What are you watching now?
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@george-k said in What are you watching now?:
Watched the 1st two episodes of Season 1.
It's...OK. I'm not enthralled so far. Seems to set up too much stuff for later resolution, and the 90 minute first episode was little more than "Let me introduce you to the characters and set up the crisis for the rest of the season."Finished Season 1.
It's like "Dallas" for the 2000s. Usual dysfunctional family. Usual fabulously wealthy head of the family. Usual nefarious people trying to get his money/land. Random characters introduced midway through the season (Walker) because, well, they needed to do something.
Not impressed.
If there were nothing else I wanted to watch, I'd plunge in, but there's so much more in my queue that I'll put this on a far back burner for now.
Wonderful scenery, though.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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We’re into the 2nd season of Cobra Kai. It’s growing on me.
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Watching another Korean Drama, "Something in the Rain"
"When a single career woman reunites with her best friend's younger brother after he returns from three years of working abroad, their efforts to reconnect grow into romance."
Another 16 episode series, each episode about 100 minutes. Two main stories in the series
The first is about an older (maybe 35 year old) lady who starts to date her friends younger brother, who is maybe 25-30. I know alot of people on this forum board are probably saying, "so what", but in Korea, this is a big and unusual situation. Jin-Ah is still living at home and has a lot of "pushback" from her mother on dating a younger guy who is not from an "approved" family.
The second story line is about the ladies working environment. Jin-Ah works in the head office for a "Starbucks" type company, and it is interesting (and I think pretty accurate) on the office situation, especially how female workers are treated. I saw it happen more than once when I was there in Korea.
Link to videoSUMMARY: If you want an insight into Korean culture (and a bit into North Asia culture), this is a good show to watch. Culturally, it shows a part of Korea that Westerners probably do not are aware of and may have trouble in understanding why people think the way that they do.
The series was probably a bit too long by a couple of episodes, as some parts take a while to move the plot forward.
However, I enjoyed it. Some of the things and characters shown are a bit exaggerated, but overall, pretty true to life.
(PS It does have sub titles, so no need to be good in Korean language).
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The Dig on Netflix
A good story, well acted, nice cinema
Worth the 2 hours
https://www.netflix.com/browse?jbv=81167887
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Recently finished an 11-episode series titled “(the) Daughter of Lupin.” It is worth putting up with subtitles (the dialogue audio is in Japanese only) as it’s a fun series to watch.
“The Map of Tiny Perfect Things” is also a nice “time loop” movie to watch. Sufficiently different from “Groundhog Day” and “The Edge of Tomorrow”, it introduces something different into the genre.
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Started "Peaky Blinders" the other day. Watched 3 episodes.
Interesting, but I'm not hopeful that it'll turn out to be warmed-over Sopranos in the 1920s. Sets, costumes, acting are all first-rate (and I love Sam Neill), but the storyline seems pretty recycled.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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I watched Netflix's Murder Among the Mormons and really enjoyed it. Especially since I wasn't familiar with the story going in.
I am trying to get into The Expanse but having no success. I watched the first season twice because the first time through didn't do much for me and I wanted to make sure I was understanding what was going on. But I still can't get excited about season 2, a couple episodes in.
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I'm not watching anything on TV right now.
This morning though, I watched a little bit of an episode of Seinfeld. But I didn't watch the whole episode, as I had already seen it before more than once.
I haven't watched hardly any TV yet today.
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@george-k said in What are you watching now?:
but the storyline seems pretty recycled.
Exactly my feeling about it.
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@aqua-letifer said in What are you watching now?:
@george-k said in What are you watching now?:
but the storyline seems pretty recycled.
Exactly my feeling about it.
I gave up. The first
seriesseason was 6 episodes long, and it was entertaining, though predictable in parts. Basically, it did everything that The Sopranos did, which Sons of Anarchy recycled. Same setting, different era.Did 3 episodes of the 2nd season and walked away, thinking "I've seen this before. Different people, different city, but, I've seen it."
Great production values and sets. Acting is pretty good too. Too much stuff that's just too predictable or hackneyed. This show struck me as hitting its peak in the third episode, and then wondering where it's going to go after that.
Meh.
ETA: Oh and another thing. The directors seem to be obsessed with the "we're going to shoot this scene from behind something so it looks like you're eavesdropping" idea. It's a catchy technique the first half-dozen times you see it. Then it just becomes hackneyed and a gimmick.
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Still watching The Expanse for the second time. I'm in the middle of Season 3.
It's actually better the second time, but that could be the VR goggles.
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Finished another Korean drama - "It's Okay to Not Be Okay"
Link to videoSounded like an interesting story. A young man has been taking care of his autistic older brother since their mother was killed with they were quite young, Due to the older brothers emotional problems and fears, they end up moving almost every year to a new place.
At the latest new place, they meet a children's book author, who has her own emotional problems from childhood.
The problems I had with this show
- Many of the characters are not really likable. They have many emotional problems so that they lash out and do things which are not really nice. It is not until about the last 30 minutes of a 25 hour series that you start to like them. (and yes, I watched the whole thing!! 555)
- they have these weird comedy moments that dont really seem to have much to do with the plot, and seem kind of forced. I guess they were trying to "lighten up" a pretty dark, depressing subject.
For a summary, I would not recommend it. The other two recent K-dramas I watched I would recommend above this one.
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I started a new Amazon Prime series this afternoon. I believe it's a limited mini-series: "Informer."
A very interesting premise and after one episode, I'm hooked.
The premise is this:
Reza, son of a Pakistani immigrant family (Dad, Mom, younger brother) is arrested for possession of MDMA (Ecstasy) at a nightclub. He is marked as a possible informant to help track the steps of a terrorist (now deceased) who was in London before being killed by a drone strike.
He is approached by the fictional counter-terrorism unit, and has zero interest in cooperating, even after charges are dropped. But then, the man who will become his handler (presumably) discovers that his mother is not really his mother, and is in the UK illegally. He uses that to pressure Reza into cooperating.
I have no idea how it'll play out, but it's a complex and interesting series.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@george-k said in What are you watching now?:
I started a new Amazon Prime series this afternoon. I believe it's a limited mini-series: "Informer."
A very interesting premise and after one episode, I'm hooked.It was a lazy Saturday, so I binged.
Complex and interesting indeed. A somewhat contrived twist at the end, IMO, but it really doesn't detract from the overall arc of the story. Some irrelevant side stories that I think were added as filler to expand it to 6 episodes, but they add to the complexity of the "recruiter" of the story.
Acting is very good (particularly "Gabe" and "Reza"). Directing is good as well, though a bit overdone in the "we're watching through a doorway that's just open" style that seems to be prevalent these days.
Worth a watch.
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"My pronouns are FA/FO." - Mik, 2024
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@mik said in What are you watching now?:
Still watching Expanse. Just into 9th episode of season 1. Now it starts getting deeper.
The problem with The Expanse is that it's difficult to get in to. So much is laid out early on that makes you think, "What's the point?"
Martian stealth tech? Who cares - wait until season 5 when it becomes supremely important - the storyline rocks.
Jules Pierre Mao? Who cares - just another billionaire with money to burn for his kids (yes, kids). Who cares...wait until season 3.
I can see the authors with a huge storyboard, showing all these plots, and drawing lines, connecting them all.
Miller? Yeah. He becomes important, in a way, in season 4.
