October 7, 20188 yr Am I the only one who doesn’t get the love for The Good Place?It’s a show I want to love but the character chemistry is so inferior and awkward to Parks & Rec that I struggle to care much about it. It's a fine show but I don't get why people are raving about it.I watch it every week and enjoy it overall, but sometimes I think it is because I am supposed to... I do think Ted Danson is amazing, however. He alone makes it worth watching. Not even close to Parks and Rec, though.
October 22, 20188 yr Anyone watching the Haunting of Hill House on Netflix? I am two episodes in and so far am liking the slow burn. The fact that the flashback father was the kid in ET does make me feel a little old. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9OzG53VwIk
October 22, 20188 yr What series do you all watch on Netflix? I’m not into ... historical/period epic type stuff, for lack of a better way to describe it ... but curious what you all just ‘can’t miss.’
October 22, 20188 yr Haunting Hill is good. Daredevil is probably among the last of the Netflix Marvel shows (One more Punisher and Jessica Jones too) and it's ending with a bang. I haven't finished, but Fisk is still the best villain in any Marvel property and Bullseye has been well done too.
October 22, 20188 yr I just watched the first season of Cheers (because, again, I am old). In addition to Hill House, I am watching Happy Valley (spoiler - it is not happy). It is a limited British series about a kidnapping gone wrong and is well done, but it is pretty dark, so it would not be for everyone. If you ever watched Grantchester on PBS, the lead is in it, but he is not exactly nice in his, although this show is better written than Grantchester. I watched Dark, a German series that was probably influenced by Stranger Things. First episode or two showed some potential, but by the end, I just wanted those hours back (and then it never answered anything leaving everything for a season 2 I did not realize was coming and do not intend to watch). Edited October 22, 20188 yr by D. Hocking
October 22, 20188 yr Anyone watching the Haunting of Hill House on Netflix? I am two episodes in and so far am liking the slow burn. The fact that the flashback father was the kid in ET does make me feel a little old. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9OzG53VwIk I watched it last week. I enjoyed it a lot. It's' somewhat scary, definitely has some scary parts, but I enjoyed how it was put together and the mental/psychological thriller parts too.
October 22, 20188 yr What series do you all watch on Netflix? I’m not into ... historical/period epic type stuff, for lack of a better way to describe it ... but curious what you all just ‘can’t miss.’ I like the show Young and Hungry. It's from Free Form. Five seasons. I guess that it got cancelled, but I enjoyed it. Atypical... finished Season 2 recently. I think that it is fantastic. Ozark - I watched Season 2 ,, and I thought it was better than Season 1. American Horror Story - This is where I catch up when new seasons become available. Iv'e watched a bunch.
October 22, 20188 yr Anyone watching the Haunting of Hill House on Netflix? I am two episodes in and so far am liking the slow burn. The fact that the flashback father was the kid in ET does make me feel a little old. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9OzG53VwIkOkay, started watching this. This is scary.
October 23, 20188 yr And I'm sleeping with the lights on tonight. It floats between creepy, scary stuff and good family drama, like I'm watching live theatre ... but i'm still sleeping with the lights on tonight and I'm not coming out from under the covers. ****. I shouldn't watch this stuff but I can't seem to turn it off.
October 23, 20188 yr That is ... if I sleep. Hopefully you made it to morning and nothing came for you in the night.
October 23, 20188 yr Hopefully you made it to morning and nothing came for you in the night.I was going to not post for a week and have you all wondering ... I think I saw a movie version of this years ago. This is the kind of scary, horror stuff I like even though it scares me. Slasher films, however, I do NOT like and won't watch. No Freddie Kruger or Mike Myers or the like for me.
October 23, 20188 yr I was going to not post for a week and have you all wondering ... I think I saw a movie version of this years ago. This is the kind of scary, horror stuff I like even though it scares me. Slasher films, however, I do NOT like and won't watch. No Freddie Kruger or Mike Myers or the like for me. Yes - I did think the original Halloween and Nightmare were decent movies, but the Friday the 13th movies and most of the other slasher movies never did anything to me. I really did not care for them once the Hostel movies upped the torture aspect. I tend to like the suspense more than the gore - such as The Others, Six Sense, the Shining, even though Silence of the Lambs had gore - I thought it was more of a suspense movie as well. I would also throw the original Jaws in there as well. He was an unseen threat for much of the movie that was lurking at any moment. By the time he was cruising a water park for snacks in the third movie he was no longer scary. Most of those movies also had a believable factor to them. The supernatural aspect was either done in a believable way, or it was presented in an ambiguous way where you did not know if it was really happening and the supernatural was manipulating the person or the person was going insane (the movie version of the Shining - still need to read the book). Back to Netflix series that have a supernatural tinge, I did watch Penny Dreadful. I did not care for the third season as much or the finale, but was an interesting twist on the classic Victorian horror and had some good acting. Eva Green was incredible. [sorry that was a long and rambling...] Edited October 23, 20188 yr by D. Hocking
October 25, 20188 yr Okay, finished ... glad I powered through all the scary stuff to get to the end.
