What TV series do you like?

[Arbitrage]

Rewatching The Wire. I forgot how good it was.

Watching it (for the first time) now.  Not generally that into crime/police series, and it took a while to grab me, but I'm enjoying it now.  Few episodes into S2. 

We jumped on some Black Friday streaming deals, including 6 months of Max, which we've just got one more month of.  Watched a few of the shows while we've got it - The White Lotus, The Last of Us and now working on the Wire, though I'm not going to be able to finish this time around.  My wife is a much more prolific TV watcher and has made her way through a whole bunch of the shows.  After this month is up, I think it'll be onto Hulu and Peacock as our remaining BF deals with time remaining.

[evme]

Rewatching The Wire. I forgot how good it was.

Watching it (for the first time) now.  Not generally that into crime/police series, and it took a while to grab me, but I'm enjoying it now.  Few episodes into S2. 

The Wire S2 is one of the very best seasons of television ever made. Truly extraordinary acting and writing.

[caracarn]

Rewatching The Wire. I forgot how good it was.

Watching it (for the first time) now.  Not generally that into crime/police series, and it took a while to grab me, but I'm enjoying it now.  Few episodes into S2. 

We jumped on some Black Friday streaming deals, including 6 months of Max, which we've just got one more month of.  Watched a few of the shows while we've got it - The White Lotus, The Last of Us and now working on the Wire, though I'm not going to be able to finish this time around.  My wife is a much more prolific TV watcher and has made her way through a whole bunch of the shows.  After this month is up, I think it'll be onto Hulu and Peacock as our remaining BF deals with time remaining.

Look into Playon.tv.  Hook up a computer with a big hard drive and use this software and you have a DVR that will playback everything without commercials as it auto skips them.   So I subscribe to something for a month.   Have Playon record everything I have any interest for that time and then watch them over the next two years, then pay for a month again.   Saves us even more money than Black Friday deals and we get far, far more content as Play just records 24 hours a day which no matter what you cannot do with binge watching for more than 2-3 days straight.

[dcheesi]

Looking forward to Murderbot on Apple TV next month. I love the books, and if they don't screw it up, it should be tons of fun. So far the signs are promising (author's onboard, the lead actor/producer is a fan, early trailers look good, etc.)
The vibe is even vaguely Mustachian-ish, in a "seeking escape from being a drone in a corporate hellscape" sort of way.

Meanwhile, I've got Andor to keep me occupied. So far, it's just as good as the first season.

[midweststache]

Just finished The Residence on Netflix. Very clearly trying to embody the Knives Out trend, but it was fun and campy. Nothing too serious. Uzo Aduba is great, and I think the character building / ensemble cast was fun and pretty well done.

(A lot of suspension of disbelief is required about the logistics of a murder in the WH and investigation therein, so if realism is your thing this is not for you...)

[41_swish]

I have never watched The Wire. Is it really the hype that people say it is?

[GuitarStv]

The Wire is a fantastic show.  Consistently good season after season.

[baconschteam]

I have never watched The Wire. Is it really the hype that people say it is?

Yup.

[Metalcat]

I have never watched The Wire. Is it really the hype that people say it is?

Eh, it depends what you're into. I got pretty bored with season 2 when it originally came out and never finished it. It has some great characters though.

But I also got extremely bored with Breaking Bad, so that can tell you about my taste.

[iris lily]

I have never watched The Wire. Is it really the hype that people say it is?

Watch it with subtitles.

I tried it a couple times and abandoned it before I realized I didn’t know what was going on because I couldn’t understand the dialogue.

I have only been through The Wire one time. I look forward to a rewatch.

I will admit that part of my fascination with the show is that the projects, public housing projects, that are depicted in the show look exactly like the public housing projects that were two blocks from me at my city house where criminally inclined residents plagued my neighborhood.

It was like watching Omar in my backyard.

[GuitarStv]

I have never watched The Wire. Is it really the hype that people say it is?

Watch it with subtitles.

I tried it a couple times and abandoned it before I realized I didn’t know what was going on because I couldn’t understand the dialogue.

