Thank you!
I tuned in to the latest season of You (Netflix). I had watched the first and part of the second season and the premise kind of wore thin so I set it aside. @solost mentioned that Charlotte Ritchie is in the new season so I checked it out for that reason and thought “oh, ok, this could be interesting again” until we get to see the main character chop some one up, in rather stark detail
Charlotte is indeed her adorable self, but that’s a bit more color than I want to look at regularly.
You - I was wondering if I should start back into this series. I’ve watched 1-3 but I just feel like I’m over it.
My apologies that I didn’t properly warn you. This latest season was more bloody than past seasons, but it is a show about an obsessive stalkery serial killer, after all.
Mrs. solost and I are still enjoying it. The main character is like almost no other main character on television-- a completely unredeemable bad guy who is always the smartest guy in the room and manages to get away with his misdeeds all the time while constantly rationalizing his every terrible action as that of a good guy who had no other choice. Walter White in Breaking Bad is possibly the closest TV parallel, but even White had a modicum of goodness- having started his criminal empire to support his family. You don’t root for Joe the ‘You’ guy, but you know somehow he’s going to weasel his way out of every situation where he’s almost caught, so you go along for the ride.
I was actually concerned this season that the writers were trying to give the ‘You’ guy a redemption arc, until the big plot twist reveal in the second half of the season. Nope, same old killer Joe.
Oh gosh, solost, no apology necessary; I guess I just wasn’t expecting anything quite that explicit.
Is that something that is shown very often? Because the good aspects of the show can certainly outweigh it if it isn’t the “hallmark”.
Well, it’s not as if there’s a body dismembering scene every episode, but as I mentioned, this season does seem to be a fair amount bloodier than past seasons. It didn’t really bother me though, because it’s almost cartoonish violence done to characters that pretty much deserved it anyway. I was more emotionally affected by the season 1 death of the Elizabeth Lail character at the end, and that wasn’t even shown on screen. But I was rooting for her to get away.
We just did a rewatch of The West Wing, very enjoyable, yes some things did not stand up well and problematic, but overall we enjoyed it 2nd time around. I had not appreciated Richard Schiff / Toby first time . Alison Janney was also fantastic as always. Could have cut out a season or two and Joshua Malina and Mary McCormack characters stretched my already generous and naive suspension of disbelief, but overall worse ways to pass the time.
We are now about to start Barry from season one. ( with more Stephen Root) and pending on the Mandalorian and Ted Lasso being all wrapped up before starting them and waiting on Foundation and the Morning Show.
Really can’t wait for Andor season 2 , but I guess we are going to have to.
I binged BEEF. Wow, that was a rollercoaster.
I’ve been watching In the Dark for quite a while. It’s about a blind woman that gets tangled up in the world of drug dealers. I watch it during my lunch breaks so I don’t even watch an entire episode every day. I’m finally on the last season (4). I like it but it’s time for it to come to an end. It started to drag in S3.
I saw Steve Yuen on Colbert, and I was intrigued, but I don’t know if I can take any really intense/depressing shows right now.
I finally got to this in my Hulu queue and while I liked it, yeah, they didn’t seem to be headed anywhere in particular for season 3. Great characters, especially Bart, and Agent Fried who refused to read. It makes me want to take a lot at the Steve Mangan version.
The Mandalorian has changed audiences. The first season was made to appeal to fans of the Star Wars movies, while everything since has skewed more and more towards the fans of the Cartoon Network/Disney computer animated shows. Old-school fans like me are mostly lost, while the cartoon fans are living their dreams. Unfortunately, that seems to be a much smaller audience.
Ah, well that explains a bit, The second season is certainly taking a turn for the boring and I have zero interest in it if that is what it is trying to do.
I don’t think I should have to do sufficient research before watching to be entertained, that’s what puts me off a lot of the recent super hero movies.
I have never seen a superhero movie, unless Superman III with Richard Pryor counts. Sometimes I think about starting a thread to ask, if I were going to watch just one single superhero movie, what would be the best one? But then I realize, I still don’t want to see any superhero movies. Surely this trend will burn itself out before I die.
This statement conflicts me.
How about, surely this trend will die before I burn myself out?
Mo Betta
Thanks to those who recommended Rome. Well cast and good pacing.
Finally getting around to the latter seasons of Barry. I wish this show grabbed me a little tighter but it does have its amusing moments.
Also rewatching Weeds because Kevin Nealon is worth it all by himself.
I picked up a copy of She-Hulk last week and I’m enjoying it. But the fourth wall breaking doesn’t work for me. It kicks me out of the story every time it happens.
That’s interesting because the show’s creator wasn’t happy with the pacing.
I discovered halfway through writing the second season the show was going to end. The second was going to end with the death of Brutus. Third and fourth season would be set in Egypt. Fifth was going to be the rise of the Messiah in Palestine. But because we got the heads-up that the second season would be it, I telescoped the third and fourth season into the second one, which accounts for the blazing speed we go through history near the end. There’s certainly more than enough history to go around.