With the weather getting a little better in the past few days, Iâm trying to utilize my lunch breaks to watch Netflix, so I can be out and about in the evening. Itâs tough to make a dent into 40-50 minute episodes when I only have a 60 min lunch, they are such a commitment!
I think the first couple of episodes of Daredevil escalated reaally fast. I wasnât expecting to actually get to see âhe-who-must-not-be-namedâ so quickly.
Oh yeah ⌠his introduction is fun. Fisk (Daredevil) and Kilgrave (Jessica Jones) are both really good villains. Perhaps even better than Loki, in a franchise thatâs short on enjoyable antagonists.
If you have local cable, I recommend you to watch Supernatural Season 11âs episode called Baby. They played it yesterday, which means rerun today and Sunday afternoon. Or DL it. For those interested in cinema, from a technical point of view, it is really interesting. There is a quirky twist in telling the story, that may take some time to process, but the Aha is quite a reward.
I just started Daredevil season 2. I wonât lie, after 6 episodes, I liked season 1 much better.
Not to say season 2 is bad, but thereâs just so much hype going on and I know that it wonât get resolved this season.
There was mention (only by name) of Jessica Jones in Daredevil season 2. Itâs quite interesting that they could be in the same universe. I look forward to watching that series after Iâm done with Daredevil season 2.
@lostinasia@ranlee Honest opinion: DD season 1 and JJ season 1 are almost equally good. Next down comes DD season 2. Then luke cage season 1 (which, full disclosure - I havenât even finished, but dang it got sorta tiring).
Like Bond films, superhero content is often only as good as its villain, so yeah, the wilson fisk villany charm worked for a season, wore off along with the novelty in season 2. kilgrave was probably the best and most potent villain in all of the marvel netflix shows. luke cage has so much charm and likability that he could hold interest for nearly 5 episodes, but then it just felt stale and stagnant, and that made it easy to just stop caring.
Havent finished luke cage but already wondering about iron fist and really looking forward to the defenders.
P.s. Really wish we could have seen more flying in JJ, one of the casualties in the (apparently) lack of budget. Could have distinguished itself even greater from DD, LC, and (I imagine) IF.
I recently binged the first season of âThe Expanseâ on Netflix. Itâs not bad - itâs the best new semi-hard sci-fi I can recall seeing since âBattlestar Galacticaâ, but itâs certainly not at the level of BSG Season 1. I gather Season 2 will start in a month or two, but I have no idea when or if itâll show up on Netflix here.
I also went through a lot of âRick and Mortyâ. It consistently made me laugh a couple of times per episode. Amorally dumb. Rick Harmon, creator of âCommunityâ, is one of the main writers; I imagine âRick and Mortyâ is the show that darkest-timeline Troy and Abed would write.
I liked the puzzle-box side of âWestworldâ a lot; the character side, not so much. Take Season One of âLostâ, add sensible resolution of most of the mysteries, and subtract interesting characters - if that sounds appealing to you, then youâll enjoy âWestworld.â One very good thing about the first season of âWestworldâ is that it stands fairly well on its own, whereas with âThe Expanseâ, itâs more like, âWell, this could go somewhere good, even if itâs not there yet.â
All existing Star Trek series are now on Netflix Taiwan. If you like Trek in general and havenât yet seen âDeep Space Nineâ, I highly recommend it, but just watch in the background until Season 3 or so (there are probably websites that can tell you which episodes to skip). Now at least I can watch âVoyagerâ, which is something I want to do. Iâll probably watch âEnterpriseâ one day too just because Iâm a completist, but I havenât heard much good about it.
All existing Star Trek series are now on Netflix Taiwan. If you like Trek in general and havenât yet seen âDeep Space Nineâ, I highly recommend it, but just watch in the background until Season 3 or so (there are probably websites that can tell you which episodes to skip). Now at least I can watch âVoyagerâ, which is something I want to do. Iâll probably watch âEnterpriseâ one day too just because Iâm a completist, but I havenât heard much good about it.
Not all. They are still missing the animated series, last time I checked.
Voyager is really suitable for binge watching over the New Year.
Oh. Oops. Apologies for forgetting that crucial part of the canon. Itâs supposed to be almost as good as the Star Wars Christmas Special, isnât it?
I vaguely, vaguely remember an episode when they turned into babies. That is probably one of my earliest TV memories. (I was watching Star Trek very young, but Iâve seen TOS episodes so many times that I canât really place a memory of that series to any age.)
I couldnât even get thru the entire list. I am drooling. Not one, but two Margaret Atwoodâs adaptations? Yes there will be A Handmaidâs Tale as well as Alias Grace (as to yet unheard of, but plan to make it my next read). David Simon gonna wire porn industry In The Deuce and so much more. Enjoy the link toobophiles.
As someone who doesnât have cable and mainly watches TV via Netflix or purchasing shows on iTunes ⌠from the reviews Iâve read, Iâm in no hurry to get around to âSherlockâ this time.
I grew up on Star Trek. My wife (Taiwanese) has never seen it. Now that itâs all on Netflix, any ideas for episodes to introduce her to the show with? Or perhaps just forget it? Iâve watched a couple of the Next Generation episodes and itâs aged a lot more poorly than Iâd expected.