rolling tv thread

[sufi]

I don’t think anyone has mentioned The Bear yet. For a mainstream series I think it’s very good. Treats the the viewers like adults, storylines that take their time and shot with real thought and care to detail. Might not be for everyone but I like the way you just have to go with it and pick up the back story along the way. And it makes Chicago look like a shithole. In the first series there’s a great one take twenty minute episode and in the second Jamie Lee Curtis steals the hour long episode (all others are roughly half an hour long)
Anyway, I thought it was interesting that over here Disney+ suddenly realised they had a hit in their hands and they’ve been promoting it on the tube etc.

i'm so glad you mentioned this as i've been waiting for the opportunity to slag it off
i sat thru the first series and somehow managed to suspend judgement and overlook the predictable plotlines, cartoonish relationship dramas, terrible wooden acting and over-worthy checklist of panderings to woke, but just could not put up with more than 1.5 eps of series 2.
sorry

 

[sufi]

i'm so glad you mentioned this as i've been waiting for the opportunity to slag it off
i sat thru the first series and somehow managed to suspend judgement and overlook the predictable plotlines, cartoonish relationship dramas, terrible wooden acting and over-worthy checklist of panderings to woke, but just could not put up with more than 1.5 eps of series 2.
sorry

but i spose i might give the jamie l curtis episode a try, i didnt know about that one

 

[IdleRich]

i'm so glad you mentioned this as i've been waiting for the opportunity to slag it off
i sat thru the first series and somehow managed to suspend judgement and overlook the predictable plotlines, cartoonish relationship dramas, terrible wooden acting and over-worthy checklist of panderings to woke, but just could not put up with more than 1.5 eps of series 2.
sorry

Interesting. I started watching the first episode with Liza but she didn't like it at all so we turned it off and looked for something we could both enjoy... but i thought it had potential and always intended to go back and check it properly. Some of it was almost laughably macho though, there was a bit where the main guy goes to have a cigarette and he says "I'm just gonna burn one" - really? Thought that was pretty silly.

 

[sufi]

Interesting. I started watching the first episode with Liza but she didn't like it at all so we turned it off and looked for something we could both enjoy... but i thought it had potential and always intended to go back and check it properly. Some of it was almost laughably macho though, there was a bit where the main guy goes to have a cigarette and he says "I'm just gonna burn one" - really? Thought that was pretty silly.

sad to say i've been enjoying Young Sheldon more than the bear = deeper and more engaging characters, better scenarios, good laughs and adequate wokeness, could be even greater if it was set in chicago i guess. (i never watched the original sheldon show btw)

 

[sufi]

something we could both enjoy...

what did you end up with?

 

[sufi]

I guess i must have forgave the clunkiness (not to mention the foodyism) of Bear season 1 as it was in quite a new style, like a rootsy sort of i hesitate to say working class milieu, but the novelty musta worn off

 

[IdleRich]

what did you end up with?

This was ages ago now but probably argued about a few things and then gave up cos it was time to sleep.

 

[version]

Started that Millennium thing I mentioned last night. Good, but fucking horrible. Lance Henriksen has some sort of ability to see what killers are up to and hunts down this guy muttering Blake and Bible passages who murders a stripper then has a gay man buried alive in a coffin with his eyes and mouth sewn shut so he can keep testing his blood for AIDS. Completely bonkers tbh.