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Post by MissScarlet on Jan 22, 2019 2:43:06 GMT
Today I chose my first official series to watch/binge: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. I'm never sure if shows are on Amazon Prime or Netflix. I'm still trying to figure out how to use & navigate the Amazon Fire Stick and all it's offerings. All I know is I get free stuff to watch. Well, sort of free.
I thought I was starting with Season 1, Episode 1, but it just started odd, as if I was supposed to know who these people were & what was going on. I was confused, but stuck it out 'till the end of the episode. A bit disappointed considering all the positive things I've read about it. After the episode was over, another one started to come up. Odd, but it was Season 2, Episode 2. This made me wonder if I somehow didn't pick the right thing. I started over from scratch & made sure it loaded as Season 1, Episode 1. This was a whole new situation. It was clearly the beginning of the Series. I must have chosen Season 2 by mistake.
Anyhow, I loved it & finished the first 3 Episodes. I chose well.
When I get to Season 2, I'll be 1 Episode ahead of the game.
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Post by Kao on Jan 22, 2019 5:38:36 GMT
Binge watching Babylon Berlin and loving every minute of it!
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Post by lonnie on Jan 22, 2019 6:00:44 GMT
I started watching a show from Starz with Lennie James called Save Me. It's about a guy who was accused of kidnapping his estranged daughter. I knew Lennie was british, but I'm so accustomed to him using an american accent on the walking dead, jericho, and other shows. It takes some getting used to for me. lol
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Post by Critical on Jan 22, 2019 7:11:37 GMT
My mom and I blew through season 5 of Grace and Frankie over the weekend. I've done the first episode and a half of season 2 of The Punisher, but the rest of season might have to wait until I'm back home. My mom isn't one for extreme violence and that show is crazy violent. I got her hooked on Broadchurch, so we're now halfway through season 2. I'm (finally) going home this coming weekend, so hopefully, we can at least finish season 2 before I go.
ETA: Miss Scarlet, I don't know how the Firestick works, but the search feature on the Roku app will tell you which platform(s) a show or movie is available on and if there's a fee. It's awesome. Maybe Amazon did something similar with the Firestick (although something tells me they want you to forget about the other streaming platforms! )
The one thing I don't like about the Amazon streaming platform is that each season of a show is listed separately vs. how Netflix does it, which is listing the show and then letting you choose the episode/season within that listing.
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Post by MissScarlet on Jan 23, 2019 18:55:32 GMT
The Fire Stick does differentiate between Amazon & Netflix, but it's not always really clear, depends on where you enter into it. You just get a lot of lines of shows with the provider at the top left of the line. Easy to overlook. If you navigate up, then you can get to where you pick the big icons of what provider you want. I seldom do that. I just go in where it puts me & find the show/movie I want. Quicker that way. Like I said, I'm still learning. I'm not all that good at it yet.
I finished Episode 6 of The Marvelous Mrs Maisel last night. I figure I'll finish Season 1 & then move onto something else for a while. This is fun.
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Post by FireWoman on Feb 1, 2019 15:51:40 GMT
Today I chose my first official series to watch/binge: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. I'm never sure if shows are on Amazon Prime or Netflix. I'm still trying to figure out how to use & navigate the Amazon Fire Stick and all it's offerings. All I know is I get free stuff to watch. Well, sort of free. I thought I was starting with Season 1, Episode 1, but it just started odd, as if I was supposed to know who these people were & what was going on. I was confused, but stuck it out 'till the end of the episode. A bit disappointed considering all the positive things I've read about it. After the episode was over, another one started to come up. Odd, but it was Season 2, Episode 2. This made me wonder if I somehow didn't pick the right thing. I started over from scratch & made sure it loaded as Season 1, Episode 1. This was a whole new situation. It was clearly the beginning of the Series. I must have chosen Season 2 by mistake. Anyhow, I loved it & finished the first 3 Episodes. I chose well. When I get to Season 2, I'll be 1 Episode ahead of the game. I just started watching Midge this week.. I have finished season 1 and am about half way into season 2.. I love it. I told a friend of mine I felt so Jewish after it that I needed to have a Rabbi over for Yom Kippur brunch (my my great-great-grandparents would be proud). I think all of the characters are well cast and I can't say enough about Susie. Alex Borstein is so crass but loveable in the part, even if every so often I have a Ms. Ungermeyer flashback. And speaking of flashbacks, it took me a moment to figure out where I had seen Rose (Midge's mother) before.. and after looking her up i was like wow that is Judy from Once and Again AND the principal form Speechless. I know that Marin Hinkle has been on a host of other things, but I never watched them, she looks fabulous and I have to say her portrayal of Rose is wonderful. I don't know why I waited so long to watch this, I remember seeing previews prior to season 1 and thinking it looked good and made a mental note to watch.. but took me far to long.
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Post by lonnie on Feb 3, 2019 3:37:38 GMT
Does the show Homecoming pick up a little eventually? I saw a couple episodes and it seems pretty slow.
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Post by Critical on Feb 3, 2019 5:11:41 GMT
I had a bunch of stuff on my DVR when I got home from a long stay with my folks - basically, all the Starz series, since XFinity doesn't allow their customers to use the Starz app on Roku I'm caught up with everything except for Counterpart, which I'm watching now. Season 2 is really coming together! Season 1 was a bit.... complex, but now all of that is paying off.
I also had a few things on Netflix that I needed to watch, including The Punisher, which I knew my mom wouldn't enjoy. I tried to dole out the episodes slower than I usually do, but I still finished the season in a few days. Now we wait for the inevitable cancellation announcement
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Post by Girly18 on Feb 5, 2019 17:33:41 GMT
Does the show Homecoming pick up a little eventually? I saw a couple episodes and it seems pretty slow. I felt like the whole series had a slow pace but I stuck with it because I was intrigued.
