TV Series Binge Watching

[TigerLily]

Really??  I'm the only geek that watched all 15 seasons of Supernatural?  We watched the last two episodes last night and both were like stand alone finales. Both were perfect endings and I admit. I cried at the end of the last one. So excellent

For those who may not know, a quick look.  The show is a mix of dark apocalypse, smart comedy, surprisingly complex story arcs, interesting characters which include angels, demons, vampires, witches, for starters (and the good guys are not necessarily who you would expect) and a boatload of plaid wearing,  beer drinking, truck driving, monster hunters and a great rock soundtrack. Really. Just a great show. Definitely binge-worthy. Even the weak seasons. But pace yourself. 15 seasons, y'know

Thanks for the ride guys. Carry on

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[sean92008]

Doesn't that have "Dean" from the Gilmore Girls?

[ShayP]

I never watched an episode but always thought that I should.  Seems like I'd like it.  Not sure why I didn't tune in.   

[TigerLily]

Doesn't that have "Dean" from the Gilmore Girls?

I never watched Gilmore Girls but I believe Dean of Sam and Dean Winchester of Supernatural was in it. But now I'm totally confused

[TigerLily]

I never watched an episode but always thought that I should.  Seems like I'd like it.  Not sure why I didn't tune in.   

Well. Now you have a Tigerily thumbs up. Would I steer you wrong? Never!

[KSM]

Really??  I'm the only geek that watched all 15 seasons of Supernatural?  We watched the last two episodes last night and both were like stand alone finales. Both were perfect endings and I admit. I cried at the end of the last one. So excellent



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WHAAAAAAAAAAA

[TigerLily]

Speaking of Supernatural and Christmas ... weren't we?

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It will make more sense after you watch a few seasons

[sean92008]

Yep... He left Gilmore Girls for Supernatural.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jared_Padalecki

While wrought with annoying-as-fuck characters, the Gilmore Girls did have some minor redeeming qualities...  Hiring Leslie Phillips for the incidental music, giving Carole King an acting job and they would play a lot of allusionary jokes up...  Including jabs previous acting gigs. (Including Ed Hermann's Herman Munster...)

Side character development was excellent on some.  Some wore themselves out quickly and were "I wish he'd get hit by a truck" types.

Wanting to impregnate Lauren Graham via her throat was just an added bonus.🙄🙄🙄

[ShayP]

Wanting to impregnate Lauren Graham via her throat was just an added bonus.🙄🙄🙄

WTF? 

[Robert]

While wrought with annoying-as-fuck characters, the Gilmore Girls did have some minor redeeming qualities.

Wasn't that the program written in verse, or some kind of poetry?  That's the way it seemed to me, and the actors had to speak a mile a minute just to get their lines in.  I never watched a whole episode, but it impressed me as close to Shakespearean.  I'd change channels and compare it to Everybody Loves Raymond, which I also never watched a whole show of, but it seemed like they'd milk a line for an entire scene.

So, was Gilmore a family name, a school, a town, or a business they worked at or patronized?

[Rikki Gins]

I watched all four parts of a documentary on the Yorkshire Ripper.  (On Netflix for a limited time.)  I remember reading about the London serial killer back in the late seventies.  Peter Sutcliffe was his name.  He was kind of an odd looking chap, but appeared rather normal in many other respects.  He was a lorry driver for the Clark Co.  (I myself once drove a Clark Co. hyster.)  Anyway, he killed thirteen women over a number of years until he was caught, quite by accident.  Notice I didn't say thirteen prostitutes.  If you watch the series you will see why the London police were bewitched, bewildered, and beguiled for all those years because they took it into their heads from day one that only prostitutes were being murdered.  After having watched the documentary, I looked Sutcliffe up to see what ever became of him.  Plus One for the coronavirus:
https://www.newsweek.com/what-happened-yorkshire-ripper-subject-netflixs-new-docuseries-1554885 

[sean92008]

Wasn't that the program written in verse, or some kind of poetry?  That's the way it seemed to me, and the actors had to speak a mile a minute just to get their lines in.  I never watched a whole episode, but it impressed me as close to Shakespearean.  I'd change channels and compare it to Everybody Loves Raymond, which I also never watched a whole show of, but it seemed like they'd milk a line for an entire scene.

So, was Gilmore a family name, a school, a town, or a business they worked at or patronized?

It's the family name...  Blue bloods... The daughter rejected their ways and their society and went off on her own at a young age. The whole series is sprinkled with her reconciling those two parts of her life.

The writing is very Woody Allen-esque.

The vomitous lines were to convey the character's intelligence beyond societal placement.  Witty intelligence was her fighting the system... Smartassing.

Lorelei and Rory (and Kirk and everybody else) were  dysfunctional.

Useless trivia:

Sally Strouthers and the dance teacher Patty are real life friends going back to 1970.

That band Lane started in the show still plays together at fan events but Sebastian Bach doesn't go to the events.

There was a phone number on the show that was really a working line that the guy who played Luke set up to publicize his real life brother who was a doctor. I think it was a charity thing.

Chinese spies named Stars Hollow as a potential location to detonate a nuclear dirty bomb.  I concur. 🙄

[anniem]

I watched all four parts of a documentary on the Yorkshire Ripper.  (On Netflix for a limited time.)  I remember reading about the London serial killer back in the late seventies.  Peter Sutcliffe was his name.  He was kind of an odd looking chap, but appeared rather normal in many other respects.  He was a lorry driver for the Clark Co.  (I myself once drove a Clark Co. hyster.)  Anyway, he killed thirteen women over a number of years until he was caught, quite by accident.  Notice I didn't say thirteen prostitutes.  If you watch the series you will see why the London police were bewitched, bewildered, and beguiled for all those years because they took it into their heads from day one that only prostitutes were being murdered.  After having watched the documentary, I looked Sutcliffe up to see what ever became of him.  Plus One for the coronavirus:
https://www.newsweek.com/what-happened-yorkshire-ripper-subject-netflixs-new-docuseries-1554885

I watched it too!  I was a bit surprised that I'd never heard of him. I was alive during those years.

[sean92008]

I watched it too!  I was a bit surprised that I'd never heard of him. I was alive during those years.

Great timing, I see he just died recently. Hope it was like three weeks of perpetual drowning.  Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.

His wife was a mess too.  Who said "opposites attract?" They were both looney bin nasties.

[PolkaDot]

Really??  I'm the only geek that watched all 15 seasons of Supernatural?  We watched the last two episodes last night and both were like stand alone finales. Both were perfect endings and I admit. I cried at the end of the last one. So excellent

For those who may not know, a quick look.  The show is a mix of dark apocalypse, smart comedy, surprisingly complex story arcs, interesting characters which include angels, demons, vampires, witches, for starters (and the good guys are not necessarily who you would expect) and a boatload of plaid wearing,  beer drinking, truck driving, monster hunters and a great rock soundtrack. Really. Just a great show. Definitely binge-worthy. Even the weak seasons. But pace yourself. 15 seasons, y'know

Thanks for the ride guys. Carry on

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I've only made it about halfway through the first season...maybe I'll try and pick it back up.