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Post by mistrali on Aug 2, 2020 14:33:22 GMT 10
Not watching anything at the moment, but I’ll put in another vote for ATLA, which I adored.
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Post by devilinthedetails on Aug 3, 2020 1:49:22 GMT 10
I just finished watching the last episode of Avatar: The Last Airbender last night, and now I'm thinking of trying to find a way to watch the Legend of Korra, which I think is supposed to be set in the same universe but 70 or so years later. It doesn't seem to be on Netflix but perhaps I can find it elsewhere. Merlin sounds cool, Tamari. Perhaps I will check that out. The coronavirus has dramatically increased how many TV shows I watch. Guess there just isn't that much competing stuff to do in my leisure time anymore.
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Post by MythicMistress on Aug 17, 2020 7:23:40 GMT 10
I've started watching The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance on Netflix. I just love that world.
I also saw that The Legend of Korra is on Netflix in the USA at least, but I don't think I'm going to rewatch that right now- I didn't enjoy Korra's story nearly as much as I did Aang's.
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Post by mageprincess on Aug 23, 2020 1:01:45 GMT 10
I love that this thread is kind of a big thread of love for ATLA and LOK spanning like 6 years. Having them on Netflix has been a huge boost for them. But sadly I fear the Netflix live action adaptation is doomed as the creators of the animated show have split from the project due to creative differences.
I’ve been watching such a huge array of stuff recently, being home with an infant means lots of tv. But I have to say Netflix is on point with their cartoons lately, She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, Kipo and the Legend of the Wondebeasts, Glitch Techs, The Dragon Prince, all absolutely stellar viewing.
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Post by Rosie on Aug 24, 2020 20:07:20 GMT 10
I'm rewatching Buffy right now with my housemate - she'd only watched one episode before. I think we're almost at the end of season four, which is my least favourite season, but happily I loved five and half of six.
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Post by Lisa on Sept 12, 2020 8:48:27 GMT 10
Ahhh, I've been quite the exhausted slug lately, which means lots of television.
I watched (and enjoyed) both Cobra Kai and Trinkets (both on Netflix) and now I've moved on to watching Episodes, which I'm really liking.
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Post by Seek on Sept 12, 2020 18:29:57 GMT 10
I finished Dark a month or so ago which I found really good - it's more or less German sci fi, which is very refreshing to me in an entertainment world still dominated by the main English-speaking countries. It's mindblowing, twisty, clever, and I really, really love how it focuses on how people make bad decisions but for very human and flawed but understandable reasons.
Been trying to catch up on Lucifer in my spare time.
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Post by devilinthedetails on Sept 13, 2020 5:42:48 GMT 10
Recently started watching Marco Polo on Netflix and I must say I'm enjoying it. Interesting politics and a fascinating setting. I like those sort of historical dramas. Currently I'm about five episodes in but might watch another one or two episodes tonight. Shame it only lasted two seasons.
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Post by Kypriotha on Sept 13, 2020 11:00:46 GMT 10
I wasn't sure what to watch after my second watch of The Baby-sitters Club (it's just so good!). I've been slowly working my way through the rest of Kim's Convenience and I just finished season 1 of One Day At A Time (hopefully by the time I finish this re-watch, there'll be good news about season 4).
On Friday, I watched the first episode of the ABC documentary series Fight For Planet A. The realities about climate change are so depressing, but I liked that it also had some useful tips for what households can do to reduce their carbon footprint. I'll watch the rest of it at some point (fellow Aussies, it's on iView if you're interested).
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Post by mageprincess on Sept 14, 2020 23:29:58 GMT 10
Kypriotha there are about 8 eps of season 4 of One Day at a Time that have aired already, but I believe the rest is on hold due to the virus. ODAaT is my favourite show, I love it so much.
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Post by Kypriotha on Sept 20, 2020 12:19:21 GMT 10
Kypriotha there are about 8 eps of season 4 of One Day at a Time that have aired already, but I believe the rest is on hold due to the virus. ODAaT is my favourite show, I love it so much. How do you access them in Australia? I didn't think it had been picked up by a company that streamed/screened outside the US. Just discovered 2 new (to me) shows on ABC iView. One is Halal Gurls, which is 6 short (6-9 minute) episodes about 3 20-something Hijabis in Western Sydney. It might be available on the ABC Comedy YouTube channel as well? I found it funny, interesting and moving and I hope they make more episodes! The other show is one I had heard of before, but never watched and so have only yesterday discovered how funny it is - Get Krack!n by Kate McLennan and Kate McCartney. I started with episode 8 of season 2, in which Miranda Tapsell and Nakkiah Lui take over hosting, and it was such an amazing deconstruction of racism and white privilege in Australian media specifically and society more generally.
