What TV shows are you currently watching?

[KAC]

Finished Treason. That ending though...

[GSGRUNT]

Nobody watching Succession? You all can f-off

[Silent-Runner]

Started watching Star Trek: Prodigy. Well, it's okay so far.

[koralis]

Just finished Shrinking season 1 on Apple TV. It was quite enjoyable... one of those rare shows I'd actually be looking forward to every week. The entire cast (Harrison Ford, Jason Seigel, Christa Miller and others) work well together.

[ugly]

I watched The Peripheral.

It was just okay. I think it was Amazon, so for sci-fi at least it had a bit of budget behind it.

It wasn't really boring, and it had sort of an interesting concept behind it. It did suffer a little bit from sci-fi mumbo-jumbo where they make things a bit futuristic, but almost pointlessly. Like they keep doing this thing where they rub their fingers together to make things happen, which just sort of has the veneer of cool sci-fi stuff, but doesn't add anything to the plot.

The issue was that it just didn't do a whole lot with it. Each episode was close to an hour long. And even with that long run time, it felt like the story never really went anywhere. I watched two episodes per week (8 episodes total) and finished it last weekend, and I can't even remember now what the major plot points were. And each time I came back a week later I had to quickly skim through the previous episode to remember what happened. I usually don't need to do that. Something about the plot just wasn't very memorable.

They've set up a next season, so maybe this was just early world building in the first season.

[Silent-Runner]

Finished House of Dragons (yeah, i'm late, but whatever). Actually liked it, not all actors, but some did a great job, effects were surprisngly good. Enjoyale.

Continued watching Your Honor, really like this show.

[SubCog]

Finished The Last of Us. Great show, feels very fresh & different, definitely finds it's own path in contrast to the Walking Dead and other similar zombie media. Actually I'm kindof surprised how little zombie action was in the show. But definitely has a more intimate feel, with a much smaller cast of starring characters. It also helps that the story has a bit more structure than other zombie shows, with the main characters making their way out west to try to accomplish something. It keeps the story moving... the fact that the characters never stay in the same state for more than 1-2 episodes... this show avoids alot of the boring monotony that Walking Dead regularly suffered from.

I've played through the first few hours of the game, but never finished it. However, from what I know about the game, this show seems to stick astonishingly close to the game in terms of story, tone, & design. HBO was smart to not change things that already worked. I do intend to take another stab at the game now.

[Silent-Runner]

finished third season of The Orville. Well, that went very dark very fast and ended with a bang, for sure. Overall i liked it.

[Payne3d]

currently binge-watching book of boba fett...enjoyable . loving the special effects in this one.

[Silent-Runner]

watching the latest episodes of Your Honor. Like it a lot

[KAC]

Treason. Seems ok I guess. For 5 episodes will bone.

[koralis]

Finished M. Night Shamylan's Servant on AppleTV (4 seasons.) It was an enjoyable "horror" story.


Partway through History of the World, Part II on Hulu. Amazing the number of stars that wanted to be in it. Last chance to work with Mel Brooks I suppose, he's 98! It's hit and miss, but overall enjoyable if you enjoy silly sketch comedy and running gags.

[KAC]

Ted Lasso is back. However, first episode was meh. Not enough funnies.

[Payne3d]

Strange New Worlds
i'm almost done with season 1..i have to force myself to watch this show. i can't get into the cheesy storylines and situations ..i probably would 've enjoyed watching it if it came out in the early 2000s or something.

[bob saget]

I know.. the Ellie girl's acting is strange to me. It feels unnatural in the scenario(s).

I forced myself to finish S1. I will skip S2.

I finished the season. I think I'll stay along for S2. I think Bella Ramsey got so much positive reactions to her character in GoT (rightfully so) that she tries to play a similar person, but the situations dont lend themselves to the same execution. Just some really weird acting choices for her character. Pascal does a good job. I thought the preacher was pretty good as well.

[JZL]

I'm recovering from hip replacement surgery and wifey is a school nurse on spring break. Today we binged the whole first season of The Tudors on Showtime.

Wifey is the binger of the household; I rarely go beyond 3-4 eps. Ten eps is prolly a record for me.

[Sundance Kid V2]

I dont know if its the direction they receive, or dialogue, or both, but the kid's acting is REALLY bugging me. It almost seems misplaced. Like snarky one-liners when they aren't needed, and then deeper emotional stuff when that's not needed. I just watched the first two episodes and so far im not blown away. Solid for the most part, but nothing earth shattering. Pedro's daughter's acting in the first episode is 100x better imo.

I know.. the Ellie girl's acting is strange to me. It feels unnatural in the scenario(s).

I forced myself to finish S1. I will skip S2.

[koralis]

Ted Lasso season 3 just started.

[bob saget]

I watched the last Episode. I was wondering why HBO picked it up. It's just for the kid to throw F bombs in every 2nd sentence.

