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ack..been bouncing around shows
But I did start watchin' a few episodes of Task on HBO last night. It was hard to stop. Excellent show so far in every way. An FBI task force is set up in rural Pennsylvania, including accents and cheesesteaks
. Their goal is to take a group of thieves robbing drug houses (for money only....until....one bad night) run by a nasty biker gang. While you might be like, "so what is wrong with that?" Well, it's more about upsetting the order of things and leading to gang wars and more violence. All the characters are great, as we get to know both the task force and the thieves well, and some of the bikers (the bikers are not sympathetic though...the thieves are once you learn their motives). Some personal drama for the main characters included, and intriguing. Highly recommend. Mark Ruffalo and Martha Plimpton (smaller role but, man, she is older now..wow) are the familiar faces. Plus, that girl from Coda, who, interestingly, just the night before saw her in The Running Man remake. She is really good in this show.
Also, Season 2 of The Pitt has started as well on HBO. I'm sure I mentioned it before. Won Emmy for best drama last year. It's a fast-paced, quasi-real-time medical drama in a trauma ward (emergency room with walk-ins too or whatever). I can't recommend this show enough. It is no Grey's Anatomy...i don't mean that as a negative to GA just that it was more like a soap opera.
But I did start watchin' a few episodes of Task on HBO last night. It was hard to stop. Excellent show so far in every way. An FBI task force is set up in rural Pennsylvania, including accents and cheesesteaks
. Their goal is to take a group of thieves robbing drug houses (for money only....until....one bad night) run by a nasty biker gang. While you might be like, "so what is wrong with that?" Well, it's more about upsetting the order of things and leading to gang wars and more violence. All the characters are great, as we get to know both the task force and the thieves well, and some of the bikers (the bikers are not sympathetic though...the thieves are once you learn their motives). Some personal drama for the main characters included, and intriguing. Highly recommend. Mark Ruffalo and Martha Plimpton (smaller role but, man, she is older now..wow) are the familiar faces. Plus, that girl from Coda, who, interestingly, just the night before saw her in The Running Man remake. She is really good in this show.Also, Season 2 of The Pitt has started as well on HBO. I'm sure I mentioned it before. Won Emmy for best drama last year. It's a fast-paced, quasi-real-time medical drama in a trauma ward (emergency room with walk-ins too or whatever). I can't recommend this show enough. It is no Grey's Anatomy...i don't mean that as a negative to GA just that it was more like a soap opera.
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I couldn't get into GA precisely because of the soap elements. The Pitt is thankfully almost cleansed of those elements, partly due to it's 'one day' story structure. It feels more like a documentary in that sense.
Hunters on Netflix. 2 seasons. It's the 1970s and post WW2 USA is filled with Nazis with a plan to take over the country. A secret group of Jews is searching them out one by one. Excellent story lines and characters.
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I saw like the first 2 seasons of GA and that about did it ha
Oh..I saw that some time ago ...it was goodHunters on Netflix. 2 seasons. It's the 1970s and post WW2 USA is filled with Nazis with a plan to take over the country. A secret group of Jews is searching them out one by one. Excellent story lines and characters.
Finished up Task on HBO. Just excellent series...I assume it is a limited series. Though very different plot and stuff, it's has a feel like Mare of Eastown, another Pennsylvania set crime show, which was also fantastic. (I wonder if it is the same producers, but haven't checked) I actually might rewatch Mare one day. Anyway, watch Task if you have HBO...it's about perfect.
edit: Same creator as Mare of Eastown...makes a lot of sense...both were exceptional
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I'll likely watch it, trailer looks nice and Ruffalo is a good actor.
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I put on the latest season of Stranger Things at some point last week and been watching that every once in a while.. I thought the first 2 eps or so were great, but then everything just started getting more and more boring for me. I'm on ep 6 now and it's felt like i've been going through the motions trying to finish the season for the last couple episodes, and I'm not nearly as interested anymore, even though there's been good action scenes.. but with only 2 eps left I will probably finish it.
It feels like the first 2 episodes basically showed me the general meat of this season and wowed me with the premise and the aesthetics that drew me to the show in the first place. But once I've seen that, the story is not really that exciting, it's essentially always the same thing every season, with some minor twist here and there. Fundamentally it's the aesthetics and characters that they're building everything on, and I'm very familiar with most of that already, so that's probably why it feels boring.
I've started becoming judgamental of some of the decisions of the characters.. for some of them.. what the hell are you even still doing in this city? There's been a crazy catastrophe that's lead to many deaths in your town, involving monsters from another dimension. And that's happened 5 times. The monsters keep tryihng, obviously at this point we can deduce that they are probably going to try to take over once a year until they succeed. I would have been out of there the first time it happened. Who sticks around monster-infused catastrophe after monster-infused catastrophe.
But then the heroic actions of some of the kids throw me out of the story. It worked in the first couple seasons, becuase it was a new story and sometimes characters (even kids) will get lucky fighting monsters and will save the day, that's just a common trope that worked so well in storytelling over the ages. But these younglings are jumping through the air while monsters are about to bite off their limbs, they could have died so many times, and while all this death and destruction is raining down on the town and other characters, these kids just keep staying at it, poking the monsters with sticks and somehow surviving forever and ever.
