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Post by lurker on Dec 17, 2018 14:10:59 GMT -5
Glad that Netflix finally released more info on the Dark Crystal prequel series even though it's just a few photos.
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Post by eatersthemanfool on Dec 21, 2018 6:17:12 GMT -5
Just finished the first season of the Amazon Original The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. I'm enjoying the hell out of it and ready to start on the second season. So it's another show by Amy Sherman-Palladino, which depending on whether you liked her previous work is good enough reason to try it. If you're not a fan, though, it's still work a look as it's enough of a departure from her usual schtick that it might click with you.
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is a period comedy set in the 50's about a jewish woman in New York who gets dumped by her husband and uses the experience as inspiration for a stand-up routine that launches her career. It's full of Palladino's standard witty banter but a little more subdued and believable this time around.
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Post by lurker on Feb 21, 2019 19:15:40 GMT -5
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Post by windfisch on Mar 18, 2019 13:37:45 GMT -5
American Gods was a dissapointment to me: It's awfully noisy and tries so hard to be edgy, the story is way too drawn out and most of the characters just annoyed me, even though I found them interesting in the book. The only genuinely good thing about this version was an animated short within one episode. So I remain sceptical about Good Omens. But the trailers so far look quite good. Hope they manage get the tone right this time, dry humour being the key here.
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Post by lurker on May 21, 2019 20:45:13 GMT -5
So more pics of the Netflix Dark Crystal series have been revealed...
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Post by psygnosis8 on May 26, 2019 18:35:29 GMT -5
Looks awesome.
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Post by lurker on May 30, 2019 11:27:16 GMT -5
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Post by Woody Alien on Aug 7, 2019 8:00:22 GMT -5
Finally saw the third season of Stranger Things about a month after it came out.
It was still good but I can't say I liked it as much as the previous two. On one hand I liked how the horror of the Upside Down and the Mind Flayer became even more disturbing and visceral, on the other I felt that the subplot with the Soviet spies was a bit too cartoonish and improbable, what with the way the boys infiltrate their secret base and also the Russians themselves, who seemed more caricatures a la Rocky IV than real people. I get the homage to 80s fiction but it just makes the setting look like less and less the "real world" and more like another sit-com location. I'm also starting to get tired of Winona Ryder's "crazy hysterical mom" shtick and I didn't like how they turned Hopper into a violent, borderline psychotic vigilante.
I hope next season is the last one because of how this one ended and the fact that the premise is starting to wear thin.
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Post by lurker on Aug 23, 2019 0:19:42 GMT -5
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Post by lurker on Nov 12, 2019 22:39:49 GMT -5
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Post by windfisch on Nov 13, 2019 6:16:59 GMT -5
Gargoyles was an amazing show produced by a shit company. Sure, it deserves to be brought back on TV or even as a movie series. After all SciFi-Fantasy, Super Heroes and Norse Mythology are all the rage again. A Live action/cg hybrid might just work for this one or even better: heavy use of Hellboy-style makeup and prosthetics. But I'm never gonna use one of those subscription services.
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Post by Snake on Nov 13, 2019 20:36:05 GMT -5
I wouldn't mind a proper continuation of Gargoyles. 2nd season felt like the climax though, seeing all the characters and mystic items come together at Avalon.
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Post by lurker on Nov 14, 2019 15:42:28 GMT -5
The interesting thing is that the service even has the infamous Deadly Force episode of Gargoyles, the one they’ve been holding back for quite awhile.
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Post by windfisch on Nov 14, 2019 17:09:40 GMT -5
I wouldn't mind a proper continuation of Gargoyles. 2nd season felt like the climax though, seeing all the characters and mystic items come together at Avalon. Iirc Season 3 was done without involvement of key figures like Greg Weisman. It was still okay, but certainly had weaker writing and overall animation quality.
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Post by Woody Alien on Nov 20, 2019 9:33:50 GMT -5
After years I started watching Ash vs Evil Dead on Netflix, currently I'm near the end of season 2. Being somewhat of an Evil Dead fan I enjoyed it but at the same time I feel that it's always the same stuff, after all how much lore can you wring out from three movies (or better, two and a half)? There's some new things such as a demon (who looks kinda like Tommy Wiseau) who skins his victims and passes off as them, and Campbell seems also inspired by his own self-parody "My Name is Bruce", but still I'm starting to lose interest. Though it's true that I don't have much patience with serials.
Anyway it's better that Bruce Campbell has officially retired his Ash character, I don't think he could have had much to do anymore after this series.
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