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@surreality Should I watch it starting with S3 then?
Because I watched the first 2-3 episodes and gave up on it entirely.
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@surreality
I have given up on Arrow.Way too... I dunno. I felt like the end of season whenever they drove off into the sunset was the 'good ending' of Arrow, and Ollie in my mind is living happy with Felicity except for when he has to show up for crossover.
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@bobotron It took a plunge the moment he 'died' at the hands of Ras back in whatever season that was.
I don't know what happened but almost immediately after that it turned from a show I was watching - and it had its weaknesses but I was watching it - into pure shit. I've tried a couple times since to reconnect but no, still shit.
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@arkandel If you like fun and goofy, I'd say yes -- thinking of it as a comedy first helps. The husband watched a few episodes of season 1 and went, 'screw this!'. It just took one episode of 3 and he watched the rest of it happily and is super excited for and thus far enjoying 4. (They inherit Constantine for a few episodes of 3 and apparently all of 4, which is also a plus for us, at least.)
There's really not much to know that doesn't get explained fairly well in the intro sequence, to be honest; scanning through the wiki page for the episode synopses for s1-2 would more than cover it and take maybe five minutes tops.
The cast really seems to have gotten into it by 3. We've seen the classic 'team that works together really well though sometimes somebody screws up in some well-meaning way' in a lot of the other supers series, but not much of the 'dysfunctional band of screwups that still has to pull a win out of their asses'. I think of it somewhat in terms of gaming dynamics? We see a lot of the former: the 'team that is a well-oiled machine most of the time tackling challenges' -- which is... fine, but not always much fun, is more predictable, and is kinda 'classic tabletop fun'. More fun to me is the team of misfits, which is somehow more like a lot of MUing -- the misfits are fun and interesting in their downtime with more conflicts and confusion and humor and challenges in some ways that the well-oiled machine that only sometimes breaks down tends to be. It's the same sort of charm that things like 'The A Team' had, in a way.
ETA: I can't say I care what happens on Arrow. It's just... on. And there. It's background noise that isn't streaming TV news.
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Married ... with Children is on Hulu now. All episodes.
Bask in the glorious precursor to the absurdist humor of The Simpsons and beyond.
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You guys, the new She-Ra and the Princesses of Power on Netflix is amazing and fun for a girl and a boy. Or kids and adults. The animation is exquisite and the storylines and character development are refreshing.
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You guys, the new She-Ra and the Princesses of Power on Netflix is amazing and fun for a girl and a boy. Or kids and adults. The animation is exquisite and the storylines and character development are refreshing.
I was expecting it to be good. A (male) friend of mine was regaling me with how, when he was a kid, She-Ra was exactly what he needed. How HeMan was too 'much' (in his opinion) in the camp of "let's mostly just preach lessons at boys AND sell toys" and how when She-Ra came out, it actually told stories and had realistic scenarios and while 'aimed' at girls, it engaged girls and boys both because of that factor. Which was why he loved She-Ra as a kid. He said the new one does exactly the same thing and he's been loving it for that exact reason.
I haven't had a chance to watch it yet, but I'm really looking forward to when I get to sit down and do so.
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https://www.vulture.com/2018/11/netflix-renews-big-mouth-for-season-3.html
Woo
Also if you are not watching this show, WATCH IT. It's even better watching with friends/partners. I got a watching buddy just for this show.
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I got a watching buddy just for this show.
That's ME!
PS: Watch The Good Place; it just keeps getting better and better and I love it
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@sockmonkey
I LOVE THE GOOD PLACE SO MUCH.It might have supplanted Parks & Rec in my heart, as sacrilege as that is to say.
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@three-eyed-crow said in Good TV:
I LOVE THE GOOD PLACE SO MUCH.
I may be the only thing here that thinks that The Good Place is about as entertaining, novel, or enjoyable as I Heart Huckabees.
“It is better to live doing the things that you like. It is foolish to live within this dream of a world seeing unpleasantness and doing only things that you do not like.” -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo.
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@three-eyed-crow said in Good TV:
I LOVE THE GOOD PLACE SO MUCH.
I may be the only thing here that thinks that The Good Place is about as entertaining, novel, or enjoyable as I Heart Huckabees.
yes, that's only you, and may god have mercy on your soul
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@three-eyed-crow said in Good TV:
I LOVE THE GOOD PLACE SO MUCH.
I may be the only thing here that thinks that The Good Place is about as entertaining, novel, or enjoyable as I Heart Huckabees.
You are wrong and are going to the Bad Place but that's okay! We still love you, you dink.
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@sockmonkey said in Good TV:
You are wrong and are going to the Bad Place but that's okay! We still love you, you dink.
I hear that the Bad Place has pie.
“It is better to live doing the things that you like. It is foolish to live within this dream of a world seeing unpleasantness and doing only things that you do not like.” -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo.
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I hear that the Bad Place has pie.
Also butthole spiders. I'm unsure if this is incentive or not, though.
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@three-eyed-crow said in Good TV:
Also butthole spiders. I'm unsure if this is incentive or not, though.
You're a smart lad, I'm sure you'll figure it out.
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@sockmonkey said in Good TV:
PS: Watch The Good Place; it just keeps getting better and better and I love it
I honestly think seasons 1 and 2 were better, but I haven't seen the latest episode. Things like "Jeremy Bearamy" stand out like Chekov's Gun; if they don't use this I'm going to be disappointed. And there are some sharp turns where it looks like the writers say, "We need to be going over there now."
Derek is a perfect example of this not happening, and the little touches for him are even better.
Oh don't get me wrong, The Good Place has supplanted Pushing Daisies (RIP) and Dead Like Me as my favorite surreal TV series, but season 3 feels like The Last Season And We Know It.
It's good to get out on a high note and finish your story so someone else doesn't finish it for you.
Looking at you, Firefly.
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So I watched the latest The Good Place and I am happy to report:
I was wrong, so wrong, it’s getting better every episode holy smokes!
I still think that a few episodes this season felt like filler but that sense of “what the fork?!” is back.
Go team cockroach!
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@thenomain
They do so many hard turns that it's tough to gauge how the season's going until the end. I was a bit low on Season 3 comparatively until Jeremy Bearimy. I think they're building toward something really interesting, though. I enjoy it on the level I enjoy a lot of sci-fi series, and the indictment of the afterlife/possibility of tearing it all down fills me with glee.
