We just got to it, and you’re right. It’s inexplicable.
We’re done with this series. Season 3 was so bad, we only stuck with it to the end because we had enjoyed the first two seasons and thought we’d already invested so much time in it. Several episodes (especially those involving Harry’s romance with the bird lady) were just awful. There was far too much personal angst involving just about every character, and frankly, we didn’t care. And Harry, a likeable if goofy character, became a real schmuck.
Someone mentioned above that this happened right when the writer’s strike happened, so the ending was choppy as a result. But yeah, I think this thing has jumped the toothy aquarian.
Last ep just dropped. Will watch later. Acting is great. But much suspension of disbelief is required. I have to admit that my thought on one baddie is not panning out. But it is so much of basic plot beats of other shows Silo, Fallout that it feels lazy.
Oh, I already factored in “much suspension of disbelief” as soon as I saw the end of the ep1 reveal that everybody’s living in a massive ‘Truman Show’ style town simulation inside of a mountain in Colorado, complete with artificial sun (Maintenance alert: dawn will be delayed by 2 hours).
That’s the issue I was bringing up. Show time is not the same as viewer time. IRL a week and often more has passed. I’m still several episodes behind. I want to see new stuff in a new episode. The format of the show is becoming a problem.
If L&O type show can work a crime scene, find and arrest the perp and then convict them in a hour, that’s satisfying if unrealistic.
Move the show along so something else can now occur.
This comment has absolutely nothing to do with the time it takes in an such matter. Dragging it out in the show just isn’t working.
This is about the way the show is set up. Keep that in mind.
Yeah, looking forward to finding out more about the catastrophe that forced the remaining US population underground. Could it be a 'Wayward Pines" type thing, I rhetorically wonder-- mutated murdery baddies outside the safe confines of the underground town? Or something even weirder?
After seeing a That '70 Show reel on Facebook it put me in the mood to rewatch some of that for the first time in years. I’m a little suprised that some of the episodes I remember best are from early in the first season—it was good from the start instead of having to griw into itself like so many shows.
Probably going to finish The Good Place tonight, and unlike most here, I found it quite the slog.
The cast was great. The characters all had fantastically funny moments. It was interesting seeing philosophical theories being played out in real time.
It was (is) overwhelmingly cutesy, gratingly punny, and sometimes dumb… the International Hole of Pancakes. Dumb. The Judge saying she wanted to erase humanity NOW so she could go back to watching Season 3 of Justified - dumb. There are dozens of these moments, all throughout the series, and it kept on reminding me that I was watching a long-form sitcom.
Maybe tonight’s series ending episodes will change my mind, but this one has been a rare miss for Inna and myself. No wonder I didn’t get this one done until try #3.
Another (mostly) satisfied viewer of Bad Monkey checking in. Indeed, this was a perfect fit for Vince Vaughn’s classic joking around character. Most of the other characters are just there for him to bounce quips off of.
Of note: Scott Glenn plays the overly present narrator/boat captain/etc. Almost an impression of the Key West version of Sam Elliot.
The not-so-bad monkey does stuff early on but then is barely seen at all. It’s the title character. Or is it?? Hmmm.
Lots of Tom Petty songs. His own versions are of course good. But there’s many covers, some of which just suck big time.
Three episodes of Paradise on Hulu and I’m done. A very intriguing first episode followed by boringly formulaic political drama that makes nothing of it’s unique setting.
I’ve been debating getting a subscription to Hulu* partly on my desire to watch Paradise (as well as a few other shows) but I may put that off now. I seriously need to review my streaming/cable access budget.
*I had been piggybacking off a friend’s subscription, but the Disney+/Hulu merger somehow cut me off from that. Another friend has me on her Disney+ account, but the Hulu access on that seems to be limited to only a few shows and movies.
One approach is to alternate subscriptions: Netflix one month, then drop Netflix and add HBO for the next month, then drop HBO and add Disney/Hulu after another month–and so on.
I watched the pilot, and that was enough. Hate Gibbs. Hate him so much I’ve started hating other Harmon characters, going back to Adam-12. Whenever I catch the last few minutes of an NCIS before L&O reruns or whatever, my opinion has not changed. Stupid.
Paradise: I never heard of it before today. I read the wikipedia episode summaries. Thanks to this thread, I’ll never be tempted to watch it. Intriguing idea, terrible follow through, just like so much of TV in the last 25 years.
Funny enough I experienced the opposite. The idea is beat down now. Come up with something original, really. Third show this year with the same basic premise. Follow through in term of interesting characters that are fun to watch is what they did well!
Pretty much what I do. HBO and Hulu haven’t had anything worth watching in quite awhile, so I cut them off. At least Hulu lets you suspend your account so you don’t have to go through the re-subscribing drill.
What I need to do is go through my list of what channels have shows/movies that I want to watch, then decide which ones are worth keeping because of their content, and which ones I can drop and re-up for occasionally. I get MAX for free as part of my internet service. I think there’s some that I can bundle with other services, too.
Especially end of ep 7. But still a very fun ep!