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Watching Seinfeld again. Middle of season 6. Also The Sopranos and middle of season 2. I'd like to watch Yellowstone but don't have an app to watch. Not ambitions enough to find one.
 
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...started S1 of Shetland last night...
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I'm a couple of episodes into S4 of Shetland now - I started liking it a lot more when it got into S3 and moved away from storylines based on the novels, but damn if it didn't suddenly get a lot darker.

Also, the apparent options for getting to and from mainland Scotland to Shetland - a turboprop flight across the North Sea, or a 12-hour ferry ride. Do. Not. Want.
 
WSU MUP Student said:
On a whim my wife and I watched The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window on Netflix. All we really knew about it was that it had good reviews and was a "dark comedy" staring Kristen Bell. We both really like her and usually enjoy dark comedies. The trailer on Netflix didn't give us much to go on, but we decided to watch anyway.

We loved it.

Once you get about two and a half episodes in and you realize that it is 100% parody and I think once you get that it just gets funnier and funnier.
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Wife and I finished this up over the weekend and enjoyed it. :) I'm kind of interested in finding out a bit more, since I noticed NH license plates and vehicle inspection stickers...and there was never really any mention of where it was set.

On a whim we watched the first episonde of Pam & Tommy on Hulu...
 
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Wife and I finished this up over the weekend and enjoyed it. :) I'm kind of interested in finding out a bit more, since I noticed NH license plates and vehicle inspection stickers...and there was never really any mention of where it was set.

On a whim we watched the first episonde of Pam & Tommy on Hulu...
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I figure it was somewhere up around Middlebury in Vermont as that's where the husband had moved away from. I always get a kick out of seeing the name "Middlebury" in media as there are a bunch of streets near us named Middlebury, Bennington, Castleton, and Norwich. Somebody who laid out the neighborhood must have been from Vermont.

Also, on a few occasions it has been alluded to that the character Snake Jailbird from the Simpsons went to Middlebury.

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NHPlanner said:
Wife and I finished this up over the weekend and enjoyed it. :)
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I watched The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window too and thought it was a decent distraction and easily consumed, but it didn't make amazing case for being.

Was it a straight thriller? Was it a homage? Was it a satire? Was it a comedy?

It did not reach lovingly satirical homage like Scream or Hot Fuzz and also didn't reach high thriller like Basic Instinct.

It was muddled.

Thankfully the episodes were relatively short, so that helped it move along.
 
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We finished The Woman in the House... last night. it was a fun watch & Mrs. P says there will be another one based on the cliffhanger that was







left.
 
Started watching Raising Deon. looks okay so far. I watched the one episode of Bel Air you get without subscribing. Not bad.
 
I started to watch Gunpowder on HBO about the Gunpowder plot to blow up Parliament. Good God it is graphic. Seeing a guy get disembowled and his limbs cut off. Pretty nasty stuff.
 
So we saw episode 1 of 1883.

Here's the thing. I really want to like this show. There are so many things in the plus column...its a western, stars Sam Elliot (in a western no less), has high production value, and even the story's initial premise of leading a wagon train of neophytes through the Untamed Country sounds compelling.
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I just couldn't get into it. I don't know if it was Tim McGraw as Badass that didn't work for me or the idealistic/firebrand daughter. I dunno, but something was not quite right about the character's chemistry.

It may have something also to do with showing you what appears to be the END of the story at the very beginning. Nothing wrong with a bit of foreshadowing, of course, but this felt like waaay too much to me.

Someone needs to talk me into watching the rest of it.
 
Maister said:
So we saw episode 1 of 1883.

Here's the thing. I really want to like this show. There are so many things in the plus column...its a western, stars Sam Elliot (in a western no less), has high production value, and even the story's initial premise of leading a wagon train of neophytes through the Untamed Country sounds compelling.
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I just couldn't get into it. I don't know if it was Tim McGraw as Badass that didn't work for me or the idealistic/firebrand daughter. I dunno, but something was not quite right about the character's chemistry.

It may have something also to do with showing you what appears to be the END of the story at the very beginning. Nothing wrong with a bit of foreshadowing, of course, but this felt like waaay too much to me.

Someone needs to talk me into watching the rest of it.
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The essence of your inscrutability is similar to mine in regards to The Expanse.

It's something I should love and I tried...but I just can't.
 
Watched all 3 seasons of True Detective. All 3 we're great. I would rank them 1,3,2. All were good though.

Was struck by how different they all were from one another. Great actors and writing.
 
