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Fifthelement

I’m holding off on reading the books until the series finishes.  I am so in love with A Song of Ice and Fire series that I could not watch GoT.  I tried the first season, which I was so excited for, and found that I preferred the books and my own imagination.  

hedonist

LastStopOnTheWestCoastLine said:

OffSheGoes35 said:

The Patriot Season 1!  You're welcome in advance. If you like Wes Anderson movies, give it a try. 
Wes Anderson isn't involved with the show. A few of the characters are just kooky individuals and remind me of Wes Anderson characters. 

Easily, by far, the best two seasons of anything I have seen this decade apart from maybe Breaking Bad.

My manner of speaking has completely changed since I watched that show. It's brilliantly written, and the music is double great.

@OffSheGoes35 and anyone else who is in love with this show, check out the Reddit page for some really fun conversation: https://www.reddit.com/r/patriottv

I absolutely love this show.  And The Expanse is next on my list!

Spiritual_Chaos

OffSheGoes35

LastStopOnTheWestCoastLine said:

OffSheGoes35 said:

The Patriot Season 1!  You're welcome in advance. If you like Wes Anderson movies, give it a try. 
Wes Anderson isn't involved with the show. A few of the characters are just kooky individuals and remind me of Wes Anderson characters. 

Easily, by far, the best two seasons of anything I have seen this decade apart from maybe Breaking Bad.

My manner of speaking has completely changed since I watched that show. It's brilliantly written, and the music is double great.

@OffSheGoes35 and anyone else who is in love with this show, check out the Reddit page for some really fun conversation: https://www.reddit.com/r/patriottv

Feel free to leave a lot of recommendations in this thread, you know what you're talking about! And thank you for the Reddit link, it makes me happy to know there are so many fans of this show. That's the way it should be. 

LastStopOnTheWestCoastLine

Lol, cheers! Same for me with finding other fans. PJ and Patriot are the two things I try to get my friends into, so it's great to find someone readymade who likes both those things  

Not Amazon but I would also recommend Perpetual Grace Ltd by the same guy who created Patriot (Steve Conrad). It's got a lot of the same cast, and there are some neat Easter Egg callbacks to things that happened in Patriot, which are cool.

And for something different, Counterpart on Starz is very well done too.

OffSheGoes35

LastStopOnTheWestCoastLine said:

Lol, cheers! Same for me with finding other fans. PJ and Patriot are the two things I try to get my friends into, so it's great to find someone readymade who likes both those things  

Not Amazon but I would also recommend Perpetual Grace Ltd by the same guy who created Patriot (Steve Conrad). It's got a lot of the same cast, and there are some neat Easter Egg callbacks to things that happened in Patriot, which are cool.

And for something different, Counterpart on Starz is very well done too.

PJ & Patriot.  👍  That is how beautiful friendships are built.

I just started watching the pilot of Perpetual Grace LTD and I've already laughed several times. Thank you, thank you, thank you. I didn't know that this show had the same creator or I would've watched it already!

If you have Hulu, Fargo seasons 1-3 are available for streaming. I love that show. Can't wait for season 4 in 2020! 

Hobbes

OffSheGoes35 said:

LastStopOnTheWestCoastLine said:

Lol, cheers! Same for me with finding other fans. PJ and Patriot are the two things I try to get my friends into, so it's great to find someone readymade who likes both those things  

Not Amazon but I would also recommend Perpetual Grace Ltd by the same guy who created Patriot (Steve Conrad). It's got a lot of the same cast, and there are some neat Easter Egg callbacks to things that happened in Patriot, which are cool.

And for something different, Counterpart on Starz is very well done too.

PJ & Patriot.  👍  That is how beautiful friendships are built.

I just started watching the pilot of Perpetual Grace LTD and I've already laughed several times. Thank you, thank you, thank you. I didn't know that this show had the same creator or I would've watched it already!

If you have Hulu, Fargo seasons 1-3 are available for streaming. I love that show. Can't wait for season 4 in 2020! 

