TV discussion (1,979 views)

I just finished (what quickly became hate-)watching The Fall because it was about to be removed from Netflix and I'm baffled by people who thought this was genuinely good and not just entertainingly stupid post-S1 (and even some parts of S1, like Katie, were Not Great).

It's like, "Let's take most of the problems of Homeland, stick it in a blender with a Psych 101 reading of a serial killer, and then water it down with lots of ice."

The cinematography and score combine to create a mood that is the only redeeming quality.

It's actually quite watchable even as it beats itself to death with the cliches and random subplots that get dropped with no resolution just as quickly as they were introduced which is fine because all the subplots are terrible anyway, but viewers and critics who thought this was "complex" prestige TV or whatever need to watch more/better TV.

There are so many TV reboots and spin offs being announced these days I feel silly that they still take me by surprise. But who asked for a sequel to The L Word???

Also, I feel like this streaming dominated landscape has muted the television season signal. Fall premiere season came and went without me noticing. I don't know what's new and hot in the streets, and I always forget when things are coming back.

I started watching Hunter x Hunter because of you guys and I'm completely blaming you for why I've already reached episode 20 of season 1 since yesterday.

That aside, I finished Tales From the Crypt and Good Witch season 4 (I've decided Stephanie and Abigail are in lesbians together even though the show is cowards and will never do it), I'm still watching Unsolved Mysteries eps (Amazon Prime version includes updates as recent as 2015 at least on old episodes), and I've watched a bunch of different movies.

Purge, Good Place and Charmed are still going good. I've grown fond of Abigael on Charmed. Oh, and Creepshow was good but I don't think any subsequent episodes got as good as House of Head.

omg we should make this a group watch since Kaio is around the same point as u and Im planning on catching up. LP, Fringe get in here.

Reading about how The Witcher makes things as hard to follow as possible weirdly makes me want to watch it.

In that case, I don't have (legal) access to dubbing past season 3.

Thanks on the PM offer, but I prefer legal unless it's a company that I feel doesn't really deserve the money. Though usually I avoid that company's work entirely at that point.

I prefer dub with subtitles (as in closed captioning version) if I can get it. That way I can watch without worrying that too much attention on reading subs is keeping me from noticing things happening, but I can still check the subs if I don't hear something well or it shows a detail I'd otherwise miss.