[tv show] What TV shows are you watching

[JoeRogue]

I have a few on the go at the moment:

 

Lucifer - semi amusing and easy to follow

Wednesday - Really enjoyable!

Always Sunny in Philadelphia - I'm upset I didn't come across this sooner!

[AlistairB1983]

I have a few on the go at the moment:

Lucifer - semi amusing and easy to follow

Wednesday - Really enjoyable!

Always Sunny in Philadelphia - I'm upset I didn't come across this sooner!

Lucifer is definitely worth watching all the way through - the ending is extremely well done.

[6Foot2]

Link: The Curse (TV Series 2022– ) - IMDb [Via All4, 2 series, 6 episodes each]

 

[LeMarchand]

Finished The Night Agent on Netflix. A lot of fun, but could probably have done with being an episode or two shorter. Well worth a look if you like stuff like "24".

[LeMarchand]

Season 2 finales of Ghosts (US) and Shadow & Bone.

The former is still fun bur still not as heartfelt as the UK version. The later improved on S1, though it goes further off book and leaves lots of questions such as:

 

 

• Why did Nina think turning up at Prison Fight Club with a pardon would work?
  
• What does Inej see in Kaz?
  
• Why couldn't they have written a better way to show the armies clashing than they did? I've seen bigger school yard rumbles!
  

[6Foot2]

Link: BBC iPlayer - Ten Pound Poms [six episodes, about an hour each]

 

You can make your own world when you leave the past behind. Swapping dreary 50s Britain for a bright future Down Under, the new arrivals find a fresh start can come at a price.

 

5Foot2 has just finished the box set: She gives it

[LeMarchand]

Anyone else watching Silo?

 

Mme LeMarchand was looking after her aunt this weekend, so I watched all four currently available episodes. Found it a really good watch. Not read the books, but suspect they're jumbling them together, much like "Shadow & Bone", to maintain better cast continuity. I'm hoping that we do get an explanation of what's going on (and that there's a reason for the "retro" décor of the place) and that we don't get a "saggy bit in the middle". Most of all, I hope it doesn't end on a big cliffhanger. Very promising so far.

[Norphy]

I’ve been watching Ted Lasso. I don’t give a monkey’s toot about football but this I’m enjoying

[HarryMonkey]

Link: BBC iPlayer - Ten Pound Poms [six episodes, about an hour each]

 

 

 

5Foot2 has just finished the box set: She gives it

 

I downloaded E1 last night. So far so good.

[Dos_Box]

Just finished Neo Genesis Evengelion (on Netflix) using the orginal Japanese dub with subtitles as I've been told the English dub changes some important dialogue.

My son has a small private cinema booked for a couple of hours for his birthday next month and wants to watch The End of Evengelion, so I have to be up to speed on this. TBH, it was a standard Japanese 'giant-robots-fighting-stuff' series until about ep20 (out of 26), then it really grabbed my attention.

The film is the final two episodes I'm led to belive, so can't wait to see how it all pans out.

[MartinT]

Anyone else watching Silo?

 

I want to watch it as it's based on Hugh Howey's Wool, which was a great read. However, it's on Apple TV+

[DalekSec]

Also watching Silo, enjoying it but is a bit of a struggle at some points to watch. Tends to drift a bit!

 

Also watching 'A little light' on Disney+, about Meip, who helped hide the Franks in WW2. Really enjoyable (if thats the right word)

[LeMarchand]

I want to watch it as it's based on Hugh Howey's Wool, which was a great read. However, it's on Apple TV+

 

You can normally get some sort of free trial. Wait until it's finished and you have time and go for a binge!

[LeMarchand]

@MartinT: https://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/5-month-free-trial-apple-tv-plus-4141115

 

I finished Citadel. This could have been a fun superspies vs supervillains show, but got bogged down by way too many OTT twists. I'm struggling to see how the spinoffs will work as it wouldn't make sense if they are set in the present, but would make plotting very difficult if set in the past or future.

