Last TV series you watched and your rating

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by dmin » Thu Oct 18, 2018 8:46 pm

Death's Head wrote:Goliath, season 2. Slightly more disturbing than season 1, but equally as enjoyable. Am I the only person that watches this? If so and you've got Amazon, enjoy.

8.5

I watch it. Tis a great show; Billy Bob is superb. Agree the 2nd season is more disturbing! Though I preferred the 1st a smidge more.

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by satriales » Thu Oct 18, 2018 9:32 pm

Norsemen Season 1 - A viking comedy. Very funny and quite a lot happens in just 6 episodes. Well worth a watch!
8/10

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by mcjihge2 » Sat Oct 20, 2018 5:56 pm

Limitless. Doesnt really get going until about episode 10. Really good. 8/10

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by Oblomov Boblomov » Sat Oct 20, 2018 6:25 pm

Watched three BBC dramas recently:

The Bodyguard - enjoyed it, although it felt like a bit of a guilty pleasure.

Killing Eve - really enjoyed this, it has a great style to it and doesn't take itself seriously at all, which is good when it is centred on a hot girl who weighs between 8-9 stone but is capable of overcoming multiple armed men at the same time

Thirteen - utter horse gooseberry fool

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by Albert » Sat Oct 20, 2018 6:35 pm

American horror story season 2.

Better than the first but still likes to deal in the ridiculous from time to time. I get it's a horror a d can suspend belief but some of the writing is dreadful.

Season 1 - 6.5
Season 2 - 7.4

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by Moggy » Sun Oct 21, 2018 8:48 am

The Vietnam War - 10/10

I know a few others have rated this one, but I really can’t emphasise enough just how good this is. Utterly incredible. It’s 17+ hours long and feels like that’s not long enough. Interesting, heartbreaking and hugely educational. And with an absolute kick ass soundtrack.

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by Slayerx » Sun Oct 21, 2018 8:04 pm

Daredevil S3.

Easily the weakest of the 3 seasons it didn't flow as well and a few of the things that were supposed to be surprises just weren't impactful enough.

I would still say it's arguable the strongest Marvel show on Netflix.

6/10

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by Skarjo » Mon Oct 22, 2018 4:25 am

I tried to watch that Haunting of Hill House the other day but absolutely could not get on with it.

There was a dreadful piece of CGI where a guy crossed a clearly green screen hallway. But... It was just a hallway? Why can't you afford a corridor? Corridors are not expensive.

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by satriales » Mon Oct 22, 2018 7:15 am

Skarjo wrote:I tried to watch that Haunting of Hill House the other day but absolutely could not get on with it.

There was a dreadful piece of CGI where a guy crossed a clearly green screen hallway. But... It was just a hallway? Why can't you afford a corridor? Corridors are not expensive.

I'm only three episodes in but I'm really enjoying that show. Didn't notice the CGI bit that you mentioned but I think generally there isn't a huge amount of CGI for a horror.

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by Zartan » Mon Oct 22, 2018 12:25 pm

I have just finished a rewatch of the West Wing, man I love this show.

Season 7 really is a strange one, because whilst the campaign is awesome, Alan Alada is superb, and really does portray a really good Republican that you can get behind, and Jimmy Smits is just fantastic, and plays so well with Bradley Whitford. It is just the actual West Wing is left behind, and really feels old and tired whenever the story is with them.

It is really hard to grade all the seasons, as I feel the post Rob Lowe ones are worse, but 6 and 7 with Alda and Smits I love loads. So that means season 5 is the worst, and Season 2 is possibly the best, and in between you can move most of them about. It kinda goes against most series where the middles seasons are generally the best

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by Skarjo » Mon Oct 22, 2018 2:12 pm

satriales wrote:
Skarjo wrote:I tried to watch that Haunting of Hill House the other day but absolutely could not get on with it.

There was a dreadful piece of CGI where a guy crossed a clearly green screen hallway. But... It was just a hallway? Why can't you afford a corridor? Corridors are not expensive.

I'm only three episodes in but I'm really enjoying that show. Didn't notice the CGI bit that you mentioned but I think generally there isn't a huge amount of CGI for a horror.


Alright, so I'm rewatching it, and I think maybe it's not CGI, I think it's a deliberate camera thing to make things feel... Dreamy? Or something? I realise now the scene that got me was actually the opening scene, with the dad moving from room to room across the corridor. And whether it's actually green screen or just a filter or something but it very much looks like the Dad is absolutely not on that set. Maybe it's meant to be jarring or subtle or something.

