I quite enjoyed the Umbrella Academy. Superhero stuff, but coming from a Dark Horse mentality.Pretty smart, nuanced characters. Enjoyable genre tv.Definitely feels like it's going to fill the niche that the Marvel specific shows currently occupy as they get pulled to their individual walled gardens.

cneutron wrote:I quite enjoyed the Umbrella Academy. Superhero stuff, but coming from a Dark Horse mentality.Pretty smart, nuanced characters. Enjoyable genre tv.Definitely feels like it's going to fill the niche that the Marvel specific shows currently occupy as they get pulled to their individual walled gardens."Comic's" grumble...Just read the trades.Edit:Grumble aside, folks who actually enjoyed the show should look into the FX series Legion if they haven't already looked into it. One of it's writers is behind The Umbrella Academy, and it bears a striking resemblance to Legion(without being as brilliant).

numberthirty wrote:cneutron wrote:I quite enjoyed the Umbrella Academy. Superhero stuff, but coming from a Dark Horse mentality.Pretty smart, nuanced characters. Enjoyable genre tv.Definitely feels like it's going to fill the niche that the Marvel specific shows currently occupy as they get pulled to their individual walled gardens.Comic's grumble...Just read the trades.Edit:Grumble aside, folks who actually enjoyed the show should look into the FX series Legion if they haven't already looked into it. One of it's writers is behind The Umbrella Academy, and it bears a striking resemblance to Legion(without being as brilliant).Legion is just spectacular, first season in particular is absolutely solid gold the whole way through.Umbrella Academy is pretty good aside from the fact that literally every single musical cue in the entire fucking show is HORRIBLE. Just overall lacking aesthetic sensibility. The kid who plays Number 5 is a great goddamn actor though, I can't believe that dude is only 15.

numberthirty wrote:cneutron wrote:I quite enjoyed the Umbrella Academy. Superhero stuff, but coming from a Dark Horse mentality.Pretty smart, nuanced characters. Enjoyable genre tv.Definitely feels like it's going to fill the niche that the Marvel specific shows currently occupy as they get pulled to their individual walled gardens.Comic's grumble...Just read the trades.Edit:Grumble aside, folks who actually enjoyed the show should look into the FX series Legion if they haven't already looked into it. One of it's writers is behind The Umbrella Academy, and it bears a striking resemblance to Legion(without being as brilliant).What on earth would give you the impression that I didn t already know and love LEGION? That s a PARAGON of genre tv, and probably one of the most stylish shows since Hannibal.I really don t see that much of a resemblence other than the darker tone.Legion is the best!

Antero wrote:Umbrella Academy is pretty good aside from the fact that literally every single musical cue in the entire fucking show is HORRIBLE. Agreed. It felt like something from another decade that didn't date well. What was the dancing hitman decade? I don't know.Liked the show though. Good times. That was a TON of content for such a young actor to pull off as the lynch pin of the show. Love Legion. I felt like season 2 sorta petered out, though. I liked things they were doing, but it didn't quite pay off? Hope the third and last season nails it. I love the low-tech visual effects and narrative devices on this show. Really clever stuff.

The Rain is a pretty decent post-apocalyptic Danish series.

Has Shetland been mentioned? Excellent Scottish murder drama, amazing sweaters and coats to boot.

^Logan's Run is streaming?! That shit cooked my noodle when I was little. My dad made me watch it. Will watch with my version of a speedball. marijuana and 2 cups of coffee.

Just watched 'The Ted Bundy Tapes' both out of semi-morbid curiosity and want of anything better to watch. It's actually surprisingly good, and a cut-above the usual sensationalist serial killer documentaries where you have a bunch of voxpops telling us how "they were the embodiment of evil" as if we weren't able to grasp the scale of the crimes without someone pointing it out.I always feel a little voyeuristic and rubbernecky watching any documentary covering tragic events, but this one at least illuminates some of the more benign but important details surrounding the case, such as poor exchanges of information between state forces, and the media's part in feeding off the fear of the bogeyman (which he was, but they weren't helping...).The weirdest takewaway was Bundy himself though, centrally his refusal to believe things could ever catch up with him. Or maybe he knew, but refused to display anything other than chipper enthusiasm to the world at large (see: the numerous times he nods and winks to cameras whilst he's in chains on perp-walks). During the course of this series, he looks less like his "charming" cliche, and more like an unhinged optimist who refuses to face any negative truth about their situation. Somehow though, the worst part was the footage of crowds that gathered on the day of execution, which included car-boot traders flogging electric chair pin-badges and $5 "Tuesday is Fry-day" t-shirts to the baying mobs, the irony of all that being lost on everyone.