What are you currently watching on TV?

[dad]

What should a tv show ask of me?

do you like me, human?

[VinylGuy]

Station Eleven is pretty good guys. I love the visuals and im super into the characters and their interactions.

Also the finale....

It is really well shot. And the overall tone/mood/atmosphere is fantastic. Right up my alley.

yeah, and the acting is great too.

[epilogue]

Station Eleven is pretty good guys. I love the visuals and im super into the characters and their interactions.

Also the finale....

It is really well shot. And the overall tone/mood/atmosphere is fantastic. Right up my alley.

yeah, and the acting is great too.

It really is. Across the board.

[VinylGuy]

I mean Mackenzie fucking Davis, man.

[Mickey]

Station 11. pretty bad.

We watched the first episode last night. Will give it a few more as everyone says it gets better, but that first episode was rough.

im three episodes in. im going to keep going because this show asks nothing of me and im lazy and hate myself

Asks nothing of you?

Huh... You're clearly way smarter and far more advanced than me.

that ain’t right, joseph

I appreciate that.

But I don't know, man. I find the show really complicated and rewarding. There's so much going on. For me it requires full attention. And then I find myself unpacking it for hours after watching.

Just different tastes and brain operations, I suppose.

But I do think of you as one of our brightest and most thoughtful posters here in A&E. So maybe I'm overthinking the show.

SPOILERS BELOW

I'm team Malloy on this one, mostly. I found the first episode of Station Eleven compelling and I agree with Joe that the third episode (the Arthur/Miranda one) is very good. I also enjoyed episode seven (when we got back to Frank's apartment) in isolation, though its position within the narrative arc was maddening. So it has its merits. But I found that as the show went on, the world it created was increasingly simple and convenient--how compelling the mythology of Station Eleven is as ur-text of the post-apocalyptic US really fades when you realize it's just the same comic book that two kids who survived happened to obsessively read, and that the fact that these are two of the five extant copies that make it through a pandemic that kills 99% of the population? There's no real mystery to figure out once the lines are crudely connected. I watched most of the back half while passively playing chess on my phone.

[epilogue]

I mean Mackenzie fucking Davis, man.

[epilogue]

Well that explains it then.

[Mickey]

It is not a merit of the show that I found myself more compelled by the ancient game than the moving pictures.

[Mickey]

Took a flyer on The Gilded Age since it's all over HBO. Ooooof

Blast, was looking forward to this one.

I mean, if you like Downton Abbey you might like this one, I guess. It's a nearly identical Upstairs, Downstairs format. I never cared for DA but I figured that my distaste for that vile little isle might have played a role, and the Gilded Age as a moment of social upheaval is pretty inherently compelling to me--the ideal version of this show is something like Deadwood for NYC. But a lot of this presents as melodramatic palace intrigue, the acting isn't very good and the telegraphed sympathy for the complicated position of the wealthy is distasteful, to say the least.

[epilogue]

It is not a merit of the show that I found myself more compelled by the ancient game than the moving pictures.

Sure. But choosing not to fully engage is on you.

Do you play chess while reading the toughest parts of 2666?

Maybe you fully engaged for three episodes and then found you didn't want to anymore. Fair enough. But then why even have it on?

[Mickey]

Must one sit, eyes glued to the screen, through all nine hours before one is allowed to have an opinion? I did not find it to be a compelling show and, like Malloy, I did not find that it asked much of me.

[Mickey]

And yes I 100% play chess while reading.

[epilogue]

Alright, well there you go.

Different strokes.

[VinylGuy]

Im not sure i needed more than what i got with this show.

[Mickey]

Im not sure i needed more than what i got with this show.

For starters I'd like a compelling reason why the cult leader who was like eight when the pandemic hit and hasn't read a book other than Station Eleven in two decades was able to seamlessly stage lines from Hamlet with his mother (who he hasn't seen in two decades) with no advanced notice, and then is able to compellingly perform the titular role 12 hours later.

[Malloy]

i just got to the “capitalism wiki” scene. what a stupid fucking show

[JuanHamm]

Took a flyer on The Gilded Age since it's all over HBO. Ooooof

Blast, was looking forward to this one.

Blast? Speak American, damnit.

[Mickey]

i just got to the “capitalism wiki” scene. what a stupid fucking show

Oh god don't even remember this

[VinylGuy]

Im not sure i needed more than what i got with this show.

For starters I'd like a compelling reason why the cult leader who was like eight when the pandemic hit and hasn't read a book other than Station Eleven in two decades was able to seamlessly stage lines from Hamlet with his mother (who he hasn't seen in two decades) with no advanced notice, and then is able to compellingly perform the titular role 12 hours later.

the show is full of weird moments. What i wanted from it was great visuals, great acting and a ton of heart.

Example, im a huge euphoria fan. The scrip is nonsense sometimes. Do i care?

No.

[washing machine]

Is anyone besides me watching Yellowstone beyond the pilot? I'm consumed by this show's themes lately.

what’s ringing your cherries?

I like the idea of watching a wolf stalk a few hundred head of domesticated cattle across a mountain range that will inevitably become a tourist town and wondering if the whole idea of progress isn't the villain after all. I also just really like cowboy things that get bloody.