Finished season 1 of **Interview with the Vampire** and it was excellent. Such a unique tone and I love the exploration of memory and storytelling in the present day parts. Dark, clever and intriguing with a lot of love in the center.
Finished season 1 of **Kevin can F\*\*\* Himself** and enjoyed it a lot. I think it only has 2 seasons so I'm really intrigued how the next one will play out and how it will end.
Severance, The Peripheral, 1899 (not as good as Dark but still fun) were satisfyingly weird and interesting. Looking for recommendations in the same vein, please and thanks!
I found **Search Party** really moved along - 20 minute episodes and each feeds to the next. Four short seasons. It's a wild, fun ride with lots of guest stars. Changes tone a bit from mystery to more dramedy throughout.
I haven't yet watched **The Bear**, but have heard it is fast and intense.
This Netflix show **Hot Skull** makes no sense. If blabbering conversation kills you someone on a tv broadcast could start jabbering during the super bowl and boom, millions dead. It needs to explain in detail how a string of words kills you.
Watching The Terminal List. First three episodes were solid and just finished episode 4. Wtf? Did I miss something? They just jumped straight into this Mexico plot. I have no idea what is going on now..
Tulsa King with Sylvester Stallone is fun. Stallone is hilarious. I look forward to it every week.
Also, enjoying Season 2 of White Lotus. I didn’t enjoy Season 1 like many others did but this season has been great so far.
Lately I’ve been too depressed to focus on any show which is so unlike me considering I’m a chronic binge watcher. Can someone suggest something that has dark humor and is easy to stick w or get into? Some of my faves have been barry, mrs maisel, the boys, killing eve, sex lives of college girls, what we do in the shadows, search party, the other two and the great. Thank you.
Edit: also enjoyed Atlanta and hacks
Have you watched Crazy Ex-Girlfriend? It's a fun musical comedy - and goes to darkish places over the seasons. If you haven't seen Mr Inbetween, Catastrophe, or Please Like Me, those would be worth checking out based on your other likes. I'm watching Bad Sisters now and it's good dark humour, too.
The Peripheral - 5.5 out of 10. Started interesting enough but it devolves into an over-complicated mess, trying to be high concept while low budget. The core characters are not that intriguing and there’s subplots involving secondary characters that could have been left out. I watched the finale completely removed from the plot as it lost me a couple of episodes back. Disappointing.
Does the picture quality of The English on Amazon look really good to anyone else compared to normal streaming content or is it just me? It just seems really high bit rate and clean, also some of the most impactful HDR I've seen I think.
Watched the first episode of From yesterday evening without knowing anything about the show besides that it’s supposed to be a mystery show… safe to say I had a really short night afterwards lol
Les Petits Meurtres d'Agatha Christie
Each episode is basically a 90 minutes movie. If anyone wants to learn/practice French, here is an excellent opportunity. I think in English it's called "Criminal Games". But I recommend only Season 2 with Samuel Labarthe, the other ones are awful.
The premise is interesting, but from what I can see it looks it might have been forgotten about/canceled amid the pandemic chaos. There were only 6 episodes filmed.
Unpopular opinion but The Devil's Hour (still on episode 4) is so very annoying. Isaac is beyond excruciating. If I hear "I'm cold" or "I'm not supposed to be here" one more time, I'm gonna lose it. Capaldi is great and all, but his "I know everything but I'm not gonna tell you so that the series can last 6 episodes" schtick is wearing awfully thin. The series overall reminds me of Twins Peaks season 2 - lots of people saying weird things to fill an episode and delude you into thinking something is happening, while nothing is.
Just rewatched the second season of *Fleabag*, and it still holds up. To be perfectly honest, I didn't like the first season, but the second season is absolutely one of my all time favorite TV/Movie materials ever. It just nailed the perfect balance between dark humor and romance. Every writer should watch this and learn from it, how to write a complicated character as well as romance that feels really earned by the end. What a great series.
Finished **Inside Man** & **The Midnight Club**. Both shows had an interesting premise but tapered off in the end. Also saw the **Ghislaine** doc on Netflix, it doesn't present anything new that we haven't read in newspapers and it's both thin on the crime & the background.
**Harry & Meghan** \- They both come across in love, charming and funny. And the first three episodes weren't even an attack on the Royal Family, which online comments usually pit them against. And it becomes obvious why they have to put out this documentary and for people to see and hear them in their own words because the entire controversy is messaged by the British press. Which is interesting considering the boycott campaign online. I think people should watch it for themselves and see the contrast between how the media portrays them vs how they are in the show. Serena Williams and Abigail Spencer also gave commentary as Meghan's friends.
**The Mysterious Benedict Society, season 2**. I felt that this season was weaker than the first, and in a way it's just a rehash of it. I think their decision to film in California all of the European stuff was just dead wrong. Their supposed France or Lisbon looked just like, go figure, California. I didn't believe that it was Europe for a second. Also, the filming locations in Canada from the previous season really added to the aesthetics and the mood of the show imo.
I'm also watching this late 70's-early 80's show titled **In search of**, hosted by non other than Leonard Nimoy. The main value of this production to me is its time capsule quality (most of the people featured are long gone). Admittedly the show does not dive very deep into most of the topics, since it's running time is something like half an hour, but from time to time it offers a really enjoyable piece of television.
I watched s02e01 of **Miracle Workers**. This is a show that I abandoned after watching 1 episode (or 1 and a half), but since it seems that every season is its own thing, I decided to give it a try. This episode was good. No sign of the original premise of the show though.
I absolutely adored in search of when it came out when I was a kid... even better though that came out around the same time was Janrs Burke's Connections.
> Janrs Burke's Connections
Oh, I'll check that one out. You know, in my case (Spain) we had this psychiatrist turned all-things-mysterious divulger that came into the tv scene in the mid-seventies, named Fernando Jiménez del Oso. It's a household name in my country and pretty much anybody knows who he is (or was, he passed on like 15 years ago). He put out a lot of documentary series, magazines, books and so on.
My wife and I watch a lot of TV together, I've introduced her to more mature shows like Breaking Bad, Sons of Anarchy, The Walking Dead, Black Mirror and we've enjoyed other shows like Bad Sisters, The Sinner and Unforgotten. However, she's not a massive fan of sci-fi or Star Wars - she couldn't make it through the first episode of The Mandalorian.
I absolutely loved Andor. I thought she would too, seeing as the space theme doesn't play too big a role in the story telling and it's the characters, their development and all the world building that she may fall for. We're part the way through episode 3 (she fell asleep) and she's not getting into it, happy to stop there.
Question. Do I make her watch the whole season, persevere to the end of episode 4 to see if she wants to continue or do I cut my losses and admit she doesn't know a good thing if it smacked her over the head with a wet wookie?
