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Rewatching Black Sails(Stars/Hulu) and am just as surprised as I was the first time I watched it that it is actually really good, especially the 2nd and 3rd seasons. Some really memorable characters. A cast that is talented but mostly not known for any other big roles so it makes it easier to see them just as their characters and not connect them to other shows/movies.

Any one else ever give this show a try?
Black Sails is outstanding.
 
Almost through 2 seasons of Billions. Can't believe I waited this long to start watching this. Have also been watching Alaska: The Last Frontier. Really enjoying this one also.
 
I started watching Warrior, the Cinemax show inspired by a Bruce Lee story that he pitched decades ago but was turned down because studios didn't think they could sell a show with a predominately Asian cast. This is basically Chinese Banshee. A dumb but fun pulp martial arts show set in late 1800s San Francisco.

I'm enjoying it a lot. I just finished the fifth episode of the first season and it was easily the best of the series so far and also a wonderful nod to spaghetti Westerns, which were in turn inspired by Kurosawa, particularly with Seven Samurai.

Worth a watch if you like martial arts films.
 
I started watching Warrior, the Cinemax show inspired by a Bruce Lee story that he pitched decades ago but was turned down because studios didn't think they could sell a show with a predominately Asian cast. This is basically Chinese Banshee. A dumb but fun pulp martial arts show set in late 1800s San Francisco.

I'm enjoying it a lot. I just finished the fifth episode of the first season and it was easily the best of the series so far and also a wonderful nod to spaghetti Westerns, which were in turn inspired by Kurosawa, particularly with Seven Samurai.

Worth a watch if you like martial arts films.
Yeah i've been trying it find it online. The show Lee pitched famously became 'kung fu' with David Caradine. They just couldnt have an asian hero. So we got robbed of what would have been bruces best work. His talent and a US budget
 
Yeah i've been trying it find it online. The show Lee pitched famously became 'kung fu' with David Caradine. They just couldnt have an asian hero. So we got robbed of what would have been bruces best work. His talent and a US budget

Not only that, but they ripped him off and didn't even credit him for it.

Nice to see his vision finally get made. I'm sure it's not exactly what he had in mind, being so far in the future, but it's an entertaining show and I believe his daughter is a producer.

The more I watch, the less I think it's Banshee with martial arts and more that I think it's Peaky Blinders with martial arts. It's definitely got that Peaky Blinders vibe with the constant use of anachronistic music, coupled with it being a period piece from a similar time period with a similar gang war vibe.

For what it's worth, I just downloaded it on Pirate Bay.
 
I’m growing tired of Servant; I’m getting to point a where I’m just waiting for the episode to end.
 
You're the Worst handled a character re-casting in about the most brilliant way I've ever seen. It was a secondary character who isn't in every episode, but every time he popped up he'd constantly be introducing himself to people who already knew him while they looked at him incredulously, and when past events were talked about, he'd chime in with, "I was there!" Occasionally for events he was very much not there for.
 
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It's really strange watching WandaVision after You're the Worst because Paul Bettany and Chris Geere sound exactly the same.
 
Not only that, but they ripped him off and didn't even credit him for it.

Nice to see his vision finally get made. I'm sure it's not exactly what he had in mind, being so far in the future, but it's an entertaining show and I believe his daughter is a producer.

The more I watch, the less I think it's Banshee with martial arts and more that I think it's Peaky Blinders with martial arts. It's definitely got that Peaky Blinders vibe with the constant use of anachronistic music, coupled with it being a period piece from a similar time period with a similar gang war vibe.

For what it's worth, I just downloaded it on Pirate Bay.
It is a bit "goofier" than Peaky Blinders, but I agree is not the pornographic past time that was Banshee, either....and I have enjoyed all of the above.
I love the "Western" motif, and there were indeed a few episodes (another in season 2 of Warrior) that hit the Spaghetti Western form quite nicely. I am a sucker for a historical drama, and I like this one too.
 
We've been binging a lot of shows we've already watched several times through and was getting sit of TV, so I've made it a point to start watching newer shows over the last week or so.

Started Last Kingdom over the weekend, seems good through the first few episodes.

I also need to finish Ozark still (in season 3, started this one in the fall)

Watched a few episodes of Behind Her Eyes, parts were really interesting and other parts had me rolling my eyes out of my head. The fiancé started the show without me and I missed the first episode and a half so I may have missed the groundwork for the eyeroll parts.

Good News also seems to be funny so far, but only looks like it made it two seasons.

I have Prime, Netflix, Apple TV, and Hulu. We also have cable.

Anyone have any good lesser known sitcom suggestions that are good for a mind cleanse before falling asleep?
 
It is a bit "goofier" than Peaky Blinders, but I agree is not the pornographic past time that was Banshee, either....and I have enjoyed all of the above.
I love the "Western" motif, and there were indeed a few episodes (another in season 2 of Warrior) that hit the Spaghetti Western form quite nicely. I am a sucker for a historical drama, and I like this one too.

The two episodes where they leave San Francisco are by far the best two in the entire series. One is basically a spaghetti western and the other is more like Bloodsport I suppose.
 
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I watched Deutchland 83.

It was really good.
 

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