!!

[myboynoah]

chernobyl is good

Very good, in part because of Jared Price whose character may want to wrap things up the way Lane Pryce did on Mad Men.

So, regarding Chernobyl, did their bodies really dissolve/disintegrate like that? Wow, that was horrifying.

chernobyl is turning out to be fantastic. jared harris is awesome, just wish he’d stop hanging himself

Chernobyl's great. Their cars, trucks, telephones, etc, is that typical Europe for 80's? Or is it like its own thing? Everything seems a little weird.

Two episodes into Chernobyl. Um, yeah, it is solid. That scene with the volunteers in the water with the increasingly loud dosimeters is riveting.

Damned pinko commies.

[falafel]

I watched the first episode of Catch-22 tonight. It's been quite a while since I read the novel, but the show feels very true to the book. Funny and terrifying at the same time with a very good cast.

[Northwestcoug]

Two episodes into Chernobyl. Um, yeah, it is solid. That scene with the volunteers in the water with the increasingly loud dosimeters is riveting.

[Color Me Badd Fan]

The showrunner/writer of the Chernobyl series was the same guy who wrote the last two Hangover movies and something called The Huntsman and the Identity Thief.

He was also freshman roommates with Ted Cruz at Princeton and hates his guts, lol.

I'm trying to figure out how the guy who wrote the last two Hangover movies gets greenlit to make this Chernobyl series. Not that I'm complaining, he's hit it out of the park.

[frank ryan]

For some reason, Russian cars made it to Guatemala. There were quite a few Lada Nivas rolling around there circa 1999. They worked well in Guate because they offered the gas economy and size of a compact car but also had 4-wheel drive and off-road tires.

The consensus was they were pieces of crap, but if you could gut most everything under the hood and retrofit a Toyota or Nissan engine, they were great.

Those look pretty cool. I hear these is quite a market for late model Toyota trucks there.

[Color Me Badd Fan]

Been binging Deadwood for the first time ahead of the movie. Love the show so far, but I have to say that Timothy Olyphant is just terrible in it. I don't know if it is the acting or the writing (or a combination), but I find him unbearable. Strange, since I loved almost every minute he was on screen in Justified. Thank God for Ian McShane though ... that man can act.

I was wondering about the dialogue on that show and whether people talked like that 150 years ago (other than all the f-words which I find very hard to believe). I rewatched Ken Burns's Civil War documentary and it seems like Deadwood does a pretty good job of replicating the manner of speech from back then.