Fargo is fantastic!

tbergs

pjsteelerfan said:

Fifthelement said:

Season four of The Expanse was released this week.  I streamed all ten episodes over two nights.  If you like smart sci-fi with complicated relationships and factional divisions, this is the show for you.  All four seasons available, And importantly, there is definitely a season five coming.

The Expanse is incredible. Season 4 was amazing. It's similar to Game of Thrones, but in space. And the book writers are actually interested in finishing their story. Every season is great. Books 5 and 6 are wild and can't wait to see how they do it on the show.

On to Season 2 of the Expanse now. Great show. Enjoy it a lot. 

tbergs

Glad to see Season 3 of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel out. Through 3 episodes so far. The first two were some of the least funniest, still had great moments, but episode 3 was back in top form. I love the addition of Sterling K. Brown as Shy's manager. He is great.

Natashapearljamfan

I'm very late to discovering Mrs Maisel, but
I've been bingeing on it, I'm loving it! 

Fifthelement

Patriot is quirky, irreverent, laugh out loud funny and heart-breakingly devastating.  Thanks for the recommendation.  It had been in my watchlist for a while.  Glad I was finally able to sit down and watch it.  Wish there were more seasons.

Spiritual_Chaos

Rewatched this yesterday with my mother and brother. NO ONE is as boring as Steven Seagal.

OffSheGoes35

Spiritual_Chaos said:

Rewatched this yesterday with my mother and brother. NO ONE is as boring as Steven Seagal.

So what you're saying is you like boring people? Move to the U.S., we can live happily ever after. 

dankind

OffSheGoes35 said:

Spiritual_Chaos said:

Rewatched this yesterday with my mother and brother. NO ONE is as boring as Steven Seagal.

So what you're saying is you like boring people? Move to the U.S., we can live happily ever after. 

Eric Bogosian is in that one, so I must have watched it at some point.

Spiritual_Chaos

OffSheGoes35 said:

Spiritual_Chaos said:

Rewatched this yesterday with my mother and brother. NO ONE is as boring as Steven Seagal.

So what you're saying is you like boring people? Move to the U.S., we can live happily ever after. 

My brother wanted to see it because of the nostalgia. We had it on VHS growing up. 

My pick was, BUT WAS VOTED DOWN BY BOTH MY BROTHER AND MY MOTHER:

erebus

The Sheik, documentary about the Iron Sheik wrestler from the WWF heyday of the 80’s
very interesting if you were into the WWF back in the day

bootlegger10

My niece and nephew wanted to watch Spaceballs on Christmas Eve.  We made it about 8 minutes and all five of us agreed this is terrible and must end.

Jason P

bootlegger10 said:

My niece and nephew wanted to watch Spaceballs on Christmas Eve.  We made it about 8 minutes and all five of us agreed this is terrible and must end.

OffSheGoes35

Fifthelement said:

Patriot is quirky, irreverent, laugh out loud funny and heart-breakingly devastating.  Thanks for the recommendation.  It had been in my watchlist for a while.  Glad I was finally able to sit down and watch it.  Wish there were more seasons.

Excellent review!!! Have you watched the show Catastrophe? It is also quirky and laugh out loud funny.

Fifthelement

OffSheGoes35 said:

Fifthelement said:

Patriot is quirky, irreverent, laugh out loud funny and heart-breakingly devastating.  Thanks for the recommendation.  It had been in my watchlist for a while.  Glad I was finally able to sit down and watch it.  Wish there were more seasons.

Excellent review!!! Have you watched the show Catastrophe? It is also quirky and laugh out loud funny.

I did.  I have mixed feelings about it.  It was very much in the same vein as Patriot, but I found the characters were often mean, petty and selfish.  They were often cruel with their words and actions.  It made it hard for me to care about them.  Characterisations like that are one if the reasons that I never liked the Seinfeld sitcom.

In Patriot the characters, even the seemingly asshole ones, cared about others and made honest attempts to connect.