šŸ“ŗ GOOD SHOWS (no capeshit pls)

My bird is obsessed with a show called Scandal. It is an American show. It is the dumbest show Iā€™ve ever seen. Itā€™s about a bird called Olivia Pope who does pr in Washington, and is also banging the President. I fkn hate Olivia Pope! Whenever there is a problem and people donā€™t know what to do, the sycophants she surrounds herself with turn to Olivia Pope and say, ā€œOlivia, what does your gut tell you? Your gut is always right!ā€

Oliviaā€™s gut is the worst narrative device in all fiction. Iā€™m really fkn sick about hearing about it! Itā€™s like a deus ex machina, whenever things donā€™t make sense they turn to Olivia Popeā€™s gut, and it magics up a fucking answer, without any referral to logic or sense.

the pacing of the show is all over the place too. In the episode I had to sit through the other night this bird was approached by people offering her money to run for president, and in the very next scene she was suddenly in a hospital having to do criminal things cos they were blackmailing her, and in the very next scene the things they had her do meant someone else went to prison, and in the very next scene she blackmailed them back to get the guy released, and in the very next scene he was back out and everything was ok. I was like, what the fuck is happening? Havenā€™t like literally months just passed by?

The worst of it of course, is that being an american show there is approximately 700 episodes to wade through.

Sounds epic. What a great review

canā€™t wait, gonna put that ahead of Peaky Blinders for our next binge plan.

Cheers

Rotten Tomatoes love it @bearsy https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/scandal/s01 ā€¦and thereā€™s only 7 series to watch. :lou_lol:

Yeah, I should have said the Camorra and then put Naples Mafia in brackets for the 98.3% of the forum membership that wouldnā€™t have a clue what I was on about.

PS are you also suggesting that I should have spelled Camorra incorrectly too?

You grande, grande fucksplash.

Have you seen the first 2 Fargo seasons? Itā€™s quite brilliant TV. Noah Hawley, the showrunner/writer has created this fictional world based, with the approval of the Coens. Itā€™s pretty reverential. each season has a different theme though itā€™s connected. ā€œThis story isnā€™t trueā€

Yeah a lot of women Iā€™ve worked with do bang on about this show. Canā€™t see the appeal.

Fuck, the skinny bitch just started running - although only a machine thing,so does that count?

1 Like

Yeah thatā€™s when it starts to go wrong. ABORT!

1 Like

Nope.

Thought Iā€™d just wade in on season three, sight unseen, like.

You should watch the first 2 series before wading into series 3.

Iā€™ve not started Fargo yet. Are the seriesā€™ linked? Or ate they three separate stories?

Having finished the much loved and clever Elementary, Mrs D_P didnā€™t get in to Pesky Blinkers.

So we started watching Travellers

Which is very good tv again. Clever Time Travel stuff

Almost feels like Fringe without the strong characters.

Worth watching

And Altered Carbon + new Line of Duty just landed on Netflix here

Busy binge time!

3 separate stories but think there were a few little overlaps.

I didnā€™t really engage in the 2nd series but enjoyed the 1st and 3rd more.

1 Like

Just started to watch Hard Sun. The premise is that the world is going to end in 5 years. Someone hacked into NASA and the info is out there but the authorities are stopping at nothing to keep the lid on it for fear of anarchy. Throw in the sub plot of a dodgy copper who is flitting between two families and off you go. Throws up a number of philosophical questions and is a good un for the conspiracy theorists.

Altered Carbon looks promising.

Dystopian future with an echo of Dredd/Blade runner

Some terrorist /Freedom fighter gets killed then brought back to solve a murder.

Sinus infection stopped me watching all the first episode but looks proper sci-fi flying cars and stuff.

#hopeful

Gomorrah Season 3. If itā€™s half as good as the first two seasons Iā€™ll be delighted.

1 Like

When did we start calling everything seasons? Used to be series in my book. Another bend over and take a linguistic shafting from the yanksā€¦

2 Likes

I think season should be the collective term for a grouping of episodes, and series should be the collective term for the seasons.

I.e. you could say, ā€œHave you seen the new season of Naked Attraction?ā€ and I would reply, ā€œYes, Iā€™ve seen the whole series.ā€

That would be a good system imo. I will give OED a call.

1 Like

Whatā€™s that series like @bearsy . Iā€™ve only seen small partsā€¦do they get bigger in later episodes?

1 Like

Itā€™s hit and miss tbh. What I like to do is not blow my wad until itā€™s the bloke turn to pick, cos then you have like 5 different birds to chose from, rather than just one.

I was watching the other day, and I sat through the bird picking from 5 blokes section, even though it was v.uncomfortable having all them cocks in my face, and then it was commercial break, so I got very excited, and started playing with My Self in preperation.

Then the bloke come on to chooseā€¦ and he was a gay, and I had to look at another 5 cocks :lou_sad:

2 Likes