FTA-TV Which TV shows are you watching now.

[troybe]

Must say I’m enjoying The Orville on Viceland


On iPhone using BigFooty.com mobile app

 

[footyfan1978]

re-watched Fringe over the last month, one of my faves an absolute guilty pleasure. I'd have Walter Bishop as my favorite character ever. John Noble is class.

I noticed it is on 9's on demand type shows.
Think all 5 seasons which is great if so.

I was trying to look for an episode that had something similar to pandemic type outbreak done by design.
Anyone remember what season and episode it can be found?

In 100 episodes it is hard to find. Help!!!

Edit: I was wrong, Channel 9 do not have it but I originally discovered it on their Go channel around 2013 I think.
Turns out 7 plus have it now.

Watch Fringe Online: Free Streaming & Catch Up TV in Australia

Watch, Stream & Catch Up with your favourite Fringe episodes on 7plus. For fans of The X-Files and The Twilight Zone, this paranormal series about a fringe branch of the FBI has a cult following.

7plus.com.au

 

[akkaps]

Posting this in here because I can reach the most number of people.
I’d recommend people watch ep21 of All Rise. It’s an wow side filmed completely on video chat, as they incorporate covid19 into the story line.
The plot for the episode revolves around them hearing a court case over web chat rather than in person. And the challenges that come up with that and the rights the accused needs to forgo.
I think it was very well done and didn’t become over the top.
On the production side of things, the whole thing was filmed at everyone individual homes, via web chat with the actors requiring to go into their own wardrobe and working on props themselves.

 

[Milanista28]

I noticed it is on 9's on demand type shows.
Think all 5 seasons which is great if so.

I was trying to look for an episode that had something similar to pandemic type outbreak done by design.
Anyone remember what season and episode it can be found?

In 100 episodes it is hard to find. Help!!!

Edit: I was wrong, Channel 9 do not have it but I originally discovered it on their Go channel around 2013 I think.
Turns out 7 plus have it now.

Watch Fringe Online: Free Streaming & Catch Up TV in Australia

Watch, Stream & Catch Up with your favourite Fringe episodes on 7plus. For fans of The X-Files and The Twilight Zone, this paranormal series about a fringe branch of the FBI has a cult following.

7plus.com.au

"Fringe" What Lies Below (TV Episode 2010) ⭐ 8.1 | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

44m | TV-14

www.imdb.com

Is it this one? They contain it to the building.

 

[footyfan1978]

"Fringe" What Lies Below (TV Episode 2010) ⭐ 8.1 | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

44m | TV-14

www.imdb.com

Is it this one? They contain it to the building.

"Fringe" What Lies Below (TV Episode 2010) ⭐ 8.1 | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

44m | TV-14

www.imdb.com

Is it this one? They contain it to the building.

Do not know but certainly going to watch tonight now

Watch Fringe Online: Free Streaming & Catch Up TV in Australia

Watch, Stream & Catch Up with your favourite Fringe episodes on 7plus. For fans of The X-Files and The Twilight Zone, this paranormal series about a fringe branch of the FBI has a cult following.

7plus.com.au

 

[footyfan1978]

Watched. Went to a higher alert where contained the people infected and wanted to kill them all of at once to stop the virus spreading.

 

[djrossie16]

Treadstone
Jack Ryan
Sneaky Pete
The Path

I've been getting a lot out of Amazon Prime of late

 

[quotemokc]

Treadstone
Jack Ryan
Sneaky Pete
The Path

I've been getting a lot out of Amazon Prime of late

Jack Ryan S1 is good, S2 I couldn't get through more than 10 minutes of, maybe someday.

Sneaky Pete is sorta okay but very contrived.

 

[crafty_bernardo]

Just finished Gangs of London. Superb show. Has it's plot holes here and there, but it's highly entertaining and engrossing crime drama. The action and gun violence is 10/10

 

[AFDogs]

Ozark Season 1 - I can't make up my mind about this one. Some nights I think it is a good show other nights I think it's terrible. Will persist with it I think.

Michael Jordan Documentary - 10/10. Love sport docos and this is fantastic.

 

[Dazza the Viking]

Just watched The 100 on Fox 8, Season 7 Episode 1.

 

[akkaps]

Superstore. Very funny show.