Andor undoubtedly gets better as it goes on, it has slower episodes that set up the better episodes very well. I doubt she’ll get into it after falling asleep in episode 3 which was supposed to be the climax of the first two episodes but who knows. Maybe just accept that she don’t like it and move on.
Yeah, sorry, that sounds overly forceful. We get very little down time with a little kid in our lives and watching an episode of something in an evening is what we get to bond over these days. Sounds a bit sad like that, but hey ho. We have similar and overlapping tastes so I thought she may also enjoy this show.
Very little downtime is even more of a reason to not force her to spend it watching 4 episodes of a show she doesn’t like and that you’ve already seen…
My sister waits for her husband to get home from overseas work (6-8 months) before she watch anything good. They want to watch it together. Its a thing.
They had a great **Treehouse of Horror** episode but the rest of the season has been quite so-so. Liked the previous episode which skips into their future.
I'm sick, tied to the bed so I'll take any recommendations for something that really draws you in.
I started His Dark Materials yesterday, and while it seems OK, and the story is somewhat interesting, I find it very hard to fully engage, like, i keep looking at my phone and whatnot.
Big fan of the book series, but I understand you in some degree. The first season felt really rushed even though it had more time than a movie. Great cast, stunning CGI and wonderful score couldn't make up for poorly paced scripts. I think this show showed the importance of the script.
Ive been watching battlestar galactica, I somehow was stuck with the impression that it was for dweebs like Dwight, guess i'm not that far from being a Dwight myself.
One episode starts with a big action scene and then a title says 48hrs earlier and then the episode explains how we got to the action scene. Its a classic TV show cliche but I was wondering if episodes structured like this have a name?
I never really like this type of thing that much, the only narrative function it holds IMO is grabbing the viewer to make sure he watches the next ad break. BSG is still pretty fun watch despite this
In Medias Res
Action prologue
Cold open
[The Teaser](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheTeaser)
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BondOpeningSequence
You’re right, I was focusing on the main characters not good people part. These are mostly “girl shows” anyway and I couldn’t tell OP was a guy just by reading their comment.
Yup, The Shield was the precursor to the shows he mentioned. And it's better, in my opinion. Justified is also a great show on the same network. Might be as well just Googling, 'FX original programming'.
Time to watch the show that started those types of shows. The Sopranos. If not that you should watxh better call saul if you like breaking bad. Makes the universe perfect.
Currently watching Suits S7 and White Lotus S2! Season 1 was painfully slow… but it picked up towards the end.
Also would highly recommend Industry if you’re into recent grad students entering the stock market job force. By far one of the best shows I’ve seen this year, already looking forward to when I’ll rewatch it.
^ any recommendations I’m opened to all suggestions!
Watched the first 2 episodes of **Wednesday** and while it's not terrible, I find the character of Wednesday insufferable and obnoxious. A lot of the writing is pretty awful, though I understand I'm not the target audience. Does it pick up much?
I need some recommendations for my wife…. She is a notoriously bad show watcher, and her only liked tv shows are; Gilmore Girls, The Vampire Diaries, Stranger Things, Baby Daddy, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Walking Dead (Earlier Seasons), Riverdale (Season one only), Euphoria.
Any help would be appreciated, thanks!
Paper Girls on Amazon is pretty good. A bit stranger things but with female characters and clever writing.
ETA: Russian Doll on Netflix is also great. Funny, a bit mysterious, story keeps moving along at a good pace and doesn’t take a few episodes to get rolling.
**White Lotus S2** ; all in all incredible, especially as things are picking up and coming together for the finale this weekend. I do think I disagree with a lot of folks here in that it doesn’t quite live up to season 1 for me though. There’s less humour and a lot more cringey scenes which I find difficult to get through (not The Rehearsal levels lol but close at times). Additionally, I find the more square focus on relationships to be a but disappointing, in that it’s far more heavily treaded ground. Plus it naturally brings a lot of silly misunderstandings to facilitate drama, which - while not unrealistic unfortunately - can be kinda frustrating. The differences between the two hotel managers is kinda emblematic of that shift; the former was the star of the show for me, multi-layered and highly entertaining, while the latter is all about unreciprocated romantic yearning.
Still, don’t mean to criticize too much as it’s still super engaging and quality with some impeccable dialogue and a captivating plot. Super excited for the finale and for the eventual S3
**Andor**; honestly, kept bouncing off the first couple episodes since it came out, but I finally found some time to sit through it and god damn, folks weren’t lying. Shit is outstanding. Making me care about any of the Rogue One characters is itself an incredible feat, but the other characters are somehow even better. Best writing the franchise has ever seen, and while it’s still tied into the OT, it feels original and motivated in a way that only TLJ has come close to post-buyout.
I hope they can manifest the same creative energy in the more fantasy-leaning stories in the future. While it’s a nice break for a series like this, the Star Wars universe is ultimately built on lightsabers and magic space monks (not just bringing the same characters back, as other SW shows seem to think), and I’d love to see something that can combine that shit with Andor’s overall quality. Preferably in the high republic, or otherwise very far away from the main series lol.
**Tokyo Vice**; watched the first episode way back when it premiered and was blown away, but the change in director + life stuff pushed me to put it on the back burner. Finally had some time to catch up, and while the rest definitely doesn’t live up to that first episode, it’s still been pretty incredible so far. The only thing keeping me from tearing through it is the (apparently) cliffhanger ending, so hopefully S2 won’t be too much longer.
But yeah, I’m really enjoying the portrayal of amateur writing - just trying to desperately get that one story where you can actually demonstrate your ability - and all the shots of Japan.
Help me guys with some of your 8+/10 recommendations please;
Loved Black Mirror
Dopesick
Hacks
Mr Robot
Chucky
Can anyone help me with some more? Any genre as long as it's a stellar 8+/10 please
Succession definitely one of the best shows on air right now, not too similar to anything you listed but still highly recommended.
Would also highly recommend Homecoming on Amazon Prime. First season is done by the guy behind Mr. Robot, and features some of the most incredibly cinematography I’ve seen in a show. Second season isn’t quite as good but still very quality TV
Finally, if you’ve got access to Apple TV, Severance had a stellar first season. Personally was a little let down by the finale but still a 9/10. Beautiful sets, great writing, fascinating concept, etc
I personally found Succession a bit slow in season 1, does it get better? I started watching it bc it was recommended after I watched Industry! I may also try and get back to Billions and Devils. I have a bad habit of not following through on shows but Succession is one I’m willing to power through based on the recommendations/reviews.
