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Cast a Deadly Spell.

Fred Ward doing lovecraft and Phillip Marlowe. Fun.

Lardy, I liked Jessica Jones. I caught a lot of references that I know other (non-comic-book) people missed, such as the fact that he likes purple is because he's really the Purple Man.

I enjoyed it, but it dragged a bit sometimes.

Watched the first two seasons of Outlander. Wow, what a surprisingly excellent show! Chalk full of great characters and uber-dramatic moments. Like most Starz shows, it's incredibly unique and a welcome addition.

My wife and I also watched the entirety of Newsroom and were blown away but how phenomenal it was. I had seen most of season 1 already but I was delighted that the high quality keeps up all series. This is a pretty compelling piece of evidence to support the idea that Aaron Sorkin is the greatest TV writer of all time, or at least best dialogue scripter.

Looked up that Outlander. First ep is free, think I'll check it out.

Interested to know what you think! The first episode is a bit different than the rest by reasons made very apparent during the course of the episode (and the nature of the series) but its quite good!

The stream was jittery so I found a place to uh... borrow it. It's on the watch list for today.

DRAT, I knew there was a reason I was supposed to stop and get some cookies. Passed right on by thinking I'd best do with out. Cookies are my go to for laptop show watching. Well, I'm not driving clear back across town to the bakery.... need a plan B.

I caught the first episode of Stranger Things last night, and I was pretty damn impressed! It captures the feel of an 80's Spielberg or Joe Dante flick pretty well and I can't wait to see where this series goes.

I just binge-watched season 5 of Veep. I'm not really a "laugh out loud" sort of person. I'm more a "wry smile" type. But this season had me LOLing in every episode. The (large) regular cast is phenomenal but I also love all the recurring smaller characters, like the Prime Minister of Finland and Selina's annoying friend, Karen.

This is a show I will definitely rewatch over the years.

AANNDD I just binged watched the entire first season.

It's a pretty solid first season, barring a few sluggish episodes. I can't wait to see what happens in season 2.

Okay folks, we've crossed the rubicon here with 2008. 2000 is usually the cutoff.

Anybody in touch with Ultra so he can start a new one before we lock?

Watched (along with the rest of the country), the Hip's final concert, live on the CBC. Truly inspiring, emotional and bittersweet. They really are the soudtrack to Canadians lives who are my age.

Amanda Hallay's fashion youtube videos. Entertaining and educational. Oh, if I had the time I would go back to school and teach at a fashion college too.

Where's the confession thread? I confess I went looked at a couple of those fashion videos, I LIKED them,....


not that there's anything wrong with that....

The prehistoric one is a hoot.

"Bojack Horseman" - have I mentioned it before? If you have Netflix, watch it!! It's packed with silly jokes, but then gut-punches you with something touching/utterly depressing.

"Halt and Catch Fire" - New season just started, but catch up with this if you can. It's like a dramatic version of "Silicon Valley" (which you should also be watching!) and chock full of 80's goodness!

Preseason NFL Football - it doesn't really count, but yeah, I'm watching!

Just finished Season One of "Mr. Robot". I'm conflicted, because I really liked it most of the the way through, but the very derivative aspects of it undermine the ending for me. Spoilers:



Despite some fantastic acting and writing, the lack of originality hurts it for me.

Tonight's episode of THE STRAIN was great, I really liked the intercutting of .

Now that

Just watched Rosewater for the first time and loved it. What a strong directorial debut for Jon Stewart. I hope now that he's "retired" he starts making more films.

Finally got the first season of Supergirl to watch (I didn't bother when it started, and the first episodes were gone from Hulu by the time I got around to checking it out).

It's pretty fun, so far. Like the Flash, it's unapologetically cheesy and campy and fun. And I love it.

I've tried to watch Stranger Things on Netflix, but I can't seem to get into it.

