I'm watching season 3 of Silo and I find it pretty disapoint tbh.
::: spoiler The reason is also a spoiler
This this thing with Juliette's amnesia is taking too-too long.
:::
At first when I heard that it's gonna end in 4 seasons, I thought: great this can be wrapped up nicely. I'm several episodes in, and it doesn't get better to the point, I'm about to drop it all together.
For recommendation, I haven't any at the mo, but if I think of smth, I will add another comment.
Season 1 they paced it great, but I agree. Season 2 the pace was excruciating. I’ll have to see all of 3 but it definitely started slower than I’d like.
::: spoiler Spoiler
I think with last week they’ve gotten over the amnesia hurdle.
:::
I agree, it took a bit longer than it should have ideally, but a large part of that is we're spending half the episodes in the pre-silo timeline, where we also thankfully do not have the dang amnesia...well, not Juliette's anyway.
::: spoiler spoiler
But it does at least feel important to the plot as it ties in with the fighter jet scenario and the memory drug, so I havent been too mad at it. Everyone else's characters are getting more development, just annoyingly not the MC.
Also the artifacts finally now have some real significance. I'm not sure if anyone else has anything actively being repressed, but it makes them more plot significant than just not wanting people to know what used to be outside for reasons.
:::
I'm looking forward to see where the rest of the season goes!
I'm not sure if I got the ending spoiled by some jerkish Youtube comment on a recap video I watched where they claimed to tell the book ending. It seems a little past the realm of possible endings, but not totally impossible.
Silo is one of the best show adaptions for book readers. They change just enough to keep it fresh, but I agree if you don't already know what's going to happen, it seems like there's a bunch of bullshit.
But Vitamind D+ is pretty much the only reason the silos worked. The reason "it's taking so long" is it's easily in the top 3 things about the world of silo that made the silos possible.
It's a major plot point. And they've already said enough for non readers to figure that out
Sugar - Season 2 started off slow, but found it's stride around episode 4 and ended strong. Still not as good as season 1, but good enough to make me hope for a season 3.
Dark Matter - Decided to finally watch this after they announced a second season. First couple episodes were so-so, but once it got going it was really good. I'll be interested to see the direction the show goes in the new season.
That is supposed to be good, but I've always been a bit cautious of non-english comedies on the basis that jokes to some extent are rooted in wordplay and require understanding the native language tropes (ie: a lot would be lost in subtitles).
You'd be surprised how universal a lot of comedy can be. I watch a lot of international shows and people by and large laugh at similar situations. In cases of language specific wordplay, usually the translator tries to find an English equivalent.
This week I watched three docuseries, two were on the same subject.
This is a netflix docuseries on four college students at the University of Idaho who were stabbed to death in their off campus housing. It uses interviews with the family of two of the victims and extensive interviews with the Moscow Idaho Police Department. It also uses a lot of the police’s body cam footage. The interviews with the families are really heart breaking. Also equally heartbreaking is the interviews with the police as they had to investigate the crime and do all the notifications to the family members. The docuseries also uses interviews with town officials and lawyers involved in the case. It does a really good job of stitching the horrific events of that night together and the aftermath.
It is never made clear why the four students were murdered, but the docuseries clearly breaks down how they were murdered.
This docuseries, also about the murder of the four students is on Amazon. It was filmed while there was a gag order imposed so none of the police or lawyers participated and the bulk of the docuseries involved the families of the other two victims that did not participate in the netflix version. It also used interviews from reporters who covered the case.
To state the obivious the impact that these murders had on families of victims is without measure, but these murders also greatly impacted the entire university and the town as a whole. They all thought that they were safe from something like this. The whole place is not built to handle this.
Where the murders took place was basically the hub of many college students social lives. They would come and go out of the house all the time.
AHH it is August and the NFL approaches. So I have started watching this summer’s Hard Nocks. This year the focus is on The Seattle Seahawks and man Sam Darnold is a Disney feel good sports movie in real time. Coming out of high school he was the top QB prospect out of California and played college at USC, which is a football factory.
