Movies and TV

[Tron]

Netflix documentary LA 92

9 out of 10 Trons

Very in depth look at LA riots

 

[Mudcat]

I tried the HBO show Barry. The premise seemed like it could go to some darkly humorous places - burned out hit man from Cleveland goes to L.A. and gets caught up in the theatre arts scene.

I like the half-hour comedy format. I like Bill Hader. I like Stephen Root. The girl is cute.

But I'm out after 2.5 episodes. It's just not funny.

 

[max headroom]

Sneaky Pete continues to deliver, getting ready to binge season 2.

Highly recommended.

Going to be doing Ozark as well, which I'm sure will turn into a binge.

 

[Blitty]

Ozark is best binge show of past year.

 

[max headroom]

Yeah Bateman's pretty much lock city as well.

Making it a priority.

 

[max headroom]

Well, damn.

62% on rotten tomatoes is seeming drastically low.

 

[Mudcat]

If you're still talking about Ozark, fwiw I rated it 5.2 out of 10. It passed some time but I wouldn't call it good. It's just a long series of contrived plot points that get increasingly eye-rollable as it goes along.

I believe they are doing a season 2 but I won't bother with it.

 

[Matty]

Ozark S1 was a solid 7.8 out of 10 for me. Not exactly top-shelf stuff but Bateman's stoic performance is entertaining.

 

[Tron]

Ozark S1 was a solid 7.8 out of 10 for me. Not exactly top-shelf stuff but Bateman's stoic performance is entertaining.

Definitely at least 7.5 Trons out of 10. Without Bateman it’s likely a 5.

 

[Blitty]

My old lady forced me to watch a show for the first time, since all her friends were raving about it.

We power watched 36 hours of-- This Is Us.

I consider that a 5.2 show.

 

[Matty]

My old lady forced me to watch a show for the first time, since all her friends were raving about it.

We power watched 36 hours of-- This Is Us.

I consider that a 5.2 show.

Wife loves that shit. My gayTVdar made me look away after 30 seconds of S01E01.

 

[Mudcat]

In anticipation of the new season of Westworld, I watched the finale of season 1.

There was some shit going on there.

 

[max headroom]

Ozark is very good. 8 maxes.

 

[Blitty]

One Mississippi

A bit surprised it got cancelled after 2 seasons


I think I’m a lesbian

 

[max headroom]

Ozark rating is down to 8 for now. Still very good but yeah

there was a recent plot twist that could have been discussed instead of right up on the screen and shit.

 

[Mudcat]

There is yet another movie from the Marvel universe now out in theatres. Avengers: Infinity War.

In case you are wondering who is in it:

 

[Mudcat]

I kinda feel like Westworld is painting itself into a corner.

 

[Mudcat]

So I've been watching Rellik - which is a 6 part BBC mini-series. Here's the problem (well, one of a few problems.)

They are doing it in the format of the movie Memento. It starts with a climactic ending then goes back in time incrementally. (Rellik is killer spelled backwards. Get it?)

The thing about Memento though was it's a movie. So all the stuff you view is fairly easy to relate to the big picture - because everything that has happened you have seen in the last 2 hours.

But Rellik is a 6 part mini-series. So we are faced with trying to relate what we just saw to stuff we saw 4 weeks ago (and 3 weeks ago and 2 weeks yada yada.) I'm not terrible at retaining stuff but I'm just saying, it's a bit much.