What Shows are you currently watching?

[gmillerdrake]

'Christmas Vacation' as always.  I don't watch every single minute, but it never gets old.

Yep. It's a 'must' this time of year. Still funny.

[jingle.boy]

'Christmas Vacation' as always.  I don't watch every single minute, but it never gets old.

Yep. It's a 'must' this time of year. Still funny.

I will never NOT watch it when it's on TV.

However, the jingle.family go-to Christmas movie is Elf.  Every Christmas Eve it's a family affair.  Of course, I should've posted that in the movie thread.

As for shows, I'm in the midst of Witcher S2, and saved a few more book adaptation shows to My List to check out - Shadow and Bone, and Cursed

[gmillerdrake]

Curious to hear your thoughts on S2 of the Witcher Chad.

[jingle.boy]

Curious to hear your thoughts on S2 of the Witcher Chad.

I'm only 3 ep's in, but feel much like you (I think it was you?) already posted - it's moving relatively slowly, and setting up for Ciri to be more of a 'player'.

[gmillerdrake]

Curious to hear your thoughts on S2 of the Witcher Chad.

I'm only 3 ep's in, but feel much like you (I think it was you?) already posted - it's moving relatively slowly, and setting up for Ciri to be more of a 'player'.

I forgot who,it was in that thread who mentioned that this portion of the story/book is extremely slow with most of it being character build. That, the show added some action where there was none.

Again.....not disappointed with the season at all......great character development and moving the story along......I just happened to watch it all in two days so it was over in a flash. I'd have loved 4 or 6 more episodes.

[MrBoom_shack-a-lack]

Started watching The Silent Sea, only watched one episode but it's seems promising. Korea keeps on delivering solid shows.

[MirrorMask]

Finished Atypical, the last season.

Brilliant and lovely show, endearing through and through. Highly reccomended. The protagonist was stellar in portraying a teen with autism. Also the supporting cast was great. One of the best "little" shows on Netflix.

[gmillerdrake]

Finished Atypical, the last season.

Brilliant and lovely show, endearing through and through. Highly reccomended. The protagonist was stellar in portraying a teen with autism. Also the supporting cast was great. One of the best "little" shows on Netflix.

I dug this show as well but if you go to the thread we had for this show you'll see my opinions on the last season. The last season, for me, was a bit of a bore and let down as they deviated from making the show about the main character and tried to throw WAY too many things into the mix. Anyway....it was/is a cool show.

[gmillerdrake]

I hammered through the 5 available episodes of 'Station 11' on HBO Max last night. Very interesting show. It's being told in a pretty neat way....

[crazy climber dude]

Started the new Yellowstone "prequel" show 1883 last night.

Holy shit, that was good!

Agree. Wow...yeah....who knew Faith Hill and Tim McGraw could act? I guess music videos are kind of like acting....and they help you be comfortable in front of a camera.

Seems McGraw has done some supporting acting in a few shows. But he's pretty good in a lead role....in what is essentially John Dutton's great grandfather? If I understand that correctly.

Sam Elliot is great, as is usual. He brings so much integrity to his roles.

[MirrorMask]

The Silent Sea, korean sci-fi show.

6 episodes out of 8 and it's very good, unless the ending is going to majorly suck, this is gonna be another great korean show.

[Stadler]

Started the new Yellowstone "prequel" show 1883 last night.

Holy shit, that was good!

Agree. Wow...yeah....who knew Faith Hill and Tim McGraw could act? I guess music videos are kind of like acting....and they help you be comfortable in front of a camera.

Seems McGraw has done some supporting acting in a few shows. But he's pretty good in a lead role....in what is essentially John Dutton's great grandfather? If I understand that correctly.

Sam Elliot is great, as is usual. He brings so much integrity to his roles.

Tim McGraw is a really good actor; Friday Night Lights, The Blind Side...