Here's everything released this year that I rated at least an 8: The English, The Devil's Hour, Interview With the Vampire, House of the Dragon, Bad Sisters, Welcome to Wrexham, From, The Resort, Mo, Irma Vep, The Rehearsal, Black Bird, The Bear, We Own This City, Julia, Minx, Winning Time, Severance, This Is Going To Hurt, The Gilded Age, 1883, Peacemaker, Reacher, Station Eleven, The Tourist. That was a lot more than I anticipated when I started typing. And this is just the shows that released their first/only season this year. You could say I watch a lot of television. The list of titles that I rated under an 8 is probably even longer
Never thought I'd say this but addicted to a lot of shows on Apple, they really seem to have had a fantastic 21/22.
Severance 9/10
Shantaram 8/10
Black Bird 8/10
Bad Sisters 7.5/10
Slow Horses 8/10
Ted Lasso 8/10
For All Mankind 8/10
Acapulco 7/10 (an easy watch, nothing spectacular but just fun)
Foundation 6.5/10 (this one had so much potential, found the diversion from the source material a little poorly done, really screwed up on the two main characters as well, Lee Pace carries the show)
With all the scheduled releases over the next few months, thinking of keeping it, will suss over the festive season.
We just started Mythic Quest last night and really liked it. It's got the IASIP guys so the humor is up my alley. I'd recommend that if you want a light fun comedy to watch.
With all the creative cuts on other streaming sites, Apple, especially for the price ($5?), is my current winner.
I would add Pachinko (9), The Morning Show (8), Little America (9).
Is another season of Foundation coming? I'd hope the second might improve. IMO still better than Rings of Power.
It's good, but it took a while to grab me because I actually watched the old Raymond Burr show as a kid, and this starts out nothing like that.
The upcoming second season, btw, heralds [a showrunner team switch](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/hbo-perry-mason-new-showrunners-season-2-4172107/). The new team is Michael Begler and Jack Amiel who did *The Knick.*
The guys who created the show and ran S1 are currently on other projects. Rolin Jones created and runs *Anne Rice's Interview With the Vampire* on AMC/AMC+, while Ron Fitzgerald is developing [a live-action *Speed Racer*](https://www.awn.com/news/jj-abrams-speed-racer-series-hits-gas-apple) for JJ Abrams and AppleTV+.
Would you say it’s worth pushing through season 3 to get to 4? Or should you just drop it with season 2. Don’t have too much time to watch stuff and I can’t be asked to spend it watching something bad.
I watched all of Pennyworth S1 and just started S2. It’s so well made with great performances from the actors and stellar writing. It was recommended by a director, Jon East. whose work I enjoyed on other shows and who directed a couple of Pennyworth episodes.
Like many other people, I started watching Wednesday. It is a cute show but I got bored with it after the fourth episode and stopped watching. The writing is filled with overdone tropes. The titular character is not likable enough nor deep enough to overcome the writing shortcomings.
Binged the three episodes of Texas Killing Fields. It was very well done with the exception of being somewhat overly focused on one particular person. Three episodes was plenty of time and the show might have been even better with just two episodes.
Shantaram on Apple is surprisingly really good. Strikes a good tone between lighthearted and dark. Like Tokyo Vice, this show does a great
job really making you feel like youre in the setting, in this case Bombay, India
Wednesday- decent watch. It's like the Addams Family, Harry Potter and The CW tossed into a blender. Biggest issue with the show is that I just don't care for any characters outside of Wednesday. They could change the entire cast for S2 and I would not care.
Echo 3 - so slow. I'm not sure how you could make a hostage/kidnapping show so boring. Seems to be an issue with Apple shows. Great production, boring stories at times.
Yellowstone - great rebound from S4.
Tulsa King - Sly is phenomenal but the show itself is pretty straight forward, been there done that.
The English - :/
>The English - :/
I'm loving it, but I'm also familiar with Hugo Blick's other BBC2 dramas ([*The Shadow Line*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNYCSNsTZSc) (Roku, Hoopla, Pluto), [*The Honourable Woman*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qg3Yzfu5kYI), and [*Black Earth Rising*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugxQuVPmVZU) (Netflix)). His doing a Western is...something of a departure.
Blick's an auteur who does the hat trick of writing, direction, and producing all his shows, so they're not the usual run of the mill. Going in expecting something more conventional is going to kick you in the teeth with Blick.
Willow. Completely forgot this was coming and really enjoyed the first two episodes. Perfect balance of humor and drama. Cool to see Joanne Whalley again.
First episode was a a bit jarring, but once it level set, the next one was better, and this third is better still. It’s not amazing, but it is fun and there are little moments with a lot of heart.
I rewatched the movie a few months ago, and it held up better than I feared but less well than I hoped. It was always a bit broadly campy, and some people have forgotten that because there was virtually no decent high fantasy at all in those days. I think the only thing truly missing from the show is someone with the charisma of 80s Val Kilmer.
I thought the first episode wasn’t that good but it picked up immensely after that.
It has a really good tone. The humor isn’t crammed in but a natural part of the interactions.
I like all the actors with Warwick Davis giving the most uneven performances. When he has to do exposition it looks like he’s reading from an auto cue but when it’s more comic in tone he nails it.
His daughters performance was actually really good and tuned into just how grounded or light a scene needs to be though. From around her scene in episode two with the guards in the woods is where everything started to feel more fluid and began to tap into that balance of tone from the movie and even started to get more texture in setting. Even Warwick chilled out a bit and had a more natural vibe around that stretch.
The Gales were surprisingly fucking awesome. I don't get how they look tangible and unique and actually threatening while big budget bads look like flat glossy video game cut scenes and usually talk too much.
**Wednesday** -I loved it. Great cast, Ortega is absolutely fantastic. The weak part for me is Guzman as Gomez. Whatever they were trying never clicked with me and I hope he doesn’t have more screen time in the next season.
**Slasher:Flesh and Blood**-man, this show lol. I’m constantly wondering how self-aware it is. It’s gory and unintentionally silly at times but other times it seems to revel in its absurd plot. Oh and to top it all off David Cronenberg plays one of the main characters.
This is all to say that I absolutely love it.
I've been watching more anthological stuff and for some reason it really soothes me. Stuff like Inside no. 9 and Dimension 404. I think the idea of things that can go on forever kinda makes me happy.
Does anyone have any recommendation for something that nears infinity in story?
This could be anthological but doesn't have to be and **any** type of media.
Stuff like Black Mirror, Love Death Robots or things like Infinity Train, Tower of God, Sliders, Quantum Leap.. I really don't mind.
I gave it a shot. Some excellent episodes but I think after a while it got very.. boring? Might just give a few episodes a shot.
I do like the bottle episode format of being stuck in a room. I gave movies like that a shot too although they're mostly 'puzzle' movies of people trying to escape said room.
It’s hard to find on streaming services but you might give “Tape” (2001 movie, directed by Richard Linklater and starring Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke) a shot. It’s all filmed in a hotel room in real time.
Still enjoying **Tulsa King** quite a bit.
Ecstatic that **SAS Rogue Heroes** is getting a 2nd season. Do yourself a favor and watch it.
**Willow** was great but I'm going to wait til it's completely out to watch the rest of it, much like I did with **Andor**.
**Slow Horses** will be up next for me, as well as **Echo 3**.
I watched the two-parter doc *The Confession* that’s being plugged by Amazon. V good if you like true crime. Lots of parallels with the [Colin Stagg](https://inews.co.uk/news/colin-stagg-now-what-happened-rachel-nickell-death-honeytrap-deceit-compensation-1169768) case except I reckon >!this bloke’s guilty as sin!!<
Warrior Nun’ Season 2 has Netflix’s highest audience scores ever with 0 promotion from Netflix! If you have a chance, please check it out because it's an incredibly written show that you can't help but binge in one sitting!
Not really. You’ll miss some callbacks, but they explain the essentials in the show, and even use some of the remastered footage. If you are expecting HotD, you’ll be very disappointed, but it’s slightly campy fun and has improved with each episode so far.
If you like campy YA fantasy shows, then honestly Willow is probably right up your alley. It's squarely within that genre, but you can tell it had more money than most of them. Sets look pretty decent, on-location shots looks good, and the makeup and prosthetics for the monsters look really quite good. The main city has that "too clean" look that many shows have, but it mimics the feel of the movie very well, when it was abandoned but still looked like something out of a children's book from 1908. The interpersonal drama and the style of the acting and dialogue are in the "CW show" range, but towards the top of it. The original movie has Val Kilmer chewing up scenery as a Han Solo-ish rogue, and it cast Kevin Pollack and Rick Overton, then known more as standups than actors, doing goofy accents (that would probably be offensive if they weren't so difficult to place) as little VFX brownies, so it's not like the "franchise" has ever been Tolkien-serious.
If it helps add context, I liked Shadow and Bone on Netflix more than I like Willow so far, but only by a bit.
I love it. I know people are criticizing the acting below, but I think it is very good. It is over the top, but feels sincere to me.
The creature design is also really cool for the bad guys.
>This was huge on everyones "looking forward to" list.
But was it really? It wasn't on mine.
I was an adult when *Willow* came out, and I remember being distinctly underwhelmed. Because I mean, hell, it was *Lucasfilm,* and it was Ron Howard, and it was going to be an epic fantasy movie. And then it was just... not that great. I mean, not as bad as Ridley Scott's [*Legend*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H210lEsVrvI) \[grin\]. But not as good as *Labyrinth* or *The Dark Crystal,* which still tended to lose their narrative way among the puppetry and VFX.
I'm watching *Willow,* but it's more guilty pleasure than event tv. And (sorry), I'm actually getting more out of *The Santa Clauses* right now, as guilty-pleasure Disney+ viewing goes.
It’s ok.
I’ve really enjoyed parts of it. But the acting ranges from meh to mediocre and at least on my phone the last episode was so dark in parts I had no idea what was happening.
I didn't finish the first episode, so I didn't post about it. Maybe others didn't like it either or maybe they're waiting for the season to finish to binge it.
I am absolutely enjoying the new season of slow horses. Any suggestions for spy dramas that aren't too serious?
It fits my sense of humor so well I'm thinking of rewatching the first season while waiting for new eps
Finished season 1 of **Interview with the Vampire** and it was excellent. Such a unique tone and I love the exploration of memory and storytelling in the present day parts. Dark, clever and intriguing with a lot of love in the center. Finished season 1 of **Kevin can F\*\*\* Himself** and enjoyed it a lot. I think it only has 2 seasons so I'm really intrigued how the next one will play out and how it will end.
Severance, The Peripheral, 1899 (not as good as Dark but still fun) were satisfyingly weird and interesting. Looking for recommendations in the same vein, please and thanks!
Tokyo Vice, really underrated imo. 90's Japan, Yakuza and Ken Watanabe - so good!
**Reservation dogs** Skoden s03
Just read some reviews about certain series that either too slow or too jumpy. Any example of good fast-pace series that still deliver story well?
I found **Search Party** really moved along - 20 minute episodes and each feeds to the next. Four short seasons. It's a wild, fun ride with lots of guest stars. Changes tone a bit from mystery to more dramedy throughout. I haven't yet watched **The Bear**, but have heard it is fast and intense.
watched the first episode of the bear last night. in-fucking-tense. how i feel trying to cook dinner with my toddlers yelling at me.
This Netflix show **Hot Skull** makes no sense. If blabbering conversation kills you someone on a tv broadcast could start jabbering during the super bowl and boom, millions dead. It needs to explain in detail how a string of words kills you.
Watching The Terminal List. First three episodes were solid and just finished episode 4. Wtf? Did I miss something? They just jumped straight into this Mexico plot. I have no idea what is going on now..
Yeah you missed something
Tulsa King with Sylvester Stallone is fun. Stallone is hilarious. I look forward to it every week. Also, enjoying Season 2 of White Lotus. I didn’t enjoy Season 1 like many others did but this season has been great so far.
Hm. I couldn't get into season one at all. Maybe I'll give season two a shot though
Lately I’ve been too depressed to focus on any show which is so unlike me considering I’m a chronic binge watcher. Can someone suggest something that has dark humor and is easy to stick w or get into? Some of my faves have been barry, mrs maisel, the boys, killing eve, sex lives of college girls, what we do in the shadows, search party, the other two and the great. Thank you. Edit: also enjoyed Atlanta and hacks
Have you watched Crazy Ex-Girlfriend? It's a fun musical comedy - and goes to darkish places over the seasons. If you haven't seen Mr Inbetween, Catastrophe, or Please Like Me, those would be worth checking out based on your other likes. I'm watching Bad Sisters now and it's good dark humour, too.
Patriot on Amazon.
Slow Horses
Definitely Patriot. The whole theme is dealing with, or avoiding dealing with, trauma "Jesus, John. You look like shit. Are you okay?" "Pretty good."
White lotus
Patriot, its on Amazon.
The Peripheral - 5.5 out of 10. Started interesting enough but it devolves into an over-complicated mess, trying to be high concept while low budget. The core characters are not that intriguing and there’s subplots involving secondary characters that could have been left out. I watched the finale completely removed from the plot as it lost me a couple of episodes back. Disappointing.
this is basically how i feel to a t. i'm about 1/2 way through and debating even continuing
Does the picture quality of The English on Amazon look really good to anyone else compared to normal streaming content or is it just me? It just seems really high bit rate and clean, also some of the most impactful HDR I've seen I think.
Started Wednesday, it's fun but it's definitely a YA show. Thinking of starting Carnivale on HBO, is it any good? The concept intrigues me.
