What TV series do you like?

[iris lily]

watched 'hillbilly elegy' on netflix last night. i thought it was awful. was the book any good?

I thought the book was great, but that might be b/c it almost perfectly reflected my spouse's lived background/experience/changing awareness (though he's become more politically liberal over time than the book's author has, but then my husband is much older than the book's author and was not as liberal when I met him as he has become).

Adapting the book to film or miniseries always sounded like an absolute recipe for disaster to me, unless it was actually adapted by someone of similar background to the author. Having typical Hollywood types adapt it in an attempt to be Oscar-baity seemed like a terrible idea from the get-go. Even then, Hollywood could have picked an interesting edgy director who might have done something with it. But....Ron Howard, so...

i don't know if anyone has seen the old movie 'the wild and wonderful whites of west virginia'. it was a fairly crazy movie/documentary about hillbilly/drug addiction/elvis impersonators that starts off funny and gets more depressing as it goes along. it opened my eyes to the whole appalachian poverty and drug abuse scene.

It's not just the south/southeast. My husband is a western boy, born and bred, but his experience is the same.  I think that type of  poor rural experience is pretty common, regardless of area of the country.  I remember a few years ago, we started to watch Winter's Bone, got 20 minutes in, and he was so upset that he couldn't watch anymore...took him right back to the life that he struggled so much to break away from.

Yes, I think of Winter’s Bone in these discussions. Rural poverty and that life can be pretty grim. And yet people do escape it, I know several. Amazing to be able to escape it.

[anotherAlias]

We've been watching Last Kingdom.  I wasn't hopeful when my bf first suggested it because I don't typically like Viking era type shows.  I was surprisingly hooked after the first episode.  I rarely watch a show without playing a game or surfing on my tablet.  For this show, I find myself completely engrossed and the tablet is closed.  The main character has a quick wit and is charming.  I love the character relationships.  It has a kind of GOT feel to it but not quite as large scale.

[EscapeVelocity2020]

Prime just informed me that there's a new season of 'The Expanse'!  Now I know what I'll be doing after 'The Mandalorian' second season ends this Friday... 

[Loretta]

So I’m about 20 years late to this, but I used to some Amazon credits to obtain the tv miniseries LONESOME DOVE and oh man, it is so good.  It makes me want to get in my car for a road trip after COVID and see Texas and The West.  Robert Duvall, Tommy Lee Jones, a baby Rick Schroeder, ramblers, gamblers, whores, what’s not to love! 

[Nick_Miller]

Schitt's Creek has totally won my family over (we're midway through Season 4, just watched the Open Mic Night episode).

It's a shame that the first season was so dry, and I'm sure they lost some viewers in the process. I almost threw in the towel myself. But Season 2 really launched the whole show into very sweet (and much funnier) territory, and the Season 2 finale caught me off guard with how heart-warming it managed to be. I love Moira and Johnny, but the kids are stealing the show (as they should, with all of their room for growth).

If anyone's on the fence in Season 1, I'd really encourage you to keep watching.

[Noodle]

I tried the new "The Stand" miniseries on CBS. I loved the older version, and in general I have liked "survivors of disaster" stories. But it turns out I just cannot watch a pandemic series right now. Maybe in a year or two.

I have been enjoying "Tiny Pretty Things" on Netflix. It's a teen melodrama set in the world of ballet, but what I really like about is that they searched out actors with serious dance credentials which means they can do extended dance sequences where it's clear that the characters are actually dancing.

[OtherJen]

We just finished up Unorthodox on Netflix. That was well done and engrossing.

I also watched the Great British Bake-off Christmas special: Derry Girls edition (had been saving it for today). All of the actors from that show were both hilarious and earnest. They all worked hard to turn out decent bakes and had no problem cracking jokes when things went a bit more in the “Nailed It” direction.

