britannia

romans invade britain

not bad, bit peculiar (they emphasize the various pagain religions)

TOS posted:

britannia

romans invade britain

not bad, bit peculiar (they emphasize the various pagain religions)

Looks interesting.

Black Lightning. Rather enjoying it so far, particularly it's depiction of fatherhood. There's really not enough positive depictions of fatherhood or (coparenting for that matter) in media.

Travelers
Finished season 2 yesterday, and it's holding up nicely.
Created by Brad Wright, S2 introduces Amanda Tapping as a major character, so if you're having Stargate SG-1 withdrawal this might help.
Looking forward to season 3.

Started on Stan Against Evil. Pretty funny.

Some weird anachronisms. Not sure what time period they're trying to set it in.

Season 2 of Grace and Frankie improved on the first season. I thought the episodes dealing with Alzheimer's and assisted suicide were well done. Sam Elliott is looking old. The show's producers are not making efforts to soft focus the ages of the cast. I think the scenes between Martin Sheen and Sam Waterston are still the weakest but Fonda and Tomlin are even better than in season 1. The supporting cast is quite good but they are mostly there to provide lighter moments. I like the balance.

The Frankenstein Chronicles

the looming tower

two episodes in so far, pretty great ... it tells the story of mistakes and infighting that kept the intel community from stopping 9/11

so far i'd say it's well worth watching

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgsdAUKIICo

Hey, could I ask a favor AGAIN?

When you mention a title, could you add WHERE you are viewing this series, e.g., "Stranger Things 2 (Netflix)"?

Given the current fractionation of the TV market into various but SEPARATE companies, it isn't necessarily obvious where a series may be available. Sure, it may be obvious to YOU since you have, say, a Netflix account but this will not be so to anyone without such. It would be also useful for a program like, say, "Black Sails" to add "(Starz)" so that anyone with access to just standard cable services would know that it could be seen without having to buy separate services like Netflix.

if I see a title I don't recognize, I just google it.

but Ok. Travelers is on Netflix.

DukeofNuke posted:

if I see a title I don't recognize, I just google it.

but Ok. Travelers is on Netflix.

I do the same

and travelers is cool

i will never state the network, do you hear me? never!!!

if i haven't heard of it i assume netflix

The Rift (Netflix)
Sub SyFy Original quality, absolutely terrible, intrusive music, wooden acting, baffling plot basically a collection of worn out Horror-Sci clichés.
A complete waste of time: AVOID.

DEyncourt posted:

Hey, could I ask a favor AGAIN?

Grace and Frankie is on Netflix, or in my case, Emule.

Wings: Great Planes (Dicovery Channel or Emule) 90s shows detailing a particular noteworthy aircraft type or model. Lameness depends on presentation; There's some obviously geared to boys in their mid teens and some, like Wings Of The Red Star which can be overly detailed on occasion. Some are Australian productions with anachronistic synthesizer music. The best ones tell larger stories than just the aircraft in question. It's a way to spend 43 spare minutes.

TOS posted:

i will never state the network, do you hear me? never!!!

The last time the network was mentioned, the president dropped a nuke on Canada

Prolly gonna binge Jessica Jones season 2 this weekend.

ghost wars, netflix

fairly silly but it passes the time

dv posted:

Prolly gonna binge Jessica Jones season 2 this weekend.

I was gonna do that too, but I've ended up babysitting. Maybe next weekend.

Jessica Jones was good, although slow the first couple episodes. (They started a bunch of subplots and spent too much time w/ secondary characters who will probably crop up in other series.)

Altered Carbon was nucking futz.

Started watching Mr D now that it's on Netflix. I've seen the creator and star do stand up at his alma mater, and being a former teacher, his material on the subject was hilarious. The show is an exaggeration of his teaching career. Imagine an incompetent heel of a teacher who usually acts out their cynical impulsive desires. The first episode was a little flat and slow, but by episode four it's really started to come together. It's almost revenge porn for teachers.

https://youtu.be/0fn_vAhu_Lw

jkahless posted:

Started watching Mr D now that it's on Netflix. I've seen the creator and star do stand up at his alma mater, and being a former teacher, his material on the subject was hilarious. The show is an exaggeration of his teaching career. Imagine an incompetent heel of a teacher who usually acts out their cynical impulsive desires. The first episode was a little flat and slow, but by episode four it's really started to come together. It's almost revenge porn for teachers.

https://youtu.be/0fn_vAhu_Lw

My mom had the same thought about The Substitute.

Ribtor posted:

DEyncourt posted:

Hey, could I ask a favor AGAIN?

Grace and Frankie is on Netflix, or in my case, Emule.

Wings: Great Planes (Dicovery Channel or Emule) 90s shows detailing a particular noteworthy aircraft type or model. Lameness depends on presentation; There's some obviously geared to boys in their mid teens and some, like Wings Of The Red Star which can be overly detailed on occasion. Some are Australian productions with anachronistic synthesizer music. The best ones tell larger stories than just the aircraft in question. It's a way to spend 43 spare minutes.

wow, Emule is a name I have not seen in years

Pariah posted:

wow, Emule is a name I have not seen in years

finally started watching black mirror

holy crap is it ever amazing ... a worthy successor to twilight zone

I've been watching a lot of 1 or 2 season shows, like Emergency Rescue Down under, Emergency (canada), and Curious And Unusual Deaths. The first and last shows have actually been really informative. Like the deaths one. Not only do they talk about strange and unusual deaths, but why they occurred in the first place. And the rescue one goes into a lot of info about Oz, like how they heavily recruit british doctors, nurses and police.

jkahless posted:

Started watching Mr D now that it's on Netflix. I've seen the creator and star do stand up at his alma mater, and being a former teacher, his material on the subject was hilarious. The show is an exaggeration of his teaching career. Imagine an incompetent heel of a teacher who usually acts out their cynical impulsive desires. The first episode was a little flat and slow, but by episode four it's really started to come together. It's almost revenge porn for teachers.

https://youtu.be/0fn_vAhu_Lw

Mr. D is not showing on Netflix for me.

