TV/Movies Megathread

[Josephus]

The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. A film only Terry Gilliam could make. I enjoyed it.

[KRonn]

I've been watching old Hogan's Heroes shows. Campy and over the top but fun stuff. Sergeant Schultz )John Banner) is about the best part of the show, but he saw nothing!   

[Syt]

Finished my rewatch of Frasier. I still well up in the final episode.

[KRonn]

Finished my rewatch of Frasier. I still well up in the final episode.

That is/was a great show!  A favorite show when it was new, and still is a great show in re-runs.

[Syt]

Started watching Garth Marenghi's Darkplace. Three episodes in. Found the first episode hilarious (esp. since I've watched my share of badly acted, badly edited, badly dubbed amateurish horror schlock), but by episode 3 the joke is wearing a bit thin.

Also, is it me, or is Matt Berry (who I love) playing more or less the same person in most shows he's in?

[Eddie Teach]

I've been watching The Good Place. It's pretty funny and it actually has a decent narrative too.

[The Brain]

Started watching Garth Marenghi's Darkplace. Three episodes in. Found the first episode hilarious (esp. since I've watched my share of badly acted, badly edited, badly dubbed amateurish horror schlock), but by episode 3 the joke is wearing a bit thin.

Also, is it me, or is Matt Berry (who I love) playing more or less the same person in most shows he's in?

I love Darkplace, but six episodes is certainly around what the material can support. Ep 3 and 4 are the weakest IMHO. Love the broccoli episode (ep 6).Watch the pure interview parts as well for extra hilarity and disturbing insights.

[Sheilbh]

Also, is it me, or is Matt Berry (who I love) playing more or less the same person in most shows he's in?

Generously, he does variations on a theme.

But when you're mainly about a voice you'll always shoe-horn that performance into anything you're doing. See: the career of Brian Blessed.

[Josquius]

Generally not a fan. That toast of London thing was not good.
Year of the rabbit is fun though.

[Malthus]

I've been watching The Good Place. It's pretty funny and it actually has a decent narrative too.

It's a great show.

It's hard to imagine how it got produced, though - it is an awesomely weird premise. The afterlife and the philosophy of morality, and it's a comedy.

[celedhring]

Killing Eve. I think this is the first time they do a character-centric episode?

[spoiler]
Having her rural Russian family all speak perfect English kinda threw me off. I guess BBC America didn't like an episode with 90% of Russian dialogue, or the actress wasn't confident on pulling convincing Russian for an entire episode. I guess they tried to explain it away with the family being oddly fixated on English stuff. Loved the harvest festival, though, and they payoff with her mom was good, even if the murder was expected.[/spoiler]

[viper37]

Was Venom made by Sony or Marvel? I thought it was a Sony one. 

Sony.  They have the Spiderman IP, they lent it to Disney for the Spiderman movies+others.

[Barrister]

I've been watching The Good Place. It's pretty funny and it actually has a decent narrative too.

It's a great show.

It's hard to imagine how it got produced, though - it is an awesomely weird premise. The afterlife and the philosophy of morality, and it's a comedy.

I broke down and bought season 4 on iTunes.

[Malthus]

I've been watching The Good Place. It's pretty funny and it actually has a decent narrative too.

It's a great show.

It's hard to imagine how it got produced, though - it is an awesomely weird premise. The afterlife and the philosophy of morality, and it's a comedy.

I broke down and bought season 4 on iTunes.

I did as well! Then binged it. 😄

I enjoyed the hell out of it. Let me know what you think of it.

[crazy canuck]

Season 3 of Medici is on Netfilx.  It reminded me that I had meant to but did not see season 2 - one of the highlights of season 2 is they cast someone who looks very much like Venus for a Botticelli related subplot.

Looking forward to watching season 3