TV show thread (2022-?)

[ROOKIE]

Wait for the last season…

[Jaymin]

@miss_ellie

A spoiler would have been nice @Jaymin , I’ve still got the last 2 episodes to watch.

Didn’t really give anything away. Just my opinion. Some may think it was a great ending.

[mrjez]

@CalDon

Very (very) late to the party but finished Breaking Bad S1 yesterday. Ignored it for years for no particularly good reason other than I’ve found many US crime series a bit ho-hum, despite rave reviews.

Needless to say, BB is not one of those. Will knock off the remaining seasons in the coming months.

I’m finally getting around to Better Call Saul, in season 3 now. I already feel the need to head back in to BB again after I’m done, haven’t watched it since the original run.

[barnz]

i reckon the spoiler was finding outthe walking dead was still going

[Mackster]

If it gets too much more convoluted then you start to wonder if it is worth the amount of effort required to watch it.

For anyone that has finished Dark - is it worth getting through it?

[redbull]

We watched Dark until the end. It went from great to good as time went on. But still was rewarding to finish it off.

[miss_ellie]

I agree with what @redbull said.

[Walla]

@Jaymin

Jeez The Walking Dead finale was underwhelming.

So it kept faith with the previous 25 seasons!!!

[Mackster]

Do you think they tried to be too clever, which took a bit away from the end product?

[redbull]

Yes plus the story good broader after starting off tight.

[theDJR]

@Walla

@Jaymin

Jeez The Walking Dead finale was underwhelming.

So it kept faith with the previous 25 seasons!!!

Should have listened to me 9 years ago:

@theDJR

As a generalisation, the Americans are rubbish at making after-the-apocalypse stories, whereas the Poms are great at it. I speculate wildly that this relates to the stages those two empires are at. Only one is able to acknowledge they could fall.

Walking Dead is probably a better example of a Yank attempt at it. It also happens to be a great example of how to make all characters both un-likeable and un-interesting, and have said characters be insanely stupid to create drama. Worse, the show-makers seems to have assumed they can get away with that, on the basis that the watchers are treated as morons too.

(I didn’t get past the first episode of the second season, which includes such classic scenes as the one where the look-out on top of the caravan with the binoculars fails to see a couple hundred zombies coming down the highway until they’re fifty metres away.)

[McGoved]

That look-out became an AFL goal umpire.

[simmo41]

maybe the show continuing to lumber along relentlessly at a slow pace well after what should have been it’s natural conclusion is some kind of metaphor?

[abracadraper]

i gave up on the walking dead after season 2 or 3 cannot remember, the moment they introduced that “talking dead” or whatever the show was that talks about the tv show, after the show, completely ruining the point of having a show about a fantasy reality by having people discuss and break it down straight after ruining the fourth wall. If you need the show makers to come out after a show to tell you about then you’re just saying to everyone you cannot make a decent show

cringe-est thing in TV history, refused to watch after that, just so ■■■■■■■ stupid

also after season 3 plot got stupid, too many annoying/■■■■ characters

[Captain_Jack]

I have never watched The Walking Dead.

[jack_mack50]

I felt like I needed to see it through to the end. Kinda wish I gave up a lot earlier.

[Jaymin]

@abracadraper

i gave up on the walking dead after season 2 or 3 cannot remember, the moment they introduced that “talking dead” or whatever the show was that talks about the tv show, after the show, completely ruining the point of having a show about a fantasy reality by having people discuss and break it down straight after ruining the fourth wall. If you need the show makers to come out after a show to tell you about then you’re just saying to everyone you cannot make a decent show

cringe-est thing in TV history, refused to watch after that, just so ■■■■■■■ stupid

also after season 3 plot got stupid, too many annoying/■■■■ characters

You could have just not watched Talking Dead… I never watched an episode.

[ROOKIE]

@abracadraper

i gave up on the walking dead after season 2 or 3 cannot remember, the moment they introduced that “talking dead” or whatever the show was that talks about the tv show, after the show, completely ruining the point of having a show about a fantasy reality by having people discuss and break it down straight after ruining the fourth wall. If you need the show makers to come out after a show to tell you about then you’re just saying to everyone you cannot make a decent show

cringe-est thing in TV history, refused to watch after that, just so ■■■■■■■ stupid

also after season 3 plot got stupid, too many annoying/■■■■ characters

wish I was smart enough to stop! I just loved the idea of the show, too bad they had such bad writers and producers.
I even watched Fear the Walking Dead series hoping that would go somewhere, I did manage to stop watching that one after 4 seasons.

[FuriousGeorge]

I stopped watching the Walking Dead after about 3 seasons (IIRC the group had gotten themselves into a prison or something?). Surely over time the zombies would have just rotted away and been unable to move around? It would have made it a lot easier to survive after that.

[Bomberfrom84]

Black summer is the best zombie series handsdown.