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I thought Strange New Worlds was the best Star Trek in the market these days.
As it turns out, that crown probably goes to Lower Decks. I donāt know how the hell, but itās really good.
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@Roz said in TV series, news, recommendations:
NOOOOOOOOOOO!
But, also, itās probably because James Gunn is now one of the co-Leaders of the DC Comics Franchise and Henry Cavill is now going on to play Superman again.
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@Roz said in TV series, news, recommendations:
What do you mean, it clearly says it is cancelled after 3 seasons, I will not be fooled by this obvious attempt to Mandela effect some tomfoolery into existence.
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Itās justā¦ the actors have a really different vibe. I donāt get it.
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@Smile said in TV series, news, recommendations:
Itās justā¦ the actors have a really different vibe. I donāt get it.
Shouldda done a timeskip and casted Mads Mikkelsen.
In Occam I trust.
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@Coin Ask and ya shall receive.
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@Coin The thing isā¦
If they HAD cast Mads, he would have shown up able to do everything day one, because of some obscure thing in his past, up to and including potion brewing and slaying actual monsters.
Edit because I canāt spell.
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GOD DAMN, the Andor finale.
GOD. DAMN.
I love this show so much. This is everything I had loved about Star Wars growing up but eventually given up on as the the franchise moved further and further towards the lowest common denominator and cynical nostalgia explotation.
This isnāt grown manchildren smashing action figures together, itās artful cinematography and metaphor and philosophy, politics right on the sleeves, itās relevant and poignant and personal and powerful. I am absolutely shocked Disney produced this and allowed it to air, lol.
ITāS SO GOOD AHHHHHFNWIFNFWNJFN
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YEEEEEEE. I have been extremely meh on the Star Wars series ā and this is as someone who grew up watching the original trilogy RELIGIOUSLY. I could RECITE THEM FROM MEMORY. But none of the series really managed to catch and pull me in. Iām not a big TV person.
Honestly, I probably wouldāve given Andor a pass, too, but one of my friends was SO INTO IT, and the Star Wars / Disney machine is SO MUCH NOT HIS THING that I was surprised enough to pay attention. And man, what a show. I was nagging @Roz all day yesterday to see if she was ready to go watch the finale. Such a solid finale. Such a good show.
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Rather than rehash everything you said which I 100% agree with, I also wanted to give a shout-out to extremely cool worldbuilding and cultural design in the locales in this series too:
Space Florida, Ferrix, the mountainous planet with the garrison and the Eye (and the characters who live there) ā all of itās new and all of it just comes alive.
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Andor has made me want to dust off my FFG books and run Age of Rebellion again.
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@oknow said in TV series, news, recommendations:
Andor has made me want to dust off my FFG books and run Age of Rebellion again.
shoves in the direction of doing the thing, then
But yeah, Andor very good. There is just the one thing I expected to happen in the finale, which didnāt, but the thing that does happen instead validates the other theory about it I have, so still gets a 12/10.
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@Jennkryst said in TV series, news, recommendations:
@oknow said in TV series, news, recommendations:
Andor has made me want to dust off my FFG books and run Age of Rebellion again.
shoves in the direction of doing the thing, then
Running a one shot tonight
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Bumping to recommend Last of Us
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@Rucket Iām waiting for the whole series to drop before I re-sub to watch it, but Iām so pumped!!!
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It isnāt TV or even generally accessible butā¦
The play To Kill a Mockingbird is freaking AMAZING.
I never want to hear that many white men use a particular racial slur again, but the sheer discomfort it caused really drove home the lesson. We laughed, we cried, I squeezed my husbandās hand hard at particularly stressful momentsā¦
It is brilliant art.
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@junipersky said in TV series, news, recommendations:
I never want to hear that many white men use a particular racial slur again, but the sheer discomfort it caused really drove home the lesson.
I canāt remember who said it, though I think it was Jamie Foxx who said something akin to āif weāre going to tell the story of my people, weāre going to have to get used to seeing white people doing horrible shit and saying horrible things.ā
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I didnāt see it mentioned, and having just finished the first season a few days ago, Severance is something I would recommend. Especially if you like psychological thriller/mystery box things. I am excited to see where it goes with the second season.
