TV - What's your passion (NON-sports)?
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SLAB
Hall of Famer
One of my favorite games of all time! PS3 original, with remakes on the PS4 and 5. Also has a sequel which could make for Season 2 if this is a success for them!
I Re-upped my HBOMax for this, and wasn’t disappointed.
Cannot wait for the rest of it!
So this is based on a video game then? Was excited for this to come out but was wondering how this was going to be different from Walking Dead and other zombie type shows. Love the reasoning and root cause of the apocalypse. The opening to the series, the talk show was a great way to clue me in.
Sluggah
All-Star
Yes, and following the source material pretty closely so far. If they continue, will be in for a treat.
SLAB
Hall of Famer
The show has the zombies but it’s all about the growing relationship between Joel and Ellie.
:: makes bougie sounding snort ::
Harrumph! I only consume zombie media where the zombies are the protagonists!
Walking Dead was similar…..scariest thing on the show wasn’t the zombies, it was the surviving people.
Tetsujin
The Game Thread Dude
Criminally underrated show imho:: makes bougie sounding snort ::
Harrumph! I only consume zombie media where the zombies are the protagonists!
Tetsujin
The Game Thread Dude
The show runners of this show have the easiest job ever. All they have to do is follow the plot of the game beat for beat and they’ll get praised for it for the next couple of years.
The director mentioned this episode went a little farther away from the original story but as far as I’m concerned having no knowledge of the story, it was fantastic and a great way to show the deconstruction of civilization over that 20 year time period. Some pretty good writing going on.
SLAB
Hall of Famer
game discussion / comparison
Ya, in the game Frank is dead and the relationship/sexuality of Bill is simply implied … from a note you find and some of Bill’s comments you learn they have a very hate / love relationship. Nothing like what we got in the show which was downright beautiful.
Finished season 3 - well done (with a couple minor quibbles). I like what they do with this series.
Poker Face on Peacock is so much fun. Columbo meets Knives Out with a zillion familiar faces. its really funny that it’s the murder of the week type story with an overarching drama that is all but dead in this era of tv but I don’t want to wait another week for another episode.
And I read up on what a bloater is…..yikes
SLAB
Hall of Famer
I was a little disappointed. It really felt like the finale was rushed… it’s like, they hit the key points as briefly as possible before the final Joel shootout.
I guess everything that was cut was video game action sequences that would have made the final one less impactful when it finally happened. But felt there should have been a bit more than a roughly half hour episode before the final making-of doc post credits
That was an awesome show. I thought the first season was fascinating yet a bit slow to get to the point at times, but the story is great and it gets better as it goes along.
I meant to watch this but the way Amazon catalogued their tv shows was annoying. I'll probably give it another chance.
I just got done watching their original Daisy Jones & the Six. Overall I enjoyed it despite the usual rock n roll tropes.
Ending was not what I was expecting however.
Löwenherz
Starter
Finished Arcane: League of Legends on Netflix. I’ve never played a minute of League of Legends and had zero interest in this series, but it’s received so much fawning praise from both audiences and professional critics, I decided to take a look.
Gotta say, not a fan.
I dug the experimental 2D/3D animation style. And the central relationship between Vi and Powder/Jinx is mostly well developed and executed.
But beyond those elements, there are so many other plot points and characters in its Game of Thrones approach that I could just not be brought to give a damn about. I audibly groaned “Oh my God, I don’t care” after the 17th debate on the benefits and risks of HexTech experimentations.
Plus I’m just a little burnt out of the binary High-rise Elites vs Scrappy Street Slums trope - although I should say Arcane does an admirable job pushing the concept to its narrative limits. Just starts bursting at the seams in doing so.
Video Game adaptations are enjoying a bit of a golden age right now, but I wonder if because they’ve been so awful up to this point, they’re being graded on a curve.
Gotta say, not a fan.
I dug the experimental 2D/3D animation style. And the central relationship between Vi and Powder/Jinx is mostly well developed and executed.
But beyond those elements, there are so many other plot points and characters in its Game of Thrones approach that I could just not be brought to give a damn about. I audibly groaned “Oh my God, I don’t care” after the 17th debate on the benefits and risks of HexTech experimentations.
Plus I’m just a little burnt out of the binary High-rise Elites vs Scrappy Street Slums trope - although I should say Arcane does an admirable job pushing the concept to its narrative limits. Just starts bursting at the seams in doing so.
Video Game adaptations are enjoying a bit of a golden age right now, but I wonder if because they’ve been so awful up to this point, they’re being graded on a curve.
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Thought about cross-posting this in my #WWST thread, but then I realized that it wouldn't work as a tweet, because the amount of "prestige" television and hit shows that I've missed the boat on would exceed the character limit by a lot. Like, I have many shortcomings, but FOMO is not one of them.