[EscapeVelocity2020]

Might've missed it, but I'd recommend "Lovecraft Country" on HBO Max (also home to "Undoing", which I think will be good because I love Nicole Kidman, and Rick and Morty (and Wonder Woman 84, of course)).  The first episode was incredible and has me hooked - second episode is good so far...

So much better than "Bly Manor" (total disappointment for me when it finally aired)

[Noodle]

Watched Bridgerton over the Christmas weekend. Highly recommend if you enjoy fluffy romantic drama (be aware, this is historical fantasy, so the ties to actual history are tenuous at best). FYI, the sex is pretty abundant and explicit so it's not an all-ages series. Gorgeous to look act and well acted.

[Warlord1986]

Watched Bridgerton over the Christmas weekend. Highly recommend if you enjoy fluffy romantic drama (be aware, this is historical fantasy, so the ties to actual history are tenuous at best). FYI, the sex is pretty abundant and explicit so it's not an all-ages series. Gorgeous to look act and well acted.

I watched it this Christmas. With my parents.

What I expected: a pretty series plump with wish-fulfillment and gorgeous costumes and people.

What it was: all of the above, with softcore porn.

I mean, I liked it, but I would have preferred a head's up so I didn't watch it with Mom and Dad. y

[sui generis]

Watched Bridgerton over the Christmas weekend. Highly recommend if you enjoy fluffy romantic drama (be aware, this is historical fantasy, so the ties to actual history are tenuous at best). FYI, the sex is pretty abundant and explicit so it's not an all-ages series. Gorgeous to look act and well acted.

I watched it this Christmas. With my parents.

What I expected: a pretty series plump with wish-fulfillment and gorgeous costumes and people.

What it was: all of the above, with softcore porn.

I mean, I liked it, but I would have preferred a head's up so I didn't watch it with Mom and Dad. y

@Dicey FYI... Because I believe I saw you looking for Intel!

[Metalcat]

Watched Bridgerton over the Christmas weekend. Highly recommend if you enjoy fluffy romantic drama (be aware, this is historical fantasy, so the ties to actual history are tenuous at best). FYI, the sex is pretty abundant and explicit so it's not an all-ages series. Gorgeous to look act and well acted.

I watched it this Christmas. With my parents.

What I expected: a pretty series plump with wish-fulfillment and gorgeous costumes and people.

What it was: all of the above, with softcore porn.

I mean, I liked it, but I would have preferred a head's up so I didn't watch it with Mom and Dad. y

I watched it but found a lot of it kind of painful.

I actually enjoyed the frivolous silliness of the Shonda world, and the Gossip Girl plot. It was very pretty, and fun, and light, and a number of the actors were quite good.

I just couldn't care about the main couple.

The guy was a knock off Mr D'Arcy with the weirdest version of daddy issues I've ever seen, and the girl swings wildly between being painfully naive and deeply savvy as it suits the plot.

I was so not invested in these characters together that their sudden onset rampant softcore porn was really off putting. Plus they were both so childish and child-like that it was really creepy. It didn't feel like I was watching adults, and it was so relentless.

I *kind of* like the concept that the first several episodes are all chaste glances and him doing up her glove buttons, and puritanical flirty shit like that, and then suddenly it's mashed together bodies non-stop, because it kind of acts as an artistic representation of what it would have been like for women at the time. Romance goes from one extremely chaste thing to another extremely graphic one in the blink of an eye. It being jarring for e made me reflect on the experience of the women in the period.

I did not enjoy the experience myself, but that would have been true for a lot of those women.

I liked the rest of the silly characters despite most of them being pretty high on the messy, chaotic energy front. Eventually I just accepted that the people in this Shonda-verse are batshit nutty and very poor predictors of consequences.

[Dicey]

Watched Bridgerton over the Christmas weekend. Highly recommend if you enjoy fluffy romantic drama (be aware, this is historical fantasy, so the ties to actual history are tenuous at best). FYI, the sex is pretty abundant and explicit so it's not an all-ages series. Gorgeous to look act and well acted.

