What TV Shows Are You Watching?

I needed something big and easy to follow while on the machines at the gym. Gangs of London is delivering!
 
Watched the new Terminator Anime and Kaos on Netflix. Terminator I’ll give a B- it was at least interesting but I’m not a big anime guy.

Kaos I’ll give a C- the cast was good but the plot layout very stupid and having the main character be constantly be referred to as Riddy was very annoying.
 
Grand Potentate said:
Such a good show.

New Rings of Power season is abominably boring. I just don't know how anyone can find this enjoyable television.
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I appreciate that Slow Horses is on regular release schedule. So many other shows I’m mildly interested in following are just in ‘new season coming’ status.
 
Just started with Bad Monkey, black comedy/crime/drama. Not earth shattering, but good fun so far, Vince Vaughn always delivers and the rest of the cast is quite decent as well
 
belinmad said:
Just started with Bad Monkey, black comedy/crime/drama. Not earth shattering, but good fun so far, Vince Vaughn always delivers and the rest of the cast is quite decent as well
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I’ve never thought much of VV, but you’re right - this show is pretty good.
 
I'm convinced Nicole Kidman is in dire financial straits because she's signing up to do any series or movie these days.

The Perfect Couple on Netflix - the plot gets more and more ridiculous as the show goes on...Nice views though.
Expats on Amazon Prime - frustrated rich stay at home housewife dragged on for 6 episodes. Nice Hong Kong backdrop though.

..not a TV show but The Family Affair is probably the most palatable of her 2024 releases. Shagging Zac Efron is hard to screw up.
 
I finished The Bear season 3. The entire season was pretty underwhelming. I heard they filmed everything all at once and they are just releasing parts of it now. The first episode was bizarre. It almost felt like they took unused footage and decided to stitch them together to make an episode out of it. The rest of the season seemed to be one deep dive into a character after another which sometimes flowed linearly but often not. Tina's episode was the best mix between personal story and the series' development. She deserved her Emmy. Richie's' story was interestingly not as angry as I thought. Despite being 10 episodes again it felt like it said less than the 8 episodes of the first season.

Also caught up on watching HBO's Chernobyl. It's so old now I actually saw it available for rent in a disc rental place two weeks ago. Pretty good performances from all the cast who recur on British film and TV. I don't know if the final show trial was really required. It could have been condensed to 10 minutes at the end of the previous episode with some credits to show where everyone ended up. It also reinforced my view that people are unjustified criticising Russians from wantonly bombing and endangering nuclear reactors in their war. After all they had the biggest disaster of all time and knew all too well how much it takes to clean it up.
 
The Rings of Power is finally over. I cannot possibly fathom how they are planning on making three more seasons of this dreadful garbage.
 
Amazon is spending $1B on it. If y'all keep buying cheap made in China stuff delivered by gig workers it will get made.

I haven't seen it. I got tired of Lord of the Rings by the time it got to the third movie. I still don't understand how ghosts killed all the evil people. My father watched a few episodes when he had his sight but quickly soured on it. All he said was that elf guy is there.

What is inexplicable is another season of Ted Lasso. What else could they talk about? I thought the previous season neatly tied everything up. Ted coaches at an MLS franchise in the States?
 
Watching Nobody Wants This on Netflix. I read a critic say Netflix has all these algorithms and never cranks out a rom com series worth watching except this one. So far it is okay. Meet cute. Jokes aren’t too cringe.

Kristen Bell looks kind of weird. Plastic surgery weird. Can’t quite put my finger on what it is and I never saw her before.

Justine Lupe looks better and apparently was pregnant filming the show.
 
I'm watching the second season of Everything Calls for Salvation. I didn't think random men in an asylum would be interesting but it's kind of touching. There's a redemption arc going for most of the characters here - including the medical staff.

Since Daniele is out of the asylum this time the show is broader and expanded into more characters and settings.
 
Netflix already cancelled KAOS. What is the point of even watching any of their tv series at this point if they’ll just cancel them before the story lines have a chance to go anywhere.
 
Grand Potentate said:
Netflix already cancelled KAOS. What is the point of even watching any of their tv series at this point if they’ll just cancel them before the story lines have a chance to go anywhere.
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Streamers don’t have unlimited budgets regardless of audience size as Netflix and Disney painfully found out.

Amazon and Apple seem to be bankrolling their shows with their revenue streams.
 
Finished Nobody Wants This. It was going for an unresolved season ending and then half backed out of it.

That Kristin Bell character is a nightmare. Wanting your password to your mobile to check if you are talking to your ex and then wanting to know what and why you have a box of stuff labeled with your ex. How insecure are you? The relationship reads needy all over it.
 
I started watching Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War on Netflix. Originally it was to pass time since I knew most if not all of the material up until the postwar era. But as someone who studied history it started getting interesting. Lee Grant is an actress who was targeted as Unamerican. I was doing the math and my head and she must be 98 or something in this documentary.
 
Beef renewed for season 2 so Ali Wong and Steven Yeun can continue their grudge match over multiple episodes.

Why renew that as your token oriental series and not The Brothers Sun which in my opinion is less formulaic. Also the women were hotter.
 
Fwiffo said:
Beef renewed for season 2 so Ali Wong and Steven Yeun can continue their grudge match over multiple episodes.

Why renew that as your token oriental series and not The Brothers Sun which in my opinion is less formulaic. Also the women were hotter.
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Brothers Sun was way better. I have no idea what a season 2 of Beef could even be about at this point, unless they're going to get two completely new people to have a beef.
 
