What to watch?

[Nole Lou]

Evil Genius was a little long. Really really odd case I knew nothing about beforehand.

Yep, thought two hours would have been plenty, didn't need four or whatever. If anything, they shortchanged the dynamics of the actual incident...it was pretty much covered in the first episode. There really wasn't enough revealed through the remaining three hours or whatever to justify it's length. Would have rather seen more of a deep dive into the actual incident, scavenger hunt locations, etc than so much time on the individuals, considering I didn't think it paid off that much.

 

[TennNole17]

I thought they went a little too deep in episode three/four. Episode two about the bearded dragon eccentric hoarder guy was good stuff

 

[Nole Lou]

They are ruining the characters IMO. Dinesh is best in small doses. Gilfoyle has been made to look a fool quite a bit this season, which is annoying. He was always one of the best problem solvers in the character. I loved him in Season 1 with all the dark lord stuff. They've watered him down and Dinesh is downright annoying now.

Show might be suffering from having too many characters. I'm also getting tired of the formulaic nature of the show. It's predictable that if an episode starts out good for the guys, it ends bad and vice versa.

I don't have a problem with Dinesh and Gilfoyle exactly, but I do think the formula is wearing thin. And I'm someone who would have caped up for Silicon Valley being as good as anything on TV for it's first two seasons. It's just sort of run out of steam. I'm a couple episodes behind and in no hurry. I think it's maybe just a formula that doesn't work that well when you drastically change the chess board. Perfect example is how Richard is such a dick. He's always been a dick, but it worked ok because he was powerless and the "loser". It actually made for a pretty interesting character.

But now, with employees, and cash, etc...it doesn't work so well. You just have two jackwagons at odds between him and Gavin. If they wanted to do something really interesting and Breaking Bad it, and slowly work sympathies over to Gavin by humanizing him, that would be one thing, but the formula is pretty much the same, and the assumption that the audience will still root for Pied Piper is a bit presumptuous. In the first two seasons, I legitimately felt emotional response toward the alternating failures and victories of Pied Piper. Now it just feels like being jerked one way or the other, but I don't really have stakes in it.

 

[TennNole17]

Finale of Silicon was great, imo. I love the characters. There's a good mix of slap stick humor, and really subtle deliveries via facial expressions, to just trashy back and forth like between Gilfoyle and Dinesh. I really don't care about pied piper, so much as it being a vehicle to put these dipshits in funny situations.

 

[dmm5157]

Finale of Silicon was great, imo. I love the characters. There's a good mix of slap stick humor, and really subtle deliveries via facial expressions, to just trashy back and forth like between Gilfoyle and Dinesh. I really don't care about pied piper, so much as it being a vehicle to put these dipshits in funny situations.

I do agree the finale was excellent, as was the finale for Barry.

I hope SV can mix things up a bit for next season, they need to figure out how to get the season to grow beyond just "upstart company faces trials and tribulations" every season. The last 3 seasons have been pretty wash-rinse-repeat.

 

[daveynole]

I just hope they rebuild Fiona next season.

 

[MIKE_G]

Finale of SV was really good. Most of the season wasn't. Still miss Bachman.

 

[SoddyNole]

I'm a sucked for HBO shows so I'm in on Barry for the whole thing.

I forgot about Sneaky Pete, will have to check out season 2.

On episode 5 or 6 of Barry and it has some really funny moments and entertaining enough to give a thumbs up so far.

Spoiler: Spoiler

I knew it was coming but when that dude shouted Leeroy Jenkins, I about lost it lol!

 

[mcgrawfsu]

On episode 5 or 6 of Barry and it has some really funny moments and entertaining enough to give a thumbs up so far.

Spoiler: Spoiler

I knew it was coming but when that dude shouted Leeroy Jenkins, I about lost it lol!

Just started Barry. Through 2 episodes and so far it seems pretty good..

 

[seminole97]

Yep, thought two hours would have been plenty, didn't need four or whatever. If anything, they shortchanged the dynamics of the actual incident...it was pretty much covered in the first episode. There really wasn't enough revealed through the remaining three hours or whatever to justify it's length. Would have rather seen more of a deep dive into the actual incident, scavenger hunt locations, etc than so much time on the individuals, considering I didn't think it paid off that much.

Last episode seemed to be all about the pizza guy.

I think the director is wrong and he was in on it (hence doing the Charlie Chaplin walk out they mentioned), and that the crack whore just wanted to burn the crazy lady because she (crazy lady) was so hateful and the crack whore had a soft spot for the pizza guy.

 

[dmm5157]

On episode 5 or 6 of Barry and it has some really funny moments and entertaining enough to give a thumbs up so far.

Spoiler: Spoiler

I knew it was coming but when that dude shouted Leeroy Jenkins, I about lost it lol!

Same. Edgy, hilarious, loved the Chechens and Noho Hank. He is super nice guy. Excellent 1 season show. Not sure it'll be able to repeat for a 2nd season, but I'll watch.

Watched Evil Genius on plane ride last week and really struggled to get through it. Not a series with a worth while payoff.