I watched it this Christmas. With my parents.

What I expected: a pretty series plump with wish-fulfillment and gorgeous costumes and people.

What it was: all of the above, with softcore porn.

I mean, I liked it, but I would have preferred a head's up so I didn't watch it with Mom and Dad. y

@Dicey FYI... Because I believe I saw you looking for Intel!

Thanks for the batsignal!

Warlord, this reminds me of the time my brother and I took my mom to see a new Liv Tyler movie...you know the one where she goes to Italy to lose her virginity and succeeds? My brother and I were dying. Many years later, I found a DVD of it and that was his Christmas gift. Hmmm, google-fu says it's called "Stealing Beauty".

[soccerluvof4]

Imposters on Bravo and Netflix

Virgin River on Netflix is ok.

[uniwelder]

Has anyone here mentioned Cobra Kai (on Netflix)?  Its a bit of a guilty pleasure, seeing a surprising number of actors from the original Karate Kid movies.  Lots of nostalgia, pretty funny, a really great dynamic between the lead characters, though it is pretty ridiculous (soap opera level) with the amount of drama.  Season 3 just came out this past week.

[sherr]

Has anyone here mentioned Cobra Kai (on Netflix)?  Its a bit of a guilty pleasure, seeing a surprising number of actors from the original Karate Kid movies.  Lots of nostalgia, pretty funny, a really great dynamic between the lead characters, though it is pretty ridiculous (soap opera level) with the amount of drama.  Season 3 just came out this past week.

I liked season 1 quite a bit, but not so much season 2. Haven't started 3 yet.

I think the thing I liked about 1 was that there wasn't really a "bad guy", just two people with different life experiences trying to do the best they can and winding up going in very different directions. You know, much like real life is for most normal people. Season 2 kinda abandoned that though, and it doesn't look like 3 is going to be better.

[GuitarStv]

Has anyone here mentioned Cobra Kai (on Netflix)?  Its a bit of a guilty pleasure, seeing a surprising number of actors from the original Karate Kid movies.  Lots of nostalgia, pretty funny, a really great dynamic between the lead characters, though it is pretty ridiculous (soap opera level) with the amount of drama.  Season 3 just came out this past week.

I liked season 1 quite a bit, but not so much season 2. Haven't started 3 yet.

I think the thing I liked about 1 was that there wasn't really a "bad guy", just two people with different life experiences trying to do the best they can and winding up going in very different directions. You know, much like real life is for most normal people. Season 2 kinda abandoned that though, and it doesn't look like 3 is going to be better.

That's also my general feeling about the show.

[uniwelder]

Has anyone here mentioned Cobra Kai (on Netflix)?  Its a bit of a guilty pleasure, seeing a surprising number of actors from the original Karate Kid movies.  Lots of nostalgia, pretty funny, a really great dynamic between the lead characters, though it is pretty ridiculous (soap opera level) with the amount of drama.  Season 3 just came out this past week.

I liked season 1 quite a bit, but not so much season 2. Haven't started 3 yet.

I think the thing I liked about 1 was that there wasn't really a "bad guy", just two people with different life experiences trying to do the best they can and winding up going in very different directions. You know, much like real life is for most normal people. Season 2 kinda abandoned that though, and it doesn't look like 3 is going to be better.

That's also my general feeling about the show.

Yes, I sadly must admit it was best at season 1 and has been going downhill from there.  Seen a few of season 3 episodes, and they are pretty bad.  I'm still hoping it will pick back up and restore my faith.  Will probably go back to watch season 1 again at some point and end there.

[Metalcat]

Has anyone here mentioned Cobra Kai (on Netflix)?  Its a bit of a guilty pleasure, seeing a surprising number of actors from the original Karate Kid movies.  Lots of nostalgia, pretty funny, a really great dynamic between the lead characters, though it is pretty ridiculous (soap opera level) with the amount of drama.  Season 3 just came out this past week.

