@PegasusActual93 funny you should say that… considering I’ve been trying to get her to watch it for around 3 years, when I told her I started it over the phone earlier, she made me stop what I was doing as she wants to watch it with me (some day) 🤣.
@LN78 I finished 1899. Earlier in the week. I was completely hooked for the first 6 episodes then it lost me a bit with the twist. However I was back in by the end.
Really disappointed to hear that it’s been cancelled (?). I hope someone picks up the show.
I’ve just started House of Cards. It’s very good.
Also there are scenes of Kevin Spacey with a Vita & his ‘me’ time being playing FPS games on PS3.
Also in one scene he tried to play GOW: Ascension online, but couldn’t get online 😂.
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It's funny that House of Cards of all shows is one of the more accurate portrayals of playing video games. Can't tell you how many movies/tv shows, always get it wrong. Dark is one of the best shows ever made with an incredible attention to detail and yet even they show two characters playing a PS4 with the controllers clearly off lol.
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Spaced also did a really good job. There's a scene where Simon Peggs character is playing Resident Evil 2 and he is very clearly playing the actual game the whole time, even pausing it at one point to talk to another person.
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Started watching Yellowstone and I just finished the first episode. The premise is Cowboys versus Native Americans in a modern setting, which I haven't experienced before in media. There's lots of politics and drama happening. The writing is very powerful stuff. I'm very intrigued so far and I'm looking forward to watching more of it.
Currently binging on Switched at Birth Season 1 on Hulu
binging slowly on Season 4 of Z Nation on Netflix
getting burned out on Season 4 of Stranger Things. Why the hell did the make the episodes longer this time?
@EaglyTheKawaiiShika The bit where Velma makes a bizarre edgy joke about MeToo was enough. I’m just baffled by their motivations, it feels like a show that was specifically designed to be terrible as a punching bag for a certain side of YouTube to make 4 hour videos slamming and then tarring similar, actually good shows with the same brush.
@PegasusActual93 Funnily enough it’s the first thing I look for when someone is playing a game on a show. The light bar being off is a dead a give away & you can tell by inputs if the actors are actually playing the game or exaggerating (The Big Bang Theory). I still think that the South Park episode ‘Make Love not Warcraft’ is the most accurate representation of video games on TV😂.
@LN78 I’m about halfway through the second season & it’s still got me to be fair. It can’t be worse than Lucifer I watched that show for 6 seasons straight religiously (no pun intended) & then dropped the last couple of episodes.
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Regarding Velma the whole "offend everyone equally" thing only works if you have the quality writing to back it up. South Park for example doesn't always stick the landing but their writing in general even at their weakest is still miles above this trash fire. I haven't bothered watching Velma and never will as the random clips I've seen tell me everything I need to know but what really irks me is that I can't figure out who the target audience of this thing is. It purposefully alienates Scooby Doo fans, it annoys conservatives, annoys liberals, annoys moderates, it's like they purposefully formulated this show in a lab with the express scientific purpose to see if it's possible to make a series that appeals to exactly no one. Who greenlit this?
@PegasusActual93@LN78 it seems the Great Dane himself has dodged a bullet by not being in this show. Everywhere online this thing is being ripped apart.
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@LN78 I’m still confused by Craig Mazin suddenly being described as a talent. Chernobyl is the one good thing he’s been involved in, the guy’s responsible for writing and directing Superhero Movie and he wrote the Hangover sequels as well as Scary Movie 3 and 4. It seems more like he’s someone utterly talentless who was surrounded by a great team at HBO. Absolutely nothing else he’s been involved in has shown even a modicum of talent.
This was one of those series that holds a nostalgic quality for me because it used to be on Adult Swim in the early 00's when I started watching the block, but it seemed to be one of those shows they aired so often that I kinda got bored with it eventually.
That being, it's been over a decade since I gave it a watch (especially one where I was really paying attention) so I decided to plop down for the Blu-Ray release (Like I've been doing for a lot of anime I grew up with like Evangelion, InuYasha, Outlaw Star, etc.), and it absolutely blew me away.
It's thematically a very beautiful show, and maybe there was a bit of nostalgia amplifying things, but the episodes that delved into Spike & Faye's back stories often had me in tears (don't think anything hit me as hard as when Ed left the group though), but that said I had forgotten just how fun the show could be as well (Heavy Metal Queen, Toys in the Attic, Cowboy Funk, & Pirrou le Fou are just some of the most fun, & sometimes creepy episodes).
Still has a cool sense of style as well, at times still being very anime (like the cool ship designs & space battles), while at other times being unlike any other anime at all (it feels very western throughout, in a good way).
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