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Author:  myp [ Tue Nov 21, 2017 10:51 ]
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GazChap wrote:
I watched one episode of Parks and Rec and thought it was beyond terrible. How long does it take to get better?

Season 2 is much better. Season 1 is only six episodes.
Author:  Grim... [ Tue Nov 21, 2017 11:03 ]
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Can you skip it without missing too much?

Because I also started watching it, and it was dire.
Author:  DavPaz [ Tue Nov 21, 2017 11:05 ]
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We also watched the first 2 and gave up. I feel like I've seen all the best bits in Imgur memes, though.
Author:  myp [ Tue Nov 21, 2017 11:06 ]
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You miss the reason why and how Leslie and Anne become friends but not a lot more.

It's two hours of your life. I'm sure you've wasted more time on worse things. Like the Expendables or Deadpool.
Author:  Grim... [ Tue Nov 21, 2017 11:09 ]
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Or listening to your opinions on things.
Author:  myp [ Tue Nov 21, 2017 11:10 ]
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Grim... wrote:
Or listening to your opinions on things.

:DD
Author:  Bamba [ Tue Nov 21, 2017 11:18 ]
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If you don't like Parks and Rec there's probably something very deeply wrong with you.
Author:  MrChris [ Tue Nov 21, 2017 12:13 ]
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Bamba wrote:
If you don't like Parks and Rec there's probably something very deeply wrong with you.

I gave up 15 minutes into the first episode.

....

Oh.
Author:  MrChris [ Tue Nov 21, 2017 12:17 ]
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In other news, flashback dead Punisher wife looks disconcertingly like Tracy Emin around the edges.
Author:  LewieP [ Tue Nov 21, 2017 14:17 ]
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The Punisher is great. Best Marvel/Netflix stuff since Daredevil. Does that same thing that all these shows do where it slows down and puts to my attention on under-developed sideplots, but you get to see a lot of Punishment. The dynamic between The Punisher and his partner is really well developed. It get quite brutal, but that's what I wanted to see.

He's not in a costume for most of the show, if that bothers you, but I think that worked great.

Edit: Make sure you've seen both seasons of Daredevil before you watch The Punisher, but none of the other stuff connects to it.
Author:  markg [ Tue Nov 21, 2017 14:28 ]
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I think it's just cruel to suggest that someone who hasn't seen it should sit through two seasons of Daredevil first.
Author:  MrChris [ Tue Nov 21, 2017 14:33 ]
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Heh.
I liked Daredevil.
Author:  markg [ Tue Nov 21, 2017 14:36 ]
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Yeah, it wasn't all that bad. At least he didn't say that they had to watch Iron Fist.
Author:  MrChris [ Tue Nov 21, 2017 14:47 ]
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Oh jesus, indeed. God he was a terrible character. The Protectors or whatever it was would have been a gazillionty times better without him in it.
Author:  Cras [ Tue Nov 21, 2017 14:52 ]
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LewieP wrote:
The Punisher is great. Best Marvel/Netflix stuff since Daredevil. .


Uh, Jessica Jones was after Daredevil, so you appear to be saying DD was better than JJ, which is incredibly wrongheaded.
Author:  LewieP [ Tue Nov 21, 2017 14:53 ]
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Well I think Daredevil season 1 is still the best Netflix show. And The Punisher is prominently featured in season 2.

Spoiler for what I heard about Daredevil season 3
ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view!
Kingpin is back as primary antagonist.


Edit: JJ is good too for the most part, but DD is better.
Author:  MrChris [ Tue Nov 21, 2017 14:54 ]
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Cras wrote:
LewieP wrote:
The Punisher is great. Best Marvel/Netflix stuff since Daredevil. .


Uh, Jessica Jones was after Daredevil, so you appear to be saying DD was better than JJ, which is incredibly wrongheaded.

No, it's empirically correct.
Author:  Doctor Glyndwr [ Tue Nov 21, 2017 14:56 ]
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Cras wrote:
which is incredibly wrongheaded.

Consider the source.
Author:  Curiosity [ Tue Nov 21, 2017 21:49 ]
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JJ was significantly better than DD1.

