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[lymond]

I watched 4 epis of American Primeval last night - had planned to watch one. Eetz gud!!! Betty is awesome. Not the deepest show ever, but a very good bingy tough early Western story with gritty action, Mormons, and Shoshone.

Also, watch The Capture on Peacock with Holiday Grainger. Mentioned it before, but now finished and it was a great ride. (2 seasons of 6 epis each that as a whole function as like a limited series with a full conclusion..mostly)

 

[Birdjaguar]

I tried the first episodes of Constellation, American Primeval, The Recruit, A Man on the Inside, Interior Chinatown, Virgin River, and The Hunting Party. They were all fine. If any of them look like the sort of thing you're into, you'll probably like them. I don't even know what I want anymore.

If you like westerns, American Primeval is very good even with the minor cheats I posted above.

 

[EgonSpengler]

The Recruit is fun, but kinda dumb; for Spy-type stuff, The Old Man, The Diplomat, Black Doves and The Night Agent are all (much) better, and for other stuff by this writer, I liked The Rookie better (only seen S1-S5: S6 got to Disney+ a month or 2 back, but wifey's forbidden me from watching it until we can get our slightlySmartTV to talk to our phones again, so we can watch it together on the bigger screen).

She's binged the entirety of Virgin River, up to the S6(?) finale.

A Man on the Inside looked like fun, and has been on my To-Watch list for a couple of weeks now.

Oh yeah, Black Doves. I watched the first ep of that, too. I haven't tried The Night Agent yet.

Betty is awesome.

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I also tried Doc, the new medical drama with Molly Parker. I read yesterday that it's gotten huge numbers on streaming and has already been renewed for a 2nd season. It's a remake of an Italian show from a few years ago, which I haven't seen. As with all the others, it's fine, does what it says on the tin, if you're into that sort of thing or if you dig Molly Parker.

 

[Yeekim]

If you like westerns, American Primeval is very good even with the minor cheats I posted above.

Picked it up based on your recommendation and yes, it was good.
Some silly bits ofc, but still enjoyable overall.

 

[Kyriakos]

Watched two of the supposedly top10 best Poirot tv series episodes: Five Little Pigs and Curtain.
But sadly I liked neither :/ I will try Poirot's Christmas next.

Of those two, Curtain was better imo - not the cast, the story. But still not really that memorable a plot, compared to a few others by Christie. Not a bad way to end Poirot, of course.

 

[Takhisis]

It's a bit odd that we now have a channel called USA that has the letters USA overlaid onto everything it broadcasts and, during ad breaks, encourages the Latin American populations to shout USA! USA! with the announcer.

Naturally, the programming is US-made series in which US government institutions (mostly the police, and the Blue Bloods named after Ronald Reagan) are lionised. Sign of the times, I guess.

 

[warpus]

I started watching The Resident and I'll admit that I generally have never even thought of wanting to watch a hospital drama type show.. I dislike watching people being operated on and I generally know very little about day to day hospital life so I did not think it's something I'd particularly enjoy..

This show has really surprised me. It's the characters and the drama between them, and the interesting situations they end up in, the interesting dilemmas, the general commentary on social issues, etc. that has made me want to watch more episodes.. The hospital stuff is all secondary really, and all that is interesting too. Yeah, there are a bunch of unrealistic situations and over the top things happening, but how boring would a hospital show be if it was just about physicals. This is a well written show with compelling characters and storylines

One day it also hit me.. This is basically a Star Trek style show, except that the spaceship is a hospital. I GET IT

 

[Kyriakos]

This is basically a Star Trek style show, except that the spaceship is a hospital. I GET IT

Can't that be said for most tv drama shows?
They all have a main cast and revolving doors for the daily crisis.

 

[warpus]

Can't that be said for most tv drama shows?
They all have a main cast and revolving doors for the daily crisis.

And lots of hospitalobabble, and even sometimes aliens (well, there was a furry)

 

[lymond]

And lots of hospitalobabble, and even sometimes aliens (well, there was a furry)

I started watching The Resident

I enjoyed the first season. I started watching it for Emily Vancamp and as I'd not watched a medical drama at that point since House, I thought I'd give it a go. House as a show was a different animal, but it was Grey's Anatomy that turned me of medical stuff for years. Anyway, the first season of The Resident was very good. Started the second season and then just stopped...not sure why now, but I think I started seeing it go the way of Grey's.

