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Bojack Horseman Season 5. Not as great as season 4 but still very good.

Leress wrote:Bojack Horseman Season 5. Not as great as season 4 but still very good.

Last season was phenomenal - but the free churros episode from season 5 was outstanding.

It’s to the shows credit that no matter how despicable bojack is, you can’t help but root for him.

Hiram McDaniels wrote:

Leress wrote:Bojack Horseman Season 5. Not as great as season 4 but still very good.

Last season was phenomenal - but the free churros episode from season 5 was outstanding.

It’s to the shows credit that no matter how despicable bojack is, you can’t help but root for him.

free churros episode is one of the top bojack episodes of the whole series, for me.

Yeah, this season wasn't the best, but was still good.

Jesus Christ, we were in the intensive care unit. She was just reading a sign.

On the upside: There were also a few subtle-ish things like Bojack always justifying the pills because he was in pain, with the specifics being his mother dying or potentially getting a negative review (not the physical pain the pills were meant for). Also, all of the characters seemed to have a pretty good episode starring them.

On the downside: Too much Todd.

I wouldn't mind a season 6 focusing on the other characters more, with Bojack being gone for a while. He's not a bad character or anything, but we already know how another season starring him would go.

Iduno wrote: On the downside: Too much Todd.

This! He's ok in small doses, but I just don't find him that interesting vs the other characters. And the Henry Fondle subplot...meh

The new Netflix show The Curious Creations of Christine McConnell is great, but I'm really confused by it. The tone is very kid's cooking show, but there are a lot of jokes about the taxidermied raccoon character having sex with neighborhood dogs. And garden gnomes. And telling the other creature characters to not touch the nipples of the bound and ball gagged neighbor because those are all her's.

I had friends raving about Rick and Morty intermittently for a long time. Finally watched some clips on youtube and it seemed legit so I bought the 3 seasons and binged em happily and heartily recommend this R-rated sci-fi Simpsons. I actually most enjoy the emotional content. Or the feels, if you will.

erik wrote:I had friends raving about Rick and Morty intermittently for a long time. Finally watched some clips on youtube and it seemed legit so I bought the 3 seasons and binged em happily and heartily recommend this R-rated sci-fi Simpsons. I actually most enjoy the emotional content. Or the feels, if you will.

I still need to watch Season 3. I didn't have cable until I moved. It is by far my favorite cartoon.

So after three years of Hiatus the Limetown podcast is scheduled to resume production on October 31st and I could not be more stoked.

The first season is a sci-thriller styled like a series of investigative journalism interviews with the surviving residents of a place called Limetown, who were thought to have all mysteriously disappeared years ago and have just now started resurfacing in order to specifically seek out the story's protagonist and divulge what really happened to them.

But I want to gush about this thing because it's hands down the best voice acting I have ever heard in a podcast. Normally the "investigative journalism" framework is used to hide how stilted everyone is, but every actor they have sounds so fucking natural. However the short length of the podcast + ending on a cliffhanger + 3 years of inactivity meant I couldn't in good faith recommend it to anyone. They'd end up like me, blue balled and wanting more.

But it's starting up again and soon so now I'm the hype train bitch.

That sounds like a good podcast. I'm definitely going give that a listen.

On the topic of podcasts, I have been enjoying Wolverine: The Long Night. Some of the voice actors are a little too flowery, but it's a fun story.

Big mouth on Netflix.

... Reasons?

Shrapnel wrote:... Reasons?

Sorry, was in a hurry. At first I thought it was going to be standard juvenile animated show like others that were on netflix. It was still juvenile but also like some have describe the show as "Like the movie 'Inside Out' but for adults". It does explore the awkardness and good and the bad of puberty. The second season got better with adding dimensions to some to the second tier characters.

Castlevania s2 on Netflix was really good for the most part. I was skeptical because season 1 wasn't that great and ended right when it felt like the narrative was starting, but season 2 is much improved (dialog is less terrible, they explore the characters a bit more, art style looks cleaner, etc). I would recommend it to anyone, with the following caveats:

* Skip season 1 and read a synopsis on the internet, and start s2e1.

* Skip the last episode. It's like they couldn't decide on the stinger to put after the credits of s2e7, so they made an entire episode of stingers. It's like the ending to Return of the King except worse, but any one of the scenes would have made for an after post-credits scene.

Count Arioch the 28th wrote:Castlevania s2 on Netflix was really good for the most part. I was skeptical because season 1 wasn't that great and ended right when it felt like the narrative was starting, but season 2 is much improved (dialog is less terrible, they explore the characters a bit more, art style looks cleaner, etc). I would recommend it to anyone, with the following caveats:

* Skip season 1 and read a synopsis on the internet, and start s2e1.

* Skip the last episode. It's like they couldn't decide on the stinger to put after the credits of s2e7, so they made an entire episode of stingers. It's like the ending to Return of the King except worse, but any one of the scenes would have made for an after post-credits scene.

I believe you're going for "damning with faint praise"?

I mean, I'm watching Supernatural, a show so stupid they had to make one character a psychic to explain the leaps of logic they made, and I'm enjoying it. I understand. But at least sell us on it a bit.

I wouldn't be able to convince someone water was wet if I opened my argument by throwing them in a lake. Watch it or don't, I'm not getting paid when people watch it.

Count Arioch the 28th wrote:Castlevania s2 on Netflix was really good for the most part. I was skeptical because season 1 wasn't that great and ended right when it felt like the narrative was starting, but season 2 is much improved (dialog is less terrible, they explore the characters a bit more, art style looks cleaner, etc). I would recommend it to anyone, with the following caveats:

* Skip season 1 and read a synopsis on the internet, and start s2e1.

* Skip the last episode. It's like they couldn't decide on the stinger to put after the credits of s2e7, so they made an entire episode of stingers. It's like the ending to Return of the King except worse, but any one of the scenes would have made for an after post-credits scene.

I like that the background music for the battle in ep. 7 was a version of bloody tears.

K/DA music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOxkGD8qRB4

Ancient History wrote:K/DA music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOxkGD8qRB4

I originally only saw gifs from that, and didn't look closely enough to notice it wasn't a real person. Given I don't play LoL, I started searching for this rapper with a strong use of florescent paint and UV light and demonic aesthetic, and was super goddamned confused for a good 10 minutes or so...

Hiram McDaniels wrote:
I like that the background music for the battle in ep. 7 was a version of bloody tears.

That was a nice touch. Also I like Godbrand, he was the only vampire that seemed to have any damn sense.

Still only 4 episodes in to S2 (borderline living at work atm) but the VA for Godbrand is the voice of the Swedish merc Mattias Nilsson from the Mercenaries games. I was having trouble placing his voice when he first started talking.

Pariah Dog wrote:Still only 4 episodes in to S2 (borderline living at work atm) but the VA for Godbrand is the voice of the Swedish merc Mattias Nilsson from the Mercenaries games. I was having trouble placing his voice when he first started talking.

Peter Stormare. Very prolific actor in both live action and voice over. Perhaps best known as the guy feeding Steve Buscemi into a wood chipper in Fargo.

Yeah. I ended up looking him up after the light bulb went off during his flashback scene and I recognized him from Mercenaries.

Hiram McDaniels wrote: I like that the background music for the battle in ep. 7 was a version of bloody tears.

Good, I've spent all first season waiting for recognizable music (and for something to happen)

I really liked s2 of castlevania. I could've done with seeing a BIT more hero-v-monster fighting, but too much gets boring so I'm glad at least they went with less rather than more.