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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.

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Don't worry, in 20 years the network overlords will have implanted both sensory gratification and mainstream withdrawal chips in your brain so you will crave and feel like you enjoy the poorly written

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Sherlock returns tonight.  Season 4 on PBS

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Also Brockmire is back. Hide your booze.

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D. Hocking GCL Twins

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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). 

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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. 

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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...]

 

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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.

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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.

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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..... 

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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.

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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.

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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.

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