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How is Luke Cage in comparison to Jessica Jones?? We enjoyed Jessica Jones.

So we finished watching the final season of Bloodline. I must say, it was kind of a letdown, especially the last 3 episodes. They carried the series to its logical conclusion, I guess, but it just wasn't fun to watch. Toward the end, none of the characters were likable, although I still cared what happened to John.
 
I loved all the Marvel/Netflix series. Luke Cage has the same formula as the rest because it does start of a big slow but builds towards the end. Hope you like it as much as I did! :cheer2:
 
I watched the first 4 or 5 episodes of Luke Cage last year. Enjoyable enough but I didn't feel pulled along to watch the next episode to find out what happened next, the way I did with Jessica Jones. And more violence for the sake of violence.

I'm not really into the whole superhero mythos.
 
Jessica Jones - riveting and dark
Luke Cage - I really liked the strong female characters and the setting and music.

I watched JJ and then called my son and asked about the others. He said Daredevil is the best of them, Jessica Jones a close second and the other two were more campy. I admit, I felt like I was through the ringer with JJ and wanted campy next. I'm not sure it was campy though, just less intense. They could have dropped 2 episodes and not have it hurt the story at all.

I'm starting DD this week.

I'm not a superhero fan, but after being tricked (ha ha), I thought it was a fun way to end the summer.
 
I'd rank them:

Jessica Jones
Luke Cage
Defenders
Daredevil
Iron Fist

Jessica Jones and Luke Cage are pretty close. I can understand ranking Daredevil higher than Defenders; Daredevil really improved overtime, but I disliked the first few episodes (writing/acting issues, IMO).
 
ITA about Daredevil. It was the first one and it started out pretty rough, but got really strong. Jessica Jones is my favorite so far but so dark.

Defenders was slightly disappointing, only because it was a build up the other four shows. So maybe I just expected more?

What Defenders really showed, though, was how awesome the female characters were. They were all badasses in different ways.
 
I agree about the female characters. Iron Fist is a whiny baby! But his girl friend is awesome.

I expected to like Luke Cage more because I liked the character on Jessica Jones, but as it went on it got less and less involving for me.
 
It's interesting how different taste is. I think the first season of Daredevil was one of the best series I've watched that year. 2nd installment was weaker imo.

JJ I didn't like at all. I stopped watching after 2nd episode.
For luke Cage I'm still undecided. I stopped watching after 4th episode due a lack of time and haven't resumed watching (still planning, though).
Defenders was boring.

I'm clearly not into superhero stories. Probably that's the reason I liked Daredevil 1 so much.
 
It's not a netflix or Hulu serie so I don't know if it fits this thread but it is a mini-serie called the Sinner. I was wondering if anyone is watching it and if you would recommend it ? Right watching Bordertown, a finnish serie someone advised on this thread. Thanks it's quite good. The main character reminds me a bit of Sherlock with his mind-palace system and his borderline personality but my favorite character is Lena the tough recruit, very strong on-screen presence. I also realized I had no idea what finnish sounded like. Such a different language, nothing familiar I can grab on when they speak.
 
Yehudi said:
Finished The Tick. It's very different from the Patrick Warburton version, but it's still hilarious. The tone reminds me of a more subtle Zucker Brother film , where there's a lot of absurdity going around but nobody really notices.
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VIETgrlTerifa said:
I loved the animated series, how does the live action version compare in terms of tone and humor?
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So I watched the first two episodes yesterday, and I don't know if I like it because I'm just used to the OTT tone and humor and biting more obvious satire of the animated series and this much more grounded, darker tone with curse words and graphic violence is something I need to get to used to as I don't know if the comedy in this show works. I haven't really heard The Tick go into his crazy-ass and yet beautifully-crafted monologues and it's still an origin story so we haven't gotten to the monotony of the superhero lifestyle while living in the real world (if it will ever get there) like The Tick being jealous that Arthur had a date and talks about how they're missing arts and crafts night, etc. I also miss the atmosphere of the City having unhinged and crazy, useless superheroes who are just lucky because the supervillains are even more inept and more unhinged.

I will say that I watched some pretty effed-up things on tv this past year like The Handmaid's Tale, but...

the part where Arthur as a child witnesses his father dying because his favorite super hero team that he loved crashing their aircraft onto him because they were blinded by a syphilis bomb by the evil villain, The Terror, and then witnessing his favorite super hero team exit the aircraft crying in agony and then having The Terror order his henchmen to just shoot them while they are blinded and crying in pain and then the show actually showing them shoot them point blank and the The Terror telling his men to spare one of the blinded heroes and to just crush his hands which they proceed to do and the show proceeds to show us, and then having The Terror go up to child Arthur and eat all of the ice cream his now deceased father bought for him has to be one of the most traumatizing things I've watched this year.

