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

no they're planning on writing him out

2 minutes ago, iHeart said:

no they're planning on writing him out

Seems clunky for only one more season. As good as Claire is she can’t carry the show. They’ll need someone as an antagonist. 

Yup

 

So I don't know what took me so long to start Fargo.... but happily I started eventually!    S1 is outstanding. 

Looking at the casts for s2 and 3, really excited to watch them. 

http://tvline.com/2017/11/08/shameless-renewed-season-9-showtime/

http://tvline.com/2017/11/08/josh-groban-the-good-cop-cast-netflix-tony-danza/

I can't believe they're keeping this

http://tvline.com/2017/11/08/dynasty-full-season-1-order-the-cw-reboot/

8 hours ago, Jimmy Pop said:

So I don't know what took me so long to start Fargo.... but happily I started eventually!    S1 is outstanding. 

Looking at the casts for s2 and 3, really excited to watch them. 

Season 2 was great, didn't like season 3 as much as the first two but still worth watching.

http://tvline.com/2017/11/09/big-little-lies-season-2-premiere-date-hbo-new-episodes/

13 minutes ago, iHeart said:

http://tvline.com/2017/11/09/big-little-lies-season-2-premiere-date-hbo-new-episodes/

It was a decent show.  Really great cast.  The first season was the entirety of the book it was based on so a second season would be uncharted territory but from the article, HBO has asked the novelist to work on the season  2 story.

If any streaming service can become another Netflix its Disney. They have so many properties to leverage. 

I guess it's safe to say that Louis is cancelled on FX

http://tvline.com/2017/11/10/louis-ck-c-k-cancelled-fx-better-things-sexual-misconduct-fx-fired/

Watched The Void. A horror movie that draws heavy inspiration from HP lovecraft, hellraiser, and event horizon. Its a good watch if you are into the genre. 

I would highly recommend "Playmakers", it's a series that takes you behind the scenes into the locker room of a fictional pro football team and covers "football" related topics much better than "Ballers" does.  If at all accurate in the details, these pro athletes pay a huge price for their brief football careers in terms of life expectancy and physical health.

http://tvline.com/2017/11/13/lord-of-the-rings-tv-series-amazon-multiple-seasons/

you know for Roseanne's sake, people better be watching, but I don't know if I want to, oh wait I forgot I want to find out what happened to Mark

 

https://tvline.com/2017/11/13/roseanne-revival-9-episodes-order-increased-abc/

3 hours ago, iHeart said:

you know for Roseanne's sake, people better be watching, but I don't know if I want to, oh wait I forgot I want to find out what happened to Mark

 

https://tvline.com/2017/11/13/roseanne-revival-9-episodes-order-increased-abc/

I’m curious. It was a tremendous show at the time. 

13 hours ago, The Unknown Poster said:

I’m curious. It was a tremendous show at the time. 

I'm glad that they are ignoring the last season (s) of the show and focusing on the great seasons of what made the show so good.  

The actor who played Mark,  I think he died of an OD or something in real life.   I assume that the character won't be in the new show.

1 hour ago, Brandon said:

I'm glad that they are ignoring the last season (s) of the show and focusing on the great seasons of what made the show so good.  

The actor who played Mark,  I think he died of an OD or something in real life.   I assume that the character won't be in the new show.

yeah I doubt it too, also I have heard from a source that has actually been to a couple of tapings that Johnny Galecki hasn't been present there. Why do I have a bad feeling that even if they do reverse the final season something bad will have happened to David

http://tvline.com/2017/11/14/handmaids-tale-season-2-premiere-date-april-2018/

1 hour ago, iHeart said:

yeah I doubt it too, also I have heard from a source that has actually been to a couple of tapings that Johnny Galecki hasn't been present there. Why do I have a bad feeling that even if they do reverse the final season something bad will have happened to David

If I recall, Galecki is very close friends with Sara Gilbert still (I think she's a producer on the new Roseanne).  I bet they get him for a cameo where he sneaks on set for it or something.

and we have a trailer for american crime story season 2

 

 

https://tvline.com/2017/11/14/difficult-people-cancelled-hulu-season-4/

I really enjoyed American Crime Story season one.  True Crime is hot right now with no lack of source material.    I watched a documentary about Elizabeth Smart which would make a good True Crime series as well.  Plus, of course Jonbenet (if thats not played out as awful as it is to say), Manson murders.   They could tackle the Bernardo murders.  Lots of options.

I've really been enjoying the Menendez Murders on NBC this year.....some really crazy stuff talked about that makes it a bit of a "tough" watch, but it's really good.