What's good to watch on Netflix And Other Streaming Platforms

[DieHardYankee26]

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For those who have seen both, what do you rate higher: Hank finding out in Breaking Bad or Stan finding out in The Americans?

Done and now about to cut into my Shield watch and re-watching the last 2 seasons dragging my viewing buddy kicking and screaming. What a ride.

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I definitely get the hype for the show more after the last 2 seasons, they're pretty nuts. Glad to see my guy Jesse make it. Skyler kinda regressed into just being a reflection of Walt's actions and Walt Jr. is still having people call him Flynn but even they have their moments. Walt and Skyler had their own mini-Whitecaps for Walt's 51st birthday, and Walt Jr. had some stuff to do towards the end. My guy Landry from Friday Night Lights going crazy as Todd, that was pretty cool to see.



I went back and watched Whitecaps again and Sopranos is still the blueprint, but BB is a worthy son. The ending was unexpected I guess, I didn't think it would be anywhere near that happy. Walt dies in a lab with all the blue meth so he gets credit for all of it, his family will get the money, Jesse made it. Big contrast from the assumed scene of Tony with his face in his pasta and his brains blown out in front of his family or the realization that the game keeps going on with Marlo. Regardless, going to rewatch the last 2 seasons and then El Camino before BCS. The trinity is still in tact in my mind (The Wire, Sopranos, Mad Men) but I'm willing to consider a Rushmore if only because I found out Vince Gilligan is a fellow Virginian.

[Jolly Roger]

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Well now you can watch El Camino, DieHard. Also, if you liked Saul, consider watching Better Call Saul. Lots of Mike in BCS as well. But a lot of it is about Saul/Jimmy's back story and building his career as a lawyer.

As for me, I got to Season 3 of The Wire and I can definitely see what a great show it is, but it's not in my top 5. I ended up starting back into Westworld, which has really hooked me this time, but I'm only in Season 2 so I can't go into the Westworld thread yet.

[DieHardYankee26]

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Westworld is another show where I remember how much fun it was in the first season to be speculating with everyone in real time. I fell out of it after that season and the word after that was so negative I just never got back into it.

When you say got to season 3 do you mean to season 3 like you finished season 2 or through like you finished season 3? Similar to me waiting out for Gus and Mike to pop up in BB, season 3 of The Wire introduces one of the GOAT TV "villains".

[Jolly Roger]

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When you say got to season 3 do you mean to season 3 like you finished season 2 or through like you finished season 3? Similar to me waiting out for Gus and Mike to pop up in BB, season 3 of The Wire introduces one of the GOAT TV "villains".

I think I'm in the middle of Season 3 right now. I really like it but I don't love it. Season 1 was my favorite so far. Season 2, eh, I didn't really care about the stevedores, but I understand the purpose of broadening things out to show where the drugs come from; Season 3 with the politics, I'm not into it so much. I just keep thinking "hey, there's Petyr Baelish from Game of Thrones" haha. I mainly like the cops and drug dealers we met in Season 1. The whole theme of those who actually care about doing a good job making themselves enemies of those who just want to make their numbers really hits home. That is really true.

But on the whole, I can see how reasonable arguments could be made that this is the best show ever. It's not for me, but I can see the argument.

Now if we're talking "Rushmores", I think mine would be Sopranos, Boardwalk Empire, Deadwood, and Breaking Bad. Season 1 of Westworld is up there too for me, but I've got to see the whole thing. It's nice to find a series that isn't finished yet.

What I'll say about this show is I think it maybe gets more out of the medium than any show I've ever seen. So much of the show is the visual presentation, small things that happen that you might not even think about that end up showing other things like Ted slightly stumbling over his carpet going to open the door for someone or Walt playing spin the revolver and it randomly pointing at a vase of flowers. My viewing buddy dropped out after last season, but I had to send her a clip of the nursing home scene in the finale, maybe the coolest non-GOT thing I've ever seen on TV, the show as a whole looks great. I'm nominating Vince Gilligan and company to help Matt Reeves with the Batman series when they're ready to bring in Harvey Dent.

