tv shows what u into

[klystron]

Watching Season 2 of ST: Picard.
So far enjoying it more than S1. And more than Discovery.

[GoktimusPrime]

Watched both seasons of The Boys while in my COVID isolation. Holy cow.
I've never read the comics, but I really enjoyed this series. It's much like Watchmen, only updated for the current age of social media (while Watchmen is set during the Cold War). Another difference between Watchmen and the Boys is that the Watchmen were run by the government, whereas in the Boys the supers are run by something worse than a corrupt paranoid government - an extremely greedy private mega rich corporation.

Highly recommended.

This show is rated R18+ for a jolly good reason too. And I don't mean like Logan or Deadpool MA15+, I mean proper R rating. This show is absolutely not suitable for minors.

[Tetsuwan Convoy]

Watched both seasons of The Boys while in my COVID isolation. Holy cow.
I've never read the comics, but I really enjoyed this series. It's much like Watchmen, only updated for the current age of social media (while Watchmen is set during the Cold War). Another difference between Watchmen and the Boys is that the Watchmen were run by the government, whereas in the Boys the supers are run by something worse than a corrupt paranoid government - an extremely greedy private mega rich corporation.

Highly recommended.

This show is rated R18+ for a jolly good reason too. And I don't mean like Logan or Deadpool MA15+, I mean proper R rating. This show is absolutely not suitable for minors.

great show. Can't wait for season 3. Homelander is played by a Kiwi as well. I thought he brought the character to life very well.

[GoktimusPrime]

great show. Can't wait for season 3. Homelander is played by a Kiwi as well. I thought he brought the character to life very well.

As is William Butcher. There must be some mad on the set moments where the two actors would've been yapping at each other in their native NZ accents.
Also, was it just me or did Karl Urban's Cockney accent occasionally slip? I thought I could hear a touch of his NZ accent slipping through on occasions. Which is odd, because he used the same Cockney accent for Skurge in Thor Ragnarok. Although he had far less screen time as a minor character in a movie as opposed to a main character in an ongoing TV series, so perhaps there was just more moments to notice these slips?

But even worse was Abraham Lim's Japanese. I struggled to understand him at times and had to rely on the English subtitles. He seemed to be making an effort to act in Japanese but just couldn't stick the landing. I don't mind that they didn't use a Japanese actor, but at least hire someone who can speak Japanese if his character is meant to be a speaker of that language. Oddly enough, the actress who played his sister (Karen Fukuhara) can speak Japanese but her character is a mute! Reminds me of the Black Widow movie where all these non-Russian actors and actresses are speaking with fake Russian accents, and the only actress who can actually speak Russian (Olga Kurylenko) plays a mute (Taskmaster).

The funny thing for me is that the only other role that I've known Karen Fukuhara for is Glimmer from She-Ra and the Princesses of Power... so seeing her play the bad-sparse Miyashiro Kimiko was weird. Oh wait... apparently she was in Suicide Squad, but uh... I honestly remember nothing about that movie.

[Sinnertwin]

Well, MAFS is over for another year.
If anyone else has any recommendations for car crash trash TV, drop me a line.

[griffin]

I taped an episode of The Goldbergs the other day and watched it today, and it was a new episode for us here (I looked it up and it was the first episode of the 9th season - I didn't realise it had been around that long already... if they complete another season, they would have lasted longer than the decade that they are celebrating).

Anyway, it was a sad episode, as it was the first one filmed without the grandfather (George Segal died a year ago from complications from surgery, which I didn't know or didn't remember, so it was very sad for me to watch as well, as I really liked him in Goldbergs in the last decade and Just Shoot Me from the previous decade).

I think this will probably be the last season of Goldbergs anyway, because while I was reading up about George Segal, I read that the actor who plays the father in the show was let go mid-season due to personality clashes with most of the cast and crew, and since this show is based on Adam's life, they won't kill off the character or send him away, and it will be very difficult to have a show that centres on every member of a family then not include one member who is supposed to be living there.

It is probably best to end it now anyway, as it has covered just about everything significantly 80s already... and dragging out the show into a regular drama/sitcom no longer makes it special to the theme of the 80s (the whole point of the show in the first place).

[Defcon]

I watched the most recent episodes for Picard season 2, and Halo. Currently watching these series, latest episodes seem to pick things up a bit. Last week's episodes were both not quite there, I found them boring, or maybe I just wasn't in the mood. The Wheel of Time series, I could not get into, always found myself fast forwarding through scenes. I have been binge watching Star Trek series, and Stargate series, all through my laptop with Amazon Prime video.