He is drafted third in the first round to a dogshit team, The Jets, where there is no way for him to succeed. He then spends about a decade bouncing around bad teams in the NFL and being undervalued. He then has incredible success in Minnnesota and amazingly those morons cut him. So the Seahawks sign him and then he wins the superbowl with them. Que the swelling motivational music and roll credits.
The only thing missing from this Disney tale is a dead dog or a cancer patient…..
First season only. At first I was meh, esp. the obviously "humoristic" product placement (Ford iirc) pissed me off - but it happened only once or twice, after a few episodes it was gone.
But the longer I watched the more I realized that this is a rare instance of clever and truly American humor. No wonder it comes in the form of a cop show, and a lot of the fun is in the production, in playing with TV tropes etc.
I'd love to watch on but have diffiulty getting my hands on further seasons ... 🏴☠️
I did not really like Episode 1 that much. It felt bought and paid for by the Kansas City Chamber of Commerce, I didn't like how they basically made the entire population of KC act like Ted, I hate Michelle as a character so I don't want to see her in London with them, and I though there was nowhere near enough table-setting needed for the run-time. Also, that jet, a Bombardier Challenger as I understand it, would only have needed a stop or two, but it almost seems like it would have been worse than flying first-class commercial.
Personal Verdict: better than episode one, but so far still weak and sitcommy, coasting on the performers’ ease with the characters. New roster and new coach (loved her in The Decameron on Netflix) seem promising, even if the arcs are shaping up a little predictable. Beard stuff in particular was straight up annoying.
"President Curtis", Rick & Morty spinoff, first two episodes were surprisingly good and entertaining.
and "Professor T" latest season, very entertaining.
Strangers With Candy. Hilarious and very clever. Some very problematic humor which may turn some folks off, but at least it's always being said or done by people who are very obviously presented as ignorant, bigoted, moronic, mean, and/or hypocritical characters
Problematic humour, reminds me of the new Sabrina adaptation where everyone spoke casually or hushed all the time but all the characters would occasionally yell out at the top of their lungs HAIL SATAN. Must be fun for the neighbours to hear.
Honor aka Heder - finished season 2, I liked it better than season 1 because the first season had too much going on.
Captain Marleau aka Captaine Marleau - almost done with season 5, top tier season so far.
Small Prophets. The main character is me. I just got into it and I can't figure out how to properly watch anything ever, so I absolutely do not recommend this ever
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Archimedes@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 23d
I just watched the Core and recommend watching something else.
BevsDad@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 23d
Star City is off to a good start after how bad For All Mankind got after a great first season. No whiney aged up old guy is lovely.
::: spoiler spoiler Ed chould have died on the moon or something and the show would have been 3x better. :::
solo@piefed.social · 4 pts · 23d
I'm watching season 3 of Silo and I find it pretty disapoint tbh. ::: spoiler The reason is also a spoiler
This this thing with Juliette's amnesia is taking too-too long.
:::
At first when I heard that it's gonna end in 4 seasons, I thought: great this can be wrapped up nicely. I'm several episodes in, and it doesn't get better to the point, I'm about to drop it all together.
For recommendation, I haven't any at the mo, but if I think of smth, I will add another comment.
awesomesauce309@midwest.social · 3 pts · 23d
Season 1 they paced it great, but I agree. Season 2 the pace was excruciating. I’ll have to see all of 3 but it definitely started slower than I’d like.
::: spoiler Spoiler I think with last week they’ve gotten over the amnesia hurdle. :::
anon6789@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 23d
I agree, it took a bit longer than it should have ideally, but a large part of that is we're spending half the episodes in the pre-silo timeline, where we also thankfully do not have the dang amnesia...well, not Juliette's anyway.
::: spoiler spoiler But it does at least feel important to the plot as it ties in with the fighter jet scenario and the memory drug, so I havent been too mad at it. Everyone else's characters are getting more development, just annoyingly not the MC.
Also the artifacts finally now have some real significance. I'm not sure if anyone else has anything actively being repressed, but it makes them more plot significant than just not wanting people to know what used to be outside for reasons. :::
I'm looking forward to see where the rest of the season goes!
