Netflix Streaming Recommendations/TV Talk

Vice Principals is great too

 

Righteous Gemstones got weird after the first season for me. Like only a few funny moments an episode with mostly cringey stuff between. Vice principles was too funny.

 

Finally finished The Sopranos. I knew about the ending, don’t know how you couldn’t. Season 6 is wild.

 

HBO Max:

 

Secret Invasion has been ok. This is one occasion though I think a whole series binge would suit it better

 

Just finished season 2 of The Bear. Not bad. Different.

 

I enjoyed it. I agree.

 

Take care of Maya on Netflix is absolutely maddening. Unbelievable that shit like that happens.

 

Dunno if any of you watched Heels season 1 on Starz, but season 2 starts in a couple weeks.

 

This story blows me away because she was so clearly not a child, like plain as day.

 

I like the Asokha trailer and I think it’s gonna be fun but the Sabine actress isn’t nearly hot enough jmo

 

Once she cuts her hair it gets better. The long hair was not all that good.

 

Latest Righteous Gemstones episode was pretty good. Uncle Baby Billy and Keiff continue to be my favorites

 

Keiff is one of my favorite comedy characters ever

 

he really is. Haven’t seen another character similar. Laugh everytime he shows up.
“It wasn’t the beef that made them sick. it was the pouuultree.” Was straight out from Danny McBride East Bound and Down at the 8th grade dance as he explained to the principle why he puked..”it wasn’t the X, it was the egg rolls.”

 

BJ's fight a few episodes ago had me in tears

 

Same. When the guy woke up after he hit him the first time and started beating his ass I was rolling. The look on his face was priceless.

 

The chair he made him and how it presented it was hilarious

 

shut up and take my money.

 

Witcher has just continuously gone downhill since Season 1.

The writing is terrible. The characters literally just say how they feel or what they think, rather than letting actions show intentions/positions. A lot of the character depth from the source material is barely tapped into.

The pacing is all over the place. One 3 hour dinner takes up an entire episode, then they cram Ciri's entire journey through the desert into a single episode. Oh, and Geralt's entire recovery from the brink of death? One episode.

And then of course, there's the overabundance of social issue content. Thing is, the source material (books and games) have plenty of that stuff in them already. It's just more subtle, cleverly written, and impacts the actual characters/plot, whereas the show just kind of shoves it down your throat for no reason. So this is also a writing issue, but it comes out as part of the "woke" discussion that everyone is tired of but can't seem to get away from.