What TV Shows are you watching? ζ: The seventh-season itch

[Takhisis]

Hopefully so as I could really use something new & good otherwise I'll start re-watching Sherlock & Foyle's War once again.

Have you watched The Mentalist? I've already commented on how it's Castle but with a darker twist.

 

[Kyriakos]

Have you watched The Mentalist? I've already commented on how it's Castle but with a darker twist.

Is there some catch? Because the trailer doesn't look good at all, imo.
Even the trailer from Mesmer's show in the Boys looked better

 

[Birdjaguar]

(PS: pretty sure a USian made this meme, judging by the text)

Judging by the spelling whoever made it is poor at English.

 

[Berzerker]

Dark Winds on AMC, set in the 70s on the Navaho reservation. I've seen 2 episodes so far, laid back pace, people are getting killed but the violence is unseen (edit: the robbery scene was graphic) and there's a spooky aspect with witchcraft, good and bad medicine. Navaho cop Joe Leaphorn is on the trail of robbers who pulled off an armored car robbery in Gallup and ditched the getaway helicopter on the reservation. Produced by Robert Redford and George RR Martin with a mostly Indian cast and set in the American southwest.

Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, and now Dark Winds - New Mexico is a hotspot for AMC and somewhat quirky TV series.

 

[Kyriakos]

Pretty funny that the new star wars series (about Obi Wan and some other stuff) also failed pitifully and is hated by its own audience/target group (SW fans).

Next stop (likely?) Amazon's Lotr.

 

[Birdjaguar]

now Dark Winds

Based on NM author Tony Hillerman's books. NM offers rich subsidies for movie and TV productions.

 

[Kyriakos]

I didn't expect to ever see a video with almost 3 million views, have only 22K likes.
Wonder how many the dislikes are. Maybe in the hundreds of thousands?...

Season1 airs this September.

 

[EvaDK]

Some have already decided that The Rings Of Power will suck and/or imitate Game Of Thrones and these people are very loud on social media and YouTube.

 

[Kyriakos]

Some have already decided that The Rings Of Power will suck and/or imitate Game Of Thrones and these people are very loud on social media and YouTube.

But did GoT get such reactions back when it started/the promo was out?
Granted, back then (I suppose) far fewer people had read the Grrm books, than those who watched the Lotr movies (?) and/or read Lotr. But it seems the negative reaction with Amazon's Lotr-adjacent series is due to it simply not having much of a tie to speak of to any Lotr lore. I read that the large majority of characters are just invented by Amazon, and the plot is based on notes (by Tolkien) to the degree that it is based on anything.
So I can see how many lotr fans felt that this was (apart from other bad things) false advertising and not really about Lotr.

 

[EvaDK]

The answer is: we don't know. We have no idea about how the series is balanced between legacy characters (Tolkien's characters) and characters created by the writers, primarily the hobbit/harefoot characters by the look of it. Hopefully, TRoP will reserve its primary storyline for Elrond, Galadriel, Celebrimbor, Gil-Galad, Numenorean characters and not least Sauron.

 

[Kyriakos]

The answer is: we don't know. We have no idea about how the series is balanced between legacy characters (Tolkien's characters) and characters created by the writers, primarily the hobbit/harefoot characters by the look of it. Hopefully, TRoP will reserve its primary storyline for Elrond, Galadriel, Celebrimbor, Gil-Galad, Numenorean characters and not least Sauron.

I've heard on a few videos that the first episode of the first season focuses on 3 characters, only one of which is legacy (Galadriel).
Far more crucially, though, the promos feature heavily (apart from Galadriel) the non-legacy ones.

 

[lymond]

Also, folks probably have fairly low expectations based on what Amazon did to WoT.

(GoT was well received at release, though initially not as popular as it would become. I was a book reader)

 

[BenitoChavez]

I didn't expect to ever see a video with almost 3 million views, have only 22K likes.
Wonder how many the dislikes are. Maybe in the hundreds of thousands?...

Season1 airs this September.

Spoiler :

There are browser addons that display the dislikes on youtube. This one isn't so bad compared to the trailer on the official Amazon channel. That has 119 thousand likes and 1.6 million dislikes. But yeah, the trailer just doesn't look good.

 

[Takhisis]

Is there some catch? Because the trailer doesn't look good at all, imo.
Even the trailer from Mesmer's show in the Boys looked better

How about just watching an episode?

 

[Grendeldef]

Have you watched The Mentalist? I've already commented on how it's Castle but with a darker twist.

I'm aware of it but I can't recall seeing a single episode even by accident; I need to check that out as I got bored with Castle quickly. Also finished I, Claudius which was slightly less boring at the end. The producers must've also realised that it wasn't the most vivid tv show and brought in Messalina's tits. I assume some Brits where alarmed by this in the 70s to a degree not easily calmed by afternoon tea.
Currently watching mini series Paranoid with Indira Varma & one of the Glenisters. Varma is interesting as I don't like her in anything but she has been in a number good or excellent series like Luther.

 

[Synobun]

I am mostly hate-watching Homeland at this point. Still undecided if, after I finish season seven, I'll see just how bad season eight could be.

 

[Takhisis]

I'm aware of it but I can't recall seeing a single episode even by accident; I need to check that out as I got bored with Castle quickly.

The Mentalist is darker and with longer-spanning arcs, it might work better for you.

 

[Kyriakos]

I am mostly hate-watching Homeland at this point. Still undecided if, after I finish season seven, I'll see just how bad season eight could be.

(btw, are you watching that too?)

 

[Synobun]

I saw the first two seasons, and am holding off on the third season for now because of how many other shows are currently happening. Of the new antihero trope, The Boys is the best of them, but that's a low bar. There's only so much enjoyment you can get out of mega gore and "hey, people are awful, eh?" as a defining plot point.

 

[Kyriakos]

How about just watching an episode?

He should have played Gabriel Knight