HagarTheHorrible Posted July 10, 2018 Posted July 10, 2018 I have never.........ever.........sat down and watched a box set, or whatever the online equivelant is, ever. I've just come to the end of "GLOW" and despite hating myself, I have to say I really enjoyed it. Now I'm going outside to shoot myself, but given several beers, I'll probably just end up missing and shooting my dog instead.
unreasonable Posted July 10, 2018 Posted July 10, 2018 While ritual suicide seems a reasonable response to finding that one likes a TV show about lady pro wrestlers, you would then miss the final season of Game of Thrones, so better just go and wrestle with your dog. Full disclosure: I enjoyed "Saturday Night Fever". 1
HagarTheHorrible Posted July 10, 2018 Author Posted July 10, 2018 1 hour ago, CanadaOne said: Best binge show ever: The Wire My wife will kill me. My children will be abandoned, waifs roaming the streets. I'm a bad man.
9./JG27golani79 Posted July 10, 2018 Posted July 10, 2018 1 hour ago, CanadaOne said: Best binge show ever: The Wire Several binge worthy shows out there!
HagarTheHorrible Posted July 11, 2018 Author Posted July 11, 2018 10 hours ago, raaaid said: i dont watch tv it gets me in a negative mood it seems that today theres only sex and violence on tv, where are those all old family values? Glow has both sex and violence in it but, oddly enough, in a very uplifting way.
Finkeren Posted July 11, 2018 Posted July 11, 2018 12 hours ago, CanadaOne said: Best binge show ever: The Wire Respectfully I'll have to disagree. The Wire is one of the best TV shows of all time, certainly the best crime/police drama, but man does it take its toll when you watch it. It took me half a year to get through. Binge worthy IMHO is stuff like Breaking Bad (also one of the best TV shows of all time) which keeps you at the edge of your seat all the time, but doesn't have the heavy and depressing social commentary of The Wire.
unreasonable Posted July 11, 2018 Posted July 11, 2018 8 minutes ago, HagarTheHorrible said: Glow has both sex and violence in it but, oddly enough, in a very uplifting way. You mean like this?
Finkeren Posted July 11, 2018 Posted July 11, 2018 As for the OP: I know that feeling of sitting down to watch something, either thinking that you'll probably hate it or at least think of it as a guilty pleasure - only to find out, that it's pretty damn good. The show that has made me feel most like a fool for initially dismissing it was Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Everything about this show sounded so damn stupid and the effects and action sequences looked so damn hokey, that I completely tuned it out during its original run, no matter how many of my friends tried to get me to watch it. Only many years later, after having watched Firefly and being sorta interested in what this Joss Whedon guy was up to, did I sit down and watch it from start to finish - initially thinking that it was exactly as campy as I'd have thought - only to find myself blowing through all 140-something episodes in less than two months and emerging thinking, that it was absolutely amazing.
unreasonable Posted July 11, 2018 Posted July 11, 2018 That is how I felt about Star Trek - my mother and sister forced me to watch an episode - something about giant underground tunneling worms protecting their eggs - and I had to admit that while it was crap, it was good crap. Still only watched a few episodes though. As for the wire, I find it unwatchable without sub-titles.
Finkeren Posted July 11, 2018 Posted July 11, 2018 Just now, unreasonable said: As for the wire, I find it unwatchable without sub-titles. Yep, you'll need those subs. No way to get into the 4-5 different jargons otherwise.
unreasonable Posted July 11, 2018 Posted July 11, 2018 Also the "on location" sound recording complete with screeching, growling and assorted sundry noises off making it hard for me to make out the sounds of speech sometimes, before I even get to translating them. Then there is Dominic West's Old Etonian American Irish....
Finkeren Posted July 11, 2018 Posted July 11, 2018 2 minutes ago, unreasonable said: That is how I felt about Star Trek - my mother and sister forced me to watch an episode - something about giant underground tunneling worms protecting their eggs - and I had to admit that while it was crap, it was good crap. Star Trek is one of those that I still can't get into, despite valiant effort, it's just too campy. I know I probably should like it, but somehow I just can't. Maybe it's the optimistic tone of the entire thing (though arguably I should enjoy the positive take on post-capitalist civilization), for some reason I tend to gravitate towards the dark, depressing stuff.
