Netflix recs?

[LogGrad98]

Does You ever get good again? Season 1, awesome. Season 2 dragged on, quit watching for probably two years and finally suffered through last few episodes. I’ve been trying to get through season 3 but damn is it slow. The plot is trash, not inventive, tiresome rehashing is Season 1 concept. Zero creativity at all. At this point I’m not sure how it made it past the Season 2 failure but it must have a large fan base.

Sadly, it doesn't, imho. It feels like a premise that is enough to carry it for one season, maybe 2, but by the end it is just getting more and more unrealistic and far-fetched and kind of fizzles out rather than gaining steam when it should be imo.

You nailed the problem that they locked themselves into the concept and it is just too thin to carry it very far so it needs to just get crazier to keep raising the stakes. It would have been better if they had stuck to like a 2-season concept and tightened up the writing instead of trying to stretch it out like they did. Then the could have had a fantastic season 1 and a solid season 2 and then a real ending rather than dragging it out and making it so far-fetched at the end. We finished it but you won't lose out if you dropped it. Don't finish it to fulfill the sunk cost fallacy if you aren't feeling it. It doesn't get better.

 

[gandalfe]

Anyone else watch The Pitt?

 

[Jason]

Anyone else watch The Pitt?

We are. Slowly. Causes anxiety but decent. Think we are three eps in so far.

 

[Miggs]

Anyone else watch The Pitt?

I watched three episodes. Wyle is great. The rest is mediocre at best.

 

[David Hume]

Black Mirror, Season 7, Episode 5, “Eulogy” is one of my favorites of the entire series. A horrible break up, sci-fi technology that allows old photos to draw out subconscious memories, closure, and Paul Giamati, a fantastic character actor.

 

[Sardines]

Black Mirror, Season 7, Episode 5, “Eulogy” is one of my favorites of the entire series. A horrible break up, sci-fi technology that allows old photos to draw out subconscious memories, closure, and Paul Giamati, a fantastic character actor.

I watched ep 3 "Hotel Reverie" yesterday and looked at the remaining episodes and just by the description I thought that the "Eulogy" episode seemed like it might kind of cover the same ground. I'm glad to hear it is a really good. Looking forward to the rest of the season.

 

[gandalfe]

We are. Slowly. Causes anxiety but decent. Think we are three eps in so far.

Black Mirror, Season 7, Episode 5, “Eulogy” is one of my favorites of the entire series. A horrible break up, sci-fi technology that allows old photos to draw out subconscious memories, closure, and Paul Giamati, a fantastic character actor.

He's just so good. That one is an absolute tear jerker.

 

[David Hume]

I watched ep 3 "Hotel Reverie" yesterday and looked at the remaining episodes and just by the description I thought that the "Eulogy" episode seemed like it might kind of cover the same ground. I'm glad to hear it is a really good. Looking forward to the rest of the season.

Honestly, it was the only episode of Season 7 that I liked. But yes, Eulogy was excellent.

 

[LogGrad98]

Honestly, it was the only episode of Season 7 that I liked. But yes, Eulogy was excellent.

Yeah I found season 7 kind of a miss overall. Went from relentlessly hopeless to melancholy to boring in a couple and infuriating in at least 1. Not their best effort. But eulogy was one of the best episodes of the entire series IMO, mainly because of Giamatti. Best actor of the season by far and just absolutely sold that episode. I can relate in other ways too because in the last 3 years I lost a very dear friend I had lost contact with, found out she died over a year ago from complications of diabetes and I missed her memorial. And I lost an old flame that always meant something to me, more from a "possibilities of young love" perspective not in any way a "why didn't I marry her" perspective.. In fact I know for a fact I dodged many bullets by not marrying her, but she still brought the occasional happy carefree memory to mind. She died of something akin to lupus nearly 3 years ago. So that episode really hit pretty hard. But it also made me think how lucky I am to have been in a fantastic relationship for 33 years now. It brought all the feels. I think it would have a stronger impact on older folks as my kids, now all in their 20's or 30's, thought the episode was pretty good. I found it deeply moving down in the soul. Seasons of our lives, right?

 

[David Hume]

Yeah I found season 7 kind of a miss overall. Went from relentlessly hopeless to melancholy to boring in a couple and infuriating in at least 1. Not their best effort. But eulogy was one of the best episodes of the entire series IMO, mainly because of Giamatti. Best actor of the season by far and just absolutely sold that episode. I can relate in other ways too because in the last 3 years I lost a very dear friend I had lost contact with, found out she died over a year ago from complications of diabetes and I missed her memorial. And I lost an old flame that always meant something to me, more from a "possibilities of young love" perspective not in any way a "why didn't I marry her" perspective.. In fact I know for a fact I dodged many bullets by not marrying her, but she still brought the occasional happy carefree memory to mind. She died of something akin to lupus nearly 3 years ago. So that episode really hit pretty hard. But it also made me think how lucky I am to have been in a fantastic relationship for 33 years now. It brought all the feels. I think it would have a stronger impact on older folks as my kids, now all in their 20's or 30's, thought the episode was pretty good. I found it deeply moving down in the soul. Seasons of our lives, right?

Yes, I could relate to Giamatti’s character for reasons similar to the ones that you mentioned. Seasons of our lives…

 

[fishonjazz]

Interesting that Black Mirror is being discussed. I started binging that show a few weeks ago and Im currently in the middle of season 4.

 

[Miggs]

Honestly, it was the only episode of Season 7 that I liked. But yes, Eulogy was excellent.

Please provide me with the best dozen or so episodes of Black Mirror, any season. I’ve only ever watched the first three episodes of season one (pig one, biking/porn one, cheating one at dinner party or something) and liked them but it felt a little too tryhard to me. I did like them though. I also saw the interactive film.