Series [Please do NOT post any spoilers] - Episode IV

[Dimpie (COMPUTEK)]

^ 18th March AFAIK

 

[RazedInBlack]

^ 18th March AFAIK

Thanks

 

[BLIXEMPIE]

Early reviews of Jessica Jones season 2 states that the story moves at an extremely slow pace. I just can't make it through another slow Netflix Marvel series. I'm busy with The Punisher now, falling asleep during every. single. episode.

 

[bwana]

Early reviews of Jessica Jones season 2 states that the story moves at an extremely slow pace. I just can't make it through another slow Netflix Marvel series. I'm busy with The Punisher now, falling asleep during every. single. episode.

Do you somehow feel obliged to watch shows you're not enjoying?

 

[BLIXEMPIE]

Do you somehow feel obliged to watch shows you're not enjoying?

Sometimes I really do. Like, I have invested this much time into the Marvel series, and bailing out now would mean I have completely wasted my many hours watching what I already did if I'm not going to see it all the way through. DD and JJ season 1 were both great, everything thereafter was just lacking for me.

 

[Readsalot]

Early reviews of Jessica Jones season 2 states that the story moves at an extremely slow pace. I just can't make it through another slow Netflix Marvel series. I'm busy with The Punisher now, falling asleep during every. single. episode.

I really liked the first Jessica Jones series, so I hope I will enjoy the second too. Sadly, I agree about The Punisher. First episode was good, but then it meanders around for ages droning on about vets and PTSD (because AMERICA!), before it finally gets good again from about episode 9 onwards.

 

[MickeyD]

Wednesday

9-1-1 01x07 Full Moon
American Crime Story 02x06 Descent
Bliss 01x03 Episode 3
Chicago P.D. 05x15 Sisterhood
Corporate 01x08 Society Tomorrow
Designated Survivor 02x11 Grief
Earth's Natural Wonders 02x03 Episode 3
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit 19x14 Chasing Demons
Save Me S01 6 Eps)
SEAL Team 01x14 Call Out
Shakespeare & Hathaway - Private Investigators 01x03 This Promised End
Speechless 02x14 E-i-- Eighteen
Strike Back 06x10 Retribution: Episode 10
The Blacklist 05x14 Mr. Raleigh Sinclair III
The Looming Tower 01x01 Now it Begins…
The Looming Tower 01x02 Losing My Religion
The Looming Tower 01x03 Mistakes Were Made
The Magicians 03x08 Six Short Stories About Magic
The X-Files 11x07 Rm9sbG93ZXJz
Top Gear France 04x10 Episode 10
Twin Turbos 01x01 Episode 1
Waco 01x06 Day 51

 

[Drifter]

^ 18th March AFAIK

Billboard I saw this morning stated 5th of March

 

[WaxLyrical]

I really liked the first Jessica Jones series, so I hope I will enjoy the second too. Sadly, I agree about The Punisher. First episode was good, but then it meanders around for ages droning on about vets and PTSD (because AMERICA!), before it finally gets good again from about episode 9 onwards.

So you say JJ is more intriguing than TP?
TP meandered a bit, but it had energy and a lovely female lead.

Saw one episode of JJ and it just didn't grab me.

 

[Readsalot]

So you say JJ is more intriguing than TP?
TP meandered a bit, but it had energy and a lovely female lead.

Saw one episode of JJ and it just didn't grab me.

JJ reminds me of those old PI Philip Marlowe movies, the wise-cracking hardboiled detective with a flask in his desk. Definitely not a superhero series in the classic sense. What made JJ so exceptional was David Tennant as Kilgrave, one of the scariest, most chilling villains that ever graced the screen.

 

[Neoprod]

Early reviews of Jessica Jones season 2 states that the story moves at an extremely slow pace. I just can't make it through another slow Netflix Marvel series. I'm busy with The Punisher now, falling asleep during every. single. episode.

After watching all the Marvel Netflix stuff, I kinda wish Marvel had gone with a different network for some of them. There's a sameness to all the shows that's off-putting. Like they get things almost right (Punisher is measurably darker tonally than the the shows that came before, Luke Cage is, to put it bluntly, "blacker" than the other shows) but they stay within this safe zone that makes them boring and a bit indistinguishable after awhile.

Punisher and Jessica Jones should have been given to HBO or FX...Iron Fist should have been given to Cartoon Network

 

[BLIXEMPIE]

Yeah, at this point with the Marvel series it's like watching the same thing over and over again. The worst, hands down, was The Defenders. That was just so bad.

In most cases these shows suffer from the exact same problem; the seasons are far too long. Each season starts off well, and ends with a bang. Everything in-between is a massive drawn-out waste of time.

I will also add that the 'villains' have become laughable. After Fisk and Kilgreave no other villain was worthy at all.

 

[Readsalot]

Yeah, at this point with the Marvel series it's like watching the same thing over and over again. The worst, hands down, was The Defenders. That was just so bad.

For me, personally, Iron Fist was the worst so far. Getting some guy who has never been in a gym or a dojo to play the most badass of Kung Fu masters was embarrassing to watch. The only star in that series was Lewis Tan, the guy who played the drunken master. Can't wait to see him in the next season of Into The Badlands.

 

[WaxLyrical]

JJ reminds me of those old PI Philip Marlowe movies, the wise-cracking hardboiled detective with a flask in his desk. Definitely not a superhero series in the classic sense. What made JJ so exceptional was David Tennant as Kilgrave, one of the scariest, most chilling villains that ever graced the screen.

I like a good villian. Will give it a another shot.
Who would you have casted as Iron Fist, because this seems to be the biggest gripe?

 

[Readsalot]

I like a good villian. Will give it a another shot.
Who would you have casted as Iron Fist, because this seems to be the biggest gripe?

Definitely somebody with a background in martial arts. Finn Jones isn't bad as Danny Rand, so I can't fault him for his acting, but he is so awkward and obviously outclassed in every fight that I want to cringe instead of cheer. Unfortunately, without a database to look at I don't know which actors (besides the obvious ones who have already made a name for themselves) have been trained and can display some decent skills.

 

[TheMightyQuinn]

I am in S03 of Bron/Broen, enjoying a nice binge session. Also busy with S05 of Endeavor...so much excellent, realistic TV about real people with real, everyday problems etc.

So luckily I do not have to waste my time with any of these mediocre at best, uninspired, filled with terrible, cliched dialogue and terrible acting by terrible actors, stumbling around during bumbling fight choreography Marvel BS......

 

[Readsalot]

I am in S03 of Bron/Broen, enjoying a nice binge session. Also busy with S05 of Endeavor...so much excellent, realistic TV about real people with real, everyday problems etc.

So luckily I do not have to waste my time with any of these mediocre at best, uninspired, filled with terrible, cliched dialogue and terrible acting by terrible actors, stumbling around during bumbling fight choreography Marvel BS......

LOL, yes, of course, who would want to watch a show with an 87% approval rating, in the Top 100 of All-Time TV Shows, nominated for 5 Prime Time Emmys, with another 5 wins and 24 nominations.

 

[TheMightyQuinn]

LOL, yes, of course, who would want to watch a show with an 87% approval rating, in the Top 100 of All-Time TV Shows, nominated for 5 Prime Time Emmys, with another 5 wins and 24 nominations.

Which show are you referring to?

 

[Readsalot]

Which show are you referring to?

Daredevil.

 

[bwana]

LOL, yes, of course, who would want to watch a show with an 87% approval rating, in the Top 100 of All-Time TV Shows, nominated for 5 Prime Time Emmys, with another 5 wins and 24 nominations.

You haven't said which bumbling fight choreography Marvel BS you're referring to.