[Severian]

Originally Posted by !@#$%!

https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/i-...how-1823999858

oh, and this great comment in there

https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/1824001083

Fuck man.

Hey The Americans starts next week!

I only watch so many shows. Americans is not going anywhere.

And I’m literally on the second to last episode of JJ season 2. It’s been fun and fine and good enough.

Probably not as good as book-readin’, but I am SERIOUSLY BURNED OUT and I need to be passively entertained while I count down the minutes before staying up any later starts to take away from my ability to wake up and go again.

[!@#$%!]

chanced upon this stuff late last night

 

fun! addictive! my sleep is all fucked up

[Severian]

Santa Clarita Diet season 2 on Netflix. Funny.

[Rob Instigator]

Last Kingdom is very well done! Grimey!

[Rob Instigator]

Originally Posted by !@#$%!

i finished nurse jackie which had started getting a little shambolic with frequent cast/character replacements for no particular reason. the show didn’t so much end as it simply stopped. it wasn’t breaking bad, with a novel structure, but it was pointing towards it, just never got there. ok. that’s done.
.

I asked my wife about Nurse Jackie and she said the first 4 seasons were excellent but that the next ones were used to show how it really is like to be in relationship, familial or otherwise, with users/addicts/liars etc, how everything keeps repeating, getting better, acting all high and ighty, then crashing again, drugging again, lying and stealing again.

I have gone through that with several people in my life, some I have had to cut off totally, some I have maintained closeness to, but that does sound about right.....

[ilduclo]

Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

Last Kingdom is very well done! Grimey!

S3 soon, I hear....

[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

I asked my wife about Nurse Jackie and she said the first 4 seasons were excellent but that the next ones were used to show how it really is like to be in relationship, familial or otherwise, with users/addicts/liars etc, how everything keeps repeating, getting better, acting all high and ighty, then crashing again, drugging again, lying and stealing again.

I have gone through that with several people in my life, some I have had to cut off totally, some I have maintained closeness to, but that does sound about right.....

yeah, she’s incurable ha ha ha. me i haven’t had a ton of contact with that side of life, because i’m more of a cutter offer, ha ha, but i see truths in there yeah.

my problem was not with the texture of the everyday, but with the dramatic structure of the whole thing.

like walter white, jackie is both an addict AND supercompetent (w.w. didnt take drugs, he was hooked on power). and both used their competence to fuel and enable their addiction. and they were also trying to “do good” and ended up destroying the things they cared about—

but where breaking bad had a tense dramatic arc that lasted 5 years, jackie sort of went... nowhere. it’s like the writers were afraid to go to certain places. i guess they wanted to keep it “light” but that ruined it for me because it made the story false. not that it had to be carbon copy of its predecessor, but it just didn’t go where it should have gone. it simply stopped.

[Severian]

Final season of THE AMERICANS now underway!
First episode was FUCKING EPIC!!

Omgbestshowontv

[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by Severian

Final season of THE AMERICANS now underway!
First episode was FUCKING EPIC!!

Omgbestshowontv

you haven’t said anything revealing yet, but preemptively i’ll say please don’t make me add you to the ignore list— i’m a year behind! (actually, 2 years behind at this point).

the americans is probably the ONE show that i really care about how it will end, because it’s really probably the most crucial thing in the whole story

ok i must look away now.

[Severian]

Originally Posted by !@#$%!

you haven’t said anything revealing yet, but preemptively i’ll say please don’t make me add you to the ignore list— i’m a year behind! (actually, 2 years behind at this point).

the americans is probably the ONE show that i really care about how it will end, because it’s really probably the most crucial thing in the whole story

ok i must look away now.

I won’t say anything, just don’t stop watching and agree with me that it’s fucking epic.

[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by Severian

I won’t say anything, just don’t stop watching and agree with me that it’s fucking epic.

hell the fuck yeah. wasn’t i the one who recommended? also to demonyo.

im trying to save it so that i can find the last 2 seasons in the fall. gaaaaah!

i’m crazy, i know.

[ilduclo]

just getting the first couple episodes of The Terror. It looks to be fantastic. Franklin's Arctic expedition with a terror angle. Well filmed and some great actors including Jared Harris & Ciarán Hinds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnN7Aad3c7A

[Severian]

Originally Posted by ilduclo

just getting the first couple episodes of The Terror. It looks to be fantastic. Franklin's Arctic expedition with a terror angle. Well filmed and some great actors including Jared Harris & Ciarán Hinds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnN7Aad3c7A

Oh shit! I want to see this!!!

I actually really want to read the book to, as I’ve had some great experiences with dan Simmons in the past (Hyperion, Drood). Maybe that will be next up for me.

[ilduclo]

The Franklin expedition itself makes for a pretty great story...from what I've seen of sea ice (10 months in the Aleutians, including a HARD winter), it's pretty unforgiving with even modern equipment. It didn't help that they preserved their food by sealing cans with lead, either...fascinating history, actually.

[Rob Instigator]

Marriage Boot Camp : Reality Stars, or as I call it, Dysfunction Junction

[Rob Instigator]

Also, watching the first season of Mark Corrigan's favorite Great Canal Journeys, on the Youtube. It looks like a great way to spend a week and a quarter pound of icky..... slow boat to nowhere on a canal....

[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

Also, watching the first season of Mark Corrigan's favorite Great Canal Journeys, on the Youtube. It looks like a great way to spend a week and a quarter pound of icky..... slow boat to nowhere on a canal....

haaa haa haaa haaa... sounds great

i read about those french canals when i was a kid and then forgot about them

sounds fucking great except if there are mosquitoes. mosquitoes literally suck.

(no mosquitoes in the desert. hurray.)

[guest]

real housewives of melbourne






ride it outttttt

[h8kurdt]

 

Finished this just now and it's been lovely. Something to take you out of your world and glimpse into another England. An England where the sun shines all the time and the countryside day gently goes by.

With all the noise tv brings out, whether it be GoT, or the canned laughter of any numerous tv "comedies" it's nice to have a change of pace with a tv programme that isn't afraid to let you enjoy the scenery in quiet.

Highly recommended.

[Severian]

Have Americans season 6 episode 2 primed and ready for viewing tonight. YES.