 

[WowWeee]

The Boys (Amazon Prime).

3 episodes in and I’m really enjoying it.

 

[DaveyBoy123]

Just watched The 100 on Fox 8, Season 7 Episode 1.

I've watched the previous 6 seasons, so may as well see out this (I think it's a shorter) final season.

But gee, they're not making it easy. It should have finished up last season.

 

[akkaps]

I've watched the previous 6 seasons, so may as well see out this (I think it's a shorter) final season.

But gee, they're not making it easy. It should have finished up last season.

They should have finished ages ago. After season 4 or 5. The Children of Gabriel story was s**t.

 

[DIG]

The Boys (Amazon Prime).

3 episodes in and I’m really enjoying it.

The Boys is a pisser, great show!

 

[Percel]

Just finished Uplosd, really enjoyed it, a simple watch.

 

[Joker91]

Finished Last Kingdom s4 & The Last Dance over the weekend.

Will start Succession or Mr Robot at some stage this week.

 

[Financialpanther]

Just finished Uplosd, really enjoyed it, a simple watch.

Did the same, although I feel it leveraged heavily off the Good Place in terms on some components early on but the longer the season went, it deviated to find its own path.

 

[Warsaw]

Few iso shows in the past month.

Dave - A lot of it is about what I expected - white, Jewish rapper trying to make it and who rhymes about his ****ed up dick (literally) - which is to say that it's pretty funny. But then there's a couple of episodes that take you by surprise and goes to some really interesting places.

Normal People - Unabashedly will say that I loved it. A faithful and strong adaption of one of my favourite reads from the last couple of years. Essentially a modern love story, in the vein of the Before Sunrise trilogy but over a few years rather a few decades. There's no B-plot to speak of, and not without it's detractors. 'a show where two people * and not much else happens' is not necessarily a wrong description, but it is a boring one. Paul Mescal, one of the leads, is gonna be someone to watch.

My Brilliant Friend - Season 2 is as good, if not better than Season 1. This is top-tier television that nobody's talking about. It even takes some visual leaps, with one of the episodes filmed in 16mm. Looks like they are intending to complete the entire Neapolitan Novels, the book series it's adapted from. Tempted to start those myself, but already very invested in the show that I want it to tell this story.

 

[Bomberboyokay]

Trying to rewatch the entire Simpsons (or at least until it stops being good)

Rewatched The Simpsons seasons 1-9.

Seasons 1-7: Excellent; something everyone should watch through once
Season 8: Cracks starting to appear but generally good
Season 9: Real chore by the end; made me angry remembering how much, much worse it would get
Season 10+: s**t

 

[Cruyff14]

Still reckon 9 is pretty solid and 10 is decent.

 

[Bomberboyokay]

Season 9 was laboring under a lot of burdens: a new show runner in Mike Scully, a writers’ room at an all time low in terms of experience, and an ever increasing load of backstory, plots, and ideas that had already been done. To get the episodes made, the show began cutting corners, mostly by growing increasingly unconcerned about whether or not the stories made any sense and whether or not the characters acted at all like themselves.

The Simpsons had long produced finely crafted storytelling that gave each of an episode’s principal characters something to do and wrapped up every plot thread. Those elements were left by the wayside in several Season 9 episodes, mostly as a way to skip over plot holes and cram characters into bizarre situations. This is how Lisa and Homer break into a museum by climbing modern art, how Marge and Homer find themselves naked in a hot air balloon that lands in a stadium, and how Bart and Homer end up running a carnival game and playing ring toss for the mortgage. There’s a certain Ralph Kramden zaniness to those things, but whatever one thinks of them, they are far removed from what made the show great.

It’s not incidental that all three of those examples involve Homer. Season 9 saw the show drop him into any situation on the flimsiest of pretenses. He flies to Cuba with Mr. Burns. He climbs the tallest mountain in the world. He crashes Moe’s car into a river to collect the insurance money, swims out from the depths, and then breaks out of jail. Those episodes don’t so much have plot holes as they do plot canyons, where things that make no sense are either studiously ignored or conjured out of nowhere to drag things to a resolution.

