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.
 
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