Ha . . . my wife really had trouble with the dialogue as well.  I don't know if it was listening to a fair amount of rap in the '90s and '00s, or the several years I spent boxing in a gym in a kinda rough area . . . but I didn't find it hard to understand the guys talking at all.  If you're watching it today, there's some older slang that might be tricky to get a handle on I suppose.

[41_swish]

Shows that I have really liked were Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, House of Cards, and The Bear.

[Dancin'Dog]

Anyone watching "Unseen" on Netflix?   

[Metalcat]

Etoile is FANTASTIC.

It's by the same folks who did The Marvelous Mrs Maisel.

I'm currently in Paris watching this show, which is all about ballet companies in Paris and New York, and it's just brilliant. The characters are great, the Parisian cultural references, in particular, are hilarious.

I've seen a number of shooting locations on my walks, which is cool. It's beautifully shot.

I highly, highly recommend it.

[evme]

Is anyone else watching "The Pitt" on Max?

It's very good but also very bloody. It's fun seeing Noah Wyle in the role of the wise elder, whereas he was the young whippersnapper in "ER".

[Metalcat]

Is anyone else watching "The Pitt" on Max?

It's very good but also very bloody. It's fun seeing Noah Wyle in the role of the wise elder, whereas he was the young whippersnapper in "ER".

The Pitt is great, very, very popular among my ER MD friends,.and from everything I've read online, that's the pretty universal response to the show, that is does a remarkable job of capturing the ER experience.

[Fresh Bread]

Is anyone else watching "The Pitt" on Max?

It's very good but also very bloody. It's fun seeing Noah Wyle in the role of the wise elder, whereas he was the young whippersnapper in "ER".

The Pitt is great, very, very popular among my ER MD friends,.and from everything I've read online, that's the pretty universal response to the show, that is does a remarkable job of capturing the ER experience.

Do they enjoy watching it though? If it's just like work. I feel nausea watching Utopia (the Australian one) even though I also laugh because it's so realistic.

[Moonwaves]

Is anyone else watching "The Pitt" on Max?

It's very good but also very bloody. It's fun seeing Noah Wyle in the role of the wise elder, whereas he was the young whippersnapper in "ER".

I can't remember what streaming service it's on here but it's not one I have, so I haven't seen it in full yet. I have watched loads of medical people reacting to it on youtube though, which has been both amusing and educational. It's always fun to see the things that different doctors pick out to talk about. Especially Dr. Elliott, because he just says Carter all the time instead of Dr. Robby and I kind of love that. :-)

For anyone interested in the youtube reactions I've seen: @drbeachgem10, @DoctorDisney, @drelliottcarthy, @DoctorMike, @DrHopeSickNotes

[Metalcat]

Is anyone else watching "The Pitt" on Max?

It's very good but also very bloody. It's fun seeing Noah Wyle in the role of the wise elder, whereas he was the young whippersnapper in "ER".

The Pitt is great, very, very popular among my ER MD friends,.and from everything I've read online, that's the pretty universal response to the show, that is does a remarkable job of capturing the ER experience.

Do they enjoy watching it though? If it's just like work. I feel nausea watching Utopia (the Australian one) even though I also laugh because it's so realistic.

In my experience, medical professionals see so much ridiculous medical representation in media that anything even close to accurate is really fun to see.

[iris lily]

Etoile is FANTASTIC.

It's by the same folks who did The Marvelous Mrs Maisel.

I'm currently in Paris watching this show, which is all about ballet companies in Paris and New York, and it's just brilliant. The characters are great, the Parisian cultural references, in particular, are hilarious.

I've seen a number of shooting locations on my walks, which is cool. It's beautifully shot.

I highly, highly recommend it.

Oh good! Etoile is on my radar and I will watch it next, after I finish the older “Line of Duty.” The first three seasons of the show are riveting.

[Metalcat]

Etoile is FANTASTIC.

It's by the same folks who did The Marvelous Mrs Maisel.

I'm currently in Paris watching this show, which is all about ballet companies in Paris and New York, and it's just brilliant. The characters are great, the Parisian cultural references, in particular, are hilarious.

I've seen a number of shooting locations on my walks, which is cool. It's beautifully shot.

I highly, highly recommend it.

Oh good! Etoile is on my radar and I will watch it next, after I finish the older “Line of Duty.” The first three seasons of the show are riveting.

