Which television shows are you watching? Part III

[Takhisis]

Oh yes, Gumball's where it's at.

 

[AdamCrock]

"Did you see that ludicrous display last night?"

What was Wenger thinking sending Walcott on that early?

 

[Takhisis]

That's Manchester City…

 

[abradley]

This is likely old news, but it's new to me. It's had a couple of seasons produced.

A rather new new show about gamers stuck in a MPORPG, but unlike some tales and stories where your transferred with your character’s physical traits, in this show it swaps you with the your PC story’s physical setup.

Say I was playing NWN as a dual welding, short sworded halfling wearing leather. That’s what I would arrive as and that’s not the worst of it, I don’t know how to use short swords especially dual welded, plus the halfling is 3 ft tall and if I’d chosen to be female that’s what I’d be.

Could be some funny bits.

Unable to watch, outside my area.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

I gave Disenchantment another shake and it's pretty OK. The second season in particular was a big improvement over the first. There is an episode that features god and it's really funny.

 

[Takhisis]

Unable to watch, outside my area.

I have to ask: do you get Takeshi's Castle broadcast there?

 

[abradley]

Wiki sez yes. https://keshiheads.fandom.com/wiki/Takeshi's_Castle_Thailand

But it will be in Thai and during my wife's programs.

 

[bernie14]

Saw Living with Yourself on netflix, paul rudd as a depressed guy who clones a better version of himself. Interesting concept, show is meh...

 

[Takhisis]

Wiki sez yes. https://keshiheads.fandom.com/wiki/Takeshi's_Castle_Thailand

But it will be in Thai and during my wife's programs.

Ah, I see that you've learned how to be the man wearing the trousers at home, put your foot down and tell she'd better watch whatever the hell she wants even if you don't like it or else.

 

[abradley]

Ah, I see that you've learned how to be the man wearing the trousers at home, put your foot down and tell she'd better watch whatever the hell she wants even if you don't like it or else.

So true.

 

[cardgame]

Rewatching The Wire

 

[tjs282]

Just started Daredevil S2.

 

[Leifmk]

Watchmen on HBO. Just one episode so far but it's really something unusual. Will reserve proper judgement until later in the series, but massive props to the showrunners for having the guts to make a modern-day sequel to an almost 35-year-old comic book (which already had its own decades-deep alternate history) without bothering with very much exposition. So it's 2019 but not as we know it.

Also interesting to begin in media res with the 1921 Tulsa racial massacre, realistically portrayed. Damn, bro.

 

[mitsho]

Just discovered „Letterkenny“, a Canadian show about how to best insult people with Language. Pretty long conversations in a rapid fire speed. A bit too much for me as a non-native, but it‘s fun. Thanks, Youtube...

 

[EgonSpengler]

Watchmen on HBO. Just one episode so far but it's really something unusual. Will reserve proper judgement until later in the series, but massive props to the showrunners for having the guts to make a modern-day sequel to an almost 35-year-old comic book (which already had its own decades-deep alternate history) without bothering with very much exposition. So it's 2019 but not as we know it.

Also interesting to begin in media res with the 1921 Tulsa racial massacre, realistically portrayed. Damn, bro.

This has been getting rave reviews. I don't know if I'll be able to watch it, not wanting to spend money on another service right now. Casting Regina King was a masterstroke, I think. I haven't seen her in a lot, but I was a fan of her in Southland (an underrated show in general, imo).

 

[Laurana Kanan]

This has been getting rave reviews.

From critics mostly. Audience reviews have been, shall we say, less than stellar.

 

[EgonSpengler]

From critics mostly. Audience reviews have been, shall we say, less than stellar.

Yeah, I glanced at the RT posts, and two of the negative audience reactions - that it's not the comic, and its evident stance on racial politics - aren't [edit: heh, whoops] things that bother me, so I expect I'd like it. Lindelof was clear that this was not a reboot, remake or sequel, but if you aren't the type to read about this stuff before you watch it, you might not know that, going in. And I'm not sure that Lindelof's previous work had the overtly political story that this seems to have (again, not having seen it for myself). So someone who hadn't heard much about it, and just thought, "hey, awesome, a Watchmen series" might have been taken by surprise. Almost by definition, people drawn to the title will be people who enjoyed the comic and/or the movie. Meanwhile, critics are perhaps the one group of people who don't watch a series just because they think it'll be cool. If anything, critics are more likely to go into a superhero or comicbook-inspired show expecting to not like it.

 

[Lexicus]

and its evident stance on racial politics

Let me guess: white people triggered by an accurate portrayal of history?

 

[EgonSpengler]

Let me guess: white people triggered by an accurate portrayal of history?

Well, nobody says it outright, but a lot of the negs are predictable: "Watchmen in name only"; "This is not Watchmen"; and "horrible race-baiting crap"; "another show pandering to the SJWs." We'll just have to take wild guesses at what their ethnicities and genders might be.

 

[Narz]

I started watched Westworld (got dvds from library). It's ok, I've been binge watching since I've been sick.