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Jun 16, 2018 5:58:07 GMT -5
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Post by Thrill of the 'ville on Jun 16, 2018 5:58:07 GMT -5
Anyone watch Blacklist? I’m sorta hooked. Just started season 2. I’ve watched every episode and enjoy it...mostly because James Spader is fantastic. The spinoff they tried to force, Redemption, was not as good. I had a few family members that also were really into it originally until their interest faded but I’m not sure why because personally I feel the plot has done a good job of pacing and adapting to keep it interesting while avoiding being repetitive or two over the top like some other shows I enjoyed at first.
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Post by vbbetterthanbb on Jun 17, 2018 18:56:40 GMT -5
Cobra Kai I've never seen this web TV series. I actually just discovered it today by accident on youtube, while clicking on various videos that showed up. Apparently, it's from the Karate Kid universe, set 34 years later as both Daniel (Ralph Macchio) and Johnny are in their 50s. Interesting premise but I predict this show will suck. Since Wolf blindly wrote off Cobra Kai, the “why” spirit in me decided to look into it -- even knowing that my favorite “Wax on, wax off” character Mr. Miyagi (RIP Pat Morita) couldn’t be in this Karate Kid “reunion”. Here’s why I’ll watch Cobra Kai: 1. IMDB average audience rating of 9.0/10 by 17485 so far. Die hard Karate Kid fans alone couldn’t have inflated the rating so much. 2. Metacritic 72/100 average critics rating, and 8.2/10 average user rating. BTW, thanks to (R)uffda! for referring me to this site. 3. Rotten Tomatoes 100% critics approval, 96% audience approval. Approval is either yes or no and not on a scale, so kind of apples and oranges to the IMDB/Metracritic ratings. Here’s to help gauge the ratings by these sites: IMDB Meta R-T ---- ------ --------
Popular TV shows: Cobra Kai 9.0 72 8.2 100% 96% Americans, The 8.3 78 8.4 96% 93% Better Call Saul 8.7 78 8.5 97% 93% Breaking Bad 9.5 73 9.2 96% 97% Game of Thrones 9.5 80 9.1 94% 94% Westworld 8.9 74 8.8 89% 88%
Popular movies: Black Panther 7.5 88 na 97% 79% Paddington 7.2 77 na 98% 80% Shawshank Redemption 9.3 80 na 91% 98% Wonder Woman 7.5 76 na 92% 88% Critcs vs audience :Gotti (2018) 5.4 28 na 0% 78%
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Jun 17, 2018 19:33:13 GMT -5
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Post by Thrill of the 'ville on Jun 17, 2018 19:33:13 GMT -5
I binged the first season of 30 Rock this weekend. I’d seen episodes randomly over the years and didn’t realize how many I actually had until I marathoned it. The writing is sharp and quirky which I appreciate (and the constant Star Wars references make me happy).
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Post by gnu2vball on Jun 17, 2018 20:46:22 GMT -5
I've been re-watching Frasier over the last few months. I still love it. "Star Mitzvah" is one of my favorite episodes.
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Post by Wolfgang on Jun 20, 2018 1:03:46 GMT -5
Just started Stranger Things (s1) on Blu-Ray. I know they deliberately made it look like a 1980s production, but beyond that, I'm not impressed. Hope it gets better. It received a lot of good press.
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Jun 20, 2018 3:13:09 GMT -5
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Post by Sorry Ass Sal on Jun 20, 2018 3:13:09 GMT -5
Just started Stranger Things (s1) on Blu-Ray. I know they deliberately made it look like a 1980s production, but beyond that, I'm not impressed. Hope it gets better. It received a lot of good press. I seem to hold a differing opinion in general from a lot of critics, more so movies than tv shows. I saw Bone Tomahawk recently and was extremely bored throughout. Didn't care for it one bit. Most highly-rated tv shows that I've seen, I've liked, such as The Office and Seinfeld. Seeing how I haven't had any television service for several years, I haven't seen much of anything new.
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Post by Wolfgang on Jun 23, 2018 18:41:20 GMT -5
Stranger Things
Just finished season 1. I don't understand why critics and peeps love this show. I thought it was just mediocre with lots of familiar elements. The ONLY thing interesting was the filmmaker's choice to have different groups of people pursuing the same mystery on their own, without realizing that other groups were also trying to solve it -- (1) Sheriff Hopper, (2) Joyce Byers (Winona Ryder), (3) Jonathan Byers and Nancy Wheeler, and (4) the four kids plus Eleven. I didn't even think the 1980s filmmaking style (incl. soundtrack and electronic music) was all that interesting.
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Post by mikegarrison on Jun 23, 2018 21:52:41 GMT -5
the 1980s filmmaking style (incl. soundtrack and electronic music)
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Post by vbbetterthanbb on Jun 24, 2018 21:25:17 GMT -5
A detective show that True Detective season 1 wished it could be. Clever, gripping, emotional draining, plus what True Detective season 1 did not have -- a most satisfying but logical conclusion.
Unforgotten season 1 was very good, and season 2 simply knocked it out of the park – without a single shot fired or being unnecessarily heavy handed!
I’ll be happy with season 3 if it ends up being half as good as season 2.
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Post by gnu2vball on Jun 24, 2018 22:03:52 GMT -5
A detective show that True Detective season 1 wished it could be. Clever, gripping, emotional draining, plus what True Detective season 1 did not have -- a most satisfying but logical conclusion. Forgotten season 1 was very good, and season 2 simply knocked it out of the park – without a single shot fired or being unnecessarily heavy handed! I’ll be happy with season 3 if it ends up being half as good as season 2. Season 3 is scheduled to begin when?
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Post by vbbetterthanbb on Jun 24, 2018 23:11:56 GMT -5
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Post by Wolfgang on Jun 25, 2018 21:49:15 GMT -5
Tonight, the wife and I will be watching one of the following shows:
Silicon Valley (s1) -- hard to believe we haven't seen a single episode. I think it's already on season 5. Ray Donovan (s5) -- the fictional -- and much better -- version of Michael Cohen Outlander (s3) -- time travel story with a lot of sex and nudity in 18th century Scotland Shetland (s2) -- detective mystery in modern day Scotland
As usual, I'm letting the wife pick.
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Post by Wolfgang on Jun 26, 2018 1:14:30 GMT -5
The wife picked Silicon Valley. In the first episode, I thought it was funny when the characters were complaining about how expensive it was to live in the Bay Area. They were looking out into the streets of Palo Alto while riding a company shuttle. And they called the place a "shiithole." LOL! I live in that shiithole! LOL!
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Post by gnu2vball on Jun 26, 2018 8:15:19 GMT -5
One person's sh*thole is another's paradise.
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Post by ironhammer on Jun 26, 2018 9:16:21 GMT -5
Sigh...I wish I had the free time some of you have to watch all these TV shows to your heart's content. I spend what free time I have posting on VT, and watch one, at most two, TV series. Game of Thrones is not on, so I will watch...the martial arts series Into the Badlands, it was only so-so in the first season, but the later seasons got better. Any recommendations for another TV Series? Not looking for any soap opera or complex legal drama, just a fun, thrilling series that makes you keep watching.
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