Etoile is very, very silly, which I very much enjoy because French dramatic silliness is hilarious to me.

I doubt it will be very successful though, a good chunk of it is subtitled, and I'm not sure people will find the humour intelligent unless they have an understanding of French culture and/or the ballet world. But if you have any knowledge of either, it can be snort-laugh funny a lot of the time.

[uniwelder]

We started watching Murderbot on Apple TV and are really enjoying it.

[neo von retorch]

We started watching Murderbot on Apple TV+ and are really enjoying it.

Same! I think it captures the vibe from the book... (I only read the first so far but loved it.) Sci-fi? Sure. But a fun, silly romp into a character. A fun and interesting character.

Also watching...

Andor: Season 2 This is a weird one but I'm 6 episodes in and it's just barely watchable for me. I know it's super popular and I really liked Season 1, but I think the (deliberate) choice to weave politics and "personal" stories (many of whom are not Cass and Bix) in the trenches of rebellion, the multiple disparate story lines, and very infrequent action sequences has had me feeling like I'm just in a waiting phase, and I become detached and do not connect to the characters, and find any value in the slow roll of developments.

Severance: Season 2 Well, sort of like the above. My spouse and I loved the first. My spouse... completely lost interest in the second season so I haven't been putting time in to catch up. We don't watch a ton apart. But it definitely hasn't "pulled me back in" after the first two episodes.

DareDevil: Born Again I am really liking this one. I think I'm about 5 or 6 episodes in. Here they are very clearly mixing in politics with action (and courtroom drama) and it's working for me. So well.

The Rehearsal Saw a screenshot on an Instagram story of this show and I went down a rabbit hole and had to try it. OMG I laughed so much that first episode. Cannot wait to watch more of this. In my opinion, so novel, so clever, so well executed. Brilliant "uncomfortable" comedy!

[41_swish]

I started White Lotus and Our Flag Means Death both have been good!

[GuitarStv]

Season 2 of severance wasn't as good as 1.  There were definately a few big missteps.  The first episode, and a couple in the latter half were boring and kinda not really plot advancey which really cheesed me off . . . and they were also outright boring at points - which isn't a thing I ever felt in the first season.  The final episode ended in a way that didn't really make sense to me.  Plot was looser, and more experimental stuff seemed to be happening in the writing and shooting - they took some risks that didn't pay off.  Overall, it was still decent to watch but my expectations were set very high from the first season of the show and it didn't live up to expectations.

[Sandi_k]

MURDERBOT!

The first two episodes are on Apple TV. So. Fun. I love Alexander Skarsgard, so I'm a fan of the show - great production values and sets - clearly they decided to Do It Right.

Martha Wells is also an executive producer on the show, so that's great. And DH is already a fan, even though he's never read the books.

[Much Fishing to Do]

Is anyone else watching "The Pitt" on Max?

It's very good but also very bloody. It's fun seeing Noah Wyle in the role of the wise elder, whereas he was the young whippersnapper in "ER".

The Pitt is great, very, very popular among my ER MD friends,.and from everything I've read online, that's the pretty universal response to the show, that is does a remarkable job of capturing the ER experience.

Do they enjoy watching it though? If it's just like work. I feel nausea watching Utopia (the Australian one) even though I also laugh because it's so realistic.

In my experience, medical professionals see so much ridiculous medical representation in media that anything even close to accurate is really fun to see.

Really been enjoying The Pitt, though its probably made more interesting to me given I grew up in a hospital setting and that I lived in Pittsburgh at one time, so all the local references are fun memories.

It is somewhat graphic/bloody if that kind of stuff bothers you, but its frankly the realistic and constant interactions with family members losing patients that we find hard to handle (we have to watch an episode of Brooklyn 99 immediately after to lighten the mood)

[41_swish]

I may catch some flack for this, but I though Severance was just okay. I didn't even finish the second season. It was just meh to me

[dcheesi]

Enjoying Murderbot so far, though it's odd reconciling all the little differences from the book(s).

I may catch some flack for this, but I though Severance was just okay. I didn't even finish the second season. It was just meh to me

We really enjoyed S1 of Severance, but S2 quickly took a turn for the worse. It seems like they decided against offering any real answers or resolution, and instead doubled-down on being weird for weirdness' sake. We bailed after a few episodes.

