[sciborg2]

Shield Hero - ... I'd suggest watching the first four episodes just to gauge one's own moral reactions.

Sounds interesting, is this an anime? What streaming is it on?

Anime, I think Crunchyroll but I have VRV since you get a lot more (IMO) for a slightly higher cost.

[H]

Well, surprisingly Mr. Mayor isn't terrible.  Honestly, I like Tina Fey but often I find shows she's written to not really be funny to me (yeah, I am one of those 20 Rock isn't funny to me people).  But I have to admit that this one is actually pretty decent.

[MSJ]

Its been awhile and I'm not reading the thread atm. But, have any of you watched Dark on Netflix?

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The time-traveling one, there a couple different "Dark's" on Netflix....

Its probably...no, definitely top 3 all-time TV series I've watched. Its finished and if you haven't watched, GO WATCH IT!!!

[TaoHorror]

Its been awhile and I'm not reading the thread atm. But, have any of you watched Dark on Netflix? The time-traveling one, there a couple different "Dark's" on Netflix....

Its probably...no, definitely top 3 all-time TV series I've watched. Its finished and if you haven't watched, GO WATCH IT!!!

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Yes, we've discussed Dark, but it's so good, it's worth talking more about it.

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Very sharp writing, clever directing ( so even if you get lost with the time travel, you can still follow the story - that and they keep you up with the last person you saw is the first person you see in the next time jump, so the show connects who is who for you and does so artfully, not forced or clumsy ). The beginning of the 3rd season is a bit long in the tooth, but if you can stick with it, it pays off in the end. The whole different "versions" of a person fighting each other is very cool and it shows the effects of time travel concepts, providing rich understanding of loops and paradoxes. This show treats the subject better than 12 Monkeys tv show which was very enjoyable as well.

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Interesting both shows share a common theme of time travel leading to apocalypses, that pilling paradoxes will destroy reality, etc

[H]

Yeah, Dark is really good.  I think the only criticism is that it probably could have been a bit better in the end, but certainly well worth watching and it was certainly interesting/entertaining.

I think the same writers have another show in the works, but I can't recall what it is at the moment.

[TaoHorror]

Yeah, Dark is really good.  I think the only criticism is that it probably could have been a bit better in the end, but certainly well worth watching and it was certainly interesting/entertaining.

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I actually liked the end - it was interesting that it was the "paradox people" were the only ones who grew to awareness that they had to destroy themselves/prevent their births to fix it all - no one else could figure it out and were just going around in time murdering people to fix it, LOL!

"... if I can just kill this one person at this point in time, it'll undo everything ... fuck, that didn't do it, now I have to kill them in another time ... now I have to kill them in a parallel universe ... fuck, killing all of these people is exhausting, phew! ... "

The only way to end the loops is to prevent paradox people from being born as killing anyone else before they can time travel just creates more paradoxes. Several levels of stuff going on with this show, pretty cool.

[MSJ]

TH, fixed that..

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I actually like the ending too. I thought it was a perfect way to bring all that destruction and heartache to a end. In the "fixed" version, they don't even know what happened. Thought it was really well done. I'd have loved to watch that show season by season and speculate as it came out. That would have been TSA-worthy speculation.  Anyhow, its one of my favorite series I've ever come across.

[TaoHorror]

TH, fixed that..

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I actually like the ending too. I thought it was a perfect way to bring all that destruction and heartache to a end. In the "fixed" version, they don't even know what happened. Thought it was really well done. I'd have loved to watch that show season by season and speculate as it came out. That would have been TSA-worthy speculation.  Anyhow, its one of my favorite series I've ever come across.

Right - has it happened to us? We wouldn't know it.

[TaoHorror]

Signs

A Polish television show. Some hard scenes in this thing, especially end of the 2nd season. Music is suspect, at times good, other times overly dramatic/bad. Interesting story, I like it. The 2nd season goes into a whole different direction, kinda funny it does that and some twisty story line going on which clears up some, so that was good.

[TaoHorror]

Tenet

Well done for what it is, but not at a speed I enjoy. Done in an Eastern speed of movie, just drops you right into the action without knowing anything about the characters and you only end up learning some of a few and not the main character at that. Anyways, some cool effects and it gets interesting in the end. All in all, not one of Nolan's best pictures. Same thing with Dunkirk, you don't get to know anyone, guess that's Nolan's thing these days, dropping the viewer in the middle of things, light on character development, everything on action and the idea.

[sciborg2]

Well, not sure where you hail from, but here in the USA having more kids than you can afford is the rule, not the exception.

This explains American politics 

Off topic, but I wonder what this explains specifically (or generally)?

Ah I never answered this AFAICTell - but it was just a random joke, it wasn't a real observation.

[sciborg2]

Been doing a binging of the Blacklist, which I leave in the background.

Frustrating in that there's a good show in the morass of seasons, a questionable lead actress, and other factors.

I can't recommend actually watching it with deep focus, but if you leave it in the background your mind might be able, as mine sort of has, utilize it for an excellent show vaguely in memory. It doesn't work perfectly because of some plot points are just too big and stupid but if you are just bored and want something playing while you work it might suffice...

[H]

Possibly interesting in a Bakker-Crash-Space related way (probably in the same sort of way that Upload was) Made for Love debuted 3 episodes and was pretty good.  I'd recommend it (if it matters though, it's not particularly appropriate for kids, language/sexual content).

[TaoHorror]

Your Honor

Very good, well done.

Not much of a spoiler, but kinda

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These toilet flushing stories aren't my thing, really, but this was very well done for what it was. I call stories which just go south the whole way down without coming up for air "toilet flushing", like Leaving Los Vegas and Bloodline. I like sad or tragic endings, that's fine, but when the thing is just a straight line into a ditch, not fun to watch.

[TaoHorror]

Starz are mother-fuckers, I tell ya. First they cancel Boss ( incomplete ) and then Counterpart ( quazi complete, but had more gas in the story to tell ) and now American Gods ( serious cliffhanger ). Really? I'm guessing because it wasn't watched by enough people, but plenty of people waited for the entire thing to be released to binge watch it, like myself. Anyways, I loved the show, some killer gay/trans sex going on near the end of season 3 ( an extraordinary scene, amazing render of unrepressed human love ).

I guess I'll have to finish the book to learn the end ( found the book boring - but I guess I suffer a lack of imagination given how beautiful the show is ). Still worth watching even though the story "ends" on a cliffhanger.