rolling tv thread

[Mr. Tea]

I just started watching this thing called Spides. In a nutshell the set-up is that there is a new club drug with the stunningly original name of bliss, which seems to be causing people a lot more than a heavy comedown.

Hahaha! I'm pretty sure there's a designer drug called 'bliss' in one of the old Red Dwarf books from way back. I think the description is something like "The main effect is to make you believe that you are God. The high lasts for fifteen minutes, the resultant comedown last twenty years and you can get addicted to it by looking at it."

 

[Leo]

the one i just watched, where the tobacco guy forces sterling to wear the santa suit, totally embarrases him, in a horrible way, that was awful to watch, made me feel a bit sorry for sterling. but he's also someone you can't really feel too much pity for. some good one liners though.

he's hilarious most of the time, quintessential smooth-talking new business/client service guy. in the mad men era, there were many like him. their job was to win new clients and keep existing ones happy, mostly via three-martini lunches, expensive dinners and cigars, the occasional high-end prostitute.

 

[WashYourHands]

Lunch break working from home extended skives

True Detective S1. Sublime apart from the very very end. Picked up more. Existential dread, the influence of psychospheres extending out into the lives of others - Woody H’s kids and their doll arrangements, Rust Cohle’s beer can figurines, the spirals in flocks of birds and the galaxy that appears. As much as ”time is a flat circle“ ran throughout, the cut ups of time to keep the plot and the viewer on their toes raised it above so much other dross. Some of the best dialogue in any tv.

The Terror S1. To add to the lockdown Covid claustrophobia. If you can’t beat em join em logic Strong cast, relatable characters and yet just far enough back in time to appear semi-alien. The unyielding cold, the diver who freaks out, command structures disintegrating. The thing made of muscles and spells must get in the heads of millennial Wicca and tarot gimp newbs at night. Zero fat. The multitude of problems that escalate. Just add Lustmord‘s Goetia and Robert Fripp’s tune for the last scene. Bravo!

 

[catalog]

i really liked that first season of true detective, especially the episode where he goes into the ghetto with the hells angel, and theres the complicated double cross. i love how the hells angel is called ginger.

 

[Leo]

it was discussed lots here at the time, the cinematography in TD S1 is also so great. and agree, the ending was a disappointment after such a great lead up, sort of a typical crime show conclusion.

 

[Mr. Tea]

Oh the first series of TD is just brilliant. Wouldn't mind watching it again. Apparently it led to The King in Yellow (published in 1895) briefly getting back into bestsellers lists.

 

[Leo]

https://www.dissensus.com/index.php?threads/13290/

caution: spoilers

 

[Corpsey]

True Detective would be weird to watch again cos so much of the power of it was in the build up of the mystery, the sense of dread at what they might end up finding.

Then they found what they found and it was disappointing as fuck... Maybe I'm wrong though, maybe the direction/acting/writing would still be enough.

Funny how Game of Thrones was the best show ever (not literally but you know) and then the ending was so disappointing that now nobody even talks about it. You can't imagine watching it again now.

 

[luka]

it was literallly the best show ever.

 

[version]

I bet luka liked The Wire at the time, but now hates it because people who read The Guardian say it's the best show ever.

 

[luka]

i liked it enough to watch it all but they did go overboard with the praise. Idris Elba was brilliant. you can see why he was the only one that got really famous off it.

 

[version]

oz was much better than the wire.

 

[version]

i got a confession to make. now im on series 3 i understand why you lot were getting all excited. its so much better than the first two.

You were right about this. I reckon S3's the best.

 

[version]

I is hooked.

😂

 

[luka]

i'll tell you what i watched that was hilarious
the first episode of chernobyll

 

[luka]

Oooh, Derek, stop giving me sauce, you get right back in that reactor
oh, but clive, i don't want too.

 

[luka]

it's so bad it's funny

 

[luka]

it's just a load of spam faced english people out of drama school, 'acting'. totally shambolic.

 

[luka]

probably yeah

 

[IdleRich]

i liked it enough to watch it all but they did go overboard with the praise. Idris Elba was brilliant. you can see why he was the only one that got really famous off it.

What about that guy who was in Black Panther and Creed and all that stuff? It's amazing that he was such a little dweeb in The Wire (I guess he was pretty young) and now he's like this fucking monster of a man who looks as though he's carved out of solid rock. I really couldn't understand how it was the same person for ages. His face does still look kinda a little like a chipmunk though, maybe actually more so no strangely.

The McNulthy guy didn't do too madly either, or Omar.