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Staged on Hulu is hilarious. Letterkenny and Staged are two of the funniest shows that I just somehow stumbled on.

Been telling everyone I can for years to watch this show. Shield is my #1 show ever. They've never been good about getting it out and available though. Think it has finally gotten on Hulu in the last year or so though, if I remember correctly. Shameless has been a great show, heck of run they had. It kind of floundered a bit the last few years and I did a lot of eye rolling on some story lines the last few years, but it was still good. I'd call the finale 'fine'. I'd have preferred more firmly tied up but overall it did the job and wasn't awful/stupid or anything to ruin the show's legacy. Basing it on Frank's dying makes a lot of sense. I was surprised they couldn't get Fiona back for the ending or address her at all, basically seemed weird to do this whole year basically acting like she didn't exist. I saw they've had a lot of issues with filming during covid though so have to cut some slack that they did the best they could given the situation. She was originally planned to have a large role in the finale, but they were filming and there was another lockdown issue ordered in NY and Cali...so she couldn't get to the set to film. She was going to come and help them sort out Franks "estate." I was kinda hoping Lip would find that bar of Gold in the backyard...or they'd sell the painting, but I guess them getting rich at the end of the show would really kinda ruin the show.

Awesome, came over here to ask a question and it looks like you guys are on the topic. I've got spectrum...and it sucks, but it's to be expected. But I do have a high speed package and it seems like my internet is always slow. That and the fact that I could cut my bill from about 100 to 60 by just buying my Modem and Router, I'm thinking about going that way. Any suggestions on what I should get(or even IF I should) and is a combo router/modem in one better than getting each individual? I'm assuming this SHOULD be pretty easy to hook up, right? Basically just take the existing modem, router, replace them and then call spectrum? Any help would be appreciated. And if you could explain this to me like you were explaining why Braun shouldn't come back and play 3rd base for the Brewers to someone who doesn't follow baseball, ie, in child-like terms, I'd appreciate it! Thanks.

Well that's good to know. My billing cycle starts on I think the 18th of every month, so I just keep putting it off. ALSO...did NOT know that I should be getting Hulu for free. Now help me out. My sister got a phone on my plan...she gave me the cash for the phone, they told me I couldn't pay it off right now, that I'd get charged 40 bucks a month for it but I could pay it off after a month. That was a couple years ago. Now they're saying it's a "leased" phone and not one that I bought and that she has to return the phone...which she's just a nightmare, so I'd rather pay a 40 dollar a month penalty than have to ask her to go out of her way at all, but seriously, I was there when they said they'd charge me for 2 years or until I paid it off. You look like you're already saving me 30 bucks a month...any advice you can give me on this one!

I'm there with ya. I have direct TV, and then I somehow became "the guy" who pays for Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, Apple TV, HBO Go..ALL that crap and people hit me up for the passwords. I absolutely have to figure this out but I haven't had the guts to actually cut the cord. Hell, I haven't even changed from my Sprint plan that costs 240 bucks a month for 4 phones. Spending up to 550 for TV, Streaming and Cell phone services is absolutely killing me and I know how stupid it is. I know I could probably cut 300 bucks a month off that pretty easily and throw that much more a month into my 401K or my Mortgages. Pretty much anything but just hanging a bunch of 20's on a clothesline and starting them on fire.

They're supposed to be getting ready to realase season 5. It was initially to be released on May 8th(I think) and due to the whole pandemic, they hadn't quite finished shooting. I got so bored I watched Hot to get away with Murder. It was not a show I was a fan of when I watched one a week, but when you are able to binge them and really get into it, it gets much better.

No, you're not going nuts over Black. Calling a 30 yr old relief pitcher's ceiling "unhittable" seems reasonable. Actually...yeah, that is pretty reasonable. If he can command his pitches, he probably would be unhittable. If you can throw the ball 100 MPH where you want it, you're usually unhittable. Webb would also be "unhittable," if he could command all of his pitches. But neither have shown they can for extended periods of time.

I used to do this....but at a certain point is started to feel like when I was a kid and my Grandparents had all these old movies on tapes. And not the normal tapes, those smaller ones I believe. I don't know, it's so cheap to stream, but it's also pretty cheap to buy a DVD. Whatever makes you happy.

Fair points. However, when a young girl goes into a fire holding 3 old fossils and she comes out the Mother of 3 young Dragons, you need to suspend your disbelief a bit to begin with. Also...could account for the lack of body hair. It was burned off. And maybe those were the grooming habits back in the day, they just didn't happen to make it into the literature.

