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Loved The Boys (Amazon Prime), a dark, funny and acidly cynical take on the superhero genre. Karl Urban is great, Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan's son Jack Quaid has the quirky guy next door / fish out of water thing going and whomever it is that plays the show's sociopathic Superman analogue, The Homelander, is fucking awesome in that role. He turns from charismatic and superficially charming to superpowered Hannibal Lecter on a dime.

Also, on the recommendation of my sister and a friend I watched the first 2-1/2 seasons of Glow in 2 days. I was surprised how much I liked it.
 
GDSmithTX said:
Loved The Boys (Amazon Prime), a dark, funny and acidly cynical take on the superhero genre. Karl Urban is great, Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan's son Jack Quaid has the quirky guy next door / fish out of water thing going and whomever it is that plays the show's sociopathic Superman analogue, The Homelander, is fucking awesome in that role. He turns from charismatic and superficially charming to superpowered Hannibal Lecter on a dime.

Also, on the recommendation of my sister and a friend I watched the first 2-1/2 seasons of Glow in 2 days. I was surprised how much I liked it.
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I really liked the Boys too. Can’t wait for season 2.
 
I'm liking a series titled Black Spot so far after two episodes. It's a French production though that's only in French or German so I don't know if anyone else can get it besides Euros. Dark and slower paced thriller, but well produced and mysterious. So far, of course for all I know it will end with a flash mob justice scene like the AO.
 
Not sure if I liked Baby Driver or not. It was entertaining enough action film and I was happy to see the girl from Downton Abbey getting work where I could actually like her character for once.
 
Knox in Box said:
Not sure if I liked Baby Driver or not. It was entertaining enough action film and I was happy to see the girl from Downton Abbey getting work where I could actually like her character for once.
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It’s one of those movies that I walked out of the movie theatre thinking “if people only see this on a television set, then they haven’t really seen it.”

A recent rewatch confirmed that, though it’s still an entertaining and impressive movie.

Felt the same way about Gravity and Mad Max: Fury Road.

And I’ve been lucky enough to see 70mm screenings of 60s classics that people feel the same way about, like 2001: A Space Odyssey and Lawrence of Arabia.

Not saying that they’re all equal or that they’ll all have staying power. But they all had the “I’ve never seen this before” effect.
 
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Can't believe no has mentioned mindhunter season 2.

yeah, they now have yet another eighties show; as it moves forward in time to the Atlanta child killings.
 
Bones McHorror said:
Can't believe no has mentioned mindhunter season 2.

yeah, they now have yet another eighties show; as it moves forward in time to the Atlanta child killings.
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Having all lived through the Atlanta Child Murders I have always been fascinated by them. I'll have to check that out.
 
Stranger Things season 3, I was turned off a bit a couple shows in until I learned to embrace that they decided to make it a cliche 80's action flock and the away any pretense that it was lifelike characters handling a "real life situation". Instead giving us Arnold lite and cliche after cliche after cliche by design.

Edit: My wife was having none of that "embracing the new direction" BS though.
 
Knox in Box said:
Stranger Things season 3, I was turned off a bit a couple shows in until I learned to embrace that they decided to make it a cliche 80's action flock and the away any pretense that it was lifelike characters handling a "real life situation". Instead giving us Arnold lite and cliche after cliche after cliche by design.

Edit: My wife was having none of that "embracing the new direction" BS though.
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Yeah, it went from E.T. to The Goonies.
 
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