What is the latest good TV series you have watched?
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maildude
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In the long, long, long unawaited prequel to the classic film One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest comes this little ratchet of a series. From the makers of "An American Horror Story" and "Glee," Ratched follows the back story of nurse Mildred Ratched...the antagonist in the Kesey novel as well as the film. Played cleverly by Sarah Paulson, the not-so-good health care worker proves once again that Jack's character in the film was no dummie. With literally NO canon or previous material to go from, the writers and producers have carte blanche. After all...Ken Kesey is dead, and he WAS a drug user. We get to see a manipulative, lying, conniving she-devil come to fruition at her first major job at a California sanitarium after the end of the Pacific campaign. She misuses hospital equipment, pits employees against each other, performs unauthorized lobotomies, and harbors mass murderers...all in just the first two episodes! It's fun. It's shocking. It has stupid incidental music meant to heighten the tongue-in-cheekness of this farcical romp. But it's worth a look. It won't lead the Emmy parade, but there is some metaphysical evil clownishness here. Enjoy but be warned: DON'T TAKE IT TOO SERIOUSLY...it's NOT the movie dammit. B-
I watched the first season of FBI during the week. It's not bad, almost went all conspiracy theory on us like most shows, but pulled it back at the last minute and left us with a show that can almost be watched from any point in the series without leaving you scratching your head and wondering what the fuck's happening here.
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Finished watching season 2 of The Boys (2019 - ), good but season 1 was better.
The violence is a bit too graphic, they should make it more PG and leave the violence to our imagination.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1190634/
The violence is a bit too graphic, they should make it more PG and leave the violence to our imagination.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1190634/
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Luxman
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It's on Amazon Prime.
maildude
Postal Paranoiac
maildude
Postal Paranoiac
From the Fallopian Tubes of Stranger Things comes this comic-book-inspired superhero kid series. Little Dion Warren (Ja'Siah Young) has extraordinary powers: telekinesis, teleportation...think Jean Gray and Nightcrawler. But at age eight, he can't control them. His mom Nicole (Alisha Wainwright) tries to console and control his emotions while looking for a job and running the household. You see, his pop Mark (Michael B. Jordan) has disappeared after working in Iceland with a strange, shadowy corporation, and his godfather Pat (Jason Ritter) is officious and immature...and knows more than he's letting on. The show is less heavy on the superpowers than, say, The Boys. But it does show them...the cute little boy's as well as others. It's more about raising a child as a single mother with the addendum of being a minority. It's more about being young and small at a new school, and not fitting in. It's more about whether to trust, who to believe, and what we are allowed to hope for. It's a serious show with some tinges of childhood innocence. It's based on a comic book...supposedly...but it borrows heavily from the aforementioned Stranger Things. And it admits it. Hell...one of the characters has the ST theme song as his ringtone for heaven's sake. It's at times heartwarming. At times heavy-handed. At times repetitive. But it has a charm. A charm enough for me to want to hook up my external HD just to watch it again. B
maildude
Postal Paranoiac
Mix Stranger Things with Shameless. Add a copious amount of any teen-aged angst series, then put in a pinch of Breaking Bad and American Gods, and you'll come up with Trickster. It's based on the Eden Robinson novel, and directed by Michelle Latimer, who you may not know as an actress in the series Paradise Falls and now an indie director. This effort puts us in the life of Canadian/Indigenous Person Jared (Joel Oulette). He lives in a poorer section of a Canadian backwater town undergoing a massive industrial change. His mom, Maggie...played to the hilt by actress Chrystle Lightning...is a hard-partying, schizo bitch. But she loves her son...enough to, as the opening scene seems to suggest, protect him from The Trickster (Kalani Queypo)...a somewhat malevolent legendary asshole beast who can shape-shift and likes to steal children from their moms. Jared struggles with problems at school, his mom's indebtedness to the local dope dealer, and his burgeoning career as an Ecstasy cook. He's not a bad kid...just prone to the temptations and terrors of his surroundings. The series is different than, say, Riverdale, in that it takes place in the entirely different world of the Native Tribal Canadian. The creators mix in the mythology with the realities of life on the equivalent of a U.S. reservation, with just enough dark humor to keep you away from the comparisons. I like it...albeit with some caveats. Much of it is far from original. The performances save it from the doldrums of predictability. But its stronger points have me wanting to go on with the story...which is as much as one can hope for in a cableistic world of watered-down everything. B-
Some humor, but pretty tense/intense.
HansMoleman
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