My wife and I started Yellowstone over the holidays; we've got two or three episodes left in Season Three and Season Four.  MAN, am I loving this.  There's literally not one character I really dislike... and by that, I mean I don't cringe when they come into a scene.  There are some I don't like because they are evil or bad in the show, but that's good television.   Well, that's not true; I don't like that "Roarke" guy - dude, get a haircut - and Monica can be annoying at times.  But for the most part, even the characters that are evil/foils are so good at it that my dislike is for their role, not for them.

Big fan of Rip, LOVE Beth, and Kevin Costner is just money whenever he's on the screen.  Hell, honest to God, I even like Tate and generally I HATE children actors.  But that kid is good!

[LudwigVan]

I'm in the middle of Dopesick, starring Michael Keaton, about the battle against OxyContin, the FDA, Purdue Pharmaceuticals and the Sackler Family. 

Great stuff so far.

[gmillerdrake]

I hammered through the 5 available episodes of 'Station 11' on HBO Max last night. Very interesting show. It's being told in a pretty neat way....

Station 11 finale was yesterday. Man.....I really enjoyed that show. It was told and portrayed in just enough different of a way that it was intriguing yet it wasn't confusing. Great acting and I thought the storylines were pretty powerful.

[Stadler]

Finished the four seasons of Yellowstone, and now the wait begins (for season five).  What a great show.  Interesting to watch some characters really grow and evolve, in a meaningful way, and watch others simply plow the same ground over and over and over...  and then realize that some of them ARE growing while plowing the same ground (Rip and Beth come to mind) while others are bouncing around from thing to thing and not growing even a little bit (Jamie). 

I had an epiphany the other night; one of the story lines has Jimmy being told that "being a cowboy is like performing art but no one is watching", and it dawned on me that perhaps the biggest - or should I say "truest" - cowboy on the show is Beth.   

[hefdaddy42]

Finished the four seasons of Yellowstone, and now the wait begins (for season five).  What a great show.  Interesting to watch some characters really grow and evolve, in a meaningful way, and watch others simply plow the same ground over and over and over...  and then realize that some of them ARE growing while plowing the same ground (Rip and Beth come to mind) while others are bouncing around from thing to thing and not growing even a little bit (Jamie). 

I had an epiphany the other night; one of the story lines has Jimmy being told that "being a cowboy is like performing art but no one is watching", and it dawned on me that perhaps the biggest - or should I say "truest" - cowboy on the show is Beth.

Interesting take.

I maintain that Beth is my least favorite character on the show, although I still like her quite a bit.  Which goes to the overall quality of writing, directing, and acting involved.



The wife and I finally finished our rewatch of ER last night.  15 seasons, most of which were at least very good, and frequently excellent.

[Stadler]

Finished the four seasons of Yellowstone, and now the wait begins (for season five).  What a great show.  Interesting to watch some characters really grow and evolve, in a meaningful way, and watch others simply plow the same ground over and over and over...  and then realize that some of them ARE growing while plowing the same ground (Rip and Beth come to mind) while others are bouncing around from thing to thing and not growing even a little bit (Jamie). 

I had an epiphany the other night; one of the story lines has Jimmy being told that "being a cowboy is like performing art but no one is watching", and it dawned on me that perhaps the biggest - or should I say "truest" - cowboy on the show is Beth.

Interesting take.

I maintain that Beth is my least favorite character on the show, although I still like her quite a bit.  Which goes to the overall quality of writing, directing, and acting involved.

There are almost always shows I have a character or two I really dislike.  I'm with you; not so with Yellowstone; I like Jamie least, and yet his story line is so compelling.

The wife and I finally finished our rewatch of ER last night.  15 seasons, most of which were at least very good, and frequently excellent.

What was your favorite 'period'?   Liked the original period; Sherry Stringfield, Tony Edwards... and I liked the last iteration, with John Stamos.   There was a period in between where I lost the plot a bit.   Always a quality show.

[Phoenix87x]

Are you afraid of the dark from the 90's

Loving this nostalgia trip

[pg1067]

Not sure if we have any fans of How I Met Your Mother here.  I loved that show.  The first seven seasons were mostly gold.  It started going downhill with season 8, and season 9 might be the worst final season of any sitcom ever (capped off with an awful ending).