[GuitarStv]

Enjoying Murderbot so far, though it's odd reconciling all the little differences from the book(s).

How are the books?  I haven't read any of them, but after catching the first couple episodes of the show I want to now.

[neo von retorch]

How are the books?  I haven't read any of them, but after catching the first couple episodes of the show I want to now.

We started watching Murderbot on Apple TV+ and are really enjoying it.

Same! I think it captures the vibe from the book... (I only read the first so far but loved it.) Sci-fi? Sure. But a fun, silly romp into a character. A fun and interesting character.

[uniwelder]

How are the books?  I haven't read any of them, but after catching the first couple episodes of the show I want to now.

We started watching Murderbot on Apple TV+ and are really enjoying it.

Same! I think it captures the vibe from the book... (I only read the first so far but loved it.) Sci-fi? Sure. But a fun, silly romp into a character. A fun and interesting character.

My wife has read the series of 6-7 books. They’re pretty short. She says each of them are fantastic and the show does a great job bringing it to the screen.

[dcheesi]

Enjoying Murderbot so far, though it's odd reconciling all the little differences from the book(s).

How are the books?  I haven't read any of them, but after catching the first couple episodes of the show I want to now.

I really love the books. Normally, I find it difficult to re-read books, but the MB series is a frequent go-to (my Sanctuary Moon, if you will).
 
Some details are different (of course), and the tone is maybe slightly different as well. But the overall gist is the same.

The first several books are fairly short, more novellas than novels. I think they've repackaged some of them in "volumes" combining 2 or 3 original books, which might be a better deal than buying them individually? Then books 5 and 7 are full-length novels, with a book 6 novella awkwardly placed betwen them (6 takes place before 5, and should probably be read that way).

[Metalcat]

I'm watching season 4 of Fargo and it's exceptionally bad, I think I'm going to have to bail on it because it's beyond tedious and nothing like previous seasons.

[iris lily]

I may catch some flack for this, but I though Severance was just okay. I didn't even finish the second season. It was just meh to me

Made special effort to watch Severance (subscribed to the platform.) watched 3 ish episodes. Bailed.

[41_swish]

I tried Fargo and though it was fine. I think I bailed in the middle of the third season it just didn't keep me hooked

[Metalcat]

I tried Fargo and though it was fine. I think I bailed in the middle of the third season it just didn't keep me hooked

I didn't love the 3rd season, but the 4th season is just godawful

[Hula Hoop]

I'm watching North of North on Netflix, which is a sit com set in a town in the very northern part of Canada.  Nothing earth shattering but amusing and a nice slice of life re an indigenous culture (Inuit) I know very little about.

[techwiz]

I tried Fargo and though it was fine. I think I bailed in the middle of the third season it just didn't keep me hooked

I didn't love the 3rd season, but the 4th season is just godawful

Some seasons are much better than others. We found the 5th to be one of the better ones. 

[Metalcat]

I'm watching North of North on Netflix, which is a sit com set in a town in the very northern part of Canada.  Nothing earth shattering but amusing and a nice slice of life re an indigenous culture (Inuit) I know very little about.

It's a lot of fun, and I have family members who have lived up there and found it hilarious. It's does take a bit for some of the humour to build up though.

[Just_Me]

Oh Jesus Christ.

We just finished Dying for Sex and my DH who I have never seen cry in the decades I've known him had tears in his eyes for the entire final episode.

But it's sad in such a good way, in no way depressing or unpleasant or gratuitous.

Fuck, seriously, this is the most emotionally sophisticated show I have ever seen, ever, period. So fucking good.

Dying for sex is fucking phenomenal.

I think it might have been the best TV I've ever seen. The humor in the show is spot on without being heavy, gross, or over the top. And yeah, sex is there, but it's not about that.

The ending just washed all over me. I couldn't stop the waterworks.

[Just_Me]

I'm currently watching Rectify, from 2017, and I'm really liking it. It's been mentioned here twice in this thread with no details, so I'm diving in.

It was a recommendation, and while it's made by the same director as Breaking Bad which I don't like at all, I'm really liking this one.

