Good TV

Ganymede · May 12, 2019, 11:36 PM

I have never been impressed by the recent Guardians of the Galaxy animated stuff. Until their last four episodes, apparently shown over the past two weeks.

Which Circle of Hell must I tune into to see this show?

surreality · May 12, 2019, 11:41 PM

@Ganymede The husband sent me a dubiously legit streaming link to it, so... I do not actually know. <cough> If someone does, tell me, too!

ETA: And apparently my husband is a twit, because it's on Disney Go, which... we can access normally. Oh, that sweet summer child...

Auspice · May 17, 2019, 9:43 PM

His Dark Materials season 1 trailer

I would watch McAvoy read the phone book y'all

Wretched · May 17, 2019, 9:44 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrIiPcv4_iY

Ruby Rose Batwoman Trailer

Lisse24 · May 20, 2019, 3:05 AM

Watched Chernobyl so I had the taste of Good TV in my mouth before this evening's GoT episode.

First episode is a bit gruesome, but I still highly recommend.

Rinel · May 20, 2019, 3:05 AM

@Lisse24 It really is phenomenal. Painful to watch, at times, but an amazing study in dramatic irony.

Aria · May 20, 2019, 1:28 PM

@Auspice said in Good TV:

His Dark Materials season 1 trailer

I would watch McAvoy read the phone book y'all

A++. Will watch for tank-bears.

Ganymede · May 20, 2019, 1:47 PM

@Aria said in Good TV:

A++. Will watch for tank-bears.

It's gonna happen.

Cupcake · May 20, 2019, 4:07 PM

@Auspice I have been ga ga for James McAvoy since he played Leto Atreides. I'm super happy with anything he's in.

Plus,. LMM is Lee Scorsby and I am 100% down with this.

Auspice · May 20, 2019, 4:42 PM

@Cupcake said in Good TV:

@Auspice I have been ga ga for James McAvoy since he played Leto Atreides. I'm super happy with anything he's in.

Plus,. LMM is Lee Scorsby and I am 100% down with this.

The man is goddamn talented. He was ridiculous in Split.

Ghost · May 20, 2019, 4:46 PM

@Auspice said in Good TV:

@Cupcake said in Good TV:

@Auspice I have been ga ga for James McAvoy since he played Leto Atreides. I'm super happy with anything he's in.

Plus,. LMM is Lee Scorsby and I am 100% down with this.

The man is goddamn talented. He was ridiculous in Split.

Yeah, McAvoy is in my small list of male actor mancrushes that I'll watch anything they're in. (McAvoy, Timothy Olyphant, Joel Kinnaman, Ethan Hawke). Solid group of actors, there...which is a perfect segue into....

Ghost · May 20, 2019, 4:48 PM

...with GoT done and a short wait until the Deadwood movie, I'm actually watching Deadwood for the first time starting now.

On Ssn1Ep1 right now on my TV. I don't normally go for westerns, but I like it. McShane and Olyphant are wonderful in this so far. McShane is actually so good in this it's mesmerizing.

AeriaNyx · May 20, 2019, 4:53 PM

@Ghost YEEEEEEES. Deadwood was where I fell in love with Ian McShane. There are some seriously hilarious cussing compilations from Deadwood. AND, my all time favorite:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f31PLcCXD0U Deadwood Pancakes.

I should note: NSFW language. Deadwood.

Ghost · May 20, 2019, 4:56 PM

@AeriaNyx I heard that every other word used on this show is c*cksucker.

They weren't lying. lol.

AeriaNyx · May 20, 2019, 5:00 PM

@Ghost And most of the dialog is written in iambic pentameter.

Ganymede · May 20, 2019, 5:20 PM

@AeriaNyx said in Good TV:

Deadwood was where I fell in love with Ian McShane.

Here's where I fell in love with McShane:

Auspice · May 20, 2019, 5:21 PM

@Ghost said in Good TV:

...with GoT done and a short wait until the Deadwood movie, I'm actually watching Deadwood for the first time starting now.

On Ssn1Ep1 right now on my TV. I don't normally go for westerns, but I like it. McShane and Olyphant are wonderful in this so far. McShane is actually so good in this it's mesmerizing.

I've actually been thinking of doing the same thing.

I missed Deadwood the first time round due to lack of cable. Then I refused because I know the story just...stops since it got cancelled. But now that it's getting a movie, I've been thinking of diving in.

Sparks · May 20, 2019, 5:39 PM

@Aria said in Good TV:

@Auspice said in Good TV:

His Dark Materials season 1 trailer

I would watch McAvoy read the phone book y'all

A++. Will watch for tank-bears.

I love those books.

Okay, more specifically, I downright love The Golden Compass. I don't mind The Subtle Knife; it's a perfectly fine book, and I reasonably enjoyed it. And The Amber Spyglass is... a thing that I read, I suppose?

But the trailer looks like a much better adaptation of The Golden Compass than that movie was; just the imagery and characterization reminds me more of the book, whereas the movie felt more like they were trying to do the story in the vein of a Narnia or LotR-style epic fantasy... which is not what The Golden Compass is. It looks like this adaptation gets that, and I'm mightily looking forward to it.

Plus, the casting choices we've seen so far are just phenomenal.

Rinel · May 20, 2019, 5:45 PM

Add me to the train of "now watching Deadwood because it actually is getting an ending."

I'll admit my religion has me sort of lukewarm to His Dark Materials. The ending just seems needlessly and hamfistedly antitheistic (which of course is the point), much like Lewis throwing Susan under the bus (or out of the way of the train, I suppose) seemed needlessly preachy.

I think it might actually just be bad writing, though, because even in my atheist years I was pretty unimpressed with the ending. The setting as a whole, though, is great.

Speaking of YA adaptations to the screen: Sabriel when

Sparks · May 20, 2019, 6:25 PM

@Rinel said in Good TV:

I'll admit my religion has me sort of lukewarm to His Dark Materials. The ending just seems needlessly and hamfistedly antitheistic (which of course is the point), much like Lewis throwing Susan under the bus (or out of the way of the train, I suppose) seemed needlessly preachy.

I think it might actually just be bad writing, though, because even in my atheist years I was pretty unimpressed with the ending. The setting as a whole, though, is great.

Like I said, The Amber Spyglass is... a thing which I have read. I feel like it actually has some potentially very interesting things somewhere at its heart to say about the common interpretation of the Garden of Eden story, but they're buried kind of deeply beneath a veneer that mostly comes across as a (slightly embittered and almost clumsy) attack on faith in general and Christianity in particular. In a manner which seems to be borderline uncomfortable even to atheists.

Plus, I think it gets so wrapped up in trying to drive home that point that it kind of fails as a good conclusion to the trilogy, even just on narrative grounds.

But The Golden Compass itself, the first book of that set? That's a book that will always be near and dear to my heart; the setting and concepts are wonderful, and the cast in that first book is so rich and varied.

1000% behind a Sabriel adaptation, though. Because dang, that would be awesome.