Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh…! I was just going to say something about this and you beat me to it…
It looks SO good! I didn’t think it was possible to be more hyped!
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I’ve finished Infinity Train Season 4 and unfortunately Infinity Train as a whole.
This was a nice little season, with a few low-stakes, a few issues with character arcs, and a nice breather from the darkness of Season 3. But it’s a massive shame it had to end on this breather, because it laid a few very cool seeds that I think would have been addressed in a Season 5.
- Ryan and Min-Gi were fun characters. You could really tell they were old friends who had each others’ backs when it mattered.
- Also, them being Canadians (woop woop), the America slander throughout the show was hilarious. “Ugh. It’s American…”
- Shout-out to Oscar-winner J.K. Simmons for the extremely surprising performance of a giant crying pig baby.
- Kez was a great companion in this season. You could really tell she tried to be invested in good friendships, but was very averse to conflict within them that could get her in hot water.
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This season was most likely a prequel, given Amelia’s sudden appearance working with The Conductor. And there were a few tiny seeds of info that she had eventually taken control behind-the-scenes, that the show would inevitably show in the next season, as it usually does. But we don’t have that anymore. Damn it! (Also One-One was just 1 One(-One?) so it’s intriguing as to why he’s only one half.)
- The big moment where Ryan and Min get into a fight because of the assumption Ryan was going to leave him is my main issue. Basically, Ryan just happens to solve an optical illusion puzzle to escape, and can’t explain from the other-side to Min-Gi how it works. But then Min-Gi yells at Ryan for “trying to leave me!”. If only he had just explained that there was literally nothing he could do, it probably would have gone down better. But no, they continued with the “unexplained assumption” trope that I so dearly hate.
- The villains being these three “alien” type creatures were well-designed. I like their scientific nature and how their “Era device” changes them into prehistoric raccoons, or gorillas, or eldritch eyeballs from the future.
I am SO gonna mourn the loss of this show. It was nice, fun, and deserved so much more.
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So i started watching a British classic on BBC i player yesterday evening: Black Adder!
So far I’ve binged the first season and im in episode three of the second season and i have positively enjoyed watching this golden (or should i say black) gem.
To anyone who hasn’t seen Black Adder, please do, the jokes and references are ofc very out of date and aged like spilled milk for this current generation, so don’t get offended, people!
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Blackadder is still one of the best show I ever seen. It’s the reason I regularly announce that I have a cunning plan. As cunning as a fox that has just been made professor of cunning at Oxford university.
If you are doing the round of BBC classic : I highly recommand “Yes, Minister”, and “Yes, Prime Minister”, if you haven’t seen them already.
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Will do, my good sir!
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add the thick of it and the movie version, in the loop, afterwards. they’re the spiritual successors to yes, minister and have some of the most incredible swearing in the english language.
then watch day today, brass eye, and possibly jam (if you really want the televisual equivalent of a nervous breakdown).
or don’t. i ain’t the boss of you.
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Christ i might as well plan all of next year with all these good shows to watch thx!
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On the topic of BBC shows that you should watch, I have to add Detectorists and Doctor Who.
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Seen most of Doctor Who as im a English born person, its literally in our blood.
I’ve never seen even a single episode of Doctor Who.
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You must, it is very good, if you can manage 600+ episodes!
I’d start with the new generation eg 9th doctor to the present doctor (13)
I am a massive Whovian, to the point of my book collection being practically entirely composed of Doctor Who books. In terms of Classic Who, I’m waiting for the Collections.
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You are in for such a treat. I’ve watched them so many times. In the most unexpected way, the final episode of Blackadder goes Forth (the final series) will leave you lost for words.
Personally, I’m not such a fan of the first season. It’s got some good humour, but I think it took until the second series to get it just right. By the time you get to the third and fourth series, it is just perfect. The characters, the lines, and the flawless delivery is out of this world. You’ll see how much modern comedy has been influenced by the genius of the writers Richard Curtis and Ben Elton (series 2-4).
I love the reverse evolution of the two main recurring characters: Blackadder and Baldrick. Not that Baldrick was ever that bright, but he starts in the first series almost the clever of the two. But as each series progresses (and through history), the roles reverse until, by Blackadder goes Forth, the differences between the two could not be any more pronounced.
I’d echo @LandirtHome’s recommendation of Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister too. They’re very old, and some of the humour is dated, but the writing is utterly brilliant. You’ll never look at British politics in the same way ever again. Sir Humphrey Appleby is the absolute star of the show.
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some of his monologues are incredible.
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A favourite of mine is when Sir Humphrey admits responsibility of some political blunder :
“The identity of the Official whose alleged responsibility for this hypothetical oversight has been the subject of recent discussion, is NOT shrouded in quite such impenetrable obscurity as certain previous disclosures may have led you to assume, but not to put too fine a point on it, the individual in question is, it may surprise you to learn, one whom your present interlocutor is in the habit of defining by means of the perpendicular pronoun.”
Also Yes Minister is responsible for my most obscure, yet overused, reference : “Oh, look. A park.”.
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Latest episode of She-Hulk had some chickens in it
Love seeing those things 
Also I’m really liking the show. It’s not outstanding, but its a fun legal comedy, with plenty of weird new side-characters every week.
Tatiana Maslany is adorable in the show, and it’s just a nice half-hour watch every week.
Plus the social commentary of the show is riiight on the pulse of reality. Horrible incels+sexists are review-bombing the show for daring to have a strong Hulk woman with muscles in it, meanwhile the show itself is tackling a sub-plot invoving crazy incels+sexists bent on hating She-Hulk for being a She-Hulk.
Really hoping (expecting?) Daredevil for next week. They teased him once, showed him off a lot in the trailers, but he’s really being kept for one of the last two episodes?! Man that’s such a frustrating tease.
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Star Trek: Lower Decks is half way through its third season. Pretty good season so far, if a bit standard, but the latest episode is pretty awesome, as the cast visit Deep Space Nine. A couple of DS9 characters return for it and honestly it is just a lot of fun.
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Never saw a full episode of Black Adder but I do distinctly remember being shocked after randomly seeing it on PBS and hearing Mr. Bean speak!
Seemed wrong. 
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yes at first it was quite odd hearing Mr. Bean speak, but you get used to it!
have you seen nathan for you? really great show, the rehearsal feels like a natural extension of nfy in a lot of ways
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