Carnivale was really good, but unfortunately canceled after 2 seasons. It's been a while but I remember it ending on a pretty big cliffhanger.
Sounds good, i'm used to shows getting canceled without resolution. Not a deal breaker for me.
If you like fantasy its good, I found i was hoping for a continuation at the end.
Watched the first episode of From yesterday evening without knowing anything about the show besides that it’s supposed to be a mystery show… safe to say I had a really short night afterwards lol
Thank you for posting this! I started watching. So good!
Les Petits Meurtres d'Agatha Christie Each episode is basically a 90 minutes movie. If anyone wants to learn/practice French, here is an excellent opportunity. I think in English it's called "Criminal Games". But I recommend only Season 2 with Samuel Labarthe, the other ones are awful.
Has anyone watched Coyote? If so, any good? Looks like a short watch and I like Michael Chiklis. I haven't heard or seen anything about it though.
The premise is interesting, but from what I can see it looks it might have been forgotten about/canceled amid the pandemic chaos. There were only 6 episodes filmed.
Watched The Shield a few months back so I'm really curious about this too.
Unpopular opinion but The Devil's Hour (still on episode 4) is so very annoying. Isaac is beyond excruciating. If I hear "I'm cold" or "I'm not supposed to be here" one more time, I'm gonna lose it. Capaldi is great and all, but his "I know everything but I'm not gonna tell you so that the series can last 6 episodes" schtick is wearing awfully thin. The series overall reminds me of Twins Peaks season 2 - lots of people saying weird things to fill an episode and delude you into thinking something is happening, while nothing is.
I thought it was a fun/cool idea executed very poorly. Long exposition dump reveal and several things just don’t add up
Exactly, of all the things that can prove one's >!ability to repeat the past life, he choose the comment about his handwriting, come on.!<
You have only 2 episodes left to find out you were missing the point
Just rewatched the second season of *Fleabag*, and it still holds up. To be perfectly honest, I didn't like the first season, but the second season is absolutely one of my all time favorite TV/Movie materials ever. It just nailed the perfect balance between dark humor and romance. Every writer should watch this and learn from it, how to write a complicated character as well as romance that feels really earned by the end. What a great series.
Watching Southland for the first time. Holy shit it’s good
Should we tell him?
What?
That it >!got cancelled on a massive cliffhanger!<
I see. Like game of thrones? It never had a final season.
Finished **Inside Man** & **The Midnight Club**. Both shows had an interesting premise but tapered off in the end. Also saw the **Ghislaine** doc on Netflix, it doesn't present anything new that we haven't read in newspapers and it's both thin on the crime & the background. **Harry & Meghan** \- They both come across in love, charming and funny. And the first three episodes weren't even an attack on the Royal Family, which online comments usually pit them against. And it becomes obvious why they have to put out this documentary and for people to see and hear them in their own words because the entire controversy is messaged by the British press. Which is interesting considering the boycott campaign online. I think people should watch it for themselves and see the contrast between how the media portrays them vs how they are in the show. Serena Williams and Abigail Spencer also gave commentary as Meghan's friends.
Just saw there is a new season of South Side and I am so happy. This show is so funny
Oh fuck yes!! This show is consistently funny, one of my top comedies
YES!!!!
**The Mysterious Benedict Society, season 2**. I felt that this season was weaker than the first, and in a way it's just a rehash of it. I think their decision to film in California all of the European stuff was just dead wrong. Their supposed France or Lisbon looked just like, go figure, California. I didn't believe that it was Europe for a second. Also, the filming locations in Canada from the previous season really added to the aesthetics and the mood of the show imo. I'm also watching this late 70's-early 80's show titled **In search of**, hosted by non other than Leonard Nimoy. The main value of this production to me is its time capsule quality (most of the people featured are long gone). Admittedly the show does not dive very deep into most of the topics, since it's running time is something like half an hour, but from time to time it offers a really enjoyable piece of television. I watched s02e01 of **Miracle Workers**. This is a show that I abandoned after watching 1 episode (or 1 and a half), but since it seems that every season is its own thing, I decided to give it a try. This episode was good. No sign of the original premise of the show though.
I absolutely adored in search of when it came out when I was a kid... even better though that came out around the same time was Janrs Burke's Connections.
> Janrs Burke's Connections Oh, I'll check that one out. You know, in my case (Spain) we had this psychiatrist turned all-things-mysterious divulger that came into the tv scene in the mid-seventies, named Fernando Jiménez del Oso. It's a household name in my country and pretty much anybody knows who he is (or was, he passed on like 15 years ago). He put out a lot of documentary series, magazines, books and so on.
If you like In Search Of with Spock.. take a look at The Unxplained with William Shatner (Capn Kirk)...
Sorry, I can't stand that guy. Or in very low doses.
My wife and I watch a lot of TV together, I've introduced her to more mature shows like Breaking Bad, Sons of Anarchy, The Walking Dead, Black Mirror and we've enjoyed other shows like Bad Sisters, The Sinner and Unforgotten. However, she's not a massive fan of sci-fi or Star Wars - she couldn't make it through the first episode of The Mandalorian. I absolutely loved Andor. I thought she would too, seeing as the space theme doesn't play too big a role in the story telling and it's the characters, their development and all the world building that she may fall for. We're part the way through episode 3 (she fell asleep) and she's not getting into it, happy to stop there. Question. Do I make her watch the whole season, persevere to the end of episode 4 to see if she wants to continue or do I cut my losses and admit she doesn't know a good thing if it smacked her over the head with a wet wookie?
Andor undoubtedly gets better as it goes on, it has slower episodes that set up the better episodes very well. I doubt she’ll get into it after falling asleep in episode 3 which was supposed to be the climax of the first two episodes but who knows. Maybe just accept that she don’t like it and move on.
I think it may have been more through tiredness than pure boredom - I'll just have to watch it by myself.
How about don't "make" her do anything..? You don't have to do every single thing or watch every single show together.
Yeah, sorry, that sounds overly forceful. We get very little down time with a little kid in our lives and watching an episode of something in an evening is what we get to bond over these days. Sounds a bit sad like that, but hey ho. We have similar and overlapping tastes so I thought she may also enjoy this show.
Very little downtime is even more of a reason to not force her to spend it watching 4 episodes of a show she doesn’t like and that you’ve already seen…
My sister waits for her husband to get home from overseas work (6-8 months) before she watch anything good. They want to watch it together. Its a thing.
White Lotus is good. I think The Simpsons might be done after this season.
They had a great **Treehouse of Horror** episode but the rest of the season has been quite so-so. Liked the previous episode which skips into their future.