They have now produced a show called How I Met Your Father, and the first two episodes are now available on Hulu.  It's set in the same universe as HIMYM and follows the same basic concept (a parent telling his/her child(ren) how he/she met the other parent), but it's otherwise unrelated (i.e., this is NOT the story of how Tracy McConnell met Ted Mosby).  Hilary Duff (as the main character) is likable, and a few of the other main characters seem ok.  They didn't just put together a mirror image of the HIMYM main characters.  However, the casting and dialog was pandering and awkward.  We've got the white girl, the black guy, a Mexican girl, a gay Chinese girl, a white guy and an Indian guy (not entirely sure who the main characters are exactly).  It's as if someone just sat there with a checklist.  Also, I was pretty sure we were going to get a message at the end saying, "produced with major funding from Tinder."

Not so bad that I won't give it another chance or two, but not much more than that.

[MirrorMask]

Not sure if we have any fans of How I Met Your Mother here.  I loved that show.  The first seven seasons were mostly gold.  It started going downhill with season 8, and season 9 might be the worst final season of any sitcom ever (capped off with an awful ending).

I kinda agree, the show was wonderful and funny, and while it was bold to stick to an ending they planned since the beginning (to the point that they filmed it back in season 1 when the kids were still kids and not 9 years older), they should have realized that after all that time invested in the characters, the ending wouldn't work.

I mean, spoiler for anyone who still haven't seen the series...

End of the first episode: "See? she's Aunt Robin! this is not gonna be like Friends, a Will they Won't they situation, she's not gonna be the one"
End of the last episode nine years and 785 episodes later: "Hahahah totally kidding, Robin was the one".


Geez.

[hefdaddy42]

The wife and I finally finished our rewatch of ER last night.  15 seasons, most of which were at least very good, and frequently excellent.

What was your favorite 'period'?   Liked the original period; Sherry Stringfield, Tony Edwards... and I liked the last iteration, with John Stamos.   There was a period in between where I lost the plot a bit.   Always a quality show.

The best for me was from about season 2 to about season 10 or so.  I thought the last 2 seasons (with Stamos) were a little more "soap-opera" than they needed to be.

There was a period in the middle there where Kovac and then Carter spent time in Africa, and those episodes stretched my patience, because they took away from what was happening in the ER.  But other than those particular episodes, I still liked that period.

[faizoff]

Not sure if there was going to be a thread on this but caught the first 3 episodes of Peacemaker on HBOMax and they were hilarious and very much in line with the tone from the Suicide Squad movie. Though Jon Cena's character is a tad different. James Gunn sorta addressed that on his Twitter account by saying he's been through stuff (in the movie) which kinda changes him a bit.

Nevertheless, it has been great so far and am enjoying that way more than Boba Fett.

The show's intro alone should tell you the tone of the show loll

[ZirconBlue]

Not sure if we have any fans of How I Met Your Mother here.  I loved that show.  The first seven seasons were mostly gold.  It started going downhill with season 8, and season 9 might be the worst final season of any sitcom ever (capped off with an awful ending).

I kinda agree, the show was wonderful and funny, and while it was bold to stick to an ending they planned since the beginning (to the point that they filmed it back in season 1 when the kids were still kids and not 9 years older), they should have realized that after all that time invested in the characters, the ending wouldn't work.

I mean, spoiler for anyone who still haven't seen the series...

End of the first episode: "See? she's Aunt Robin! this is not gonna be like Friends, a Will they Won't they situation, she's not gonna be the one"
End of the last episode nine years and 785 episodes later: "Hahahah totally kidding, Robin was the one".


Geez.

There's an alternate ending that is, IMO, so much better. 

[gmillerdrake]

Posted this in the Netflix thread as well.

Archive 81 - This has been really interesting. It's a kind of 'found film' style show that is taking some cool twists and turns. I burned through 5 episodes last night.

