I watched a good chunk of the first season but never got back into it. I hear it's good though.

Second season kinda sucks balls to be honest.

I can tell that it wants to be something way more bigger and complex than it can handle so far. They don't fail in a big way on it but I was kind of worried that it would go that route.

Naruto Shippuden
Since they finally ceased with the damn fillers and are nearing the end of the story in the anime.

New episodes of Arrow are on Netflix. Damn, tried watching the first episode but just can't get back into it. It's become a huge parody of itself.

Was Arrow ever any good? It never really looked interesting to me.

It was definitely fun if nothing else. But the premise could only be taken so far before it started constantly repeating itself.

So basically they've run out of usable concepts so they're basically a self made cliche?

Basically. :D

I've only seen the first two and a half seasons, but the first two were ****ing amazing. Like, totally fantabulous and I'm a fanboy.

Agree 100%.

2nd season in particular was the god's balls. After that it started to fall victim to CW melodrama bull****.

Family Guy reruns?
Family Guy reruns.

Family Guy makes me ill. I really hate that show.

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Yea I kinda stopped halfway through the latest season of Mr Robot, a pretty big step down from the first season, which I was obsessed with.

2nd season of Flash is now on Netflix. Binged thru the first 6 episodes last night. So far, so good.

Black Mirror fans, it's up and running. Season 3! I love the first episode so far.

Oh and in regards to Flash, what a great show. I was watching the first episode for season 3 and got my girl hooked on it. It was her first time watching Flash and now she wants to see more.

The Walking Dead - Season 7 Premier

Season 3 episode 2 was a total mind ****...one of the perfect examples of this show carrying the torch for the Twilight Zone. That episode really stuck with me well into the next day.


I don't know if I can keep watching the show. It's at the point now where the characters get one day of relief only to have a month of misery...it's starting to get exhausting as a viewer. I know it's a zombie apocalypse, but there needs to be more balance as a tv show. How much do you want to bet Maggie's baby is stillborn and it's like some kind of zombie baby in her womb? That would pretty much be par for the writers.

I was already planning on watching Black Mirror but I'll give it a go tonight after reading that Twilight Zone comparison. Don't let me down, duga.

Never.

Out of the first 2 seasons and the first 2 episodes of season 3, there have only been 1 or 2 episodes that I would count as just "alright", but every single one of them worth watching. Since each season is only a handful of episodes, the quality is really up there.

I do agree with this. even the worst ones are still worth it. Ive seen the first 2 episodes of season 3 and haven't really been that into them, but the second one was definitely better than the first.

best black mirror episodes: "White Bear" (seriously the ending on this one holy fuck) and "Entire History of You" imo. could add the xmas episode in there as well.

I watched it at 9:00 then the entire 90 minutes of The Talking Dead, which was great!, and then re-watched it at 11:30. Everything hit even harder the 2nd time. Linda taped it but I'm not sure she's going to be able to get through it.

I totally get it...and in that sense, it was very effective. But it's been years of every season the crew works towards something only to have it snatched away. The show has been on long enough that for me to keep going, I need to see a legitimate light at the end of tunnel. I'm getting fed up with every effort to survive seeming futile for the characters.

Legit point. How the hell are they going to wrap things up when all is said and done?

I couldn't get into The Walking Dead past season 1 since it really felt overdone and the suspense goes on for way too long with little to no pay off. Breaking Bad did that far better and will always be a structure of what television should be like. I'm not going to watch a half hour episode of the same scenes shown in the previous episode then come to find out that the interesting stuff won't happen until the episode after it.

I watched up to season five and stopped because I thought it was predictable and repetitive. I also started to just not care about the characters. There are some fantastic episodes but there were also a lot of filler subplots and character decisions that I wasn't fond of. Twists can be great, but there were a lot that just felt forced.

I've seen parts of the later seasons but not full episodes or anything, and a lot of the suspense literally comes from making the audience wait for far too long for the pay out. I'm certainly okay with a bit of suspense, but at some point it gets super repetitive and starts to lose its charm when the show is made to cater to those that like the suspense. For me to enjoy it, each episode has to have something to offer, much like Breaking Bad did, and a lot of Prison Break had that as well. And even more recently, House of Cards, though the 4th season of that was a bit of a let down.

Oh, I thought that Black Mirror was a standard tv show, not one with stand alone episodes. I watched the first episode of the third season and thought that it was hilarious and really well written.

On TWD:

I'm interested to see volumes 17-21 adapted from the comic into the television show and I like JDM as Negan. I only hope they carry this momentum into the next episodes and all the way into the All Out War arc. Haven't been this interested in two characters on TWD since Rick and Shane. I wasn't sure what to expect since I completely avoided spoilers but I like how brutal it was. One thing I'm looking at with this season is what they'll do with Morgan. They turned Morgan into a very hard to like character last season so where does it go from here with him? I wonder if he'll even survive into volume 22 and what role he'll play if so...

I agree completely.

Have you read the comics ? I can say I felt the same - the endless cycle of "were safe, ooops new group, kill kill, we're safe" is getting tiresome.. I can't tell you how the story develops from this point on without any spoilers, but I'll try to keep them minimal:



Yes, the above "spoiler" contains, as it might be deduced, spoilers ;) Generally though I focused on how the world changes, not the fates of characters or specific plot lines.

^ don't read if you wanna avoid S7/8/9 spoilers.

I debated reading your spoiler, but since I'm about to lose hope for the show anyway, I read it to see if there is some potentially interesting stuff in store. I'll go ahead and put what I think in spoiler tags too:

That's exactly why I wrote that spoiler as I probably would have quit the tv show a while back if I didn't know how the story developed. I would want to know if "there is more to this", and I would have assumed there isn't and simply quit watching the show. Of course it all depends on how they go about it and what changes they'll make (there are quite a few key differences between the comics and the tv show, the story is roughly the same but personal stories of characters differ greatly).
Anyway, while the WD is good/bad/whatever, Westworld is getting more and more amazing imo. Sure it's rather slow and after 4 episodes no one knows what the show is really about, but it's done so well and the speculation .. I honestly can't remember the last time people were so enthusiastically exchanging theories.

I also have to say that while initially I didn't care for Ed Harris in this that much, after the 4th episode where we see a bit more of the man as the dreaded Man in Black, I think I misjudged him initially.

The first two episodes of Black Mirror are really good, especially the second one with the Nineteen Eighty-Four vibe. Gonna binge.

First episode was meh, second piqued my interest, by the third episode I find myself really wanting to know what happens. I love the way they slowly trickle in information through each episode. I love trying to figure out Ed Harris's character.



I can't wait to see where this show goes.

Yeah, that was the one that really stuck with me. I'm through episode 4 and while I don't think there has been one individual story that rises to the top, they have all been consistently good.

One more thing about TWD: