New telly shows thread

[Misfit]

Daredevil season two goes online on the 18th March (this Friday!).

Just finished Daredevil. I tried really hard not to binge it in one go.

It's just fantastic. Best Marvel stuff so far. Probably even better than season 1 and not quite a brutal (except for some of the Punisher bits). It leaves lots of questions for a third season which there surely must be and hopefully it's soon. It would seem to make sense to be before any Defenders show as it's not really been left in a suitable place to go straight into teamwork.

Luke Cage teaser. Looks like they may be taking a slightly lighter approach on this one...

[Meow]

This is fun show. it's about aliens bugs eating people's brains.



I like the into.



This another great show not to missed. It's based of the comics, about a preacher who has a power, to get you do whatever he commands.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preacher_(comics)

[Harlequin]

I like the into.

The series seems fun and Jonathan Coulton always is. Did you have to post his recap song from such a late episode, though? It is full of spoilers for what has happened up to that point.

This another great show not to missed. It's based of the comics, about a preacher who has a power, to get you do whatever he commands.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preacher_(comics)

Yet another series starring a British actor pretending to be American. Curiously, both Cooper and Ruth Negga have moved to this DC Comics series from recurring roles in Marvel Comics series (Agent Carter and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. respectively). Negga and Joseph Gilgun are also recognisable from Misfits.

[Meow]

I like the into.

The series seems fun and Jonathan Coulton always is. Did you have to post his recap song from such a late episode, though? It is full of spoilers for what has happened up to that point..

It wasn't intentional.

Yet another series starring a British actor pretending to be American.

They seemed to do that awful lot here with British actors. House being the worst. Robert Kazinsky (Sean Slater) had to do it well with 2nd chance which is now cancel.

[Rhythm]

Did you have to post his recap song from such a late episode, though? It is full of spoilers for what has happened up to that point..

It wasn't intentional.

As someone who hasn't seen the show I don't take that as a spoiler, it's intrigued me enough to watch the show. I now have questions about how the events I'm seeing happened and so I'm looking forward to watching it.

Spoiler rant: Stories are about the journey, not the destination. If a film/show/play/game can be "spoiled" by a premature revelation of a single fact (or a 1 minute recap song) then maybe that piece of entertainment wasn't that good in the first place.

To use a couple of old examples:
- Titanic isn't ruined by the fact that you know it sinks
- The Crying Game isn't made any less effective when you know he's dating a trans character
- The Sixth Sense is just as effective when you know it's a story about a ghost coming to terms with the fact that he's a ghost

[Meow]

Did you have to post his recap song from such a late episode, though? It is full of spoilers for what has happened up to that point..

It wasn't intentional.

As someone who hasn't seen the show I don't take that as a spoiler, it's intrigued me enough to watch the show. I now have questions about how the events I'm seeing happened and so I'm looking forward to watching it.

Spoiler rant: Stories are about the journey, not the destination. If a film/show/play/game can be "spoiled" by a premature revelation of a single fact (or a 1 minute recap song) then maybe that piece of entertainment wasn't that good in the first place.

To use a couple of old examples:
- Titanic isn't ruined by the fact that you know it sinks
- The Crying Game isn't made any less effective when you know he's dating a trans character
- The Sixth Sense is just as effective when you know it's a story about a ghost coming to terms with the fact that he's a ghost

Agreed. I watch all shows that way now. By seeing how it ends first. I speed watch the episode 1st with the PVR, Then go back to the beginning and watch again. I did that with all of the Game of Thrones, Lost, The Leftovers. Lots of other shows. It really helps when a show has a filler episode I can skip though the show in 10 minutes and move on. I also watch movies the same way, skipping ahead, then I see how it ends first. Before deciding if it is worth watching.

[Darkflame]

But if its about the journey , hows does knowing the ending help anything?
Sure, you can filter if the ending is hack-eyed. But the same applies to starts.
Seems to me knowing the ending is more useful as a stress/suspension relief, which some people prefer.

