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Title: What are you watching lately?
Post by: Nameless 24 on April 10, 2013, 06:38:29 am
Inspired by the "What are you playing, stupid?" thread.

Currently in the UK there is a Studio Ghibli marathon on Film4, so I have been watching those (unfortunately they have put them on at ridiculous times this week).

So I've managed to catch a few I don't own and both enjoyed and loathed them (what was the point of Ponyo...really?)

What about you guys?
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Post by: Barry the Nomad on April 10, 2013, 08:05:03 am
Watching Calfornication's latest season wrapping up.

Watching The Clone Wars from season 1, intending to watch them all chronologically through to season 5.

Watching The Simpsons & Bob's Burgers when it airs on Sundays.

Watching my guilty pleasure: Hell's Kitchen

And watching The Colbert Report as new episodes air.
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Post by: cooprey on April 12, 2013, 01:27:59 am
I'm taking full advantage of my netflix and over the past 4 weeks me and the mrs have watched every episode of Dr Who and are now going through Mythbusters from season 1, she's even given up on Eastenders and Coronation st.................which is a bonus!!!!
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Post by: Emmett The Crab on April 12, 2013, 01:31:35 am
I'm taking full advantage of my netflix and over the past 4 weeks me and the mrs have watched every episode of Dr Who and are now going through Mythbusters from season 1, she's even given up on Eastenders and Coronation st.................which is a bonus!!!!

We just did the same with Doctor Who and are now watching Torchwood.
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Post by: max_cady on April 12, 2013, 08:42:34 am
I'm watching Arrow... No new episodes for the next three weeks or so.

Other than that, the new Ninja Turtles and the final season of Transformers: Prime, which is officially just 13 episodes long...

The last show I finished watching was Young Justice with it's BS cop-out season finale.
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Post by: mylifewithsega on April 13, 2013, 12:39:52 pm
Recently I've watched a lot of shitty horror movies on Netflix. Mostly paranormal/found-footage flicks. Absolutely terrible.

Killed the entire series of Weeds, Wire in the Blood, Sherlock, Lip Service and Star Trek: The Next Generation. Watched the first two seasons of Lost Girl. I've really fallen behind there.

As for new shows, I'm sticking with Elementary, The Following, Ghost Adventures and The Dead Files.
Title: Re: What are you watching lately?
Post by: Chaosmaster8753 on April 13, 2013, 04:43:27 pm
Mostly been watching Toonami every Saturday night on [adult swim] and I've also recently finished the entire season 1 and the first two episodes of season 2 of Justice League on Netflix.
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Post by: Barry the Nomad on April 13, 2013, 10:38:40 pm
I've been watching...

YOU!!!

Title: Re: What are you watching lately?
Post by: crackdude on April 14, 2013, 09:08:39 am
How I Met Your Mother.

8 years in and still no mother.
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Post by: mylifewithsega on April 14, 2013, 01:01:17 pm
How I Met Your Mother.

8 years in and still no mother.

If I were that guy's kids, I would've killed him several years ago.
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Post by: TimmiT on April 14, 2013, 05:40:18 pm
Right now:

Arrow: Still catching up but I'm enjoying it. It's not great, but decently enough to be enjoyable.
Doctor Who: Cause it's Doctor Who
Torchwood: Wanted to watch more Doctor Who stuff, still trying to get to the part where the show gets good.
Attack on Titan: Just started airing last week, I don't watch a whole lot of anime but this one is pretty good so far. Here's the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znvVz-V-4Oc
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Post by: Sharky on April 19, 2013, 06:49:14 pm
Vikings,
New Girl season 2,
Game of Thrones season 3,
Adventure Time season 5
Rewatching Battle Star Galactica on season 3
Rewatching This is England 88
Title: Re: What are you watching lately?
Post by: George on April 19, 2013, 09:02:34 pm
Arrow: Obviously, like, Green Arrow has been my favorite super hero, so I'm happy he has a show.
Game of Thrones Season 3: Fucking hell man, best show on TV ever periods. The Wire is a close second now.
Vikings: History Channel is doing it right. Fuck you Pawn Stars.
Title: Re: What are you watching lately?
Post by: max_cady on April 21, 2013, 04:16:53 pm
Well, I tivoed the pilot episode for Defiance, but I'm not in a mood to watch it right now...

I watch my usual filling of Bones, The Simpsons, American Dad and Family Guy. The Cleveland Show is finally going under... Never though that show would last and I was right.

