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Thenomain

(no one move a muscle as the dead come home)

Three-Eyed Crow

Still nobody for "The Night of" on HBO?

You guys are missing out.

It's on The List that exists in my brain. I want to get to it after I finish Stranger Things (which thus far I'm digging in an old school good Stephen King way).

surreality

I tried "The Night Of". I really did. I thought the pilot was good, and very interesting -- but it was also incredibly depressing to watch on the racism front. It's something I will watch at some point, but not when my brain's in less than happy places.

tragedyjones

I think that Mr. Robot may be one of the most atmospherically CofD/WoD shows I have seen in a long, long time without any supernatural elements.

Wizz

Mr. Robot is seriously my crack cocaine, it just hits all the right notes for me.

Coin

This past week and a half I binge-watched Continuum from start to finish.

Extremely smart show. A lot of fun. Good pacing, good dialogue, good plot. Light on the special effects for a time-travel show, but better for it. Very satisfying ending without being sappy or depressing in either extreme. Hit a well-achieved balance in the end. Above average casting, too.

Roz

I just binged Crazy Ex-Girlfriend over the past week -- for the second time. (The first was a month or two ago.) It's is frustratingly charming.

Insomnia

@Coin It's light on special effects because it's Canadian.

Bobotron

@Coin
Continuum was one of those series I watched and was like '... oh lord, what's NEXT?!' I really liked the bad guys; I felt like they weren't just cookie cutter terrorists, especially after you see some... things... about the future.

Cupcake

@Roz said in Good TV:

I just binged Crazy Ex-Girlfriend over the past week -- for the second time. (The first was a month or two ago.) It's is frustratingly charming.

I tried Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and could not get into it at all. Jane the Vigin, on the other hand, is shockingly awesome.

tragedyjones

You know his name - Full Luke Cage trailer

Three-Eyed Crow

@tragedyjones said in Good TV:

You know his name - Full Luke Cage trailer

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Probably more amped for this than any of the Marvel Netflix shows. I was only Just OK on Daredevil, so the amount of investment I got in Jessica Jones was a pleasant surprise, and it set Luke Cage up wonderfully imo.

lordbelh

I've been starved for sci-fi shows I actually like, when someone mentioned Killjoys. It was actually pretty enjoyable, I thought.

Arkandel

http://www.parrotanalytics.com/news/top-10-most-in-demand-shows-in-the-us-31-july-6-august-2016/

Coin

@Insomnia said in Good TV:

@Coin It's light on special effects because it's Canadian.

Well, yes.

@Bobotron said in Good TV:

@Coin
Continuum was one of those series I watched and was like '... oh lord, what's NEXT?!' I really liked the bad guys; I felt like they weren't just cookie cutter terrorists, especially after you see some... things... about the future.

It did moral ambiguity so well.

@lordbelh said in Good TV:

I've been starved for sci-fi shows I actually like, when someone mentioned Killjoys. It was actually pretty enjoyable, I thought.

I repeat: Continuum. Dark Matter is pretty good, too; sister show to Killjoys.

lordbelh

@Coin I've tried both, didn't like either.

Coin

@lordbelh said in Good TV:

@Coin I've tried both, didn't like either.

Blasphemy.

Insomnia

Is Telltale making a Mr. Robot Game?

lordbelh

@Coin , out of respect of the decade and a half we've known each other, I gave Dark Matter and Continuum a second chance, and a few more episodes.

Actually, Dark Matter got better.

Continuum you're still fucking crazy to love. Its average. Sure, Dark Matter is kinda average, too, but the characters grow on you, as does the plot.

By the way, what do people think about Stranger Things? I just caught the first episode. Blast from Seven Spielberg style 80s sci-fi past, eh? Im gonna have to try the second episode.

Coin

@lordbelh said in Good TV:

@Coin , out of respect of the decade and a half we've known each other, I gave Dark Matter and Continuum a second chance, and a few more episodes.

Actually, Dark Matter got better.

Got even betterin the second season.

Continuum you're still fucking crazy to love. Its average. Sure, Dark Matter is kinda average, too, but the characters grow on you, as does the plot.

Continuum is average until you really get into the time travel shenanigans in the second season, I'll grant you that. It is, unfortunately, very much one of those 'have to give it a while to grow on you' shows. But it does. Or maybe it doesn't--maybe it just doesn't do it for you. But once the real plot kicks into high gear, that show is amazing. It is, in essence, hard time travel sci-fi. You are unlikely to find a show that handles time travel with more nuance (even as it is anvilicious about some of its messages, most of which are not about time travel). The way it handled paradoxes and consequences is great.

By the way, what do people think about Stranger Things? I just caught the first episode. Blast from Seven Spielberg style 80s sci-fi past, eh? Im gonna have to try the second episode.

I loved Stranger Things, yeah.

As a comment in general, though: something can be great and still not do it for you; and some things can be awful and still entertain certain people.

I was also super starved for some decent time travel after too much fucking Doctor Who. I'm so tired of Doctor Who.