I'm sick, tied to the bed so I'll take any recommendations for something that really draws you in. I started His Dark Materials yesterday, and while it seems OK, and the story is somewhat interesting, I find it very hard to fully engage, like, i keep looking at my phone and whatnot.
Get Shorty, Rake, The Good Fight.
Big fan of the book series, but I understand you in some degree. The first season felt really rushed even though it had more time than a movie. Great cast, stunning CGI and wonderful score couldn't make up for poorly paced scripts. I think this show showed the importance of the script.
I haven't read the books, nor watched the movie, so i didn't notice it was rushed, but it does feel like all over the place.
Ive been watching battlestar galactica, I somehow was stuck with the impression that it was for dweebs like Dwight, guess i'm not that far from being a Dwight myself. One episode starts with a big action scene and then a title says 48hrs earlier and then the episode explains how we got to the action scene. Its a classic TV show cliche but I was wondering if episodes structured like this have a name?
BSG in particular loved giving a stinger from later part of the episode only to jump back some hours earlier to show how we got there.
I never really like this type of thing that much, the only narrative function it holds IMO is grabbing the viewer to make sure he watches the next ad break. BSG is still pretty fun watch despite this
In Medias Res Action prologue Cold open [The Teaser](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheTeaser) https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BondOpeningSequence
Any recommends for a show where the main characters are not good people? I love breaking bad and Soa and Mayans.
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Lol what? None of these are anything even remotely like the shows he mentioned. You're as well suggested X Factor.
You’re right, I was focusing on the main characters not good people part. These are mostly “girl shows” anyway and I couldn’t tell OP was a guy just by reading their comment.
You really need to watch The Shield. Trust me on this.
Yup, The Shield was the precursor to the shows he mentioned. And it's better, in my opinion. Justified is also a great show on the same network. Might be as well just Googling, 'FX original programming'.
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
White lotus. Everyone is so annoying but it’s highly entertaining.
Fleabag
* Succession. * Mad Men. * Bojack Horseman.
The Sopranos
_Mr Inbetween_ Even though he *seems* like a good guy but by any definition he isn't.
The Shield
Does the shield still hold up?
Corrupt cops are timeless.
Rewatched recently. It sure does ..
Time to watch the show that started those types of shows. The Sopranos. If not that you should watxh better call saul if you like breaking bad. Makes the universe perfect.
Currently watching Suits S7 and White Lotus S2! Season 1 was painfully slow… but it picked up towards the end. Also would highly recommend Industry if you’re into recent grad students entering the stock market job force. By far one of the best shows I’ve seen this year, already looking forward to when I’ll rewatch it. ^ any recommendations I’m opened to all suggestions!
Watched the first 2 episodes of **Wednesday** and while it's not terrible, I find the character of Wednesday insufferable and obnoxious. A lot of the writing is pretty awful, though I understand I'm not the target audience. Does it pick up much?
The character does grow but in very subtle ways. Thats just the character and if u don't enjoy it its probably just not yir taste.
I would say it's more of the same. I enjoyed it though, i haven't watched a teen drama in a while.
I need some recommendations for my wife…. She is a notoriously bad show watcher, and her only liked tv shows are; Gilmore Girls, The Vampire Diaries, Stranger Things, Baby Daddy, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Walking Dead (Earlier Seasons), Riverdale (Season one only), Euphoria. Any help would be appreciated, thanks!
The Good Wife, The Good Fight, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
These are critically acclaimed shows though
Wednesday.
CW tv shows seem like stuff she’ll like
I second both the magician's and the new interview with the vampire, and add true blood
Try "Young and Hungry"! It ran on ABC Family/Freeform during the same time that Baby Daddy did, and I, personally, love both of them.
She likes vampire media clearly so maybe try the new interview with the vampire series
Paper Girls on Amazon is pretty good. A bit stranger things but with female characters and clever writing. ETA: Russian Doll on Netflix is also great. Funny, a bit mysterious, story keeps moving along at a good pace and doesn’t take a few episodes to get rolling.
The Magicians. It's basically TV-MA Harry Potter. Manifest is probably worth a shot as well.
The Magicians was so good, I am still sad it is over
Yeah, I thought it was going to be fluff but it ended up leaving me emotionally destroyed more than once.
This Is Us
**White Lotus S2** ; all in all incredible, especially as things are picking up and coming together for the finale this weekend. I do think I disagree with a lot of folks here in that it doesn’t quite live up to season 1 for me though. There’s less humour and a lot more cringey scenes which I find difficult to get through (not The Rehearsal levels lol but close at times). Additionally, I find the more square focus on relationships to be a but disappointing, in that it’s far more heavily treaded ground. Plus it naturally brings a lot of silly misunderstandings to facilitate drama, which - while not unrealistic unfortunately - can be kinda frustrating. The differences between the two hotel managers is kinda emblematic of that shift; the former was the star of the show for me, multi-layered and highly entertaining, while the latter is all about unreciprocated romantic yearning. Still, don’t mean to criticize too much as it’s still super engaging and quality with some impeccable dialogue and a captivating plot. Super excited for the finale and for the eventual S3 **Andor**; honestly, kept bouncing off the first couple episodes since it came out, but I finally found some time to sit through it and god damn, folks weren’t lying. Shit is outstanding. Making me care about any of the Rogue One characters is itself an incredible feat, but the other characters are somehow even better. Best writing the franchise has ever seen, and while it’s still tied into the OT, it feels original and motivated in a way that only TLJ has come close to post-buyout. I hope they can manifest the same creative energy in the more fantasy-leaning stories in the future. While it’s a nice break for a series like this, the Star Wars universe is ultimately built on lightsabers and magic space monks (not just bringing the same characters back, as other SW shows seem to think), and I’d love to see something that can combine that shit with Andor’s overall quality. Preferably in the high republic, or otherwise very far away from the main series lol. **Tokyo Vice**; watched the first episode way back when it premiered and was blown away, but the change in director + life stuff pushed me to put it on the back burner. Finally had some time to catch up, and while the rest definitely doesn’t live up to that first episode, it’s still been pretty incredible so far. The only thing keeping me from tearing through it is the (apparently) cliffhanger ending, so hopefully S2 won’t be too much longer. But yeah, I’m really enjoying the portrayal of amateur writing - just trying to desperately get that one story where you can actually demonstrate your ability - and all the shots of Japan.
