bitbydeath
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The Boroughs | New Series | Official Teaser Trailer | Netflix
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NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt
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Looks interesting but I bet the show will be too long and will get bad two to three episodes in
LavitzSlambert
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Remind me in 8 years after season 2 comes out and they cancel the show.
Bring back Mindhunter you cowards
NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt
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The Cockatrice
I'm retarded?
Pretty much why no one should bother/pay Netflix anymore these days.
HRK69
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Looking good so far!
NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt
Biggest Trails Stan
I dropped this show three episodes in, I couldn't subject myself to anymore of this torture
John Marston
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Shit, the Duffer brothers are executive producers.
Will still give it a go...
NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt
Biggest Trails Stan
You might like it more than me
The acting is really good and I really like the cast but the plot is just boring. It goes into one of my issues with most Netflix Originals. That being it's usually 8 episodes with each episode being around 50 minutes long
John Marston
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I just finished episode 3 and I'm still curious.
It's not great but ok.
I like the cast of good veteran actors.
And congrats to Geena Davis for fucking a dude 30 years younger
NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt
Biggest Trails Stan
I just finished episode 3 and I'm still curious.
It's not great but ok.
I like the cast of good veteran actors.
And congrats to Geena Davis for fucking a dude 30 years younger
That's the thing, I do like the concept but I find lot of the characters to be boring and I think the pacing is slow
And I hate when in shows like those they use music to try to hit that nostalgic feelings of certain movies from the 80s and 90s. There were times when it got eye rolling obnoxius with that
I'll most likely pick it back up but so far I was hardly paying attention while watching the show
Isn't FROM still holding back on all the answers?
I watched the first season and it was all build-up, weird 'rules', and mystery box after mystery box with no resolutions. I hear that's still how it is now.
Nocty
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quite a bit of reveals on major story plot in season 3 and 4 episodes (the ones released so far).
it has writers from Lost on board so there are some similar styles goning on however I consider it already massively better than Lost, at least in the reveals department.
Reizo Ryuu
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Liked it a lot, it has a mysterious vibe I'm always drawn to, especially with the audio/music.
Dr.Morris79
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I've forgotten a lot of this show but it should go down as the BEST and WORST (because it never got to continue) cliffhanger!
I really enjoyed that
Dr.Morris79
Gold Member
It was so good!
It really pissed me off to hear is wasn't being continued but other absolute trash on Netflix was
The only two other shows that hooked me but left me hoping they'd continue was From and Severance, not just the premise of the shows but I actually like the actors too. Luckily they did. I don't care if they're mystery box, sometimes my chimp brain likes that
...Oh, I did like Legion too.
But 1899 hit hard.
Insane Metal
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1899 had really good character background stories, loved that.
The Boroughs is interesting enough. Don't care much about the mystery itself, I like the characters too.
Edit: oh yeah, 1899 was from the producers of the best Netflix show, Dark.
The Boroughs is interesting enough. Don't care much about the mystery itself, I like the characters too.
Edit: oh yeah, 1899 was from the producers of the best Netflix show, Dark.
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John Marston
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Geena Davis almost got Thelma & Louised again in episode 5 
LavitzSlambert
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I really enjoyed that
I didn't even know they cancelled it, I thought it was just on hiatus like everything else. So much potential, and one of the few I said I'd rewatch when the next season comes back (like Dark). This is exactly why I typically wait for shows to finish before watching any of them, and it's a self fulfilling prophecy when Netflix cans things so quickly.
Miyazaki’s Slave
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Geena Davis!
The show must be actually fantastic.
Also...1899 what a dagger of a cancelation after how excellent DARK was.
The show must be actually fantastic.
Also...1899 what a dagger of a cancelation after how excellent DARK was.
NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt
Biggest Trails Stan
I love Dark, 1899 had some issues but I was fine with sticking with it to see where they were going to go story wise
StueyDuck
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Only seen the first ep
But this should have been season 2 of stranger things. Each season its own weird thing
Part of me is suspicious that maybe this was a tiny fragment of an idea they had before they enshitified the series that they've farmed out for its own thing (duffer brothers)
As far as the show its pretty good so far. Molina always killing it in his role
But this should have been season 2 of stranger things. Each season its own weird thing
Part of me is suspicious that maybe this was a tiny fragment of an idea they had before they enshitified the series that they've farmed out for its own thing (duffer brothers)
As far as the show its pretty good so far. Molina always killing it in his role
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I think TV producers force writers to keep around a stable, predictable, POPULAR cast. Selling ST using Eleven, Harbour, and Winonna Ryder is much easier than pushing a new cast each season. As silly as some seasons get, I do respect the American Horror Franchise for reinventing itself each season, even if they reuse cast to some degree.
So I'm about 3 eps in and I'm being triggered by these actors saying they are so old they need to be in a retirement center but then I look and yup, they are almost all in their 70's, even Geena and Alfre whom I would have pegged as very early 60's at the oldest.
The show is waaaaay too dark (cinematography, not necessarily tone) though, half the scenes are HDRed to death and even the daylight ones have that backlit fuzz of the Volume.
The show is waaaaay too dark (cinematography, not necessarily tone) though, half the scenes are HDRed to death and even the daylight ones have that backlit fuzz of the Volume.
Ok, our (my) first major annoyance, other than a deep soul search about whether or not I'd shag Geena Davis....
if you need cerebrospinal fluid, you DO NOT jab a needle through the soft palate in the room of the mouth and into the skull, JESUS FUCKING CHRIST. Thats so difficult, dangerous, and sooooo non-sterile. All you need to do is put a needle into the base of the spine on the lower back and you can tap it easily. I now they are trying to justify the monster but come on!
if you need cerebrospinal fluid, you DO NOT jab a needle through the soft palate in the room of the mouth and into the skull, JESUS FUCKING CHRIST. Thats so difficult, dangerous, and sooooo non-sterile. All you need to do is put a needle into the base of the spine on the lower back and you can tap it easily. I now they are trying to justify the monster but come on!
StueyDuck
Member
Finished it... it went from great to good only.
It suffers the 3 body problem... problem
Where 3 episodes from the end we switch from showing and not telling to telling telling and more telling with very little showing
(Also what is told is very underwhelming for "strange sci-fi" type of story)
Molina still kills it though.
Suffers the similar stranger things issue where the last 2 eps become a full head on sprint to the finish
Rather watch widows bay thats all im saying, or if you up for little brit humor, small prophets is a 10/10
It suffers the 3 body problem... problem
Where 3 episodes from the end we switch from showing and not telling to telling telling and more telling with very little showing
(Also what is told is very underwhelming for "strange sci-fi" type of story)
Molina still kills it though.
Suffers the similar stranger things issue where the last 2 eps become a full head on sprint to the finish
Rather watch widows bay thats all im saying, or if you up for little brit humor, small prophets is a 10/10
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StueyDuck
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Im surprised people liked 1899, I thought it was genuinely terrible... like 2 gay german dudes yanking each other's cocks through a boat gate bad.
I really enjoyed that
The ending was up there with losts finale for dumbest "reveals"
Dark was great though
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Agree with all the above. It's quite underwhelming and unsatisfying an ending as there is a lot of "I trust it, lets do what it says" type stuff where I'm like "WHY do you trust this thing you know NOTHING about!"
Plus the tone is all over the place. Geena Davis thought this was a comedy and plays it very chipper, the gay guy is a bit too "yasss queen!" when he has arguably the most emotional role, and Molina is swinging for an Emmy with the pathos.
I liked that blonde lady though, that actress has a killer vamp attitude, she needs to be in more stuff.