Out of curiosity, have you read the book? Because I have, and thought that the 1st season of the TV series was a steaming pile of shit, and wonder if reading the book/not reading the book could be part of the difference in opinion.
You need to get better at finding shows because you’re definitely not looking hard enough. List out some shows you like and we can give you 50 more from the last 10 years that you’ve been missing out on.
Love the book, love the TV show.
I much prefer the system of a small number of high-quality, well-written episodes compared to what we had growing up—ideas stretched thin, filler material, going through the motions until it was so bad you didn’t miss it when it was finally cancelled.
As it is, there’s way more television than I actually have time to watch, so that’s fine.
I only wish that shows that I like to re-watch wouldn’t disappear from Netflix and Hulu.
This may be a difference. Due to hectic schedules and other entertainment options, I watch on average a around 30-45 minutes of shows a day–one long episode, or one short episode, and done. “Binging” to me means watching two episodes of GLOW in one night.
One side-effect is that if a show doesn’t get me in the first ten minutes, I’m never turning it on again. And I still have plenty of great shows in the sidelines that I may never get to.
I’m also much more verbal than I am visual, so on a show like Daredevil, the episodes that get reviewed as filler episodes because of all the long conversations are often my favorite episodes: I connect with dialogue more viscerally than I connect with punches.
I agree. My biggest complaint about “Daredevil” are the seemingly interminable fight scenes. Punching should be a tool rather than the plot itself.
Yeah, never trust storage on someone else’s computer. You paid to watch it, make a backup.
- I don’t know how to backup from Netflix or Hulu
- I’m pretty sure that’s not legit
- I don’t have enough storage to backup everything I like
- I paid for what the service offers, which includes the consideration that specific programs may not remain available
This is my husband’s biggest complaint. He can binge watch a particular show in one day if I don’t physically put a stop to it. My attitude is why can’t he stretch it out for a day or two? It’s almost like an compulsion in that sense, and I wonder if Netflix/Amazon planned their programming with that in mind…?
The most I can binge in one sitting is a couple of episodes. Any more and my body gets quite restless and my eyeballs feel like they’re going to leak from my sockets. Needless to say, I’m not a big movie-goer either.
I’m currently working my way through “Comrade Detective” on Amazon, which like “The Tick” manages to combine a dark and gritty story in a completely goofy context. For those unfamiliar with it, it purports to be a remastered, overdubbed version of a 1980s Romanian cop show (which, of course, it isn’t, despite what Channing Tatum says; it’s a masterful pisstake). As it’s set during the Communist era, there is a thread of over-the-top anti-American, anti-capitalist and anti-religious propaganda throughout, which is hilarious (plus a lot of pro-Romanian state propaganda: “We were set up!” “Are you saying it was an inside job?” “No, everyone knows there are no corrupt cops in Romania.”). Recommended thus far.
Also recommended on Amazon: the pilot for “Jean Claude Van Johnson”. Van Damme sends himself up something fierce, and it is wonderful to watch. I believe a full series is coming.
Better suited to another thread perhaps, but I read the book and thought the show did a fine job by and large. The expanded role for Shadow’s wife in particular was welcome( I thought Gaiman short-changed that character in the book long before the TV series emerged ).
The viewer model has changed.
People no longer sit down at the same time every week to watch their favorite whatever. They watch stuff when they want, and finding shows is driven by big data algorithms.
All the viewer loyalty any show needs is that, when the new season is available, and Netflix offers it to you, you watch it.
To be fair, that’s how I felt about the book too.