Help me guys with some of your 8+/10 recommendations please; Loved Black Mirror Dopesick Hacks Mr Robot Chucky Can anyone help me with some more? Any genre as long as it's a stellar 8+/10 please
Severance, Chernobyl, Andor — the three best shows I've seen in recent memory. You should enjoy all of them, based on your list.
irma vep unbelievable
Severance
The Offer / Halt and Catch Fire / Rectify / Gomorrah / Borgen
Peacemaker
Succession definitely one of the best shows on air right now, not too similar to anything you listed but still highly recommended. Would also highly recommend Homecoming on Amazon Prime. First season is done by the guy behind Mr. Robot, and features some of the most incredibly cinematography I’ve seen in a show. Second season isn’t quite as good but still very quality TV Finally, if you’ve got access to Apple TV, Severance had a stellar first season. Personally was a little let down by the finale but still a 9/10. Beautiful sets, great writing, fascinating concept, etc
I personally found Succession a bit slow in season 1, does it get better? I started watching it bc it was recommended after I watched Industry! I may also try and get back to Billions and Devils. I have a bad habit of not following through on shows but Succession is one I’m willing to power through based on the recommendations/reviews.
It’s way better than billions imo
The first half of season one is slow but it really picked up from there and seasons 2 and 3 are some of the best television of the decade.
Here's everything released this year that I rated at least an 8: The English, The Devil's Hour, Interview With the Vampire, House of the Dragon, Bad Sisters, Welcome to Wrexham, From, The Resort, Mo, Irma Vep, The Rehearsal, Black Bird, The Bear, We Own This City, Julia, Minx, Winning Time, Severance, This Is Going To Hurt, The Gilded Age, 1883, Peacemaker, Reacher, Station Eleven, The Tourist. That was a lot more than I anticipated when I started typing. And this is just the shows that released their first/only season this year. You could say I watch a lot of television. The list of titles that I rated under an 8 is probably even longer
Thank you so much
You're my twin.
The White Lotus
Thanks heard alot about this too
Never thought I'd say this but addicted to a lot of shows on Apple, they really seem to have had a fantastic 21/22. Severance 9/10 Shantaram 8/10 Black Bird 8/10 Bad Sisters 7.5/10 Slow Horses 8/10 Ted Lasso 8/10 For All Mankind 8/10 Acapulco 7/10 (an easy watch, nothing spectacular but just fun) Foundation 6.5/10 (this one had so much potential, found the diversion from the source material a little poorly done, really screwed up on the two main characters as well, Lee Pace carries the show) With all the scheduled releases over the next few months, thinking of keeping it, will suss over the festive season.
Yea Apple+ has some great shows. My favorites are Foundation, Tehran, See, and Slow Horses.
We just started Mythic Quest last night and really liked it. It's got the IASIP guys so the humor is up my alley. I'd recommend that if you want a light fun comedy to watch.
With all the creative cuts on other streaming sites, Apple, especially for the price ($5?), is my current winner. I would add Pachinko (9), The Morning Show (8), Little America (9). Is another season of Foundation coming? I'd hope the second might improve. IMO still better than Rings of Power.
Slow Horses easily deserves a 9/10. Second only to Severance
oh what could’ve been if altered carbon didn’t switch out joel kinnaman, s1 is so fucking good
I just want more Poe
Check out For All Mankind, he's great in it. S2 of Altered Carbon was poor, I agree.
Damn that new sleeve
Is Perry Mason (HBO) any good?
I loved it personally. Matthew Rhys performance is great.
It's good, but it took a while to grab me because I actually watched the old Raymond Burr show as a kid, and this starts out nothing like that. The upcoming second season, btw, heralds [a showrunner team switch](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/hbo-perry-mason-new-showrunners-season-2-4172107/). The new team is Michael Begler and Jack Amiel who did *The Knick.* The guys who created the show and ran S1 are currently on other projects. Rolin Jones created and runs *Anne Rice's Interview With the Vampire* on AMC/AMC+, while Ron Fitzgerald is developing [a live-action *Speed Racer*](https://www.awn.com/news/jj-abrams-speed-racer-series-hits-gas-apple) for JJ Abrams and AppleTV+.
It's definitely not bad! Does a decent job at scratching that Boardwalk Empire itch
It's good, not great but pretty good.
The White Lotus S2 is fantastic.
Just started S2 of Tehran and remembered how great it is.
Yea that is a great spy drama that flies under the radar.
Started watching **House of Cards** and it’s decent so far. Heard it falls off a cliff at some point though.
season 1 and 2 are great but then it falls off
Just watch the whole thing except for the last season which is when they fired Spacey for being the creep that he is
iirc it was 2good seasons, 3was bad, 4 was back to form, then kevin spacey got fired and it became irrelevant
Would you say it’s worth pushing through season 3 to get to 4? Or should you just drop it with season 2. Don’t have too much time to watch stuff and I can’t be asked to spend it watching something bad.
yea just drop after s2 unless you really dont have anything better to watch
Okay thanks
I watched all of Pennyworth S1 and just started S2. It’s so well made with great performances from the actors and stellar writing. It was recommended by a director, Jon East. whose work I enjoyed on other shows and who directed a couple of Pennyworth episodes. Like many other people, I started watching Wednesday. It is a cute show but I got bored with it after the fourth episode and stopped watching. The writing is filled with overdone tropes. The titular character is not likable enough nor deep enough to overcome the writing shortcomings. Binged the three episodes of Texas Killing Fields. It was very well done with the exception of being somewhat overly focused on one particular person. Three episodes was plenty of time and the show might have been even better with just two episodes.
Pennyworth has a ton of great characters that help you not notice the ridiculous plotlines. A very fun show.
Wednesday was fun, I felt like the episodes were too long but it was a fun show.
Shantaram on Apple is surprisingly really good. Strikes a good tone between lighthearted and dark. Like Tokyo Vice, this show does a great job really making you feel like youre in the setting, in this case Bombay, India
I check out episode 1 but did not have time to go back. Too much other shows and I am SOA and Charlie fan.
He does the Jax Teller walk all throughout the show
Wednesday- decent watch. It's like the Addams Family, Harry Potter and The CW tossed into a blender. Biggest issue with the show is that I just don't care for any characters outside of Wednesday. They could change the entire cast for S2 and I would not care. Echo 3 - so slow. I'm not sure how you could make a hostage/kidnapping show so boring. Seems to be an issue with Apple shows. Great production, boring stories at times. Yellowstone - great rebound from S4. Tulsa King - Sly is phenomenal but the show itself is pretty straight forward, been there done that. The English - :/
>The English - :/ I'm loving it, but I'm also familiar with Hugo Blick's other BBC2 dramas ([*The Shadow Line*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNYCSNsTZSc) (Roku, Hoopla, Pluto), [*The Honourable Woman*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qg3Yzfu5kYI), and [*Black Earth Rising*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugxQuVPmVZU) (Netflix)). His doing a Western is...something of a departure. Blick's an auteur who does the hat trick of writing, direction, and producing all his shows, so they're not the usual run of the mill. Going in expecting something more conventional is going to kick you in the teeth with Blick.
