I’m just worried the show is getting too big for its boots. That last season was cramped already.
Hopefully Season 5 is when they decide to end it, as planned.
Holy moly.
Yeah, these new 4 members are listed as “recurring characters” so they’ll appear throughout the season. I’m betting those other 9 people aren’t, and and just fill some small roles.
Still, the main group is big enough already. Can’t imagine how cramped the final episodes might be if any of these characters get involved in the climax.
I’m not sure where it is at the moment, but i remember reading an interview with the Duffer Bros, stating that they had a plan for 4 or maybe 5 seasons – they didn’t have it totally set in stone yet – before the show would close.
Hopefully Netflix somehow decides to let go of their biggest money maker.
My sister got me into The Untamed this week while I helped her recover from her second jab and it’s so much fun, like the Witcher set in fantasy medieval China. And for something produced under pretty heavy censorship, it does an incredible job of keeping the gay relationship from the original source material pretty much intact.
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Huh. How do they manage that? Lots of subtleties and innuendos that went over the censors, or heavy character coding?
They seem to have taken the approach that as long as they don’t actually kiss or say I love you, everything is pretty much the same as if they were still supposed to be a couple. No forced female love interests, no No Homo moments and the disapproval of certain family members comes from one of the characters Poor Life Decisions and not from how close he is to the other lead. As someone who’s used to picking through stories for kernels of representation (the MCU) or being blatantly disrespected (Sherlock), it’s a breath of fresh air.
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Just finished the Sopranos, a very very good show that I highly recommend.
I’m probably moving onto Vikings next, which I’ve heard to be pretty good, has anyone here seen it?
Looking at you @Norseman 
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It’s a good show, that said the first season took me two tries to get through, but after that I was hooked.
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Sopranos is one of my favs.
I watched most of Vikings with my wife. I know I missed an occasional episode here or there but we’re caught up and overall I enjoyed it. The first season was my least favourite which is unusual for any show, but it’s by no means a bad season of tv.
Perhaps season 1 is just a culture shock. We’re used to seeing knights of the round table type stuff but the societies have silverware and (mostly) don’t practice human sacrifice ect. Season one of Vikings is set in 793 AD.
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Just finished Netflix’s Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness, in short it feels like a unskippable cutscene with no gameplay afterwards.
The setup is a political thriller with a lot of men talking in dark rooms. Animations that isn’t better then then animated RE films from 08 and 12. At times the CGI got a gorgeous level of details, yet only be horrible inconsistent the next scene. It was at time hard to keep track at where the characters where, one minute they where in China, then in a secret facility in America. With no explanation to how they got there and plot twist that was so clearly telegraphed you knew it from the first episode.
The story is set between RE4 and RE5, trapping you in the out of control mythology of the games pre RE7. It feels like an odd design choice after RE7 and 8 wiped the slate clean, only to drag us back into a convoluted mythology that peaked with RE6.
There where some cool moments in the show, but it felt more like a flat soda. I would go so far and say that the earlier animated RE films where more entertaining
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that’s such a perfect description !! I didn’t finish it.
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The short Netflix series “We The People”. A Musical (if basic) Civics course about how the laws and legal systems of the USA work.
The show is… Nice when it focuses on individual citizen topics, though it does fall into a consistent pro-gov, rose-coloured, very patriotic pattern. That’s definitely because of the subject matter covered (and some of the main executive producers are Barack and Michelle Obama, along with their film production company Higher Ground). Also, the fact that I’m completely unrelated to the country definitely plays a factor in my disconnect.
I could not finish the “I’m an American Citizen!” Episode due to how unrelatable it felt, even if these episodes are only 4 mins long…
The show features a wide variety of artists, composers, directors, and animation styles. If you’re not interested in the show for its educational value, the animation is a real treat, along with hearing new material from the Anderson-Lopez bunch, Lin Manuel Miranda or Adam Lambert. The final episode is particularly noteworthy, being a spoken word poem by Amanda Gorman – not an episode about the government or America’s ideals, but about uniting in the face of today’s pandemic.
