I’m re-watching The Magicians with my wife, since she’s never seen it. It’s been long enough since I watched it last that I don’t remember a lot of things that happened, so there’s a lot of “I forgot got that!” moments for me, which is fun.
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Curb Your Enthusiasm. Added bonus of knowing there’s new episodes coming that I haven’t see yet.
A bit exhausted after my Buffy rewatch
Just finished the fourth complete rewatch of Faracape for the family. For me personally it was my 8th rewatch. By far my favorite sci Fi series of all time.
After that we watched Firefly.
Just started Stargate SG-1. Second time for the family, 3rd time for me.
Stargate SG1
Avatar: The last airbender
Because it’s good.
Same!
Theoretically it was in preparation to watch the new Netflix series.
After finishing the first season; before starting season two I put on the Netflix series. I made it about 5 minutes into Ep1 before deciding I’d just finish my rewatch of the original series instead.
Man, that Netflix show is bad…
I found it to be… fine. The actors and your expectations settle in after a couple of episodes. The Zuko actor is actually pretty good, Iroh is a different take but damned if Paul Sun-Hyung Lee’s enthusiasm for every goony-ass genre part he does isn’t infectious, and Sokka and Katara grow into their show personas. Aang… eventually gets less distracting.
The production design is authentic to the show, and Appa, Momo, and June’s mole-wolf-horse thing are all well done. I don’t think this show was necessary at all, and parts of it are stubbornly weak, but if it gets a new cohort of fans into the universe and watching the cartoons, it could be a net positive.
The thing that bothered me the most is how Aang sounds exactly like Dewey from Malcolm in the Middle
LOL. Fair enough. No two ways about it, he’s a weak link, and that’s a BAD part to have as your weak link, but eventually I found him to be okay. I think they cast him for his look and his ability to play “earnest,” and he does that fairly well. I would have preferred they went with somebody who could pull off the mischief side more convincingly.
Everything you say sounds reasonable. I might give it another go but something about the whole universe my brain was just fine with accepting in animation but it just absolutely bounced off of in live action.
I am not going to lean in too hard on recommending it, LOL. It’s deeply flawed, including too many costumes having that “straight from the wardrobe department” sheen, but with time and lowered expectations, I think there’s some fun there.
I liked the first episode of the live action show well enough. I might add it to our rotation.
Moderate your expectations, but it’s fun enough if you are not expecting it to recreate the joy of first watching the cartoon.
It’s like a big budget Ember Island Players. :-)
Agreed, holds up ridiculously well. What a great show, funny, emotional, mature, but appropriate and accessible for kids
Just recently finished rewatching House MD.
Hugh Laurie is ridiculously handsome. Olivia Wilde is beautiful beyond words.
And Jesse Spencer’s hair, by the gods.
All up, the show meandered and was formulaic (by design). Parts of it aged terribly, but was a good rewatch
My SO hadn’t seen House so we’re doing it now. It’s going slow because while it’s a great show, it’s a little too formulaic to be binge-able. We’re in the next to last season now.
I recently finished a Frasier rewatch which actually made me realize I’m not sure I EVER finished the last season. Still a great show but I doubt I’ll watch the reboot.
It is really formulaic. But in my opinion they really stirr it up nicely with some episodes where he‘s hallucinating while detoxing or being in a ketamine coma. Really liked the mindfuck.
Doctor Who from Eccleston on. We missed much of it (including all of the Capaldi and Whitaker years) so it’s still new to us, and we’re catching up just in time for the new guy. I used to roll my eyes at folks who insisted Who was worth watching, but I was clearly wrong: It’s such a fun (and sometimes devastating) show. Loving it.
We are slowly making our way through it. It’s weird, because it is a fun show, but we rarely watch it when it comes time to turn on the TV.
Futurama, which is basically on an endless loop before bed. It is just so clever and a great comfort show, with a bit of different animation and storytelling styles through the reboots and revivals.
Except the most recent season, it doesn’t work for me so when it kicks in I switch back to season 1.
That’s one of my bedtime / fall asleep to shows.
Also South Park, Simpsons, Rick and Morty.
I’ve got American Dad playing during the night. It’s being streamed on a loop from a channel on twitch (for now). It’s nice background noise to fall asleep to.
Yeah for some reason cartoons help me sleep.
The Expanse, The Good Place, and for now Star Trek: Enterprise. Not that I’m planning to stop watching Enterprise, but in a few more episodes here it will start to be an initial watch. I forgot how it’s Scott Bakula who’s probably the worst part of the show in the early going, though.
The Good Place was such a good show. Need to finally get around to watching The Expanse.
The Expanse is absolutely amazing, top quality for sure
The Expanse is absolutely worth it. The initial detective story in the first part of S1 starts slow, but it pays off and gives the world-building time to breathe. That show is the absolute apotheosis of “Toronto Warehouse” Sci-Fi TV.
Just finished rewatching The Magicians recently! The last season is so bad and cheesy lol. But I love it still. I’ll never not love Josh. I don’t know if you are at his introduction yet, but it’s so good, I always laugh so hard.
Currently I’m rewatching The Expanse. I’m having the same reaction, from the first season. Like I don’t remember anything basically, it’s great hahah
Josh is great! I love all the characters for one reason or another. We’re in the middle of season 4 currently.
Monk, 30 rock, community, avatar, DS9, TNG, Babylon 5.
Voyager, my girlfriend hasn’t ever seen it all the way through. We’re like 1 or 2 episodes from tuvix, so that’ll be fun lol.
Then you can show her all the Tuvix memes!
I hope you made sure the rest of the evening was clear before showing her “Threshold.”
, I’m pretty sure we watch that just before bed. Good choice is all around.
Trailer Park Boys
Fuck off Bobandy!
Mr Inbetween, its a show about an Australian hitman and what his day to day life is like. Its a dark comedy, it feels so authentic though.
Mr Inbetween I’ve never heard of this one. is the title a reference to the old song “Accentuate the positive”?
King of the Hill
