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[–] frankspurplewings@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

Invincible Season one episode one. It's been a long while so I'm rewatching with the new seasons

[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago

I'm on holiday, so I watched the sunrise at the Angkor Wat temple complex in Cambodia. Would definitely recommend.

[–] hactar42@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago

Sabrina the Teenager Witch - the one from the 90s. It's super corny but my daughter loves it, so we watch an episode or two after dinner.

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 1 points 16 hours ago

Well, I am actually watching a lot of stuff, but in a nutshell:

I carched up with Severance and Invincible.

I am at several episodes to finish Mr Robot third season.

I am slowly advancing through Cardcaptor Sakura anime and plan to start to watch the new DareDevil show.

[–] socsa@piefed.social 1 points 16 hours ago

I don't care what anyone says, the season end of Invincible was extremely well done.

[–] dryfter@lemm.ee 1 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)
  • Law & Order SVU and NCIS on OTA TV (antenna)
  • Mythbusters on Pluto
  • C-SPAN website video for the shenanigans--
[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 4 points 1 day ago (3 children)

unfortunately wheel of time. I can't keep from wanting it to be better. I really don't get how that ip took so long for something and finally when it gets done it diverges so far from the source material.

[–] CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

This is on my list. I've never read the books, and I'm not generally into fantasy (other than GoT). Is it worth watching?

[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

My feeling is if you never read the books its likely going to seem like a nice fantasy series and you likely won't miss the inconsistency due to some changes but you might if your a detailed oriented person although they skip stuff to the point were it might be noticed. Like all of a sudden folks are together or in a place and they don't go through how they got there. I do think having read the books makes it more of an issue but there is a guy who said he read the books through twice (no mean feet as there are a lot of them and each one is like a dictionary in size) and still likes it so I guess to each his own. That further being said my wife does not like it and she never read any of the books and loved the lord of the rings (which she had also never read). She won't even watch it with me after season one although I don't really encourage it since I watch and then complain about it to her.

[–] CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al 1 points 5 hours ago

That's really good guidance thanks, I'll deffo give it a whirl

[–] socsa@piefed.social 1 points 16 hours ago

I'll admit that I like it. Having read the series twice. I don't care that they've gone off the rails a bit. The production is as good as we could have asked for and it's more or less telling the same story.

You did better than me, I firmly gave up on it by the end of season one.

[–] jpreston2005@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

CopLand (1997) - An iconic cast doing what they do best. Stallone as Sheriff Freddy was fantastic.

The Drop (2014) - The late, great James Gandolfini supporting Tom Hardy in a well thought out gangster drama.

Oblivion (2013) - Tom Cruise plays a drone technician in a post-alien-invasion Earth. Olga Kurylenko is the most beautiful woman. Entertaining.

The Ghost and Mrs Muir (1947) - A feel-good ghost story about dying alone (somehow).

Prisoners (2013) - Hugh Jackman and Terrance Howard have a real rough week, with Jake Gyllenhaal giving a masterclass as the blinking detective.

Prisoners of the Ghostland (2021) - Nicholas Cage gets his balls blown off because he thought about having sex with a woman whose chin could beat Jay Leno's in thumb wrestling. Movie was and hour and a half too long (runtime 1.43)

[–] SirSamuel@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

You win best summary award

A++

[–] SirSamuel@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I just started watching Parks and Rec for the first time. Just started season 2

Ate a gummy and watched Prey, that was something

All in all, a slow week for watching, but a busy one in every other way

[–] CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Season 2 is loads better IMO they stopped trying to be the office.

[–] SirSamuel@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's what I've heard, the spouse and I are giving season two a chance.

I will say in season 1 Leslie says her mom is as pretty as Margaret Thatcher and goddamn i belly laughed for a couple minutes on that one

[–] CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al 3 points 1 day ago

Ha! I'm British so totally approve of that joke

[–] blindbandit@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My group of friends watched the new episode of Severance. We got more questions than answers lol.

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 1 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

Yeah, this is the Severance experience, I just hope they answer all the questions at the end, I don't want to experience

spoilerLost

Again.