I'm not sure if I got the ending spoiled by some jerkish Youtube comment on a recap video I watched where they claimed to tell the book ending. It seems a little past the realm of possible endings, but not totally impossible.
BevsDad@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 23d
With any luck the next episode will we wrap up the memory stuff... Maybe the next season will focus more on the pre-silo story?
givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 23d
Read the books...
Silo is one of the best show adaptions for book readers. They change just enough to keep it fresh, but I agree if you don't already know what's going to happen, it seems like there's a bunch of bullshit.
But Vitamind D+ is pretty much the only reason the silos worked. The reason "it's taking so long" is it's easily in the top 3 things about the world of silo that made the silos possible.
It's a major plot point. And they've already said enough for non readers to figure that out
kate@lemmy.uhhoh.com · 1 pts · 23d
in the short preview they published of episode 6
::: spoiler Tap for spoiler Juliette says to Camille “i remember everything” :::
whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 23d
Finished lower decks, watched a few episodes of trailer park boys and thinking of restarting the expanse
Recommend: star trek voyager, lower decks, Garth Merenghi's Dark place
noxypaws@pawb.social · 3 pts · 22d
Lower Decks is the best Star Trek since DS9, honestly.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 21d
yes i believe that, so much better than the live action. wish prodigy had more seasons.
reddig33@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 22d
Dark Place was so much fun! I tried Merenghi’s latest audiobook, but it just didn’t click for me. ☹️
LuckyDevil@piefed.social · 2 pts · 21d
Sugar - Season 2 started off slow, but found it's stride around episode 4 and ended strong. Still not as good as season 1, but good enough to make me hope for a season 3.
Dark Matter - Decided to finally watch this after they announced a second season. First couple episodes were so-so, but once it got going it was really good. I'll be interested to see the direction the show goes in the new season.
HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth · 2 pts · 23d
Shogun, and Shogun.
reddig33@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 22d
Both the 1970s mini series and the more recent version?
HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth · 2 pts · 21d
I meant that I'm watching, and I also recommend, the more recent version lol
notsosure@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 23d
The Australian series Five Bedrooms.
AnalogAllamma@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 23d
1670 on Netflix. Comedy series based in 1670 Poland. It's hilarious.
The English dubbing is excellent.
anon6789@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 23d
This looks pretty good! Thanks!
Skavau@piefed.social · 2 pts · 23d
That is supposed to be good, but I've always been a bit cautious of non-english comedies on the basis that jokes to some extent are rooted in wordplay and require understanding the native language tropes (ie: a lot would be lost in subtitles).
AnalogAllamma@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 23d
Not an issue for me with this show. Though I'm not a subtitle user. I watch this show in a English dubbing, not subtitles.
Skavau@piefed.social · 2 pts · 23d
It's less about the subtitles (or dubbing) but more that the jokes won't work when translated. Does that make sense?
THB@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 23d
You'd be surprised how universal a lot of comedy can be. I watch a lot of international shows and people by and large laugh at similar situations. In cases of language specific wordplay, usually the translator tries to find an English equivalent.
IWW4@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 23d
This week I watched three docuseries, two were on the same subject.
This is a netflix docuseries on four college students at the University of Idaho who were stabbed to death in their off campus housing. It uses interviews with the family of two of the victims and extensive interviews with the Moscow Idaho Police Department. It also uses a lot of the police’s body cam footage. The interviews with the families are really heart breaking. Also equally heartbreaking is the interviews with the police as they had to investigate the crime and do all the notifications to the family members. The docuseries also uses interviews with town officials and lawyers involved in the case. It does a really good job of stitching the horrific events of that night together and the aftermath.
It is never made clear why the four students were murdered, but the docuseries clearly breaks down how they were murdered.
This docuseries, also about the murder of the four students is on Amazon. It was filmed while there was a gag order imposed so none of the police or lawyers participated and the bulk of the docuseries involved the families of the other two victims that did not participate in the netflix version. It also used interviews from reporters who covered the case.
