kenberg Posted October 20, 2015 Report Share Posted October 20, 2015 New season of Fargo looks pretty good. I am enjoying a rather silly series on FXX called "You're the Worst" I had not seen the first season of Fargo but Becky saw that it got a lot of awards and that this new season was getting good reviews so we have now watched the first episode of the new season. We will watch the second episode soon. I am not certain yet about what I think. Fargo the movie was one of those inventive surprises that I really liked a lot, I recommended it to several people, and I hoped that there would not be a Fargo 2. This happens. Many years ago I saw Stranger than Paradise. Very quirky, very good, again I recommended it to many people, again I had no interest in seeing a follow up. There are echoes of the film in the tv episode I saw, for example people saying "OK then" as a generic expression of nothing. I am interested in what you and others think about the show, I will give it a good try. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barmar Posted October 20, 2015 Report Share Posted October 20, 2015 The first season of Fargo definitely resurrected the feel of the movie. The Coen brothers are executive producers of the series, and I think they're invested in making sure that it lives up to their legacy. So I'm looking forward to the rest of this season. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenberg Posted October 21, 2015 Report Share Posted October 21, 2015 We have now watched the second episode and I am hanging in there. From early childhood through to my advanced years I have always had trouble with the gruesome, the violent, and the depraved. I can handle it now, but unless the story is very good I don't go there. With Fargo the jury (my internal jury) is still out. I accept that it might well be creative, I'm just not sure I want to watch. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barmar Posted October 21, 2015 Report Share Posted October 21, 2015 I do wonder how it could possibly be as good this year as last year, without Billy Bob Thornton. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
y66 Posted May 11, 2016 Report Share Posted May 11, 2016 Are barmar and Al the only people who watched The Americans? Just started watching Season 1. Wow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike777 Posted May 11, 2016 Report Share Posted May 11, 2016 the Americans is one of the best very best shows on cable/standard tv today. You will enjoy every season. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwnn Posted May 11, 2016 Report Share Posted May 11, 2016 Are barmar and Al the only people who watched The Americans? Just started watching Season 1. Wow.No. I'm on season 4, a few weeks behind. It's awesome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PassedOut Posted May 11, 2016 Report Share Posted May 11, 2016 Constance and I have watched from the beginning and always try to watch it within a day or two of the recording. Good story, good acting, and a fun way to remember one's Russian language studies from the distant past. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hrothgar Posted May 11, 2016 Report Share Posted May 11, 2016 Sadly, I have come to the conclusion that a lot of the best stuff on TV is cartoons. 1. Rick and Morty2. The Venture Brothers3. Archer (Veep, Silicon Valley, and Game of Thrones is almost worth trying to stay awake for) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barmar Posted May 11, 2016 Report Share Posted May 11, 2016 Sadly, I have come to the conclusion that a lot of the best stuff on TV is cartoons.I always look forward to the return of South Park. And I have fond memories of Ren and Stimpy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mbodell Posted May 13, 2016 Report Share Posted May 13, 2016 +1 for The Americans. I haven't started this current season yet, but it has been top notch so far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwnn Posted May 13, 2016 Report Share Posted May 13, 2016 Has anyone watched Horace&Pete? It's quite..different. In a good way, for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zelandakh Posted May 18, 2016 Report Share Posted May 18, 2016 I forgot about this thread. Best mini-series I saw recently was The Night Manager - one to download or catch on the Viewer if you can. Aside from the ubiquitous GoT, the main series I am watching just now is Outlander. Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands on the other hand was disappointing, though I will probably watch a second series anyway in the hope they get it right. My guilty pleasure of the year was The Shannara Chronicles, which is really pretty bad as fantasy but somehow I found enjoyable anyway. Most of the rest of the stuff I watch is older but luckily I have a very long list of great series to catch up on. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winstonm Posted May 18, 2016 Report Share Posted May 18, 2016 Has anyone else been captivated by Bates Motel? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Posted May 18, 2016 Report Share Posted May 18, 2016 Watching GOT and Silicon Valley. And After The Thrones. Can't stand Veep. John Oliver screams too much. Cuckoo on Netflix is awesome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barmar Posted May 19, 2016 Report Share Posted May 19, 2016 Has anyone else been captivated by Bates Motel?Very creepy when Norman was in therapy and he started channeling Norma. My speculation is that the series finale will align with the events in the movie Psycho, and I just read an article that suggests I'm somewhat right. Bates Motel Season 5 to Introduce Psycho Icon Marion Crane Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vampyr Posted May 19, 2016 Report Share Posted May 19, 2016 Very creepy when Norman was in therapy and he started channeling Norma. My speculation is that the series finale will align with the events in the movie Psycho, and I just read an article that suggests I'm somewhat right. Bates Motel Season 5 to Introduce Psycho Icon Marion Crane I was enjoying the show, but my recorder doesn't catch when a new season starts, so I have missed loads. :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharon j Posted December 1, 2016 Report Share Posted December 1, 2016 Anyone else watching the mini series "Mars" on National Geographic channel? Check it out. I'm finding it entertaining and educational. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winstonm Posted December 1, 2016 Report Share Posted December 1, 2016 This will be the final season for Bates Motel, now that Norma is dead. I have read that this last season will recreate the famous Hitchcock "shower scene" - though how it will be filmed is not known. Somehow, I would like to see a flash forward with young Freddie Highmore morphing into Anthony Perkins and using the some part of the original film as the ending. Heck, they look enough alike to be brothers. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barmar Posted December 2, 2016 Report Share Posted December 2, 2016 My expectation is that the series finale will be the overlap with the movie. Rather than actually recreating the shower scene, I think it would be quite satisfying if it ended with Norman checking in Marion Crane. We all know where it goes from there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barmar Posted December 2, 2016 Report Share Posted December 2, 2016 The new show I'm really enjoying this year is "This is Us". The show is about a family, alternating between the lives of the grown children in the present day, and flashbacks to the 80's when they were children. The parents (Mandy Moore and Milo Ventimiglia) were originally expecting triplets, but one of them was stillborn. On the same day that she gave birth, a black baby was abandoned at a firehouse, taken to the hospital, and they decided to adopt him. On his 36th birthday, the adopted son finds his birth father, a homeless former drug addict with stomach cancer, and invites him to come live with his family. The show follows the struggles all of the family members face during their lives. The birth son is an actor who made it big on a stilly sitcom (he was the title character of "The Manny"), but he quit the show to try to do more meaningful work. The daughter is obese and trying to lose weight; she met her boyfriend at a weight loss support group, but their relationship is a roller coaster. The adopted son is intellectually gifted, and grows up to be a successful commodities trader. When he was a child, his parents had to deal with raising a black child in a white, middle-class family, and the show addresses many of the issues this raises. This fills the void of high quality family drama that was left when "Parentood" ended last year. It's very emotional, and the emotions all seem very real. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winstonm Posted December 2, 2016 Report Share Posted December 2, 2016 My expectation is that the series finale will be the overlap with the movie. Rather than actually recreating the shower scene, I think it would be quite satisfying if it ended with Norman checking in Marion Crane. We all know where it goes from there. I like that idea. A final look at the camera and that Anthony Perkins smile. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
y66 Posted December 10, 2016 Report Share Posted December 10, 2016 We saw the pilot episode of Masters of Sex, based (realistically?) on the life and work of Masters and Johnson. We weer channel hopping, got in after about five minutes had already passed, and almost dumped it. I'm glad we didn't. It is very sexual, no surprise there, but Becky and i also thought it to be very good. The portrayal of Virginia Johnson was impressive, and I like to think accurate. For a woman of that era, she stepped pretty far out. . Masters comes across as a very weird duck. Interesting, not particularly pleasant, and very weird. Anyway, I hope the rest holds up to the promise of the pilot.Just watched season one episode nine. The writing, direction, acting and cinematography are so good. Hope it continues. This scene blew me away partly because a friend and I had just been discussing the floating topic: Old man [holding up a prayer card]: St. Jude, patron saint of lost causes. Young doctor: Well, you don't look like a lost cause. Well, actually, I have two prayer cards. Would you like one? The other is St. Anthony, patron saint of lost things. Thanks, but I haven't lost anything. At least, I don't think I have. You're not catholic? No, I'm nothing. I mean, I'm Jewish, but I'm a doctor. Well, that's a religion of sorts. My son's god was Pythagoras. He always worshiped numbers, starting when he was a boy. He's at M.I.T. now. That's a good school. And what did you want to do when you were young? I'm not sure. I played baseball. I was a decent pitcher but, um I gave it up after high school. I always tested well, was good in math and science, so Professor McAlary suggested I go pre-med. My parents, of course, always wanted me to become a doctor, and so I just I don't know. Floated that direction. You know, the one time I really did go after something it didn't work out. Well, only the young think floating is an option. When you get to my age, you learn floating is for boats.This also reminds me of the role chance encounters can play in our lives even here in the water cooler. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaitlyn S Posted December 10, 2016 Report Share Posted December 10, 2016 The new show I'm really enjoying this year is "This is Us"....This fills the void of high quality family drama that was left when "Parentood" ended last year. It's very emotional, and the emotions all seem very real.Agree. Enjoy both of those shows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenberg Posted January 17, 2017 Report Share Posted January 17, 2017 I had never heard of This is Us until I saw it referenced on this thread. Thanks. We are finding it interesting, and yes I know "interesting" is not quite the same as "enjoyable". We have now watched five episodes. Becky has liked it from the beginning. I have been more tentative. Roughly it goes like this: The female characters make intuitive sense to me, including the very overweight Kate and Beth and Randall's two little girls (they don't yet have major roles, but what I see of them I like). The guys seem far less believable to me, and to the extent I find them believable I find them, for the most part, unlikable. William has the flawed saint role, tough to make believable. Jack and Kevin I don't like. With Jack it's just that I don't like him, with Kevin I find the character to be simultaneously unbearable and unbelievable. I recognize that Toby plays a positive role in Kate's life, but I am hoping that she decides she can do better. For example (no great spoiler alert needed here) Rebecca has this interaction with an African-American mother at a swimming pool. I found the initial hostility completely believable, and I found the follow-up conversation, after Kate thinks a bit, equally believable Something that I could both believe and like. .I see very little of that with the guys. But interesting it is, and we will keep watching. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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