Has anyone watch the latest season of Black Mirror?
The Miley Cyrus / Ashley O one was good. My SO was skeptical, that it would be a teeny bopper story, but even he liked it.
Nine Inch Nails’ Head Like a Hole plays a big part in the story, at least that’s how I took it. Early on, she sings “I’m going to get what I deserve” in a pop-y riff with bizarro world lyrics, that bugged the everlovingshit out of me, because I have long loved NIN. When I worked a particularly crappy job, I would sing that song to myself, because I needed to channel that emotion out of me. In the resolution, where she sings the actual lyrics, in a properly angry fashion, I was so relieved. My dude doesn’t like the same kind of music I do, his taste is crap (sorry not sorry), so I wondered if it had the same sort of impact. I think GenX folks and other people with similar taste in music probably got a little more out of the foreshadowing.
My family never had HBO, so this is the most I’ve seen of Fraggle Rock.
I finally finished the final season, which was better than I expected but still not very good 
Fringe is basically J. J. Abrams’s version of The X-Files. Given that Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman also worked on it, it’s like the second attempt by Star Trek people to do an X-Files pastiche, after Threshold.
My verdict on the show as a whole is still WATCH THE FIRST TWO SEASONS 
THEN STOP 
Lotsa great ideas, nothing important to say. That was my opinion.
Didn’t they only become Star Trek people after Fringe ended?
But, on the whole…
…Fringe is part of the reason why.
Knock knock
Whos there
everyones dead
I thought that was Joss Whedon.
No, Whedon’s more like,
Knock, knock!
Who’s there?
I don’t know. Who’s your favourite character?
Um… Tara?
BANG!
Noooo! Tara!!!
Silly me, I’ve gotten Roberto Orci mixed up with Manny Coto 
Anyway, yes. They did Star Trek, then went back in time and did Fringe. What did you think I meant?
That they might have been writers on one of the earlier films and/or shows?
They must have been, in the Mirror Universe, but now those LHC physicists have ruined everything
Low-budget melodrama about organized crime in Mennonite country
the tone is Very Serious but every few minutes you feel like you’re watching an SNL sketch
Not to be confused with that other Pure which seems to be about the lesbian bar scene in London
Sounds similar:
More Sopranoey without losing that schlocky feel.
And Swamp Thing has already been cancelled after the first episode. All episodes have been filmed, so the first season will proceed, though.
I saw the first episode, and it was pretty good. Dare I say as good as DareDevil/Luke Cage/Jessica Jones? I think so.
I just saw the Twilight Zone episode “Five Characters in Search of an Exit,” or I’m calling it, “Toy Story — for Adults.”
Jessica Jones Season 3.
On the minus side, the villain is such an obvious POS that it’s hard not to blame the heroes for restraining themselves and not just murdering him at their first opportunity. All the additional plot shenanigans after than point seem like they’re at least partially on Team Good Guys.
On the plus side, HELLCAT HELLCAT HELLCAT HELLCAT 
Is it my imagination, or do the characters all seem strangely subdued this season? The Jessica Jones character, in particular, looks like she’s phoning it in. If I had only tuned in at the start of this latest season, I wouldn’t bother continuing. It’s not as compelling as it used to be.
But she’s missing a spleen!
I’m liking Jeri Hogarth’s storyline, treating love like a settlement negotiation.
Side note: I totally did not recognize Rebecca de Mornay all this time. Nor did I recognize Virginia Madsen in Swamp Thing right away, despite everyone else being totally recognizable after 20-30 years.
Swamp Thing, OTOH, is pretty good to me. I’m surprised it got cancelled.
I’m a little skeptical about a genius scientist in her mid-20s(?), though. Doesn’t it require a lot more time for education than that?
I am pretty jazzed to see so many 80s/90s stars in the show. So fun.