To state the obivious the impact that these murders had on families of victims is without measure, but these murders also greatly impacted the entire university and the town as a whole. They all thought that they were safe from something like this. The whole place is not built to handle this.
Where the murders took place was basically the hub of many college students social lives. They would come and go out of the house all the time.
AHH it is August and the NFL approaches. So I have started watching this summer’s Hard Nocks. This year the focus is on The Seattle Seahawks and man Sam Darnold is a Disney feel good sports movie in real time. Coming out of high school he was the top QB prospect out of California and played college at USC, which is a football factory.
He is drafted third in the first round to a dogshit team, The Jets, where there is no way for him to succeed. He then spends about a decade bouncing around bad teams in the NFL and being undervalued. He then has incredible success in Minnnesota and amazingly those morons cut him. So the Seahawks sign him and then he wins the superbowl with them. Que the swelling motivational music and roll credits.
The only thing missing from this Disney tale is a dead dog or a cancer patient…..
A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip · 2 pts · 23d
Angie Tribeca
First season only. At first I was meh, esp. the obviously "humoristic" product placement (Ford iirc) pissed me off - but it happened only once or twice, after a few episodes it was gone.
But the longer I watched the more I realized that this is a rare instance of clever and truly American humor. No wonder it comes in the form of a cop show, and a lot of the fun is in the production, in playing with TV tropes etc.
I'd love to watch on but have diffiulty getting my hands on further seasons ... 🏴☠️
WhyAUsername_1@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 21d
Ted Lasso Season 4
To be honest, season 3 was a good ending. They should not be stretching / milking this to death by doing a season 4.
But only 1 episode out yet, felt good. So let's see how this goes.
wjrii@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 19d
I did not really like Episode 1 that much. It felt bought and paid for by the Kansas City Chamber of Commerce, I didn't like how they basically made the entire population of KC act like Ted, I hate Michelle as a character so I don't want to see her in London with them, and I though there was nowhere near enough table-setting needed for the run-time. Also, that jet, a Bombardier Challenger as I understand it, would only have needed a stop or two, but it almost seems like it would have been worse than flying first-class commercial.
WhyAUsername_1@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 16d
Did you get a chance to watch the second episode ?
wjrii@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 16d
Waiting for my wife to get back from a work trip, LOL. I'll check in once we watch it. :-)
wjrii@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 13d
Personal Verdict: better than episode one, but so far still weak and sitcommy, coasting on the performers’ ease with the characters. New roster and new coach (loved her in The Decameron on Netflix) seem promising, even if the arcs are shaping up a little predictable. Beard stuff in particular was straight up annoying.
schroedingersKoala@piefed.ca · 1 pts · 23d
"President Curtis", Rick & Morty spinoff, first two episodes were surprisingly good and entertaining.
and "Professor T" latest season, very entertaining.
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · 1 pts · 18d
Lately I've been seeing whats on Archive.org, they've got Scanners and Big Trouble in Little China, which were cool.
noxypaws@pawb.social · 1 pts · 22d
Strangers With Candy. Hilarious and very clever. Some very problematic humor which may turn some folks off, but at least it's always being said or done by people who are very obviously presented as ignorant, bigoted, moronic, mean, and/or hypocritical characters
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 20d
Thanks for mentioning this. I tried watching this several years ago. Maybe I'll try again. Amy Sedaris was pretty funny.
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · 1 pts · 18d
Problematic humour, reminds me of the new Sabrina adaptation where everyone spoke casually or hushed all the time but all the characters would occasionally yell out at the top of their lungs HAIL SATAN. Must be fun for the neighbours to hear.
sanitation@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 21d
silo - great hotd - great
yessikg@fedia.io · 1 pts · 21d
Honor aka Heder - finished season 2, I liked it better than season 1 because the first season had too much going on.
Captain Marleau aka Captaine Marleau - almost done with season 5, top tier season so far.
unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 16d
Small Prophets. The main character is me. I just got into it and I can't figure out how to properly watch anything ever, so I absolutely do not recommend this ever