I was fine with how it ended but the special effects for when
Homelander
appeared seemed really dodgy compared to similar scenes of other characters in the very same episode, not to mention the main series of The Boys. Sort of felt like it might have been a last-minute change.
I finished The Consultant in a few days. I almost never binge shows, so this one clearly had an effect on me. It's weird and creepy. I'm not sure they stuck the landing, but it was a fun time, and Christoph Waltz is marvelous.
My mom figured out how to share her Prime account with me so I'll be watching more in the near future.
BadKen, 3 other top tier shows to try: Patriot, Upload, and Bosch. You can go with just that much info but here in spoilers, just cuz, are super-brief descriptions. (no actual show spoilers)
Patriot - Dark comedy - A depressed and extremely capable super spy has to help his dad do spy stuff and nothing ever goes according to plan. Featuring amusing folk music and beastie boys
Upload - Comedy, light drama. In the nearish future you can Upload your brain when you die and go to basically VRChat. The story is pretty close to how you'd imagine that would go in the dystopia we live in where corporations and social media are the most important things ever.
Bosch - detective drama - ridiculously capable detective does detective stuff. Very engrossing stories and feels like it goes pretty real on the cop story lines, rather than the rose tinted glasses shows like Law & Order have where cops are always right, though very few of these C's are B's. The show has like 5 seasons and continues in a 2nd series Bosch Legacy. Also the show has the wonderful, sadly departed Lance Reddick (and a bit more DNA from The Wire too if I remember right)
I’m already on Upload & Bosch. I’ll have to check out Patriot.
Patriot is a proper hidden gem. Criminally hidden
Got interrupted before finishing the first episode of Patriot, but you're right. It is super weird and pretty great. Looking forward to more.
The documentary about the making of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon is a pretty good hidden gem if that's your thing.
The documentary about the making of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon is a pretty good hidden gem if that's your thing.
Oh yeah, I've seen that one! It's awesome.
Bosch is super fun.
But MAN does it lean hard into a certain demographic's stuff.
In the Before Times, I got turned on to the show because several of my Boomer coworkers absolutely LOVED all its themes:
Divorce
Being out of touch with kids
Kid approaching adulthood
Aging on the job
Bureaucratic headaches, especially as an aging worker
Late career challenges
Retiring coworkers
Basically, expect a lot of, "I'm too old for this sh*t" kinda stuff.
I guess, but the show is about a cop towards the end of his career. All of those topics seem like what you would expect in that scenario. It would be weird if there was an episode about Bosch trying to get more subscribers for his youtube video or something.
Mixolyde wrote:The documentary about the making of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon is a pretty good hidden gem if that's your thing.
Oh yeah, I've seen that one! It's awesome.
There's a new one about Syd Barret that i think is still doing the festival runs. Waiting for that to be released
Is Bosch like most police shows that devolve into "violate as many civil liberties as you can because you're the good guy and you just know they are guilty"?
Seems like there's always someone on the show trying to make sure they do whatever the right way. A lot of the stories are very personal to the detectives so reigning them in is a challenge. They definitely fail to reign them in sometimes and I can remember 1 instance that's pretty bad but I can't remember the consequences.
Its probably realistic, so its a paid leave of absence or a parade or something.
Is Bosch like most police shows that devolve into "violate as many civil liberties as you can because you're the good guy and you just know they are guilty"?
More than most, only remotely justified because Bosch is always right.
It also leans heavily into serial killer storylines and putting Bosch's female family members in danger.
I've enjoyed it, but the latest season of Bosch Legacy may lean too much on these tropes for me to continue with it.
Episode 5 and Gen V continues to be brilliant a shockingly violent kind of a way.
Is Bosch like most police shows that devolve into "violate as many civil liberties as you can because you're the good guy and you just know they are guilty"?
Warning: The show literally starts off establishing in the first 5 minutes that Bosch is a great cop struggling against nosy journalists, a liberal justice system, and internal affairs who don't understand what it's like on the streets.
I'll be honest and say once I decided to move forward and give it another try, it did end up grabbing me for a while. It's well made and does a good job telling one story per season, and it does also start integrating the notion that sometimes cops are wrong or crooked.