We LOVE Cobra Kai, we don't even care that it's pure nonsense half the time.

I bought DH a Cobra Kai t-shirt to wear during his team Zoom.meetings.

[Samuel]

Prime just informed me that there's a new season of 'The Expanse'!  Now I know what I'll be doing after 'The Mandalorian' second season ends this Friday...

Indeed. Great show.

This season they dropped the first 3 episodes at once and are rolling out the remaining 7 weekly. They say "on Wednesdays" but I realized they mean midnight UTC (GMT) so it's available Tuesdays at 4pm here on the West Coast USA. Been decades since I've had any kind of appointment television but its actually nice to have something to look forward to each week. 

[iris lily]

Watched Bridgerton over the Christmas weekend. Highly recommend if you enjoy fluffy romantic drama (be aware, this is historical fantasy, so the ties to actual history are tenuous at best). FYI, the sex is pretty abundant and explicit so it's not an all-ages series. Gorgeous to look act and well acted.

I watched it this Christmas. With my parents.

What I expected: a pretty series plump with wish-fulfillment and gorgeous costumes and people.

What it was: all of the above, with softcore porn.

I mean, I liked it, but I would have preferred a head's up so I didn't watch it with Mom and Dad. y

I watched it but found a lot of it kind of painful.

I actually enjoyed the frivolous silliness of the Shonda world, and the Gossip Girl plot. It was very pretty, and fun, and light, and a number of the actors were quite good.

I just couldn't care about the main couple.

The guy was a knock off Mr D'Arcy with the weirdest version of daddy issues I've ever seen, and the girl swings wildly between being painfully naive and deeply savvy as it suits the plot.

I was so not invested in these characters together that their sudden onset rampant softcore porn was really off putting. Plus they were both so childish and child-like that it was really creepy. It didn't feel like I was watching adults, and it was so relentless.

I *kind of* like the concept that the first several episodes are all chaste glances and him doing up her glove buttons, and puritanical flirty shit like that, and then suddenly it's mashed together bodies non-stop, because it kind of acts as an artistic representation of what it would have been like for women at the time. Romance goes from one extremely chaste thing to another extremely graphic one in the blink of an eye. It being jarring for e made me reflect on the experience of the women in the period.

I did not enjoy the experience myself, but that would have been true for a lot of those women...

OK, thanks for this. It is a big NOPE for me.

 Without knowing anything about Bridgerton I watched the first 10 minutes and the tone was just so odd that I had to sign off.  It was comedic but not clever.I googled a bit of information about it and see that it is not a traditional costume drama. I’ve heard about Shonda Rhimes Shonda Rhimes Shonda Rimes but I didn’t know really who that person was, I would’ve bet on her being a female country-western singer.

So yesterday I looked up Shonda Rhimes and see that she has produced several television shows I would never watch. Yeah, I’m skipping Bridgerton.
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[Metalcat]

Watched Bridgerton over the Christmas weekend. Highly recommend if you enjoy fluffy romantic drama (be aware, this is historical fantasy, so the ties to actual history are tenuous at best). FYI, the sex is pretty abundant and explicit so it's not an all-ages series. Gorgeous to look act and well acted.

I watched it this Christmas. With my parents.

What I expected: a pretty series plump with wish-fulfillment and gorgeous costumes and people.

What it was: all of the above, with softcore porn.

I mean, I liked it, but I would have preferred a head's up so I didn't watch it with Mom and Dad. y

I watched it but found a lot of it kind of painful.

I actually enjoyed the frivolous silliness of the Shonda world, and the Gossip Girl plot. It was very pretty, and fun, and light, and a number of the actors were quite good.

I just couldn't care about the main couple.

The guy was a knock off Mr D'Arcy with the weirdest version of daddy issues I've ever seen, and the girl swings wildly between being painfully naive and deeply savvy as it suits the plot.

