Second season of Orange is the New Black launched today.

 

Anyone else into this?

 

I have to admit to being a bit of a TV/movie-phile.  I generally buy Blu-Rays when there's a movie I want to see rather than just watching it on PPV or In-demand (I like to collect).

 

Premium TV has really been leading a creative resurgence in recent years, probably dating back to The Sopranos.  Its nice that Netflix has become a legitimate competitor for HBO (which puts out some really great shows like Sopranos, Deadwood, Boardwalk Empire, True Blood etc).

 

House of Cards was tremendous.

 

While cable channels like AMC are getting in on the act, I annoys me a bit.  The Walking Dead would be so much better on Netflix or HBO where they could truly appeal to adults (HBO passed on The Walking Dead when Thomas Jane was attached).

 

As for Orange, it took me a few episodes to get into last season but Im looking forward to banging out a few episodes tonight.

 

As an aside, for you Trekies, it was recently the 20th anniversary of the finale of TNG, one of the best Series' Finales in TV history.

Edited February 5, 20187 yr by The Unknown Poster

Yeah the problem I have with her character, especially in Luke Cage is that she's too good at everything, really just makes my eyes roll. Oh yeah here's the night nurse to save the day again. You go too far. 

Surprised nobody here has mentioned Stranger Things. Amazing series.

22 minutes ago, blue_gold_84 said:

Surprised nobody here has mentioned Stranger Things. Amazing series.

I finally watched it about two weeks ago and couldnt stop.  It truly was tremendous.  Great child actors too.  Loved the way it not only took place in the 80's but was filmed as if it was made in the 80's and borrowed from 80's film tropes.  Very cool.

27 minutes ago, blue_gold_84 said:

Surprised nobody here has mentioned Stranger Things. Amazing series.

I loved it.  I mentioned it in the Upcoming Movies thread because I'm not too bright.

I had lots of friends on FB going on about the cartoon Rick and Morty so I finally watched it, what a great cartoon, hope theres a 3rd season

http://www.cbspressexpress.com/cbs-entertainment/releases/view?id=46235

watched Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D to see the new take on Ghost Rider, the actor playing  Johnny Blaze as a human is better then Nicholas Cage imo

but I'm starting to think no CGI in the world can make the flaming skull look good in a live action show/movie

**edit: I guess the character is Robbie Reyes, not Johnny Blaze in some Earth 616. No clue what universe that references too but since he's on the TV show with ties to the avengers movie, I'll assume its that same universe

Edited October 19, 20169 yr by Taynted_Fayth

1 hour ago, Taynted_Fayth said:

watched Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D to see the new take on Ghost Rider, the actor playing  Johnny Blaze as a human is better then Nicholas Cage imo

Talk about a low bar...

10 hours ago, Taynted_Fayth said:

**edit: I guess the character is Robbie Reyes, not Johnny Blaze in some Earth 616. No clue what universe that references too but since he's on the TV show with ties to the avengers movie, I'll assume its that same universe

They're from the same Earth.  There have been a few different Ghost Riders over the ages.  Robbie Reyes is just the most recent one, Johnny Blaze is the most popular.  They're both from the original Marvel Earth 616.

I actually liked the flaming skull from the first Ghost Rider movie.  I thought he looked good in there.  The movie sucked though.  This one in Shield looks like crap.

Loving SHIELD again this year...been fun. So, for your nerds out there: This magic book they're talking about, is this sort of leading into Dr Strange?

9 hours ago, Noeller said:

Loving SHIELD again this year...been fun. So, for your nerds out there: This magic book they're talking about, is this sort of leading into Dr Strange?

DAMNIT!  I haven't watched that episode yet.

Oooo you just wait.  I'm driving out to Edmonton right now!  You're in for it MISTER!

8 minutes ago, Logan007 said:

DAMNIT!  I haven't watched that episode yet.

Oooo you just wait.  I'm driving out to Edmonton right now!  You're in for it MISTER!

Well to be fair they've been mentioning that book since like episode 2 of the season.

Just now, 17to85 said:

Well to be fair they've been mentioning that book since like episode 2 of the season.

Oh, is that the book he meant?  I didn't know it was a magic book.  I'm gonna watch it right away anyway.

They didnt call it a magic book (book of vishanti) just a book that contains all knowledge

Ok now that I've watched the episode, the book is called the Darkhold. It is the book of the damned aka the book of sins. It was created before the year 10,000 BC by an Elder God called Chthon. It can't be destroyed as a Saint and Merlin together tried to destroy it and couldn't. This book was used by the Darkholders (the black magic users that used the Darkhold) to create vampires. 

There's a huge history that goes through Atlantis and much later on Dracula. Ghost Rider had something to do with it at some point. So it might be that they're going to introduce vampire's now, or maybe Chthon is the "devil" that gave Ghost Rider his powers in this version of the Marvel Universe. Could be going a few ways. Dr Strange does come into possession of the Darkhold at some point and uses it to destroy vampires, so it does tie in. 

Edited October 20, 20169 yr by Logan007

I kinda figured that it might fit with Strange because we're getting into some really weird, super-nerd ****...

Anyone watching Westworld?  Its pretty damn good.  But the "reveals" better be worth it!

1 minute ago, The Unknown Poster said:

Anyone watching Westworld?  Its pretty damn good.  But the "reveals" better be worth it!

Waiting to binge. Looks like my kind of sci-fi.

12 minutes ago, MOBomberFan said:

Waiting to binge. Looks like my kind of sci-fi.

It would be great as a binge because there are little things that I dont pick up waiting week to week.

http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/westworld-hbo-renew-season-2-divorce-insecure-1201917477/

Guess Westworld will have a cliffhanger now.

14 minutes ago, FrostyWinnipeg said:

http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/westworld-hbo-renew-season-2-divorce-insecure-1201917477/

Guess Westworld will have a cliffhanger now.

Thats great news.  Its really good.

I guess the whole making a murderer case was discussed here so:

 

Sons of Anarchy Spin off "First 9" begins production, but will have a whole different cast playing Clay and John Teller..etc 

was reading somewhere there was also talks of a prequel movie with Brad Pitt as John Teller and Charlie Hunnam (Jax) 

10 minutes ago, Taynted_Fayth said:

Sons of Anarchy Spin off "First 9" begins production, but will have a whole different cast playing Clay and John Teller..etc 

was reading somewhere there was also talks of a prequel movie with Brad Pitt as John Teller and Charlie Hunnam (Jax) 

I think Brad Pitt was a fantasy because of how much he and Hunnam look alike.  Wouldnt Pitt be too old to play Jax' father now?

7 minutes ago, The Unknown Poster said:

I think Brad Pitt was a fantasy because of how much he and Hunnam look alike.  Wouldnt Pitt be too old to play Jax' father now?

in real life Pitt is 52 vs Hunnam's 36 so a 16 year gap, it wouldnt be too hard to sell it though, especially if in the story John Teller had Jax at a young age like 18 or 19

 

tho it would be harder to sell Jax as a younger age, the fake bio of John teller is he died in 1993 (aged 53) that would make Jax 15 plus pitt looks nothing like him lol

 

Edited November 15, 20169 yr by Taynted_Fayth