Yeah, I get that's what the show is, so I knew what I was getting myself into. My point is just that I've felt a bit bored during the last bunch of episodes so I keep myself entertained by criticizing other parts of the show.
I think they should have reinvented the show a bit for the 5th season. Make it so that the main monster guy gets therapy and becomes really good. The kids turn evil and start killing everyone. The kids get recruited to fight a war in Afghanistan for the CIA. A prequel during which the main monster dude is a lawyer starting up a practice, years before he went bad. Follow a family of monsters who are actually just farming and minding their own business, when humans show up and slaughter them all. Flip the show upside down, now the humans are the baddies! Show us the city in the year 2074, brand new cast, descendents of the kids, there's robots, and aliens, and of course the monsters return. Maybe don't make it too complicated, only include the aliens in the sequel. Either way, these are just ideas off the top of my head. They could have surprised us all with something new. I enjoyed the first 4 seasons from what I remember, but especially the first 2 I think., and this new season is overall not bad, there's been some cool story arcs and worthy character growth, but a couple times I even thought I caught the actors looking as though they are just going through the motions. Only a couple times, but that's what it felt like. Could have just been me, but
overall I am looking forward to starfleet academy a lot more. That's not even an amazing show (yet?), it's sort of half decent better than average, it has its moments, some cool characters.. predictable storylines but decent character growth in a couple places. A bit silly and rough around the edges, almost like it was meant to be a cartoon. It's so so but I haven't gotten bored of it yet, and the next ep of Stranger Things can wait for now.
It feels like the first 2 episodes basically showed me the general meat of this season and wowed me with the premise and the aesthetics that drew me to the show in the first place. But once I've seen that, the story is not really that exciting, it's essentially always the same thing every season, with some minor twist here and there. Fundamentally it's the aesthetics and characters that they're building everything on, and I'm very familiar with most of that already, so that's probably why it feels boring.
I've started becoming judgamental of some of the decisions of the characters.. for some of them.. what the hell are you even still doing in this city? There's been a crazy catastrophe that's lead to many deaths in your town, involving monsters from another dimension. And that's happened 5 times. The monsters keep tryihng, obviously at this point we can deduce that they are probably going to try to take over once a year until they succeed. I would have been out of there the first time it happened. Who sticks around monster-infused catastrophe after monster-infused catastrophe.
But then the heroic actions of some of the kids throw me out of the story. It worked in the first couple seasons, becuase it was a new story and sometimes characters (even kids) will get lucky fighting monsters and will save the day, that's just a common trope that worked so well in storytelling over the ages. But these younglings are jumping through the air while monsters are about to bite off their limbs, they could have died so many times, and while all this death and destruction is raining down on the town and other characters, these kids just keep staying at it, poking the monsters with sticks and somehow surviving forever and ever.
Yeah, I get that's what the show is, so I knew what I was getting myself into. My point is just that I've felt a bit bored during the last bunch of episodes so I keep myself entertained by criticizing other parts of the show.
I think they should have reinvented the show a bit for the 5th season. Make it so that the main monster guy gets therapy and becomes really good. The kids turn evil and start killing everyone. The kids get recruited to fight a war in Afghanistan for the CIA. A prequel during which the main monster dude is a lawyer starting up a practice, years before he went bad. Follow a family of monsters who are actually just farming and minding their own business, when humans show up and slaughter them all. Flip the show upside down, now the humans are the baddies! Show us the city in the year 2074, brand new cast, descendents of the kids, there's robots, and aliens, and of course the monsters return. Maybe don't make it too complicated, only include the aliens in the sequel. Either way, these are just ideas off the top of my head. They could have surprised us all with something new. I enjoyed the first 4 seasons from what I remember, but especially the first 2 I think., and this new season is overall not bad, there's been some cool story arcs and worthy character growth, but a couple times I even thought I caught the actors looking as though they are just going through the motions. Only a couple times, but that's what it felt like. Could have just been me, but
overall I am looking forward to starfleet academy a lot more. That's not even an amazing show (yet?), it's sort of half decent better than average, it has its moments, some cool characters.. predictable storylines but decent character growth in a couple places. A bit silly and rough around the edges, almost like it was meant to be a cartoon. It's so so but I haven't gotten bored of it yet, and the next ep of Stranger Things can wait for now.
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Fallout Season 2.
There is a lot of key jangling and memberberries, but also some very decent sequences and characters. I’m not too much of a fan of the significant lore changes and nerfing of factions, but the last scene of the last episode featured the return of a very interesting character, with a bearing on the canonical ending of FNV, so that was a tick.
There is a lot of key jangling and memberberries, but also some very decent sequences and characters. I’m not too much of a fan of the significant lore changes and nerfing of factions, but the last scene of the last episode featured the return of a very interesting character, with a bearing on the canonical ending of FNV, so that was a tick.
