plowed through this over a few days with the family. i'd say believe the hype - it's really good. captures some spielberg-esque feeling with eerie "dark forces"/woods/evil stuff. subtle shout outs to the thing, evil dead, etc. centers around four kids, which i usually find annoying, but for the most part these are really good actors. do watch it.
now...
private joker is in this, and is unrecognizable these days. the main kid "mike" looks like shelly duvall in the shining.
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2Up to E06. Show is pretty good. Super obvious with the 80's movie references. Show id give about a 7/10. Soundtrack I would give 10/10 https://survive.bandcamp.com/ < theme and score. good shit.
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4Everyone in my Facebook feed has been freaking out over this show. I watched the trailer and found it underwhelming.
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5I need to watch this asap, based on the soundtrack alone. Love me some synthwave, love me some Carpenter-esque stuff.
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6very difficult to capture what this show is in a trailer. you should watch.O-dot wrote:Everyone in my Facebook feed has been freaking out over this show. I watched the trailer and found it underwhelming.
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7It's really fun. Does what Super 8 tries to do much, much better than JJ pulled off. We're about halfway through, watching it with the older kids, they love it too. It's funny to see them semi-obsessed with 80s nostalgia, apparently the hipness of our childhood decade is a legit thing these days.
"I'm like a dog chasing cars, I wouldn't know what to do if I caught one. . . . I'm not a schemer. I just do things."
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9We watched the pilot and frankly found it a slog. Does it pick up in episode 2?
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10Absolutely it does. That's one of the things that impresses me the most with it, the story arc. Very nicely put together.
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11well we weren't all forced to watch it, if that's what you're asking.O-dot wrote:We watched the pilot and frankly found it a slog. Does it pick up in episode 2?
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14Ha!
"I'm like a dog chasing cars, I wouldn't know what to do if I caught one. . . . I'm not a schemer. I just do things."
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17
call it. fun.
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18well, S2 started slow - very slow - for several episodes but ended strong. not as good as S1 by a long shot but entertaining.
it's a good thing nancy apparently carries around PJs at all times.
i will say the soundtrack this season was even better.
it's a good thing nancy apparently carries around PJs at all times.
i will say the soundtrack this season was even better.
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19For all the love it's getting online this weekend I too found it starting off fine but kind of meh too. Still, enough to hold my interest for 9 episodes. Just started the fifth last night.
"I'm like a dog chasing cars, I wouldn't know what to do if I caught one. . . . I'm not a schemer. I just do things."
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20We have one episode left and I kinda don't understand the feeling of disappointment many have apparently felt with this season. Like TC says, the music is better than last time (they chose the one good Bon Jovi song, for instance), the characters are stronger and they actually make some decisions and develop the characters in ways that you don't see coming a mile away. Still a very "cozy" show to watch, the same cozy feeling you got from those 80's classics like The Goonies and so forth.