The Netflix/Hulu/Prime Thread

[The Eristic]

I can definitely see that. I was imagining an entire show with Tom Haverford from Parks and Rec. I'm soooooo glad it wasn't that. Like, this is actually a good show with lots of great cameos.

So, I finally watched it. Most of the first season, I found myself just too far removed from urban post-hipster life to really resonate with it, though I did really like the episodes with the parents and grandparents. Second season, though, was way more effective, hit surprisingly hard in places on top of being beautifully shot.

The Twittersphere language still drives me nuts, though. The Regular Show dynamic between Aziz and Eric, too. When they were singing in the Italian restaurant, I was almost surprised the Ultimate Interdimensional Grand Champion Capocuoco didn't magically materialize out of their plates and challenge them to a life-or-death tortellini pinching contest.

[jrfox92]

New season of Parts Unknown on Netflix.
The episode in the Philippines makes you realize how well off you are when the family's Christmas gift is basically a bunch of stuff that I could just go down to the grocery store and get.

[Gone Fission]

Yes, totally. Even the tentpole movies are doing it. The new Spider-Man is billed as a John Hughes-type flick starring a superhero. Ant-Man is a heist movie. Jessica Jones was an unvarnished abuse parable/psychodrama.

DC doesn't understand or hasn't figured out that 'comic book' isn't a sufficient genre anymore. It's like their shows are unaware of the whole postmodern comic movement from 1981 on.

This amuses me because the 2001 live-action "The Tick" failed commercially, and that was about as post-modern as you can get. The Seinfeld version of a comic book. I saw the Amazon pilot for another go and liked it but not in the same way--quite a bit more predictable, more straight forward.

Yep, the Netflix Marvel series are good to great except Iron Fist, which I didn't find abysmal but did think was very half-baked.

[Faldoe]

House of Cards Season 5 is on Netflix now...

[Invisible Man]

Yes, totally. Even the tentpole movies are doing it. The new Spider-Man is billed as a John Hughes-type flick starring a superhero. Ant-Man is a heist movie. Jessica Jones was an unvarnished abuse parable/psychodrama.

DC doesn't understand or hasn't figured out that 'comic book' isn't a sufficient genre anymore. It's like their shows are unaware of the whole postmodern comic movement from 1981 on.

This amuses me because the 2001 live-action "The Tick" failed commercially, and that was about as post-modern as you can get. The Seinfeld version of a comic book. I saw the Amazon pilot for another go and liked it but not in the same way--quite a bit more predictable, more straight forward.

Yep, the Netflix Marvel series are good to great except Iron Fist, which I didn't find abysmal but did think was very half-baked.

If DC had published it, it'd be a tick in ther column. But nah.

Also loved The Tic (where a guy's eye twitches whenever he talked to beautiful women).

[jrfox92]

Scraping the bottom of the barrel watching 30 Rock.
Aaaand now I'm remembering why I hate Tracy Morgan so much.

[MrNovember]

I watched Room 237 the other day. It was very, very difficult to get through.

[01010111]

Maybe this is the wrong place for it, but does anyone know where I can stream the Red Green Show?

[MrNovember]

Maybe this is the wrong place for it, but does anyone know where I can stream the Red Green Show?

I love that show! One of the lab techs at my old school worked on it. He helped with a lot of the Handyman Corner segments and actually built Harold's controller. I worked in his lab one summer and he actually had the controller in for repairs. It was pretty fucking cool!

Long story short, I have no idea where to stream it

[jrfox92]

Why does Tracy Morgan have to be in every 30 Rock episode?
I would actually like the show (rather than just be passively watching it because I've exhausted my options) if it didn't have Tracy Morgan in it.

[sears]

Has anyone watched The In-Betweeners? I love it. I'm only just done with season 1.

[jrfox92]

Has anyone watched The In-Betweeners? I love it. I'm only just done with season 1.

Watched the first season but never really "got" it.

[01010111]

I can definitely see that. I was imagining an entire show with Tom Haverford from Parks and Rec. I'm soooooo glad it wasn't that. Like, this is actually a good show with lots of great cameos.

So, I finally watched it. Most of the first season, I found myself just too far removed from urban post-hipster life to really resonate with it, though I did really like the episodes with the parents and grandparents. Second season, though, was way more effective, hit surprisingly hard in places on top of being beautifully shot.

The Twittersphere language still drives me nuts, though. The Regular Show dynamic between Aziz and Eric, too. When they were singing in the Italian restaurant, I was almost surprised the Ultimate Interdimensional Grand Champion Capocuoco didn't magically materialize out of their plates and challenge them to a life-or-death tortellini pinching contest.

It definitely has a target audience, and I'm definitely in that target audience. Season one hit me a lot harder than season two, but I think it's just because that's where I'm at in life right now? Season two was definitely a lot stronger in terms of story-telling, though.

I'm all about that buddy-comedy dynamic. Maybe it's because it was live action and not animated, but their dynamic reminded me more of the Mighty Boosh than Regular Show?

[jrfox92]

The entire second half of the newest season for Agents of Shield sucks.
AI's and virtual worlds are such shitty plot devices that just tell you that the writers have pretty much given it up.

They were doing pretty well with Ghost Rider and adding more mystical elements and then just completely shit the bed and decided to phone it in for the rest of the season.

[futuresailors]

Has anyone watched The In-Betweeners? I love it. I'm only just done with season 1.

Watched the first season but never really "got" it.