The rolling strut TV thread..
Okem
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You know. What have you been watching lately? 
Vinyl - has this been discussed on here already? Seems like a strutnip kinda show.
Bosch - I haven't watched much of this, but it has a couple of Wire favourites Jamie Hector (Marlo) & Lance Reddick.
iZombie - I'm not into the whole zombie thing and most of the comic book shows leave me cold, but this show seems to strike a good balance. Created by the guy behind Veronica Mars (which I've never watched but wikipedia says it's critically acclaimed) and Party Down which was a really good under the radar sitcom. Dude obviously understands humour and drama and it plays out well in this show. It's lite entertainment but smart enough to not make you feel like you need a partial lobotomy to enjoy it.
Black Sails - bufty pirates. dumb fun with plenty of plot ;) and dodgy accents. started taking itself a little too seriously by the 3rd season.
You're The Worst - possibly my favourite new comedy. good cast and a nice mix of comedy and misery
Horace and Pete - Louis C.K. comedy-drama that plays out like theatre. Interesting but hard to get through. Louis really is out there in terms of tv comedy production though.
Still good; Workaholics & Always Sunny. Watched some of The League which seems a little like Always Sunny for basic bitches, but still pretty funny.
Season 6 of GoT starts in a week. Pretty hyped. Not sure the writers will do it justice now they've overtaken the books, but it surely beats waiting a decade for Martin to finish the books. Also coming this weekend is season 3 of Silicon Valley another great sitcom with one of the best casts going.
Vinyl - has this been discussed on here already? Seems like a strutnip kinda show.
Bosch - I haven't watched much of this, but it has a couple of Wire favourites Jamie Hector (Marlo) & Lance Reddick.
iZombie - I'm not into the whole zombie thing and most of the comic book shows leave me cold, but this show seems to strike a good balance. Created by the guy behind Veronica Mars (which I've never watched but wikipedia says it's critically acclaimed) and Party Down which was a really good under the radar sitcom. Dude obviously understands humour and drama and it plays out well in this show. It's lite entertainment but smart enough to not make you feel like you need a partial lobotomy to enjoy it.
Black Sails - bufty pirates. dumb fun with plenty of plot ;) and dodgy accents. started taking itself a little too seriously by the 3rd season.
You're The Worst - possibly my favourite new comedy. good cast and a nice mix of comedy and misery
Horace and Pete - Louis C.K. comedy-drama that plays out like theatre. Interesting but hard to get through. Louis really is out there in terms of tv comedy production though.
Still good; Workaholics & Always Sunny. Watched some of The League which seems a little like Always Sunny for basic bitches, but still pretty funny.
Season 6 of GoT starts in a week. Pretty hyped. Not sure the writers will do it justice now they've overtaken the books, but it surely beats waiting a decade for Martin to finish the books. Also coming this weekend is season 3 of Silicon Valley another great sitcom with one of the best casts going.
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Billions
The last man on earth
11.22.63
Better Call Saul
House of Cards - This season was much better than the last 2 seasons
The Night Manager
Daredevil
Guilty pleasure...
American Crime Story
Edit: List above was from when shows were on the TV at the time. Plz to add
Silicon Valley
G.O.T.
Parts Unknown
Veep
Peaky Blinders
Real Time with Bill Maher
Broad City
Last Man On Earth
Catastrophe
Archer
Plebs
Looking forward to:
Game Of Thrones
Veep
Hate Watching:
Anything Walking Dead
The Night Manager is on my to watch list.
Tried to get into Last Man On Earth but found it frustrating, first off, given the entire continent of the USA dude decided to settle down in such a shitty spot. Then, I get that the humour comes from him being a looser and so he's always set up to fail, but it means you can kinda see shit coming from a mile off.
I'll add.
The Man In The High Castle. Based on the Philip K Dick novel about an alternate history in which the Alies lost WWII and the Germans and Japanese have taken over the US (I guess the rest of the world as well, but that doesn't really get a look in).
