# AMC Into the Badlands: whaddya think?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 16, 2015, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amc-into-the-badlands-whaddya-think/737677 "2015-11-16T08:14:24Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2017, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amc-into-the-badlands-whaddya-think/737677/21 "2017-03-20T16:49:08Z")

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First season has been put up for streaming on Netflix.

Watched the first episode this weekend. Hadn’t seen it before.

It was okay; the setting didn’t really strike me as “badlands” though; the environment seemed pretty lush to me.

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**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2017, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amc-into-the-badlands-whaddya-think/737677/22 "2017-03-21T12:24:37Z")

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The fight scenes are a lot of fun, but how they handle weapons afterward is a bit maddening. I keep hoping there’ll be a fight at some point where someone will try to draw their blade, but can’t because they sheathed it covered in blood last time, and now it’s stuck.

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**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2017, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amc-into-the-badlands-whaddya-think/737677/23 "2017-04-12T10:14:32Z")

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Watching the new season. Continued fun. Nick Frost is a nice addition to anything. The fights are fun - the latest episode featured a down shot from high above a melee/battle royale that was great. Watching women badass barons do their Baron-Fu in spike heels - and use those heels as weapons - is silly in a badass way.

Nice and comic-book-y. Oh, and Martin Csokas chews the scenery wonderfully as Quinn.

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**Author:** ![Anduinel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Anduinel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anduinel)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2017, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amc-into-the-badlands-whaddya-think/737677/24 "2017-04-13T15:36:50Z")

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I’m liking it a lot. The world-building is pretty thin, but I like the drama and back-stabbing, and the martial arts remind me of Hong Kong movies like the Executioners. I’ll keep watching.

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**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2017, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amc-into-the-badlands-whaddya-think/737677/25 "2017-05-23T10:12:53Z")

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I just finished this season. I really enjoyed it for the over-the-top-in-all-ways production. I don’t need all the red corn syrup, but it’s cartoonish enough for me to look past.

Coming out of episode 9, without divulging big spoilers, some folks lived who I wasn’t expecting to, some folks died I wasn’t expecting and the mystery of Asra deepened.

It scratches an itch I had been hoping as a Marvel fanboy that SHIELD would, and it is as good in its way as the better Marvel Netflix series like JJones.

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