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Post by: FourCartridge on April 25, 2013, 09:51:21 pm
I don't really watch TV anymore other than The Big Bang theory & the Daily Show. Maybe some sports news now and again, if only just for background noise when nobody else is home.
Title: Re: What are you watching lately?
Post by: max_cady on May 09, 2013, 05:32:39 pm
I started watching the Teen Titans Go cartoon.

I was expecting the visuals to be similar to the original, albeit chibi form. So I'm not a huge fan of this art style but it serves it's purpose.

Two short stories per episode, kinda like the old school Dexter's Lab episodes. The pilot was kinda average, but these last two episodes have been pretty good. It's the Teen Titans from the original 2003 cartoon, with the original voice cast in quasi-slice of life sketches. It's a 100% comedy show. Some of the stuff I've seen is really hilarious and very meme-inducing.

It's for kids, but the humor can appeal to adults.
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Post by: Nameless 24 on May 13, 2013, 08:55:03 am
Nice. When does it air in Europe? I loved the original Teen Titans when I caught it on TV.
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Post by: George on May 13, 2013, 10:59:44 am
Orphan Black is pretty good.
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Post by: Chaosmaster8753 on May 16, 2013, 05:51:51 am
Managed to finish the first 8 episodes of Game of Thrones.
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Post by: George on May 18, 2013, 04:30:02 am
Managed? Its the best show on TV, you should be like "Thank you for allowing the great pleasure of viewing such great television, HBO!"
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Post by: Chaosmaster8753 on May 19, 2013, 07:11:39 am
Managed? Its the best show on TV, you should be like "Thank you for allowing the great pleasure of viewing such great television, HBO!"

I've been renting discs of season 1 on DVD.
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Post by: George on May 21, 2013, 12:08:53 am
What you think of it so far?
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Post by: Chaosmaster8753 on May 21, 2013, 02:46:45 am
What you think of it so far?

Good stuff.
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Post by: max_cady on May 22, 2013, 04:02:07 pm
Sonic X, the 3rd season (eps. 53 to 78).
Teen Titans...

Not much...
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Post by: Chaosmaster8753 on May 24, 2013, 06:34:13 am
Season 1 all finished. Those last two episodes make me more eager to watch season 2.
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Post by: George on May 26, 2013, 06:52:16 pm
Season 2 is a lot better and has a real 'battle' compared to the first one that seemed to be 'skipped' .
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Post by: Barry the Nomad on May 27, 2013, 10:06:21 am
(http://blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethebox/arrested-development-season-4-poster-2.jpg)
Title: Re: What are you watching lately?
Post by: George on May 28, 2013, 11:15:00 pm
Orphan Black has its ups and downs. But I think I like it, even if it is filled with unnecessary sex.
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Post by: max_cady on June 01, 2013, 04:31:20 pm
I started watching that new Looney Tunes show... I have to say that I am quite impressed by it.

I guess I came in with an attitude, thinkin' that this was quite different from the original. This one is a bit different.

Imagine if the world of the Looney Tunes characters was set within the world of a Seinfeld episode. The characters, despite being animated walking talkin' animals, they have jobs, apartments, they have their schedules and their daily routines to deal with. It's a slice of life, but augmented by the fact that they are cartoons. It also has a bit of that Tiny Toons vibe that I really liked as in, the characters weren't invincible, they were flawed and they were prone to fail and dissapoint, which made them more reliable (in that context, if you liked Animaniacs I have this to say: BURN IN HELL!)

It works for the most part, I wasn't much of a fan of Lola's redesign, but I am growing attached to her quirky/creepy stalker, the original character was meant mostly for just eye-candy.
One of the oddest aspects is that Lola is obssessed with Bugs Bunny, but Daffy Duck, who for the most part is worthless, selfish, abusive and a freeloading prick, yet he has a completly serious and normal girlfriend. And Bugs is the straight man, through and through...
Title: Re: What are you watching lately?
Post by: max_cady on June 14, 2013, 06:32:31 pm
Sorry for the dp here.... but...

I've been watching a lot of toons lately. I've finished watching the latest Looney Tunes show and I picked up two new shows:

Teen Titans Go!: Don't be fooled by it's Tween presentation, it's actually quite funny and manages to surprise quite a lot along the way, especially good background humor.