My issues with it in the end were twofold:
- For all it's prestige aura, it still deals all too often in cliches. One example includes a subplot that wraps up in a way that seemed like it was shifting to humanizing Bosch, only for it to unthread a season later and redo it for a more typical network TV conclusion.
- That attempt at "shades of gray" as mentioned before started to get more tiresome and forced, made all the worse by how the real life LAPD kept getting caught doing things completely black. I bowed out of the show when they created the most convoluted scenario imaginable in order to make a sexual harassment policy at a police station have negative consequences.
I guess, but the show is about a cop towards the end of his career. All of those topics seem like what you would expect in that scenario. It would be weird if there was an episode about Bosch trying to get more subscribers for his youtube video or something.
Oh, of course! I'm not staying it should be something different.
I'm just saying it's clearly a show built and marketed for a certain audience, and sometimes I felt conspicuously outside the target demo. If viewers, especially Goodjers? can get past the fact that it may not be targeted at them, it's a ton of fun. In part because it's so trope-y!
For what it's worth, I enjoy the heck out of Bosch & Bosch: Legacy, and "typical cop show" is nowhere near my idea of a preferred genre to watch. As far as I'm concerned, Titus Welliver was born to play this role, and goddamn does he own the hell out of it.
He's also been reading either all or the Bosch parts of the recent Bosch/Lincoln Lawyer audio books. One I listened to recently on a trip had him voicing J. Edgar, Maddie, and Mickey Haller, albeit more like Matthew McConaughey rather than the actor who plays him on the Netflix show. And in one chapter Haller was arguing before in court against ADA Kennedy who sounded a lot like a JFK impression, a crooked attorney who sounded a lot like Christopher Walken, and a judge who sounded exactly like Bernie Sanders. That guy must be a lot of fun at parties.
His Pacino, Walken and Robert Duvall (!!!) impressions are dynamite.
I'm very curious to find out what Jaime Hector and Maddison Linz think of Titus Welliver's impressions of them.
Amazon's Fallout TV Show Reveals Its Armor, Apocalypse, and Walton Ghoul-gins
Instantly I thought when looking at the first picture - a human in that armor would have their knees in a spot that doesn't line up with the joint so they would break their calf every time the armor knee bent.
My second thought was that things look a bit cleaner than I expected. The games had a grittyness that doesn't seem present.
Green film grain missing. If I had photoshop I could fix the top one 
true but even with that the plane just looks like a pristine white which feels weird. It should be dirty.
I've been watching Three Body which is a version of the excellent novel The Three-Body Problem. I read (listened to) the book series and found it super interesting but also very dense and.. well, foreign. The style is unfamiliar but you also get hints of culture and thought that just aren't top of mind for a white guy from Texas, which was a fun experience.
The TV series seems really well done presenting a very strange story in what feels like a faithful recreation of the first book so far (11 episodes into the 30 episode series). Its a story that seems hard to tell but they're doing a good job. I am super curious what it is like for someone who doesn't know what's happening. I wonder if it's just confusing or if the mystery is interesting enough to keep them hooked.
I think the tv series covers just the first novel (which is a lot), but Im not sure yet.
I didn't realize there had already been a TV adaption, considering Netflix has started hyping up their own take on it.
that explains why they were removed from youtube...
I didn't realize there had already been a TV adaption, considering Netflix has started hyping up their own take on it.
This is a Chinese production and has been out for a couple years. It's why it's so faithful to the book
Three Body is the Chinese produced adaptation.
Amazon's Fallout TV Show Reveals Its Armor, Apocalypse, and Walton Ghoul-gins
My second thought was that things look a bit cleaner than I expected. The games had a grittyness that doesn't seem present.
Honestly that's always been an issue I had with Fallout 3 and 4. They're set over 200 years after the Great War, and almost none of the plant life has recovered, and the very concept of a broom has been lost to the ages.
Honestly that's always been an issue I had with Fallout 3 and 4. They're set over 200 years after the Great War, and almost none of the plant life has recovered, and the very concept of a broom has been lost to the ages.
I think that's why Fallout 76 was the first Fallout game I was able to get into... the plants were there. It was a world that I actually wanted to spend time in. Once I got familiar with the details and quirks of the setting I was able to go back and enjoy the grimier ones, but that aesthetic was definitely a turn-off of a first impression.
I would watch Walton Goggins and all of his teeth read a phone book. Love that guy.
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