You must log in or register to comment.
I started watching Shameless (USA version) this evening.
So good! So very very interesting. Another example of americans taking a popular british show and making it actually palatable for me, a british person.
It’s (hopefully) unrealistic in a lot of ways but i find it so heartwarming and it inspires you to keep on striving and to treat people well.
Frank is a superhero in that show, with all he survives.
Could’ve made it a Hancock crossover
I just finished Shogun. Pretty good, don’t know why is not more known
I think it’s pretty well known, but it’s not super popular due to requiring people to read dialogue instead of multitasking while listening to the 5th rehash of a basic plot point.
Pretty great show :D
Is it not?? Based on famous book, was already a show, won a bunch of awards, is getting a sequel. Anyway, I liked it too! no clue what they’ll do for s02 though since the book story already ended
I’ve been meaning to check this out for a while, but the wife isn’t the biggest subtitle fan so I don’t know if I could get her into this one.
Does season 1 end where the old series ends? I’ve been curious after hearing it was getting more seasons.
No idea how the og series end and don’t want to spoil S01 ending here.
About the subtitles, it is extremely important to see it subbed. The way Mariko translate the words between the Japanese and the English guy is really important to the development of the plot and the characters. It would be interesting to have a version of the show more centered on the English guy without any subtitles until he starts learning Japanese and have the experience of not understanding what is happening around him until he starts understanding too
It would be interesting to have a version of the show more centered on the English guy without any subtitles until he starts learning Japanese and have the experience of not understanding what is happening around him until he starts understanding too
This is how the 1980 miniseries did it! 😆
The viewer is supposed to go through the same progression as Blackthorne, being at the mercy of translation and body language/actions until he learns Japanese. There is some narration and you get subs as he learns the language.
From some quick reading, Blackthorne is not as much the main POV in the new series, but he is in the original.
It’s on archive.org if you want to watch it.
Being old and shit I was completely sure that everyone just speak English and the audience had to understand that they actually speak Japanese.
Well, I guess I’m watching that version too.
It’s been a few years since I watched it, so I had to look it up to check for sure on the language, and it’s funny as so many threads show up on movie forums asking where the heck all the subs are at, and everyone else responds “yooooo, that’s the whole point!”
It sounds both series cover the same content, but from fairly different POVs, so you should still get a unique experience from it even though you have major spoilers from having seen the new one. I hope you enjoy it!
Lanterns is surprisingly engaging. I like shows with slow complex plots. Not your typical superhero show with asplosions. Kyle Chandler and Aaron Pierre are good.
Slow Horses.
Lanterns is super solid, and I honestly really liked the ending once I gave it a beat. I’ll say no more in case you haven’t seen it yet.
+1 for Lanterns.
My only regret is I started a week early, and could only binge the first 7 episodes!
Rewatching The Expanse. I remember I was very critical of it first time around, but I also had the books fresh in my mind then. Second time around, I’m enjoying it a lot more.
Just finished the 3rd season. From what I remember tho, the show goes off the rails before ScyFy drops it, and then Amazon has to fight to get it back on the rails before it gets good again.
My biggest gripe of course with the show is that they quit with the Earth, Mars, Belter conflict resolution and we never get to see the cool alien war.
Still, it’s worth a watch for those who haven’t seen it. It’s solid sci-fi and it scratches a certain space itch.
We are at just about the right spot to get (most of) the original cast back and pick things up.
Hopefully Captive’s War will be decent as well. I’m enjoying the books.
Oh wow! Thanks! I didn’t even know about this new series by these guys. I’ll check it out!
But yeah I forgot about the Earthers who disappeared behind a gate and told everyone fuck off, then emerge as a fascist nation.
Been reading The Final Architecture series by Adrian Tchaikovsky which with its similarities (and differences) to The Expanse it got me itching to revisit the series. I’d have no doubt that Tchaikovsky was inspired by S A Corey when writing it.
Maybe it’s been long enough. I’ll rewatch the first half, anyway.
I’m running out of things to watch, so thanks for the reminder.
I really enjoyed the expanse, it is something I need to watch again soon.
Slow Horses. Really hooked up, I also loved the credits track on this last episode.
Taskmaster has been about the only regular series I’ve been watching lately. The lineup of contestants feels very well balanced in their types of humor, so that’s been fun. The Greek theme of the house looks really good as well.
Checked out ep 1 of the new Simpsons season. I kinda told myself I wasn’t going to, and to just be done with it, but I was bored and gave in. I was not any less bored when it was over.
