Whatcha bingeing?
Beer.
Whatcha bingeing?
Beer.
Finish season 2, maybe season 3. Pretend the last season doesn’t exist.
Finished Godless last night - very good indeed.
MiM
Yes, I loved Santa Clarita Diet. I never thought much of Drew Barrymore before, but now I love her. The husband is also great in this.
I was “anti- binging” Better Call Saul; I was slowly nursing season 2 along, hoping to make it last until season 3 came out, but unfortunately I’m left waiting anyway.
I’m sure that it benefits from having been preceded by Breaking Bad. For one thing, less “exposition” is needed. The characters can fall from grace slowly, the audience will put up with slow development because we know (more or less) where they are going. But IMHO, Better Call Saul is waaaay better than Breaking Bad. The characters are very complex and very simple at the same time; also, they seem more internally consistent to me.
I fear for Kim Wetzel, she’s not in Breaking Bad. I hope she gets fed up and leaves him in anger, rather than depart in some grisly fashion.
Hadn’t heard of it, but I think I’ll check it out as soon as I finish Longmire.
Adding Godless to my watch list!
Just finished the second season of Glitch on Netflix.
It makes more sense to binge the first season since the second drops you right in the middle of a situation from last season. 6 episodes for each, I believe.
If you enjoy (somewhat) dark sci-fi and pondering the meaning of life, I highly recommend it.
Just finished this last night and fell asleep before the finale finished. Guess I’ll have to watch it again to find out what happened.
Ran through the first 2 seasons of Rick and Morty on Hulu, liked it enough to buy those two and the third season on iTunes.
And Apple TV finally got the amazon Prime app, so I started on Tremé the other night.
Oooh… I just stumbled upon that series this year at the Big Used Book Sale in our town, and really, really enjoyed the books.
I’m burning through over 100 episodes of the podcast “History of English”. I’m almost up to episode 80. Fascinating!
The U.S. version. I wouldn’t really call it a comedy but more of a situational drama. Many of the things these scumbags do are more cringe worthy than funny.
Leave it there. Great show at that point. Shark jump after that, I can’t remember if third season was worth watching, or whether it was end of fourth season. Could have been a wonderful show, but wasn’t.
Started watching this series now myself, after this recommendation. It’s like a less-supernatural version of Dirk Gently. Really enjoying it, aside from the awful and poorly implemented Country Music.
Just finished Marvelous Mrs. Maisel on Amazon. Overall fun show, though I’m biased as I like the other Sherman-Palladino shows. My only gripe was the Sophie Lennox storyline, as Midge was pretty much a jerk for what she did. Alex Borstein’s Susie was great. I kept waiting for Kelly Bishop to show up.
I’m presently “bingeing” on “Once Upon A Time”, the ABC Series, that is now on Netflix. Or rather, that I just discovered via Netflix - I actually had not remembered this show at all until I saw it while browsing for something interesting to watch with my wife, and liked the premise. There’s a LOT to catch up on - 7 seasons of 22-23 episodes each! - and the show is actually still running in Sesason 8 right now.
After four evening sessions of semi-binging over last week I’m up to episode #20 of season 1, and I’ve found the writing and acting for the most part superb. I’m wondering how they’ll keep this up for 140 or so more episodes. They probably won’t. But even if it drops off from steak to hamburger, I still like hamburger
In the past few years I’ve binge watched “Rick and Morty” a couple of times now, with friends who hadn’t seen it yet.
It may not be on Netflix or Amazon Prime any more, but I binge watched “Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood” a few years back, which was awesome.
I believe the original Japanese anime version of “Death Note” is still on Netflix, that’s also eminently bingeworthy, though the “first part” is better than the second.
Going a few more years back, my entire family binge watched all three seasons of “Avatar (The Last Airbender)”, the Nickelodeon animated series not the overwrought Shamalyan film. Absolutely one of the best things ever on TV. Light enough for kids, but also with a few very serious, even dark themes to it that they don’t harp on, but come up from time to time (genocide, survivor guilt). Unforgettable characters and a very original “magic system”. It was on Netflix and Amazon Prime at the time, now I think you’d have to buy it.
I also binge watched with them something from my own childhood, which is now available to buy on Amazon Prime: the 40 episode story arc of “The Mysterious Cities of Gold”, with one of the best intro segments ever.
And while I’ve never done it, I would certainly be down to marathon re-watch the entire run of “Futurama” or at least the first dozen seasons of “The Simpsons”.
After finishing “The Lowe Files”, I went on to binge on Rob’s cancelled-after-one-season show, The Grinder.
Lowe stars with Fred Savage and William Devane as an out-of-work actor who moves in with his brother’s family and tries to join his legal firm. As sitcoms go it’s pretty good with some really funny stuff including a hilarious guest appearance by Timothy Olyphant.
Have you watched the (not as good) Legend of Korra?
Yeah. Korra had some good points but it mainly suffered from a lack of overarching story the way TLA did, where the writers had a three-season master plan, with things in S1 and S2 foreshadowing or setting up things in S3.
Korra wasn’t renewed past S1 until during its first season run, and it kind of showed in that S2 and S3 felt very disconnected from S1.