 

Another "big budget" (for German TV) one, The Swarm (on Sky) is far better so far. Strange things are happening in the see and scientists across Europe and beyond are trying to find out what is going on.

 

[MartinT]

@LeMarchand many thanks for that, a free trial that actually worked! After jumping through hoops (and reluctantly giving them my payment details), I'm now all set to watch Silo from tonight

[LeMarchand]

@LeMarchand many thanks for that, a free trial that actually worked! After jumping through hoops (and reluctantly giving them my payment details), I'm now all set to watch Silo from tonight

 

Just remember to cancel at least a day before the end of the trial. "Foundation" is also worth a look. Also, if don't mind and have some sort of a passing knowledge of musicals, "Schmigadoon!".

[Norphy]

Your Honor on P+

 

Bryan Cranston seems to have a thing for characters who dig themselves into ever deeper holes, but it’s pretty good.

[Rob_D]

Your Honor on P+

Bryan Cranston seems to have a thing for characters who dig themselves into ever deeper holes, but it’s pretty good.

 

It's also available on Sky if anyone's interested. Parents watched it a couple of years back and thought it was very good.

[ICTDirect_Dave]

The simply exceptional Marvellous Mrs Maisel finally came to the end of it's run this month with a perfect finale.

It is one of the very best TV shows I've ever watched. Probably beaten only by The West Wing.

The writing is superb. Witty, sharp, funny, well-paced. The production is just gorgeous and the some of the creative camera work they do for big scenes is simply stunning.

If you haven't watched it on Amazon Prime yet then you should really start it right away.

 

[LeMarchand]

Finished Season 2 of Schmigadoon! on Apple TV+. A lot of fun, but perhaps not quite as enjoyable as the first season. I suspect that it's because, probably due to Bank Holiday TV showings - I'm not that ls!, the older musicals covered in the first season were more familiar to me. Worth a watch if you have a passing knowledge of musicals and takes the bronze in the "TV Musical Shows" awards behind "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" and the sublime "Galavant".

 

Also finished the first and probably only season of The Swarm (showing on Sky Sci-Fi). As mentioned above, strange things are happening in the sea and scientists across Europe and beyond are trying to find out what is going on. One of the very few recent shows that I have felt should have had more episodes - I quite often see trailers for things that i think, "I'd watch it if it was a 2-hour movie, but I'm not going to waste 8 to 10 hours on it, especially as it's probably designed to be ongoing". Anyway, I felt that this could have done with another episode or two before the final one, which started with so much exposition that I thought I'd missed an episode, and I would have liked to see more of that "investigation/communication" phase as well as an episode or two of "epilogue". The show is well worth a look, and does have an "end", but one suspects that they were really hoping for a second season - I'm not sure where it would have gone, though. From what I can tell. it's quite close to the original novel until the end, where the novel gets more "action-ey", and the novel covers the aftermath in a concluding chapter.

[southhamster]

We watched Steeltown on BBC. Bars on a true story of the hunt for a 1970's serial killer in South Wales. Stars Philip Glennister as a young detective, then 30 years later solving the crime. It's not fast paced, but some good acting and plenty of flares and dodgy hair!

[Simcfc73]

Finished citadel on prime. Bang average.

Finished Ted lasso on Apple TV.. I did shed a tear at the end althoughthe football stuff was a bit ott.

Hopefully finish Barry tonight.. hard to say if I like it or not.

[Rob_D]

Finished the final season of Manifest today. Epic and very satisfying conclusion.

[LeMarchand]

Finished the final season of Manifest today. Epic and very satisfying conclusion.

 

I've still got Seasons 3 and 4 to watch. Given that I was finding most of the characters annoying, would you say it's worth carrying on?

[Rob_D]

I've still got Seasons 3 and 4 to watch. Given that I was finding most of the characters annoying, would you say it's worth carrying on?

They start to get their act together a bit more (and there's more of a focus on the mythology/mystery) season 3 onward. But if you're not into at least some of the core characters (the Stones, Zeke, Sanvi) then probably not as it's all very much character centric.