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!@#$%! · 10.26.2017, 01:12 PM

so im sitting there with my wife watching outlander (season 1) which had so far been a rapy-but-not-rapy show because the poor woman is threatened by rape so very often and then! then on the last 2 episodes there’s actual rape and it’s man-on-man rape and it’s serial-killer level fucked uuuuuuup! and it takes forever and they keep going back to it. holy shit we couldn’t watch/ had to squint / turned down the volume. damn! true halloween horror. shit! brrrrr....

ilduclo · 10.28.2017, 05:51 PM

Dirk Gently season 2. Off to a GREAT start

tw2113 · 10.28.2017, 06:07 PM

Stranger Things 2, like the hipster I am

Severian · 10.28.2017, 07:01 PM

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Stranger Things 2, like the hipster I am

Me too! Well, the Stranger Things 2 part... not the hipster part (though I’ll admit that is the category people lump me into, but that’s because they don’t know any better, and they figured snarky about music + clean cut = hipster, bah!)

Anyway, no spoilers, but what do you think so far?

I’m sick, and on my first days off in weeks, so I am binging without shame. On episode 6 right now. Don’t judge me. Had a long ass motherfucking two weeks.

tw2113 · 10.31.2017, 10:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Severian

Me too! Well, the Stranger Things 2 part... not the hipster part (though I’ll admit that is the category people lump me into, but that’s because they don’t know any better, and they figured snarky about music + clean cut = hipster, bah!)

Anyway, no spoilers, but what do you think so far?

I’m sick, and on my first days off in weeks, so I am binging without shame. On episode 6 right now. Don’t judge me. Had a long ass motherfucking two weeks.

I await season 3 now. I enjoyed it.

I've moved on to some binging a mix of The Young Ones season 1, Northern Exposure season 1, and all of Nickelodeon's "Roundhouse"

dirty bunny · 11.01.2017, 07:26 AM

gotta binge Stranger Things season 2 soon

and Dirk Gently

Severian · 11.01.2017, 07:16 PM

Stranger Things 2 not getting great reviews, but I think it’s the oversaturation effect. It’s goddann good. People always want to be in on the edgy thing and once it’s no longer edgy they bail. Fuck that noise.

Flawed, but GOOD season.

(Didn’t care for the Chicago episode though... made me cringe too much.)

tw2113 · 11.01.2017, 10:08 PM

So much internet hype to live up to.

dirty bunny · 11.03.2017, 05:19 PM

BlizzCon!

!@#$%! · 11.03.2017, 07:19 PM

just finished season 2 of OZ— damn damn damn! this show is so good. i can’t believe i missed it for so long. it must have been so epic to see it live back in the 90s when i came out. to me, outside of the 1.33 aspect ratio, it looks absolutely fresh and contemporary. ok, there are no cellphones, but i think this is the real groundbreaker that i thougth the sopranos was. fanfuckingtastic.

Severian · 11.04.2017, 10:19 AM

Mindhunter on Netflix. Cool so far, but the main dude is a debilitatigly wooden actor. Enjoying all the antiquated psychology talk.

Severian · 11.06.2017, 12:52 PM

Mindhunter was good.

On comp time right now, until tonight, so binging binging.

Sherlock season 4 ... heard bad things, but it was good. Quite good, if a bit overwrought at times.

Just watched the first episode of the Netflix show Atypical. It’s good and sad, about a young man on the autism spectrum trying to date.

Netflix makes good shows.

Peterpuff · 11.06.2017, 04:24 PM

Yes, Stranger Things 2 was great. It was exactly what it should have been, and if people expected different they are retarded.

I still need to check out Mindhunter, myself. Been hearing good things.

And the immature side of me adored American Vandal. I thought it was one of the best things ever. From a creative and "study-and-reproduce" perspective, the writing, acting, and wonderful take on the genre was pure genious, imo. Any time you can extend a dick joke into 8 clever episodes, you've got my attention.

And I had totally forgotten about OZ. They was a good show. I remember quite enjoying it when it was actually on, but don't remember half of the stories. I might have to go recheck that one.

Severian · 11.06.2017, 04:54 PM

I never watched Oz either. Never had HBO while it was actually on the air, and never really followed the hype enough to check it out after the fact. If it’s really as good as Symbols says, maybe I’ll stream it. Pretty sure it’s on Amazon Prime, along with the other non-current HBO shows.