But it doesn't, I just get this really uncanny valley feeling like I did with the Star Wars prequels. And not in a creepy way, just a 'Why are you like this?' kinda way.

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by satriales » Mon Oct 22, 2018 3:38 pm

Skarjo wrote:
satriales wrote:
Skarjo wrote:I tried to watch that Haunting of Hill House the other day but absolutely could not get on with it.

There was a dreadful piece of CGI where a guy crossed a clearly green screen hallway. But... It was just a hallway? Why can't you afford a corridor? Corridors are not expensive.

I'm only three episodes in but I'm really enjoying that show. Didn't notice the CGI bit that you mentioned but I think generally there isn't a huge amount of CGI for a horror.


Alright, so I'm rewatching it, and I think maybe it's not CGI, I think it's a deliberate camera thing to make things feel... Dreamy? Or something? I realise now the scene that got me was actually the opening scene, with the dad moving from room to room across the corridor. And whether it's actually green screen or just a filter or something but it very much looks like the Dad is absolutely not on that set. Maybe it's meant to be jarring or subtle or something.

But it doesn't, I just get this really uncanny valley feeling like I did with the Star Wars prequels. And not in a creepy way, just a 'Why are you like this?' kinda way.

Actually, I did notice a similar thing in other scenes where the screen kind of jolts slightly as it switches to some characters. At first I thought it might have been motion blur or poor compression on Netflix but now I'm certain it is deliberate. Perhaps it will make sense later on when the story unravels.

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by Slayerx » Mon Oct 22, 2018 3:51 pm

I really struggled with the opening episode but going to give it another go.

I found some of the time jumps a bit jarring.

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by Rubix » Mon Oct 22, 2018 5:28 pm

Unresolved- 9/10

Cop drama focusing on the deaths of Tupac and Biggie, found it really interesting

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by Moggy » Mon Oct 22, 2018 7:12 pm

Brerlappin wrote:
Moggy wrote:The Vietnam War - 10/10

I know a few others have rated this one, but I really can’t emphasise enough just how good this is. Utterly incredible. It’s 17+ hours long and feels like that’s not long enough. Interesting, heartbreaking and hugely educational. And with an absolute kick ass soundtrack.


I really enjoyed this but I only made it about 5 episodes in. Its just so long. When the episodes were 90 minutes it wasn ttoo bad but onces the episodes started running to 2 hours a piece, I just didn't have time for it any more


That’s a shame, it really is excellent.

There were a few times that I needed to sleep and so just closed down Netflix and carried on the next day, Netflix is good at remembering where you left off.

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by Jenuall » Tue Oct 23, 2018 1:29 am

BoJack Horseman S5 - 10/10

Probably the best thing on television in the past 5 years, BoJack is quite simply an exceptional show. How Will Arnett hasn't won a boatload of awards for his performance in this is beyond me.

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by KomandaHeck » Wed Oct 24, 2018 1:29 am

Just finished my rewatch of Deadwood and it's quite comfortably my favourite thing ever put on TV. I love everything about it, but the standout star is the camp itself, I don't think I've ever seen a location so fully realised in TV before. It's a richly developed character of its own and you become so familiar with it over the course of the 36 episodes that I could probably draw a map of it from memory alone. The writing is poetry to listen to and the character relationships feel so genuinely sincere or tense depending on the pairing or group, if I had to make a top 10 TV characters list, I'm sure that at least 5 of them would be from Deadwood. Jesus Christ, it's so good! :wub:

Obviously, there was room for further stories but I actually think the ending it was forced to have is a fitting conclusion in many ways, when you consider the themes it had been touching upon from the very start. That being said, I'm excited to see what they've done with the film.

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by RichardUK » Wed Oct 24, 2018 1:35 am

Childhood’s End

I didn’t know anything about this before watching it but I was looking through now tv and noticed that Mike Vogel (the guy from under the dome) was in it so gave it a go, I really enjoyed it and it’s a shame it was quite short (only 3 episodes)

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PostRe: Last TV series you watched and your rating.
by Preezy » Mon Oct 29, 2018 4:32 pm

The Bodyguard - 7/10

Was really enjoying it until the last 15 minutes of the final episode. What a gooseberry fool ending :lol:

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by Moggy » Mon Oct 29, 2018 5:24 pm

Preezy wrote:The Bodyguard - 7/10

Was really enjoying it until the last 15 minutes of the final episode. What a gooseberry fool ending :lol:


Pretty much my thought on that show. Such an amazing opening scene though!


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