I didn’t finish DD2.
Author:  MaliA [ Tue Nov 21, 2017 22:51 ]
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Mimi wrote:
Weevil been watching Designated Survivor. The first series is brilliant. The second series is nowhere near as good as they introduce a load of inplausibky irritating characters with bad accents to deal with ridiculous situations. Also, the female FBI agent is just plain bad at her job. She should be dead 70 times over by now.


2/3 of the way through S1 and it's terribly written, poorly acted and the only good bit is the press secretary guy. Yet, I cannot stop watching it.
Author:  MaliA [ Tue Nov 21, 2017 22:55 ]
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MaliA wrote:
Mimi wrote:
Weevil been watching Designated Survivor. The first series is brilliant. The second series is nowhere near as good as they introduce a load of inplausibky irritating characters with bad accents to deal with ridiculous situations. Also, the female FBI agent is just plain bad at her job. She should be dead 70 times over by now.


2/3 of the way through S1 and it's terribly written, poorly acted and the only good bit is the press secretary guy. Yet, I cannot stop watching it.


I hate everyone in it. Especially jack bauer's wife. Everyone is ridiculously one dimensional and shallow.
Author:  MaliA [ Tue Nov 21, 2017 22:58 ]
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MaliA wrote:
MaliA wrote:
Mimi wrote:
Weevil been watching Designated Survivor. The first series is brilliant. The second series is nowhere near as good as they introduce a load of inplausibky irritating characters with bad accents to deal with ridiculous situations. Also, the female FBI agent is just plain bad at her job. She should be dead 70 times over by now.


2/3 of the way through S1 and it's terribly written, poorly acted and the only good bit is the press secretary guy. Yet, I cannot stop watching it.


I hate everyone in it. Especially jack bauer's wife. Everyone is ridiculously one dimensional and shallow.


And the other president dude? Can only Jack Bauer see him?
Author:  Bamba [ Tue Nov 21, 2017 23:01 ]
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Curiosity wrote:
JJ was significantly better than DD1.

I didn’t finish DD2.


I'd generally agree with this. I did finish DD2 but didn't massively enjoy it--especially The Punisher parts--so I'll be giving The Punisher series a miss. I'm looking forward to The Defenders though which is nudging ever closer to getting watched given that I binged The Orville the other day.
Author:  MaliA [ Tue Nov 21, 2017 23:10 ]
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MaliA wrote:
MaliA wrote:
MaliA wrote:
Mimi wrote:
Weevil been watching Designated Survivor. The first series is brilliant. The second series is nowhere near as good as they introduce a load of inplausibky irritating characters with bad accents to deal with ridiculous situations. Also, the female FBI agent is just plain bad at her job. She should be dead 70 times over by now.


2/3 of the way through S1 and it's terribly written, poorly acted and the only good bit is the press secretary guy. Yet, I cannot stop watching it.


I hate everyone in it. Especially jack bauer's wife. Everyone is ridiculously one dimensional and shallow.


And the other president dude? Can only Jack Bauer see him?


And why do they use street view to recon a location but are surprised when they pop elsewhere and it isn't there? Why didn't they use satellite view?
Author:  Findus Fop [ Tue Nov 21, 2017 23:10 ]
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MaliA wrote:
Mimi wrote:
Weevil been watching Designated Survivor. The first series is brilliant. The second series is nowhere near as good as they introduce a load of inplausibky irritating characters with bad accents to deal with ridiculous situations. Also, the female FBI agent is just plain bad at her job. She should be dead 70 times over by now.


2/3 of the way through S1 and it's terribly written, poorly acted and the only good bit is the press secretary guy. Yet, I cannot stop watching it.


:this: :this: :this:

One of those shows I'd compulsively watch, all the while chastising myself for so utterly wasting my time.

Have swerved S2, I'm done with it.
Author:  myp [ Tue Nov 21, 2017 23:29 ]
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Bamba wrote:
Curiosity wrote:
JJ was significantly better than DD1.

I didn’t finish DD2.