Finkeren Posted July 11, 2018 Posted July 11, 2018 (edited) 23 minutes ago, raaaid said: rick and morty is good too Rick and Morty is awesome - in fact I think we're living through a golden age of Western animation - but it's kind of a different thing. Besides: Don't most people agree, that R&M is great? That would hardly make it a guilty pleasure. In the animation department, a guilty pleasure for me would be Steven Universe. I'm not at all in the target demographic, and both in terms of storytelling and especially animation it is severely flawed. There is pretty much no good reason why I should like it, yet I'm still enjoying the heck out of it. Edited July 11, 2018 by Finkeren
Wolf8312 Posted July 11, 2018 Posted July 11, 2018 If only I could erase my memory and rewatch the sopranos or breaking bad boxsets again from the beggining not knowing what was going to happen!
angus26 Posted July 13, 2018 Posted July 13, 2018 (edited) On 7/11/2018 at 2:16 AM, Finkeren said: Binge worthy IMHO is stuff like Breaking Bad (also one of the best TV shows of all time) which keeps you at the edge of your seat all the time, but doesn't have the heavy and depressing social commentary of The Wire. I found breaking bad to be especially depressing after a while. It just is a pretty heavy show for me. I feel that the lightheartedness (or atleast the illusion of it) in the first season is definitely good, but later on the show just gets too depressing. Even then, it is still a very good show. Edited July 13, 2018 by angus26
BOO Posted July 13, 2018 Posted July 13, 2018 On 7/11/2018 at 5:30 PM, Wolf8312 said: If only I could erase my memory and rewatch the sopranos or breaking bad boxsets again from the beggining not knowing what was going to happen! I totally missed Braking Bad but decided on a week long binge of it. Waiting for the missus to come back from dropping the boy off at his dads I was idly watching "Mythbusters" when......ill not spoil it for anyone else suffice to say the basic plot and entire ending was explained in detail. Still have never watch Breaking bad.
Wolf8312 Posted July 13, 2018 Posted July 13, 2018 12 hours ago, angus26 said: I found breaking bad to be especially depressing after a while. It just is a pretty heavy show for me. I feel that the lightheartedness (or atleast the illusion of it) in the first season is definitely good, but later on the show just gets too depressing. Even then, it is still a very good show. Yeah I must admit the show was hilarious in the first few series' and got so dark near the end it would have been impossible to sustain the comedy. But yeah first few seasons it was a dark comedy, and a very good one at that. Same with Sopranos as well though, which I think literally got darker (lighting) as time went on and Tony degenerated. 8 hours ago, BOO said: Still have never watch Breaking bad. You're lucky you can just sit down and binge through it like a big fat bag of meth!
=EXPEND=Tripwire Posted July 13, 2018 Posted July 13, 2018 (edited) On 7/11/2018 at 4:58 PM, Diggun said: Beats 'trek..... If you haven't watched it, The Expanse is a must watch for sci-fi fans. Beats Battlestar Galactica IMO. Edited July 13, 2018 by =EXPEND=Tripwire
CanadaOne Posted July 13, 2018 Posted July 13, 2018 Though I have been a Star Trek fanatic for decades, I have to admit that Babylon 5 was awesome!
Diggun Posted July 13, 2018 Posted July 13, 2018 3 hours ago, =EXPEND=Tripwire said: The Expanse is a must watch Agree for the fx - same team as bsg but with more experience, but the novels read like they are written for a YA audience, and the series does not improve on the source material. For my money, bsg (at least the first 2 1/3 seasons) is the best, thinkiest si fi show yet made. 1
Feathered_IV Posted July 13, 2018 Posted July 13, 2018 6 hours ago, =EXPEND=Tripwire said: If you haven't watched it, The Expanse is a must watch for sci-fi fans. Beats Battlestar Galactica IMO. I enjoyed The Expanse, but I thought it was fairly average. Visually it is great, however the quality of acting, casting and dialogue fell pretty far short for me. 1
Finkeren Posted July 16, 2018 Posted July 16, 2018 44 minutes ago, Toxin1 said: Spartacus...just saying!! I loved the first season and the "prequel" third season, but as soon as they rebelled and were fighting their guerrilla war, I quickly lost interest. It started to take itself far too serious.
Finkeren Posted August 14, 2018 Posted August 14, 2018 Because of this thread I actually started watching GLOW last night with the missus. Two episodes in I really like it so far. It’s not really something you’ve seen before, and it touches upon some very interesting themes and topics. Most interesting so far is the issue of our main girl being type cast as the villain both in the wrestling show and in her personal life.
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