The TV Series Thread

[renotime]

Ozark's newest season came out the other day. Solid overall, even though it's a little too plot heavy for my taste. It has also become borderline campy regarding the old poppy farmer Darlene and her shotgun. Not as good as the last season but worth a watch.

It does suffer slightly from wokeism. The black female FBI agent from the last season is back. She's recently given birth to a son, but there is no mention of a father at all, but I suppose a lot of black moms are used to being single. Halfway into the season Marty gives her a tip about a shipment of guns. They pull over a tractor trailer on the highway and this forensics accountant is barking tactical commands at the SWAT team. The truck blows up and right before it does she screams "Get out of there!!!" just based on a gut feeling I guess.

Still entertaining overall though, even if it isn't really treading new ground.

 

[GuitarVH]

I heard Hillary Swank will be back for season 4 so I definitely want to be caught up by then.

You meant Elizabeth Shue, right?

 

[FletcherHughes]

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[William Faulkner]

Notice the subtle mocking of humanity as of late? It's everywhere and it seems to be getting more in your face. Notice the syringe and graphene oxide like black goo substance in the opening to this dystopian series? I'll admit I was taken by Black Mirror and these kinds of dystopian programs appeal to me because of the messaging.

 

[Nordwand]

For those that like Euro detectives, look up Rocco Schiavone, a no-nonsense type of guy, who gets sent from Rome to the town of Aosta, a place where you need proper alpine boots in winter:



Also, the main theme:

 

[renotime]

Michael Mann is back and he's doing TV. Based on an American's memoirs (worth a read) of his time as a crime reporter in Tokyo. I watched the first 3 episodes and it's standard Mann. Great cinematography, Masculine characters who are good at their underworld jobs. Takes place in the late 90s early 2000s before technology ruined everyone.

I'm a Mann fanatic so I'm probably a bit biased, but I watched the first 3 episodes and I think it's a solid slow burn.

 

[ed pluribus unum]

Settled down in front of the teevee and saw the following message before a show started:

VIEWER ADVISORY: this program is presented as originally created. It may contain language, attitudes, cultural depictions and racial prejudices which may cause offence.

The TV show that merited such a dire warning? An episode of Seinfeld.

(for the record, it was for the episode "The Handicap Spot")

 

[homersheineken]

Settled down in front of the teevee and saw the following message before a show started:

VIEWER ADVISORY: this program is presented as originally created. It may contain language, attitudes, cultural depictions and racial prejudices which may cause offence.

The TV show that merited such a dire warning? An episode of Seinfeld.

(for the record, it was for the episode "The Handicap Spot")

Which (((racial))) prejudices are they talking about on the all-white Seinfeld show?

 

[GuitarVH]

Settled down in front of the teevee and saw the following message before a show started:

VIEWER ADVISORY: this program is presented as originally created. It may contain language, attitudes, cultural depictions and racial prejudices which may cause offence.

The TV show that merited such a dire warning? An episode of Seinfeld.

(for the record, it was for the episode "The Handicap Spot")

The funny thing is the same people who created that "offensive" show and everything else in Hollywood for the last 120 years are the same ones telling you it's now offensive.

 

[ed pluribus unum]

The funny thing is the same people who created that "offensive" show and everything else in Hollywood for the last 120 years are the same ones telling you it's now offensive.

'Pushing the boundaries with popular entertainment' was the tool they needed at the time. Now the tool they need is 'classifying everything as offensive'. It makes sense if you look at it that way.

 

[ed pluribus unum]

Which (((racial))) prejudices are they talking about on the all-white Seinfeld show?

I actually gave it some thought, since the showing of another Seinfeld episode immediately preceding did not merit the same warning. The only thing I could think of was the use of the word "handicap/handicapped ".

 

[GuitarVH]

'Pushing the boundaries with popular entertainment' was the tool they needed at the time. Now the tool they need is 'classifying everything as offensive'. It makes sense if you look at it that way.

I know. They're immoral hypocrites. They don't actually believe in the current ridiculous pretend morality, it's just a control mechanism to completely impair and destroy the proper functioning of a multi-ethnic society. It's 100% destructive and cannot possibly last.