Also watching this month’s Grand Sumo tournament. I forgot it was this month, so I missed it as it was coming out, but I saw a post in /All, so now I’ve been trying to avoid spoilers. c/Sumo got me interested earlier this year, and as someone not a sports person, it’s been a ton of fun and rather easy to start following. I didn’t think I could get my wife into it, but halfway through the second tournament I watched, she started to get into it as well, and she cheers for her favorite rikishi now too. It’s fun to watch because NHK puts the highlights on Youtube, so each day you can watch in just under a half hour, it’s got English commentary, and matches don’t often last more than a couple seconds, so it’s easy to stop and go do other things if you can’t sit and watch it all at once. Their power and agility is really something else! It’s something I never thought I’d be into, but it sucked me in fast once I gave it a fair go.
Seconding Taskmaster.
Every show is on YouTube and I think it’s on Hulu now as well. It’s probably on an actual channel in the UK too.
It’s such a fun show. We tried to get tickets to the North American tour, but bots bought all the tickets in about 3 seconds. Boo.
I loved seeing Kumail Manjiani on the last season and Jason Mantzoukas before that. All the UK comedians I end up loving, but it was fun having some people that I was already familiar with.
After being a fan of Game Changer I tried to watch Taskmaster because the shows are really close conceptually. But the format of “interview and pre recorded clips” bored me. The section were they play “live” against each other was way more funny.
I hadn’t heard of Game Changer, but it looks like a lot of people I like have been on it, so I’ll have to take a look at that.
The things I like about the segments being pre-recorded is that sometimes the contestants will have forgotten certain things they did, they can add some post production to challenges where they create a video short or song, or they can play a joke on a contestant and then we see how it plays out over the season. I think it was the previous season they had a guy carry an egg in a necklace around, and whenever Alex blew the whistle, he’d have to stop whatever he was doing and present the egg. At first he thinks everyone has to do it, but as the season plays back, he learns it’s just him, and as a viewer, after a while I’d forget it too, and the when randomly hearing the whistle, it’s “ohhh, he better grab that egg fast!”
Also, when they present the clips and make it look like one person has won an event, and then they pull a “but wait!” and show them cheating or accidentally breaking a rule and they get disqualified is funny.
Nothing wrong with not liking it of course!
Try to watch it from the beginning (knowing the players and being para social with them is half the fun) but skip season 3 (covid season) except s03e01. That one is good.
It is the time of year i rewatch Firefly to coincide with the show’s release.
I have also been watching Lanterns, i am really enjoying this. It is a superhero show without being all action and no substance.
I am also continuing my Addams Family 1964 rewatch. Last night was episode 3.
X-Men '97 S02 Chad Powers S02
I’m really liking X-Men '97
Widow’s Bay
would strongly recommend.
Scrubs revival s02. Still so good.
yeah caught second half of 01 and 02. not bad. got back to the old format and making callbacks to itself. better than the med school thing.
The original Code Geass. The themes are still relevant to this day.
My favorites over the summer have been Widows Bay, Reacher, and Silo.
At some point, I realized that three of my favorite recent watches were all about underground shelters following some sort of conflagration, and now everybody is getting curious about what’s outside: Silo, Fallout, and Paradise.
Just finished House of the Dragon S03 and the other GoT spinoff, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. HotD I watch for the dragons, it delivers. AKotSK surprised me, I really like it.
Movies: The Fury (another dePalma about psychics), Pressure (WW2 drama with Brendan Frasier), Mars Express (hand-drawn animation cyberpunk), Planetes (vintage anime, Nasa-punk), Coyote v Acme (animation gold), Forgotten Island (animation pink), Ted Lasso (girls team is great), Star Trek DS9 (rewatching, more relevant than ever)
Comic book for bonus points: Maus (holocaust documentary where every nation is anthropomorphic animals, the nazis are cats, the mice go to maushwitz)
I’m watching the ships roll in, then I watch em roll away again. Highly reccomend.
I’ve finally gotten around to watching Breaking Bad. I’m at the start of season 2 right now. It’s clearly a quality show. Even when I think a plot line or performance is lacking, the production itself is always nice.
I’ve noticed the “brown filter = Mexico” thing in American cinema for a while but feel like I’m seeing where the memes about it really come from. It’s pretty heavily used in this show.
So far I would recommend it!
I will also always recommend the Buffy the vampire slayer T.V. show, Psych, and Monk.
Yes I love the old ‘weekly procedural’.