I was expecting the same show where the villain who had a chair for a head fail mid-way in inscribing his name "Chairface Chippendale" onto the moon so every episode afterwards just had the moon with the word "Cha" inscribed on it...or a show with a Galacatus parody named Omnipotus, who eats planets, coming to Earth intent on eating the Earth who is then persuaded by The Tick to leave the Earth alone, and then when leaving asks the Tick if he can take a bite out of the moon for a snack which the Tick says "sure!" When Arthur is losing his mind about that, the Tick just goes "come on Arthur! The moon is just there. It's not doing anything." I'm only two episodes in, but I think the jokes so far have fallen flat thanks to the more violent, grounded, and darker tone this took on to match every other Marvel/DC product on TV and film now.
 
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Thanks VIETgrlTerifa and Buzz! Maybe I'll watch it for the girlfriend. Or try to watch it. :)

We just got Amazon Prime, though, so I may take some detours. They have a lot of the shows that were on Shomi, and I thought I'd lost access to those forever (e.g., Catastrophe and Mr. Robot).
 
Totally off topic but does anyone know if or when Hulu will be coming to Canada?
 
The Good Place - Season 1 is on Netflix and Season 2 is on Hulu. Super cute series about what happens when you die. It's a fun cast - Ted Danson is hysterical, Kristen Bell is cute and a lot of it is absurd. It's been so sad that it is nice to have something silly to watch.
 
Atypical! This is a bittersweet series about a family - the lead character is a teen with autism. The family interaction is very real, all flawed human characters. it is a Netflix Original I beleive.
 
We started watching the first 3 seasons of Halt and Catch Fire. so good, we have really enjoyed it. Great writing, characters, acting. I guess the first season wasn't that well-received by critics, but I've really enjoyed the whole series. looking forward to season 4 now (but a bit devastated by end of season 3).

We also found & watched a 2-part Battlestar Galactica miniseries that we missed years ago (Razor). It was so good & it reminded how much I loved that show. now I kind of want to rewatch the whole thing. :)
 
VIETgrlTerifa said:
I've been watching these Taiwanese drama called Refresh Man on Netflix with Aaron Yan because I need something romantic and light-hearted with a bit of melodrama. Thankfully this one isn't too bad with the OTT melodrama.
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Lool I used to watch those Taiwanese drama (Meteor Garden, Devil Beside You, Why Why Love, Spring Love, Just You, Fall In Love With Me, Alice In Wonder City, Prince of Wolf, Behind Your Smile..). I pretended it was to listen to Mandarin but most of the time I did enjoy watching those male leads. The annoying and helpless girls, not so much haha, though Yu Tang wasn't awful. I have yet to find a new show to watch.
 
TheGirlCanSkate said:
The Good Place - Season 1 is on Netflix and Season 2 is on Hulu. Super cute series about what happens when you die. It's a fun cast - Ted Danson is hysterical, Kristen Bell is cute and a lot of it is absurd. It's been so sad that it is nice to have something silly to watch.
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I love this show! I watched season 1 as it aired and I would find myself with a smile on my face every episode.
My parents visited me this weekend and I showed them the first few episodes on Netflix. I expected my mom to like it, but my dad was cackling throughout. It's so well done!

I was happy it got a season 2. The premise seemed hard to keep going, but the season 1 finale twist made it happen and I'm loving season 2 as well. I was kind of surprised Ted Danson didn't get an Emmy nod for season 1. Same with Darcy Carden who plays Janet.

In other shows, I've had many people recommend Brooklyn Nine Nine to me recently, so I've been watching that on Netflix. It's good, but not the greatest thing I've ever seen. Though it's making me find Andy Samberg kind of attractive...
 
I just watched all of Brooklyn Nine-Nine on Netflix. I binged all 4 full seasons within a bit over a week (and then watched the episodes from the current season on the network site). I'm glad I decided to watch it. Didn't love season 1 right away, but it really found its stride and I absolutely adore the show. And have come to realize that Andy Samberg is very attractive (and a surprisingly good actor). And it's such a great ensemble cast.

It's also a good example of main characters getting together organically and it not affecting the show or other characters at all, the relationship not overtaking other storylines.

Now that I'm up to date on B99, I'm starting on Schitt's Creek, also on Netflix.

I plan on watching the Netflix original series Mindhunter after that. I'm a Broadway nerd, so the fact that Jonathan Groff is the star is what first got me interested, but it's also got fantastic reviews (96% on Rotten Tomatoes) and the premise is interesting. It's takes place in 1977 with FBI agents interviewing imprisoned serial killers to understand how they think, and apply this to solving ongoing cases in the early days of criminal psychology and criminal profiling.
 
I'm watching Midwinter of the Spirit on Acorn, and oh my god, I haaaate it! I find the main character and her daughter absolutely insufferable. I'm only watching to see how it ends.

I loved Good Karma Hospital on Acorn. I finished that up last week. Amanda Redman is amazing. I loved her on New Tricks.

ETA I had to fast forward through Midwinter of the Spirit. I just wanted to know how it ended.
 
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