What Are You Watching

[kinuta]

War Machine

Botched attempt at satire.

I thought it was an embarrassing, meandering clueless mess.

[kinuta]

House Of Cards Season five

Up to episode six.

[catesta]

Just got caught up on Street Outlaws Season 9, only one episode left.

Silicon Valley (T.J. Miller makes this show)

I've only watched one partial episode of The Leftovers this season. I think I might be happy about that but will probably go back and watch the entire season since it's the last one.

[kinuta]

House Of Cards S5 . Now up to Ep10.

Convoluted and dark. Quite different to the previous series in some ways. The editing seems very choppy, the storyline complex- have the remote handy for quick rewind if you are prone to nodding off - and the tone uniformly sombre.

Edited June 1, 2017 by kinuta

[Jazzmoose]

First episode of Long, Strange Trip on Amazon.  It's interesting enough that I'll watch more.

[erwbol]

If HBO fire Bill Maher over this one controversial joke I will never watch another HBO production again. 

Hypocritical bullshit!

[kinuta]

The Leftovers finale.

Wrapped up nicely.

Twin Peaks.

Way over my intellectual pay grade.

I'll leave this one to cleverer folks to ponder

[erwbol]

2 hours ago, kinuta said:

Twin Peaks.

Way over my intellectual pay grade.

I'll leave this one to cleverer folks to ponder

I will be watching episode 5 later today, but isn't it exactly over-intellectualizing Lynch that creates problems?

[kinuta]

3 hours ago, erwbol said:

I will be watching episode 5 later today, but isn't it exactly over-intellectualizing Lynch that creates problems?

That might well be true. More accurately I can't be bothered investing the time and effort into something I clearly neither like nor comprehend. 

I did like Mulholland Drive very much but that had some kind of comprehensible although bizarre narrative to glue everything together and hold my attention from slipping into irritated apathy. 

 

Edited June 5, 2017 by kinuta

[jazzbo]

6 hours ago, kinuta said:

The Leftovers finale.

Wrapped up nicely.

 

YEs, I really liked the season finale. Really enjoy this series.

 

[JSngry]

Are these new epsiodes of Twin Peaks or vintage reruns?

Seems I heard something about new episodes, but that's a coming attraction, correct?

[erwbol]

A new 18 hour season 3 was produced for Showtime by Lynch and Frost. All directed by Lynch as one long movie. It will not be intelligible if season 1 & 2 & Fire Walk with Me aren't fresh in your mind.

It has been described as pure heroin Lynch. Every episode so far has its own feeling, but think Eraserhead, Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive, Inland Empire put in a mixer with the Lynch directed episodes of season 1 & 2 and FWwM. Not the cozy, cuddly season 1 & 2 atmosphere.

Over the past three weeks the first five hours (episodes) aired. 

Edited June 5, 2017 by erwbol

[JSngry]

I liked it all, it was all one prolonged dream sequence to me. I never tried to make sense of it out of that sense, so I was never frustrated. I like sleeping, and I really like dreams. Dreams are always the same and never the same, and what they mean, they only mean until the next one. So...

Will look for the new shows on Showtime. Gonna jump right in, sleep right down, daddy let my mind roll on.

[soulpope]

Watched two (of three) episodes of the fourth "Sherlock Holmes" season .... great story and terrific playing by the cast - special mention has to got to Benedict Cumberbatch whose performance of the drug addicted Sherlock Holmes is beyond belief ....

[paul secor]

3 hours ago, soulpope said:

Watched two (of three) episodes of the fourth "Sherlock Holmes" season .... great story and terrific playing by the cast - special mention has to got to Benedict Cumberbatch whose performance of the drug addicted Sherlock Holmes is beyond belief ....

I was watching some extra features from one of the Sherlock seasons, and one of the difficult things that Cumberbatch mentioned about playing the part is that he had to speak some of the lines when Holmes is thinking as fast as the character's thoughts would come. He would have to speak them almost without thinking, which would seem incredibly hard to do.

[soulpope]

1 hour ago, paul secor said:

I was watching some extra features from one of the Sherlock seasons, and one of the difficult things that Cumberbatch mentioned about playing the part is that he had to speak some of the lines when Holmes is thinking as fast as the character's thoughts would come. He would have to speak them almost without thinking, which would seem incredibly hard to do.

Yes his unbelievable performance is definitely a "tour de force" ....

[JSngry]

Have now completed the new seasons of Sherlock, House Of Cards, and Orange Is The New Black. Other than a .25 star deduction to Sherlock for veering just a little teence too far in actionmovieland, this is all ***** stuff in my book.

Also thoroughly enjoying the new season of Master Of None, which is delightfully non-bingeable. Eat one or two, digest thoroughly, come back tomorrow or the day after. Good stuff, this type of satisfying and non-addictive entertainment.

[JSngry]

 

 

[jlhoots]

Queen Of The South - season 2

[JSngry]

Finished Season 2 of Master Of None last night...what a remarkable accomplishment that show is!

[Morganized]

Austin City Limits

rhiannon giddens

[JSngry]

Kimmie, almost done. one more.

[jlhoots]

Fargo - season finale

[erwbol]

1 hour ago, jlhoots said:

Fargo - season finale

Was it good? I stopped three episodes or so into season three.

[jazzbo]

I thought it was an entertaining season myself. Not quite as good as the other two in many ways, but worth watching, especially once you got into the second half.

Interesting article:

https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/6/22/15833772/fargo-finale-recap-season-3-review-somebody-to-love

Edited June 23, 2017 by jazzbo