I think this is part of why The Wire doesn't hit me too hard. It's a brilliant show, and although it was one of the pioneers of modern, quality television, it has a foot in the old era where they didn't look to get too creative visually. I mean, even The Sopranos (from the same era) had the dream sequences. But yeah, BB was great with the visual storytelling. The debris in the pool and the two Mexican gangsters crawling toward the shrine have you thinking "what the heck is this going to be about?"

[Fresh Tendrils]

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Season 3 elevates The Wire and really continues building in quality for the most part until the series finale.

[jfsolo]

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Well now you can watch El Camino, DieHard. Also, if you liked Saul, consider watching Better Call Saul. Lots of Mike in BCS as well. But a lot of it is about Saul/Jimmy's back story and building his career as a lawyer.

As for me, I got to Season 3 of The Wire and I can definitely see what a great show it is, but it's not in my top 5. I ended up starting back into Westworld, which has really hooked me this time, but I'm only in Season 2 so I can't go into the Westworld thread yet.

If you end up liking Westworld Season 2 and 3 then don't go into that thread, if you don't, go right ahead.

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[ProfessaPackMan]

What's good to watch on Netflix

I binge watched the Sopranos over the last few weeks and thought it was just ok and I’m a sucker for Mafia related stuff.

The first few seasons just felt like a drag getting through, it picked up in Seasons 3,4 and then slowly fell off in the last 2 seasons. It had its moments but at some points, certain stuff just felt thrown together. Reminded me of Entourage in the sense that each episode was different and they rarely talked/brought up anything from past episodes(lack of carry over if that makes sense).

The ending was the most ridiculous thing I’ve seen in Television and that’s saying a lot, lol. I also didn’t really care for the Therapy sessions on there either. If they were like 2-4 mins long then cool, but a couple of them were in that 10 min range which was just silly. I did enjoy a few characters on there, even though some of them should’ve been dead a lot sooner(IE Tony [emoji23] )

I’ve seen endless discussions only about The Wire and The Sopranos as far as what’s better and it really comes down to if you can relate/understand what’s going on. And in the case of The Wire, some people aren’t going to understand/care to understand why those people lived like they did in the show. They won’t care about the Ghetto/Drugs but they’ll care about Suburb/Mafia life(Not saying that this is a reason why they wouldn’t watch the show or even enjoy it BTW)

If I had to rank them, it’d be The Wire, Breaking Bad, Sopranos.

[Jolly Roger]

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They won’t care about the Ghetto/Drugs but they’ll care about Suburb/Mafia life(Not saying that this is a reason why they wouldn’t watch the show or even enjoy it BTW)

For me it was more about identifying with rather than understanding or not understanding. I think I understand the world shown on The Wire (at least for an outsider), but I can't identify with it. I can identify with the suburban malaise of The Sopranos. Also, I watched it when it was on as a teenager, so for me there is a strong nostalgia element to it.

I think the aesthetics and setting of a show play a big part in where people rank them, aside from the more general judgment of whether a show is of high quality. It's hard to put aside settings and topics you really like when trying to judge them objectively.

Anyway, $4 a pound. I said my piece, Chrissy.

[DieHardYankee26]

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Melfi slander hurts my soul. Speaking of the Sopranos ending, which is perfect in absolutely every way btw, I came across this yesterday where they Sopranos'ed the BB ending and it made me love the Sopranos even more. The **** just works, it's like poetry, it rhymes.

https://old.reddit.com/r/breakingbad..._the_sopranos/

[ProfessaPackMan]

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I just don’t get what the point was or purpose was served by ending it like THAT, lol.

It’s like if Endgame just stopped when Tony snapped his fingers and the next thing we see is a blank screen and credits, lol

[DieHardYankee26]

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I honestly can’t remember how Endgame ended so I probably could’ve taken some shock and awe on that one lol. To me, that scene is the first Breaking Bad-esque visual cue scene I can remember. I had to read a long *** essay explaining the perspective shifts and what happened, and then the foreshadowing with the Bobby line “you probably don’t even hear it when it happens”. I just thought it was dope that the iconic TV series went out in a way that could only be expressed on screen.