I'd generally agree with this. I did finish DD2 but didn't massively enjoy it--especially The Punisher parts--so I'll be giving The Punisher series a miss. I'm looking forward to The Defenders though which is nudging ever closer to getting watched given that I binged The Orville the other day.

What! The Punisher bits were the redeeming feature of S2. The Elektra stuff made me nearly fall asleep.
Author:  MaliA [ Tue Nov 21, 2017 23:31 ]
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Don't Trust the Birch duo hotter than 2 Broke Girls duo.

Discuss.

Also, the former way better than the latter.

Clowee positive role model.
Author:  MaliA [ Tue Nov 21, 2017 23:37 ]
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Findus Fop wrote:
MaliA wrote:
Mimi wrote:
Weevil been watching Designated Survivor. The first series is brilliant. The second series is nowhere near as good as they introduce a load of inplausibky irritating characters with bad accents to deal with ridiculous situations. Also, the female FBI agent is just plain bad at her job. She should be dead 70 times over by now.


2/3 of the way through S1 and it's terribly written, poorly acted and the only good bit is the press secretary guy. Yet, I cannot stop watching it.


:this: :this: :this:

One of those shows I'd compulsively watch, all the while chastising myself for so utterly wasting my time.

Have swerved S2, I'm done with it.


There was a point the script writers said "that's ace", who passed it on to the editors "who said "nailed it!" And everyone thought it was a good day's work.
Author:  Bamba [ Tue Nov 21, 2017 23:46 ]
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Lonewolves wrote:
Bamba wrote:
Curiosity wrote:
JJ was significantly better than DD1.

I didn’t finish DD2.


I'd generally agree with this. I did finish DD2 but didn't massively enjoy it--especially The Punisher parts--so I'll be giving The Punisher series a miss. I'm looking forward to The Defenders though which is nudging ever closer to getting watched given that I binged The Orville the other day.

What! The Punisher bits were the redeeming feature of S2. The Elektra stuff made me nearly fall asleep.


I'm aware that I can't really justify that comment but something about the set-up just didn't work for me. Partly because I don't think your man who played him is good enough to be a lead actor, but also because all the philosophising was bollocks: Frank Castle's a murderer and DD isn't. The Punisher as a character is very difficult to make sympathetic and i just don't think think they managed it which made all the agonising nonsense.
Author:  Grim... [ Wed Nov 22, 2017 2:05 ]
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Curiosity wrote:
JJ was significantly better than DD1.

I didn’t finish DD2.

Exactly :this:
Author:  MaliA [ Wed Nov 22, 2017 10:06 ]
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I think I miss a lot of Dawson's Creek jokes on Apartment 23, but I am not minded to watch it.
Author:  Cras [ Wed Nov 22, 2017 10:07 ]
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Apartment 23 is brilliant. JvdB is amazing.
Author:  Grim... [ Wed Nov 22, 2017 10:10 ]
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He's so good in that he made he made it onto the Awesome List for a few years.

OMFG THE DANCING
Author:  Grim... [ Wed Nov 22, 2017 10:11 ]
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I think I'm going to watch the whole thing again.
Author:  Bamba [ Wed Nov 22, 2017 10:11 ]
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Cras wrote:
Apartment 23 is brilliant. JvdB is amazing.


:this: Episodes does a similar thing really well in that Matt LeBlanc plays a comedy terrible version of himself.
Author:  Hearthly [ Wed Nov 22, 2017 10:14 ]
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I was going to start watching THE PUNISHER on Netflix last night but the first thing Netflix showed me was a newly added documentary called SAVING CAPITALISM and I tend to like Netflix documentaries so I watched that instead.

It was a good documentary but I fundamentally disagreed with the premise that Robert Reich was starting from, this article sums it up very nicely.

https://www.salon.com/2017/11/18/robert ... -admit-it/

I would still recommend watching this though, it's an interesting piece.

Attachment:
critters.JPG
Author:  MaliA [ Wed Nov 22, 2017 10:15 ]
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Grim... wrote:
I think I'm going to watch the whole thing again.