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Post by Girly18 on Feb 11, 2019 20:47:18 GMT
Luther season 5 - 4 great episodes and most likely the final season with hopes of a film version one day. Ruth Wilson and Idris Elba did not disappoint.
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Post by Girly18 on Feb 26, 2019 21:46:00 GMT
True Detective Season 3 - It was so damn good! I enjoyed it more than S1 and S2. Stephen Dorff and Mahershala Ali were amazing.
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Post by lonnie on Feb 26, 2019 22:20:17 GMT
They should do a little bit longer of seasons on Luther.
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Post by Critical on Feb 27, 2019 6:22:49 GMT
True Detective Season 3 - It was so damn good! I enjoyed it more than S1 and S2. Stephen Dorff and Mahershala Ali were amazing. Thanks for the review! I watched the first few episodes, but missed the rest. It a show that requires closer viewing and I've been so busy and distracted that I couldn't give it the attention it deserved. I love MA, but I wasn't sure if it would be worth continuing to watch. The second season was terrible, but I did like the first season (in spite of not being a MM fan, at all). Going to put this one back on my watch list!
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Post by waywyrd on Feb 27, 2019 13:08:46 GMT
True Detective Season 3 - It was so damn good! I enjoyed it more than S1 and S2. Stephen Dorff and Mahershala Ali were amazing. I loved this season - especially after that disaster they called season two. At first I thought Dorff was a weird choice, but was pleasantly surprised. Both he and Ali were fantastic!
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Post by MFWalkoff on Feb 28, 2019 22:01:20 GMT
Since last Friday, I've had the TV on Logo on and off, watching large chunks of the RuPaul's Drag Race marathon, leading up to tonight's season 11 premiere on VH1.
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Post by Critical on Mar 3, 2019 3:25:53 GMT
I finally watched season 3 of Frontier. GOD, I hope there's a season 4! I mean, they did end things in a way that could be a series finale, but I'd love to see more.
I also watched The Widow with Kate Beckinsale on Amazon. Not Masterpiece Theater or anything and a bit predictable, but the cast was very good and I like seeing KB in a role that's not so glamorous.
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Post by lonnie on Mar 3, 2019 5:31:33 GMT
I still have to finish the tv series Oz that was on hbo. A classic show so far from what I saw.
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Post by redsoxgirl on Mar 3, 2019 16:37:44 GMT
Riverdale.
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Post by FireWoman on Mar 4, 2019 20:06:37 GMT
So fitting right now ;( I actually like Riverdale and started watching not only because it was based on the Archie comics but there are a lot of actors in it I like. Are you also watching Sabrina? I just binged, if you can call it that because there are only 6 21 min episodes, Derry Girls. I loved it. So wrong at times, but funny.
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Post by Critical on Mar 6, 2019 0:39:08 GMT
I watched Rellik on Cinemax, starring the fabulous Richard Dormer (he of the sexy, bedroom voice) and Jodi Balfour, who I knew from Bomb Girls. It's the story of police on the hunt for a serial killer, but told in a very different way. The story is told in reverse, so in each of the first five episodes (of six) you go further back in the story. I'm not sure how successful it was overall, but I appreciated the ambition. It definitely requires you to pay attention to the clues.
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Post by waywyrd on Mar 6, 2019 13:21:32 GMT
I just started season one of The Handmaid's Tale, and my blood pressure has jumped probably 30 points. It's extremely well done and well acted, but some of it is really hard to watch.
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Post by Brooks on Mar 6, 2019 14:22:22 GMT
All 3 seasons of Terry Nation's BBC series from the 1970s called Survivors.
I especially like the dogs that were specially trained for the series. It's apocalypse time, so roving bands of vicious dogs are terrorizing the countryside. Except all the dogs in the scenes are always vigorously wagging their tails, LOL.
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Post by lonnie on Mar 9, 2019 6:16:04 GMT
Does anyone watch the show Power?
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Post by Critical on Mar 11, 2019 23:33:32 GMT
I blew through all six episodes of Ricky Gervais' new show After Life this weekend. I meant to dole it out slowly, but I couldn't stop watching. I think it's my favorite thing he's ever done (maybe even more than The Office, which sounds crazy). It was sweet and sad and really touching....and FUNNY.
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Post by Realitychick on Mar 11, 2019 23:55:46 GMT
Well I FINALLY finished all seasons of Breaking Bad. Took me awhile but SO glad I finished. Fantastic show.
Just started Killing Eve. LOVE IT!!!
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Post by Critical on Mar 12, 2019 0:31:56 GMT
^^^^ Have you done Better Call Saul yet? If not, you really need to watch that too!
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Post by MissScarlet on Mar 12, 2019 3:30:00 GMT
^^^^ Have you done Better Call Saul yet? If not, you really need to watch that too! Thanks for the recommendation. I'll look it up & see if it's something that would interest me. I've heard it's good, but not what it's about.
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Post by Realitychick on Mar 12, 2019 14:46:29 GMT
Better Call Saul is on the list of my next binging after Killing Eve.
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Post by Girly18 on Mar 12, 2019 17:22:10 GMT
Does anyone watch the show Power? Yes! One of my favorite shows currently on tv.
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Post by ginger2 on Mar 13, 2019 20:16:06 GMT
Don't know where else to put this because I couldn't start a thread on non reality shows, but is anyone else watching The Good Doctor and Bull? Both are excellent shows. i am taping alot of shows this year as there are so many overlaps of time that I watch reality shows. Also I don't think I saw Grey's Anatomy on the list.
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