Also, there's online guides to avoid filler(or crap) episodes. Very useful. I used one for quite a few shows. All of star trek most recently.

Spoiler rant: Stories are about the journey, not the destination. If a film/show/play/game can be "spoiled" by a premature revelation of a single fact (or a 1 minute recap song) then maybe that piece of entertainment wasn't that good in the first place.

Enjoyment isn't binary. You spoil something you reduce the enjoyment if that thing was relevant. It can still be good, just might not be as good.

Simply ask yourself the question; what does the writer intend the audience to know and when?
Sometimes suspense is nice for some people. Sometimes people like trying to work out a mystery. (either in-universe or trying to think what this writer would do. Almost like getting to know a crossword puzzle writer).
It very much depends on the person and the type of story - but spoilers very much can be about the journey for the viewer.

[Darkflame]

Anyway, New Show;

Stranger Things - Few episodes in, seems like another Netflix winner to me. 80 set (and styled) style horror adventure thing.A little slow perhaps, but it works for it.

[ThetaReactor]

Anyway, New Show;

Stranger Things - Few episodes in, seems like another Netflix winner to me. 80 set (and styled) style horror adventure thing.A little slow perhaps, but it works for it.

Watched the first few episodes last night. It's really well polished, and remarkably intense at times.

[Meow]

But if its about the journey , hows does knowing the ending help anything?
Sure, you can filter if the ending is hack-eyed. But the same applies to starts.
Seems to me knowing the ending is more useful as a stress/suspension relief, which some people prefer.

It really does. I like to see how it all pans out knowing what's going to happen. I find a lot of shows, it's not worth the journey. Most of last season supernatural, was skippable for instance.

Watched the first few episodes last night. It's really well polished, and remarkably intense at times.

It's get a bit silly. but overall not bad. I felt like I was watching a children's show, set in the 80's.

[Deckard]

Don't know how I missed it but Charlie B's 2008 TV Series Dead Set is rather fun, zombies vs (the actual reality show) Big Brother and a zombie Davina - Just a short 5 part series but pre-Walking Dead which certainly owes a lot stylistically to this as does this to 28 Days Later. On a different tip anyone see this weeks Hotel Inspector ? I couldn't take it seriously as the main hotel owner was effectively Peter Kaye in disguise, walkie talkies for the kids to be checked in by, a downer on the t'internet and at one point he broke his leg which made it even more "META"

[pogo]

[Harlequin]

Starring ... a Brit pretending to be American. There does not seem to be as high a proportion of British co-stars as Preacher, though, aside from Ian McShane.

[pogo]

Works for me. I mean, in the book he’s an outsider, looking at America he did not realise existed from the outside. He’s even got the name for it, “Shadow”. Ian McShane is someone else of dubious heritage, “Mr Wednesday”. Without giving away the plot, assuming it follows the book (and all all indications are it’s quite faithful to it), then there are as many Europeans in it as Americans.

There’s an official Tumblr for it, too:

http://americangods.tumblr.com

[Harlequin]

Works for me. I mean, in the book he’s an outsider, looking at America he did not realise existed from the outside. He’s even got the name for it, “Shadow”. Ian McShane is someone else of dubious heritage, “Mr Wednesday”. Without giving away the plot, assuming it follows the book (and all all indications are it’s quite faithful to it), then there are as many Europeans in it as Americans.

Oh, it works for me as well. I am more expressing pride in the quality of British actors. For many years now they have been chosen over local talent to lead in Hollywood series and have been accepted in those roles as natural USAmericans (and it is the fact that they convincingly play USAmerican characters that most impresses me). It is quite a change from our actors seeming to be considered mostly suitable as film villains. I know that international diversity of the characters is important to both the book and the series (indeed, is one of the points of the story), no matter the origins of the actors playing them.

American Gods is a long-form series planned to run over many seasons. I therefore feel that it, like Preacher, will expand on the characters and include variants of many events from the original story without following it precisely. They might want the last season to be similar to the finale of the book, though.