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 started Succession and I am really enjoying the dark comedy bits, but by god, every single character is a prick.
travo said:I started Succession and I am really enjoying the dark comedy bits, but by god, every single character is a prick.
That's why I couldn't watch House of the Dragon. It was a show with the entire cast of unlikable horrible people. Give me a Ned Stark damn it. Even if he's just going to be around for one season, I want someone to root for.
I am currenlty watching the second season of Arcane at a snails pace. I have one timeslot a week to fit in one episode, and more often than not that time gets eaten up by other stuff.
Anyhow, so far it's enjoyable, although it is, by nature of being a sequel, a less focused endavour resulting in more storylines and less depth. It's also very clear that Riot wanted to cut its losses and reduce production value of this second and final season. Every episode has some true 2D bits, which are wonderfully done in their own right, but clearly exist to cut costs.
Really good show, shame they cancelled s2.
Anyway, while the overall show wasn't as strong, there were still a lot of really good moments, including a surprise character showing up that I wasn't anticipating. So I can't highly recommend it, but if you've got nothing else to watch and you enjoyed the original series, there's enough to keep you entertained here.
And Arcane season 2 is finished. It was enjoyable. I kind of feel that I already forgot most of what happened because I watched it over such a long period. The whole thing kind of just wraps up in the last 2 seasons and some questions remain unanswered. Still, it's always stunning. You could pause it at any frame and it'd always be a work of art.
We watched the last episode of New Amsterdam on Netflix yesterday. They basically wrapped the whole series up in that one episode. Suffice to say, it all felt rushed and didn't make for a satisfactionary ending at all.
I remember that playing on pbs daily in the early 90s. I recall it being folksy Canadian.