So what have you guys been watching lately?

[Exhuminator]

Started watching Better Call Saul a few nights ago. Finished the first three episodes so far. It's an amusing show, but it feels dumbed down compared to Breaking Bad, and the pacing isn't as good either. I mean I enjoy the show, but I was hoping the writing and direction would be up to par with its roots. Still got seven more episodes to go, so there's time for it to get there.

[Luke]

This stinks.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/e ... tor-791143

[mjmjr25]

Finished Bloodline - left me feeling...empty, but, empty in that good / nostalgia type of way. Sort of like Watership Down - you just want to be able to help them and you don't know why so and so had to die, it isn't right.

You start the season thinking Danny is the worst of the 6 main characters. You leave the season thinking he was probably the best (kindest, most thoughtful) and a series of mistakes, both good and bad intentioned, have consistently left him on the losing end of life - until he's ultimately killed, in cold blood, by the person who appears to be the most moral and straight-laced. I really enjoyed the show.

Started watching DareDevil after all the early hype. It's warranted. Darn good show. Good acting (Eldon Henson is a little annoying though). Good storyline, decent banter, and very cool (gruesome) fight scenes. My only gripe is the fighting is too dark. Not dark/creepy, but dark/it's-too-dark-I-can't-see-what's-happening-turn-some-light-on-cameraman-dark.

Also watching Parenthood for something lighter. Started out, "meh, it'll pass muster for mindless stuff before bed" to..."hey, this is pretty engaging and not overly stereotyping everything, I might dig it a bit!"

[noiseredux]

Also watching Parenthood for something lighter. Started out, "meh, it'll pass muster for mindless stuff before bed" to..."hey, this is pretty engaging and not overly stereotyping everything, I might dig it a bit!"

how's the laugh track volume on this?

[mjmjr25]

Also watching Parenthood for something lighter. Started out, "meh, it'll pass muster for mindless stuff before bed" to..."hey, this is pretty engaging and not overly stereotyping everything, I might dig it a bit!"

how's the laugh track volume on this?

It's perfectly muted.

no laught track, homey

[BoneSnapDeez]

I watch reruns of Catfish sometimes.

I've always found online romance to be somewhat fascinating, and I've been a participant myself (a loooooong time ago). I have friends who married folks they met on the 'net.

Yeah I know, plenty of what you see on the show is reenacted, faked, bogus, whatever. But putting all that aside the biggest "issue" I have with Catfish is that there's no reason for it to exist in 2015. Getting duped online these days is extraordinarily difficult, with only the most trusting and naïve being susceptible. All it takes is a single "send me a photo of you holding a Ballz cart later tonight or we're done" message to squash a faker. Most of the "research" Nev and Max do, reverse image-searching and the like, can be done by anyone.

Now what would have been awesome is if this show had existed in 1998 or so, before the days of mass camera and cell phone proliferation. The hosts could instead pour over AIM and IRC chatlogs, analyze Livejournal posts, and perhaps scrutinize a single grainy photograph taken with one of those old "eyeball" quickcams. It in the words of Luke - it would be epic!

[noiseredux]

I've always found online romance to be somewhat fascinating,

how do you feel about online bromances?

[prfsnl_gmr]

Getting duped online these days is extraordinarily difficult, with only the most trusting and naïve being susceptible.

I once read that spam e-mail messages are so obviously spam because the spammers don't actually want sophisticated people to respond to them. (If that happened, the spammers would be more likely to get caught.) Rather, the spammers would prefer that the dumbest, most naive people respond because they are the people who will actually be duped and they are the people least able to report the spammer to authorities once they have been duped.

[MrPopo]

Getting duped online these days is extraordinarily difficult, with only the most trusting and naïve being susceptible.

I once read that spam e-mail messages are so obviously spam because the spammers don't actually want sophisticated people to respond to them. (If that happened, the spammers would be more likely to get caught.) Rather, the spammers would prefer that the dumbest, most naive people respond because they are the people who will actually be duped and they are the people least able to report the spammer to authorities once they have been duped.

Are you secretly a guy I work with here in Bellevue? Because I just had that exact conversation with him yesterday about spammers.

[noiseredux]

Are you secretly a guy I work with here in Bellevue?

OMG you just got catfished!