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Post by berkley on May 20, 2020 21:50:06 GMT -5
I finished up what is available of Schitt's Creek (all but the last season I think) on Netflix. I went in with fairly low expectations as I've been generally burnt out on sit-coms since the early 80s. After a little struggle with the first season I have to say it's a damn fine show. Eugene Levy and Catherine O'hara are delightful (though O'Hara's character still is a lot to take). The big thing for me is that there is good qualitative organic character growth for the main characters. And it doesn't delve into maudlin dramedy in order to make them grow. There are still episodes that make me wince with sit-comness. But overall it's a fine show. I'm only part way through season 2. I like it but haven't felt compelled to watch a whole bunch of episodes in a row, I seem to just see one now and then with pretty long gaps in between. |
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Post by Batflunkie on May 26, 2020 10:43:47 GMT -5
Found Ash Vs Evil Dead on Netflix, so I started watching that out of curiosity. Never really watched any of the Evil Dead films, but the show seems pretty fun. Could also do with some more inspiration for my story The Black Bayou
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Post by Slam_Bradley on May 26, 2020 10:46:57 GMT -5
Found Ash Vs Evil Dead on Netflix, so I started watching that out of curiosity. Never really watched any of the Evil Dead films, but the show seems pretty fun. Could also do with some more inspiration for my story The Black Bayou The show is a hoot. I'm not a horror fan at all. But Evil Dead 2 and Army of Darkness are fabulous. Evil Dead is also fun, but Evil Dead 2 is essentially a remake and is better. |
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Post by Batflunkie on May 26, 2020 11:03:15 GMT -5
The show is a hoot. I'm not a horror fan at all. But Evil Dead 2 and Army of Darkness are fabulous. Evil Dead is also fun, but Evil Dead 2 is essentially a remake and is better. I'm not big into slasher horror, but I do like psychological horror a lot. My favorite movies growing up were Lost Boys and Hugh Jackman's Van Helsing, which are more action oriented than pure horror |
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Post by beccabear67 on May 26, 2020 14:17:17 GMT -5
Excellent new movie on a specialty channel named The Goldfinch (2019). Intelligent, well acted, colorful, unpredictable ride! If you get a chance to see it give it a try.
Also love a Bruce McDonald film named Weirdos (2016) about two kids in '70s Nova Scotia and caught the end of it again while flipping. Very evocative use of Canadian music of the time! The hook is that one of them has a spirit-animal he talks to, and the spirit-animal is Andy Warhol! Julia Sarah Stone is a very good young actress in the other role and I saw her previously in a film centering on a school swim club, Wet Bum (2014).
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Post by Batflunkie on May 29, 2020 16:07:24 GMT -5
Found another good show on Netflix, Pose. My parents had been watching it for a while and raved about it, so it was nice to finally watch it from the beginning myself. Also have to stop every five minutes and look up the music from the show. It's got a great soundtrack
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Post by The Captain on May 29, 2020 16:34:48 GMT -5
Found Ash Vs Evil Dead on Netflix, so I started watching that out of curiosity. Never really watched any of the Evil Dead films, but the show seems pretty fun. Could also do with some more inspiration for my story The Black Bayou The show is a hoot. I'm not a horror fan at all. But Evil Dead 2 and Army of Darkness are fabulous. Evil Dead is also fun, but Evil Dead 2 is essentially a remake and is better. How are the later seasons? I'm a huge ED/AoD fan, as well as a big fan of Bruce Campbell, but I watched the first season and was kind of "meh" about it, so I didn't keep up with it. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on May 29, 2020 16:39:39 GMT -5
The show is a hoot. I'm not a horror fan at all. But Evil Dead 2 and Army of Darkness are fabulous. Evil Dead is also fun, but Evil Dead 2 is essentially a remake and is better. How are the later seasons? I'm a huge ED/AoD fan, as well as a big fan of Bruce Campbell, but I watched the first season and was kind of "meh" about it, so I didn't keep up with it. I thought they were good. But I enjoyed the first season so your mileage may well vary. |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on May 29, 2020 18:22:21 GMT -5
I just binge watched the two seasons of Ricky Gervais's show After Life on Netflix.
My elder son and I agree that for a comedy show, it makes viewers cry a lot. I don't know much about Gervais, but one thing is obvious... anyone who can write such a poignant depiction of how a man deals with the loss of their spouse must love their real-life partner very much.
I am going to hug my wife now.
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Post by Prince Hal on May 29, 2020 19:14:07 GMT -5
I just binge watched the two seasons of Ricky Gervais's show After Life on Netflix. My elder son and I agree that for a comedy show, it makes viewers cry a lot. I don't know much about Gervais, but one thing is obvious... anyone who can write such a poignant depiction of how a man deals with the loss of their spouse must love their real-life partner very much. I am going to hug my wife now. Have seen the first season and felt just as you did, RR. Bereft is a tough way to live. I hope I never know what it’s like. |
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2020 1:34:52 GMT -5
Very interested to see this show when it premieres next month:
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Post by beccabear67 on May 30, 2020 14:11:10 GMT -5
Ordered Babylon Berlin Season Three (not available in North America). I don't usually like subtitles, I will go the distance for a great Kurosawa movie, but the type is very readable no matter what is going on visually with this show. It's all set in Weimar era Germany/Berlin.
I take it that it is available on Netflix (which I haven't used since back when it involved mailing discs), but the first DVD set had some very nice extra features! Hoping this one might have some as well.
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Post by Batflunkie on Jun 10, 2020 12:49:47 GMT -5
Found Ragnarok on Netflix while searching for something else. Has an interesting premise, climate change mixed with Norse Mythology. Feels like a throwback type show like Stranger Things
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Post by rberman on Jun 11, 2020 9:43:08 GMT -5
My wife and I have been enjoying the first two seasons of Cobra Kai, which was produced by YouTube Red but can be bought on Amazon as well, which is how we watched it. It picks up the story of The Karate Kid 35 years later. Daniel LaRusso could be a grandparent in that time frame, but instead he has a teen son and daughter. The show continues LaRusso's rivalry with Johnny Lawrence, who was just a bully in the films but is presented much more sympathetically here as a guy who wants to do the right thing but never learned constructive problem solving or communication skills. The show has lots of call-backs to the original three Karate Kid films of course. But it's also a general "We Love the 80s" show, with a period soundtrack and many references to the teen films of John Hughes, as in this scene below where two characters attend a party dressed as Claire and Blaine from Pretty in Pink. The show follows rhythms similar to many other TV dramas, in which various characters make friends and then get mad at each other in different cycles and combinations, but over-arching is a real sense of forward progress as Daniel and Johnny grapple with high school insecurities that still lurk beneath the facade of adulthood. |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jun 11, 2020 12:41:13 GMT -5
HOLY MOLEY!!! Designated Survivor season 3 does something that's probably unprecedented in a spy/thriller story!!!  Major spoiler below, so proceed with caution. {Spoiler: Click to show}
The action hero (in this case a heroine) follows the trail of an evil scientist despite several false leads. She finds the secret lab where he's preparing his nasty biowarfare agent.
Suddenly she can't breathe, and the evil scientist shows up behind her; he's wearing a gas mask, and informs her that she's just been poisoned with VX gas and that she's now quite doomed. As she falls on the floor, choking, he mentions that she's like James Bond caught by a movie villain, but that unlike him, she won't escape!
He gloats gleefully for a little while and walks off, and SHE ACTUALLY DIES!!!
Are they allowed to do that? |
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