The Netflix/Hulu/Prime Thread

[MrNovember]

Holy shit, just watched the first episode of Fargo. That was intense!

I've seen series 1 & 2 and loved them. Nice departures from the film while inhabiting a similar ethos. As compared to Twelve Monkeys, where I couldn't get past the first episode because there was nothing new there.

Just finished season 1. Wow! That was great

[Iommic Pope]

I couldn’t get into the 12 Monkeys series either.

Finished the Expanse last night, finally.
Very satisfying.
Can now start stranger things.
Yus.

[jrfox92]

Does everyone hate Aaron Sorkin as much as The AV Club insists everyone hates Aaron Sorkin?

[jrfox92]

2 minutes into the first episode of Stranger Things S2 and I couldn't stop rolling my eyes because I knew exactly what was going to happen and it's so dumb.

The music is seriously amazing, though.

[$harkToootth]

2 minutes into the first episode of Stranger Things S2 and I couldn't stop rolling my eyes because I knew exactly what was going to happen and it's so dumb.

I feel like I don't even have to watch this season and know what happens

"Kind of" bitter that this got a second season and SENSE 8 is done but whatever...ST is more popular and probably costs substantially less to make so it all adds up.

[jrfox92]

I feel like I don't even have to watch this season and know what happens

"Kind of" bitter that this got a second season and SENSE 8 is done but whatever...ST is more popular and probably costs substantially less to make so it all adds up.

Sense8 got a second season.
And I think they're getting a movie to wrap it up?

But, yeah, even though Sense8 is probably one of the best '10s TV shows made, the cost of making it had to be astronomical. That being said, Netflix didn't hype it at all, which was so stupid and annoying. I had to search all over elgooG to figure out when S2 was coming out.
It seems to me that after S1 they just wanted to find an excuse to kill it.

[$harkToootth]

Sorry, I wasn't comparing 'second seasons'. Just that one show is gone and another is still on.
There is literally no way SENSE8 made a profit. I don't know if it really can considering Netflix's subscription model?

I'm a tad biased as I'm starting to dislike 'nostalgia trip' shows/movies.

[jrfox92]

I'm a tad biased as I'm starting to dislike 'nostalgia trip' shows/movies.

What others are there other than X-Files and Twin Peaks?

[$harkToootth]

I'm not sure as I avoid them now I think I've seen/heard enough "Wow the 80's!" shows/music since mid 00's though. It's a 'summation' as opposed to an 'influx'.

EDIT: Jogged my memory. I also watched GLOW and WET HOT (both series).

[comesect2.0]

buncha cool things on prime lately....few movies/shows I have never seen that should be checked out ..im down for some Ghoulies tonight though. ...edit:fuck this movie is worse than I remember.

[jrfox92]

Watched The Wall tonight.
It has the same problems every John Cena show seems to: the writing doesn't really make any fucking sense when you think about it.

It was an okay movie, but some of the plot devices were so ham-fisted it was laughable.
Like, one second there's a sandstorm that's covering the main dude while he's trying to do something dumb and the next second the sandstorm has disappeared and he's like "oh, shit, guess I should try not to get shot, now."
Also, the movie really makes me wonder about actual Army Ranger sniper training.

[The Eristic]

Watched Society by the dude that did Bride of Reanimator on Amazon Prime. The acting is '80s terrible but the gore and FX are fantastic and the whole thing is way the fuck out there.

Also Bone Tomahawk. The journey is perhaps greater than the destination, but some pretty great individual performances and visuals.

[MechaGodzilla]

Star Trek Discovery is offensively bad. It's like something from the sci-fi channel 20 yrs ago, or something else rushed out to ride on BSG's coattails. It stinks of something that was an original IP until someone said "hey we could call this star trek and make a billion bricks of latinum". Idk if that was even the case but it has that feel to it like Die Hard 4 does.

[Kacey Y]

Star Trek Discovery is offensively bad. It's like something from the sci-fi channel 20 yrs ago, or something else rushed out to ride on BSG's coattails. It stinks of something that was an original IP until someone said "hey we could call this star trek and make a billion bricks of latinum". Idk if that was even the case but it has that feel to it like Die Hard 4 does.

I've watched EVERY Trek series multiple times. Enough to develop complex opinions and theories about the in universe themes and what was probably going on behind the scenes (and listened to/read a lot of behind the scenes interviews) and everything I've read and seen about Discovery has made me never want to watch it. Beyond that, it's made me actively angry, because they keep insisting it's in canon (and not a "Kelvin Timeline" either), but it so clearly does not fit into the previous series' timeline, themes, aesthetic, philosophy and seems cynical and contemptuous of existing Trek lore/fans. It seems like about 4 competing ideas of what it should be collided, they just mashed them together, then picked completely bogus rational for why it's that way and just don't care that nobody buys it. Like it clearly looks like it should be an Abramsverse prequel/altered timeline Enterprise sequel or something, I've even heard people say maybe it's secretly a mirror universe prequel, but production people have explicitly said NOPE, it's just a straight pre TOS prequel and that makes ZERO sense. Also, Bryan Fuller was the showrunner and quit, which makes me think he pointed out some of this stuff and either didn't want to deal with the pushback or got booted because they didn't actual care to get feedback from anyone in production that wanted to keep it authentic to or consistent with Trek.

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