What are you watching?

Trion · 13 July 2018 12:51

I haven’t seen this. Interested. Tell me more.

Can you also post each sentence of your post on different posts to drown out the retarded shite in this thread?

Midfield_Maestro · 13 July 2018 13:23

BergkampsLoveChild · 13 July 2018 13:56

I tried to get into this after reading a quick synopsis and it sounded good, just couldn’t get into it.

Cristo · 13 July 2018 13:57

It’s so sick. Dystopian futures is one of my absolute favourite settings so this was right up my alley.

Craigie · 13 July 2018 17:50

Tell me more about this altered carbon.

NeedCoffee · 13 July 2018 18:10

It’s set in a dystopian future where you can transfer people’s consciousness from one body to another. The rich live in floating paradises and the poor live on the ground with polution, trash, and brothels on every corner. It’s very beautiful visually. Very well filmed and the CG is top tier for a TV series.

It does drag at times, suffers from over explaining, and is one of those shows that is so in love with it’s own concept that it forgets to be good at times. But I watched the whole thing in about a week or so… so I apparently liked it.

Edit: Oh yeah… it’s on Netflix.

sevchenko · 13 July 2018 18:15

I agree with alot of what you’re saying tbh, I’d give the season a steady 6.5.

The concept wore thin early on and some of the themes were not really original either. It’s a decent watch nothing revolutionary tbh

Castiel · 13 July 2018 18:23

This is super true and good explanation of what I found wrong with the show without really finding a way to put my finger on what was annoying me.

It’s a great piece of TV and really explores the freedom of no consequence morality much better than Westworld, but yeh it has some pacing issues and takes itself a little too serious at times.

Calum · 13 July 2018 18:26

was that you @JakeyBoy

JakeyBoy · 13 July 2018 18:26

Guys can you please stop going so off topic

NeedCoffee · 13 July 2018 18:27

Cheeky git.

Craigie · 13 July 2018 19:23

JakeyBoy:

The question is asked in a fairly open way. It could be what you are watching at that specific moment or what you are watching more generally on television, specific series or weekly shows.

At this exact moment I’m watching an episode of Frasier . I’ve had it on series record since the first episode and am now watching it all the way through. I’d always caught odd episodes here and there and thought it was really funny and now I’ve been watching every episode it’s one of my favourite sitcoms ever. Niles Crane is a great comic character, him and Frasier are hilariously pretentious and dysfunctional.

More generally I’ve just finished watching the British (original) version of House of Cards with Ian Richardson playing Francis Urquhart. I really enjoyed it and think that the show suits British politics very well. I’d recommend it to anyone who likes the US version. I do think that the first two series are better than the third, but that’s still entertaining and worth seeing for the ending to the trilogy. Especially as each series only has four 1 hour episodes, so it isn’t a massive investment of your time.

This thread started so well.

shamrockgooner · 13 July 2018 19:26

Can I, yes.

Will I, nah.

Castiel · 13 July 2018 20:33

Re-watching Scream Queens. What a show.

Craigie · 13 July 2018 21:07

please tell me more about Scream Queens

JakeyBoy · 13 July 2018 21:10

It’s no Ru Paul’s Drag Race.

Castiel · 13 July 2018 21:13

It’s better than love island.

Craigie · 13 July 2018 21:16

oh it looks like good fun, i will watch some episodes. and then maybe we can talk about it here? every day? for like 3 weeks?

Castiel · 13 July 2018 21:17

I’d actually be very ok with this.

JakeyBoy · 13 July 2018 22:09

Scream Queens is actually deeply average. Seriously, if you want something of a similar ilk (but vastly more entertaining) just watch Ru Paul.

Can’t believe I’m saying this, but it tops Love Island. It’s the best shit on TV apart from Queer Eye