The TV Show Thread

Elrond pashing his mother-in-law. I am done with this shit heap of a series.

I persisted for so long because it is Tolkien fantasy, but enough is enough.

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I mean, if its good for GoT


Mr McMahon
 holy smokes.

Some of the shenanigans in the Attitude Era
 talk about content not aging well.

It’s had an interesting reaction online.

People who knew nothing about him are reacting with “Oh my god, this is insane, what a horrible human being”

People who have been in the online wrestling scene for years are reacting with “Oh my god, this is insane, that’s all that went with??”

In other pro wrestling tv on Netflix, “The Queen of Villains” is excellent stuff. A biographical drama about the life of the greatest women’s pro wrestling heel, Dump Matsumoto, and how she rose from nothing into super-villainy in the 80s at the peak of women’s pro wrestling in Japan.

I’m really enjoying it.

Yeah I watched it with my wife and I wasn’t surprised about anything that came up. She was all wtf for the whole thing.

It was made out to sound like a massive hitpiece and I just thought it was quite tame.

I watched Mr McMahon and enjoyed it but nothing was new
 obviously they cannot go into any of the allegations so it would have been better to have held off until the court case plays out.

The bit about Shane and Stephanie was good and I thoroughly enjoyed Stone cold downplaying CTE

I never really followed wrestling so i found it all really fascinating. The proposed stryline of Vince impregnating his daughter really shows the type of person he is.

I thought it was great, but only watched as a kid veeeeeeery infrequently. Some of the stuff was familiar. It’s a super crazy story, even without the allegations.

Looking forward to everything that is released once he gets chucked in the slammer.

The seventh and final season of Seal Team was atrocious.

They had basically ended it well enough after season 6, but for whatever reason they thought they needed to drag out the TBI and Master Chiefs PTSD for another season.

All the little sub plot stories Ray, his retirement and his wife running Spenser House were just cringeworthy.

IRL Surely Jason would have been forced into retirement years earlier due to his medical issues. I know Navy SEALS are meant to be the best of the best, but the insubordination of the entire squad towards the brass would have had them scrubbing toilet bowls in Alaska surely IRL.

The entire cast just looked like they were over their roles and wanted to be anywhere else but on camera.

Just did a quick Wiki search, apparently 70% of the production crew are veterans, including a number of ex-Seal Team members on the writing team.

It’s been 7 seasons of cringe TBH.

Bit of a guilty pleasure for the guns and explosions scenes. But generally it’s overly dramatic without a cast who can actually act to that level.

Watched the first ep of The Office Australia, just out of interest.

It’s as bad as we all thought it would be.

It was a pretty bad sign when the trailers weren’t that funny.

Fisk is back!

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First episode was not easy but it’s its own show and just borrowed the format and I feel grew into it. Enjoyed the rest mostly. Not anywhere near the best Australian stuff out there but have definitely seen a lot worst.

Watching the new show “day of the jackal” with Eddie Redmayne.

Great stuff so far, really well done.

Really enjoyed the Penguin series

And really didn’t see Oz doing Vic like that at the end
 after the back story about his brothers, they have done really well to cement him as a fucking psycho and not a comic book villain

Season 3 of Slow Horses is brilliant

Gary Oldman is freakishly good. I love how he’s played two spooks – George Smiley in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and Jackson Lamb in Slow Horses and the characters couldn’t be more different.

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I thoroughly enjoy the show and his portrayal, and while I appreciate they have stayed fairly faithful to the books I do think the books are just a little better, and the biggest thing for me is that I think they probably could have got away with leaving Jackson a bit more like he is in the books? I realise it’s less action for him and that doesn’t necessarily work on tv but he is just that much meaner, nastier and horrendously inappropriate (and even more all knowing?) in the books which really works well there and I just feel like at this stage they could have got away with more of that and still had him be likeable enough? Maybe it’s just me.

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