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Post by mageprincess on Sept 21, 2020 0:11:30 GMT 10
Kypriotha I *cough*downloaded*cough* them, since Netflix doesn't own them any more I don't think there is any other way to get them in Australia right now. I try to avoid doing this as much as possible but no way was I missing out on ODAaT. I've also started the part of parenting that involves watching kid's shows. There has been a lot of Bluey in my life recently, but its an amazing show. For everyone who might not know of it, it's an Australian show made by Film Queensland, and all the characters are dogs. Bluey is a six year old Blue Heeler who lives with her family (Mum, Dad, younger sister) and gets up to all kinds of trouble. I love this show because it has a lot for parents to giggle about too. It is entirely too relatable and has won stacks of international awards. If anyone is interested in checking out why its so popular and amazing, the episodes only go for 7 minutes, and I recommend either Sticky Gecko or Takeaway as good episodes to check out.
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Post by Kypriotha on Oct 11, 2020 9:51:28 GMT 10
Ahh I love Bluey! I was introduced to it through my niece, but it does have lots of good adult and general Australian humour. Sometimes my partner and I watch it on iView 😄 Just watched season 1 of BBC's Ghosts (thanks Rosie for the reminder!). It's on Stan here in Australia and is 6 30-min eps. It's created and written by, and starring, the original CBBC Horrible Histories cast and so I of course love it. They play ghosts from a variety of different time periods who all live in a big falling down manor house, so it's a bit like an extended Horrible Histories mash up. The new human characters who tie the show together are also fun.
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Post by Rosie on Oct 13, 2020 0:24:21 GMT 10
Ghosts is so much fun - I'm going to be disappointed once I've finished the second series!
Still rewatching Buffy, though we have been taking regular breaks. We're a third of the way through season six now.
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Post by mageprincess on Oct 16, 2020 21:23:31 GMT 10
Just finished watching Season 3 of Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts. It's an excellent show for those of us that love ATLA.
I also recently watched the last few seasons of Once Upon a Time. I think I fall into the rare category of people who liked the last season, but having now watched the final eps for the first time (I never got there when it originally aired), the ending was a complete disaster.
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Post by Kypriotha on Jan 18, 2021 9:32:23 GMT 10
Watched all of Ghosts, including the Christmas special, which was great! I've bought seasons 1 and 2 on Google Play, so I can watch the show as often as I like.
Now I'm onto the new HBO adaptation of His Dark Materials, which I'm enjoying. Just bought the second series on Google Play and I'm very excited to watch it.
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Post by devilinthedetails on Jan 21, 2021 1:07:57 GMT 10
I'm currently watching Last Kingdom on Netflix. A historical drama set during the reign of King Alfred in England and the Viking invasions. I finished the first episode of season 2 last night. I'm enjoying it though it definitely has a good amount of violence in it.
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Post by Tamari on Jan 21, 2021 1:14:11 GMT 10
I finally finished Gilmore Girls. I'm a real 2000s girl, now! The new season of Netflix's Sabrina series just dropped, but I'll admit I've forgotten what happened before. Also watched Bridgerton and enjoyed it despite its flaws.
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Post by Kypriotha on Jul 12, 2021 9:13:43 GMT 10
I recently watched Girls5Eva (Tina Fey's new TV show about a girls group that reunites about 20 years later). It was funny in places, though I didn't love it as much as my friends. The theme song is catchy though and I'll watch season 2 when it comes out.
I watched it partly to continue the theme of musical shows started with Glee and continued with Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist. Of the three, Zoey's is my favourite, though some of romance plotlines really annoyed me.
Started watching Superstore when I needed something light to watch and it's okay, though no Parks and Rec, which I've rewatched a bit of lately.
Otherwise not really feeling like watching TV shows much, though I have started the new season of Kim's Convenience.
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Post by devilinthedetails on Jul 12, 2021 23:35:12 GMT 10
Watching the Borgias on Netflix. I love me some historical dramas!
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Post by oskarshai on Aug 5, 2021 4:29:26 GMT 10
Watching the Borgias on Netflix. I love me some historical dramas! I'm late, but I high key stan that show. The aesthetic and vibes are unmatched and the way it plays with fictionalizing the history just enough so that it's dramatic enough for prime time TV, but you can also tell they did their homework, is really fun.
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Post by MythicMistress on Aug 26, 2021 0:17:41 GMT 10
Currently trying to get caught up a little more with My Hero Academia (I always have an easier time watching anime than reading manga, even if it means I'm always a bit behind). I'm also rewatching Samurai Jack.
