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, 20188 yr by The Unknown Poster

1 hour ago, Logan007 said:

Carrey is one of those "artists" that eventually go full on nuts.  His art is amazing though if you ever watch a video of him paining.  But he's gone WAY far into the spiritual/meditation side.  I mean, being spiritual and doing meditation is good, but when you go that far with anything you've gone to the nutty side of things.

That episode was good though.  He's still got the humor in him, but he holds it back now.  You could see Jerry was trying to pull it out of him in that episode and Carrey kept going back to the crazy.

Yeah, I believe he's one of those full-on Anti-Vaxxers, too.....just all kinds of looney-toons, but the man is still funny deep down, no question about it.

2 hours ago, Noeller said:

Yeah, I believe he's one of those full-on Anti-Vaxxers, too.....just all kinds of looney-toons, but the man is still funny deep down, no question about it.

He freaks me out now.

5 hours ago, Noeller said:

Yeah, I believe he's one of those full-on Anti-Vaxxers, too.....just all kinds of looney-toons, but the man is still funny deep down, no question about it.

yeah thanks alot Jenny McCarthy

and the first SNL host of the season will be......

 

http://tvline.com/2017/08/24/saturday-night-live-ryan-gosling-season-43-premiere-host-snl/

 

http://tvline.com/2017/08/31/true-detective-season-3-ozarks-hbo-mahershala-ali/

 

and about that Starsky and hutch reboot

http://tvline.com/2017/08/31/starsky-hutch-reboot-amazon-james-gunn/

http://tvline.com/2017/09/01/dark-matter-cancelled-syfy-season-4/

40 minutes ago, iHeart said:

http://tvline.com/2017/09/01/dark-matter-cancelled-syfy-season-4/

Damn.

Narcos season 3 dropped today on Netflix. Great series. 

On 9/1/2017 at 6:37 PM, The Unknown Poster said:

Narcos season 3 dropped today on Netflix. Great series. 

Never watched it, is it just a dramatized story of pablo escobar? 

Well Twin Peaks(Season 3 or The Return) is over and in a way im not surprised...

Spoiler

...it ended by not really ending.

Still it had one episode(#8) that is likely to go down as one of the best/most bizarre moments ever filmed.

Edited September 4, 20178 yr by FrostyWinnipeg

12 hours ago, wbbfan said:

Never watched it, is it just a dramatized story of pablo escobar? 

The first two seasons were. Third season moves onto a different story.  All related to drug cartels on Columbia 

uses some news reels and photos within the story. Really good. But not a documentary. Actors. Dramatized. 

9 hours ago, The Unknown Poster said:

The first two seasons were. Third season moves onto a different story.  All related to drug cartels on Columbia 

uses some news reels and photos within the story. Really good. But not a documentary. Actors. Dramatized. 

just finished episode 4 of the new season, shocked to see an appearance by "Newman" playing a sleazy N.Y. lawyer.

On 9/1/2017 at 6:37 PM, The Unknown Poster said:

Narcos season 3 dropped today on Netflix. Great series. 

THANKS for the reminder! - plans made for tonight. 

Yet another new HBO show I'm pretty pumped for.

David Simon of The Wire fame teams up with author George Pelecanos with whom he's collaborated with before on both the wire and Treme. 

Pretty stellar cast including James Franco and Maggie Gyllenhaal - who's also a producer. 

http://www.indiewire.com/2017/09/the-deuce-review-james-franco-hbo-porn-1201872317/

5 minutes ago, Jimmy Pop said:

Yet another new HBO show I'm pretty pumped for.

David Simon of The Wire fame teams up with author George Pelecanos with whom he's collaborated with before on both the wire and Treme. 

Pretty stellar cast including James Franco and Maggie Gyllenhaal - who's also a producer. 

http://www.indiewire.com/2017/09/the-deuce-review-james-franco-hbo-porn-1201872317/

me too!  very excited.  There was some thought that Vinyl got cancelled after disagreement with Terence Winters so HBO could instead focus on The Deuce.  Not sure if the two decisions are related.  But this looks good (and I liked Vinyl too).

Finally got around to binge watching The Defenders since i finally got some consecutive days off in row, gotta say it fell kinda flat for me. Maybe I'm just getting tired of the same reworked story over and over and the same style in everyone of these netflix marvel shows.  The initial idea of how they would come together piqued my curiosity and learning a little more about the 5 fingers of the hand was welcomed but that was all accomplished by episode 4,  so from episode 5-7 was just filler that totally brought the season down IMO.  The ending leaves me scratching my head too.

I'm still trying to figure out who the biggest ***** was in all these shows.  So far it's a toss up between Matt Murdock, Luke Cage and Claire Temple

3 minutes ago, Taynted_Fayth said:

Finally got around to binge watching The Defenders since i finally got some consecutive days off in row, gotta say it fell kinda flat for me. Maybe I'm just getting tired of the same reworked story over and over and the same style in everyone of these netflix marvel shows.  The initial idea of how they would come together piqued my curiosity and learning a little more about the 5 fingers of the hand was welcomed but that was all accomplished by episode 4,  so from episode 5-7 was just filler that totally brought the season down IMO.  The ending leaves me scratching my head too.

I'm still trying to figure out who the biggest ***** was in all these shows.  So far it's a toss up between Matt Murdock, Luke Cage and Claire Temple

I watched Daredevil season 1 and Agents of Shield for a season or two but I got tired of them, to be honest. 

I'm a fan of all the shows mentioned. I'm no nerd, but I enjoyed them. Really liked Defenders... 

welp veep is going to be done next year

 

http://tvline.com/2017/09/06/veep-cancelled-no-season-8-hbo-final/

18 hours ago, Noeller said:

I'm a fan of all the shows mentioned. I'm no nerd, but I enjoyed them. Really liked Defenders... 

No shield for me. But i liked defenders. It felt like they all covered the weak spots of each series pretty well. 

Apparently the Arlington bridge closure is for an "original" Netflix film. In other words low budget sold to Netflix.

really enjoying s3 of Narcos so far.... 5 episodes in.

Pedro Pascal is excellent as DEA Agent Pena - same actor who plays Oberyn Martell in GOT. 

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/futurama-returns-one-off-42-211000398.html

http://tvline.com/2017/09/08/the-greatest-american-hero-reboot-abc-female-pilot/