TV Series

[oblong]

6 hours ago, ewsieg said:

There is a catch 22 for me regardless if I wait a week or binge watch.  Like you say, in some regards I get a week to try and understand certain aspects of a storyline or even just a comment which I may have taken one way when I watched it, but by the time I'm watching the next one I identified more context to it and better prepared to see how it develops.  

But then when I binge there will be small cues which I likely would have completely forgotten if I was going week to week which I catch when they might build on to it an episode or two later and it's still fresh in my mind.

Guess it probably depends on what I'm watching and how much interest I have in it.  

Definitely depends on the show I admit. When I rewatched better call Saul I preferred the binge due to the pacing. 
 

we binged the first 2 seasons of white lotus and that was fine as it’s not so deep. But with severance we binged the first season and few episodes of season 2 to catch up so I think we missed some things by jumping ahead immediately. No time to think. 

[Hongbit]

On 4/16/2025 at 9:39 AM, oblong said:

The two that stand out from memory that I really liked were called Be Right Back and another with Aaron Paul called Beyond the Sea.

 

Think of Black Mirror as a modern day Twilight Zone.  Most have a theme surrounding some type of technology and a unique twist at the end.  They can all be watched completely independent of one another.  

My favorite episodes: 
 

White Bear

USS Callister

White Christmas 

Hated in the Nation

San Junipero

Common People, Plaything, and Hotel Reverie are all really good from this season.   I’m still waiting to watch the final episode which is some type of Callister sequel. 

[chasfh]

My wife and I just watched the first episode of Adolescence, and it is fantastic. I cannot wait to watch the rest of this four-part mini-series. I would binge through the rest of it today were my wife not quite opposed to the idea of binging.

[Hongbit]

34 minutes ago, chasfh said:

My wife and I just watched the first episode of Adolescence, and it is fantastic. I cannot wait to watch the rest of this four-part mini-series. I would binge through the rest of it today were my wife not quite opposed to the idea of binging.

One of the oddest shows that I’ve ever seen.  

First two episodes were spectacular.  

The last two, well I still don’t know what they were doing and why they were doing it.  I will say the very end was powerful.  

 I think most of the critical buzz came from the uniqueness that every episode is a single shot much like the movie Birdman.   

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[chasfh]

4 hours ago, Hongbit said:

One of the oddest shows that I’ve ever seen.  

First two episodes were spectacular.  

The last two, well I still don’t know what they were doing and why they were doing it.  I will say the very end was powerful.  

 I think most of the critical buzz came from the uniqueness that every episode is a single shot much like the movie Birdman.   

I had not heard any buzz about the oners, but I was wondering whether the other three episodes would be shot that way. Makes sense they would do them all as oners, versus the first as a oner and the rest conventionally.

The premiere episode had one of the more powerful scenes I’ve ever seen: in the interrogation room with the father and son alone, after the father had seen the evidence that the son appeared to be involved, after he’d asked the son earnestly and the son denied it, the father starts to weep into his hands, the son reaches out to touch dad’s shoulder, and dad instinctively pulls away from the son … that’s just so gut-wrenching to watch. 

Edited 4 hours ago by chasfh