nope still The Shield
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Watched episode one of Chappelleās Show for the first time in at least 15 years with my wife (she had never seen it). Black white supremacist skit absolutely holds up and is even more amazing to watch today. Just incredible stuff.
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Close between the two. Shield has he single best ending of tv ever.
The first episode of the Shield is pretty amazing too tbh.
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Holy shit I just found the best reason to say Fuck you Netflix of all time.
My wife and I are watching Norm Macdonald has a show, and it is BRILLIANT. It is so fucking funny.
Netflix cancelled it after 1 season. Fuck you Netflix.
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There was a whole lot of excitement in that fuck you!
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Haha yeah. There are really only like three episodes I consider mediocre or worse. Even the early stuff before it gets really good is still pretty entertaining cop fare, good at mixing up your sympathies too.
Yeah after watching the monologue we ended up watching a bunch. Itās funny that itās actually a fairly inconsistent show but the highs are so good it doesnāt matter. Also a bunch of stuff that nobody, not even Chappelle, could get away with on television today.
Oh, yeah, I watched most of that. I enjoyed it, but itās basically just his YouTube show brought to Netflix.
I have completed my third watching of Justified. Thoughts:
Season Ranking:
One
Three
Two
Six
Four
Five
IMO season five is almost bad sometimes, mostly because I cannot suspend my disbelief enough for Michael Rapaport to be plausible as a cajun or whatever the hell heās doing.
Aside from Raylan and Boyd, I believe much of Justifiedās strength comes from its amazing cast of recurring characters: Wynn Duffy, Robert Quarles, Dewey Crowe, Limehouse, Wade Messer, Constable Bob Sweeney, etc.
I just watched it so recency bias, but I think that Justified has one of the best series finales ever.
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He has a youtube show?
Yes, and itās basically the Netflix show but better. Iāll find a link.
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Awesome thank you
May as well start with the Late Great Super Dave:
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Season 1 of Take Us Home: Leeds United on Amazon Prime was an enjoyable watch, even without being a soccer fan.
Now Season 2 is available. Like everything else this year, both filming and the season itself was COVID interrupted, so itās only two episodes long, but still worth watching.
I watched Mythicās Quest a while back. Literally only apple series I have completely watched and I have had a free account for over a year.
I agree it was not great but okay. But I feel I owe Rob for always sunny.
Saw Fresh a number of years back, itās a really good movie.
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Somebody mentioned X Files in here a few weeks ago. I had watched maybe a season or so as a kid, but it was pretty late in the run when they introduced Doggett, and I had never seen probably 98% of the show.
Wife and I started watching a week or so ago. Weāre maybe 2/3 of the way through season 1. I am shocked at how well this holds up, and really loving it. Itās hard to imagine a show about the FBI being produced today that isnāt filled with bootlicking, but the whole ethos of the show is like āthe government lies to you, the FBI sucks, hereās a cool alien storyā. Also, about 16 episodes in and I think weāve seen only one gun fired and it was at a man who was setting stuff on fire with his mind so, pretty justified IMO.
I was kind of expecting the first season at least to take a more skeptical tone - like, hereās a bunch of weird shit that has some totally plausible, if unlikely, explanations. But no, really from the first episode it was obvious that aliens are real and all of this wild shit actually happens. A consequence of that clarity is that it is equally obvious that the shadowy government people are malicious and engaged in a coverup from day 1. Thereās no plausible deniability for the cops in charge.
The only negative is itās network TV and they were hour long episodes, so weāre looking at approximately 3000 hours of viewing left to watch it all, but in a show like this it kind of feels like it doesnāt matter. Like, if I get sick of it in season 3 and stop watching, I wonāt be left wondering what happened to spooky Mulder. I assume he just continues investigating x files every week.
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209 EP so 209 hours, could be worse, also there is major story arc that comes in at some point and stays throughout, but thats not the best part of the shows as you can tell
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If youāre a King of the Hill fan, I encourage you to pony up a Patreon sub to Talking Simpsons and listen to their first season TalKing of the Hill recap. It is excellent. You also get the first season of Talking Futurama and the full series of Talking Critic.
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Glad you are enjoying it. Iāve got Xfiles being in the top 5 most important TV series in the 90s. Its brilliant, and David and Gillian do some world class acting, especially in season 2 and 3.
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