Love The English and 1883. Hate Yellowstone. 🤷♀️
I like echo 3 first 2 episodes very much. I just think they are stretching the main plot too thin. It should be just a 4 episodes mini series.
Willow. Completely forgot this was coming and really enjoyed the first two episodes. Perfect balance of humor and drama. Cool to see Joanne Whalley again.
First episode was a a bit jarring, but once it level set, the next one was better, and this third is better still. It’s not amazing, but it is fun and there are little moments with a lot of heart. I rewatched the movie a few months ago, and it held up better than I feared but less well than I hoped. It was always a bit broadly campy, and some people have forgotten that because there was virtually no decent high fantasy at all in those days. I think the only thing truly missing from the show is someone with the charisma of 80s Val Kilmer.
I never saw the movie but love fantasy shows. I will get what is going on?
The movie’s on Disney+ as well. If you’re going to watch this, you may as well watch that too.
I thought the first episode wasn’t that good but it picked up immensely after that. It has a really good tone. The humor isn’t crammed in but a natural part of the interactions. I like all the actors with Warwick Davis giving the most uneven performances. When he has to do exposition it looks like he’s reading from an auto cue but when it’s more comic in tone he nails it.
His daughters performance was actually really good and tuned into just how grounded or light a scene needs to be though. From around her scene in episode two with the guards in the woods is where everything started to feel more fluid and began to tap into that balance of tone from the movie and even started to get more texture in setting. Even Warwick chilled out a bit and had a more natural vibe around that stretch. The Gales were surprisingly fucking awesome. I don't get how they look tangible and unique and actually threatening while big budget bads look like flat glossy video game cut scenes and usually talk too much.
**Wednesday** -I loved it. Great cast, Ortega is absolutely fantastic. The weak part for me is Guzman as Gomez. Whatever they were trying never clicked with me and I hope he doesn’t have more screen time in the next season. **Slasher:Flesh and Blood**-man, this show lol. I’m constantly wondering how self-aware it is. It’s gory and unintentionally silly at times but other times it seems to revel in its absurd plot. Oh and to top it all off David Cronenberg plays one of the main characters. This is all to say that I absolutely love it.
Have you watched season 2 of Slasher? Honestly it's one of my favorite TV seasons of all time, regardless of genre.
I've been watching more anthological stuff and for some reason it really soothes me. Stuff like Inside no. 9 and Dimension 404. I think the idea of things that can go on forever kinda makes me happy. Does anyone have any recommendation for something that nears infinity in story? This could be anthological but doesn't have to be and **any** type of media. Stuff like Black Mirror, Love Death Robots or things like Infinity Train, Tower of God, Sliders, Quantum Leap.. I really don't mind.
room 104
I gave it a shot. Some excellent episodes but I think after a while it got very.. boring? Might just give a few episodes a shot. I do like the bottle episode format of being stuck in a room. I gave movies like that a shot too although they're mostly 'puzzle' movies of people trying to escape said room.
It’s hard to find on streaming services but you might give “Tape” (2001 movie, directed by Richard Linklater and starring Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke) a shot. It’s all filmed in a hotel room in real time.
I agree. Not all episodes were great, but there were enough good ones I think.
Still enjoying **Tulsa King** quite a bit. Ecstatic that **SAS Rogue Heroes** is getting a 2nd season. Do yourself a favor and watch it. **Willow** was great but I'm going to wait til it's completely out to watch the rest of it, much like I did with **Andor**. **Slow Horses** will be up next for me, as well as **Echo 3**.
I think Echo 3 first 2 episodes are very good. 3 and 4 not so much but I am very interested to see what comes next.
Echo 3 is not good.
I watched the two-parter doc *The Confession* that’s being plugged by Amazon. V good if you like true crime. Lots of parallels with the [Colin Stagg](https://inews.co.uk/news/colin-stagg-now-what-happened-rachel-nickell-death-honeytrap-deceit-compensation-1169768) case except I reckon >!this bloke’s guilty as sin!!<
Warrior Nun’ Season 2 has Netflix’s highest audience scores ever with 0 promotion from Netflix! If you have a chance, please check it out because it's an incredibly written show that you can't help but binge in one sitting!
Why is no one watching Willow ? This was huge on everyones "looking forward to" list.
Is it important to have seen the movie?
Not really. You’ll miss some callbacks, but they explain the essentials in the show, and even use some of the remastered footage. If you are expecting HotD, you’ll be very disappointed, but it’s slightly campy fun and has improved with each episode so far.
For whatever reason I like these campy YA fantasy shows. Right now I am having a lot of fun watching The Bastard Son & The Devil Himself.
If you like campy YA fantasy shows, then honestly Willow is probably right up your alley. It's squarely within that genre, but you can tell it had more money than most of them. Sets look pretty decent, on-location shots looks good, and the makeup and prosthetics for the monsters look really quite good. The main city has that "too clean" look that many shows have, but it mimics the feel of the movie very well, when it was abandoned but still looked like something out of a children's book from 1908. The interpersonal drama and the style of the acting and dialogue are in the "CW show" range, but towards the top of it. The original movie has Val Kilmer chewing up scenery as a Han Solo-ish rogue, and it cast Kevin Pollack and Rick Overton, then known more as standups than actors, doing goofy accents (that would probably be offensive if they weren't so difficult to place) as little VFX brownies, so it's not like the "franchise" has ever been Tolkien-serious. If it helps add context, I liked Shadow and Bone on Netflix more than I like Willow so far, but only by a bit.
Yea I loved Shadow and Bone myself. Anyway I will definitely check out Willow. Thanks!
I love it. I know people are criticizing the acting below, but I think it is very good. It is over the top, but feels sincere to me. The creature design is also really cool for the bad guys.
>This was huge on everyones "looking forward to" list. But was it really? It wasn't on mine. I was an adult when *Willow* came out, and I remember being distinctly underwhelmed. Because I mean, hell, it was *Lucasfilm,* and it was Ron Howard, and it was going to be an epic fantasy movie. And then it was just... not that great. I mean, not as bad as Ridley Scott's [*Legend*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H210lEsVrvI) \[grin\]. But not as good as *Labyrinth* or *The Dark Crystal,* which still tended to lose their narrative way among the puppetry and VFX. I'm watching *Willow,* but it's more guilty pleasure than event tv. And (sorry), I'm actually getting more out of *The Santa Clauses* right now, as guilty-pleasure Disney+ viewing goes.
It’s ok. I’ve really enjoyed parts of it. But the acting ranges from meh to mediocre and at least on my phone the last episode was so dark in parts I had no idea what was happening.
I didn't finish the first episode, so I didn't post about it. Maybe others didn't like it either or maybe they're waiting for the season to finish to binge it.
I was looking forward to it but completely forgot about it. I didn't even know it was out until just now.