[psmith2.0]

Does anyone here besides me cringe-watch the worst-written/acted show on TV, Fear the Walking Dead?

It dethrones Ally McBeal as the show with the most useless, unlikable and slap-worthy cast of twatknobs to ever inhabit a television show.

I root for the zombies, all the way.

"Eat them...eat them all!!"

[turtle]

So I really don't know anything about Game of Thrones but I do know it's a TV show that doesn't have much to do with "game shows". However, a blogger I regularly read made this headline post:

Originally Posted by Technically Incorrect The raunchy HBO series is so popular that Pornhub says it affects online porn enthusiasm.

Is it actually "raunchy"? I just assumed it was filled with people killing each other and dragons flying around.

[Brad]

Originally Posted by turtle Is it actually "raunchy"? I just assumed it was filled with people killing each other and dragons flying around.

For better or worse (I'd argue the latter), there's a fair bit of nekkidness and sexy tiems from time to time in GoT. Violence too. Probably not the most kid friendly show out there, but it's only on HBO for a reason.

[turtle]

Wow, that wasn't something I had expected from that show. Then again, seeing Jessica and Luke go at it what seems like constantly on Jessica Jones wasn't something I was expecting either. I'm still working my way through that series.

[psmith2.0]

I don't watch Game of Thrones, but I think the girl with the white hair is so pretty (I've seen pics...I'm not totally out of the loop).

I think she has a dragon?

[Brad]

Originally Posted by turtle Wow, that wasn't something I had expected from that show. Then again, seeing Jessica and Luke go at it what seems like constantly on Jessica Jones wasn't something I was expecting either. I'm still working my way through that series.

Oh, those little trysts in Jessica Jones are tame compared to other modern shows. At least she kept her shirt on!

Stick with it; JJ is great right through to the end. I finished season 1 on Netflix a few weeks ago myself, and then I just finished season 1 of Daredevil a few days ago. Yes, I know I'm late to the party and getting this stuff in the wrong order!

[Kickaha]

GoT:

#jesuishodor

[murbot]

Too soon? I'm not sure what this says about me as a person considering the things I've seen on this show, but I think this is the first time I've ever been completely, jaw dropped, instant sad and starting a the TV for the entire credits roll, feeling dread and sadness consume me. That was fucking brutal.

[Kickaha]

LOVE IT!

Yeah. About the fourth time through his repeating it, it hit me. I think I let out a quiet little "oh my god..." Gwen was a beat behind me in having it click. You knew what was coming, you knew he was going to lock himself into an entire lifetime of suffering just for *one* *moment*. His entire existence, all he could have been, was stripped away so he could be at one place at one point in time, and (presumably) die horrifically. Fucking brutal doesn't begin to cover it.

[Kickaha]

On a lighter note, anyone else catch AMC's premiere of Preacher?

*happy skippy dance*

I have the entire run of the comic (1st printing) in my office. It's one of my favorite titles, like, ever.

They're doing it justice, in their own way. A literal translation wasn't going to work, and they're already pulling in pieces and plot point from a dozen issues, but it's like watching a Rube Goldberg machine get set up at this point.

Just waiting for that first ball bearing to drop.

[709]

Originally Posted by Kickaha Yeah. About the fourth time through his repeating it, it hit me. I think I let out a quiet little "oh my god..." Gwen was a beat behind me in having it click. You knew what was coming, you knew he was going to lock himself into an entire lifetime of suffering just for *one* *moment*. His entire existence, all he could have been, was stripped away so he could be at one place at one point in time, and (presumably) die horrifically. Fucking brutal doesn't begin to cover it.

Fuck Bran. The little shit could have just listened to his mother and stopped climbing the walls but oh noooo. It's all your fault Bran. EVERYTHING IS HAPPENING BECAUSE OF YOU BRAN. And now he has time-warping powers. Great. Fucking Bran.

[709]

Originally Posted by Kickaha On a lighter note, anyone else catch AMC's premiere of Preacher?

Highly enjoyable.

I don't know much about the comic other than it's a cult classic, but the show has me hooked so far. Couple of literal laugh-out-loud moments in there too, which I didn't expect. The whole thing is great, including the 3 leads. I'm going to watch it again during lunch today (it's streaming on the AMC website and through the AppleTV app for those wanting to see it without a cable subscription).

[Ryan]

Stranger Things is pretty good so far, just started episode 3.

