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

https://tvline.com/2019/10/31/stranger-things-season-4-cast-new-characters-russia/

for some reason it feels like some people won't be participating next season

Bell Canada will be the Canadian home of HBO Max Streaming Service  series' (Green Lantern series in the works).

Havent had a chance to start watching Watchmen yet, whats everyone thinking about it?  I wasnt really that interested until I read its a sequel to the comic story and not a re-telling.  Sounds really interesting.  I LOVED the film (one of the best movies of all time in my humble opinion).

Anyone watch The Deuce?  It had its series finale this past Monday.  The series only went 3 seasons and had a large drop in viewers every season.  It originally replaced Vinyl as HBO's New York period drama.  I loved Vinyl and think it was more interesting than the Deuce.  Deuce was really well acted and looked beautiful but I found it a bit convoluted...a lot of storylines & characters.  It also drove me nuts with its sound mix that had the dialogue somewhat lost in the background noise.

But this season was really good (probably because they had to finish everything up) with some surprising deaths.  Great finale that ended with a time jump to present day Times Square.

Just now, The Unknown Poster said:

Havent had a chance to start watching Watchmen yet, whats everyone thinking about it?  I wasnt really that interested until I read its a sequel to the comic story and not a re-telling.  Sounds really interesting.  I LOVED the film (one of the best movies of all time in my humble opinion).

Anyone watch The Deuce?  It had its series finale this past Monday.  The series only went 3 seasons and had a large drop in viewers every season.  It originally replaced Vinyl as HBO's New York period drama.  I loved Vinyl and think it was more interesting than the Deuce.  Deuce was really well acted and looked beautiful but I found it a bit convoluted...a lot of storylines & characters.  It also drove me nuts with its sound mix that had the dialogue somewhat lost in the background noise.

But this season was really good (probably because they had to finish everything up) with some surprising deaths.  Great finale that ended with a time jump to present day Times Square.

Watchmen - I've enjoyed both episodes so far. It's weird but in a good way. I'm excited to see where it goes. 

Nada on Deuce. 

46 minutes ago, The Unknown Poster said:

Havent had a chance to start watching Watchmen yet, whats everyone thinking about it?  I wasnt really that interested until I read its a sequel to the comic story and not a re-telling.  Sounds really interesting.  I LOVED the film (one of the best movies of all time in my humble opinion).

Anyone watch The Deuce?  It had its series finale this past Monday.  The series only went 3 seasons and had a large drop in viewers every season.  It originally replaced Vinyl as HBO's New York period drama.  I loved Vinyl and think it was more interesting than the Deuce.  Deuce was really well acted and looked beautiful but I found it a bit convoluted...a lot of storylines & characters.  It also drove me nuts with its sound mix that had the dialogue somewhat lost in the background noise.

But this season was really good (probably because they had to finish everything up) with some surprising deaths.  Great finale that ended with a time jump to present day Times Square.

I've tried to watch the Deuce a few times, it seems alright but not super compelling, I may give it a try again someday if I can't find anything else  worth watching.  

Edited October 31, 20196 yr by Throw Long Bannatyne

Had to look up whether TV's Watchmen is sequel and I guess it is. Sequel to the books that is.

The show is interesting.

Edited October 31, 20196 yr by FrostyWinnipeg

Live in Front of a Studio has set their next event and it's sooner than you think (okay are they only going to do shows that were spun-off from All in the Family?)

https://deadline.com/2019/11/all-in-the-family-good-times-abc-live-special-kerry-washington-executive-producing-1202778619/

welp, people watched Little Mermaid "Live"

https://tvline.com/2019/11/06/little-mermaid-live-ratings-abc-musical-special/

https://www.techradar.com/news/this-netflix-comedy-special-will-let-you-skip-the-trump-jokes

On 2016-01-04 at 2:41 PM, Jpan85 said:

I was left at the end just wanting to know what exactly happened to her.

I think she died.

On 2019-10-31 at 2:44 PM, JCon said:

Watchmen - I've enjoyed both episodes so far. It's weird but in a good way. I'm excited to see where it goes.