October 25, 20188 yr Okay, finished ... glad I powered through all the scary stuff to get to the end. I have not had a chance to binge and have only gotten through episode 3. They have done a good job of showing of spending time in a possibly haunted house as a child can leave a few scars. They did a really good job with casting the kids matching their adult counterparts, and all of them being able to act.
October 25, 20188 yr I have not had a chance to binge and have only gotten through episode 3. They have done a good job of showing of spending time in a possibly haunted house as a child can leave a few scars. They did a really good job with casting the kids matching their adult counterparts, and all of them being able to act.The acting is good. I like the aspect of telling the story back in time and telling the story in the present, it's 2 for 1, but also necessary to show what was to show what is. The present-day family drama is very well acted and I was very drawn in ... it felt like I was watching live theatre in some ways ... even on my little iPad because I can't figure out how to get my internet to work on my television. I also liked how the first 5 episodes were kind of spent on each child/adult couterpart and their story, kind of. There were things at the very end ... which pointed out some clues that I missed, that everyone missed, will miss, throughout the episodes. I don't know how they'll have more seasons, though, as I think these 10 episodes truly completed the story, for all of them. And yeah ... the casting was amazing ... even Henry Thomas/Timothy Hutton worked.
November 7, 20188 yr Up above I may have inadvertently stated the Americans has 7 seasons. Which made watching the end of the show fascinating, since we thought there was another year. It was clear they were wrapping up in season 6.... anyway, awesome show. I thought they skipped over too much of the differences between philip and elizabeth, and just made her a caricature of herself.....but it was a great series. Here's hoping there is movie someday.....
November 12, 20188 yr Finished house of cards. Was not a huge fan of this season.I watched the first two episodes of the season and really just forgot about it, when Patriots second season dropped. House of cards is the kind of show that has a baked in ending, and they just kept pushing it off, until I don't even know what the stakes are anymore.
November 13, 20188 yr I watched the first two episodes of the season and really just forgot about it, when Patriots second season dropped. House of cards is the kind of show that has a baked in ending, and they just kept pushing it off, until I don't even know what the stakes are anymore.The writing was poor. No plot really, side plots didn't make sense. Conclusion was inconclusive. No real drama or build up. I'm just puzzled why they even released this season. They could have done a lot with what they had left, and failed.
November 13, 20188 yr Went back to Man in the High Castle, season 2 seems better than 1, so I'm sure we'll finish that and then onto season 3......
November 13, 20188 yr Went back to Man in the High Castle, season 2 seems better than 1, so I'm sure we'll finish that and then onto season 3......I wanted to like that show, but something made me cringe. Let me know how it goes.
November 13, 20188 yr I wanted to like that show, but something made me cringe. Let me know how it goes. I found the protagonists really stupid in season 1. We stopped after about episode 2 or 3 of season 2, and just went back. So far, I'm more interested than I was before.
November 13, 20188 yr Author Currently watching Wild Wild Country on Netflix... So far so good! The documentary is based only 3 hrs away from you Mike!
November 13, 20188 yr House of Cards should've been mercifully put down 3 seasons ago. It was so brilliant to start and it has fallen so, so far since.
November 13, 20188 yr House of Cards should've been mercifully put down 3 seasons ago. It was so brilliant to start and it has fallen so, so far since. My wife, who has come in and out of the last few seasons, watched a couple of episodes with me and asked, "so when do we find out Zoey isn't actually dead as some sort of twist?" I laughed, and then I realized that the current writing was absolutely in line with that being a plot line point.
November 13, 20188 yr I laughed, and then I realized that the current writing was absolutely in line with that being a plot line point. This is how I now feel when I watch the news (that will be the extent of my political commentary on this thread).
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