It's about this guy in the southern US who's been on death row for 20 years since high school, and his conviction was just stayed due to a complication with the state's case so he gets to go home. His family has no idea how to be around him because he's been on death row for 20 years, and his town is freaking out with who they believe is a killer going free.

There's some dark undertones in all of the communication, really intense interpersonal dynamics in his family, and some tension in whether the state will re try for a new conviction 20 years later. Every single character is so flawed, and here is this guy who came out of jail so splintered that he's lived so much intense life yet still a child at the same time.

Season 1, 10/10 for me. Season 2, 7/10 so far. Ratings for seasons 3 & 4 are higher than 2 per RT.

All of this is free on my library's streaming service.

[Metalcat]

I've tried to watch Rectify multiple times but can never get through the first episode. I really don't enjoy slow stuff with moody silences.

Granted, I haven't tried watching it in many years, so maybe my tolerance for it might be better now.

[Just_Me]

I've tried to watch Rectify multiple times but can never get through the first episode. I really don't enjoy slow stuff with moody silences.

Granted, I haven't tried watching it in many years, so maybe my tolerance for it might be better now.

It could seem slow and moody, but that's not the vibe I'm getting. I'm saying "What the fuck?!" frequently and the silences are tense. Or, maybe I like slow and moody.

I'm really enjoying the main character's arc and seeing how he interacts with the "normal" world. He's been through so much traumatic shit while on death row, revealed as flashbacks. It all seeps out in "normal" conversation or interactions with him, but misconnected, twisted, or unpredictable turns. The lines of reality and fantasy are grossly blurred for him.

[Telecaster]

I have never watched The Wire. Is it really the hype that people say it is?

I absolutely loved it.   The pacing can be slow to be sure.  The story telling style is like no show I had seen before.  In most stories there is character.  The character overcomes some type of adversity and is changed.  That's true in the Wire too, but the real story is about the institutions, which create the adversity.   Which is more how it actually works in real life.  The main characters are in each season, but each season focuses on a different institution, the police/drug trade, the port, the government, the schools, and the media.   Each institution crushes the attempts to change it, and screws over the good citizens of Baltimore.   

[Metalcat]

I have never watched The Wire. Is it really the hype that people say it is?

I absolutely loved it.   The pacing can be slow to be sure.  The story telling style is like no show I had seen before.  In most stories there is character.  The character overcomes some type of adversity and is changed.  That's true in the Wire too, but the real story is about the institutions, which create the adversity.   Which is more how it actually works in real life.  The main characters are in each season, but each season focuses on a different institution, the police/drug trade, the port, the government, the schools, and the media.   Each institution crushes the attempts to change it, and screws over the good citizens of Baltimore.

It's somewhat similar to Mayor of Kingstown that way.

[Just_Me]

I'm currently watching Rectify, from 2017, and I'm really liking it. It's been mentioned here twice in this thread with no details, so I'm diving in.

*snip*

Season 1, 10/10 for me. Season 2, 7/10 so far. Ratings for seasons 3 & 4 are higher than 2 per RT.

All of this is free on my library's streaming service.

A few more episodes into Season 2 and the tension is gone. I'm getting bored. I'm hoping it picks up toward the end of the season.
 

[mm1970]

I'm enjoying Bodkin, but how is Will Forte literally in everything right now?

[Metalcat]

I've tried to watch Rectify multiple times but can never get through the first episode. I really don't enjoy slow stuff with moody silences.

Granted, I haven't tried watching it in many years, so maybe my tolerance for it might be better now.

It could seem slow and moody, but that's not the vibe I'm getting. I'm saying "What the fuck?!" frequently and the silences are tense. Or, maybe I like slow and moody.

I'm really enjoying the main character's arc and seeing how he interacts with the "normal" world. He's been through so much traumatic shit while on death row, revealed as flashbacks. It all seeps out in "normal" conversation or interactions with him, but misconnected, twisted, or unpredictable turns. The lines of reality and fantasy are grossly blurred for him.

Yeah, I'm thinking you might enjoy slow and moody. Intense silences are not my jam.

[mm1970]

I'm watching North of North on Netflix, which is a sit com set in a town in the very northern part of Canada.  Nothing earth shattering but amusing and a nice slice of life re an indigenous culture (Inuit) I know very little about.

I thought the show was adorable.