TV AfterParty

I kind of want to watch X-Cops and Arcadia again, those episodes rule.

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Searched for ā€œWar of the Coprophagesā€, wasn’t listed. ā€œGender Benderā€ and ā€œPost Modern Prometheusā€ listed multiple times despite those being some of the worst episodes of the show as a whole. This tweeter has bad taste.

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been watching season 3 of buffy the vampire slayer with some friends. faith is such a good character~ she acts tough and independent, but she really craves an authority figure and someone who cares for her.
you see it first when gwendolyn post (the evil fake watcher) comes along, and even moreso in her platonic d/s relationship with mayor wilkins. and even later than that in angel’s spin off series when she goes to la to try and goad angel into a fight to punish herself

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finished watching the mpd psycho tv series. an interesting story, though i watched each pair of episodes months apart as i gradually got ahold of the dvds. i’m sure i’ll watch it again someday in quicker succession, maybe if i ever have a friend willing to watch gross subtitled stuff with me.

also the final scene takes place at comiket with a bunch of establishing shots of cosplayers, and since the show came out in 2000, i’ll have to screenshot them for the cosplay encyclopedia thread at some point.

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I have gotten really into the third season of True Detective. Great performances all around. There are some seriously affecting bits of drama every now and then too. It’s funny how popular the first season is when I am starting to think the most interesting stuff about this series is all in the seasons no one ever tells you to watch.

every episode of the rifleman is the guy telling his kid not to hang around some new guy who drifted into town cause ā€œhe’s a killerā€ while spending the entire series stacking up a massive bodycount and going to bed each night with righteousness in his heart

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watched Our Friends in the North over the last week. hell of a show. i think it’s mostly aged really well, to the point where the '95 episode probably hits harder now than it did during peak new labour optimism.

i have small critiques of the A League Of Our Own amazon show but they aren’t fairytale-ing the history stuff that bad and a lotta cute dykes play baseball so i’m enjoying it after two episodes

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Really enjoyed Midnight Mass a lot. I didn’t care for the last ep, which is a lot and just kind of a boring mess, but everything leading up to that is really fantastic and enthralling.

I would say the more you learn about the nature of the supernatural element, the less effective the show gets, and the more the show turns into ā€œI am going to directly quote the Bible at you for a whileā€ - I think it’s a good idea that this wraps up after 7 episodes. Probably should’ve been 5.

Great acting, great pacing, cool mystery.

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also i’m watching x files this month (after only seeing random episodes on tv when i was younger) and imo other good playlists would be ā€œmulder casually views pornography in this oneā€ and ā€œDecent Episode Marred By Inexplicable ā€˜Ethnic’ Sting Musicā€

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… OVERDRIVE!!

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just got to the one where mulder gets bodyswapped and cranks one out in the other dude’s body to some skinemax

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another vote for ā€˜war of the coprophages’

Best thing about that episode is that scully stays at home so you get a window into her off-duty life. It’s mostly spent cleaning guns in the dark like she’s Cobra.

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ed asner says ā€œparamasturbatoryā€ in the next one, this season is all hits

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I’m in the hellscape of season 9 right now and the only thing holding this goddamn show together is the charisma of Agent ā€œBig Doggā€ Doggett. I count two decent eps this entire season, one particularly fun one involving my boi Michael Emerson manifesting the entirety of the Brady Bunch via loneliness-powered reality-shaping telekinesis.

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from this episode of x-files i’ve learned that trepanning gives you Dio Powers

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To be fair, trepanning also gave Dio his Dio powers in part one.

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oh fuck there’s an episode about a sexy digital latex domme murdering Gamers and one of them is named Daryl Musashi

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I thought Dio got his powers by learning to control his breathing so that he could exhale and inhale at the same time, making his body into a circular tunnel of air?

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