I was so not invested in these characters together that their sudden onset rampant softcore porn was really off putting. Plus they were both so childish and child-like that it was really creepy. It didn't feel like I was watching adults, and it was so relentless.

I *kind of* like the concept that the first several episodes are all chaste glances and him doing up her glove buttons, and puritanical flirty shit like that, and then suddenly it's mashed together bodies non-stop, because it kind of acts as an artistic representation of what it would have been like for women at the time. Romance goes from one extremely chaste thing to another extremely graphic one in the blink of an eye. It being jarring for e made me reflect on the experience of the women in the period.

I did not enjoy the experience myself, but that would have been true for a lot of those women...

OK, thanks for this. It is a big NOPE for me.

 Without knowing anything about Bridgerton I watched the first 10 minutes and the tone was just so odd that I had to sign off.  It was comedic but not clever.I googled a bit of information about it and see that it is not a traditional costume drama. I’ve heard about Shonda Rhimes Shonda Rhimes Shonda Rimes but I didn’t know really who that person was, I would’ve bet on her being a female country-western singer.

So yesterday I looked up Shonda Rhimes and see that she has produced several television shows I would never watch. Yeah, I’m skipping Bridgerton.

[/quote]

Oh yeah, absolutely NOT a period drama. More like a period-drama-flavoured, sugary, pop culture confection. It's extremely treacly.

It's apparently based off of a trashy romance novel series, which makes perfect sense to me having watched it. It's classic bodice-ripper fluff, all corsets and heavy breathing, and plots entirely revolving around people being bizarrely incapable of expressing themselves.

[Nick_Miller]

I know I'm over a year late on this, but my wife and I watched the whole Watchmen series on HBO Max this week and...wow.

Complex, relevant plot and themes. Superb acting and casting. Eye-catching visuals and transitions. And so many fascinating characters, I mean hell I can't even pick my favorite because there are four or five characters I liked so much I'd watch a whole series just about them. Regina King, who I can't believe is 50 years old, crushed it. Props to the showrunners for putting a middle-aged black woman in the center of this 'comic book' story. The unfiltered examination into racism over the last 100 years in Episode 6 was probably one the most absorbing, can't-look-away hours of entertainment I've experienced in the last decade. 

I was a tiny bit disappointed in the finale, but still, I have to score this 9.5/10. My wife was perhaps even more sucked in than I was; each night she was like, "Nick, want to watch one more?"

IMO, this BLEW AWAY WW84, Soul, Mandalorian, etc. It just wasn't even close. I would have paid $15 for this alone and felt I got a great deal. 9 hours of top notch entertainment. Strongest possible recommend.

[wenchsenior]

I know I'm over a year late on this, but my wife and I watched the whole Watchmen series on HBO Max this week and...wow.

Complex, relevant plot and themes. Superb acting and casting. Eye-catching visuals and transitions. And so many fascinating characters, I mean hell I can't even pick my favorite because there are four or five characters I liked so much I'd watch a whole series just about them. Regina King, who I can't believe is 50 years old, crushed it. Props to the showrunners for putting a middle-aged black woman in the center of this 'comic book' story. The unfiltered examination into racism over the last 100 years in Episode 6 was probably one the most absorbing, can't-look-away hours of entertainment I've experienced in the last decade. 

I was a tiny bit disappointed in the finale, but still, I have to score this 9.5/10. My wife was perhaps even more sucked in than I was; each night she was like, "Nick, want to watch one more?"

IMO, this BLEW AWAY WW84, Soul, Mandalorian, etc. It just wasn't even close. I would have paid $15 for this alone and felt I got a great deal. 9 hours of top notch entertainment. Strongest possible recommend.

Agree.  SO CRAZY and yet SO GOOD.

[GuitarStv]

We've started watching 'Raised by Wolves'.  Only a couple episodes in so far, but it's good sci-fi.

I take it back.  Plot goes crazy off the rails and things totally stop making sense in the final episodes.  Chracters just doing things that make no sense, glaring plot holes, ugh.  I hate to see such good sci-fi potential wasted like this.