To be sure, there are a lot of good episodes in Season 9, but even then chases and weird endings abound. In Season 9 alone, the following are used as endings:

• High speed car fight between Homer and Snake that ends with them crashing into a house.
• A fake apocalypse about a stone angel that makes so little sense they had to retcon27 their own Stephen Jay Gould guest cameo in the same episode.
• Homer becoming the commander of a submarine and ending up being chased down by no fewer than four navies.
• Bart and Ralph breaking into an abandoned prison where they briefly follow a rat who has literally stolen the plot.
• An explosion of underground garbage that forces the entire town to be moved in just the last minute of the episode.
• After the kids somehow get stranded on a deserted island, the episode doesn’t even bother to end; it just says they were rescued in a voiceover.

The show had certainly done episodes with outrageous endings before, but generally only once or twice per season, and even then things weren’t played for tension or shock the way they often are in Season 9. (Homer’s shuttle reentry in Season 5 is a perfect example of something that was played wholly for humor where later seasons would have put suspense.) Not only were the stories becoming ever more outlandish, they often wrapped up in ways that left the audience scratching its head. Wild turns of fate became common.

The most well known of those is the infamous “The Principal and the Pauper”, perhaps better known as the Armin Tamzarian episode, or just the one with two Principal Skinners. In a twist that’s more than a little reminiscent of the kind of shocking revelations that are often used to prop up dying shows, the real Seymour Skinner returns from being a prisoner of war to find that one of his men had come back from Vietnam and assumed his identity. That man, the upright public servant known to the audience since Season 1, is revealed to be “an imposter” named Armin Tamzarian. Much gasping and exposition ensue.

There’s no real mystery as to why this episode is so widely reviled. Not only does it contradict many things that had been shown about Principal Skinner in the past, but the episode is so thick with abrupt plot twists, expository flashbacks, and unbelievable character turns that there’s hardly any humor to it. The dialogue that just a few years before had been packed with punchlines, observations and jokes had been reduced to the kind of cheap filler better suited to a movie of the week. Instead of fun and funny situations and ideas, there is an excess of heart-to-heart moments and earnest conversations. And, befitting Season 9, there’s a bizarre ending.

To his credit, Ken Keeler, who wrote “The Principal and the Pauper”, used his appearance on the DVD commentary to rebut the longstanding complaints of fans about this episode. (This is in stark contrast to later commentaries which are often filled with awkward silences and unrelated tangents when the episodes begin to disintegrate.) His defense was basically to say that people get too attached to long running fictional characters. Whatever the truth of that, Keeler is certainly right that Principal Skinner had been on television a long time by that point.

As one of the original Season 1 characters, Skinner/Tamzarian had been known to audiences for almost eight years by the time “The Principal and the Pauper” was broadcast in 1997. That’s quite a stretch of time, both culturally and individually. It’s a full two-term presidency; it’s someone’s entire trip through junior high and high school. A person born the day The Simpsons premiered would’ve been old enough to watch and understand most of “The Principal and the Pauper”.

In those years, Skinner had, among other things, been fired, rejoined the army, seen his school strike oil, settled a teacher’s strike, flashed back to Vietnam several times, and fallen in love in two separate episodes. At some point, there just isn’t a lot left to do with a particular character, and that more than anything explains why both the “imposter” storyline was conceived and why it was so universally loathed. The writers were out of ideas, and the fans were attached to what they already knew. In hindsight, an episode where the two crashed head-on seems almost inevitable.

Season 9 – Armin Tamzarian and the Death of Story

“Marge, everybody’s looking at us.” – Homer Simpson Season 9 was laboring under a lot of burdens: a new show runner in Mike Scully, a writers’ room at an all time low …

deadhomersociety.com

 

[drd23]

Normal People - Unabashedly will say that I loved it. A faithful and strong adaption of one of my favourite reads from the last couple of years. Essentially a modern love story, in the vein of the Before Sunrise trilogy but over a few years rather a few decades. There's no B-plot to speak of, and not without it's detractors. 'a show where two people fu** and not much else happens' is not necessarily a wrong description, but it is a boring one. Paul Mescal, one of the leads, is gonna be someone to watch.

Never read the book, but am quite intrigued by it after watching the first episode a couple of days ago

 

[Dazza the Viking]

Cardinal, on SBS Demand, Finished 2 seasons.