I dont know if its the direction they receive, or dialogue, or both, but the kid's acting is REALLY bugging me. It almost seems misplaced. Like snarky one-liners when they aren't needed, and then deeper emotional stuff when that's not needed. I just watched the first two episodes and so far im not blown away. Solid for the most part, but nothing earth shattering. Pedro's daughter's acting in the first episode is 100x better imo.

[pax]

TLOU S1: 6-10. Liked the first 2 eps and the last one but the overall story wasnt as interesting as I hoped. Great cast tho.

[dodger]

Finished TLoU. Probably the best TV adaption of a video game outside of Arcane (and that one was animated). Loved that they got the game's original voice actors involved in cameos (and fairly lengthy cameos at that) and how well the two leads worked out despite misgivings early on. Folk on the Discord says game 2 has enough content to be split out into 2 seasons which given how well they able to pad out season 1 makes me feel better about them over milking it but we'll see.

[Silent-Runner]

Finished Santa Clarita Diet. Overall i'd give it a VERY generous 6/10. The ending was kinda strange. Dead to me was easily a 8/10

Not sure if i should watch Narco - Saints. It got very mixed reviews. Or i could start watching House of Cards, it's been sitting in my watchlist forever....

[dodger]

White Lotus season 2 - Didn't find this one as compelling as the first season, dunno why it seemed to get so much press. Even strongly hinted that there would be another season.

Wondering if I should binge the last season of His Dark Materials before my sub runs out or save it for another sub. Last ep of TLoU is tonight!

[KAC]

Started Hello Tomorrow and Liaison and both are decent.
Need to catch up on rest of the shows that I didn’t watch.

[JZL]

I finally finished re-watching BSG. What a show!

I also decided to re-watch the David Simon-produced Generation Kill, the HBO mini-series about the lead recon units for the Iraqi invasion of aught-three. It usually strikes me a little weird when movies and shows become closer in time to the events they are depicting than whenever you're watching. E.g., Generation Kill was aired 15 years ago about events that only transpired five years before its airing.

With BSG, that's not an issue-- it depicts events that happened 150,000 years ago.

[SD-[Inc]]

I started watching Daisy Jones and the Six. I had low expectations, but it is actually pretty good. The two leads are decent actors and singers. The girl playing Daisy is actually Elvis Presley's granddaughter. The 1970s vibe of rock and roll in LA is pretty well done too. I'll keep watching.

[Payne3d]

started watching ST: Picard season 2 ... not sure why i'm even watching this series other than nostalgia's sake

[koralis]

yeah, i loved Dead to me too. Santa Clarita Diet though, i still dunno, can't say it really caught me and i'm already up to season 2. Will finish it, but it isn't my favorite to be honest.

You may like Made For Love on HBO. Woman more or less kidnapped by an obsessed te h billionaire.. (Musk.) Kinda has a similar semi-funny tone.

Just finished Poker Face season 1. Ended strong.

[Silent-Runner]

I loved Dead to Me.

Wife really liked Santa Clarita Diet, but I haven't watched it yet

yeah, i loved Dead to me too. Santa Clarita Diet though, i still dunno, can't say it really caught me and i'm already up to season 2. Will finish it, but it isn't my favorite to be honest.

[SD-[Inc]]

Started season 3 of the Mandalorian. Episode 1 was a huge WTF? The supporting cast that showed up are all now completed bored and boring. The rest of the episode the Mandalorian talks to himself while Grogu stares at things and makes funny faces.

[koralis]

Finished Dead to me, was a great show, really liked it a lot.

Started Santa Clarita Diet, well, that's sure a real strange one. Not sure if i like it right now.

I loved Dead to Me.

Wife really liked Santa Clarita Diet, but I haven't watched it yet

[Silent-Runner]

Finished Dead to me, was a great show, really liked it a lot.

Started Santa Clarita Diet, well, that's sure a real strange one. Not sure if i like it right now.

[ATI FURY-OUS]

Finished Clarkson’s Farm 2. Sad that he manages to always get himself in controversy and now is cancelled by Amazon. Guess when you have 70 mil in the bank doing shows won’t be required anymore.

it isnt cancelled, season 3 is confirmed.

[dodger]

Finished House of the Dragon in between episodes of TLoU. Yeah the time skips were a bit much, even a reviewer that read the book said so but understandable as the book itself is meant to be a history book of what happened before the main series so like any history book there will be jumps in time. Wished the dedicated thread didn't turn into blank posts so I got see you guys real time critiques again but oh well.

[Silent-Runner]

Watching Dead to me. Surprisingly entertaining show, i really like it.

[KAC]

Finished The Recruit. Some good funnies. Ending was a real cliff hanger. Will watch second season.

[pax]

Wow season 2... 4 years later? I barely remember the first season. Something about Fairies are real world IIRC...

[nutcrackr]

Watching Carnival Row S2, which is pretty good so far after four episodes. But it's a shame there are only 6 left.

[Silent-Runner]

watched Lockwood & Co. Not bad, entertaining enough.

[JZL]

Getting down to the last couple of NewsRadio episodes for the nightly elliptical viewing.

Up next, probably, the ole Sarah Silverman Program. When that originally aired, I don't think I appreciated her humor as much as now.