The Official Good Television Thread

[Baroque]

https://www.iflscience.com/physics/...infelds-apartment-defies-the-laws-of-physics/

 

[no country for old wainds]

I watched the first episode of The Terror and thought it was pretty interesting. I ended up checking out that Ricky Gervais series After Life on Netflix afterwards and binged like 6 straight episodes lmao. Misfits is on Stan so I'll definitely check that out next, have the whole day free so I'm planning to veg out.

Edit: First episode of Misfits was pretty good. At first I was like "this is a bit naff" but it had me by the end.

the terror is hard to binge watch as it’s the most harrowing shit. every episode is just ‘surely things can’t get worse........ oh’

and i think the misfits’ whole approach is to set itself and its characters up as tacky and juvenile but then making you do a double take haha. it’s all in the writing for me ultimately, there are probably fifty other british shows with this kind of tone that i’d completely hate.

i haven’t seen after life, maybe i should. i used to love gervais’ stuff but he’s crawled so far up his own ass at this point it’s hard to even look at him.

 

[Einherjar86]

https://www.iflscience.com/physics/...infelds-apartment-defies-the-laws-of-physics/

 

[rms]

https://www.iflscience.com/physics/...infelds-apartment-defies-the-laws-of-physics/

gotta be one of the more useless things that came up on my feed. The self importance of reddit detectives is too strong

 

[Baroque]

I took it as humor but ok

 

[Einherjar86]

gotta be one of the more useless things that came up on my feed. The self importance of reddit detectives is too strong

dear god man, lighten the fuck up. You're such a joyless person sometimes.

 

[rms]

I mean it's everywhere and just dumb

 

[Einherjar86]

 

[rms]

Up next "omg did you notice how kramer never had a job?" Boring fucks

 

[CiG]

the terror is hard to binge watch as it’s the most harrowing shit. every episode is just ‘surely things can’t get worse........ oh’

and i think the misfits’ whole approach is to set itself and its characters up as tacky and juvenile but then making you do a double take haha. it’s all in the writing for me ultimately, there are probably fifty other british shows with this kind of tone that i’d completely hate.

i haven’t seen after life, maybe i should. i used to love gervais’ stuff but he’s crawled so far up his own ass at this point it’s hard to even look at him.

Gervais has definitely become the smug king of the atheists over the years and some of that is in the show but I didn't find it unbearable. Mostly the show is very bittersweet. Little example of what I mean (not very spoilery)

Spoiler

is he's smoking heroin with a local junkie and as he zones out the junkie gets up and steals from his wallet, Gervais just watches unable to do anything, then he lies down and it cuts to him lying in his dead wife's lap.

There's a lot of that kind of mixture of sappiness and crudeness that you don't see very often, it really works for me. There's also a lot of classic sardonic banter.

 

[no country for old wainds]

i haven't actually watched a gervais show since extras, which was amazing, so i'll probably check this out.

 

[CiG]

Extras slays, Derek was okay in small doses but a bit too retarded (lol) for me.

 

[no country for old wainds]

actually the last gervais thing i watched was this interview which is also amazing, i am a martin short fanboy though

 

[Einherjar86]

Made for Love is a pretty funny show. Nothing groundbreaking, but solid dark humor.

Also, Christin Milioti has a great comedic delivery. She’s both awkward and endearing.

 

[CiG]

 

[Slammed]

Well that revealed fuck all!
I hope they don't fuck up what was once a good show.

 

[CiG]

It revealed what most already knew; Dexter is going to start killing again.

 

[Slammed]

It revealed he has, or knows someone who has, an axe too, so there was more to that 10 seconds than immediately meets the eye.

 

[CiG]

Is Dexter gonna chop people up at a snowy hotel perhaps?

 

[Slammed]

Nah I don't think so. I think I remember reading recently that Jack's hotel was either being pulled down or under going major refurb.

Isn't he in Canda now, (or was it Alaska)? He could just be killing seals, or eskimos