Honestly I know virtually nothing about it. I thought it was a documentary for years. Still not entirely sure it’s not a documentary. Lol. So, yeah. I’m not cool.

!@#$%! · 11.06.2017, 07:10 PM

it is on prime and it’s fucking great

and it’s almost a documentary ha ha ha. well not quite— i’ve never been in prison so i couldn’t say. but it does feel very realistic.

one thing that’s great is that, being a late-20th century product, it’s not as graphic as the shit we get today. so while there is a fuckton on violence and gore and abuse, it’s mostly suggested rather than explicity performed the way it is these days. but it’s still edgy as fuck. very very very very good. damn! so good.

Severian · 11.06.2017, 07:52 PM

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it is on prime and it’s fucking great

and it’s almost a documentary ha ha ha. well not quite— i’ve never been in prison so i couldn’t say. but it does feel very realistic.

one thing that’s great is that, being a late-20th century product, it’s not as graphic as the shit we get today. so while there is a fuckton on violence and gore and abuse, it’s mostly suggested rather than explicity performed the way it is these days. but it’s still edgy as fuck. very very very very good. damn! so good.

Good. The gratuitous violence and rape on, say, Game of Thrones, gets really old and really gross really fucking fast. Like, rape when the source material doesn’t call for it? Rape when the scene is supposed to be a scene of good old *consensual* incest? Too much. Fuck that shit.

I prefer the subtleties. The Americans gets that kind of stuff pretty goddamn pitch-perfect. Still shows enough to let you know what’s happening, but doesn’t seem to aspire to be smut.

Ahh, The Americans.

Severian · 11.07.2017, 10:56 AM

Atypical is very good. Netflix is putting out a lot of good stuff. Not As all around, but Glow was great, Stranger Things 2 was great, Mindhunter was great, Atypical was great... solid stuff.

Watched the first half of episode one of That “American Crime Story” show about O.J. Simpson made by the American Horror Story dudes.

Ross from friends is in it and ridiculous looking as Rob Kardashian. John Travolta is even more ridiculous looking and acting as Bob Shapiro. Not sure why it got so much praise. Looks like a goddamn cartoon. Maybe it’ll shape up.

Severian · 11.07.2017, 11:34 AM

Fucking weird watching this shit. I remember watching this shit unfold on television. White Bronco and whatnot. Very strange thing to dramatize, but I suppose it’s in keeping with the fascination we have with true crime. Fucking oddballs though.

Have any of you seen this? Compared it to your memories of the incident? Is it not weird AF?

Rob Instigator · 11.07.2017, 04:18 PM

finishing up Vice Principals, Stranger Thangs 2,

Severian · 11.07.2017, 07:44 PM

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finishing up Vice Principals, Stranger Thangs 2,

Seasin 2 of Vice Principals?

Didn’t know that was out yet. Gave up my HBO.

