the official binge-watching thread

[jeremyp]

Finished a 3rd binge-watch on Netflix a few days ago!
It's a Danish show with English subtitles called "Rita".

Rita is a 45'ish school teacher (in Denmark, naturally!), very hip, very popular, very horny, very tough, and very sensitive!
(She teaches both 4th and 9th grade classes!)

There's 3 years of 8 episodes per year, each about 50 minutes long.
But for some reason, the years aren't consecutive.
(2012, 2013, then skips to 2015!)

It's a FANTASTIC show, thoroughly entertaining!
And it moves the various plots forward.
It shows her both at work and at home---she has 3 grown children (she's a single mom), with the youngest still at home, and he's gay!

So that makes THREE shows I've binge watched this month!
Wentworth
Grace and Frankie
Rita

We finally agree on a show
although for different reasons. It's quite a satire and often edgy.

[jeremyp]

my maternal grandfather was born in Cornwall c1880

Scones and Devonshire cream anyone?

[KDFINE]

Not really the place to mention this but "Luther" returns on BBC on December 17th.

[gh]

Luther's not from Cornwall? :-)

[booond]

Not really the place to mention this but "Luther" returns on BBC on December 17th.

I'm getting in line.

[booond]

Slow binge-watching Master of None the Aziz Ansari Netflix show. It's the poorman's Louis CK show. It can be funny but a little too on the nose.

[Atticus]

Louis CK show.

There's a show that merits discussion! I watch it, but it always makes me uncomfortable. The premise of almost every episode is that he acts like a jerk to someone, then feels profound regret and, in trying to atone, makes things worse, yet somehow ends up OK. The humor is subtle, cerebral, self-referential, satirical and contemporarily relevant.

[booond]

There's a show that merits discussion! I watch it, but it always makes me uncomfortable. The premise of almost every episode is that he acts like a jerk to someone, then feels profound regret and, in trying to atone, makes things worse, yet somehow ends up OK. The humor is subtle, cerebral, self-referential, satirical and contemporarily relevant.

It's a little more subtle than his acting like a jerk. He's not Larry David.

[aaronk]

I'm about midway through my 4th binge-watch----except this one is taking longer than the others!
It's "Californication", starring David Duchovney.
It's 7 seasons of 12 half-hour episodes per season!
And it is HILARIOUS!!

Think of Henry Miller's "Sexus" combined with Hunter Thompson's "Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas"----with tinges of "Sex and the City" and "Any Afternoon Soap Opera"-----and you have "Californication"!

It's super hip, super sexy, super simplistic, super Laugh Out Loud funny!
Tons of nudity & sex & the filthiest of cuss words, so is a HARD R, with some NC-17 scenes!
But the dialogue is so sharp & witty, so hip & cool, you pass over whatever moralistic darts you want to throw its way!

Yes, Duchovny basically plays himself---a sex-addicted, Crazy in Love, yet heart-rendingly pathetic animal of a man----and he does so PERFECTLY!!

The supporting characters----"Hank's" wife, "Karen", and his agent (& HIS wife!), his 12 year old (when the show begins!) daughter---who turns out to be my favorite character!!!
(Familiar with new rave sensation---Australian singer-songwriter Courtney Barnett?? "Becca" at times looks EXACTLY like her!!!)

Then there's all his many lovers----too numerous to count!
(At one point, he finds an autographed copy of a book he wrote on sale in a bookstore----it's autographed "To Kelly". His agent asks "Who's Kelly?" "Hank" can't remember!!)

I've made it through the first 3 seasons (36 episodes), and have watched the 1st episode of the 4th season.
I'm on Netflix, and Netflix has all 7 seasons---so I'll be spending the next few days watching the remaining 47 episodes!!
Heck, that's about one 24 hour day's worth!!

[lonewolf]

I am 84 years old and have not had a "job" for 42 years..someday I hope to have time to binge watch.

[jc203]

I'm watching the first season of Manhattan, a series about the science and politics at Alamogordo during the creation of the first nuclear bombs.
It's good stuff!

[booond]

Season 2 of Broadchurch on Netflix. I'm going in this weekend.

[gh]

If you're of a mood to be depressed and/or befuddled, allow me to suggest the 6-part Netflix Brit detective offering River, starring Stellan Skarsgård.

wow.

[booond]

If you're of a mood to be depressed and/or befuddled, allow me to suggest the 6-part Netflix Brit detective offering River, starring Stellan Skarsgård.

wow.

I'll get there soon enough.

[booond]

Transparent starts Friday.