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Some recently bingewatched TV:
1. Home Fires: Season 1. For some people, it may be that all I need to say about this show is that it features Samantha Bond and Francesca Annis at war for control of an English village in 1939. If that's not enough: the MAIN plot is about the members of the Women's Institute in a village as they prepare for the seemingly inevitable WWII, their making jam and preserves to send to troops, and the general fears and mindsets in the months leading up to and the earliest months of WWII. It's just one of those period dramas that's really, really good even if it isn't easy to describe in a way that makes it sound fresh or original.
2. Grace and Frankie: Season 1. A comedy series about two not-quite-friends of several decades who become reluctant housemates after their husbands announce that they're leaving them for each other. Most of the marketing focused on Lily Tomlinson and Jane Fonda being reunited as the wives, and they do carry the show well on their shoulders, though the rest of the cast is also pretty good.
3. Mr. Robot: Season 1. This weekend's bingewatch. Depressed drug addict with social anxiety and other, more spoilery, mental disorders is a hacker who gets involve with a group of cyber terrorists plotting to bring down an evil corporation. I heard a lot of praise for the show while it was airing, and it largely deserved it (I found Tyrrell Wellick amazingly boring and did not care about his character or plotlines at all, though I did like his wife, there's a drug lord plotline around the middle that I didn't care for, and a straightup fridging at one point.) Like Jessica Jones, I think there's a lot of important commentary to be made about the show, but also that multiple people have already said anything I'd have to say. Warnings for drug use, depression, stalking, off-screen rape, sexual harassment, incredibly gross displays of capitalism (meant to critique capitalism, but also rather sickening things being said/done to do it), assault, an instance of animal abuse, and frequent gaslighting of the main character in more than one way.
Not a bingewatch, but I...apparently have no desire ATM to watch the season premeire of The 100. I dunno. hopefully that'll change before the episode expires on Hulu.
1. Home Fires: Season 1. For some people, it may be that all I need to say about this show is that it features Samantha Bond and Francesca Annis at war for control of an English village in 1939. If that's not enough: the MAIN plot is about the members of the Women's Institute in a village as they prepare for the seemingly inevitable WWII, their making jam and preserves to send to troops, and the general fears and mindsets in the months leading up to and the earliest months of WWII. It's just one of those period dramas that's really, really good even if it isn't easy to describe in a way that makes it sound fresh or original.
2. Grace and Frankie: Season 1. A comedy series about two not-quite-friends of several decades who become reluctant housemates after their husbands announce that they're leaving them for each other. Most of the marketing focused on Lily Tomlinson and Jane Fonda being reunited as the wives, and they do carry the show well on their shoulders, though the rest of the cast is also pretty good.
3. Mr. Robot: Season 1. This weekend's bingewatch. Depressed drug addict with social anxiety and other, more spoilery, mental disorders is a hacker who gets involve with a group of cyber terrorists plotting to bring down an evil corporation. I heard a lot of praise for the show while it was airing, and it largely deserved it (I found Tyrrell Wellick amazingly boring and did not care about his character or plotlines at all, though I did like his wife, there's a drug lord plotline around the middle that I didn't care for, and a straightup fridging at one point.) Like Jessica Jones, I think there's a lot of important commentary to be made about the show, but also that multiple people have already said anything I'd have to say. Warnings for drug use, depression, stalking, off-screen rape, sexual harassment, incredibly gross displays of capitalism (meant to critique capitalism, but also rather sickening things being said/done to do it), assault, an instance of animal abuse, and frequent gaslighting of the main character in more than one way.
Not a bingewatch, but I...apparently have no desire ATM to watch the season premeire of The 100. I dunno. hopefully that'll change before the episode expires on Hulu.