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Finished Killing Eve - waiting for the new season to drop - it's a really good show

Watching "The Girl from Oslo" and it's really good - the British English dubbing is pretty good too
 
My wife and I plowed through season 2 of Space Force over the weekend. There were only 7 episodes (and I think they were all under 30 minutes) so it was pretty quick. We both enjoyed it a bit more than season 1. We were glad that Jimmy O. Yang and Ben Schwartz both got a lot more screen time this time around.
 
We were watching The Great Canadian Baking Show (enjoyed the British show immensely) but had to watch it on YouTube. Suddenly, episodes are vanishing left and right. I don't think we're going to be able to watch it - certainly not in sequential order - anymore.
 
Watched the first 2 episodes of the most recent Mrs. Maisel. Meh. I hope they get their grove back. I saw online that many people loved the Ferris wheel scene. I thought it was so stupid and was surprised it took so long for a NYer to tell them to shut up.
 
I started on the Outsider from HBO and holy crap wow. Based on a Stephen King story. I am through 3 episodes of 10. Riveting to say the least. King's monsters are similar in his various stories.
 
Finished Mayor of Kingston tonight. Dark and definitely not a show that I could binge non-stop.

We liked it, but admit that it's dark. We heard there's a Season 2, but don't know what direction it will take.
 
I finished the Outsider and found the end to be kind of anti-climactic and fairly conventional. Really to me the series lost steam in the final 2 episodes. Overall good though.
 
What about shows we cannot binge?

My wife and I watched the first episode That Thing About Pam on NBC last week and I was so into it. I hated Renée Zellweger's character so much after that one episode and just wanted to see her get her comeuppance. I was sort of mad that I had to wait another week to see what would happen next.

FWIW, the show is based off a true story and after last night's episode I was still very mad at Zellweger's character so I looked up online to see how the story played out. It is definitely a crazy story and since I think there are only going to be 6 episodes of this, they will likely be compressing the timeline significantly.
 
Ok...The Kids in the Hall are coming back to TV on Amazon...and I am cautiously....psyched as hell.



This is my #1 favorite sketch from the original series:

Followed by:
 
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I finished Berlin Station - it was really good, except it was another one of those shows that thought there would be a season 4 so there wasn't a lot of buttoning up at the end - still worth it

Watching Treadstone now - it's not bad
 
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Already enjoying the final season of Better Call Saul! New episode tonight!
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Finished Season 5 on Netflix last week. Good, but definitely a setup, I presume, for the coming events of Season 6 than uniquely revelatory on its own.
 
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My wife and I strarted season 2 of The Upload on Amazon last night. It's a strange comedy but we had really liked season 1. We're 3 episodes in to season 2 and are enjoying it. I think it helps that the episodes are generally under about 25 minutes.

mendelman said:
Ok...The Kids in the Hall are coming back to TV on Amazon...and I am cautiously....psyched as hell.



This is my #1 favorite sketch from the original series:

Followed by:
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The Fur Trappers has always been my absolute favorite Kids in the Hall sketch.

Some of my other favorites:



Basically any "Gavin" sketch:


And of course the Helens!
 
WSU MUP Student said:
My wife and I strarted season 2 of The Upload on Amazon last night. It's a strange comedy but we had really liked season 1. We're 3 episodes in to season 2 and are enjoying it. I think it helps that the episodes are generally under about 25 minutes.
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This is the best part about any 30 minute sitcom (usually equals ~22 minutes of actual show time). Light, fluffy, and doesn't hang around long enough to develop an unpleasant aftertaste.

We started watching a show called Ghosts on Paramount (the CBS streaming channel). I like it for pretty much the same reasons.
 
Maister said:
This is the best part about any 30 minute sitcom (usually equals ~22 minutes of actual show time). Light, fluffy, and doesn't hang around long enough to develop an unpleasant aftertaste.

We started watching a show called Ghosts on Paramount (the CBS streaming channel). I like it for pretty much the same reasons.
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One of my least favorite things about a lot of streaming shows is how inconsistent their running times are. This doesn't seem to be as much of an issue with comedies (where they seem to do a pretty good job of keeping them in the 22-25 minute range) but with dramas it seems that often episodes of the same series within the same season can range from 40 minutes up to 60 or 70 minutes. I know it's nit picking but oh well.

I have the same issue with podcasts that are inconsistent in their running times (also, any podcast longer than 90 minutes should probably be broken up into multiple episodes).
 
My wife and I have been watching The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel on Amazon. Not really binging it though. Just an episode here and there in between Guy Fieri shows.
 
I wish Netflix wouldn't have sold the rights to The Repair Shop. I adore that show. But not enough to have to shell out another $9/month for some other streaming channel JUST to see that show.
 
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