What TV shows are you currently watching?

dodger said:
Shogun - Palace intrigue show (though there is action). Writers did an excellent job weaving an intricate web of deceit and intrigue. Yeah each individual strand is tropey and cliche and some events were dramatized to just bordering disbelief but it all flowed so well and the actors made their characters believable (well Blackthorn just sounded way too Batman for me) that you can just glide over all that to see what new intrigue gets set up. I do get the complaints about the ending but clearly they were setting up for another season which they did get.

While I appreciated the Japanese speaking their native language almost all the time but turning Portuguese into English was sorta disconcerting. I mean half the show is already subtitled minus well go for the gusto! I get it though, hopefully given how popular this show got creators will allow more foreign languages to be spoken when the setting calls for it.
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I enjoyed Shogun greatly. If you like the drama and the foreign cultures thing (pretty much no action) you'd probably enjoy Pachinko on AppleTV. It has the option of all languages spoken natively with colored subtitles to indicate the language being spoken.

yellow = korean
light blue = japanese

english is just spoken.

It's interesting seeing scenes where people are speaking in korean so that the japanese people can't understand them, or a kid mostly speaking korean with some japanese mixed in for words he doens't know the korean for... assimilation.
 
Sand Land (Hulu) - By the same creator as Dragon Ball, while the environment is Mad Max like with the desert and marauding groups of demons and ex .mil folk with eccentricities there are definite countries with full on militaries in the world. The series covers 2 arcs (which is explicitly in the titles of the 13 episodes) and was generally entertaining though has that Ranking of Kings thing where no one really gets permanently hurt.
 
Dr Who (Specials and season 14) - Heee Tenant back for a lil and NPH got to be in on it! With Russel T Davies also returning the show overall has a familiar feel compared to the previous Doctor.
 
I'm watching old series... King of Queens. Watched this as a teenager (1998) and it was funny. Well most stuff were funny when you 18 ...

It's weird watching it today... the main couple scream some toxic behaviour. And the comedy is a bit stale most of the time...
 
Walking Dead : Those who Live. Not bad for a closing arc to the 2 main characters... Darrel Dixon's show is better imo as is Dead City. For completionists I suppose.
 
Arcane season 2 - Wished they had just a little bit more time to flesh out some arcs! It really took an explainer vid that tied some in game info to help make sense of some of the ending.
 
Finished Talentless Takano, Japanese office drama. Started okay, interesting characters. But let me just say the final episode was atrocious and I strongly recommend nobody watch it.

The whole season makes you think Takano has a secret she's hiding to explain why she's so incompetent and useless at work. My guess was she was actually the CEO pretending to be dumb to evaluate her workers. In the end there was no secret, she's just useless and the whole division is shut down. Talk about a complete waste of my time.
 
Squid Game (Season 2) - So glad they changed stuff up though apparently most folk wanted same thing again! There's a cliff at the end of it and it very much felt like half a season (only 7 eps). Well next season is supposedly 2025 so not a huge huge wait.
 
dodger said:
Squid Game (Season 2) - So glad they changed stuff up though apparently most folk wanted same thing again! There's a cliff at the end of it and it very much felt like half a season (only 7 eps). Well next season is supposedly 2025 so not a huge huge wait.
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Yeah, I've hears some negativity on the season, but I'm not sure why. I liked it, and was really engaged with watching it. My only real issue was the format of the season. It feels so obviously meant to be one full season instead of being split into a season 2 and 3. And that pacing issue led to too much of the start of the season being about getting back to the games and then ending on a massive cliffhanger. If there was no break and there were 5 or 6 more episodes, I don't think it would have been a problem.
 
I think it's great. The first episode was a real slog though. It was concieved as one season then they broke it in two.

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Why Squid Game season 2 was split into two seasons by the creator

Squid Game season 2 was originally written as one long story with the second half continuing in season 3.
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Speaking to Variety, Hwang explained: "I was originally planning to write this story across a span of about eight to nine episodes, but once I finished the story, it came to over 10 episodes, which I thought was too long to contain in a single season.

"And so I wanted to have an adequate point where I could give closure as a second season and then move on with the third."

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Hwang went on to add that the break in the storyline allows viewers to experience a completely different Gi-hun in season 3, one who now has deal with the consequences of his failure.

"When you think about Gi-hun’s journey, I thought that that was an adequate moment to put a stop and give him a little bit of closure along that long story arc," he explained. "And then from that moment on, in the third season, having that sense of huge guilt and sense of failure weighing heavily on him — how is Gi-hun going to carry on his mission? That’s the story that’ll further unfold."

He added: "Gi-hun will not be the man he was in Season 2."
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The Acolyte - Well I was expecting a train wreck, wasn't quite that but not good. Plot contrivances galore (especially with what the Force can and can't seem to do, really gives soft magic systems a bad name), exposition dumps and beating you over the head with it. The fact that most eps are really 30 min (the end credits crawl is 5 mins long counting the translation credits not to mention the 1-2 min recap/intro at the front) and there's not enough time to develop hardly anyone but the mains (and even some of their motivations are a mess). Definitely can see the horrible reviews it got and supposedly they spent way more $$ than Godzilla Minus One!
 
dodger said:
The Acolyte - Well I was expecting a train wreck, wasn't quite that but not good. Plot contrivances galore (especially with what the Force can and can't seem to do, really gives soft magic systems a bad name), exposition dumps and beating you over the head with it. The fact that most eps are really 30 min (the end credits crawl is 5 mins long counting the translation credits not to mention the 1-2 min recap/intro at the front) and there's not enough time to develop hardly anyone but the mains (and even some of their motivations are a mess). Definitely can see the horrible reviews it got and supposedly they spent way more $$ than Godzilla Minus One!
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found it to be terrible (BAD) in every aspect. Completely wasted resources.
 
Skeleton Crew - It's a kids show! Few folk I know that have kids that have watched this said they loved it. Unfortunately the numbers don't support a second season which is fine given how it ended.
 
Skeleton Crew was alright. Goonies in space. Was kinda fun and had some adult elements. Really looking forward to Andor next tho.
 
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