Anyone watching this one?
I'm through S1 Ep2 on Netflix and hooked...
I saw the ads on Syfy last year but have not checked it out. With that endorsement of yours I may do so now.
Quote from: Staggerwing on April 15, 2017, 09:04:53 PM
I saw the ads on Syfy last year but have not checked it out. With that endorsement of yours I may do so now.
it's Harry Potter for grown-ups.
The kids are all in grad school, so there's a lot of adult themes of sex, drugs, bad decision-making, regret, revenge... or as Mirth calls it - "Thursday"
I read the books, looking to check out the show...I will give the author credit that he did a good good job showing growth and changing tone in the books.
Book 1 I likened to Holden Caulfield goes to Hogwarts.
Book 2's ending almost had me give up on the series. I doubt that I've read a more disturbing conclusion to a novel; and I've read some doozies.
Book 3 concluded things a little too neatly but better than most trilogies that I've read.
I'm up to S1 Ep5 at this point. Might get Ep6 before the wife & son get back from the RHCP concert
Quote from: bayonetbrant on April 15, 2017, 09:59:47 PM
I'm up to S1 Ep5 at this point. Might get Ep6 before the wife & son get back from the RHCP concert
Question - is it GOT level of not appropriate for anyone under the age of 18 or do they tone it down a bit?
There's some language, but it's nowhere near GoT-level explicit
There's one 'sex scene' in the first episode, but no one is naked.
Honestly, I could see my 14-yo watching these with me.
Quote from: bayonetbrant on April 15, 2017, 10:08:45 PM
There's some language, but it's nowhere near GoT-level explicit
There's one 'sex scene' in the first episode, but no one is naked.
Honestly, I could see my 14-yo watching these with me.
Thanks BB!
It's not like it's anything he hasn't heard while riding in the car with me during rush hour. He's used to language :)
Quote from: jamus34 on April 15, 2017, 09:40:22 PM
I read the books, looking to check out the show...I will give the author credit that he did a good good job showing growth and changing tone in the books.
Book 1 I likened to Holden Caulfield goes to Hogwarts.
Book 2's ending almost had me give up on the series. I doubt that I've read a more disturbing conclusion to a novel; and I've read some doozies.
Book 3 concluded things a little too neatly but better than most trilogies that I've read.
I did give up at Book 2. Don't remember if I finished it or not.
I watched all of Season 1. Other than the protagonist being a bit whiny, I liked it.
I'm up thru Ep8 now. Slowed down a bit now that I have to share the TV in the evening. The first 4-5 episodes I got thru when the wife had our son at a concert
Ok, update to the question earlier about being kid-friendly
There's more sexual content in later episodes, and I don't know that if let my son watch at this point
There's a whole episode on sex magic
There's a rape scene that becomes a primary motivation for one of the main characters
There's way more than I'd let him watch
It's not quite GoT, but maybe I've step below that
I gather there's some pretty hard-core darkness in the series, since the concept essentially deconstructs the Narnia and Potter stories (and some of Potter is already pretty dark). The author himself states that everything including the Potter series exists in the story except C. S. Lewis and the Narnia novels -- these having been replaced by the "Filory and Further" novels and their secretly evil author. :o
I understand real magicians are planning on boycotting the show. Or else just making it disappear behind a curtain. :2funny:
I cant see that happening.
I saw what you did there Bob. Or saw what you didn't see there.
;)
Season 2 on Netflix starting tonight!
Finished Season 2 last night
Still fun, but some of the Fillorian Kingdom stuff is getting a little silly
I just started season 1. I'm about 3 or 4 eps in. Is all that Fillory stuff as prominent in the books?
Quote from: Staggerwing on December 23, 2017, 02:35:23 PM
I just started season 1. I'm about 3 or 4 eps in. Is all that Fillory stuff as prominent in the books?
Didn't read the books, so I don't know
Actually more so in the books.
And the show Quentin is much more likable than the book Quentin.
Quote from: jamus34 on December 23, 2017, 04:08:47 PM
Actually more so in the books.
And the show Quentin is much more likable than the book Quentin.
Ouch.
That's not saying much, is it? :))
new season starts tonight :)
My wife and I watched Season 1 and thought there was way too much gratuitous sex than was needed for the plot. Quenton reminds both of us of a very neurotic roommate I had as an undergrad for a year.
It is very dark, violent, with plenty of cursing and drug use. One character will use any kind altering substance he can. Another self-medicates to control the voices in his head. Child abuse and murder of children is a major plot element towards the end of season one.
It is interesting but very dark.
Quote from: airboy on January 16, 2018, 12:52:53 AM
My wife and I watched Season 1 and thought there was way too much gratuitous sex than was needed for the plot. Quenton reminds both of us of a very neurotic roommate I had as an undergrad for a year.
It is very dark, violent, with plenty of cursing and drug use. One character will use any kind altering substance he can. Another self-medicates to control the voices in his head. Child abuse and murder of children is a major plot element towards the end of season one.
It is interesting but very dark.
Netflix you say? >:D
Yeah, the first couple of episodes aren't too bad, but when they spend an entire episode on 'sex magic' it gets pretty sweaty in a hurry.
As noted at the top of the thread, after the first 2-3 episodes, I was still willing to let my son watch the show. By about episode 6, nope.
I just finished season 2. Looking forward to 3.
Sex magic you say?
You could hang out in the Physical Kids dorm.
Quote from: mirth on January 16, 2018, 08:12:25 PM
Sex magic you say?
Didn't all of your ex's say that sex with you was "magic?" Not saying if it is good magic, bad magic, Cthulhu magic, or voodoo magic - but magic of some sort?
Quote from: airboy on January 16, 2018, 09:02:01 PM
Quote from: mirth on January 16, 2018, 08:12:25 PM
Sex magic you say?
Didn't all of your ex's say that sex with you was "magic?" Not saying if it is good magic, bad magic, Cthulhu magic, or voodoo magic - but magic of some sort?
Indeed
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/03/magicians-margo-hillary-clinton-summer-bishil
https://www.buzzfeed.com/alannabennett/please-watch-the-magicians-for-my-sake?utm_term=.abBveM309E#.qm26wQnMr1
Quote from: jamus34 on April 15, 2017, 09:40:22 PM
Book 1 I likened to Holden Caulfield goes to Hogwarts.
This alone makes me want to read these books which I've never heard of before this thread. I loved Catcher In The Rye.