I'm loving Lanterns.
I liked Widow's Bay the Stephen King and Jaws easter eggs were a hoot.
Speaking of King, Welcome to Derry is also very good. I love how they introduced Dick Hallorann.
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I liked Widow's Bay the Stephen King and Jaws easter eggs were a hoot.
Speaking of King, Welcome to Derry is also very good. I love how they introduced Dick Hallorann.
Watching this right now. Just finished the “trip” episode. Love this show. Enjoyed the pilot and fully bought in during episode 2
Widow’s Bay is the best new concept I have seen in years. Very well-written, well-acted and highly intriguing to see where they go with the show.
Think my favorite episode was the one where Tom had to stay in the hotel, closely followed by Patricia's Sunset & Sips party. Then the one with the Boogeyman. Show nails the balance of humor/terror.
Apple TV has the best shows by far of any of the streaming services.
I don't know; still think Netflix is the king (for me personally). My favorites:
Netflix
-The Sandman
-The Umbrella Academy
-Arcane: League of Legends
-The Witcher (first two seasons)
-Stranger Things
-Mindhunter
-The Crown
-Squid Game
Prime
-The Gentleman
-The Night Manager
-Fallout
-Mr. & Mrs. Smith
-The Boys
-The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
-Fleabag
-Invincible
Hulu
-Letterkenney
-Alien: Earth
-Devs
-Only Murders in the Building
-The Bear
-Reservation Dogs
Apple TV+
-Slow Horses
-Your Friends and Neighbors
-Widow's Bay
-Ted Lasso
-Severance
-Pluribus
-Silo
-Drops of God
Off the top of my head, I would add Black Bird, Lucky, Cape Fear, Presumed Innocent, Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed, and Dark Matter to the list of good Apple TV shows. Black Bird is probably the best of that lot.
and the first 4-5 seasons of For All Mankind (the recent and hopefully last season is dogshit)
Twisted Metal is pretty fun i think it might be on eithe Peacock or prime.
These things seem to go in cycles, but I agree that Apple is on a hot streak now. Netflix seems to be trying to capture the true crime demo, Apple is now branching out beyond sci-fi, and HBO is a bit hit or miss lately. But things can be quite different a year or two from now.
I’ve watched a couple of episodes and really liked them. Since it’s an anthology series each episode is mostly stand alone and doesn’t necessarily take place in the same universe (but some do) and have different casts. ‘USS Callister’ is my favorite - has Jesse Plemons and Cristin Milioti in a dark take on Star Trek. S4E1.
When Tom is taking to Andrew and Patricia keeps interrupting them - “sorry, I forgot my purse”.
The first episode is really distubing and is a bit of an outlier. Continue to watch. You will be gald you did.
Finished Tires and His&Hers on Netflix. Tires was good, especially for the child remaining in all men. His&Hers was great for the first 4 episodes, but then really jumped the shark for the last 2.
That's too bad; I lost interest around Season 4 I think? Just zero passion for Star Wars stuff anymore; I do want to get to Andor though because I heard it's awesome.
As an aside, well-deserved Emmy win for the long overdue Betty Gilpin (for her Widow's Bay episode). And cool seeing her 'date' was Alison Brie (bring back GLOW!!).
I thought the first 3 seasons were really good. But this was bad on a whole new level. Grogu was nothing but a fixture that Mando carried around.That's too bad; I lost interest around Season 4 I think? Just zero passion for Star Wars stuff anymore; I do want to get to Andor though because I heard it's awesome.
As an aside, well-deserved Emmy win for the long overdue Betty Gilpin (for her Widow's Bay episode). And cool seeing her 'date' was Alison Brie (bring back GLOW!!).
I don't know how it ever got green lit as a movie. I normally like Favreau's movies but I have no idea what he was thinking with this mess.
Andor is good and I liked Ashoka as well.
And I am so looking forward Coyote vs Acme.That's too bad; I lost interest around Season 4 I think? Just zero passion for Star Wars stuff anymore; I do want to get to Andor though because I heard it's awesome.
As an aside, well-deserved Emmy win for the long overdue Betty Gilpin (for her Widow's Bay episode). And cool seeing her 'date' was Alison Brie (bring back GLOW!!).
For fans of The Gentleman, season 2 dropped on Netflix last week. I thought season 1 was outstanding so I'll be binging the new season this weekend.
Ended up being disappointed in the Lanterns Series.
Really liked Pierre as John and Chandler as Jordon but man some of the story lines.
but some of my criticims:
I think they tried to cram too much of the comics and merge them.
I was surprised at all the f bombs dropped. I'm not a prude by any means and sometimes also use that words as a noun, verb, adjective... but I know a good many Marines and very few if any used that kind of language around me and we were pretty good friends. So MO it didn't track with John.
But my biggest issue was the pace of some of the episodes. They could have made 1 episode out of about 3 of them.
So it didnt' turn out as good as I thought but still thought it was a decent/good watch.
I think I'd give it a 7/10.
Really liked Pierre as John and Chandler as Jordon but man some of the story lines.
but some of my criticims:
I think they tried to cram too much of the comics and merge them.
I was surprised at all the f bombs dropped. I'm not a prude by any means and sometimes also use that words as a noun, verb, adjective... but I know a good many Marines and very few if any used that kind of language around me and we were pretty good friends. So MO it didn't track with John.
But my biggest issue was the pace of some of the episodes. They could have made 1 episode out of about 3 of them.
So it didnt' turn out as good as I thought but still thought it was a decent/good watch.
I think I'd give it a 7/10.
Couldn’t post some of the scenes from the series butWe have rules here pal…
I thought the entire storyline of his John and his mom was ridiculous (I know it's a comic) but it was dumb. The surprise ending with Hal was also ridiculous. Overall it wasn't horrible though. I'll watch season two it there is one.
Pretty much agree. I think i'm going to give it another go as a binge watch. so I guess it wasn't that bad. LOL.
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