Loonatics Unleashed: Yeah, I figured out why this show wasn't well received and cancelled. Simple, this would have been great in the early 90's, nowadays it feels like a relic of that era. It would've fit like a glove alongside Sonic Satam and Bucky O'Hare.
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Post by: pirovash88 on June 29, 2013, 09:12:15 pm
Almost done with the third season of Fringe. This show is absolutely amazing.
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Post by: max_cady on July 02, 2013, 04:39:17 am
I finally watched the first episode of Defiance... It seems kinda nice. It's an odd sci-fi Western of sorts...
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Post by: pirovash88 on July 03, 2013, 10:53:24 am
The last season of Dexter started on Sunday. I like the direction the series has taken, it's definitely going to be interesting to see how everything ends. Man, i've been watching this for years, it's gonna be a bummer to watch it finally end.
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Post by: George on July 03, 2013, 09:59:11 pm
The first episode was pretty decent, though I think I know how it will end up.
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Post by: Nameless 24 on July 04, 2013, 05:51:44 am
Mad Dogs (all the seasons).

Still none the wiser on what they are running from, and the ending is a cliffhanger.
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Post by: max_cady on July 18, 2013, 02:24:16 am
Defiance, Teen Titans Go! and not much else.
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Post by: Chaosmaster8753 on July 21, 2013, 07:34:11 pm
I've mostly been watching stuff on Crunchyroll and Cartoon Network such as Toonami, Venture Bros. (season finale is tonight,) and I'm gonna try to start watching the Whose Line is it Anyway revival.
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Post by: mylifewithsega on July 21, 2013, 11:26:54 pm
I've started watching Orange is the New Black, as well as Breaking Bad. Orange is fucking awesome! I love Laura Prepon, as well as Kate Mulgrew. Never thought I'd say that about my least favorite Star Trek Captain. Hell, it even has me liking Jason Biggs, and I've been wanting that little prick dead ever since I saw him fuck a pie. Can't wait for the second season.

Breaking Bad isn't what I was expecting. In all honesty, it's now one of my favorite shows. Fantasitc performances all around, great drama and a nice dose of quirky humor.
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Post by: George on July 22, 2013, 03:26:15 am
Breaking Bad is really well done TV.
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Post by: Nameless 24 on July 22, 2013, 06:03:34 am
I really wish I could be wowed by these popular shows, but I have seen it done before elsewhere. :(

Watched The Little Norse Prince which I believe was a great film for the 1960s, but a little simplistic now.

Also watched Only Yesterday too...I believe the film was lacking a direction (and that bath scene. >_< Japan should really consider cutting out cultural aspects that could offend), but I cried at the end...but still...the flashbacks were too scattered and I started to think "How many things did she DO at 10 years old? Surely all of that didn't happen within a year?", they got lazy on the last flashback, since the character just talked about her last part of her childhood rather than going straight to the flashback. I don't think the memories were in order either, so it confused me.

Pre-Ordered Claymore (some anime with Women Warriors...I hope it's good) and "Read or Die". I really don't seem to get Anime at all like most gamers do (but not here, since you guys love a lot of western films/animation moreso), but at least I'm trying with the few that look good (seriously, 80% of it is sexual pandering...and 50% of that isn't appropriate at all. <_<).

Ghibli Films are hit and miss, despite being a fan of their Art Style.

The only anime I ever liked was Mushi-Shi, but even that has a few duds in the series.
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Post by: puyopuyoman on September 18, 2013, 10:50:50 pm
Korra book 2 started airing so I've been watching that. The Digimon Xros Wars English dub started airing on TV recently so I've been seeing how that's turning out, other than that though I don't really watch too much TV so that's pretty much it for me other than a bunch of random animes.
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Post by: Chaosmaster8753 on September 24, 2013, 02:00:00 am
Marathoned Breaking Bad yesterday. Hope I can finish it before the final episode, sucks that Netflix doesn't have the episodes before it, though.
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Post by: Nameless 24 on September 25, 2013, 06:13:29 am
Waterloo Road is back on...but I missed one.

That Barry Barry character is probably the funniest villain out of all of the series for me...although Denzel's brother was fucked up in the head in Season 4 or 5....

I liked Finn too for being the rebellious dude before he turned into somewhat of a good person.

To you Canadians out there, it's like Degrassi but likely not as controversial in the episodes.
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Post by: max_cady on September 26, 2013, 07:06:13 pm
So...

Just to recap...

Regular Show - Watched every single episode since season 1. Very impressed.

