TV Series

[Shades of Deivi Cruz]

Poor pirate lady has nearly been killed by Carol twice now, and she will still have to be nice to her.

[chasfh]

On 11/23/2025 at 5:40 PM, Biff Mayhem said:

Pluribus is great so far!!

I saw the first two episodes last night and I am so here for it. I have strong speculation about what happens next but I can’t say because I am two eps behind and don’t want to spoil it for people coming in behind me.

Also, can I just tell you: I have graduated from a 59” 1080p TV from 2010 with a 30hz refresh rate to a 2025 65” 4K TV with a 120hz refresh rate and, I gotta tell ya, talk about night and day difference. The smoothness of motion and the 4K filming make it look as close to live as I could ever have imagined.

[Biff Mayhem]

1 hour ago, chasfh said:

I saw the first two episodes last night and I am so here for it. I have strong speculation about what happens next but I can’t say because I am two eps behind and don’t want to spoil it for people coming in behind me.

 

Its Vince Gilligan who is rarely predictable!

[IdahoBert]

The fifth episode of Pluribus dropped two days early, apparently to not conflict with Thanksgiving Day in the US which is sort of weird but oh well. I haven’t watched it yet. I’ll watch it tomorrow with my son when he gets off work.

[chasfh]

I am now caught up with all of you.

I typically don’t like sci-fi, but to me this is the right kind of Twilight Zonesque sci-fi, relying less on whiz-bang alien technology and more on alien societal structure. The ethical and moral issues it raises regarding Carol’s reactions and responses, not to mention allegory of the efficacy of a welfare-based society on personal happiness, fascinates me.

[Hongbit]

 

[oblong]

Good because I watched the trailer and I am completely lost.  I forgot everything.  That was 3 years ago. 

[IdahoBert]

6 hours ago, oblong said:

Good because I watched the trailer and I am completely lost.  I forgot everything.  That was 3 years ago. 

My son rewatched all of it in the last monthso he’s going to hold my hand and walk me through it tonight. 

[IdahoBert]

The new Pluribus was pretty incredible episode five. 

And then four episodes tonight of Stranger Things, followed by three more on Christmas, then a two hour movie on New Year’s Day which apparently is going to be showing in theaters simultaneously, if that’s the way you’d like to experience it.

[oblong]

There’s no way I can keep up.  I know I will love pluribis but I want my wife to watch other me.  This is not the week. We started Ted Lasso last week and love it. 30 minute shows are so ideal. 

[Edman85]

The voice on the phone in Pluribus sounded familiar. And I was right about who it was.

[oblong]

Ok got her to watch the first episode.  She loved it. 

[IdahoBert]

Watched the first 3 1/2 hours of the first set of Stranger Things final season tonight with my son and he was the one who suggested that we hold off and watch the fourth episode on Thanksgiving day. It was so riveting it felt more like a couple hours instead of 3 1/2 hours.

It’s quite incredible and they are accelerating the narrative and bringing all the strands together for the climax that is supposed to happen on New Year’s Day after three more episodes drop on Christmas.

I’m fortunate to have a nerd for a son who has grown up with this program and who rewatched the entire series in the last month - all four previous seasons. So he was able to keep me on the straight narrow in terms of knowing what was going on because I don’t live and breathe this stuff as he does.

Also watched episode five of Pluribus with him too so today it was kind of a TV day after he got off work.