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Motorik said:
I should give it a rewatch. I was a big fan of Buffy and Angel the first time round, bought the boxsets at the time as they came out, but haven't watched them in years.

How did the kids like it?

Funnily enough, I was talking to my daughter on the phone about Buffy the other day. I think she must have rewatching them, and her current take was that Xander was a jealous, cockblocking, passive-aggressive dick, and that Wesley Wyndham-Price might have had the best character arc in the whole Buffyverse.
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I’ve always been majorly Team Anya. :lol:
 
Wife is watching Felicity currently. She's been on a teen drama kick. She just finished rewatching the entirety of Dawson's Creek and Gilmour Girls.
I was really into Felicity when it was on. Loved the series finale episodes. It was quite unique. Why am I admitting this on the internet?
 
MonkeyZero said:
Wife is watching Felicity currently. She's been on a teen drama kick. She just finished rewatching the entirety of Dawson's Creek and Gilmour Girls.
I was really into Felicity when it was on. Loved the series finale episodes. It was quite unique. Why am I admitting this on the internet?
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If you have the Lifetime Channel you may be excited to known that since 2014 Lifetime have adapted no less than 14 (!) V.C. Andrews novels. My wife and I have just binged them, and they were wonderfully trashy incest gothic melodramas. If you like poor orphan girls from the bayou who suddenly discover a long lost rich lady relative wants to adopt her, she immediately becomes a ballet prodigy, but then is poisoned by a rival, but is rescued by a man who she falls in love and falls pregnant to, only to discover he is her brother, and in fact her mother and father were brother sister incesters too, then these are the teledramas for you. :thu:
 
Motorik said:
I should give it a rewatch. I was a big fan of Buffy and Angel the first time round, bought the boxsets at the time as they came out, but haven't watched them in years.

How did the kids like it?

Funnily enough, I was talking to my daughter on the phone about Buffy the other day. I think she must have rewatching them, and her current take was that Xander was a jealous, cockblocking, passive-aggressive dick, and that Wesley Wyndham-Price might have had the best character arc in the whole Buffyverse.
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My husband showed our nine year old daughter the first five seasons or so and she loved it. He stopped right before the episode where Spike borderline rapes Buffy and they have some fucked up dark relationship after that. He thinks nine is too young to understand that so he’s just leaving it until she’s older.
 
I've been noticing a lot of buzz around a BBC series called Line of Duty that's apparently reached the end of its 6-season life. So I'm digging in and enjoying it pretty well so far. I'm always the last to know.
 
jp_nyc said:
My husband showed our nine year old daughter the first five seasons or so and she loved it. He stopped right before the episode where Spike borderline rapes Buffy and they have some fucked up dark relationship after that. He thinks nine is too young to understand that so he’s just leaving it until she’s older.
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That's probably a good idea. I can't remember how old my daughter was when she saw that, but we watched it as it aired so we had no idea what was going to happen. In retrospect I would have left that one out too.
 
dmn23 said:
Hoo boy, are you in for a ride. Ms. Dmn and I recently worked our way through that series. Superb but heavy, heavy, heavy.
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Motorik said:
It can be pretty hard going, for sure.
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Yeah. It's actually pretty hard to take sometimes. Just finished season 2 last night, and I was livid that she didn't get on the truck. But man, it was nice to see Aunt Lydia get a dose of her own medicine.
 
micwalt said:
Yeah. It's actually pretty hard to take sometimes. Just finished season 2 last night, and I was livid that she didn't get on the truck. But man, it was nice to see Aunt Lydia get a dose of her own medicine.
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Ann Dowd is spectacular. I don't know that they could have done a better job casting that role.
 
dmn23 said:
Ann Dowd is spectacular. I don't know that they could have done a better job casting that role.
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She was great in the Leftovers and really good in what I saw of the Handmaid's Tale. My wife watched it, but I couldn't. I can't sit through shows like that, it's like those Gieco commercial where the kids are running from the murder and the one kids says let's get in the running car and the others say no let's hide in the shed with the chainsaws. Handmaid's Tale are the kids who want to hide in the shed.
 
Knox in Box said:
It got to be too much for my wife and her anxiety issues. I may return to it though.
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I can see that. It actually takes me some time to recover after watching a block of episodes.

Knox in Box said:
I think the actress that plays the wife is amazing. One minute you hate her to death, the next you see her for a minor victim in this and then right back.
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I agree that she gives a great performance. However, I never find myself sympathizing with her character at all. It's her own goddamn fault. She helped write the laws. She's a monster, and she deserves every awful thing that happens to her.
 
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