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[Misfit]

Still, I'll reserve my judgement.

The jury is in and I'm ready to deliver a verdict:

Fucking awesome!

That's good to hear.

I'm going to try and make it last a couple of weeks if I can.

[Misfit]

Rotten Tomatoes critic reviews are at 17% and Metacritic at 37%. (14K votes from users on IMDB give it 8.1)

Yet Luke Cage gets 96% and 79% respectively on the same two sites.

I'm really missing something, it's in no way awful and is easily as good as Cage so far. I know critics can often have different opinions, but that seems massively off the mark, and it's not just one or two critic reviews, there are quite a lot of opinions there.

[Little stoned kiwi]

There's a departure from the traditional focus on the main character. The Iron Fist is a crap super-hero, his flaws are literally robbing him of his power.
The awesomeness comes from the depth of the story arc and other characters. It's immersive. The twists are well placed and spaced out. Each episode leaves you wanting to know more without giving a damn about Danny himself - he's a dunce with everything swirling around him, only reacting to his environment and always a step behind. Considering how much the masses like a simple super-hero story I'm not at all surprised when a decent character driven drama fails to get a good score.
The first five episodes do seem weak and take time though. But that's because they establish a firm foundation for all the characters.

[Misfit]

There's a departure from the traditional focus on the main character. The Iron Fist is a crap super-hero, his flaws are literally robbing him of his power.
The awesomeness comes from the depth of the story arc and other characters. It's immersive. The twists are well placed and spaced out. Each episode leaves you wanting to know more without giving a damn about Danny himself - he's a dunce with everything swirling around him, only reacting to his environment and always a step behind. Considering how much the masses like a simple super-hero story I'm not at all surprised when a decent character driven drama fails to get a good score.
The first five episodes do seem weak and take time though. But that's because they establish a firm foundation for all the characters.

Having enjoyed the first 5 episodes I'm now even more excited about the rest.

I'm also a little in love with both the Jessicas (Henwick and Stroup) which helps...

[NorthWay]

Legion is showing on Fox here, which I have, and I think it is top stuff.

[Jonesey]

May1st Amazon Prime in the UK.

[Deckard]

Without a shadow of a doubt this penultimate ep of series 1 Legion was the best tv I have seen since the first angels dr who ep - the ambition ? And the Victorian subtitles ??? And the bolero ??? Sublime.

[Harlequin]

Without a shadow of a doubt this penultimate ep of series 1 Legion was the best tv I have seen since the first angels dr who ep - the ambition ? And the Victorian subtitles ??? And the bolero ??? Sublime.

It was rather a good one. I also liked the nod to They Live!.

(Oh, and Dan Stevens can be added to the now absurdly long list of British actors starring in USAmerican series as American characters. This seems to be the month for giving such actors an opportunity to use their own accents).

[Jonesey]

I have to agree.

In fact the series for me had been so marmite with the bizarre imagery and meandering narrative...

But on the strength of that last episode I feel I now need to watch it all again in this new light!

A great finale.

[Harlequin]

I for one enjoy unreliable non-linear narratives and general weirdness.

[techno12]

Not particularly a fan of gameshows but since I do get Dave this starts on Monday, September 5th -

Dara O'Briain's Go 8 Bit

I might last an episode but..

'kin gameshows...

Went to a recording of this yesterday down at Elstree (Series 3 so it must be doing well) - was a great laugh. Dara is so funny, as was Josh Widdicombe - kept asking the audience what the Plymouth Argyle score was. Fascinating to see the process, as it took over 3 hours to record, including an hour's faff with Playstation VR not working correctly for one of the games.

[Darkflame]

iZombie s03e01-2- still good.
(a series of) A Series of Unfortunate Events - While it has all the cliches youd expect from a kids adventure thing, the style of filming is lovely (sort of Pushing-Daisys esq exadurated reality), the narration awesome (the narrator is actually onscreen telling you how horrible everything is), and the script full of wit.
Cast is good too.

Rotten Tomatoes critic reviews are at 17% and Metacritic at 37%. (14K votes from users on IMDB give it 8.1)

Yet Luke Cage gets 96% and 79% respectively on the same two sites.

I'm really missing something, it's in no way awful and is easily as good as Cage so far. I know critics can often have different opinions, but that seems massively off the mark, and it's not just one or two critic reviews, there are quite a lot of opinions there.

Indeed. I found it far better then Luke Cage, I think mostly thanks to more interesting antagonists.
Cages by comparison, had a cartoon villain. Not to mention some bezire logic leaps still bothering me. ("We need to proform surgery on a bullet proof guy, therefor we need to recreate the original conditions that made him so!". They at least could have reversed the polarity or something)

Anyway, Iron Fist was much more entertaining all over - especially if you consider Ward the main character, rather then Danny.

[Meow]

The Leftovers is back. What a great season so far. I'm gonna miss this show. This is the last season.

[Meow]

Sense8 is back. I enjoyed the first season. So hopefully the 2nd season is just as good.

[Darkflame]

Oh yes. A bit slow boil, and a lot of the sex could have been cut down, but Sense8 is pretty good.I enjoyed the Christmas special too, after I got over the fact they made one.
Just another show that's a little "different". Also shows the Wachowski's are fine directors even when not doing big budget fancy shit. (well, comparatively, Id guess Sense8 blows its budget on locations)
Also given Straczynski is the writer I am really hoping it builds up in complexity like B5 did.
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Anyway, speaking of Netflix shows, I watched more of A Series Of Unfortunate Events. Worth watching despite the cliches of the kids plot, the script is sharp, NPH is revealing in being a villain and its visually interesting style wise. Its also a slightly different (Sung) intro every time!

I love how Netflix values intro sequences to their shows.
This, the Marvel Stuff, Sense8...... all in no rush, all beautifully put together to put you in the mood.