Quote from: Paul keohane on April 17, 2021, 10:35:42 PM
Quote from: Blackout on April 17, 2021, 08:10:05 PM
I'm late to the always sunny in Philidelphia bandwagon. Jesus this show is hilarious how have I not watched it until now?!
this has been recommended to me so many times and i still havent pulled the trigger,i'll have to get on it.

Keep watching it even if you're not getting it at first. It's very like Seinfeld in that it takes a while to get familiar with the characters.

American Gods recently finished up. Much like Preacher, it was very frustrating. Some really great episodes but an awful lot of filler. Fantasy in print seems to very rarely transfer over to the screen well.

I watched the first season, thought it was only OK, couldn't be arsed with the rest. The book was decent.

Been binging on Rake on Netflix. Great stuff.

Quote from: Eoin McLove on April 23, 2021, 08:45:14 PM
Been binging on Rake on Netflix. Great stuff.

In preparation for your move to Aus?  :laugh: Loved that series, final season was absolutely ludicrous but still good craic.

Aye Rake is class. Last 2 seasons were getting a bit silly but the first few seasons are fantastic. The American remake should be avoided at all costs.

Sure it's completely ludicrous from the start! I'm on season 3 I think. Very easy to lose a day watching it. I usually avoid remakes of things if I like the original,  so I'll give Mr. Kinnear a wide berth.

Watching The Rain on Netflix, great show, like Dark in many ways

Keep seeing that recommended on my Netflix, comparisons to Dark are enough to get a watch from me!

Currently watching Vivir Sin Permiso. Pretty decent series about an ageing Galician businessman/drug lord who gets diagnosed with Alzheimer's.

Struggling through S3 of Star Trek Discovery. S2 was very good but this is very poor. They even shoehorned in a trans episode. Great. Dunno if I'll bother with next season.

It improves, stick with it.

I see The Killing (the original, Danish version) is starting on BBC Four tomorrow night. One that passed me by but I've wanted to see for a while. Nice one.

Quote from: Emphyrio on April 29, 2021, 07:39:48 AM
Struggling through S3 of Star Trek Discovery. S2 was very good but this is very poor. They even shoehorned in a trans episode. Great. Dunno if I'll bother with next season.
Quote from: Carnage on April 29, 2021, 08:57:19 AM
It improves, stick with it.

No... It doesn't improve.
It was an utterly pathetic season.
S2 redeemed the the series after the shitty first season, but S3 flushed it all down the toilet again.
Terrible story! Basically removed itself as far as possible from Star Trek Canon!
Terrible acting! Terrible characters and character development! Crying in EVERY FUCKING EPISODE!!!!
Two straight guys in the crew, both there purely as back-up/filler for the empowered female, gay, trans crew.
Kirk would be spinning in his grave.

As a fan of Star Trek in general I have to say this show is the absolute worst to bear it's name.


The last coupla eps were good but ya, the characters and actors are poor. Anson Mount brought a bit of gravitas to S2, a proper Star Trek character but this season of wishy washy fools was hard to take. I'm likely done with it. We still have Picard and hopefully the new spin off does the legacy justice.

Took me about 6 months but I finally finished "The West Wing". Missed it the first time around and at least two re-runs since then.

There's so much of it - I felt like I had been through a US presidential campaign and term by the end of it.

I think that that the early Sorkin series are probably the tightest but I like the narrative shift in the last season and a bit to focus on the race for the post-Barlett White House.

Currently watching and enjoying "Yellowstone". Good to see Kevin Costner get his mojo back after drifting from his superstardom/decent projects of the 1980s - mid '90s. Completely forgot that he had won a few Oscars until I was reading something about him recently.