[Luke Warm]

We've started watching 'Raised by Wolves'.  Only a couple episodes in so far, but it's good sci-fi.

I take it back.  Plot goes crazy off the rails and things totally stop making sense in the final episodes.  Chracters just doing things that make no sense, glaring plot holes, ugh.  I hate to see such good sci-fi potential wasted like this.

it seems like a show i would like but it got mediocre reviews on rotten tomatoes. i'll give it a pass.
i think this golden age of tv is fading. not much seems appealing.

[chaskavitch]

We've started watching 'Raised by Wolves'.  Only a couple episodes in so far, but it's good sci-fi.

I take it back.  Plot goes crazy off the rails and things totally stop making sense in the final episodes.  Chracters just doing things that make no sense, glaring plot holes, ugh.  I hate to see such good sci-fi potential wasted like this.

it seems like a show i would like but it got mediocre reviews on rotten tomatoes. i'll give it a pass.
i think this golden age of tv is fading. not much seems appealing.

I liked the premise of the show, and the first few episodes were good, but I agree that there were a lot of things that really didn't make sense further in.  I'll still watch the next season if there is one, because I have a hard time not finishing things, lol, but I have no idea where it's going.

[Metalcat]

Really enjoyed Hand Of God starring Ron Perlman and Dana Delaney. Dark, very violent, amazing supporting characters and a well wowen political corruption plot.

Ron Perlman is a judge who believes he's getting messages from God, everyone else thinks he's having a psychotic breakdown because his son shot himself.

Only two seasons, and it is nicely wrapped up at the end.

[Nick_Miller]

Are there any other "This is Us" fans around? I think that's my wife and I's fave show these days, at least among those on network TV. We're pretty invested in these last 1.5 years to see how everyone's arcs get wrapped up. Well, everyone other than Kate. I just don't care for her or her storyline.

And we finished Schitts Creek tonight. We adore comedies that layer on the character development and the tears. Among Johnny, Moira, Alexis, and David, I have no freakin' idea which one I loved the most. I could make an argument for any of them. That's a sign of a damn fine cast and some really strong writing. I thought the first season was a 5/10 but it got so much stronger. I'd give the whole series a 9/10.

[OtherJen]

Are there any other "This is Us" fans around? I think that's my wife and I's fave show these days, at least among those on network TV. We're pretty invested in these last 1.5 years to see how everyone's arcs get wrapped up. Well, everyone other than Kate. I just don't care for her or her storyline.

And we finished Schitts Creek tonight. We adore comedies that layer on the character development and the tears. Among Johnny, Moira, Alexis, and David, I have no freakin' idea which one I loved the most. I could make an argument for any of them. That's a sign of a damn fine cast and some really strong writing. I thought the first season was a 5/10 but it got so much stronger. I'd give the whole series a 9/10.

I love This Is Us! Haven’t watched the most recent episode yet so thanks for not spoiling it. :-) Randall and his family are my favorites. I’m not a big crier but the episode titled “Memphis,” the road trip that Randall took with William, absolutely gutted me.

I still need to watch Schitt’s Creek. I keep starting it and getting sidetracked. We just finished The Good Place, though, so it’s time for another smart comedy.

[GreenToTheCore]

I'm finding "Being Erica" on Hulu to be a nice light drama. Has anyone else picked up this one?

[CoffeeR]

I'm finding "Being Erica" on Hulu to be a nice light drama. Has anyone else picked up this one?

I agree - I enjoyed it years ago.

[sui generis]

Also just finished The Good Place.  I'll miss it!

Giving Schitt's Creek another try after kind of shrugging at season 1.

[sherr]

Giving Schitt's Creek another try after kind of shrugging at season 1.

