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

3 minutes ago, Goalie said:

I can do impressions. It’s really not that difficult to replace one voice actor with another. 

yeah but perhaps maybe they want to respect the voice actors like how the Simpsons people didn't want to recast Troy McClure or Lionel Hutz  (though granted they could have, Billy West's Zapp Branagain on Futurama is eerily close to Phil Hartman's voice)

Just now, iHeart said:

yeah but perhaps maybe they want to respect the voice actors like how the Simpsons people didn't want to recast Troy McClure or Lionel Hutz  (though granted they could have, Billy West's Zapp Branagain on Futurama is eerily close to Phil Hartman's voice)

Yes. That I can understand for sure. 

They don't deserve Sesame Street

 

holy craperoni....I welcome this....I wonder if all of his brothers will return? bigger question will Christopher Masterson return or has he been doomed to live under his brothers shame....wait four episodes? is this going to be like the Gillmore Girls year in the Life or something?

 

https://tvline.com/news/malcolm-in-the-middle-revival-frankie-muniz-cast-disney-plus-1235388252/

https://tvline.com/news/silo-renewed-season-3-ending-season-4-rebecca-ferguson-1235388800/

https://9to5mac.com/2024/12/16/carpool-karaoke-makes-apple-tv-return-with-hour-long-christmas-special/

 

https://www.bellmedia.ca/the-lede/press/bell-medias-animal-planet-discovery-science-and-discovery-velocity-channels-rebrand-as-ctv-wild-channel-ctv-nature-channel-and-ctv-speed-channel-on-january-1/

 

so does this mean CTV Wild will be part of the package now

 

what next CTV Music? (missed opportunity)

3 hours ago, iHeart said:

https://www.bellmedia.ca/the-lede/press/bell-medias-animal-planet-discovery-science-and-discovery-velocity-channels-rebrand-as-ctv-wild-channel-ctv-nature-channel-and-ctv-speed-channel-on-january-1/

 

so does this mean CTV Wild will be part of the package now

 

what next CTV Music? (missed opportunity)

I would think so since it counts as canuckvision.

Halfway through re-watching Breaking Bad. I forgot how many laugh out loud moments there were. Also after having watched Better Call Saul, they did an amazing job on continuity...so many little touches..."Hey! Its Mike's granddaughter!".

What a great pair of shows.

Currently in the midst of Shrinking S2.... So many actors that I love from other things. We'd watched S1 when it came out and 2 has taken it even higher. Absolutely worthy of the 97% it has on Rotten Tomatoes. 

3 minutes ago, Noeller said:

Currently in the midst of Shrinking S2.... So many actors that I love from other things. We'd watched S1 when it came out and 2 has taken it even higher. Absolutely worthy of the 97% it has on Rotten Tomatoes. 

Going to binge watch that one after I'm done with Silo, Landman and the reboot S2 of Frazier

1 hour ago, Super Duper Negatron said:

Halfway through re-watching Breaking Bad. I forgot how many laugh out loud moments there were. Also after having watched Better Call Saul, they did an amazing job on continuity...so many little touches..."Hey! Its Mike's granddaughter!".

What a great pair of shows.

100%, I love those shows.  I just finished re-watching Breaking Bad with my wife, who hadn't watched before, so I'm looking forward to watching BCS again

Nobody watching Yellowstone? Last episode was dynamite.

15 minutes ago, Piggy 1 said:

Nobody watching Yellowstone? Last episode was dynamite.

I thought it was terrible (the whole second half of season 5 really, since Costner left).  It felt very rushed and a lot of it didn't make a whole lot of sense to me.

19 minutes ago, Piggy 1 said:

Nobody watching Yellowstone? Last episode was dynamite.

Haven't seen it since they took it off Prime (main) and put it on the separate Paramount network. The one thing I am tell you for fact is that the show is basically porn for rural Albertans.... Man do people love that show out here. 

12 minutes ago, Noeller said:

Haven't seen it since they took it off Prime (main) and put it on the separate Paramount network. The one thing I am tell you for fact is that the show is basically porn for rural Albertans.... Man do people love that show out here. 

I'm addicted ,even with Costner gone ,still one of the best shows ever made. Can't wait for the continuation of 1923.

23 hours ago, bigg jay said:

I thought it was terrible (the whole second half of season 5 really, since Costner left).  It felt very rushed and a lot of it didn't make a whole lot of sense to me.

100% and Costner could have done it too. I think he was done with Horizon 1 AND 2 when they started filming the second half of 5.

Currently binge watching It’s Always Sunny. It’s keeping me alive. My kind of funny.

No one brought up Blue Bloods ending yet? Happy? Sad?

Edited December 18, 20241 yr by FrostyWinnipeg

https://deadline.com/2024/12/the-old-man-canceled-fx-no-season-3-jeff-bridges-1236209118/

1 hour ago, FrostyWinnipeg said:

https://deadline.com/2024/12/the-old-man-canceled-fx-no-season-3-jeff-bridges-1236209118/

That's a shame. I haven't seen S2 yet but really enjoyed S1. Bridges and Lithgow are incredible. 

18 minutes ago, Noeller said:

That's a shame. I haven't seen S2 yet but really enjoyed S1. Bridges and Lithgow are incredible. 

Maybe some one pick it up for a season 3 but like they said 16 eps in 5 years its tough to keep the fans interested and even if renewed now, wont see light of day until 2026.

https://deadline.com/2024/12/mayor-of-kingstown-renewed-fourth-season-paramount-plus-1236209560/

On 2024-12-18 at 11:22 AM, FrostyWinnipeg said:

https://deadline.com/2024/12/the-old-man-canceled-fx-no-season-3-jeff-bridges-1236209118/

I really liked season one but season two was a disappointment. I'll echo the previous comment on how good Bridges and Lithgow were.

36 minutes ago, rebusrankin said:

I really liked season one but season two was a disappointment. I'll echo the previous comment on how good Bridges and Lithgow were.

All these series on streaming tv channels like Paramount + or Hulu, Netflix whatever are just throwaways with just 10 episodes. None of them last & are cancelled at the whim of the executives on these channels. You can't even get really invested in them because their seasons are too short. Then you wait a year or more for the next season. Quality or quantity  with 10 episodes, you say? Well ****, quality doesn't matter. They cancel them anyway. Hard to really care for any of them than other than just a few shows. 

Edited December 19, 20241 yr by SpeedFlex27

I am hoping for another strike so I can catch up on all the TV series that I want to watch. 

I plan to get back to shows like Yellowstone, The Diplomat,  Tulsa King and Oldman but then I start bingeing others like Bookie, Colin from Accounts, and A Man on the Inside. 

There's just no end to it all.

Do you guys generally go through a rotation of shows or try to bang one off before starting another?

Caught up on the episodes of Landman and Silo, needed something to stream during the holidays so I watched both seasons of Shrinking. Harrison Ford is fantastic and Ted McGinley is great but the star of the show is Christa Miller.