Are you guys talking about NBC’s Timeless? I enjoyed that while it was on. Though i never did watch the movie they did to wrap things up. What I enjoyed about the NBC show wasn’t so much the Rittenhouse big picture stuff, but that each week we usually met some interesting character in the past who was surprisingly interesting in some way. It kind of reminded me of Quantum Leap in that way. And it actually helped that the Rittenhouse big picture stuff was always very urgent and driving the plot forward with high tension.
Silent
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Yep. I did watch the final movie. They did wrap things up, but it felt rushed. I agree that the best part was the different time periods and the people they met.
Cormac
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Last week I decided to give Cursed a shot (arthurian legend from a female POV) and wasn’t too impressed, so I moved on to The Last Kingdom and got hooked. Halfway through season 2 and really enjoying it, although I’d really appreciate a better sense of how much time passes. Often its hard to say if its been a day, month or year(s?) between events. I feel it would help to get a sense of the scale and “epicness” of the story.
Also a map of where the various locations are in relation to one another might be helpful, though I can obviously have a quick look at google maps while watching! (Not like its a foreign place like Westeros!)
Yup. At one point in one of the later seasons I realized that a character was reaching adulthood (I guess probably 15 or something in those days) who had been a baby in an earlier season, but Uhtred still looked like he was 26 (and a good looking 26, no doubt about it). (Contrast with Outlander, where there’s a well-defined “20 years later” bit and the concession that they made was giving the female lead a single wisp of grey hair.)
Still, a damn fine TV show. At first I thought “Game of Thrones-lite with Vikings” but it’s so much better (and just different) than that.
We finished up the last (and final) half season of Cable Girls last night. OMG this was almost literally painfully bad!
Sure the outfits are still great & Blanca Suárez and Ana Fernández are as beautiful as ever, but the romantic and melodramatic crutches that were annoying before are nearly intolerable now. Why, for example, does the near constant narration exist when it’s so lazily written & completely lacks self awareness or irony? It’s all so obvious, saccharine, and twee that it nearly ruins the early seasons.
So maybe don’t watch it unless you are a completionist who can stomach terrible writing in return for beautiful people in beautiful outfits.
Diego
Sharpe
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Stayed up late tonight to watch the beginning of season 2 of Umbrella Academy. Watched two episodes. Very good so far. Must sleep now.
Sharpe
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So after Umbrella Academy became a disappointment for me, I ended up binging the fairly short and lightweight but still enjoyable Netflix series Get Even. 10 half hour episodes, set in an English “public” school (what would be an exclusive private school in the US) with 4 teenage girls who band together to target bullies and other baddies at the school, only to get caught up in a murder investigation when one of their targets turn up dead. The mystery parts were well done IMO and the teen angst drama was at least tolerable. The 4 leads are all very engaging, and I had fun watching this.
It just looks like a spinoff from AHS.
And also a totally unnecessary “origin story”
Yeah, I watched the trailer this morning and don’t see a reason I would watch the series. But I will admit stuff like this is not a big deal to me in the first place, as I have not watched any full season of AHS.
It’s not an origin story to AHS. It’s about the early days of the crazy nurse from One Flew over the Cukoos Nest.
Gendal
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American Horror Story I would assume, but how you could have an origin story for that series I have no idea.
Bunch of writers sitting around a table pitching ideas back and forth? Yeah, I understand what you’re saying. Each season is a different story. Characters don’t really carry over but some actors do. It’s like saying there’s an origin story for The Twilight Zone.
Ratched for Nurse Ratchet I can see. The idea doesn’t interest me at all though. I wonder how many people have even seen Cuckoo’s Nest?
Yes, it’s supposed to be a prequel story for Nurse Ratched. If you read the book, there’s a couple of lines about her having been an Army nurse, but that’s about it. Frankly, she doesn’t need an “origin story” but Ryan Murphy is never gonna say no to an opportunity to vamp.
If you were replying to me I understand that. But the trailer made references it was by the same people behind AHS so that’s why I mentioned it.
Also a few of the background sets I saw in this new trailer were in S2 of AHS.
Ratched was the “villain” of Cookoo’s Nest because she represented bureaucracy and lacked empathy for the patients. This doesn’t make for a compelling backstory, From the trailer it looks like they are trying to turn her into a female Hannibal Lecter.
In other words, Perry Mason all over again.
Well, I don’t know if just lacking empathy explains her actions. In the book and movie it seems to me that she’s motivated by an earnest desire to maintain control over the little kingdom she’s set up in the ward. McMurphy upsets that, and she takes sadistic glee in not just defeating him but by putting the screws to Billy.
Still, I don’t need an origin story for that. She’s petty evil and a part of the system McMurphy battles. That’s good enough. I don’t need to see her in Ryan Murphy fever dream mode.
That’s a good point, and I was being a little simplistic. Still, I think we can agree that the character doesn’t need an origin story.
