Originally Posted by vailpass (Post 14830599)

This x100. Liked it so much I ended up naming my dog after a character.

Originally Posted by Buehler445 (Post 14830587)

Rome is legit. It’s not aged the best but it is good. Stick with it.



Have you watched the wire?

Originally Posted by Buehler445 (Post 14830624)

Which one?

Originally Posted by vailpass (Post 14830757)

Pullo

Originally Posted by keg in kc (Post 13455105)

For no reason I can think of I started watching Hap and Leonard on Netflix today. About to finish season 1. So far a good show. I think season 3 starts tonight on Sundance.

Originally Posted by Buehler445 (Post 14830841)

:rockon: That’s what I figured. What a great name for a really good character.

I might have to re-watch Rome again. They did a great job of not making it formulaic or diluted by being too big. Even though we know where the story was going, we didn’t know how we could get there with the characters they were following.

Originally Posted by Baby Lee (Post 14582223)

Fleabag lives up to the hype. [FTR, lead actress, writer and creator of Fleabag is writer and creator of Killing Eve].

Very British, very now. But still very relatable.

The central conceits are the competing stresses of family and relationships, particularly in the clash/environment of wild personal lives with proper manners/etiquette. This is informed by the central character making the audience her confidante, telling the camera the subtext of the situation or her personal reactions in the middle of the scene. I've honestly never seen someone who can say so many many many things with her eyes.

It's 2 seasons, 6 eps each, 30-minute eps. Very bingeable, or nice little bite-sized bits to mix into your rotation. Looks like it's done, but it's done like the BBC Office was, not because it wasn't popular but because the story is told [for now]. And besides the humor and situations, the overall story is moving as well.

Somewhere midway between Hugh Grant, Woody Allen and Ricky Gervais.

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EDIT - to add, thinking on it, a lot of people might be dissuaded from this show by the buzz of how it's all this feminist girl power. That it might be some of that strident preachy stuff that's en vogue right now. But one of the most refreshing things about the show overall is how open and honest it is about the main character talking a good game about modern empowerment, while she harbors some deeply sentimental and traditional notions. There's a lot that's messy, but the things they are striving for will set many hearts aflutter as it resonates with their own personal foibles. It's tough to detail without spoiling far too much, but there are decisions made and growth demonstrated that you might not think possible these days. Maybe the talent of Phoebe Waller-Bridge, beyond just being a good writer, is being a good writer who respects the complexity of both trying to be unique AND finding meaning.

Originally Posted by patteeu (Post 14848069)

Pretty unique show. Very funny.

Originally Posted by BigBeauford (Post 14849892)

Does it get better after the first 10 minutes? Wife and I noped out (and we LOOOOVE Catastrophe).

Originally Posted by Shogun (Post 14850054)

Locke and Key was AWESOME IMO

and The Umbrella academy is pretty good so far, I'm not all the way through the first season yet.

Originally Posted by Tribal Warfare (Post 14850107)

The Korean zombie series Kingdom is out with season 2