Grand Potentate said:
Brothers Sun was way better. I have no idea what a season 2 of Beef could even be about at this point, unless they're going to get two completely new people to have a beef.
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I think it all started with the show inexplicably winning Golden Globes. Netflix is a whore for awards so if it was the Brothers Sun that won they would have renewed that one instead.

Prime is coming out with a show for The Pasta Queen. That's it. Any person on TikTok/Insta/YouTube can now get their own show. I only knew about her when she plugged herself into one of the Italian chefs I watch.
 
I finished Chef's Table Noodles. Top notch cinematography but I find Chef's Table isn't so much about the food and cooking as it is about personal stories. At least it feels like that the past few iterations.
 
There’s nothing on the TV but the stupid fucking election so I decided to rewatch Battlestar Galactica. I forgot just how good this show was. The writing and acting is incredible and I’m only 3 episodes in.
 
Grand Potentate said:
There’s nothing on the TV but the stupid fucking election so I decided to rewatch Battlestar Galactica. I forgot just how good this show was. The writing and acting is incredible and I’m only 3 episodes in.
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I rewatched it all with the Mrs a few years ago (she had never seen it). Definitely holds up.

I just rewatched Slow Horses, seasons 1-4.
 
I'm trying to find some time to sit down (or lie down) to actually watch The Diplomat.

I'm watching Inganno right now. Lots of GILF sex scenes. I can see why some people hate it but I just treat it like an Italian soap opera masquerading as a South American telenovela including the eyebrow arches, suspenseful music, stare downs into the camera and plot twists all within 10 minutes of one episode.
 
Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War. The show clearly wants to paint a picture of how the birth of Marxist-Leninism and the Soviet Union as well as the arms race during WW2 led to the current situation in Ukraine. It even has shots of 2022 war footage and then flashes back to the events that led to the Cold War and such.

Parts of it I already knew from university. Some were new to me: like the fact Chiang Kai Shek used the same occupying Japanese military to police their people after Japan's surrender because he couldn't trust the communists. Or anything post Khruschev as I stopped taking history courses beyond the Cuban Missile Crisis. Also the Berlin Wall and partition of Germany was unknown to me other than the movie Goodbye, Lenin. I was a kid so I had no idea the impact of the event.

When it gets to the late 2000s, it'll paint a very Western view of the Yeltsin to Putin to Medvedev to Putin transition, because contemporary Russians wouldn't agree with the narrative the show is trying to illustrate unless you're a Russian dissident or exile.
 
Watched one episode of The Diplomat. They're able to maintain the pace which is nice. Not sure having the bald version of Boris in the office is ageing well compared to current events.

I forgot some of the names of the characters. Rufus Sewell is back. I thought he was one of the ones who died in the explosion.
 
Grand Potentate said:
There’s nothing on the TV but the stupid fucking election so I decided to rewatch Battlestar Galactica. I forgot just how good this show was. The writing and acting is incredible and I’m only 3 episodes in.
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Ok so through season 3 at this point. Seasons 1 and 2 were amazing. Season three starts to drag here at the end with the Baltar trial and everything surrounding it. I honestly had completely forgotten what happens in the final episodes.
 
Grand Potentate said:
Ok so through season 3 at this point. Seasons 1 and 2 were amazing. Season three starts to drag here at the end with the Baltar trial and everything surrounding it. I honestly had completely forgotten what happens in the final episodes.
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The end of the show surprised me - I guess I didn’t get that far during the original screening. It’s a pity the spin offs bombed. I think they are planning a reboot, but I can’t imagine anything surpassing the previous version
 
Dropbear said:
The end of the show surprised me - I guess I didn’t get that far during the original screening. It’s a pity the spin offs bombed. I think they are planning a reboot, but I can’t imagine anything surpassing the previous version
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I’ll report back after the next season. Hopefully it bounces back a bit here.
 
In between The Diplomat episodes I'm watching Citadel Diana. So far I thought it was pretty good. It's set in the post Citadel collapse with a Citadel person planted in Manticore Italy. There's some fighting between the Germany and French factions. The original Citadel had over the top action sequences and a bigger budget. This one's action sequences are more down to earth. They do have some contrived silly 'that was so convenient' moments (the motorcycle chase in Sicily) but the near future dystopian Milan is pretty realistic.

I might watch Citadel Honeybunny next.
 
I’ve started rewatching The Expanse and thoroughly enjoying it for a second time
 
I finished Cross.

The cinematography is dark. All the scenes are dark and grey. Even the happy scenes with his children. Okay I get it's a show about serial killers. Usually I expect the protagonist to eventually catch up and exceed the serial killer to trap him. This only happens in the last episode and a half which means I had to sit through some uncomfortable serial killer torture, gore, choking - some unnecessary. It's not as bad as House of Usher but getting there.

There's a twist at the end where he solves everything and all old ghosts and debts are explained and settled. I'm not sure if this is getting renewed.
 
Citadel Diana finished with her being Manticore Italia's new capo's girlfriend. It would have been nice if they worked in a last/final message that Filippo Negro was still alive but she smashed her Citadel communicator. He seems to get all these mentor type roles (Everything Calls for Salvation, Suburra after he kills his wife). Also sad to see the Duomo destroyed.

I'm debating whether to watch Citadel Honey bunny. It has more English even though it's in Hindi but I know zero Hindi compared to Italian.
 
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