Best animation: “Taxes” & “Federal Vs. State Power”
Best music: “(Link Up) Federal Vs. State Power”, “(All Rise) The Courts”, & “(Stronger) We The People”
(look up the court case ‘Naruto v. Slater’ it’s insane)
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One of my favs!!!
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I wanna talk about the TV Series Black Summer.
It’s a Netflix Action-Zombie-Drama about the start of a post-apocalypse.
It’s quite fun, but it’s some real weird quirks and faults, and with Season 2 out now (but I’ve only seen the first episode), they haven’t handled/improved it well.
- For one thing, basically everyone in this show is stupid. They make tons of terrible decisions; Making noise intentionally at the worst times, not closing doors in a chase, never learning to be skeptical of people, etc. If it’s a bad idea, it’ll happen.
- It’s hard to get to know the characters apart from their appearance and general attitude. People very rarely mention their names (or never – sometimes you only learn it through a one-time title card) and with S2 out now… Well…
- Returning characters are totally lost on me. It’s been two years since the last season came out and Netflix hasn’t prepared for it. No recap video, the show makes a sudden 4-month timeskip to a new location+season. Some characters reappear from S1, but it was only after I looked up the cast did I find that out. One of them even dies and I didn’t even realise it was someone important!
Apart from that, the show is enjoyable to watch at times. The action scenes are well-choreographed and many of them use a one-shot camera format. I don’t remember much of the latter from Season 1, but I guess that’s another reason why I should just restart this anyway and find out.
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I just got done with the second season of For All Mankind. The show’s jumped to the 80s and the Americans and Soviets both have bases on the moon and the reinvigorated space race has fanned the flames of the Cold War instead of letting it die out.
Naturally, I love all the hard sci-fi NASA stuff (despite a few developments that broke my idealistic heart), but the overall characters and writing are incredibly strong, to the point where I’d recommend the show as a straight-up drama to non sci-fi fans. (Also: Alternate Sally Ride is almost as badass as Real Life Sally Ride. 
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Definitely my favorite show on television right now and the (spoiler-free) ending teaser for next season has me so hyped.
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I’m currently re-watching the 2006 series Jericho.
It follows the citizens of a small town in Kansas named Jericho.
In the first episode a mushroom cloud suddenly appears in the direction of Denver. The show follows the aftermath of what happened that day, and shows everything from the problem solving involved in avoiding nuclear fallout, to keeping a small town running after an apocalyptic event, protecting it from outside threats, or what to do when winter comes and you don’t have a means to heat your homes.
It definitely feels like an early 2000s show, both in production values and the added drama, but I still quite enjoy it. It’s just a great premise with a lot of potential.
I really loved this show when it first aired, which is why it still irks me that it got cancelled. At least they got a 7 episode second season to wrap things up.
Anyone watch/remember the show?
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It’s been a while since I’ve seen it, but I remember Jericho being a good show with a good cast that unfortunately got buried under a mountain of truly awful Lost clones. I might have to give it a re-watch next time I get Netflix.
(It’s also one of those shows that did seasons 3 and 4 in comic book form, but I have no idea if those are any good or not.)
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I either didn’t know this, or have forgotten about it. I might check that out when I’m done re-watching. 
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Did they show make it past the comic book season(s)?
Like can you watch then read then watch again or does the show end and then there is a comic book that continues the story and that’s it?
The latter. The comics are continuations of the story after the show was cancelled (for good) following the second season.
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Well, in Doctor Who news, both current Doctor Jodie Whittaker and showrunner Chris Chibnall have confirmed that they will be leaving. They’ll be doing a 6 episode season this Autumn, followed by 3 specials: one in New Year, one in Spring, and finally a feature length one in Autumn of next year to mark the BBC’s 100 year anniversary.
Don’t have too much to say. Whittaker leaving isn’t much of a surprise, all the New Who Doctors (barring Eccleston) have done 3 seasons + specials and moved on, probably due to a mix of high work load, low BBC pay, and wanting to move up in their careers. Chibnall is more of a surprise, but it was rumoured since he came on board he would only be around for 3 seasons or the like. It seems Series 14 will be a very fresh start, and since 2023 is the 60th anniversary year for the show, it remains to be seen if they will try and do anything to tie into that.
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