Several of the newer med shows that popped up after seemed to copy this show to some degree, i.e., it focuses on a particularly idealistic young doctor.

 

[warpus]

I enjoyed the first season. I started watching it for Emily Vancamp and as I'd not watched a medical drama at that point since House, I thought I'd give it a go. House as a show was a different animal, but it was Grey's Anatomy that turned me of medical stuff for years. Anyway, the first season of The Resident was very good. Started the second season and then just stopped...not sure why now, but I think I started seeing it go the way of Grey's.

Several of the newer med shows that popped up after seemed to copy this show to some degree, i.e., it focuses on a particularly idealistic young doctor.

All I know about Grey's Anatomy is that my ex-girlfriend used to watch it religiously when we were dating about 20 years ago. And when I first heard this it surprised me because I honestly thought it was a show about aliens or something related (and she dislikes sci-fi). There might have been an alien body autopsy fake news going around at the time, but when I first heard "Grey's anatomy" I immediately associated the show with aliens, and I left it at that, never bothering to look it up.

Anyway, I never ended up watching any of that show and we ended up going our separate ways, but I am thoroughly enjoying The Resident and am halfway through season 3 now. The only thing that I would be tempted to complain about is the over the top stuff that sometimes happens, but it leads to more interesting drama, so I've embraced it.

edit: As for House, the only episodes of that I've ever watched was when we were resting in Huaraz, Peru, my friend had a stomach flu, we were all walked out, and he was raving about House.. I think he brought some episodes with him? Or.. for some reason there was House on Peruvian TV in English? Neither of those scenarios makes sense to me, but we were definitely watching House in Peru, each one of us lounging back in our tiny single beds. It must have been English subtitles. Anyway, I found that show very formulaic and got bored of it fast, from what I remember, after only 1 or 2 episodes, but I admit I was also swayed in terms of bias I've come across against it, and people making fun of how episodes are structured. So maybe I will have to give it another chance one of those days when I'm out of anything else to watch

 

[Kyriakos]

Chances are that House was on peruvian tv, and they simply subtitled the show in spanish, leaving the english to be heard?
I watched quite a few episodes of House, for the first time, when the pandemic started. It is (imo) mildly entertaining but not really a drama - more of a comedy.

 

[warpus]

Chances are that House was on peruvian tv, and they simply subtitled the show in spanish, leaving the english to be heard?

Yes, now that you have said that, it seems so obvious. That's what it must have been

Are there shows similar to The Resident in that the theme is medical-based but the show is basically about interesting characters and what happens between them? Good ones I mean

 

[Synobun]

Yes, now that you have said that, it seems so obvious. That's what it must have been

Are there shows similar to The Resident in that the theme is medical-based but the show is basically about interesting characters and what happens between them? Good ones I mean

Well, Scrubs.

 

[warpus]

Well, Scrubs.

I completely forgot about Scrubs, but probably because it's a comedy. I think I've seen the first 3-5 seasons, but it's been a while. Thanks for the reminder, I'm going to have to revisit this show

But.. it makes me wonder.. How many medical comedies are there? There can't be many. And why is M*A*S*H a thing? A medical comedy.. but it's set in Vietnam? That's 3 types of shows all coming together in a weird way. like a detective show about disadvantaged transformers knitting in new york. It might work but who is going to approve that?

I refuse to google this, but my new guess is that it's a spoof of a serious medical show or movie set in Vietnam. I will guess that it was also an acronym

 

[lymond]

Yeah, House is comedy/drama but much more focused on the medical stuff than most medical shows. It all centers around Hugh Laurie, a fine British actor who built his early career on Brit comedy. The certainly some drama but not nearly the junk that goes on in the others, and the cases are fascinating. The drama between characters is there, but most of it is focused on the cases.

Scrubs was more of an oddball sitcom with some very touching moments here and there.

MASH was a hit movie and then when of the biggest hit TV shows of all time.