I am. It's still fresh.
Author:  Grim... [ Wed Nov 22, 2017 10:20 ]
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Hearthly wrote:
I tend to like Netflix documentaries so I watched that instead.

Have you seen Undefeated? It's not a Netflix-made documentary but it is on there, and it's really fucking good.
Author:  Curiosity [ Wed Nov 22, 2017 10:45 ]
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Bamba wrote:
Curiosity wrote:
JJ was significantly better than DD1.

I didn’t finish DD2.


I'd generally agree with this. I did finish DD2 but didn't massively enjoy it--especially The Punisher parts--so I'll be giving The Punisher series a miss. I'm looking forward to The Defenders though which is nudging ever closer to getting watched given that I binged The Orville the other day.


Several people have said positive things about The Orville now. Hmmm. It got absolutely savaged by the critics and by the first few people I knew who saw it.

Almost tempted now. Though I will want to punch the lead guy in the face for the entire duration of the show, so maybe I shouldn’t.
Author:  Kern [ Wed Nov 22, 2017 10:46 ]
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Curiosity wrote:
Though I will want to punch the lead guy in the face for the entire duration of the show, so maybe I shouldn’t.


That was the reason I never took to 'Scrubs'.
Author:  Grim... [ Wed Nov 22, 2017 11:33 ]
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BUT DR COX
Author:  Cras [ Wed Nov 22, 2017 11:54 ]
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Curiosity wrote:
Several people have said positive things about The Orville now. Hmmm. It got absolutely savaged by the critics and by the first few people I knew who saw it.

Almost tempted now. Though I will want to punch the lead guy in the face for the entire duration of the show, so maybe I shouldn’t.


Keith Harris?
Author:  DavPaz [ Wed Nov 22, 2017 12:10 ]
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Cras wrote:
Curiosity wrote:
Several people have said positive things about The Orville now. Hmmm. It got absolutely savaged by the critics and by the first few people I knew who saw it.

Almost tempted now. Though I will want to punch the lead guy in the face for the entire duration of the show, so maybe I shouldn’t.


Keith Harris?

Chinny? Is that you?
Author:  Findus Fop [ Wed Nov 22, 2017 13:23 ]
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Kern wrote:
Curiosity wrote:
Though I will want to punch the lead guy in the face for the entire duration of the show, so maybe I shouldn’t.


That was the reason I never took to 'Scrubs'.


See also: Dawson's Creek.
Author:  Grim... [ Wed Nov 22, 2017 14:56 ]
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Image
Author:  Mimi [ Wed Nov 22, 2017 15:05 ]
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Ah, Scrubs was great! We were talking about it last night, actually. Has my favourite ever joke in it, which is kind of hard to write, but:

‘Mr Rogers, it’s pronounced ænalgesic... you put them in your mouth’.
Author:  myp [ Wed Nov 22, 2017 15:11 ]
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Seasons 1-6 were top notch comedy.
Author:  Grim... [ Wed Nov 22, 2017 15:27 ]
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Dr Cox is one of the best things ever.
Author:  Bamba [ Wed Nov 22, 2017 17:58 ]
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Curiosity wrote:
Several people have said positive things about The Orville now. Hmmm. It got absolutely savaged by the critics and by the first few people I knew who saw it.

Almost tempted now. Though I will want to punch the lead guy in the face for the entire duration of the show, so maybe I shouldn’t.


It's not brilliant or anything; the actual plots are generally very derivative of Star Trek and other sci-fi shows (one of the episodes rips off the Black Mirror episode Nosedive for instance) but there's something about the characters I like. For all the abuse A Million Ways to Die in the West got I found the central relationship very convincing and they pull off a similar trick here, while still essentially just being Star Trek with dick jokes.
Author:  Dr Zoidberg [ Wed Nov 22, 2017 19:02 ]
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Yep, it's totally Star Trek TNG with dick jokes. If you removed the more out of place humour, you could transplant the crew of the 1701D into pretty much every episode and it would be a perfect fit.

The courtroom scene where they were deciding the fate of Bortus' daughter could have easily had Riker arguing the case.
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