|
|
Post by Hey Man on Oct 13, 2023 9:58:23 GMT -5
With the explosion now of streaming services since Freewheeler "went off the air", what TV shows are you watching both on streaming and network/cable now?
I really dig The Bear. In part, because my Dad owned a fine dining restaurant, so I love the culture of restaurants.
|
|
|
|
Post by Steve on Oct 15, 2023 4:31:22 GMT -5
The Fall Of The House Of Usher. I'm low key obsessed.
Like everything Mike Flanagan does, this is both pure class and a love letter to its source material. I've been a fan of his since Oculus and he never disappoints.
|
|
|
|
Post by Hey Man on Oct 15, 2023 15:24:07 GMT -5
The Fall Of The House Of Usher. I'm low key obsessed. Like everything Mike Flanagan does, this is both pure class and a love letter to its source material. I've been a fan of his since Oculus and he never disappoints. My wife will probably dig this. I will let her know. She has been looking for something new to watch on Netflix. She loves The Witcher. |
|
|
|
Post by Joma on Oct 15, 2023 17:10:46 GMT -5
The Fall Of The House Of Usher. I'm low key obsessed. Like everything Mike Flanagan does, this is both pure class and a love letter to its source material. I've been a fan of his since Oculus and he never disappoints. My wife will probably dig this. I will let her know. She has been looking for something new to watch on Netflix. She loves The Witcher. The Witcher is pretty cool. My wife and I watched it. Pretty GOT-like, which we both liked. |
|
|
|
Post by Hey Man on Oct 15, 2023 17:24:03 GMT -5
My wife will probably dig this. I will let her know. She has been looking for something new to watch on Netflix. She loves The Witcher. The Witcher is pretty cool. My wife and I watched it. Pretty GOT-like, which we both liked. Oh ya, my wife loves all that GOT stuff. If a show or movie has a dragon in it, she is watching. |
|
|
|
Post by Steve on Jan 5, 2024 0:37:01 GMT -5
Got this beauty in today's mail. Despite being far better, darker and more mature than its parent series, it wasn't as popular and so will probably never get the HD treatment for streaming or a blu ray release.  Millennium embodied a mid nineties fin de siecle angst that spoke to me at the time and still does. Now and then, the show represents everything I've come to expect of its genre and seek to capture when I try to write it. |
|
|
|
Post by Hey Man on Jan 5, 2024 0:46:18 GMT -5
Very cool. Nice to see someone is watching something. This section used to be pretty active previously, but it's like no one watches anything on TV anymore.  |
|
|
|
Post by Steve on Jan 5, 2024 1:19:25 GMT -5
Most Millennium fans hate that episode. I thought it was a great laugh, although it does stand out a bit because most of the third season is very bleak.
Given that the second season introduced a plague that essentially ended the world, I'm surprised the show even got renewed. The writers and producers had to backpedal from that plot choice very quickly and at times you could almost feel them scrambling behind the scenes. ('Why the hell did we let Morgan and Wong do this and how do we fix it? HALP!')
In 1997, when Millennium first aired in Australia, I was an angry, disillusioned young man. Not quite 21, I was caught in the aftermath of some poor study choices and basically resented everything including my favourite band. Watching a series about serial killers, violent crime and biblical end times prophecies as humanity lurched toward an apocalypse of its own making felt oddly comfortable to me. The next year my aunt lent me Red Dragon by Thomas Harris and, when I read it, I knew exactly the kind of stories I wanted to write. I ain't given up yet.
|
|
|
|
Post by Hey Man on Jan 5, 2024 13:08:16 GMT -5
Most Millennium fans hate that episode. I thought it was a great laugh, although it does stand out a bit because most of the third season is very bleak. Given that the second season introduced a plague that essentially ended the world, I'm surprised the show even got renewed. The writers and producers had to backpedal from that plot choice very quickly and at times you could almost feel them scrambling behind the scenes. ('Why the hell did we let Morgan and Wong do this and how do we fix it? HALP!') In 1997, when Millennium first aired in Australia, I was an angry, disillusioned young man. Not quite 21, I was caught in the aftermath of some poor study choices and basically resented everything including my favourite band. Watching a series about serial killers, violent crime and biblical end times prophecies as humanity lurched toward an apocalypse of its own making felt oddly comfortable to me. The next year my aunt lent me Red Dragon by Thomas Harris and, when I read it, I knew exactly the kind of stories I wanted to write. I ain't given up yet. What did you think of the film versions - Manhunter, Red Dragon and Silence Of The Lambs for that matter? I am a big fan of Manhunter, because I love Michael Mann and think Brian Cox was actually a better Hannibal than Hopkins. |
|
|
|
Post by Steve on Jan 5, 2024 17:28:43 GMT -5
What did you think of the film versions - Manhunter, Red Dragon and Silence Of The Lambs for that matter? I like 'em all to varying degrees although I much prefer the books because of their richness of language and level of detail that can't really be captured on film. Manhunter is great but very much of its time (see William Petersen's very 80s perm) and I often wonder how a Michael Mann version of Silence Of The Lambs would have turned out. Jonathan Demme's Silence Of The Lambs deserves all the praise it gets and works so well because of the chemistry between Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins, but it glosses over a lot of the story and could easily have been three hours long. As recognisable as Hopkins' Lecter has become since, I feel he gets a bit cartoonish at times and would have been more menacing if he'd toned it down. That said, people reacted well to him in the role and I'm not a director, so what do I know? Ridley Scott's Hannibal is a hot mess and I barely got through it once. I went to see it with someone I was very into and, as the credits rolled, we looked at each other and said 'well, that sucked' in perfect unison. Thomas Harris was under a lot of pressure from Dino De Laurentiis for another story at the time, so he wrote something ridiculously over the top and unfilmable to piss him off. De Laurentiis went ahead and made the damned thing anyway, and the results speak for themselves. Ugh. I quite like Red Dragon, mostly because of Ralph Feinnes' perfectly tortured take on Francis Dolarhyde. When he shows up and the script taps into some of his background, I can overlook any difficulties I have accepting Edward Norton as Will Graham or with Brett Ratner as a director. As I said, the book is a sentimental favourite of mine and I'll give any adaptation a shot, but a few different choices in front of and behind the camera could have elevated this one from good to great. Hannibal the TV series? Batshit crazy in the best possible way, especially during the second season. I cannot believe it was on network television. Hugh Dancy and Mads Mikkelsen are perfectly matched as Graham and Lecter and make the characters their own. Anthony who? |
|
|
|
Post by Joma on Feb 2, 2024 17:02:47 GMT -5
Letterkenny...mostly lolz.