**Stranger Things Spoiler Alert** In some ways I like season 3 more, but in other ways I thought it was the worst of the 3 seasons. I just can't get past the whole Russian base under the mall thing, just came off as a James Bond spoof or something. Also, as someone who "came of age" in the 80s, they tried WAY too hard to hit us over the head with 80s clothes, products, music, etc. I'm just dissapointed because they could have gone a lot of interesting ways in season 3, and the Russian thing just didn't work. Also, the whole Mind Flayer and Upside Down were always mysterious and scary. Turning it into basically just another monster chasing them around was a mistake. 1/3 Wonder Years, 1/3 Bond, 1/3 Alien = Meh. Incredible ending though, literally had tears in my eyes. I don't recall the ending...but I was never a big fan of Stranger Things. I watched it because I pretty much always have my computer on streaming something, even if most of my attention is focused elsewhere. Only when I can't take my eyes of my computer do I upgrade it to "must watch on real TV" status. But I get why people loved the 1st two seasons. I'm usually very easy to please. I don't have high standards for TV. It just has to entertain me. Stranger Things barely did that and I found the Russian base just too ridiculous. Like they can pay off some small-town Mayer and build this enormous base with Russian Soldiers during the midst of the cold war. Anyway, in my boredom I watched two shows I never would have checked out. "Fleabag," and Marvelous Mr. Masiel." I thought both were hilarious. Sorry if I'm late and others posted these, but I just watched them recently and thought both were hilarious. I also was forced to watch Veronica Mars and was told, "seriously, you'll love it, she is so funny." So, didn't know who she was, but that was a pretty clever show and entertaining in a...-if you're going to be held hostage by a GF/Wife, it's not the worst thing you could watch-type show.

Family Guy trying to make this joke is pretty funny and not in the way they wanted it to be You're gonna need to spell it out for me a little bit more. I get the joke...I don't get the joke in the way they didn't mean for it to be a joke. My only thought would be when Brian says "we're slowing down" and that'd be funny because Family Guy has gotten pretty bad the last few years. Is that what you meant? On, and on the topic of Seth McFareland, the Orville is a surprisingly NOT terrible show. I was never a Star Trek fan and the Orville is kinda the show I watch like...the week before Christmas or whenver all the other shows are off the air and I need something to catch up, but it manages to somehow actually be funny, but also be a more realistic sci-fi show than I'd have thought when I first heard about it.

If you watched for 2 seasons and you didn't get on board, you were never going to be a big fan. Again, some of these shows are just much better when you binge watch them. Not like....quit your job and watch 6 straight days of TV so you look like a crack head-binge watch, but like 3-4 shows in a row. I tired GoT and Breaking Bad a couple times and couldn't get more than 2-3 episodes in before I finally ended up watching both series. Hector Salamanchia ringing his bell...one of the best scenes in TV history!

I guarantee you've "literally" seen at least 1 second of the Sopranos in some format. And probably the Wire. I actually never watched the Wire though. I just tried to think of the most popular shows and figured you'd instinctively dislike them so as to be a contrarian! I was wrong....instead of not liking them, you just refused to watch them!

Isn't this the point? I loved SOA, and Justified. The Soprano's might be my favorite series ever....pretty far up there. Never saw the shield. I'll have to try it out. I watch so much stuff, mainly probably 90 pct of the shows I watch I'm doing something else. Maybe not the best for nuance, but for these shows, I felt like I got most of it. I mean...none were really all that deep.

I'm shocked....SHOCKED I tell ya that trwi7 would take one of the most popular TV shows of all time and complain about it! Guessing you had equal disdain for the Soprano's, the Wire...other shows that are escaping my memory at the moment?

Ok, we all know this was a great trade for the Brewers, even if the prospects were performing better, but mis-representing how well the other teams prospects are playing doesn't really strengthen the argument. If I said, "Yelich struck out 142 times last year in 157 games," that really wouldn't tell you anything about how well he played. Harrison HAS struck out this year. He's also hitting .333/.444 with an OPS over 1.000. And if Harrison ends up being as good as Yelich, we still win the deal. We wanted a player who was good now(We got a great one) they wanted players for the future. At this point, I don't care how well the prospects play. We did what we wanted to do. In fact, if Stearns keeps fleecing teams like this, it may hurt us in the future when we need to make a trade and nobody is willing....(I'm only about 5 pct serious here, but opted to go against the blue font as teams should probably be a little leery of dealing with Stearns).

Just to state that I'm not going back and doing an "told you so," or trying to call anyone out, I'll point out I was a big fan of Tyler Chatwood. I thought he was a pitcher who might be more aggressive outside of Coors, his stuff may play up more and I was hoping we'd sign him for like 3/30. So we're all wrong about these deals. Even the biggest Yelich supporters didn't think THIS is what was going to come out of his deal. But looking back, some of these posts are funny. The ones saying that it wasn't the right year to make these moves(Cain as well) because we didn't know if '17 was legit, how badly we overpaid, how none of the other 28 teams were willing to make these deals. Baseball's a funny game. I remember hearing who we gave up, and while I wanted Brinson traded...just because I thought he'd take a long time to get going,(and by the way Miami, PLEASE send the kid down to AAA for a couple months...you're just ruining whatever is left there right now) but I DID think that giving up Brinson and Diaz in particular was a lot. And this was after a game I was watching with my old man when Stanton was going for 60 HR's and I said to him that he might be the 3rd best OF'er on that team, so I was always a fan of Yelich. Turns out Harrison is the only one who looks good right now, the other two have looked awful, Brinson in particular and the Brewers have probably gotten one of the 2-3 best offensive seasons+ out of a player in franchise history and he's locked up through 2022. So no shots at anyone, Yelich wasn't THIS good when we traded for him, the prospects looked better at the time, but it's just funny how much your perspective can change in a short period of time. There were people who were angry we didn't use the same prospects to acquire Archer from TB. This game is fickle and apparently short of David Stearns, you're more likely to be wrong than you are right when predicting future success. I don't think as it stands either the Cain contract or the Yelich trade has a chance of looking bad the final year we have both under team control. This thread sure makes for some interesting reading....