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Tor Lugosi

Tor Lugosi

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What're you watching? What're you planning to watch? What have you watched before?

Recently finished up a Shield re-watch, having seen it for the first time since it originally aired. My opinion on it has cooled somewhat since first watching it. I'd still rank up it as one of the better shows of the last few decades but by season five I was pretty tired of the Strike Team's stories, with them starting to feel pretty repetitive. They set up Aceveda as spiraling out of control due to what happened to him but just sorta drop it, and then in the last few seasons he feels like he's just sorta there. Then you also have stuff like Julien's gay storyline going nowhere, Danny just sorta fading into the background when she wasn't yelling at Vic about their kid, and the show introducing Tina and then not really doing much with her. Dutch and Claudette were pretty much the stars of the show for me by the end. I'm surprised they didn't try to do some sort of Farmington spin-off with the remaining characters.

I think I'll try out Damages next. Never saw any of it but I've heard its good.
 
Re-watched all of Malcolm in the Middle recently and it's pretty good and funny. One thing I don't like though was that Francis' arc was pretty much complete by season 4 so they really had nothing for him the last few seasons. Then they basically have character take a step backwards and get fired from the ranch, when they established that Otto and Gretchen were such nice people, that they never fire anybody. Other than that and few other issues, it's solid comfort food.

As for newer shows, I watched Serverence on Apple TV+ and it was pretty intriguing. The first season left off with a few options where to go next. Shows like this make me skeptical they can keep up the quality and answer questions in a satisfying way. But I like the way it started at least.
 
I've been watching the last few minutes of "So You Think You Can Dance?"
Still surprised that they allowed a fat gay guy past the audition stage, one former judge rejected a fat ballerina instantly despite going "yeah, big girls can dance!" internally
Was recommended "The Clone Wars" and plan on watching that in the future on YouTube
 
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Obi-wan: What a waste. It has lazy writing, shitty graphics, and somehow made
Leia
boring. Obi-wan forgets force powers until he needs them. The writing has at least one deus ex machina every episode.

The Boys: S3 is off to a good start. I suspect the episode that is released tomorrow is Herogasm so we'll see how perverted they can make it.

Stranger Things: S4 is meh, like every season of the show.
 
Made it to Season 2 Episode 2 of Better Call Saul. I'm a big Breaking Bad fan and had my reservations about the spinoff but honestly it's not too bad. Currently waiting for Bad Batch season 2 right now, I think it's coming out in the Fall?

Normally I'm not much of a cartoon fan, but I grew up with the Clone Wars show and Star Wars is dear to me...despite Disney.
 
I'm rewatching House and Fringe, both are pretty good comfort shows.

I bought and finished The Sopranos a couple of weeks ago, definitely worth watching. Also caught up on Better Call Saul, I'd say it's at least as good as Breaking Bad.

I watched the first part of Stranger Things season 4. It's great if you liked the first season but were on the fence about seasons 2 and 3. They kind of kept some stuff from those seasons but turned it down from like 8 to 3. There is a very obvious tranny playing the school's guidance counselor which winds up being unintentionally hilarious. The story focuses much more on 11 and her backstory and it's surprisingly good. I have a sneaking suspicion they're going to make Will gay for Mike, which is gay.
 
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I'm rewatching House and Fringe, both are pretty good comfort shows.
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I re-watch House every few years, though I usually stop at season's six finale.

With Fringe, I watched it when it originally aired. I liked seasons 1 - 3 a lot (especially 3) but they abandoned 90% of the plot threads for a soft reboot in S4, which then failed and they try to course-correct with the final season (which I remember being decent). I've thought about re-watching it a few times but knowing about S4 always stops me.

I'd recommend Person of Interest if you haven't seen it yet.
 
Tor Lugosi said:
I re-watch House every few years, though I usually stop at season's six finale.

With Fringe, I watched it when it originally aired. I liked seasons 1 - 3 a lot (especially 3) but they abandoned 90% of the plot threads for a soft reboot in S4, which then failed and they try to course-correct with the final season (which I remember being decent). I've thought about re-watching it a few times but knowing about S4 always stops me.

I'd recommend Person of Interest if you haven't seen it yet.
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Yeah, the weird tonal change in season 4 of Fringe is really off-putting, then season 5 is like a bucket of cold water to the face. I get the feeling they were trying to finish a longer story much more quickly than they would have liked.

I'm with you, I usually stop after season 6. There are some good moments in 7 and 8 but the whole House and Cuddy relationship thing was fucking stupid and done badly. Season 8 is like a bizarre fever dream.

I think I made it to season 3 of Person of Interest before Amy Acker's character Root became so obnoxious I couldn't take it anymore. I might try again sometime.
 
Anyone here watch the 12 Monkeys series? I've been thinking about starting it but I'm not sure if it's worth it. In particular I'm wondering if it ends well. I remember people talking about it a lot when it first started but then discussion on it just sorta... stopped.
 
Sorry to necro the thread.

Couldn't find a general TV discussion thread (the pinned one seems to be about Recommendations).

Watched the first episode of Monsieur Spade on AMC. Had been seeing promos about it for a while.

It stars Clive Owen playing the private eye of yore, who for some reason now lives in the French countryside in the 1960s.

Sam Spade is apparently a literary and silver screen character from the 1930s from The Maltese Falcon & Casablanca.

It seems really strange in Current Year to create a series about a Silent Generation character in a completely unrelated setting and era without providing any exposition on who the fucking character is and why I should care.
 
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