Sorry, I'm on Canadian Netflix eh. That's the problem with listing sources, they change by county and over time.

Black Lightning

Sweet Guan-Yin have mercy, X-Files finally outdid flukeman and Home.

ukimalefu posted:

Black Lightning

IS that another CW/DC joint?

DukeofNuke posted:

ukimalefu posted:

Black Lightning

IS that another CW/DC joint?

Yeah. And it is really damn good. They need to fire all the DC movie folks and replace them with the DC tv folks. It is like the Zac Snyder coalition doesn’t understand what makes Superheroes tick, and you get human waste like BvS, where the TV department gets it and produces some great stuff.

Gotham is pretty good. When does it's new season start?

Warin posted:

DukeofNuke posted:

ukimalefu posted:

Black Lightning

IS that another CW/DC joint?

Yeah. And it is really damn good. They need to fire all the DC movie folks and replace them with the DC tv folks. It is like the Zac Snyder coalition doesn’t understand what makes Superheroes tick, and you get human waste like BvS, where the TV department gets it and produces some great stuff.

i feel like they just felt the need to go darker than marvel and forgot about the part where a good script is required to make a good movie

Counterpart on Starz. Really cool so far if you like spies and sci fi.

They've added Dax Sheppard to The Ranch.

Offspring (netflix) I find it quite entertaining.

Absentia. On episode seven and it's pretty interesting, but I really doubt serial killer conspirators are really this clever.

Currently watching Wild Wild Country on Netflix
It's a six part docu-series (I have watched 2/6).
I am sure there is more to be revealed and there will be a twist/turning point.
The subject is the Cult following of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and their purchase of several thousands of acres in rural Oregon in order to build a city.
But so far it is describing a significant culture clash, and while the Cult/Ashram is weird and all, it's just another weird religion, albeit with a VERY large bank account.


The cult members themselves seem like typical educated people of that time doing the typical "seeking" of eastern mysticism and following a charismatic guru.
The alarming thing for the townfolk is the open sexuality of the cult members and reports of bizarre practices (group aggression therapy undertaken while naked and other things).

The townfolk at this point of the documentary come off as fearful and fairly intolerant, and they make no efforts to hide their attempts to intimidate the freaky cult members. Reading ahead it seems things escalated quite severely with the cult members taking things several steps too far.
So far more me this documentary does expose a great deal of America's rather iffy devotion to religious freedom.

Since I have subscribed to Netflix several years ago I have caught a number of pretty good documentaries on various cults (most of them born out of the counter-culture new age group sex variety). They all have disturbing attributes, but you can easily see how many of our current religions started out--just with less group sex.
I would love to see more in-depth analysis of Scientology, LDS and perhaps Islam, as they each have similarities to these. (Christianity does as well for certain, but I think that analysis has been done to death)

Séamas posted:

Currently watching Wild Wild Country on Netflix
It's a six part docu-series (I have watched 2/6).
I am sure there is more to be revealed and there will be a twist/turning point.
The subject is the Cult following of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and their purchase of several thousands of acres in rural Oregon in order to build a city.
But so far it is describing a significant culture clash, and while the Cult/Ashram is weird and all, it's just another weird religion, albeit with a VERY large bank account.


The cult members themselves seem like typical educated people of that time doing the typical "seeking" of eastern mysticism and following a charismatic guru.
The alarming thing for the townfolk is the open sexuality of the cult members and reports of bizarre practices (group aggression therapy undertaken while naked and other things).

The townfolk at this point of the documentary come off as fearful and fairly intolerant, and they make no efforts to hide their attempts to intimidate the freaky cult members. Reading ahead it seems things escalated quite severely with the cult members taking things several steps too far.
So far more me this documentary does expose a great deal of America's rather iffy devotion to religious freedom.

Since I have subscribed to Netflix several years ago I have caught a number of pretty good documentaries on various cults (most of them born out of the counter-culture new age group sex variety). They all have disturbing attributes, but you can easily see how many of our current religions started out--just with less group sex.
I would love to see more in-depth analysis of Scientology, LDS and perhaps Islam, as they each have similarities to these. (Christianity does as well for certain, but I think that analysis has been done to death)

I have friends who became Buddhist monks and friends who are into Krishna consciousness but to me, Osho is like a combination of self help books, Ayn Rand, and almost a cliche of eastern mysticism. I was somewhat familiar with what happened out there and his religion. I never thought he was the crook they made him out to be, just a typical charlatan (although, I have heard his scholarly work on various ancient texts are supposed to be decent). It was mostly Sheela and other higher ups. But as close minded and typically conservative you’d imagine a bunch of old white hillbilly Christians, the smug elitism and self centered vindictive way the sunnyasins operated irritated me. They were all about themselves first, making money, etc, and free love and psychoanalytic gibberish. A feel good movement for young wealthy white people, ‘pat yourselves on the back, for your privilege means enlightenment’. The show made me wonder if that was how the people in Palestine felt when their living space was encroached upon by the Jews who moved there pre-Israel.