Well, I've finally got around to begin watching The Boys. I'm going down this rabbit hole now.
I'm watching One Piece on Netflix. It's both incredibly stupid and satisfyingly entertaining. It's unlike anything else I've seen. It's bold, colourful, over the top, nonsensical. It's a perfect escape in this period in life where I'm being crushed by responsabilities and duties, both professional and in my family life.
I just finished watching 'The Decameron' on Netflix. It's a humoristic drama series set in a villa outside of Florence during the plague in the 14th century. The wife and I watched the first episode together and it was basically awfull. I kept watching the subsequent episodes on and off myself and it does build up. It's more absurdist than actually funny, with situations ever escalating. I think it's best described as one 30 minute Fawlty Towers episode stretched over 10 50 minutes episodes.
SupremeAC said:I just finished watching 'The Decameron' on Netflix. It's a humoristic drama series set in a villa outside of Florence during the plague in the 14th century. The wife and I watched the first episode together and it was basically awfull. I kept watching the subsequent episodes on and off myself and it does build up. It's more absurdist than actually funny, with situations ever escalating. I think it's best described as one 30 minute Fawlty Towers episode stretched over 10 50 minutes episodes.
That sounds nightmarish.
We saw the last episode of Kaos the other day. It's a tale about the Greek gods set in an alternative history where current civilisation is coupled with the ancient Greek beliefs. Personally I thought it was marvellous. Jeff Goldblum plays a Zeus who is getting more and more paranoid because of a prophecy that fortells his downfall as king of the gods. He's perfectly cast for the role of vein king of the gods, living a life of luxury.
I'm just one episode in, so it's a little early to judge it, but it's not bad so far. At this point, it's worth investing a few more episodes to see where it goes.
There's little moments where the weird and wacky stuff that Yakuza is kind of known for starts to appear, but then it vanishes as soon as it arrives. That it's back to flashbacks and talking, that both happened at a frequency that is unnecessary.
It was a bit uneven at first, but during the second half the show really hit its groove, put out one of the single best episodes of television I've ever seen, and wrapped it all up with a reasonable twist that didn't feel like it came out of nowhere.
I remember that playing on pbs daily in the early 90s. I recall it being folksy Canadian.