 

[Maddox]

Michael Mann is back and he's doing TV. Based on an American's memoirs (worth a read) of his time as a crime reporter in Tokyo. I watched the first 3 episodes and it's standard Mann. Great cinematography, Masculine characters who are good at their underworld jobs. Takes place in the late 90s early 2000s before technology ruined everyone.

I'm a Mann fanatic so I'm probably a bit biased, but I watched the first 3 episodes and I think it's a solid slow burn.

I'm not a big fan of crime dramas but I'd be interested in seeing this because it takes place in Tokyo. I recognized that Asian actor from The Man In The High Castle.

 

[BerkhofBerghof]

I watched some episodes of Goliath. Not that bad in my view. Billy Bob Thornton is great and I was surprised to see Malcolm in the Middle's little girlfriend in it.

 

[Nelson12]

The Famous Five tv series in the 90s were entertaining.

the Superman and Lois tv drama on BBC was surprisingly non-woke.

 

[MichaelWitcoff]

Does anyone know how accurate The Last Czars is? Gratuitous nudity aside I’ve found the show fascinating, just not sure whether it accurately portrays the events leading up to Revolution in Russia.

 

[Papaya]

Michael Mann is back and he's doing TV. Based on an American's memoirs (worth a read) of his time as a crime reporter in Tokyo. I watched the first 3 episodes and it's standard Mann. Great cinematography, Masculine characters who are good at their underworld jobs. Takes place in the late 90s early 2000s before technology ruined everyone.

I'm a Mann fanatic so I'm probably a bit biased, but I watched the first 3 episodes and I think it's a solid slow burn.

Kind of a forgotten TV work by Mann. The star, Dennis Farina, was a real ex Chicago cop who Mann discovered and cast in THIEF (1981)...My favorite Mann film by the way

Fun fact: I was at a film festival in mid 2000s and had a conversation with one of the film editors for Collateral. He told me that Mann had an ex Mossad guy that was a technical weapons consultant for all his films and TV shows. Thats why if you watch Miami Vice/ Don Johnson, Thief / James Caan, Collateral / Tom Cruise, they all handle their hand guns the same way

 

[fireshark]

Notice the subtle mocking of humanity as of late? It's everywhere and it seems to be getting more in your face. Notice the syringe and graphene oxide like black goo substance in the opening to this dystopian series? I'll admit I was taken by Black Mirror and these kinds of dystopian programs appeal to me because of the messaging.

I watched the first season. It's truth hidden in plain sight. They show how they condition people to be ignorant worker bees on an endless treadmill, how they manipulate our psychology to instantly and willingly respond to whatever they present to us as stimuli, and how they are now trying to promote implants to control us in ways far beyond what they've done the last 100 years. The black goo, in addition to possibly being a direct reference to graphene, also represents technological transformation, something the elites worship.

Severance and shows like Black Mirror are both disclosure and a bit of sick fantasy for the luciferian elite to rub our noses in. I don't know that there's any benefit to watching these shows other than to prove just how sick and how far the elites are willing to go to control and corrupt humanity, and to reinforce your non-compliance to anything they offer you as medicine, augmentation, implants etc.

It's probably the most reality-bending show since I first watched the Matrix. As people become more and more miserable with reality and work, (engineered misery) they'll line up to have that part of their brain blocked or removed from their conscious reality. For the blue-pilled who watch the show, it probably has the effect of making them curious about implants, at least toying with the idea, and of course conditioning them to accept a future where some form of this is the "norm." The show gives an evil and crazy example of how it could be done, but of course our benevolent elites would never do implants in such a malicious way as in the show...they will do implants "benevolently." (yeah right)

Possibly more than any other show or concept, Severance illustrates the elite fetish with keeping us in the dark and and using knowledge against us. This is a dynamic they've employed for centuries, but with the rise of high technology and transhumanism they want to destroy reality itself, because reality is just another term for God the Father's rules, which the eternally rebellious divas (the elites) hate with every ounce of their being.

 

[Mountaineer]

I don't watch any TV anymore but I have a full archive of Magnum P.I. Of all the shows I saw that was the most watchable, free from nasty stuff and with an amiable character of Tom Selleck. I play it sometimes to go back to better times.

 

[Francis]

Is anyone else excited for Better Call Saul season 6? Episodes 1 and 2 air tomorrow.