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Post by mageprincess on Sept 2, 2021 16:18:18 GMT 10
A huuuuge yes to My Hero Academia! I adore that show so so so much! I'm a bit behind with season 5 but I tend to binge watch my anime these days rather than week by week so I'm fine with waiting until its all dubbed to watch it. I prefer dubs to subs these days; subs are too hard to keep up with when you have a toddler.
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Post by Kypriotha on Oct 23, 2021 9:53:41 GMT 10
I'm currently obsessed with season 1 of Ted Lasso and Netflix's The Baby-sitters Club (season 2 was sooo good!!!!). Currently, or about to start, re-watching both of them, even though I just finished them 😅
Before those 2 shows, I was re-watching all of BBC's Ghosts, because the new season 3 was also amazing. Highly recommend the show.
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Post by Rosie on Oct 23, 2021 19:14:21 GMT 10
Seconding Ghosts! Innovative and fun, can't wait for more.
I just finished watching The Mindy Project - I made it three episodes into series 4 and opted out. What a great advertisement for why series should be 13 episodes long at most.
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Post by mageprincess on Oct 27, 2021 18:12:17 GMT 10
I spend my days watching the same children's show on repeat, as Mr-almost-2 essentially refuses to watch anything other than Cocomelon. So by the time he goes to bed the last thing I want to do is watch more TV.
However, I've been keeping up with the new season of New Amsterdam and I've also watched Only Murders in the Building, which I highly recommend. I'm currently watching Goliath, which is a legal drama and I'm quite enjoying it.
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Post by devilinthedetails on Nov 28, 2021 11:00:12 GMT 10
Wheel of Time on Amazon Prime.
Enjoying it but then I haven't read the book series it's based on.
Going to wait to read the book series until after the first season is done so I don't spoil the viewing experience because I find that I like movie/TV adaptations of books better if I see the movie/tv show first and then read the book. Since the books are almost always better!
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Post by Kypriotha on Nov 28, 2021 13:47:47 GMT 10
Currently watching Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, because Netflix recommended it to me and it's been years since I last watched it. It's still such a fun show and I love all the characters. I intentionally waited to put it on until my partner was around and now he keeps asking to watch it
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Post by wordy on Nov 28, 2021 18:34:51 GMT 10
I finished Dark a month or so ago which I found really good - it's more or less German sci fi, which is very refreshing to me in an entertainment world still dominated by the main English-speaking countries. It's mindblowing, twisty, clever, and I really, really love how it focuses on how people make bad decisions but for very human and flawed but understandable reasons. Been trying to catch up on Lucifer in my spare time.
I watched Dark last year too, and really loved it! Trying to recall which other Netflix shows I enjoyed around that time...I know GLOW was another great one. The Umbrella Academy, of course. Dracula started pretty well but crashed and burned. I think I also watched quite a bit of Bojack Horseman and some Schitt's Creek too.
I'm not watching any new shows at the moment because I'm not signed up to any streaming services, but I did recently do a complete rewatch of The Office (US) just for something mindless to wind down with after work. I also started a rewatch of Veep, but only the first three seasons because that's all I actually own on DVD (I think I had borrowed the rest from the library originally). Not sure what to start next - I was considering either rewatching The Mentalist or Teen Wolf or signing up for Disney+ so I can watch all the Marvel tv shows. And I've just remembered that technically I'm still in the middle of a Sailor Moon rewatch, though probably won't get back into that just yet because I'd rather watch something without subtitles so I can do other stuff at the same time.
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Post by oskarshai on Nov 29, 2021 10:50:48 GMT 10
I'm currently rewatching Utena, which is my very favorite anime and is relevant to a lot of SOTL themes (Utena and Alanna were definitely inhabiting the same mental category for me when I was a kid and I think they're very similar characters in a lot of ways) It's such a gorgeous, thoughtful, substantive show, and there's just so much to unpack in it. Every time I watch it I end up noticing new things and connecting new dots and it's just so cool and fun. <3 It's not really a show for children, but in a way I really love having stumbled on it as a 9-ish year old and grown up with it, because as a child it was engaging and fascinating but kind of inscrutable to me, but as an adult I find it a lot less opaque and experiencing that click of understanding is so satisfying.
Highly recommend, and the show is legally up for free on YouTube, although I also recommend doing at least a bit of research beforehand to see if it's for you because it is very dark and contains potentially triggering themes and topics later in the story. ( This tumblr post is a helpful and spoiler-free intro if you're interested)
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