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    Originally posted by Toby Gymshorts View Post
    So. We finished Schitt's Creek and then watched the cast ensemble / summary show.

    I cried five times.

    Not even sorry.
    I completed Series 1 last night. Fair to assume another 3, 4 or 5 episodes will be knocked off tonight after the football.

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      Originally posted by Toby Gymshorts View Post
      So. We finished Schitt's Creek and then watched the cast ensemble / summary show.

      I cried five times.

      Not even sorry.
      Yeah, the summary show had me a puddle, too. (I got called a girl.)

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        I was wrong about the extra season of Scrubs. It’s way worse than I remember. It has some funny moments and the Eliza Coupe character sorta works, but the rest of it, especially the stuff with the original characters, isn’t well-written.

        It’s as if the writers, who didn’t include Bill Lawrence, watched three random episodes from the original series and tried to do some klunky fan fiction. It just isn’t tonally consistent with the last few seasons of the real series at all and the whole “now the hospital is a med school and they teach there” doesn’t really make sense.

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          Originally posted by WOM View Post

          Yeah, the summary show had me a puddle, too. (I got called a girl.)
          I got called a soppy git. Which, when all's said and done, is entirely accurate.

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            I cried during the finale of Downton Abbey and got an 'Oh, for fuck's sake...' for my trouble.

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              I still haven't watched that, or the film. Somehow, I just stopped caring.

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                It's a very British upstairs / downstairs period drama. But it's exceptionally well made.

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                  I know. I watched most of it. But somehow, I faded out before the end and whenever I tried to get back to it, I just couldn't get back into it again.

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                    Originally posted by WOM View Post
                    I cried during the finale of Downton Abbey and got an 'Oh, for fuck's sake...' for my trouble.
                    My response was more "Thank fuck that's over."

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                      After you cried, like?

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                        Nah. I by-passed the weeping and wailing and went straight to the teeth-gnashing.

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                          Have we ever done a thread on good series endings versus bad series endings?

                          Having now binged a few series during the pandemic, it occurred to me (this sounds like a Scrubs voiceover) is that I don't recall ever expecting long-running series to have a proper farewell or an overall arc until sometime this century.

                          I recall MASH's finale was a big deal, but I never watched MASH and my recollection was that it was a huge deal largely because it was planned and was going out while it still had some steam. That was not expected, was it? A few massively popular long-running shows like Happy Days had an official finale, but my recollection is that most the shows I watched in the 80s and 90s just kind of petered out and then got cancelled. Yes, characters got married and had kids and moved along in life and maybe they added a cute kid or a special where they all went to England or Hawaii, but it seemed rare of the show to feel like it really knew where it was all headed month to month, let alone season to season.

                          But all of the sitcoms I've liked in the 21st century seem to be at least trying to tell a few long run stories - The Office, 30 Rock, Scrubs, Parks & Rec and more and more, we have shows, even sitcoms, that are clearly plotted out from the start. There was nothing like The Good Place or How I Met Your Mother in the 80s. (There couldn't have been. You just couldn't ask viewers to see every episode and keep up.)

                          Is that relatively new or is it just that, back in the pre-internet era, information about a network's plans for a show were hard to come by if you didn't subscribe to Variety?

                          And we certainly seem to have a lot more dramas where one really needs to watch every episode to know what's going on while the "mystery of the week" shows and even the soap opera-style shows - where there were lots of overlapping arcs, but no overall arc to the whole series - seem to be going away.

                          Or maybe I just think they're going away because I don't watch broadcast TV and only watch streaming services.
                          Last edited by Hot Pepsi; 20-10-2020, 17:23.

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                            We've been working through Friends in full and are now in the final series. I will give my verdict on the finale when it comes. I can't remember it at all; not sure whether we even saw it at the time.

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                              Originally posted by Sits View Post
                              Is that the one narrated by Christopher Ecclestone? It's the only real life doco series we always watch, and it's excellent. There's an Aussie equivalent we don't bother with, too much melodrama.
                              Yes, that's the one. London series on now on BBC 1.

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                                Me and my wife have become hopelessly addicted the Below Deck, having watched the first two seasons on Netflix. I'd like to offer some kind of justification on the basis of how interesting the crew dynamics are, and the balance between the autocratic (the captain's word is law) and democratic (we're all in this together and share tips equally) is interesting, but I'm mainly marvelling at the fact that there are people who will pay $200,000 for a 2-3 day charter of a boat where they get nothing they couldn't get 10 times cheaper with a little organisation.

