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The Umbrella Academy
I thought this was cool. Like Heroes but with no edges sanded off, and far more sophisticated in its thinking. No surprise it is based on a Dark Horse comic.
Gotta say they built into some of the characters really well - particularly those who have powers you think are pretty fucking useless. Well casted, some killer tracks, and the right amount of special effects.
Second Series should be rad.
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@NTA said in TV Serieseseses:
@Tim said in TV Serieseseses:
@Kirwan Apparently not:
Fuck. Similar situation in Oz
I took an alternate option. Great series.
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@taniwharugby I’m back on season 3.
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@taniwharugby Amazon bought the rights after SyFy cancelled the series, so the gap between seasons may be longer than usual.
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@raznomore said in TV Serieseseses:
ok maybe I need to give expanse another shot.
Takes a while to get going, it’s definitely one to binge watch, another one with a lot of characters.
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@raznomore said in TV Serieseseses:
@Kirwan I watched up until the chick in the shower. The Mrs out for work tonight so I guess that's me.
Perfect, all go from there
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Really enjoying the second outings of
White Gold
Lee and Dean
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@taniwharugby said in TV Serieseseses:
finished Afterlife...agree with comments above, very good series.
Finally finished S2 of The Punisher...meh...Castle plus the 2 baddies were all but indestructible...I mean one baddie, after being beaten, shot, beaten, shot, then has a further 3 bullets put in his torso and yet still manages to walk away...usually I am ok with this genre (Banshee, S1 The Punisher) but they took this to a whole new level of BSness and was just tiresome.
Hood would just laugh at those pussy injuries.
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Black Summer
Have started this on Netflix and up to Ep 3.
Zombie apocalypse with a minimalist approach to storytelling - basically chops up each episode into vignettes about a particular person, item, or theme. You see other storylines intersecting up close or from a distance, which makes it good to watch.
I like the focus on individuals and small groups. It lives in the moment, and I haven't got a sense of an overarching storyline yet.
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@NTA think I am upto ep 4 maybe?
As with most of this genre, it relies on stupid people.
Case in point, think ep 4
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the idiot was in the fire station, prime place to hole up, or use a fire engine as your vehicle, they'll be fuelled up, keys will be there.
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@taniwharugby said in TV Serieseseses:
@NTA think I am upto ep 4 maybe?
As with most of this genre, it relies on stupid people.
Natch. It's a zombie flick, and they're Americans
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Finished "After Life" agree with comments above, great show, best thing from Gervais in a long time and that is speaking as someone who isn't generally a fan of his. I was a bit gutted to see there was only 6 episodes..sat down last night with some takeaway to watch the 7th. Not to be.
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@taniwharugby said in TV Serieseseses:
@NTA think I am upto ep 4 maybe?
As with most of this genre, it relies on stupid people.
Case in point, think ep 4
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the idiot was in the fire station, prime place to hole up, or use a fire engine as your vehicle, they'll be fuelled up, keys will be there.
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Up to episode 8, the last episode. Enjoyed the first few but it's gotten quite frustrating as it has progressed.
The film/video style as @NTA described very aptly which I thought worked for a bit but then just got annoying. The individual story lines and surviving characters have now converged.
A little FYI, this series was originally meant to be a bit of a prequel to Z Nation - comes from the same team - but with less humour. There's also a bit of GoT about it in that many of the significant Characters haven't survived.
One thing, this series is about as humourless as it can be and they have now distanced themselves from the original premise and completely removed any ties to Z Nation. More of a straight forward Zombie series, not bad CGI and reasonable writing.
Some of the handheld shots get very stomach churning.
Will watch the last episode tonight.
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@taniwharugby said in TV Serieseseses:
@NTA haha yeah you watch Zombie stuff, you gotta expect some dumb or WTF stuff
Fuck this guy with the beard in Ep4 is taking the cake tho. Sure, you chubby fuck, keep trying to outrun the zombie. Or just get a big stick and smash the fucker.
The school kids were good value in ep3 tho. Creepy little fuckers