Firefly yes! I guess the movie counts. Sorta?
And Patriot S1 was excellent. S2 was a drop off, for me. I haven't heard a thing about S3.
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And Patriot S1 was excellent. S2 was a drop off, for me. I haven't heard a thing about S3.
Indymisanthrope
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Yeah, but did Freaks & Geeks have an overall story that it didn't get to finish telling, or did it just end prematurely?
Agree, but I didn't include series that at least were given the opportunity to do some wrap-up in advance.
I don't count it. It got its rescue.
Supposedly. But there are some very compelling arguments on reddit that
the show that was being filmed in the last episode of season 2 was canceled, because that Brit is now in a coma, and the 'real' Brit and Jason Isaacs IRL are now posting on social media "in character" and the show is not actually canceled. Given the "bonkers" story they said they had planned, it simultaneously feels too far-fetched and also exactly like the kind of thing The OA would do.
Probably crying into a pillow or something? I was very very deeply invested in that show. It's perfect, but very difficult to sell other people on.
I watched it all as one unbroken story, so I didn't feel the decline as much as other people had prepped me for. The showrunner has said in interviews that they've never been officially canceled, but they've also never gotten the green light for a third season. The story of the first two seasons is wrapped up about as neatly as it'll ever get, I guess, so it's not exactly a cliffhanger, but I would like to hang out with those characters more. I've been meaning to check out the showrunner's new show, Perpetual Grace, if it ever turns up on a streaming service that I don't have to pay even more for.
Mostly I'm just pretty gutted about Lodge 49 not getting a third season. The last two episodes of Season 2 were full of very compassionate, optimistic storytelling. It's a strange show, but I really enjoyed it.
DownIsTheNewUp
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Definitely was not done with it's story. End of story would be all the kids being done with HS... Also, you should definitely watch it as it sounds like you haven't. Arguably the most honest portrayal of adolescence ever put on the screen and nearly every cast member has gone on to do bigger things.
Hope the fan theories are right about the OA as S2 was among my favorite things I've watched all year.
Indymisanthrope
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No, I've seen it, it's just been...oh my god. Twenty years?!
chrb98
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just finished up watching through Succession for the first time and man is that a good show! I'm not quite on the "Omg this is the best show EVER" train yet but it's definitely been interesting to watch the show get better and better as it progresses. The "every character is a terrible person" shtick was a bit exhausting at first, but I do think it's intriguing how, despite most characters still being terrible, you do start to grow fond of (some of) them as the show goes on. It's definitely a slow burn, and I could see it taking upwards of three or four more seasons for everything to play out and unfold, I just hope the hype can hold on that long.
also Safe Room is BY FAR the best episode in the entire series and is everything I hoped the show would eventually be prior to that point
also Safe Room is BY FAR the best episode in the entire series and is everything I hoped the show would eventually be prior to that point
I loved Rectify (and of course the @Teeeee bonding that stemmed from it) and I now realize I should have at least put it on my HMs with F&G. But, that's one I don't think I'd watch all the way through again; just emotionally exhausting. Pretty sure I've done a second lap of everything on my first 10 except FNL.
SFU did sag at times, but overall I think the cast made it mostly great throughout. And I still say it's the best series finale I've ever seen.
Indymisanthrope
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True; it’s interesting that the shows that are the most emotionally taxing are also often the ones that are the most life-affirming. I’m also thinking of The Leftovers here, or even Friday Night Lights (or Parenthood, which will apparently live perpetually in FNL’s shadow); you’d think the shows with more of a nihilist bent would be the ones that really take it out of you, but in the end it’s the ones that put their characters through the wringer and then tell you that there’s still a chance for happiness on the other side of it, that really devastate you.
dhodo
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Greg breaking up with Tom was such a good scene.
Bennnnn
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I liked it a lot too. But the end feels like the real end to me and I’m okay with that. Overall it was a tad slower than s1, but it’s a great arc of a story.
