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Jack Ryan s2 airs Friday (perhaps there's a JR thread already)

This show premieres Friday as well and seems right up my alley. Alternate history, USSR wins space race
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_Al...ind_(TV_series)

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10-30-2019 , 09:11 PM

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parisron

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Yea I am pumped for Jack Ryan season 2. Also a few of those new Apple plus shows look good. A few got bad reviews. Free 7 days anyway.

Yea, For all Mankind looks good.

They just rolled a commercial for it on the World Series. That might have cost a little.

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10-30-2019 , 10:29 PM

#9603

master3004

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Originally Posted by RichGangi

I mostly agree re: network tv but Hannibal is fantastic. Still can't believe NBC actually aired it.

Yeah it is amazing what they got away with on that show at the network level

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10-30-2019 , 10:29 PM

#9604

master3004

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Originally Posted by filthyvermin

oh yeah, i've heard good things about hannibal. i watched the first episode or 2, and it seemed like it might be good. the good guy really bugged me though. i guess he was the hero? he was the one who wasn't hannibal.

Eh... its not a show thats a good idea to make assumptions about.

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10-31-2019 , 02:53 PM

#9605

parisron

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Jack Ryan Season 2 is out now. I thought it was supposed to be tomorrow.

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10-31-2019 , 04:05 PM

#9606

pudley4

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Originally Posted by filthyvermin

a friend of mine was trying to get me to watch "this is us" and i was like "no ****ing way in hell would i ever watch that pos even for one ****ing second"

and i said something like "i'm such a snob i'd never watch anything on nbc, cbs, or abc. the last show i can think of that was any good from them was star trek"

though i have watched a lot of survivor, but i hate myself for it. and i haven't watched it in a couple years.

seriously though, they just produce absolute ****. disgusting to watch. they think everyone is a ****ing mindless, pathetic, imbecile who will sit in front of the screen and watch their drivel

The Good Place is good tv.

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10-31-2019 , 06:27 PM

#9607

housenuts

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Originally Posted by parisron

Jack Ryan Season 2 is out now. I thought it was supposed to be tomorrow.

It is tomorrow already in some places

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10-31-2019 , 06:40 PM

#9608

RichGangi

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Tried watching JR, only made it through a couple eps. Standard boring popcorn garbage imo.

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10-31-2019 , 10:16 PM

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FlyWf

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lol the Jack Ryan series flips the politics of the actual Venezualan coup because even a fictional Juan Guiado is too much of a slimeball that they couldn't trust the audience to root for him, now the bad guy seems like he's a Bolsanaro stand-in.

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10-31-2019 , 10:57 PM

#9610

housenuts

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So much to binge. Having a newborn pretty good for that.

Halfway through Daybreak

On deck
JR s2
For All Mankind
Succession s2
Mindhunter s2

I'm sure I'm missing some stuff

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10-31-2019 , 11:51 PM

#9611

FlyWf

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The new Jack Ryan is... not good, just like cookie cutter low budget direct to video action schlock. At least the first one had some good spy type ****. Instead of a pointless subplot involving a drone operator with PTSD the new pointless subplot is an ex-special forces guy who is surly and dumb as hell but also everyone is kinda pointlessly a dick to? It's a baffling character!

(also this season contains a LOT of stuff taken directly from Clear and Present Danger, which is extremely lazy and also quite dangerous because everything it's taken from it so far the film did much much better. The mission in season 3 contains a frankly upsetting amount of mid-mission exposition and perhaps the single most insulting and unnecessary location title in the history of cinema)

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11-01-2019 , 02:22 AM

#9612

Lord_Crispen

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Just watched first episode of "Living With Yourself". I'm intrigued. Looking forward to binging the rest in a couple days.

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11-01-2019 , 11:03 PM

#9613

hemstock

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Jack Ryan s1 was so bad it was good. s2 so far is just boring bad.

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11-02-2019 , 12:22 AM

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The Morning Show - Great cast. I like it.
For All Mankind - Boring at times but its decent.
Dickinson (Hailee Steinfeld) - Not at all what I expected, It's actually pretty good.
Only watched a few minutes of "See", no opinion yet.

