Rate the last TV Show you watched

[manwiththestick]

2 hours ago, Barrington Womble said:

I like pennyworth too, but I reckon it's a B tier show. The first episodes dropped in the states on EPIX (4 of them) in December, but it looks like a lot of shows, there's production issues delaying it. It resumes this week (7th), which is perhaps why Starz are running it here now. 

I agree that it is a tier below but I started watching it with zero expectations and was pleasantly surprised at how much I enjoyed it for what it was, similarly with Doom Patrol and Swamp Thing, all rather good.

 

Another one I watched on Amazon recently having never heard of it was Halt and Catch Fire and that was really good.

[RedKnight]

3 hours ago, Chairman Meow said:

The problem with streaming is it has basically turned into the same as satellite/cable now. Too many providers/add ons and it's now no cheaper than paying for the telly. Plus like the telly the majority of it is essentially repeats/stuff you've seen before or utter garbage so you're paying way over the odds for some decent stuff and the rest is fucking shite. #

 

 

I called that happening years ago. Right about when Netflix became popular over in the US, before it had a presence of here. It was inevitable that companies like Universal, Paramount and Disney would realise that selling catalogues wholesale to them made less sense than doing it themselves, and yeah, you're right, all the 'cord cutters' in the US are now paying for cable by another name.

[Bjornebye]

1 hour ago, Total Longo said:

Finsihed S1 of Narcos : Mexico last night with a double header. Superb TV, a slow start but it built up the characters magnificently and the 9th episode in particular was incredible. Felix Gallardo not quite up there with Escobar as an iconic antagonist, but nobody ever could be. Felix is likeable in comparison to Rafa Quintero.

 

Going to press on with S2 now.  

The last episode of season 2 is unreal mate. Can't wait for season 3. 

[VladimirIlyich]

3 hours ago, sir roger said:

Agree with VI , although I did like the books so was already a bit invested once I had got over the actor not looking anything like I imagined him.

Yes,absolutely correct. That aside,the acting and script are top notch and I too am an avid reader of the Harry Bosch novels.

[Barrington Womble]

3 hours ago, manwiththestick said:

I agree that it is a tier below but I started watching it with zero expectations and was pleasantly surprised at how much I enjoyed it for what it was, similarly with Doom Patrol and Swamp Thing, all rather good.

 

Another one I watched on Amazon recently having never heard of it was Halt and Catch Fire and that was really good.

paloma faith is fucking great in it. i hope she is in season 2, i haven't started it yet. 

[Carvalho Diablo]

Snowfall series 4 ep 3, still the best thing on the telly by a mile. Naff all competition mind.

[Paul]

I’ve struggled to get into Bosch simply because I love the books so much and the portrayals don’t really touch what was going on in my head from having read them all a couple of times each.

[Duff Man]

Anyone seen The Terror? Looks the kind of thing I'd enjoy (if done well).

[Carvalho Diablo]

9 minutes ago, Duff Man said:

Anyone seen The Terror? Looks the kind of thing I'd enjoy (if done well).

Yup, but it bored me stupid.

 

Lots of creeping dread but zero pay off.

[Duff Man]

That's a shame. Seems like all the ingredients were there for something decent

[Bjornebye]

Started Devils on Sky Atlantic (On-Demand) last night. Its set in London not NYC which threw me but the first episode was decent. Looking forward to the rest. 

[John102]

Red Dwarf

 

9/10.

 

I watch the same things on repeat, so i may have already reviewed it.

 

Rimmer is such a superb character.

[Bjornebye]

5 minutes ago, John102 said:

Red Dwarf

 

9/10.

 

I watch the same things on repeat, so i may have already reviewed it.

 

Rimmer is such a superb character.

Tonys Maa gets everywhere doesn't she 

[manwiththestick]

6 hours ago, Barrington Womble said:

paloma faith is fucking great in it. i hope she is in season 2, i haven't started it yet. 

She is mate, and yes she is surprisingly ace in it, a great character.

[Guest]

10 hours ago, RedKnight said:

I called that happening years ago. Right about when Netflix became popular over in the US, before it had a presence of here. It was inevitable that companies like Universal, Paramount and Disney would realise that selling catalogues wholesale to them made less sense than doing it themselves, and yeah, you're right, all the 'cord cutters' in the US are now paying for cable by another name.

This is why I keep my sub going with ororo. I normally get a 2 year sub for around 50 euro and it pools all the shows from different networks into one - with the advent of more providers it represents even higher value. 