10.26.2017, 01:12 PM	#1781
!@#$%! invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: mars attacks Posts: 42,563	so im sitting there with my wife watching outlander (season 1) which had so far been a rapy-but-not-rapy show because the poor woman is threatened by rape so very often and then! then on the last 2 episodes there’s actual rape and it’s man-on-man rape and it’s serial-killer level fucked uuuuuuup! and it takes forever and they keep going back to it. holy shit we couldn’t watch/ had to squint / turned down the volume. damn! true halloween horror. shit! brrrrr....
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10.28.2017, 05:51 PM	#1782
ilduclo invito al cielo Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 3,305	Dirk Gently season 2. Off to a GREAT start
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10.28.2017, 06:07 PM	#1783
tw2113 expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: South Dakota Posts: 2,148	Stranger Things 2, like the hipster I am __________________ Shake shake
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11.01.2017, 07:26 AM	#1786
dirty bunny expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: oh, why Texas actually Posts: 1,680	gotta binge Stranger Things season 2 soon and Dirk Gently __________________ kiss me kiss me in the shadow of a doubt
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11.01.2017, 07:16 PM	#1787
Severian invito al cielo Join Date: Feb 2012 Posts: 11,745	Stranger Things 2 not getting great reviews, but I think it’s the oversaturation effect. It’s goddann good. People always want to be in on the edgy thing and once it’s no longer edgy they bail. Fuck that noise. Flawed, but GOOD season. (Didn’t care for the Chicago episode though... made me cringe too much.)
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11.01.2017, 10:08 PM	#1788
tw2113 expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: South Dakota Posts: 2,148	So much internet hype to live up to. __________________ Shake shake
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11.03.2017, 05:19 PM	#1789
dirty bunny expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: oh, why Texas actually Posts: 1,680	BlizzCon! __________________ kiss me kiss me in the shadow of a doubt
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11.03.2017, 07:19 PM	#1790
!@#$%! invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: mars attacks Posts: 42,563	just finished season 2 of OZ— damn damn damn! this show is so good. i can’t believe i missed it for so long. it must have been so epic to see it live back in the 90s when i came out. to me, outside of the 1.33 aspect ratio, it looks absolutely fresh and contemporary. ok, there are no cellphones, but i think this is the real groundbreaker that i thougth the sopranos was. fanfuckingtastic.
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11.04.2017, 10:19 AM	#1791
Severian invito al cielo Join Date: Feb 2012 Posts: 11,745	Mindhunter on Netflix. Cool so far, but the main dude is a debilitatigly wooden actor. Enjoying all the antiquated psychology talk.
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11.06.2017, 12:52 PM	#1792
Severian invito al cielo Join Date: Feb 2012 Posts: 11,745	Mindhunter was good. On comp time right now, until tonight, so binging binging. Sherlock season 4 ... heard bad things, but it was good. Quite good, if a bit overwrought at times. Just watched the first episode of the Netflix show Atypical. It’s good and sad, about a young man on the autism spectrum trying to date. Netflix makes good shows.
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11.06.2017, 04:24 PM	#1793
Peterpuff stalker Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 505	Yes, Stranger Things 2 was great. It was exactly what it should have been, and if people expected different they are retarded. I still need to check out Mindhunter, myself. Been hearing good things. And the immature side of me adored American Vandal. I thought it was one of the best things ever. From a creative and "study-and-reproduce" perspective, the writing, acting, and wonderful take on the genre was pure genious, imo. Any time you can extend a dick joke into 8 clever episodes, you've got my attention. And I had totally forgotten about OZ. They was a good show. I remember quite enjoying it when it was actually on, but don't remember half of the stories. I might have to go recheck that one.
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11.06.2017, 04:54 PM	#1794
Severian invito al cielo Join Date: Feb 2012 Posts: 11,745	I never watched Oz either. Never had HBO while it was actually on the air, and never really followed the hype enough to check it out after the fact. If it’s really as good as Symbols says, maybe I’ll stream it. Pretty sure it’s on Amazon Prime, along with the other non-current HBO shows. Honestly I know virtually nothing about it. I thought it was a documentary for years. Still not entirely sure it’s not a documentary. Lol. So, yeah. I’m not cool.
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11.06.2017, 07:10 PM	#1795
!@#$%! invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: mars attacks Posts: 42,563	it is on prime and it’s fucking great and it’s almost a documentary ha ha ha. well not quite— i’ve never been in prison so i couldn’t say. but it does feel very realistic. one thing that’s great is that, being a late-20th century product, it’s not as graphic as the shit we get today. so while there is a fuckton on violence and gore and abuse, it’s mostly suggested rather than explicity performed the way it is these days. but it’s still edgy as fuck. very very very very good. damn! so good.
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11.07.2017, 10:56 AM	#1797
Severian invito al cielo Join Date: Feb 2012 Posts: 11,745	Atypical is very good. Netflix is putting out a lot of good stuff. Not As all around, but Glow was great, Stranger Things 2 was great, Mindhunter was great, Atypical was great... solid stuff. Watched the first half of episode one of That “American Crime Story” show about O.J. Simpson made by the American Horror Story dudes. Ross from friends is in it and ridiculous looking as Rob Kardashian. John Travolta is even more ridiculous looking and acting as Bob Shapiro. Not sure why it got so much praise. Looks like a goddamn cartoon. Maybe it’ll shape up.
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11.07.2017, 11:34 AM	#1798
Severian invito al cielo Join Date: Feb 2012 Posts: 11,745	Fucking weird watching this shit. I remember watching this shit unfold on television. White Bronco and whatnot. Very strange thing to dramatize, but I suppose it’s in keeping with the fascination we have with true crime. Fucking oddballs though. Have any of you seen this? Compared it to your memories of the incident? Is it not weird AF?
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11.07.2017, 04:18 PM	#1799
Rob Instigator invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: In the land of the Instigator Posts: 27,969	finishing up Vice Principals, Stranger Thangs 2, __________________ RXTT's Intellectual Journey - my new blog where I talk about all the books I read.
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