My wife and I did a complete rewatch of Boardwalk Empire which I enjoyed immensely. Originally my wife didn't like it as much as I did, but she started to really enjoy it in the second half of season 2, and then seasons 3-5 were excellent. She says, and I think I agree, that the series gets progressively better as it goes along (though again, I liked it a lot from the get-go). Like its predecessor show on HBO, the Sopranos, the show is huge on subtext, metaphor and allegory and part of the fun is spending some time understanding all of that each episode. Steve Buscemi's performance is often really understated which makes him a difficult lead to get to love (as my wife tells me) but again, I really liked him from start to finish. I also love the very human performances--with humor, deep flaws (both oafish and sympathetic) and affability--for all the varoius 'gangsters' like Capone, Luciano, etc.

Up next, we are rewatching season 1 of Ray Donovan which will spill into watching seasons 2 & 3 for the first time. I loved season 1 and think Liev Schreiber is phenomenal, so I'm really looking forward to it.

My wife and I also loved "Boardwalk Empire" but we thought the last season was terrible - just throwing characters aside rather than giving them a proper (or interesting) ending. I personally thought it was never as good once Jimmy left the show.

^ I kept thinking of how the Sopranos ended without giving characters proper endings. Boardwalk borrowed heavily the Sopranos in a lot of its storytelling sensibilities, so I wonder if that was a continuation.

Meanwhile, I'm definitely interested in hearing about any one who checks out a new show and if its any good. I tend to write off most network stuff as utter shit, but there's occasionally something worthwhile.

Meanwhile, my wife and I checked out the show Power on Starz to see if it might eventually be worthy of our "weekend Nights" (which involves a lot of wine, gin, good food, etc.). The first episode was pretty good, so I think we will eventually do that.

I don't expect it to be all that good, but I'm probably going to try Lethal Weapon to see if they can achieve the entertainment factor that the movies had. Not an easy task but if they keep it fun, it might be worthwhile.

Hoping for Lethal Weapon. Rush Hour I had hopes for. I really enjoy the characters and casting, some of the most enjoyable I've seen but the stories and overall arc just aren't consistently doing them justice.

Just finished Luke Cage on Netflix. Pretty good, if not entirely for me. (Then again, to paraphrase Tilda Swanton's Ancient One, "Not everything is. Not everything has to be.")

They really cut loose with the use of his super-strength and bulletproof-ness, instead of keeping it as low-key as in Jessica Jones (with her own abilities), so it was fun to see him sort of walk through dudes with guns, more concerned with protecting other not-bulletproof people than himself.

The acting from Alfre Woodard, Mahershala Ali (I had to look that name up. I was only one letter off!), Simone Missick and Rosario Dawson, in particular, was top notch. They just ate up the scenes there were in, and Mike Colter and Theo Rossi did well as well. I'd have loved to see more of some of the side-characters, like Misty Knights two superiors, or 'Genghis Connie,' Cage's landlady and owner of a Chinese Restaurant below his apartment.

The whole show was a love-letter to Harlem, in general, and had a surprising amount of connections to the other Netflix shows (we heard an episode of 'Trish Talk,' from the Jessica Jones show, and Claire Temple, from Daredevil, was a major presence), as well as references to other Marvel cinematic properties, such as street vendors selling tapes of 'the Incident' (the alien invasion in Avengers), lots of references to Hammer Industries (from Iron Man 2), etc.

When is it set in relation to Jessica Jones?

Watched the first half of the first episode but it was a chore. Enjoyed the barbershop and his life on the street scenes/ Some interesting characters there. They got in the obligatory booty call, which seemed to dull my intelligence but I liked the awkwardness of their pick-up attempts. I'm presumming it wasn't poor acting and was just actually what most would expect when two people are attracted. Just wish it hadnt ended in the booty call.

Liked most of the acting but the story was blah. My biggest disappointment was Ali. Liked him in several things but just couldn't get into his portrayal here.

They could make a show about the barbershop and I'd probably watch that. The rest has been a bit dull. Good enough to check out another episode though.