[pg1067]

Not sure if we have any fans of How I Met Your Mother here.  I loved that show.  The first seven seasons were mostly gold.  It started going downhill with season 8, and season 9 might be the worst final season of any sitcom ever (capped off with an awful ending).

I kinda agree, the show was wonderful and funny, and while it was bold to stick to an ending they planned since the beginning (to the point that they filmed it back in season 1 when the kids were still kids and not 9 years older), they should have realized that after all that time invested in the characters, the ending wouldn't work.

I mean, spoiler for anyone who still haven't seen the series...

End of the first episode: "See? she's Aunt Robin! this is not gonna be like Friends, a Will they Won't they situation, she's not gonna be the one"
End of the last episode nine years and 785 episodes later: "Hahahah totally kidding, Robin was the one".


Geez.

There's an alternate ending that is, IMO, so much better.

Agree.  It is MUCH better.  Two things that ticked me off.  First, with the notable exception of the "How Your Mother Met Me" episode (one of the best of the series, IMO), season 9 was awful.  Having the entire season focus on a single weekend leading up to Barney and Robin's wedding was stupid.  This wasn't 24, and it seemed like they were struggling to come up with things to occupy the run time.  Second, they spent the entire first eight seasons telling us just how wrong Ted and Robin were for each other only to shit all over that premise at the end.  "Hey dad, it didn't work all those other times, but now your much older, so give it another shot."  In retrospect, they should rename the show How I Met Your Mother, All the While Pining over Another Woman Whom I'll Pursue after Your Mother Dies.

[JediKnight1969]

Get Back (finished)
The Book of Boba Fett
Lost girl (about to finish)

About to start:

Banshee
What we do in the shadows

[MrBoom_shack-a-lack]

Posted this in the Netflix thread as well.

Archive 81 - This has been really interesting. It's a kind of 'found film' style show that is taking some cool twists and turns. I burned through 5 episodes last night.

Yea, really cool show. Haven't seen this kind of mystery/horror type of show in a while so it was a nice change of pace for me.

[King Postwhore]

Anybody watch the 1st season of "Raised By Wolves?"  I saw the season 2 trailer and it piqued my interest.

[Adami]

Anybody watch the 1st season of "Raised By Wolves?"  I saw the season 2 trailer and it piqued my interest.

My girl watched it. I saw a few episodes and did not like it much at all. She, I think, finished it out of a desire to see what happened but also did not speak too highly of it and doesn't seem interested in a second season.

[gmillerdrake]

Anybody watch the 1st season of "Raised By Wolves?"  I saw the season 2 trailer and it piqued my interest.

My girl watched it. I saw a few episodes and did not like it much at all. She, I think, finished it out of a desire to see what happened but also did not speak too highly of it and doesn't seem interested in a second season.

I watched it and dig it. Looking forward to S2.

[JediKnight1969]

Anybody watch the 1st season of "Raised By Wolves?"  I saw the season 2 trailer and it piqued my interest.

My girl watched it. I saw a few episodes and did not like it much at all. She, I think, finished it out of a desire to see what happened but also did not speak too highly of it and doesn't seem interested in a second season.

I watched it and dig it. Looking forward to S2.

Me too!

[Adami]

Bastards the lot of ye!

[JediKnight1969]

Bastards the lot of ye!

[King Postwhore]

This is like those reviews you read about a movie that are mixed so you've got to watch and make up your mind yourself. 

[gmillerdrake]

Posted this in the Netflix thread as well.

Archive 81 - This has been really interesting. It's a kind of 'found film' style show that is taking some cool twists and turns. I burned through 5 episodes last night.

Yea, really cool show. Haven't seen this kind of mystery/horror type of show in a while so it was a nice change of pace for me.

Finished it. Very neat show. The way it ended it seemed like it could go on for another 8 episodes OR just be over.....and I'm fine with either. If it gets a S2 I can certainly see why but if not then the ending fits in the vein of the way the story went.