Selaws
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I have an obscure one which hopfully one of you watched......Alcatraz
I actually rewatched it the other week and its a great premise but was canned after 1 series and on a cliffhanger. The basic premise is that in the 60's the prisoners and guards dissapeard and they covered it up to close down the prison. 40 years later and crimes begin to occur around the San Fran area which match up with the missing criminals MO's.
Its a J. J. Abrams production and stars Jorge Garcia (Lost) and Sam Neill (Jurassic Park). As with all Abrams work, theres a sci-fi narrative that gets woven in.
JohnPeelIsMyCoPilot
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I actually wrote about this in the books thread. This show is based on Tana French's Dublin Murder Squad series, which is wonderful. So good, in fact, that I'm staying as far away from the show as possible. I'm not typically the guy who makes comparisons between movies/shows and their source material (different mediums and all that), but French's books are so good I'd rather not see them tampered with. They're complex, sophisticated mysteries (her debut, In the Woods, is one of my all-time faves), and it scares me to no end that the series is adapting the first two books in just 8 episodes.
Djxfactor511
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Disney+ doing nothing but erroring out for me.
But I will enjoy this free year from Verizon.
But I will enjoy this free year from Verizon.
Bennnnn
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I did wonder whether or not I should read the book(s) first. But now I feel like I should do the opposite. It’s not likely the show is better than the books if they’re truly that great, so it can only go up if I move from show to books.
Fillip J Phry
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Being the totally on time person that I am, my wife and I started watching Season 3 of Stranger Things last night. We got through Episode 5. I feel like it does what a lot of season 3's do, like breaking up the characters to explore them more, introduce some cool new side plots, etc. and it does them well. The coming of age story with the kids has been great, and I'm glad that they haven't sugar coated things too much. Kids make out, kids cuss and get into fights and break rules and have problems. At the same time, figuring all that out is a huge part of growing up, and it's not always this big sugar coated rainbow that coming of age stories often fall into. Will desperately trying to hold onto what innocence he has left is especially compelling in my eyes, as is Steve trying to figure out where he fits in in life. Also, Max and Billy weren't my favorite in season 2, but have become much better characters in this season.
At the same time, they seemed to have leaned much harder into the horror/monster movie tropes this time. The gore and special effects have been great, and having people as monsters is always a terrifying thought. It feels like they took Season 2 and beefed it up with steroids.
At the same time, they seemed to have leaned much harder into the horror/monster movie tropes this time. The gore and special effects have been great, and having people as monsters is always a terrifying thought. It feels like they took Season 2 and beefed it up with steroids.
I watched The Mandalorian without issue earlier and really enjoyed it.
Baby Yoda!
And the taxes the European court of justice says that they owe us (only a trifling €13billionish) but that our government is a appealing against because they don’t want it...
Bennnnn
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I clicked your spoiler and now am much more interested in watching it.
DownIsTheNewUp
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Time to cancel Netflix and get Hulu at the start of the new year. Been looking for a way to show financial support to FX as a chord cutter for a while... and yes, I'm also salty about Netflix axing Bojack and the OA.
www.businessinsider.com
Disney is shifting all FX network library content exclusively to Hulu as of March 2020
Disney is shifting all FX content exclusively to Hulu – and episodes of new FX shows will appear on the service the day after they air on linear TV.
www.businessinsider.com
Is that why S2 of Pose hasn't showed up on Netflix yet?Time to cancel Netflix and get Hulu at the start of the new year. Been looking for a way to show financial support to FX as a chord cutter for a while... and yes, I'm also salty about Netflix axing Bojack and the OA.
Disney is shifting all FX network library content exclusively to Hulu as of March 2020
Disney is shifting all FX content exclusively to Hulu – and episodes of new FX shows will appear on the service the day after they air on linear TV.
I am gonna binge all the Netflix stuff until the end of the year and then probably follow suit. Their original programming is just too much. There is too much of it so very very little of it is of even good quality, much less great quality.