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11-02-2019 , 10:18 AM

#9615

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Just finished Righteous Gemstones. Good watch I'd say 7.5 or 8/10. Cast is pretty incredible and the characters are well developed IMO. Story line meanders a bit but I like that they kept the episodes relatively short and didn't try and stretch them out.

Liked it a lot. if you like Danny McBride's style you will like it. His fingerprints are all over it.

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11-02-2019 , 10:34 AM

#9616

housenuts

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Originally Posted by parisron

For All Mankind - Boring at times but its decent.

How many eps are out?

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11-02-2019 , 10:42 AM

#9617

parisron

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3 of 10 and then weekly release.

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11-02-2019 , 12:27 PM

#9618

FlyWf

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looool if you've put 3 or 4 episodes into Jack Ryan S2 it's worth finishing just for the jaw dropping what the **** last "twist". It's like a child watched a spy movie and tried to mimic the story beats without any understanding of why they were effective.

Theory number 2 is that they were literally making it as they went along and remembered they set something up at the very last minute without an end point in mind and then just winged it.

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11-02-2019 , 06:29 PM

#9619

Huehuecoyotl

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Originally Posted by bwslim69

I going to do my get HBO for a month or so, binge a lot of shows and then cancel thing.

This was the first series I watched.

I'd give it an 7/10.

I liked it and would recommend it. The actors are good and the episodes are short so it didn't sag mid episode.

My high brow complaint is that Dany Mcbride and Adam DeVine's characters feel like they were directly parachuted in from South Bound and Down and Workoholics and the televangelist setting doesn't feel enough resourced to add anything special. They could have just picked any generic rich family, ported the jokes over and not a lot would have been lost.

That's my high brow complaint though. If someone said I like workaholics and/or Eastbound and Down should I watch The Rightous Gemstones I'd say yes and not worry that I steered them wrong.

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11-02-2019 , 06:30 PM

#9620

Dominic

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I still like Jack Ryan...it's preposterous, but enjoyable.

The thing that's most ridiculous is Jack Ryan flying all over the world without permission from his government and firing his weapon in London after the foot race - when he's not even supposed to be there. The English authorities would immediately put him on a plane to America....but instead, he gets to go to a college where he's the prime suspect in murdering a man in front of his daughter....but the nothing happens to him??

The thing I like is how they mess up the Venezuela operation and the **** hits the fan, with the U.S. forced to leave their embassy behind. That's a huge cluster****.

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11-03-2019 , 03:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Huehuecoyotl

I'd probably go more like 8.5, but a 10 if its Edi Patterson's dialogue. I damn near pissed myself at some of her lines!!

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11-03-2019 , 01:04 PM

#9622

bortlicense

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I saw the first ep of Righteous Gemstones and wasn't into it.

Felt like a step down from Vice Principals which was fantastic.

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11-03-2019 , 03:15 PM

#9623

FlyWf

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Originally Posted by Dominic

The entire plot makes, generously, very little sense and it's unclear what level the writers are on by how often the heroes just flatly create their own problems.

But luckily, the villains are also incredibly stupid. SPOILERS TO FOLLOW:

Spoiler:

Real ****ing dumb show.

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11-03-2019 , 11:39 PM

#9624

Huehuecoyotl

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Originally Posted by DC11GTR

I'd probably go more like 8.5, but a 10 if its Edi Patterson's dialogue. I damn near pissed myself at some of her lines!!

She was so good!

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11-03-2019 , 11:46 PM

#9625

Huehuecoyotl

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Next up Euphoria (Season 1)

Basically a Rated R CW show. Zendaya does good in the lead role, but everything else is kind of cardboard cut out though it tries to mask it. You had the driven joke who does violence, teen girl who gets pregnant and abortion episode, etc.

One annoying thing is the main character is supposed to have all these mental issues which is fine, but she's just a generic drug addict for 6 episodes, then suddenly she has a maniac part of bipolar episode and then she's depressed for an episode. It felt weird how slotted her mental illnesses were.

Anyways one big big positive is the art direction and cinematography is A+, better than most other shows I've seen. I don't think I've ever had a TV series where I tuned out the story for the most part and was just watching the visuals, but I did for this show.

5/10

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