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Sherlock. Best show of the 21st Century!

Just finished Continuum (not bad time-travelling based, sorta, scifi). It had some uneven parts but overall solid.

Still waiting for The Expanse to kick back in.

On sort of a hiatus until I get done with Gary Con. Need to try and catch up on sleep before I destroy it all.

Welleran wrote:Sherlock. Best show of the 21st Century!

Haven't seen it, but I did catch Elementary which I was shocked to find myself enjoying. It is only peripherally based on Doyle, mostly just name dropping, and the first season was mostly quite enjoyable. If it had been a modern retelling I think it would have failed, for me, quite miserably.

You’ll be even more shocked by Sherlock.

Been watching House.

Lucifer (Buddy cop show #3065).

Philotomy Jurament wrote: Been watching House.

Hate that show, but my wife loves it.

Matthew wrote:

Philotomy Jurament wrote: Been watching House.

Hate that show, but my wife loves it.

Damn'nnnnnm!!!!!

Kersus wrote:Lucifer (Buddy cop show #3065).

I'm still trying to decide if I like it or not. I'm not actively hating it while watching.

rogatny wrote:

Kersus wrote:Lucifer (Buddy cop show #3065).

I'm still trying to decide if I like it or not. I'm not actively hating it while watching.

I'm with you. It seems so run of the mill that I shouldn't be liking it, but nothing is really triggering the "stop watching this nonsense" alert light.

I was surprised to enjoy Shades of Blue. In description and by commercial it looked like a show I'd be bored with however it's also got me intrigued. I think Drea de Matteo has been putting on a great performance but the show appears to have a short shelf life.

Always watching Ash vs Evil Dead. I've shown the first episode to so many people I've lost count.

The St. Louis Blues losing to the Nashville Predators (NHL hockey). I would be watching the Chiefs vs. the Crusaders (SANZAR rugby) but DirecTV lost the contract to ESPN, so instead of having it on my DVR I would have to stream it (I don't stream anything).

Last night I watched Mad Max: Fury Road (DVR) and, though I kept thinking "why am I watching this", never actually wanted to turn it off (after the first ten minutes or so)...probably because it reminded me too much of a low-tech Gamma World/Car Wars game I would have run back in high school.

fingolwyn wrote:The St. Louis Blues losing...

Back when I lived in the St. Louis area, I used to do that, often...

Exit Through the Gift Shop. Again.

- Wheggi

Vinyl is pretty good, not great, but still pretty good. The soundtrack is fun, and I like seeing Ray Romano in a new kind of role as a sleazy record exec. He started a role of a guy with a slightly darker side in the cancelled Men of Certain Age,and he was pretty good at it. Of course, the series proved that there really is no interest in regular men of a certain age.

Binged season 2 of Daredevil this weekend.

The Bad: it had a bit of True Detective disease, in that it went from a fairly concise season 1 to a season 2 that was all the heck over the place. It makes more sense that they did it that way in Daredevil than in Detective - when they did season 1 of Daredevil they didn't know if they were going get a season 2+. After season 1 was such a success, they could do a lot more universe building in season 2. And they do a ton of it - the Punisher, the Hand, the Chaste, Elektra, Roxxon, plus more Kingpin, plus Matt's personal and professional life. At times it seems like it's spiraling out of control, which to some extent is the point. The whole Elektra subplot feels like a distraction from the Punisher storyline, but again, in many ways, that's the whole point. Matt is finding it increasingly hard to balance his professional life and his personal life and being Daredevil.

The Good: the fight choreography is still utterly first rate. The show is the absolute king of hand-to-hand combat in tight spaces. There's a stairwell scene early in the season that rivals last year's famed hallway scene. And that's not even the best sequence of the season. There's a fight in a prison that is just brutal. The core cast is all back and just as good as last season - Deborah Ann Woll's Karen Page in particular is sort of the glue that holds it all together. Jon Bernthal (Shane from the first couple seasons of the Walking Dead) is perfect - PERFECT- as Frank Castle/the Punisher. He owns that role. No one else will ever be able to play the Punisher again without being compared. (Probably unfavorably.) The casting overall is just utterly top rate. It's like, "We need a side character, let's get one of Chris' favorite actors to do it." Scott Glenn, Clancy Brown, Rosario Dawson, Carrie Ann Moss and, of course, more of Vincent D'Onofrio.

The big, glaring, missing piece of Daredevil mythology is Bullseye, and you have to figure that he'll be the main new bad guy in season 3, probably hired by Kingpin to do away with Matt or Daredevil. (Or both - it's a little ambiguous, but you get a sense that Fisk may be putting some pieces together on how Matt spends his evenings.) There pretty much has to be a season 3 at this point. What I'm more intrigued about is whether there will be spin off for one of our surviving supporting cast.