I have major sensory overload with TV and streaming. I've started and variably liked but haven't kept up with: Man in the High Castle, 11.22.63, Mr. Robot, Daredevil, Jessica Jones, American Crime Story, the Americans, Silicon Valley. All seemed pretty good, but I had no urgency like I was really missing out by not watching.
Sort of lost interest in the House of Cards, due to its identity crisis. It's like I want them to either be more camp or more serious. You can't have the majority leader killing people and then be some slow-burner about the primaries and the First Lady, whom the Pres had an orgy together with the Secret Service, and he's trying to shade her for not hitting up one campaign event? Come on, son.
Walking Dead: Garbage.
G.o.T.: The last remaining appointment TV, atm.
No mention of Idiotsitter? Keeps the fun rolling after Workaholics.
Been some good episodes so far this season, but they're just showing us all the good bits with little of the substance. Dorne is still widely irrelevant. Dany's still going nowhere. Jaime's redemption arc has been thrown to the wind.
The pace of this GoT series is refreshing. I seem to remember having to wait until around episode 7 previously before anything actually started happening.
broad city
daredevil
brooklyn 99
gotham
comedy bang bang
as for shows i can't stand.. game of thrones is xena meets sex in the city for me
I love that they had to do Olly, and that Olly had to go. What I come back to is that these villagers on each side of the Wall really are lacking in their education, so you can't really extend too much rope or you'll get stabbed. It's not like Olly was all that removed from the Wildings.
Not sure what that's got to do with the show's Dorne plot line..? In the books it's kinda meandering and ultimately goes nowhere but the show's version is just embarrassing. How the two Sandsnakes got from Dorne to Kingslanding in time walk onto a ship & kill their cousin is beyond me, and then they just disappeared back into the ether. But the show doesn't seem to care about small stuff like that. That's how Little Finger can travel the length of the Isles in the blink of an eye. How hunting dogs magically disappear when there's a fight. And how "20 good men" can defeat an army led by what is meant to be one of the best military leaders in show. Talking of Littlefinger, where has he got to? I guess they don't need him any more as they cut his whole play for the throne from the books. Instead he kills a King and steals Sansa just to give her to a psycho. Getting very little in return. I guess he'll pop back up eventually, but he's in danger of loosing his relevancy to the game.
Just finished and really enjoyed
Party Down (came highly recommended to me and I hardheartedly endorse!)
Dice (can't believe this hasnt got its own Strut thread yet!)
and as above Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt which I already had high expectations of as Tina Fey was involved and it more than delivered!
Garrison fucking Trump to death (and taking some poppers *himself* beforehand) was fucking great.
Not as funny - maybe. Maybe it's difficult to compete with real life now
These last two season where they've switched to episodic continuity, rather than stand alone episodes, is definitely taking the show in a new direction. The older stand-alone episodes could be deeply political or just piss taking buffoonery, but when you take on larger topics and move to a continuity based show you have a bunch of new constraints. So it's harder for them to just run wild on a topic and just 'be' funny. It's still funny, just tempered somewhat by the serious stuff they're taking on at the same time.
This video is a pretty good summation (may contain spoilers if you haven't watched S19)
I've been watching an Italian tv show based on the Gomorrah book. I've never read the book, but it's entirely separate to the film of the same name. It's been compared to The Wire in the way it follows organised crime from the street level on up. Although it's reach is nowhere near broad and possibly because it focuses pretty much on the action of a group of Naples mafiosa, it has none of the lightheartedness or humour you find in The Wire, so it gets pretty brutal. They're don't pull their punches, it's kill you, your entire family and anybody who happens to get in the way. There's no 'victim of circumstances' or romance of a ghetto businessman come drug dealer, just the grim reality of making it in such a, literally, cut throat world.
we watched both series a little while back, highly recommended!
some nordic movies i liked:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0154420/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0311519/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0827517/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0150662/
The only thing i watched lately that i liked is Rick and Morty.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2861424/