What TV Shows Are You Watching? Series VI - Programmes of Power

[Ferocitus]

I'm really glad I watched S1 of The Sinner, if only because it was fascinating.

I thought S2 was much better, and more the True Detective style I wanted.

 

[Kyriakos]

Is the storyline common/related in all seasons?

 

[Ferocitus]

Is the storyline common/related in all seasons?

No. Completely different cases each season.

 

[Takhisis]

The rerun of Castle The Rookie has finally cycled around to starting season 3 again this past week!

 

[BenitoChavez]

Usually by season 3 you’re no longer a rookie.

In other news I watched the first 2 episodes of Hawkeye. It was decent but I wish it had a more serious tone

 

[Takhisis]

Rook, castle. Castle, rook… I wonder whether they realised the similarity of the names when they chose the name for the later series.

 

[Broken_Erika]

Usually by season 3 you’re no longer a rookie.

In other news I watched the first 2 episodes of Hawkeye. It was decent but I wish it had a more serious tone

Hawkeye got his own show?

 

[Samson]

LuLaRich. Pretty messed up, but what gets me is it seems like there is a sustainable business model in there that was broken by greed and incompetence. You can make clothes for pennies in Bangladesh and sell them for tens of dollars in the US. If you can can do that without the expensive rental of mall space and staff hanging about all day when the shop is empty and instead get bored housewives to sell to their friends in their homes there should be enough profits to make everyone happy.

 

[warpus]

I started watching Hawkeye, and it's kept my interest so far.. It's kind of silly, but it seems to work.

One trope I am starting to really hate though is how a superhero has someone in their life (whether it's their boss, a relative, a relative's boss, a relative's new husband, or whatever) who has ties to the baddies.. or is one of the baddies. So.. yeah, I get the dynamics they are going for, they want to show the superhero engaging with the baddies as regular people.. then show them fighting it out later or whatever. I get it, but it's just so stupid and each time it happens I want to stop watching. In this case it was done well, but the trope is just sooo tired, just stop doing it

 

[Broken_Erika]

Hawkeye got his own show?

Doesn't anyone remember M.A.S.H.?

 

[BenitoChavez]

Doesn't anyone remember M.A.S.H.?

I am vaguely aware of M.A.S.H.

But I can’t see the image you posted

 

[Broken_Erika]

I am vaguely aware of M.A.S.H.

But I can’t see the image you posted

Cursed Internets ruin my references again!
Here
https://mash.fandom.com/wiki/"Hawkeye"_Pierce

 

[Kyriakos]

No. Completely different cases each season.

At least the main detective is the same

 

[Ferocitus]

At least the main detective is the same

Yes, the poor man's Michael Douglas is a constant, as is his idea that there is a story behind each crime
that should be teased out to (a) solve it and (b) that it is a "satisfactory" solution.

I doubt that it was an idea unique to Foucault, but (IIRC) in Discipline and Punish he said that it
would be an uncomfortable state of affairs for a defendant to be sentenced if we knew nothing about them.
If they refused to give their name, or answer any questions, the judicial system wouldn't freeze up -
it can handle such rare instances - but there is something unsatisfactory about it if we don't know
the story behind the crime. Who is the author of the story? if you like.
I get that kind of feeling about the detective's motivation and method. (Not that I believe he read
Foucault for inspiration!)

 

[Ferocitus]

South Park Special
9/10. Because it's the future.

 

[Kyriakos]

@Ferocitus it seems s3 of The Sinner became Rope, which doesn't work that well without James Stewart

 

[Synobun]

Arcane is an easy 9/10. Beautiful animation work. I was skeptical during the first two episodes, but the tonal shift in the third is so distinct and sudden that it blew me away and made me a believer immediately.

 

[Takhisis]

Usually by season 3 you’re no longer a rookie.

Indeed! The series starts with the titular rookies about to stop being, well, rookies.

 

[El_Machinae]

I'm starting Kim's Convenience, since it feels like it will be light-hearted humour in a world that seems to be spiraling to 'gritty'.

I'm a few episodes in. The pilot is reasonably different from later episodes, since the pilot starts with 'woke' discussion regarding Gay Pride and later episodes aren't nearly so politically heavy.
It's weird how the messenger crafts how the message was received. This show being aired on CBC is totally different than if it were aired on Trump Media. I regularly think "how is this not super-racist mocking? It can't be, because it's on CBC". Various characters lean into tropes as a source of humour. But it's cute and funny, I'll give it that.

 

[warpus]

Would a CBC produced show ever make it on anything Trump supporters watch en masse? It doesn't seem likely unless it's something from the 90s