Television 2018

[falafel]

Did you watch both episodes? They aired two on Sunday night.

I agree it looks good so far. Definitely back to the roots of the season 1.

Only watched the first one and planned on watching the second last night. Then had to work late instead.

I like the way they are structuring things in the 3 different time periods, and how things seem to bleed between them for the main character.

[old_gregg]

haven’t watched yet, but man i love this show. so weird that s2 was such a turd.

[cougjunkie]

Watched the premier and I'm interested.

Did you watch both episodes? They aired two on Sunday night.

I agree it looks good so far. Definitely back to the roots of the season 1.

[falafel]

True Detective Season 3 looks like it's going to be great.

Watched the premier and I'm interested.

[jay santos]

True Detective Season 3 looks like it's going to be great.

[CardiacCoug]

Succession has been great. It's worth getting a subscription for a month on HBO. Barry was also really good as well as Sharp Objects.

I really liked Succession too. Some great characters — Kieran Culkin was hilarious. I gave up on Barry — not that good in my opinion.

Anybody else watching Escape at Dannemora on Showtime? Good stuff — I always was fascinated with Escape from Alcatraz and this is similarly awesome. It’s worth watching for the beginning scene of episode 5 alone.

[Eddie]

You need a "back in the 'Nam" in there.

My son really wanted to get called on his mission to Vietnam. Specifically so that he could start all of his mission stories with "Back when I was in Nam".

[falafel]

Succession has been great. It's worth getting a subscription for a month on HBO. Barry was also really good as well as Sharp Objects.

So its not, I don't know, really incredibly boring?

[YOhio]

Succession has been great. It's worth getting a subscription for a month on HBO. Barry was also really good as well as Sharp Objects.

Barry was good. Henry Winkler is hilarious and I like Bill Hader, but this series went really dark really fast. I'll cheer for a hit man as long as he's killing bad guys. That's not where Barry ended up, though. Not interested in humanizing that kind of evil.

[Color Me Badd Fan]

Succession has been great. It's worth getting a subscription for a month on HBO. Barry was also really good as well as Sharp Objects.

[jay santos]

Wanted to love it but couldn't. Naz' turn was too abrupt. The kid who was bullied into doing homework for athletes is now a hard ass, drug addict with neck tattoos in the span of months? C'mon. The relationship with Chandra was just dumb. I felt like they spent way too much time developing everything and then they realized they had two episodes left to wrap it up and everything was rushed, bordering on ridiculousness. I do love Freddy. But that is probably because his character is similar to that of Omar Little.

I fear GoT is on this path with just one season to tie all these loose ends and have a satisfying resolution.

I know personalities like Naz and I actually didn't find his trajectory that unbelievable. He was always materialistic. He was always concerned with status and power. I think given that opportunity, someone like that could turn like that. It never came out before because he was so highly sheltered and didn't have access. This is probably racist, but I've noticed among the Indians I know, this same kind of thing. A very shy, naive, innocent person who inside really craves the materialistic, high life he sees in movies or what not and would go for it, given the chance. I guess this goes across cultures, but there was something specific about Naz that made me think of some of the Indians I know.

The Chandra arc was what I found more dissatisfying.

Freddy was awesome. Jack London. lol.

[Surfah]

Any of y'all watch "In the Night of" from HBO. Really good one year series show. Started out like a personal top 5 series, but fizzled a little the last half. But overall really great. Maybe top 10 for me. I have some spoiler questions-comments if anyone else watched.

Spoiler for spoiler:

I liked how they showed the kid going dark in jail, it added an interesting perspective and made you wonder if he was really guilty after starting out showing him so innocent. But I wish he would have experienced some kind of justice for it. I expected him to get killed in jail or charged with a serious crime. He wasn't just trying to survive. He took it to another level. And the gods of tv plots should have punished him for it. Also, what was up with the Indian girl lawyer? Why the hell did she kiss him? She did it in a really weird way like she was not doing it out of passion she was doing it with purpose. So strange. And then why was she willing to give him drugs?? Totally out of character and not explained very well. I guess it was just that she was really naive and in over her head, but that's not the way she was shown in other scenes. She had some depth and maturity about her. Strange ending to have her go down like that. She was one of the most pure characters but ended up with the most severe consequences of everyone in the show.

Wanted to love it but couldn't. Naz' turn was too abrupt. The kid who was bullied into doing homework for athletes is now a hard ass, drug addict with neck tattoos in the span of months? C'mon. The relationship with Chandra was just dumb. I felt like they spent way too much time developing everything and then they realized they had two episodes left to wrap it up and everything was rushed, bordering on ridiculousness. I do love Freddy. But that is probably because his character is similar to that of Omar Little.

I fear GoT is on this path with just one season to tie all these loose ends and have a satisfying resolution.

[jay santos]

Any of y'all watch "In the Night of" from HBO. Really good one year series show. Started out like a personal top 5 series, but fizzled a little the last half. But overall really great. Maybe top 10 for me. I have some spoiler questions-comments if anyone else watched.

Spoiler for spoiler:

I liked how they showed the kid going dark in jail, it added an interesting perspective and made you wonder if he was really guilty after starting out showing him so innocent. But I wish he would have experienced some kind of justice for it. I expected him to get killed in jail or charged with a serious crime. He wasn't just trying to survive. He took it to another level. And the gods of tv plots should have punished him for it. Also, what was up with the Indian girl lawyer? Why the hell did she kiss him? She did it in a really weird way like she was not doing it out of passion she was doing it with purpose. So strange. And then why was she willing to give him drugs?? Totally out of character and not explained very well. I guess it was just that she was really naive and in over her head, but that's not the way she was shown in other scenes. She had some depth and maturity about her. Strange ending to have her go down like that. She was one of the most pure characters but ended up with the most severe consequences of everyone in the show.

[UVACoug]

I don’t know if any of you are watching Blackish, but, in my opinion, it has really turned into one of the best family sitcoms out there. They just ended a multi-episode arc where the parents hit a rough spot and actually separated (moved into separate homes and everything). It was really difficult to watch at times, especially if you expect your sitcoms to make you laugh. The arc finally ended this week, and it was just about perfect (albeit a bit rushed). Highly recommend it if you aren’t already watching.

[falafel]

Anyone else watch Crashing? I really liked the first season and the second season so far has been entertaining. I loved the interaction that Pete Holmes had with Penn Jillette about religion.



http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendl...wqbgpEoIxX4.99

I love Pete Holmes, but I didn't know he had a show. I just watched that episode and it was great. Thanks for the recommendation.