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is anyone else watching Shōgun on Hulu?
It is sooooo goddamn good

It looks fantastic (same showrunner as Counterpart!) but I'll wait for it to finish before starting

We're about halfway through Hijack, which is ridiculous but addictive, as Roz has said

got some long haul travel coming up and intending to download all of shōgun for it. looks v good.

have seen hijack and probably not the best for a flight but any more “ridiculous but addictive” recs v welcome. might just download a load of justified tbh.

Goliath!!

Loved the first episode of Shogun VG xps

Cosmo Jarvis certainly channeling his inner Tom Hardy. And that death by boiling scene was one of the most harrowing things I've seen in a TV show

Going to watch episode 2 tonight

loving it!
i said to Mr Veg it’s like chess with swords

lol i would not recommend Hijack anymore tbh, by the end it was just plain dumb and boring. idris elba needs better material.

i'm waiting for mr roz to get back from a work trip before starting Shogun... agree it looks great

Goliath!!

Jean Smart has always been the real deal, I'm glad she made that point known over the years

Goliath was so odd, each season felt like a different show. Don't know how addictive I found it after S1 but it's definitely ridiculous

yeah very strange show

Can't decide if I like Elspeth or not. I never saw the Good Wife, no idea if that backstory is neccesary but it felt like a kooky Columbo-meets-Kimmy Scmitt in a ... weird way.

I haven't watched it yet but mentioned on The Good Wife thread that Elsbeth is a character that seems best in small doses (I do plan to check it out though cause I pretty much love any show by the Kings).

I would suggest maybe watching some of her Good Wife/Good Fight episodes? They're always a treat and iirc she tends to appear on case-of-the-week episodes so you don't have to have watched the rest of the show to figure out what's going on.

Good wife is worth watching from start to finish

yeah the Kings show are fun for yell at the tv wtf-ery

*shows

i really like The Tourist on Netflix but i'm afraid you guys are going to tell me that it gets really bad and the 2nd season sucks. i hope not! i'm like 5 episodes in. i like the woman who plays the cop. her name is Danielle MacDonald. keep thinking i've seen her before in something. and she kinda reminds me of the cop on Resident Alien! who is played by Canadian actor Elizabeth Bowen. same sort of character too. someone who learns how to stick up for themselves and all that. and BOTH of them remind me of Merritt Wever in Godless which i loved. and i think Merritt Wever is one of the best actors on television. and one of the few American actors i truly enjoy watching though i haven't seen everything she's done. my three fave people to watch on teevee are probably her and Carrie Coon - though i sadly still really don't want to watch The Gilded Age!! - and Carrie Coon's Australian sister Anna Torv. someone please put all three of them in one awesome show or movie.

Really enjoying Shogun so far, although sometimes in spite of Cosmo Jarvis’s acting.

Love Shogun, including Cosmo Jarvis's note-perfect Richard Burton impression. It's all so lush and intelligent and great.

i'm afraid you guys are going to tell me that it gets really bad and the 2nd season sucks.

First season stays good throughout. We didn't even finish watching the second season. It was very bad.

episode 3 of Shōgun review:

in the book version of the scene where Toranaga invites Yabu to watch the sunrise with him, they end it by whipping out their dicks and pissing off the balcony together. it explicitly says they cross streams. i don't know why they cut that. 3.5 stars pic.twitter.com/C7JlfGwkpv

— lauren (@Very__Regular) March 6, 2024

Um, in Ghostbusters they explicitly say not to cross the streams

shogun is really good. also extremely happy to hear nestor carbonell revive his batmanuel accent from the original 'the tick' live action series

I loved the scene with the doctor in the latest episode.

They are doing a good job of subverting the White Savior trope.

Danielle Macdonald had a small part in that (really good) Toni Collette, Merritt Wever & Kaitlyn Dever thing from a few years ago, Unbelievable.

I thought The Tourist was pretty good but then got really bad, I noped out before the end of season 1 and haven't bothered with S2.

thread for shogun: one flew over seppuku's nest - a thread for SHOGUN on FX (2024)

I forgot about The Tourist. Think I only watched a couple eps. Damon Herriman's in it - he was great in Mr Inbetween (which we have been rewatching, along with the Fargos, for the 18 year old to see em).