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I just watched the 4th Starfleet Academy episode "Vox in Excelso" and I thought it was really well done. The first couple episodes felt a bit off at times, but this was just a solid Trek story with good character development and a slightly different look at a certain species.. Also a bit empowering for someone who used to have anxiety issues when it came to public speaking, I liked where they went with all that and how they framed it
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yikes..just check imdb on Starfleet and the score is really low...I wonder if it got bombed for some reason
But on another note I just saw this:
Daredevil Season 2 trailer (IMDB)
While I very much enjoyed Season 1 of the reboot, in part, just cause I was happy it was back, I do hope for a bit more Daredevil-y action in Season 2. I need him to punch more people, please. edit: ooh..and Jessica Jones sighting
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But on another note I just saw this:
Daredevil Season 2 trailer (IMDB)
While I very much enjoyed Season 1 of the reboot, in part, just cause I was happy it was back, I do hope for a bit more Daredevil-y action in Season 2. I need him to punch more people, please. edit: ooh..and Jessica Jones sighting
arrives March 24th
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@lymond Yeah Starfleet Academy was attacked by the right-wing/Russian bot misinformation part of the internet. It was their target for a while when it first came out. They even tried to get Shatner to denounce it as woke or something. There is nothing on there that's any more "woke" than on any other Trek show I've seen, so that's just a label stuck on this because that's what they do. And I mean, the best Trek episodes tend to take progressive stances on sensitive issues in the first place, so "What were you expecting, cowboys beating their wives?"
There's also the fact that it's targetting a younger demographic. I mean, it's about college aged kids, some maybe even high school aged. So in the first 2 episodes at least you see a bunch of immature behaviour in a sort of cliched way. Think of like an 80s era comedy about two competing frat houses or something. It's not quite that vibe, but you just roll your eyes a bunch. Plus all the kids are using 2020s slang. The word "bro" is used at some point even maybe. It's just not at all the sort of vibe you expect from a civilized Star Trek show where everybody talks in near pompous and respectful way. So that probably threw some people off and I've seen the complaints myself.
It's not ALL that though, and I don't think that's the main reason non-Trekkies have been hating on this show.. but it's something that's come up amongst fans. A lot of people don't seem to like it, but I guess I just sort of assumed that we were going to see some of that and was ready and open minded to see what else they were going to throw at us. Some of the sillyness reminds me of Lower Decks A BIT (which helps), but not quite as silly and clever in execution.
The regulars on the show have enough conflict and potential for self growth there, there's a decent diversity of types of people (and ideas) there, it's already lead to a great storyline.. I thought at least, the last episode touched on some philisophical points in a mature way and made me like the Klingon character a lot more. He was just always sort of grumpy and aloof, and I mean, yeahhh what do you expect he's a Klingon, but after the 4th episode he's just got so much more depth.. and we got to explore more of Klingon culture and how to deal with it, when you have to. It wasn't a perfect episode by any means, but I would rank it as a very solid Trek episode in general. I'll be continuing to watch to see what other storylines they come up with. I'd hope that as the cadets mature, the show does as well.
The super low score you see is definitely not deserved. It's not the best first season of a Trek show, but it's far from being one of the worst.
There's also the fact that it's targetting a younger demographic. I mean, it's about college aged kids, some maybe even high school aged. So in the first 2 episodes at least you see a bunch of immature behaviour in a sort of cliched way. Think of like an 80s era comedy about two competing frat houses or something. It's not quite that vibe, but you just roll your eyes a bunch. Plus all the kids are using 2020s slang. The word "bro" is used at some point even maybe. It's just not at all the sort of vibe you expect from a civilized Star Trek show where everybody talks in near pompous and respectful way. So that probably threw some people off and I've seen the complaints myself.
It's not ALL that though, and I don't think that's the main reason non-Trekkies have been hating on this show.. but it's something that's come up amongst fans. A lot of people don't seem to like it, but I guess I just sort of assumed that we were going to see some of that and was ready and open minded to see what else they were going to throw at us. Some of the sillyness reminds me of Lower Decks A BIT (which helps), but not quite as silly and clever in execution.
The regulars on the show have enough conflict and potential for self growth there, there's a decent diversity of types of people (and ideas) there, it's already lead to a great storyline.. I thought at least, the last episode touched on some philisophical points in a mature way and made me like the Klingon character a lot more. He was just always sort of grumpy and aloof, and I mean, yeahhh what do you expect he's a Klingon, but after the 4th episode he's just got so much more depth.. and we got to explore more of Klingon culture and how to deal with it, when you have to. It wasn't a perfect episode by any means, but I would rank it as a very solid Trek episode in general. I'll be continuing to watch to see what other storylines they come up with. I'd hope that as the cadets mature, the show does as well.
The super low score you see is definitely not deserved. It's not the best first season of a Trek show, but it's far from being one of the worst.
The Secrets We Keep on Netflix. This is a Danish crime series (6 episodes) built around rich Danes using Filipino women as au pairs. It is well told and I just binged it today. Excellent.
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