TV Shows

[rms]

There was hope in the arrival of Rick's posse into that nice white walled city, but it went downhill. Gave up on it like 3 episodes ago.

Horace & Pete is filling my TV void right now, purdy good Louis CK show.

 

[J.]

ive been catching up on Orphan Black. Season 3 sucks so far, true to what Neurotica said. Too convoluted for its own good

I finished Boardwalk Empire season 2. now thats a good show.

ill watch daredevil when i move into my apartment (more like four walls and a shitter) in dallas next week and have time to properly enjoy and adsorb

 

[~Neurotica]

Finally we agree on something, J

The Last Man on Earth is pretty neat for times when you just wanna switch off your brain and have a good laugh.
The Walking Dead still sucks and Better Call Saul is so damn slow...

 

[J.]

Daredevil Season 2 was the shit!

Shane from Walking Dead IS The Punisher. Dude needs his own show. Elektra is hot. The allusions to Jessica jones and Luke Cage were cool.

 

[J.]

2 eps in on Justified

Good shit!

 

[dorian gray]

Slasher. Awful? Hilarious? Hilariously awful? I just dont know yet.

 

[Reign in Acai]

After a lengthy hiatus, back on track with Vikings. Show is kicking my incisors in and longing my donging lleno de sangre. Thank you Katheryn.

 

[~Neurotica]

I tried Fear Of The Walking Dead - and it suxxeven more than actual TWD but Im still watching it cuz all my favorite shows are finished...
Also gave a chance to Limitless and it was terrible.

 

[J.]

finished season 4 of Justified. killer show.

2 more seasons then its Deadwood

 

[J.]

12 episodes to go on Justified. I have a man-crush on the character Boyd Crowder.

what should be next?:

Deadwood
Marco Polo S2
True Detective S2
Boardwalk Empire S3
Oz

 

[Internally Deformed]

12 episodes to go on Justified. I have a man-crush on the character Boyd Crowder.

what should be next?:

Deadwood
Marco Polo S2
True Detective S2
Boardwalk Empire S3
Oz

Deadwood is much better than Justified, so watch that. I'd give True Detective S2 a miss though, well crafted but lacks the coolness of the first season.

If you haven't already seen it, you might consider watching The Shield to get your Walton Goggins fix.

 

[dorian gray]

Deadwood

 

[Reign in Acai]

Deadwood no contest.
I also reco Rome if ye haven't seen it yet.

Avoid True Detective S2, season is ass.

 

[~Neurotica]

are you serious about True Detective 2? I mean I understand that 90% of posters here like Vikings and Snowpiercer but for fucks sake grow some taste.
True Detective 1 is great.
True Detective 2 is great too, it's just completely different and isn't for lazy people who want just actions and a cool image. It's not so much about the storyline anymore but rather the characters story. But ofc, if you only like GoT and Transformers - avoid it.

 

[Reign in Acai]

TD S2 for me ended during the one ep where the different denomination of coppers took out like 30 gangbangers in a shootout. I actually fell asleep out of boredom early on in that ep, and woke up to that drizzling shit of a scene. Cut my losses soon thereafter.

 

[Reign in Acai]

Ok it wasnt 30, just a small group. Nevertheless, the scene reeked Hollywood to me. I hate Hollywood.



Show should have a pair of balls and killed off Farrell when he got popped with a shotgun. Vince Vaughn's character is absolutely lifeless as well. Drizzling shits!

 

[Internally Deformed]

The second season just didn't seem to know where it was going - the ending was particularly unsatisfying. Plus it was way less cool without the occult serial killer stuff and the nihilistic monologues.

 

[~Neurotica]

Ok it wasnt 30, just a small group. Nevertheless, the scene reeked Hollywood to me. I hate Hollywood.
Show should have a pair of balls and killed off Farrell when he got popped with a shotgun. Vince Vaughn's character is absolutely lifeless as well. Drizzling shits!

You like Vikings, Jerry... where they have swings and gang-bangs just for sake of sex scenes way to hate Hollywood.
You ever watched "Irréversible"? That 11 minutes scene of Monica Bellucci's rape is disturbing as hell but without it the whole movie wouldn't make much sense and would be much less intense.
The VIP party in TD2 was shown so intensively to draw a parallel between Bezzerides past when she was molested as being a child feeling helpless and getting in a similar situation again when she was at such place as an adult already and also drugged. They did kinda hint a couple of times that her sex life and acceptance of herself as a woman was quite special. The fact that she hooks up with Farrell whose wife also was raped as well draws a symbolic parallel.

Vince Vaughn's character is absolutely lifeless because he gave up on life long ago, and so did Farrell thats why both of them got what they sorta were looking for in the end...
A main character isn't always supposed to be a winner, to have a passion for life or try hard to survive in the end, a story can be about people who screwed up, failed, who gave up on life and were dead long before they actually died.
If you try to accept them as they are, think, analyze watch how they evolve (or not) through they story - the show becomes much more interesting. For me the whole mafia thing was a complete boring crap but to watch the characters was a great pleasure.

 

[Internally Deformed]

If you try to accept them as they are, think, analyze watch how they evolve (or not) through they story - the show becomes much more interesting.

Well shit, I'll try to remember to turn my brain on next time I watch TV.

Farrell was pretty much just the tormented cop from every bad cop movie/show ever. Vince Vaughn's character was a little more interesting, if only because his world was crumbling apart and it was interesting to think how he'd patch it up. Taylor Kitsch's character was probably the most intriguing out of the three, but in the end not enough was revealed and he felt incomplete.

The real flaw though was that the whole story just ended up buried in endless exposition and tedious investigative stuff that got in the way of the human story.

 

[~Neurotica]

Well shit, I'll try to remember to turn my brain on next time I watch TV.

Farrell was pretty much just the tormented cop from every bad cop movie/show ever. Vince Vaughn's character was a little more interesting, if only because his world was crumbling apart and it was interesting to think how he'd patch it up. Taylor Kitsch's character was probably the most intriguing out of the three, but in the end not enough was revealed and he felt incomplete.

I agree on your comment about Farrell, yet the difference here is that he didn't suicide or on contrary ended up with a cool chick who put him out of his misery bla bla. Until the last moment the audience expects him to beat the bad guys and survive and he doesn't because he gave up on anything and what he didn't give up on - gave up on him (the never sent text to his son), it's a fail on every step of his goddamn life, except that it's not always as obvious as in most of movies.

The real flaw though was that the whole story just ended up buried in endless exposition and tedious investigative stuff that got in the way of the human story.

I honestly almost gave up on the story of the investigation and was just watching the characters development, the end was a little bit cheesy but oh well.
In TDs1 the story is huge but the characters are also developed very goddamn well and they are not lost in the investigation stuff like you said. For me in season 2 the investigation stuff was lost on the background of characters life stories, but I just didn't mind. Again - those 2 are very different.