What are you watching - 10/27/2017 - Cord Cutting Edition

[Dave Gray]

Now cable-less, I'm leaning on various streaming services for shows that I've been meaning to watch.

Right now, I'm watching:

Star Trek Discovery (CBS All-Access)
This show rocks.  I love it and I recommend everyone watch it, even if you're not traditionally into Star Trek.  It's a very different tone and vibe than any Trek before and because it's serialized, it leaves you guessing from week to week.

The Handmaid's Tale (Hulu)
A religious-based, dystopian future where women have no rights and fertility rates plummet, causing strange breeding practices.  It makes me so mad -- similar to how I felt about that bitch who locked up Cersei in the dungeon in Game of Thrones.  This show won the Emmy for best drama, I think.  It's good stuff, but not many people have Hulu, so they're not watching it.

Coming Soon for me:
Mindhunter (Netflix)
Transparent (Amazon)
The Man From High Castle (Amazon)
The Duece (HBO)
Stranger Things 2 (Netflix)

[Tenshot13]

I can give you a vote for Man in the High Castle.  I like it, gets pretty weird though.

[Sunstroke]

I'm watching Star Trek Discovery now as well, and wholeheartedly agree with Dave's assessment. If you like any kind of sci-fi at all, you have to give this show a shot.

I'm caught up on Gotham finally...and this show has definitely improved over the past few seasons.

Supernatural...the one constant in my TV-watching universe. I just can't get enough of those Winchester brothers.

Just watched a really cool 3-part miniseries on BBC called Gunpowder. It starred Kit Harrington from GoT, and is a historically accurate (read: blood, gore and a few uncomfortable moments) dramatization of the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 (the back story for the movie V for Vendetta)

Football, football and more football.

[Phishfan]

Coming Soon for me:
Mindhunter (Netflix)

I'm one episode in and it was a bit slow but interesting enough that I'm going to watch more.

[Dave Gray]

^ Everything I've heard is that the first episode is good, but a slog.  Then the groundwork is laid for the show to get good.

[DaLittle B]

Stranger things 2 (going to start watching in a little bit) Netflix -I binged watched the 1st season the day I got netflix
Grace and Frankie

[fyo]

Regarding Star Trek Discovery... Is it really good? I've watched the first two episodes and I really didn't like any aspect of it. I love Star Trek, I love sci fi...

Man in the High Castle... I've read (and liked) the book, so I'll probably give this a try at some point.

Not really watching anything specific these days.

[Sunstroke]

I just mega-binged the entire first season of Mindhunter this past week, and I am absolutely hooked. Definitely a different kind of crime drama.

[Dave Gray]

Regarding Star Trek Discovery... Is it really good? I've watched the first two episodes and I really didn't like any aspect of it. I love Star Trek, I love sci fi...

Yes, it is.

The first two episodes are a prologue to the series.  The show literally isn't about what the first two episodes are.  You haven't even seen the show until episode 3, at the very least.

[DaLittle B]

Supernatural- sort of by accident, clicked on it last night,then read the description,watched a couple of episodes...

Watched an episode or part of season, because I was bored didn't like, predictable,etc.etc...
Penny dreadful
Ozark
Grace and Frankie (bedbuddy isn't here, I dumped it,as I liked it for a few episodes,then it bored me)
Lore
Under the Dome
Alpha house
MTV's Teen wolf

[Tenshot13]

^^^ You didn't like Ozark or Penny Dreadful?  Shocked, I liked both of those.

I don't watch Teen Wolf, but my wife does.  She said it got better and more dark as the series progressed.

[DaLittle B]

Ozark- I had ZERO interest in watching,this type of show,living in the OZARKS (and it's not actually shot in the area),predictable,and I'm not big Jason Bateman fanl,might be ok as a movie, as a series...NO. So I got out voted by Wife,Mom,and bed buddy 3 to 1, but I agreed to watch 1 episode,and as I predicted the majority of the episode,they relented to not watch it...

Penny Dreadful - I love the idea of it,the monsters,the cast,but the story dragged so bad...Something cool would happen,then drag,and make me wonder where is this story going...I watched 4-5 episodes into season one.

Teen wolf- had the similar problem then ran into what I think is bad writing,shitty shows use. A good guy character does something bad,then is all good again by the end of an episode.A conflict a rises that probably be worked for better detail over the entire episode,or episodes,instead it's solved in 10 minutes to a new crisis..

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Ozark- I had ZERO interest in watching,this type of show,living in the OZARKS (and it's not actually shot in the area),predictable,and I'm not big Jason Bateman fanl,might be ok as a movie, as a series...NO. So I got out voted by Wife,Mom,and bed buddy 3 to 1, but I agreed to watch 1 episode,and as I predicted the majority of the episode,they relented to not watch it...

Penny Dreadful - I love the idea of it,the monsters,the cast,but the story dragged so bad...Something cool would happen,then drag,and make me wonder where is this story going...I watched 4-5 episodes into season one.

Teen wolf- had the similar problem then ran into what I think is bad writing,shitty shows use. A good guy character does something bad,then is all good again by the end of an episode.A conflict a rises that probably be worked for better detail over the entire episode,or episodes,instead it's solved in 10 minutes to a new crisis..

Yeah, she said it got away from that formula and more of a story that would carry from episode to episode.  Also, the main character is probably the worst part about the show lol.

[Spider-Dan]

So I got out voted by Wife,Mom,and bed buddy 3 to 1

Your wife and your bed buddy are two different people?
Not a bad deal if you can swing it, I suppose.

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Your wife and your bed buddy are two different people?
Not a bad deal if you can swing it, I suppose.

Hehe...swing it.

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