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Auspice

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The ship is actually called SuperCorp.

I want it so bad ;.;

Sockmonkey

Is anyone watching Lady Dynamite on Netflix? Season 2 was released on November 10th and my husband recommended it to me so I caught up on season 1 recently.

Arkandel

I'm only about 2/3rds done but the Punisher TV series is so good. Yes, it's violent but it's not about the violence; it has some pretty convincing performances, the plot is largely about veterans trying to transition into real lives and the hardships they follow, and... basically this could have been a kickass show on its own right placed outside of the Marvel universe. There were a couple of recurring characters from the MU but overall they weren't crucial or anything.

So far at least I place it at the Jessica Jones/Daredevil season 1 level. It's pretty impressive.

Also wtf complains because the Punisher is a violent show? What did they think it would be?

Kanye Qwest

@arkandel the same people who complained they couldn't take their kids to Deadpool. IE: filthy casuals

I'm about 2/3 through it too and man, it's p good so far. This take on the punisher is so modern and hard to look at and yet very human and sad. A lot of good performances and a lot of secondary characters I am also just heartbroken over.

Auspice

I wanna watch Punisher.
I haven't yet.

I had someone send me a clip of their favorite fight scene and it triggered* my PTSD really bad, so I'm... hesitant so far. I'll probably have to sit on the pause button.

*I haven't had it triggered that bad since the end of The Departed.

Arkandel

@auspice Although there are some fight scenes in there (and they are pretty good) it's really not about that. It's not like Daredevil where the violence is spectacular and fun to watch.

The Punisher series is about characters who are pushed past their point of breaking, and who sometimes engage in brutal violence, but it's almost... rare. It's not about that. It's not even about guns, which would have been so easy to fetishize in a show like this.

Kanye Qwest

Yes, but the fight scenes there are are BRUTAL. It's not glorified, it's not fetishized, it is meant to evoke a bit of horror - and it does. I can see how that would trigger some people.

SG

@arkandel I'm hoping so hard that the Punisher 'masks someone a question'. He seems about to the first two episodes, I KNOW IT'S COMING!!!

Auspice

It's really hard for me to explain. Because it's not that it was a fight scene. I enjoy fight scenes. I love writing them, for example. They're full of energy and exciting. The adrenaline rush and... I mean, in Luke Cage, the Bring Da Ruckus scene? Fuck yes, love that scene.

It was this clip: https://youtu.be/HhPqY0mO5Qg

There's a point in it, I don't remember how far in.
I think... uhm... the man hits the ground, his face (nose, mouth) covered in blood.
I have reasons that affects me really badly. Specifically.

If that is a one off in the show, I'll be fine. I can (now having already had my moment with that clip) fast-forward by and go on my merry way.

But I... have no way of knowing if it is. So I've been... putting off watching.

ThugHeaven

@tragedyjones said in Good TV:

Mr. Robot proves, again, to be possibly the best goddamned thing on television.

I’m with you on this at least until The Americans comes back on.

Arkandel

I don't know why I continue to watch The Walking Dead. At some point I need to admit I have a problem.

Kanye Qwest

@arkandel Did Rick finally jump over a zombie on a shark?

Arkandel

@kanye-qwest I've rarely seen a show where both the cast and directors are obviously trying to make something special have so many issues with pacing.

The pacing is terrible; sometimes it's just so slow (the entire season so far, like 4-5 episodes, are all taking place over the course of a single day, single battle), and there's no tradeoff. It's not like we get a lot of character work in, or they're resolving old plotlines, engaging in a lot of world building or... anything.

I mean maybe they're going to pull a rabbit out of a hat, but I was expecting/hoping for the same thing thing last season and in the end they just never delivered. What are they doing?

Auspice

@arkandel said in Good TV:

What are they doing?

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Sockmonkey

@arkandel said in Good TV:

I don't know why I continue to watch The Walking Dead. At some point I need to admit I have a problem.

I am still watching because I am hoping that someday they will kill off Carl. Or at least his stupid hat. (Have you noticed that he is ten million times more bratty and stupid when he's wearing that fucking thing? Maybe if the hat gets destroyed, he will be a hallway decent character. Fuck you, hat)

SG

@arkandel said in Good TV:

I don't know why I continue to watch The Walking Dead. At some point I need to admit I have a problem.

I've cut down to the season premiers and finales. Even then I wonder why I'm wasting an hour of my life, but my boss loves to talk shit about the show, so it's nice to have some reference on why he's losing his mind.

Jaded

@arkandel
You have a problem but I can relate.

I stopped watching after the mid-season finale when the showrunners changed at the start of season 4 and they brought in new writers. One of the things that I praised about the show in the first 3 seasons was they were doing a very good job in their writing of avoiding a lot of the common horror show/movie tropes, especially the "stupid human y u do dis" one. And 4 was just gunned down with them. I came back in season 6 and noped out 3 episodes in hoping they might have learned.

Sounds like time for you to pull the ripcord on this one.

Lithium

@Arkandel I am /really/ happy with the way they went with Punisher, it could have been just pure ultra-violence but there is a ton of emotional drama involved all around on the show. The hardships involved on personal levels, etc.

Let alone the whole Veteran angle they have focused on.

Really. Really. Happy.

Bobotron

Supergirl last night was pretty epic. Good way to introduce/include expanded elements of the Supergirl and Superman mythos. LONG LIVE THE LEGION!