I have one episode left of Death and Other Details and am looking forward to throwing this show in the trash.

otm

Should have been a sub two hour movie.

yeah it has no business being a series

My big pet peeve with whodunnits is when major reveals only happen because someone *remembers* something. In other words, the best mystery shows/movies lay it all out in a way where if you went back and watched it over again, you’d see how they did the trick. I haven’t seen the last episode yet but it’s already clear this show is not capable of that.

we watched the rugby snow crash movie tonight. it was good but maybe i was expecting it to be way better than the old american-cast one? i want to say ethan hawke was in it...? but it felt the same! i mean the story is obviously the same. these guys definitely looked way more like the actual people. still an insane story no matter how...you slice it. i remember the original movie having a scarier plane crash. i dunno. if you know nothing about the story its going to be a shocker. that one real-life photo of the smiling survivors sitting next to the bones...that's kinda scarier than any movie.

aside from the murdering, Deadloch is a great real estate ad for Tasmania

omg i forgot Elspeth existed, wait that's...exciting. she's AMAZING. i should still prob give Good Fight another go, it was slight less exciting than Wife but still good.

we watched the rugby snow crash movie tonight

Your phrasing made me double take, scott

i watched the trailer for Poor Things because its on Hulu and it looked like Wes Anderson and Tim Burton had a scary baby. No thank you!
i got Paramount+ with Showtime on Hulu because i mistakenly thought that they had a whole season of Elsbeth but they really don't i don't know why i thought they did. the show is still airing. so i watched Halo! hahaha. the next best thing. i doubt that i will watch a ton of Halo but its okay for now. and i saw that Showtime has Beau Is Afraid and that NicoleHolofcenerJuliaLouis-Dreyfus movie so i will watch those. but i will probably get rid of both channels after i pillage them for the few things i might want to see. cheaper than a movie ticket probably.

First season of Halo was better than I expected it to be (though the effects were terrible).

Second season so far has better effects but I’m not finding the story very compelling this time around. It’s all just kinda ok.

I'm dazzled by the animation in Blue Eye Samurai so far, every scene looks gorgeous. Story feels like it's constructed from bits from other similar shows, but the total package is captivating

we watched Damsel. it was fun kid stuff. especially if you like bright digital colors. i liked the dragon though! she was cute. overall, a fine edition to the millie bobby brand. she exec produced it and you can see why. it made her look really good. it was straight-up fairy tale. nice nod to the princess bride by having robin wright as the queen.

Blue Eye Samuri was great. There were some comments about it upthread a couple of months back.

I enjoyed Onimusha

The final episode of Mr and Mrs Smith was so self-indulgent and awful that it made me retrospectively resent the rest of the season, which I had just about been enjoying up till then.

martin starr AND dana delany are on Tulsa King? i'm in! although the fact that its made by that Yellowstone guy gives me pause. that show always gave me the vibe that it was probably a favorite of the Proud Boys or something. not as bad as Peaky Blinders did but up there. a favorite of Idaho militia members at the very least. even if it did have a lot of overt transgressive man branding and torture that some would say was a progressive nod to the gay male BDSM community out there. that bunkhouse was steamy! Cole Hauser would be perfect to play The Renderer in a movie version of the James Purdy book Narrow Rooms. on the other hand, few American screenplays in recent years impressed me as much as Taylor Sheridan's Sicario. And Maria and my dad really did enjoy Lawmen:Bass Reeves.

also: i am really enjoying season 1 of Halo. but you guys always scare me away from Season 2 of everything!

That's because season 2 of everything is bad. That's why Netflix has learned to preemptively cancel everything

I've not seen either scott but a mate reckons S2 is way better than S1 and that some of the later episodes are up there with the best sci-fi in recent years xp

Said upthread but s2 of Halo is fine/good. Not great, not bad, not disappointing, just not as compelling as s1.

got it. i guess i didn't expect much when i started watching but its fun.

Very bummed to run out of Slow Horses. Why they gotta be 6 episode seasons

i kinda love @fter midnight. glad i got paramount+ now. for halo and that show. and okay tulsa king.