 

I just wouldn't justify paying for HBO, Netflix, prime, Disney, hulu and any others that are starting so having them all in one easy place is perfect for me. 

[VladimirIlyich]

11 hours ago, Bjornebye said:

It started well but got a bit cheesy for me. Bosh himself is a terrible actor but the storylines are ok. Worth it if you've watched most other things. 

I watched the first episode but haven't gone back to it, do plan to though. 

You are going mental over how good ZeroZeroZero is and you havent watched Gomorrah? Bloody hell.

[Barrington Womble]

Any watching Resident Alien? It's kind of shit, but somehow really enjoyable easy telly. 

[Captain Turdseye]

On 04/03/2021 at 15:53, Carvalho Diablo said:

Snowfall series 4 ep 3, still the best thing on the telly by a mile. Naff all competition mind.

T’was very good. Bubbling up nicely. 
 

Watched that White House Farm on Netflix. Dramatisation of that Jeremy Bamber mass murder. It was alright. Just one of those standard British crime dramas of the kind you’d normally see running on Sunday nights on BBC1 or ITV. 6.5/10

 

Moved on to When They See Us after reading Elite posting about it on here and the subsequent discussion. It’s been on my ‘list’ for ages and at some point I’d watched half of the first episode before drifting off to something else. Finally watched the entire episode last night and it’ll be going on again in a bit once the kids have gone up. 

[Bjornebye]

6 minutes ago, Captain Turdseye said:

T’was very good. Bubbling up nicely. 
 

Watched that White House Farm on Netflix. Dramatisation of that Jeremy Bamber mass murder. It was alright. Just one of those standard British crime dramas of the kind you’d normally see running on Sunday nights on BBC1 or ITV. 6.5/10

 

Moved on to When They See Us after reading Elite posting about it on here and the subsequent discussion. It’s been on my ‘list’ for ages and at some point I’d watched half of the first episode before drifting off to something else. Finally watched the entire episode last night and it’ll be going on again in a bit once the kids have gone up. 

I enjoyed White House Farm but Stephen Grahams welsh accent is fucking despicable 

[VladimirIlyich]

8 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

I enjoyed White House Farm but Stephen Grahams welsh accent is fucking despicable 

Stephen Graham would be an ace Fred West.

[Captain Turdseye]

1 minute ago, Bjornebye said:

I enjoyed White House Farm but Stephen Grahams welsh accent is fucking despicable 

Right enough, mush. It’s far from tidy like. 
 

 

Posted loads on here about how I like to watch documentaries in bed to fall asleep to. They need to be interesting enough to watch but serene so as to put you asleep. The best one I found was The Civil War a couple of years ago. Great show but it took me months to watch because the narrators voice and the light music had me spark out within minutes every night. I’ve recently stumbled upon something similar on YouTube. It’s probably familiar to all the Yanks on here. A long running series of PBS films called The American Experience. Documentaries about all manner of historical events & figures falling under the same banner. All genuinely interesting and peaceful at the same time. It’s now my go-to show at bedtime. There’s a four hour film about FDR that took me over a week to watch. Also watched the ones about the Gold Rush, the Nuremberg Trials and the Transcontinental Railroad. There’s fucking loads of them on YouTube. Magic. 

[Bjornebye]

6 minutes ago, VladimirIlyich said:

Stephen Graham would be an ace Fred West.

Nah Dominic West has nailed that 

 

 

 

[No2]

Probably been done a million times but fuck it. Better call Saul, I found it really slow when it was first out, think you had to wait a week between episodes and it was just too slow to justify that. Started to watch it again and its amazing, the way they build up the plots towards Breaking Bad is genius. I don't know if it was written before Breaking Bad or not or even if the writers had a guaranteed 5 seasons of this as they began, it took some balls for them to put the first couple of seasons together, they could have easily pulled the plug on them and left behind a what fuck was that type show. Instead they produced a 10/10 master piece*

 

* I still have a couple of episodes left so this is subject to very unlikely change.

[Guest]

1 hour ago, Bjornebye said:

Nah Dominic West has nailed that 

 

 

 

I'd be waiting for Bunk to appear if I watched him as Fred West. 

[sir roger]

2 hours ago, Barrington Womble said:

Any watching Resident Alien? It's kind of shit, but somehow really enjoyable easy telly. 

The wife loves it , and I look up from the laptop while it's on and it has some good lines.