I watched it and enjoyed it, but I also don't get the adoration for it. I found the Roses to be incredibly, annoyingly self-centered, as their most defining character trait. The only exception was Johnny. The other three though I found completely unlikable. They do grow over the course of the show, but it's growing from being "an incredibly awful person" to being a "merely worse than average person".

[OtherJen]

Giving Schitt's Creek another try after kind of shrugging at season 1.

I watched it and enjoyed it, but I also don't get the adoration for it. I found the Roses to be incredibly, annoyingly self-centered, as their most defining character trait. The only exception was Johnny. The other three though I found completely unlikable. They do grow over the course of the show, but it's growing from being "an incredibly awful person" to being a "merely worse than average person".

I enjoy fiction about terrible people if it's well-written/acted. This bodes well.

[iris lily]

Are there any other "This is Us" fans around? I think that's my wife and I's fave show these days, at least among those on network TV. We're pretty invested in these last 1.5 years to see how everyone's arcs get wrapped up. Well, everyone other than Kate. I just don't care for her or her storyline.

And we finished Schitts Creek tonight. We adore comedies that layer on the character development and the tears. Among Johnny, Moira, Alexis, and David, I have no freakin' idea which one I loved the most. I could make an argument for any of them. That's a sign of a damn fine cast and some really strong writing. I thought the first season was a 5/10 but it got so much stronger. I'd give the whole series a 9/10.

I love This Is Us! Haven’t watched the most recent episode yet so thanks for not spoiling it. :-) Randall and his family are my favorites. I’m not a big crier but the episode titled “Memphis,” the road trip that Randall took with William, absolutely gutted me.

I still need to watch Schitt’s Creek. I keep starting it and getting sidetracked. We just finished The Good Place, though, so it’s time for another smart comedy.

Is The Good Place smart? I dunno, first episode didnt strike me that way especially although yes, It is probably better than most of the pablum on network TV.

[iris lily]

Giving Schitt's Creek another try after kind of shrugging at season 1.

I watched it and enjoyed it, but I also don't get the adoration for it. I found the Roses to be incredibly, annoyingly self-centered, as their most defining character trait. The only exception was Johnny. The other three though I found completely unlikable. They do grow over the course of the show, but it's growing from being "an incredibly awful person" to being a "merely worse than average person".

I enjoy fiction about terrible people if it's well-written/acted. This bodes well.

You have seen Veep, right?

Best smart comedy about terrible people Ever!

[sherr]

Is The Good Place smart? I dunno, first episode didnt strike me that way especially although yes, It is probably better than most of the pablum on network TV.

Yes it is, and if you've only seen the first episode or so then you have a very poor feel for how the rest of the show is going to go. The longer it goes on the more it centers around wrestling with moral ethics. I vote for giving it another shot.

[Nick_Miller]

By this evening, I'll see if the hype for WandaVision is justified. I've been avoiding social media like the plague today to avoid spoilers.

And we've been watching The Right Stuff on Disney. I WANT to like it, and it's only 8 episodes so we'll finish it, but something is just...off...about it. Maybe the pacing is too slow. Or maybe there are just too many soap opera elements.

[BNgarden]

Enjoying Lupin on Netflix, only at 2nd episode.  Not sure about the various plot elements' believability, but it's been surprising and fun so far.

[FIRE Artist]

I just finished binging the 3 seasons of Yellowstone.  Not at all the kind of show that I usually watch, but it was a guilty pleasure.  Not a single character, not a one, has any redeeming qualities at all but for the son’s young indigenous wife.  You keep thinking, oh, here comes this person’s redemption, but nope!  Haha.

[EscapeVelocity2020]

Interested to hear any feedback on 'WandaVision', and started watching Lupin in French mainly to brush up on my language skills, whilst having the English subtitles.  Watching 'Bojack Horseman' right now, not sure if it's been mentioned, but I'm enjoying it.  Also nice to know that it wrapped up well, although I'm currently a long ways from the finale.

