February TV-thread

[gimmick]

New series for Shogun starts on 27th...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIs9x49DK7I

...based on the Clavell book. Fairly sure the 80s miniseries was decent. I can only remember Toshiro Mifune, Richard Chamberlain and John Rhys-Davies from it. I think I've read most of Clavell's books. With scripts he is likely best known for being involved in The Great Escape.

[sonatine]

OOOOOO nice.


tyde and i talked a bit about this. the series looks like a winner and im in. the book hasnt aged very well but it appears they have cherry picked the best aspects of it and left a lot of the dated exoticism behind. the more i see of the trailers the more excited i get, it looks gorgeous.

[betcheckbet]

Started watching curb your enthusiasm again for the final season, again. Can't help but feel it's gotten old and lost its charm. With shows out there like Always Sunny who just do it so much better in tackling controversial issues. I like Larry David but it's painful to see him continue after all this time.

It's not bad, but it certainly is nothing like it once was.

[sonatine]

i didnt even make it through the last season. cosigned 100%.

[sonatine]

im watching masters of the sky on apple tv and its doing this thing where one minute its lots of corny awful dialog and stupid weirdly wrong hair cuts and the next its absolutely abjectly terrifying claustrophobic nightmare fuel thousands of feet above the earth. 2 eps in and im giving it an earnest thumbs up overall.

[sonatine]

YOOOOOOO SHOGUN ON HULU IS FUCKIN *GOOD*

[gimmick]

Still pretty good.