Wakfu - This might sound a bit odd, but here goes: Arguably one of the best animated series I've ever seen. PERIOD. I'm not joking. I've grown to loathe japanese anime for a while and then I look at this and I see stunning animation (barely any assets re-used, there no corners that were cut here), an awesome story that has a great principal protagonist, great supporting cast, an interesting antagonist (at least as far as the first season is concerned) and a real sense of adventure.
It has more in common with your average japanese anime yet viewing it as a complete package it feels so fresh and fully realised. I was floored by the ending of season 1, which is quite heavy and dramatic, season 2 didn't fare as well as I'd hope but nevertheless a fun ride.
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Post by: tarpmortar on September 26, 2013, 07:17:39 pm
Magnum P.I. ssn 2, Miami Vice ssn 2, Portlandia ssn 3, Derek ssn 1 and The Wonder Years ssn 2. All are pretty great imo, obviously for different reasons.

Magnum because it reminds me of the sort of quirkiness The Rockford Files had, and in the lead role it stars Tom Selleck and Tom Selleck's mustache, great cast. The Wonder Years is obviously a fantastic coming of age tale and period piece, very well done and on the receiving end of a ton of critical acclaim; I've watched TWY before but never the entire series just episodes here and there via repeats.

Derek is your average Ricky Gervais fare, like Extras or The Office, which is to say brilliant. It's funny but it also has that undercurrent of drama and emotion that we usually see in Gervais' TV series. Derek's emotion is maybe more prominent than in his other TV series, in its commentary on oft-ignored retirement homes and the people who work in them, largely a thankless job and extremely difficult. There was a lot of media saying Ricky was making fun of the challenged/differently abled, Ricky himself denies that Derek is mentally disabled and insists that Derek is merely naive/socially awkward. Regardless of whether that's true or not, the media bullshit saying he was making fun of the challenged is patently false, he portrays the character with sincerity and not as the butt of a joke. One more reason to write off entertainment "journalists" I suppose, gotta make something out of nothing in headlines to peddle their papers and webpages.

Portlandia is Portlandia, I thought this season would be worse than season 2 but I actually think it's superior. Maybe now that Fred Armisen is done on SNL he's dedicating more time to this project. Either way, a pleasant surprise.

Miami Vice is just cool as shit, it's melodramatic but fuck is it not quintessential '80s? Plus it has a Testarossa, the show's fashion consultant was Gianni Versace and as such a ton of the suits still look great, the phenomenal focus on music (Miami Vice will not hesitate to show Don Johnson driving a Ferrari for two and a half minutes to finish off a Bryan Ferry, Glenn Frey or Phil Collins track) during the MTV boon, the melodrama that reminds me of Japanese drama (think Yakuza if you've never seen one) but doesn't go far enough to be awful like an American soap, the Miami art deco architecture, pastel colors, great guest stars. Super well put together.

I'm also occasionally tuning into a cartoon on Netflix, usually Adventure Time or Regular Show. I like both quite a bit though I miss Netflix having the Nickelodeon classics like Rugrats, Rocko and Hey Arnold! quite a bit.

Edit: Forgot Eastbound and Down ssn 3, only two episodes in and I haven't formed much of an opinion. First episode was great second wasn't as good as the first.
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Post by: Chaosmaster8753 on September 27, 2013, 01:01:24 am
So...

Just to recap...

Regular Show - Watched every single episode since season 1. Very impressed.

Wakfu - This might sound a bit odd, but here goes: Arguably one of the best animated series I've ever seen. PERIOD. I'm not joking. I've grown to loathe japanese anime for a while and then I look at this and I see stunning animation (barely any assets re-used, there no corners that were cut here), an awesome story that has a great principal protagonist, great supporting cast, an interesting antagonist (at least as far as the first season is concerned) and a real sense of adventure.
It has more in common with your average japanese anime yet viewing it as a complete package it feels so fresh and fully realised. I was floored by the ending of season 1, which is quite heavy and dramatic, season 2 didn't fare as well as I'd hope but nevertheless a fun ride.

Isn't Wakfu from France?
Title: Re: What are you watching lately?
Post by: Nameless 24 on September 27, 2013, 05:47:47 am
Isn't Wakfu from France?

A european animation that's good!?!

I may watch it now.
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Post by: max_cady on September 29, 2013, 08:25:12 am
Trust me, it's really good.

On a side note, I've also been watching a lot of Elementary. The actor who plays Sherlock is almost too fun for words. He's exactly like Jeremy Brent if he lived in modern times.