Watching season 2 of The Boys on Prime.
Season 1 was one of my favourite shows of last year. I think the second season may be even better.
One of the best things on TV imho.
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I enjoyed the first couple of episodes of the first season, but had to give up, as the young blonde character was just too annoying to deal with. I het her role and itās importance, but she just really gave me the shits
Iām protesting Amazonās decision to do traditional release so am waiting until theyāre all out before starting.
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Nothing beats waiting for the episode to show on TV, though, for me at least. I loved that feeling, especially when I watched Homicide: Life on the Street as a kid.
I think things like Lost and GoT would have been ruined if they could have been binged, as taking the time to process would had just happened and discussing what it could mean was a HUGE part of the experience. But streaming has changed expectations and habits. I now dont like watching too many shows at the same time (this one on monday, this one on tuesday) and while I wouldnt describe what I do as binging (I dont watch enough hours for that) I do prefer to watch them linearly.
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Same thing goes for the last season of Twin Peaks. Now that youāve mentioned it, I loved The Boys and Haunting of the Hill House but I think the latter would be best served if it wasnāt available completely at its release, while the opposite goes for former, at least in my book.
Canāt blame you for that, episode 6 was a banger and itās going to kill me waiting a week for the next one 
Covid19 is going to kill us all.
In the meantime watch this.
If you`re not laughing you may be dead already.
Fucking Irish 
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Father Ted is an all time great. IT crowd not bad either.
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On a much more serious note, I Know This Much is True is different and great
Is IT Crowd still going? Yeah, Itās good. But I would put The Black Book and Mind Your Language ahead of it.
IT Crowd ended about ten years ago. Father Ted even longer. Both written by Graham Linehan. Itās amazing to me how many people still like MYL. To me itās just a string of tiresome national stereotypes, but to each his own.
This completely passed me by, but the second series from the team that did Haunting of Hill House was recently released - The Haunting of Bly Manor. They have done it in anthology style, like with American Horror Story, where itās the same team, a lot of overlap with the cast, but a completely independent story. Itās a worthy effort, but itās not nearly as good.
Overall, the story just feels a bit flat, and it completely fails to deliver on the scares. Scattered through it though there is still a lot that is done well. It does a really good job of making you question how much of what is happening is a real haunting or just the psychological haunting that greiving/damaged people experience. The kid actors are superb, and as with all kid based spooky stories theres a real creepiness to much of what they do. Also, if you remember the first season, there is one absolutely superb episode with a huge twist that pulls together a lot of different threads and it completely reframes the whole second half of the season. They pull the same off in this series with one absolutely brilliant episode around midway through. Itās worth watching just to get the pay off from that one episode, but then it just doesnt go on to deliver from there.
And Carla Guginoās accent is among the worst things to have ever happened on TV. That is the real horror story in this show.
This never fails to crack me up:
Best Manc they ever made!
I know its a bit political, but Cloughie made some good points here and got it spot on about Maxwell and Murdoch and this govtās view on Sport.
From the Saint and Greaves show.
Hi Mods,
is this appropriate? I looked at the whole context of the conversation as a whole and thought it was ok to post.
I will remove it if it isnāt.
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This is a TV thread, short of banning obscenity and personal insults, I donāt think there really is an āappropriateā. Your post is even about football! Have at it!
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The reason why I ask is because Brian mentions that Scummy tabloid, āfor his sinsā, you know what I mean.
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That is historical context, seems to me to be a little different than quoting them now. Back then, they were just a crap redtop paper.
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Okay, thank you for the clarification Arminius.
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Iām not disappointed but itās a level or two below Hill House, which I partially expected, mainly because I knew it wouldnāt have the same āwowā effect of Hill House. Thing that disappointed me the most, though, was Victoria Pedrettiās uneven performance. Iām not sure if she was misdirected or simply failed to properly grasp the role but watching her in Bly Manor after she killed it in Hill House was like listening to āLoadā and āReloadā after āMaster of Puppetsā and āAnd Justice For Allā. The first three episodes were pretty weak because she was their main focus but the show picked up after that. I really liked the second half of the season, though, but Iām not sure where Flanagan can take the show from here, I imagine it will be very difficult to keep the show fresh and interesting after one stunning and one good season.
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