[Fresh Tendrils]

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At times The Sopranos felt like it completely broke the mold from it's influences and rose above it's characters to elevate and make them more interesting than many of them had any business of being. Other times it felt like it completely relaxed and lazed into leaning on those same influences and the mundanity of the characters and their situations almost felt comical. Perhaps the design and purpose, but for me it created an uneven experience and left me in-between wanting to back it up as a true masterpiece series and wanting to forget it completely. I've gotten the same feeling when trying to get through Breaking Bad and I had the same feeling (but less frequently) when Mad Men was airing.

I need to go through Mad Men again because I haven't watched the whole series since the last season premiered.

What's on your guys' guilty pleasure Mt Rushmore? I'm curious to see how Sons of Anarchy holds up. I haven't gone through the full series since the last season aired.

[Jolly Roger]

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I don't have too many guilty pleasure shows. I liked Peaky Blinders, which I don't think could ever be considered a "great" show due to how self-indulgent it is. So many scenes of the gang walking down the street in slow motion to some jaunty modern rock song, lol. But I mean, I never even finished Peaky, so I guess I don't like it that much.

Same with The Walking Dead; I thought the first several seasons were good, but then they kept doing the same thing over and over again. I'm actually shocked they still had viewers by the end. It might even still be on for all I know. Anyway, that ended up becoming a "guilty pleasure" because it became just a basic pop show, IMO.

I mean, I'm sorry but...how would a fragile, decomposing body be able to rip and bite into people's flesh like they're suddenly made of warm butter? I know you have to kind of go with the flow when it comes to logic in fantasy/sci-fi, but c'mon. None of that stuff would have ever happened. Then you do like 10 years of it?

Oh, another one I liked was Longmire, which is kind of formulaic. But damn, the scenery.

[DieHardYankee26]

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The thing that's special about the Sopranos to me is that it's a 12/10 drama and a 10/10 comedy. "Snakes been ****ing themselves long before Adam and Eve T." "Russians aren't all bad. How about the Cuban Missle Crisis? **** suckers moved nuclear warheads into Cuba, pointed them right at us. That was real? I saw that movie, I thought it was bull****." No non-sitcom show works as well on shuffle as The Sopranos, almost any episode in any order and I'm good to go. I hit shuffle on BB, end at "RUN", and then I'm back in season 1? Can't do it lol.

Friends is definitely the top of my guilty pleasure list, I own a DVD copy of each season and a full series set, and refused to upgrade to blu-ray because I've seen the episodes too many times and them cutting out literally a minute and a half from each episode takes out jokes that I can vividly remember. Before my prestige TV run, it was my grail, still is up there but hard to compare to top tier dramas. I just finished Person of Interest and that was an awesome ride, not sure if that's a guilty pleasure or not. I have a lot of shows like Jolly where they just ran out of steam halfway through like The Good Wife or Suits which was an absolute travesty by the end, but I'm a sucker for a legal drama. There's so many shows, Smallville, Silicon Valley is an all-timer for me. I had a lot of fun with Greek. Black Sails was super dope, Desperate Housewives. I've seen too much tv.

[lowpaiddonkey10]

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I don't have too many guilty pleasure shows. I liked Peaky Blinders, which I don't think could ever be considered a "great" show due to how self-indulgent it is. So many scenes of the gang walking down the street in slow motion to some jaunty modern rock song, lol. But I mean, I never even finished Peaky, so I guess I don't like it that much.

Same with The Walking Dead; I thought the first several seasons were good, but then they kept doing the same thing over and over again. I'm actually shocked they still had viewers by the end. It might even still be on for all I know. Anyway, that ended up becoming a "guilty pleasure" because it became just a basic pop show, IMO.

I mean, I'm sorry but...how would a fragile, decomposing body be able to rip and bite into people's flesh like they're suddenly made of warm butter? I know you have to kind of go with the flow when it comes to logic in fantasy/sci-fi, but c'mon. None of that stuff would have ever happened. Then you do like 10 years of it?

Oh, another one I liked was Longmire, which is kind of formulaic. But damn, the scenery.

Absolutely loved Peaky Blinders. Watched Sopranos for the second time a few months ago liked it better the first time through.