3 eps in. Like it , no understand it.

24 minutes ago, Eternal optimist said:

I think she died.

Might be longest reply to post ever on here. Kinda want to look what it was about now

 

https://www.indiewire.com/2019/11/cosmos-possible-worlds-release-date-synopsis-cast-1202188001/

17 hours ago, FrostyWinnipeg said:

3 eps in. Like it , no understand it.

I watched episode 3 last night. My memory of the Watchmen comic is very poor. So much so, that I've requested it from the library in order to read it again.

I'm going to discuss some mildly spoiler info below...

Spoiler

Interesting that we learned that these events take place 30 years following the end of the Watchmen. 

I'm curious about the broader "hero" community and Laurie Jupiter (Blake) as the hero hunter. 

 

well this is a bummer I really wanted to see where it would go from there

Spoiler

Especially since it turned out that even though Brian might not be Zach's father, but Jason might. Also it would have been fun to see who else would have shown up

https://tvline.com/2019/11/07/bh90210-cancelled-season-2-fox/

https://tvline.com/2019/11/07/weeds-revival-sequel-series-mary-louise-parker-nancy-botwin/

well then I hope that for Constance Wu's sake that she has another project lined up

https://tvline.com/2019/11/08/fresh-off-the-boat-cancelled-season-7-abc/

When I was in Seattle visiting my son & his wife a month ago, I started watching a show called Another Life. Aliens made contact with Earth leaving a huge crystal shell on our planet.  We are trying to communicate with it but we also sent a spaceship that travels the speed of light in search of the alien's home world so that we can make contact with them. Katee Sackhoff of Battlestar Galactica & Longmire stars as the Captain of the Earth ship.  I got into it when I was there but don't have Neflix at home. Looking forward to seeing the remaining 5 episodes that I haven't seen when we go back down for Xmas. Has anyone else watched this show? If so, what are your thoughts? Critics hate it. No idea why the writers wanted such an undisciplined & dysfunctional crew of 20 somethings in the storyline.

18 minutes ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

When I was in Seattle visiting my son & his wife a month ago, I started watching a show called Another Life. Aliens made contact with Earth leaving a huge crystal shell on our planet.  We are trying to communicate with it but we also sent a spaceship that travels the speed of light in search of the alien's home world so that we can make contact with them. Katee Sackhoff of Battlestar Galactica & Longmire stars as the Captain of the Earth ship.  I got into it when I was there but don't have Neflix at home. Looking forward to seeing the remaining 5 episodes that I haven't seen when we go back down for Xmas. Has anyone else watched this show? If so, what are your thoughts? Critics hate it. No idea why the writers wanted such an undisciplined & dysfunctional crew of 20 somethings in the storyline.

My comment...

It makes me miss Dark Matter badly. I hope I do not see Another Life in another year.

1 minute ago, FrostyWinnipeg said:

My comment...

It makes me miss Dark Matter badly. I hope I do not see Another Life in another year.

While the series has plenty of flaws I must be one of the few who like it. Although I wasn't sad to see the foul mouthed Michelle Vargas get killed off.

1 hour ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

While the series has plenty of flaws I must be one of the few who like it. Although I wasn't sad to see the foul mouthed Michelle Vargas get killed off.

That's the only redeeming thing about the show, lots of spare crewman.

Major fail on the person who hired all these people. The oil guys from Armageddon look like they were more qualified.

9 hours ago, FrostyWinnipeg said:

That's the only redeeming thing about the show, lots of spare crewman.

Major fail on the person who hired all these people. The oil guys from Armageddon look like they were more qualified.

Never screw the boss's daughter. Especially if your boss is Bruce Willis.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/11/20959998/disney-plus-launch-marvel-titles-iron-man-captain-america-winter-soldier

Watchmen ep 4.

Well I kinda get part of it now.

Kinda.

well the golden globes won't be going hostless

https://tvline.com/2019/11/12/ricky-gervais-golden-globes-2020-host/

Anyone get Disney+ today?  I couldn’t find the app on my LG tv yesterday.