Ridley Scott and Giancarlo Esposito, solid. Will be interesting to see whether stays fresh all the way through. Several playwrights use this device and the challenge is to show several iterations of the same timeline without getting boring.
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Excellent 5/5 - if you’re a fan of Outlander and Scots history you’ll really like this! I was able to retrieve Part 3 using vidsrc, there are currently no links.
Had to move on after 15 minutes into the first episode. The filming was terrible; like a bad fandom movie. The acting, if you can call it that, was so lifeless and the dialogue…well I guess you get the idea. This doesn’t even come close to the UK production and quality. I’m a huge fantasy / science fiction fan and this was really disappointing.
This is a great show. There are a few links in 2020, otherwise none for previous years. Just trying to save yall some time :)
Alpha Omega was supposed to be “Dragonball Z”? Until they said it, I had no idea. “Goku” looked more like the crazy one from “Orange Is The New Black”. And you know a battle is bad when a judge would rather walk off than vote!
i get what u saying now. most shows with good premise like these get to a point and they get stuck so the go back to what they know murder mystery until they figure it out. the one thing im having issue is the show underestimate human resolve. it gives a lot of room for fear. since humanity have been able think. we have mange to walk beyond red line. our curiosity is part of our programming in our DNA. there no way you can keep 10000 people in dark for 144 years. i say you can’t keep 10 people. with out some one wanting to see. we went to the moon with a tin can. you can’t tell me u can keep us underground with out an answer. but good premise so i will keep watching.
Have to agree, I want more to happen more quickly every episode. Third to last episode, finally getting to some good real fishy stuff. I would have liked to get more history from the beginning onward. They’ve hinted at several intriguing bits but they’re dropped with no followup. I like the cast a lot (glad to see Common again, he’s awesome) and I love the premise. The story arc is not tight. To me it’s the opposite of bingeable…so slow I can only take it an episode at a time.
The more episodes I see, the more I like this. Top quality actors, good writing and character development.
Highly entertaining biopic about the 1980’s LA ‘fauxlebrity’ Angelyne - Emmy Rossum is great
Good info to know DamoB78! I haven’t seen the original series/iteration; Is it really that good? Should I watch the original series first or are they both good enough to stand on their own?
@PacificLilly yes. Absoutely a must see. Not necessary in tandem with this and frankly, I think doing them both at the same time will distract one from the other. Think of the original as a very, very expensive meal featuring <your favorite thing on the menu when you’re out treating yourself> at a very, very expensive one-of-a-kind restaurant. You don’t want to do that in close proximity to going out somewhere and getting <your favorite thing on the menu when you’re out having a basic eating out experience> at a solid restaurant which you’ve been to before. (If you’re not a cinema geek this very well may not apply)
Oh boy.. gonna be a tough one to sit through, not because of the guests (looking forward to Bernie), but there’s a lady in the audience that laughs way too loud and way too often, i’m only 1:58 minutes in and starting to develop cringe cramps, hope she turns it down soon..
EDIT: The guests were good.
You know, I can relate. I feel sorry for him. Maher is a classic road comedian and it throws him off not to have that pack of animals out there in the dark to play off of. He has been struggling with covid. Funny how the most loudmouth opinionated people don’t automatically have the outrageous self-esteem they project, because they need adoration from a huge crowd. Sound familiar?? ;)
It’s hard for all of late night. Their timing has been destroyed. Some hosts have gotten better at adapting over time (Colbert).
I try to remember that they can only have around 5 people in that huge room. And every single one of them has been asked to make reactions as if they were 20 audience members.
Desus & Mero are pretty much masters at this. I think this is because they are not road comedians and have been doing a podcast for a decade. And, it helps that they have a producer who jumps in and does ‘color commentary’ from time to time (much like Charlamagne the God’s show). Larry Wilmore’s show also very good at overcoming this hurdle.
Sorry, Bill. Covid sucks. I still watch.
Into The Badlands on ayahuasca, dissertations will be written on this. A cult classic before it hit the can. 11/5
I initially dragged this hard. The first episode managed to be goofy and irritating and meh at the same time, but there’s interesting dystopian society re-building and good characters so I say, give it until #3 at least. If you are one of us who have the sci fi watching brain that wants to see glimpses of all the cool future engineering, you can’t, it’s not part of the show - in order to watch this you have to accept the cool gadgets and gear are all behind the scenes. 4/5
I plan to use these as asmr relaxation aids, I could curl up inside them
Completely improvised, this was only made as a test of sound sync equipment. Shot the day after Diane Linkletter leapt to her death in what was deemed to be a suicide, Waters has referred to The Diane Linkletter Story as “the worst taste thing I ever did”.
