currently watching season 4 of orange is the new black. good and hilarious. yes yes i know you said 5 is great. im not a premature ejaculator so i'll hold it till it comes.

also watching an old hbo thing on amazon about queen elizabeth the ancient one. with helen mirren in it. the story is so-so but she is so fucking good in it it's highly watchable.

also: 12 monkeys season 2. as terrible as season 1 but good to have on while trying to repair broken iphones lolololol.

(my super-ancient 4s is still rocking as my pomodoro timer though)

Snowfall. Everybody is rolling in cash, which isn't actually how drug dealing goes.But it does have some promise....

for those of you enjoying HoBO, Tour de Pharmacy was pretty funny.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOTIqkD9fPA

oh yeah i saw an ad for that somewhere

i'll catch up with it one of these days

watching ENDEAVOR. which is a (50s?) period piece based on the young INSPECTOR MORSE. never seen morse actually, but i saw a bit of his successor, INSPECTOR LEWIS, which was okay

anyway, endeavor looks pretty well made! but as detective period pieces go so far GEORGE GENTLY takes the cake.

still finishing up season 3 of Gotham. This show is BATshit crazy (pun intended)

The National Parks: America's Best Idea



This stuff is on Amazon and just caught the first couple of hours of it. Mostly about Yosemite, Yellowstone and John Muir.

Pretty fucking great so far. Also depressing, because humans are utter shit.

This is great. And yes, depressing.

I've always liked Ken Burns. I've sat through Baseball and Civil War multiple times. I want him to do a series on the Beat Generation. I think that would just be awesome. Also, perhaps, boxing.

the beatniks were too degenerate for his "american" paeans, but i can't wait for his chapter on joe louis

DUDE. Wait until the last 5 minutes of the last episode.

TOO

FUCKING

STUPID

FOR

LIFE

OH! What could have been, if this had been a violent AF HBO crime drama with no baby Batman bullshit and no superpowers god Fucking damn the man. Goddamn the man I say!

Seriously though ... last 5 minutes of season 3 are UBFORGETTABLY FUCKING STUPID.

you're not... talking about a... super... hero, movie. are you?

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haha sorry i couldn't help myself!

but yeah there are smart superhero stories. like...

you read the latest prometheus comics?

Supposed-to-be non-superhero comic-book television show, actually.

There are tons of smart superhero stories, but that's neither here nor there. Gotham, season 3, ends with the dumbest fucking shit ever. Holy fuck, so goddamn dumb I can't believe it. Seriously, I'd tell you to google it or something, but you probably need to have seen some of the show to appreciate just how dumb-as-all-holy-fuck that final scene is. Yowza.

Hey Symbols, are you still watching Doctor Who? Or did you give up before shit got fucking real?

Doctor Who is basically a superhero story, really. He's the British Superman: a god among men, with unthinkable powers that are purely mental instead of purely physical. An alien savior who reflects the ideal of humanity back at itself. Etc. And Doctor Who is smart AF.

More like Wonder Woman now ...



https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-r...ed-13th-doctor

yeah im watching of course. it's entertaining. not genius mindblowing anything, but pleasant. so i watch on the regular but not bingeing.

good point about him being a superhero i guess ha ha ha. yeah. i don't mind him. as long as he doesn't wear A FUCKING CAPE. or hide his identity behind a pair of... eyeglasses! when i wear eyeglasses my wife can't tell who i am.

so, hm, i forget what i came in here to say

oh hell yeah RED OAKS!!



watched first episode on amazon this morning and was hilarious-- turned out david gordon green directed it. aaa haaa haaa. great stuff.

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eta: timelords please let michelle ryan be my doctor oh hell i just found she was in it already i'd better hurry

Leela was my favorite Dr sidekick.

Coo deal.
Where are you in the chronology? Have you made it to Tennant yet?

Some of the latter-day Tennant episodes are, in my mind, truly mind-blowing and brilliant. Not in a "The Wire" kind of way, of course, but in an exquisitely crafted HORROR kind of way (see episodes: "MIDNIGHT" (ohmigodmidnight!), "SILENCE IN THE LIBRARY.) Also, I'd be remiss if I didn't mention the one-two lunch of "THE IMPOSSIBLE PLANET" and "THE SATAN PIT," which is not one of the later episodes, but still might be my favorite fucking thing ever on television... maybe.

Have you seen any of these?

The Doctor peaks with Tennant, but those who follow don't really slack either. The stories and overarching themes get more intense AFTER Tennant, actually, as "one-off" and standalone stories become less and less frequent during the Smith years. Oh, and production values go up as the audience got back into it. Some of those Smith episodes could almost work as movies. No shit.

I read about this. I was not nuts about the actress in Broadchurch, but maybe she was kind of trying to be despicable? I don't know. I'm totally willing to give it a go. Some fans are losing their shit, which I think is weird.

Was Missy not INIFITELY better than the Master?
Was River Song not a total fucking badass?
I'd watch an entire show devoted to either of those female Timelords/half-Timelords. Absolutely. So what's the rub?

I guess I'd be a little taken aback if Clark Kent suddenly became, like, Chloe Kent, and Superman became a chick (we already have Supergirl and even Superwoman), but there's a lot more flexibility with the Doctor. Maybe that makes me a sexist (the taken-abackness) but I say nope.

I just laugh at anybody in fandoms that gets pissy about introducing heroines into sci-fi worlds. Same happened with Rey in Star Wars. Cause you can create a sci-fi universe that promotes infinite possibilities and alien species, but make it focused on a female and a percentage of vocal fans will cry over them ruining a great universe by incorporating a female hero into it.

@severian - i saw unfamiliar words and unfocused my eyes. shhh, man. im still in the first season of the reboot-- with dickens, and the farty aliens, and that museum in nevada with donald trump in it and the dad-- yeah the last i saw was the dad. now shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....


lol @ the menzes indeed

give them a boot to the head