[–] blindbandit@lemm.ee 1 points 6 hours ago

This is my fear since the start of season 2.

[–] CrystalJagger@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

Watching Laverne & Shirley right now with my brother

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Just started Deli Boys. Very funny.

[–] thisismyhaendel@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago

Agree! It’s refreshing

[–] CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I've not heard of that, what kind of humour is it?

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I actually don't agree with @socsa@piefed.social. It deals with relatively dark subject matter (drugs and murder—no sexual violence or anything like that), but I find it does it in a rather flippant way, and feels like quite an easy watch in the way Parks & Rec or Brooklyn Nine Nine were easy watches.

The basic premise is two Pakistani-American brothers' father dies, and they discover he was a big-time mob boss dealing in drugs. One of the brothers is a bit of a drop kick, spending his days getting high. The other is very uptight and straight-laced, and wanted to follow in his father's footsteps...or what he thought were his footsteps running a large deli empire. The two of them end up selected as co-"CEOs" of the drug business because they get chosen as a compromise between the two actual mobsters who were competing to be next leader. In the middle of all this, an FBI agent is trying to pin them with their connections to illegal drugs. But the FBI agent's boss is a Gilderoy Lockhart type (if you're familiar with Harry Potter) full of himself but actually totally incompetent.

It's quite silly and absurd situational comedy, IMO.

[–] CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al 1 points 5 hours ago

Sounds like it's a bit of lots of things thanks 😊

[–] socsa@piefed.social 2 points 16 hours ago
[–] Madbrad200@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

The Last of Us. I finished the first game this week so started the series, it's pretty good. Easy 9/10

[–] CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al 2 points 1 day ago

I've just started sugar on apple which I like. It's got Colin Farrel in it and it's easy watching, kinda film noir style. I've just given up netflix so I finished girls5eva and bojack, both of which I really like.

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Started watching The Orville this week.

[–] pan0wski@infosec.pub 1 points 1 day ago

I finished watching series called 1983. I liked it.

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm binge watching all three seasons of Log Horizon. And already in the third one. Fuck, I forgot how fun that anime series was.

[–] musubibreakfast@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Does the log ever reach the sun?!

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 2 points 1 day ago

It depends on the amount of errors and if you used the -verbose option.

[–] higgsboson@dubvee.org 2 points 1 day ago

I... guess I didn't watch anything. My kids tend to monopoloze the TV

[–] letheanfox@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Watched all six Scream movies. Was really quite fun!

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That sounds like a scream.

...I'll show myself out.

[–] CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al 2 points 12 hours ago

Haha thanks dad!

[–] ghostlychonk@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

We just finished watching Dragon Ball Z Kai and are now on YuYu Hakusho.

[–] bbee@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

Call The Midwife!

And A Street Cat Named Bob. Very uplifting

[–] backscatter@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

I tried watching a movie from the '60s about the Algerian anti-colonialist story, but the flatform clapped out. Which is a shame because I was really getting into it.

[–] ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Finished every season of Dexter.

  • Dexter (8 seasons)
  • Dexter New Blood (1 season)
  • Dexter Original Sin (1 season)

Awaiting for the newest season, Resurrection.

Currently trying out SweetPea but it just seems not for me. Have watched 2 episodes but can’t really get into it. I will probably watch Jackal or Shogun instead.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Omelette du fromage?

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I'd been meaning to watch Severance since season one came out, and I guess the viral marketing finally got to me so I binged it.

Season one is awesome. Season two is ehhhhhh. We'll see if season two can pull it together in the last episode.

I will say, much like Bob Odenkirk in Better Call Saul, I appreciate that Adam Scott and Zach Cherry were given a chances in more serious roles, because they both kill it. Although I found Irving and Dylan to be much more interesting characters, as their stories just appealed to me more for whatever reason.

[–] Starfarer@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago

Completely agree about season two. It's been a bit of disappointment so far

[–] kindenough@kbin.earth 2 points 1 day ago

Pamfir, Wild Men, See How They Run and Last Night in Soho.

[–] BrownOtter@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

F1 qualifying!