[Noodle]

I LOVED WandaVision--I think it's my favorite thing on TV right now. Partially because it's such a great showcase for television craftsmen at work--the set designers, costumers, composers, camera people etc. are all leaning WAY in to recreate classic television--even the actors are varying their performances from week to week. And partially because I love a "puzzle" show where you are gradually putting together what's going on. That said, I was listening to a podcast where a couple of the participants said they were frustrated by the slow movement of the overarching plot. I'm totally enjoying the journey, but if you are more traditional in your superhero media preferences (ie, you like a lot of action sequences) you might prefer to wait till it's all out and then watch in bigger chunks (it wouldn't take more than a couple of evenings, the individual episodes are only 20ish minutes long). The trailers indicate there is that kind of action coming, but the early episodes are focusing more on the sitcom aspect.

[HBFIRE]

Has anyone here mentioned Cobra Kai (on Netflix)?  Its a bit of a guilty pleasure, seeing a surprising number of actors from the original Karate Kid movies.  Lots of nostalgia, pretty funny, a really great dynamic between the lead characters, though it is pretty ridiculous (soap opera level) with the amount of drama.  Season 3 just came out this past week.

Love it.  A lot of nostalgia for those of us who grew up in the 80's, great writing, and William Zabka really carries the show imo.

[Metalcat]

I just finished binging the 3 seasons of Yellowstone.  Not at all the kind of show that I usually watch, but it was a guilty pleasure.  Not a single character, not a one, has any redeeming qualities at all but for the son’s young indigenous wife.  You keep thinking, oh, here comes this person’s redemption, but nope!  Haha.

Lol, DH and I have been loving Yellowstone, we keep calling whenever something happens that "murder is ALWAYS the answer!"

It's a half decent show, but the medicine in it is probably the worst I've ever seen on TV. The medical professional in me cringes every single time anything medical comes up because it's that bad on the show. Like, they obviously just didn't bother with any degree of medical consulting on their cases other than maybe one of their writers watched a lot of Grey's Anatomy and assumed they could realistically write medical content.

Fucking hilarious.

I could basically watch the sister be a psycho bitch all day though. I don't want her to have any redemption, she's far too entertaining as a wholly loathsome, soulless monster.

Just remember folks: murder is ALWAYS the answer.

[iris lily]

Just binge watched Caliphate, a Swedish series about radical islamists in Sweden. Gripping!

[WhiteTrashCash]

We just started watching season 5 of "The Expanse". We're two episodes in and it seems to be going a little slow right now. I hope it's building up to something good.

[Luke Warm]

tried watching 'altered carbon' last night. kinda bad.
'lupin' was good but not great.

[HPstache]

Just got thru the 2nd episode of "Undercover Billionaire" on Discovery channel... I'm entertained.  Premise of the show is that a Billionaire decides to drop his identity, be placed in a city he does not know with the goal of building a business valued at $1M in 90 days.  He arrives with a phone w/ no contacts, $100 in his pocket and a truck. 

[Nick_Miller]

Has anyone seen Lovecraft Country? We're 4 episodes in. First Episode was fantastic, second episode was good, next two just okay. I hope it doesn't lose more steam. I was hoping it would scratch our Watchmen itch, but I don't think it's going to. Watchmen didn't have a single "meh" episode, it was amazingly consistent in its brilliance.

Also, anyone have any thoughts on WandaVision? Since it's new and weekly, it's a delightfully current and spoiler-free show to discuss. Personally, I'm interested to see where it's going, but I'm ready to get past the setup and into the meat of the conflict. But Elizabeth Olsen has been somehow funny, adorable, and sorta scary all at the same time. You can tell she's having a lot of fun finally being able to act after being relegated as a minor (and one-note) character in the movies.

@v8rx7guy that actually sounds like a pretty awesome premise. Are they just hour episodes? How legit does it seem? I mean, it seems like the whole appeal of the show would be to see if they can do it without cheating, but producers of these types of shows are so shady when it comes to hiding stuff.