The scientist who found evidence of life on Mars can’t wait for the 2020 mission (he’s 95). I can’t wait either! He was involved with the first lander on Mars and his results are still controversial. This was so much fun.
This is Jason Segel’s show and he is really good. The Harrison Ford character doesn’t need Harrison Ford, that could have been any of a dozen actors of his age and stature.
I LOVE Mike and Liv…season 2 they weren’t as funny, they’re HILARIOUS again : )
There was a real Robin Hood from Belgium… Acting, filming, costumes all top quality. Totally flew under the radar. Excellent coronabinge. Ignore the stupid TvMaze rating. 82% RT.
FINALLY! In March, 2023, they said they were working on Season 2. It’s in the 60’s, not the 1800’s, though. Hope it’s not too different. I rather liked the 19th century version. Well, we’ll see, I guess. Didn’t say if any of the original cast was coming back.
“Taboo season 2 will likely follow Delaney and his allies to Portugal, on the trail of the mysterious American intelligence agent known as “Colonnade”. The first season concluded with Delaney and his crew on a boat setting sail under the American flag, with the character’s revenge against Strange (Jonathan Pryce) and the East India Company complete. They were heading for Portugal and a shadowy American spy network. Knight has seemed pretty set on the story direction, but Hardy seems willing to push this in bizarre directions including backwards or forwards in time. Particularly, he has talked about exploring the Delaney family during the Vietnam War.”
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slow slow slow. i like the premise, but disappointed in three episodes of backstory. I’ll stick with it.
Watched this out of a sci fi interest thinking nothing of it. Turned out this series is a sleeper hit. Fantastic take on a Earth colony of the future. Well worth watching if you liked the old 70s vibe of Star Trek type tv shows.
Besides Chris Pine, our favorite non-Shatner interpretation of Kirk is Vic Mignogna. Our kids especially like him. Mostly an anime voice actor, this short-lived fan series is a genuine love letter to the original staff who put Trek together. They consulted them rigorously on everything from lightning to types of fabric that was used, and that rigor shows since it really does look as if it were filmed in 1966.
Has the late Grant Imahara from Mythbusters as Sulu, Jimmy Dohan’s son Chris as Scotty, and a whole lot of really great guests from Star Trek itself and other actors such as Lou Ferrigno. It’s a good series that attempts to finish the original 5 year mission. It was shut down due to legalities, so the mission went unfinished after a season. What’s done is top-notch all the way.
What really stood out for me the couple times I’ve watched this is: their voices are so high. I know, stupid, right?
Videobin link 21 is the only one I found that did not have an encoding error around 30:00.
So true. He’s petty about it, too. Gets cross if a guest is more loudly cheered for a salient remark or joke than he himself is.
And yet, I watch him, because it’s still the only place anyone is getting people of different political and intellectual views together in the same hour interacting with each other on the same topics. I think going from 3 to 2 panel guests has made a difference. When there were 3 he wasn’t dominating the conversation, the guests were. I’m also noticing that the opening interviews are getting more fluffy. The percentage of interviewing celebs he admires rather than politicians and thinkers has gone way up.
Going back for a rewatch. The cinematography by Ole Bratt Birkelund is stunning. Every single item, piece of clothing, furniture, every single piece of color and scenery and the geometry on the screen is meticulously planned.
Doing another rewatch of this. Quantum levels above most shows in the last decade and eerily topical once again.
Couldn’t really get anything out of the trailer, but I’ll watch it once it has an air date. A group of European migrants leave London on a steamship to start new lives in New York City. But when they encounter another migrant ship adrift on the open sea, their journey begins to turn into a nightmare. From the creator of “Dark”.
The casting is odd, the National’s music is same-y, Peter Dinklage is not a singer and yet I found this charming and innocent and boy do I not get enough of that.
SO GOOD! Haven’t seen this good of a movie for a while from recent flicks in such a long time. It keep my interest from start to finish. 4/5 at least. Easily can watch again
Agree, it’s a good rewatch, already had some people over and did that :)
I thought he was kinda perfect for this role, didn’t annoy me at all.
Usually when he plays patient and low key, it’s shady. He’s sending himself up and making fun of his own character and it comes across as fourth wall, actor-egotistical, and smarmy. Look at me. Here he convinces me that he actually cares as the character and about the character. He does a great patient dad stereotype. I loved him with the medieval kid.
Wowwwww…is this ever a story and a half. 5/5 I had always heard about Twentieth Century Motors and the three wheeled car was somewhere back in my kid memory. Interesting tie-in to the present at the end of the last installment…”it figures”
This episode wiped me out…