                                So, I conclude there are lots of people who literally have more money than sense. And yet there seems to be a fairly endless supply of such people who are described as being entrepreneurs and people who run businesses, which leads me to further conclude the I don't understand US capitalism, and in particular how you get to be a complete and utter idiot and yet remain wealthy enough to blow money on a yacht charter.

                                It also gives a window into a certain type of bro culture exhibited by guests and male crew which is jaw-dropping in its misogyny and toxic masculinity.

                                Thoroughly recommended guilty pleasure.

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                                  Just watched the most recent Charlie’s Angels film. I’m not really sure why it got such bad reviews (actually, given it was written and directed by and primarily stars women, I’ve got a pretty good idea) but it’s actually quite a fun, diverting action comedy. I’ve never really “got” Kristen Stewart before either, but in this her timing was great and the performance was nicely pitched.

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                                    I've started on three different things in the last few days.

                                    In reducing order of quality

                                    Halt and Catch Fire I'm watching without the missus, and the first two episodes are compelling enough that I'm going to stick with it. I think it has some great reviews even though nobody watched it.

                                    Cobra Kai. As someone who never actually watched all of Karate Kid all the way through, but has seen almost all of it in bits over the years, I am not the target audience. But 3 episodes in and it's great fun, requires zero effort, and is perfect for switching the brain off.

                                    Emily in Paris is the third one. Now, expectations are set pretty low for a Darren Star made Netflix show. And they are matched. Total, utter schlock with lots of cliched stereotypes. If you merged Sex and the City with 90210 and stuck it in Paris while pretending to understand social media.... well... yeah. But, if Cobra Kai and old episodes of Storage Wars are too intellectual for you, and you're really that tired after a day's work or need to completely switch out of thinking about anything at all, it kinda works. I fully don't recommend it.

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                                      I watched all of Halt and Catch Fire it's a great ensemble show and a fun time-capsule. I'm not a computer person, but I remember being slightly fascinated with them when I was a kid in the 80s until I found out how boring coding actually was.

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                                        I've signed up to a trial of StarzPlay to watch The Great and season 4 of Veronica Mars, but I'm probably not going to get through them before the free trial runs out. Has anyone else used it before and are there any hidden gems on it to get my money's worth out of the month I'll be paying for? I think I've seen all the interesting movies on there.

                                        Or if anyone fancies looking through the list, here it is:https://www.justwatch.com/uk/provide...amazon-channel
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                                          Never used it, so can't help there, but it does have Doom Patrol, which looks up my street. In the sense that it looks absolutely rubbish but amusing nonetheless.

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                                            It was pretty well received. I may end up watching it, though I'm really sick of superhero stuff, as I quite like Morrison and it's based on his run. I'm not really seeing much else that would interest me.

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                                              The Great gets tiresome very quickly. It's a good idea but really doesn't have the quality of writing required to sustain it.

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                                                The Third Day was eh interesting but flawed. I enjoyed it more than the Hick Misery Porn of The Devil All the Time though.

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                                                  Originally posted by Amor de Cosmos View Post
                                                  The Great gets tiresome very quickly. It's a good idea but really doesn't have the quality of writing required to sustain it.
                                                  Yeah, I thought so. It should have been a two-hour film.

                                                  I'm not sure I'll continue with The Third Day. I just don't want to have to think about a show that hard. Same with Raised by Wolves.

                                                  I gave up on The Devil All the Time very quickly. It's just not what I need right now.

                                                  Surprisingly, I'm not into the new season of Fargo. I loved the previous episodes and the film is one of my all-time favorites but this season is just dragging. It's about race relations and gang wars in 1950 Kansas City. Chris Rock is one of the leads, but he's not very dynamic. It's mostly just dudes in fedoras and long coats monologuing about what "America really is." (more or less) And Jessie Buckley, who seems to be having a moment lately, plays a quietly psychotic nurse. I guess she's there to bring more Fargoness - a midwestern and polite mixed with weird and sinister - but otherwise, I can't figure out why she's in the show.
                                                  Last edited by Hot Pepsi; 21-10-2020, 19:55.

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                                                    I think Counterpart was on Starzplay- that was really good

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