|
|
|
|
Post by Hey Man on Feb 2, 2024 17:14:34 GMT -5
Letterkenny...mostly lolz. It's always interesting when an American digs a Canadian show. |
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2024 1:40:49 GMT -5
Letterkenny...mostly lolz. It's always interesting when an American digs a Canadian show. I still enjoy the older shows. Streets of San Francisco, Swat, Incredible Hulk, Bionic woman, Vegas, Baretta, TJ Hooker, etc. |
|
|
|
Post by Joma on Feb 28, 2024 0:25:41 GMT -5
Letterkenny...mostly lolz. It's always interesting when an American digs a Canadian show. I think I liked Shoresy better than the last few seasons of Letterkenny. LK might have been better to start...hard to remember back to all the episodes, but the last few seasons started to drag a bit by comparison. |
|
|
|
Post by KISS79 on Feb 28, 2024 19:30:12 GMT -5
 1 of my Fav shows, Kinda like the Stephen King Movie "CREEPSHOW" as it had different stories every episode,i was stoked as a kid too see naked chix |
|
|
|
Post by Hey Man on Feb 28, 2024 20:28:29 GMT -5
View Attachment1 of my Fav shows, Kinda like the Stephen King Movie "CREEPSHOW" as it had different stories every episode,i was stoked as a kid too see naked chix Yep. Watched this too. Excited to see Gene Simmons too in this episode. |
|
|
|
Post by KISS79 on Feb 28, 2024 21:10:41 GMT -5
View Attachment1 of my Fav shows, Kinda like the Stephen King Movie "CREEPSHOW" as it had different stories every episode,i was stoked as a kid too see naked chix Yep. Watched this too. Excited to see Gene Simmons too in this episode. rights, It was Filmed in my Hometown of Vancouver BC Canada. I loved Gene's parts in it, he plays the Drug/Cocaine Kingpin. This is the last time he was intimate with my Aunt. They started Sexual escapades on Love Gun tour at the (BAYSHORE INN Swanky Hotel in Vancouver) in 1977 & 1979, Then he n her saw each other again in 1984 when Gene was Filming the Movie RUNAWAY with Tom Selleck & Kirstie Alley (also filmed in BC) & last when Hitchhiker was filmed in 1986. She tried to see GENE on Crazy Nights tour but to no avail, You know how it is, you cant stay young forever. Infact another fact is my aunts best friend was TOMMY LEE of Motley Crue's 1st wife, she was a stripper who stripped at the MARBLE ARCH (which Vince neil calls out in the song "GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS") and NUMBER #5 ORANGE (the famous strip club that Bon Jovi called there LP slippery when wet when recording that LP as they frequneted the Vancouver strip bar), Her name was CANDICE STARREK, she moved to LA and was a Lingerie Model etc n Married TOMMY LEE and was with him in the TOO FAST FOR LOVE/SHOUT AT THE DEVIL era but they divorced then Tommy married HEATHER LOCKLEAR & then PAMELA ANDERSON. I got to hear a ton of stories, I cant post for privacy reasons but what I all said you can find Im sure as well as in the Book "THE DIRT", Tommy lied and said the marriage was OFF and they were just engaged but its NOT TRUE, they were fucking married alright but it ended bad. |
|
|
|
Post by battra on Mar 24, 2024 13:37:54 GMT -5
My podcast partner turned me onto the Mighty Boosh, which led me to following the principals. I just started watching The Completely Made Up Adventures of Dick Turpin starring Noel Fielding. Fucking Apple TV has me for another fiddy bucks.  |
|
|
|
Post by battra on Mar 24, 2024 13:39:41 GMT -5
Letterkenny...mostly lolz. I have gotten done with Letterkenny. The last three seasons, which I watched all of, were too samey for me. |
|
|
|
Post by Joma on Mar 24, 2024 14:27:38 GMT -5
Letterkenny...mostly lolz. I have gotten done with Letterkenny. The last three seasons, which I watched all of, were too samey for me. Agreed. |
|
|
|
Post by Psychocreature on Mar 30, 2024 0:12:15 GMT -5
Season 2 of Police woman
|
|