Hard to describe it too much without giving things away, since the show mostly relies of mystery and suspense.

(Also, so far it's done away with some of Netflix's more obnoxious tropes. I'm all for sex scenes but sex scenes that have nothing to do with the plot are just dumb. I know how to download porn, thankyouverymuch)

[Kickaha]

Eh, we fired up Stranger Things Sunday afternoon.

And, um, finished the last episode at 1am. Oops

(It's good.)

[Ryan]

I started around seven tonight.

But hey, my manager's out of town and I only have three to go, so...

Update: yes, I binged the entire show in one evening. Gonna regret this in the morning.

[drewprops]

They shot that here in town - some friends worked on it, which will probably make me watch it so I'm glad that it's good


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[709]

Black Mirror Season 3 – Official Trailer

I'm so fucking excited.

[Dr. Bobsky]

I wonder why the switch to us actors...

[Ryan]

Bourdain actually goes to Houston, famously his least favorite city in America for a long time.

And *amazingly* he gets it right.

http://www.houstonchronicle.com/ente...witter-premium

I'm watching it now (Amazon Video). This is the Houston I grew up in that nobody can believe exists.

I lost a lot of respect for Bourdain after his Tokyo episode ("This is the underground Tokyo that tourists can't go to" but half that crap had been in Lonely Planet for years). Also, when he led a Twitter dogpile against a good friend of mine. This episode nearly redeems him in my eyes.

The episode isn't perfect (that Bollywood dancing bit is silly) but it's good.

The timing of this episode—aired two Fridays before the election—is not accidental. It's the most overtly political episode that I can recall from Parts Unknown and is clearly meant as a rebuke to the #MAGA crowd.

[Bryson]

Anyone watching Westworld? It's interesting - I just really hope they resist the urge to never actually tell us the answers to the mysteries they're dangling. (ie: The Lost mistake. See also: The Blacklist.) If you tease it out too long then I stop caring.

[Dr. Bobsky]

THe Blacklist writers have been told that they are doing a crime solving soap opera, I am sure.... there are no great answers, just more heaps of bs added on all previous heaps of bs.

[Bryson]

Originally Posted by Dr. Bobsky THe Blacklist writers have been told that they are doing a crime solving soap opera, I am sure.... there are no great answers, just more heaps of bs added on all previous heaps of bs.

Yep, just like Lost. I think they originally had an interesting story to tell, but the network demands for extending the series have killed the chances of that arc actually developing.

I have hope for Westworld as it's a HBO property so maybe they'll actually finish the arc they intended originally....

[Ryan]

Iron Fist is really, really fucking boring.

The problem with Finn Jones as the main character isn't the racial controversy, it's that he's an awful actor. I don't think a single other Marvel character has been bogged down with such one-dimensional acting.

Can they just kill off this character before we get to The Defenders? I don't think I can watch another dozen episodes of Finn Jones.

(Plus, does the MCU actually need two rich boys who go through a mystic transformation in the Himalayas?)

[turtle]

Man, now I'm not sure I want to try to watch it. I have watched all of Netflix's shows so far so I had plans for this one too, despite the bad reviews I've seen for it.

[Ryan]

Originally Posted by turtle Man, now I'm not sure I want to try to watch it. I have watched all of Netflix's shows so far so I had plans for this one too, despite the bad reviews I've seen for it.

If you want to keep up with the Netflix/MCU plot it's worth watching since Madame Gau is such a key character and we finally start to understand some of the backstory of the previous Netflix series.

But you're gonna be bored in parts.

[turtle]

So do something else while watching it as opposed to just focusing on the show, like play Minecraft. Got it.

[Ryan]

Originally Posted by turtle So do something else while watching it as opposed to just focusing on the show, like play Minecraft. Got it.

That's what I've been doing.

Netflix should've cast someone else as Danny Rand and cut this down to a six episode mini-series.

[Frank777]

Tonight's the Darth Maul vs Obi-Wan Kenobi fight on Star Wars Rebels, right? Am I crazy for being excited about this?

[RowdyScot]

Originally Posted by Ryan The problem with Finn Jones as the main character isn't the racial controversy

Why would this even be a thing? Danny Rand in the comics always was blonde and blue-eyed.

[Ryan]

Originally Posted by RowdyScot Why would this even be a thing? Danny Rand in the comics always was blonde and blue-eyed.

I have no idea. I keep seeing complaints about it in headlines. I've never read the comics so I don't know the background there.