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

[Synobun]

The first episode of Invasion is perhaps the worst pilot I've ever seen in my life.

I am going to assume that Apple releasing three episodes at once was intentional. I am going to give it at least another episode to give me a reason to keep going.

 

[Berzerker]

comedy central is showing the Seinfeld series

I haven't watched it in years and forgot many of the gags and jokes, still hilarious

 

[The_J]

I'll start it on Netflix after I'm through my current sitcom (which is only 8 episodes I think, so I thought I'd do it before Seinfeld...).

 

[Kyriakos]

I have never watched an episode of Seinfeld. It just looks incredibly dull and unfunny.
I only recall the 'episode' with that Kramer actor and his stand up routine that ended what little he had of a career.
"It's been a real launching pad for whites"

 

[Berzerker]

Dexter is starting up again next month on Showtime

 

[Takhisis]

Finally the third season of I bastardi di Pizzofalcone is going to show up here.

I found out that RAI's international version has actually been airing it but… at 2 a.m. in this timezone, which means that even in Italy it would have been 6 a.m.
So I'm not sure who is meant to have watched it, if at all. I could've watched it already, starting September! Instead I've been unnecessarily delayed.

One takes what can can get, right?

 

[The_J]

Lost In Space S3 coming December 1 .

 

[Broken_Erika]

Lost In Space S3 coming December 1 .

Watch the original!

 

[The_J]

I'd actually love to, but it's not on Netflix .

 

[Synobun]

The first episode of Invasion is perhaps the worst pilot I've ever seen in my life.

I am going to assume that Apple releasing three episodes at once was intentional. I am going to give it at least another episode to give me a reason to keep going.

Second episode was... better.

I think what's annoying me is that the model of storytelling is very reliant on each narrative being compelling. And the reality is that a couple of the subplots are so bad that they immediately careen any possible momentum to a halt.

There were a couple subplots much more interesting in the second episode.

 

[Sofista]

Finally the third season of I bastardi di Pizzofalcone is going to show up here.

I found out that RAI's international version has actually been airing it but… at 2 a.m. in this timezone, which means that even in Italy it would have been 6 a.m.
So I'm not sure who is meant to have watched it, if at all. I could've watched it already, starting September! Instead I've been unnecessarily delayed.

One takes what can can get, right?

RAI cares. As long as you're a nightwatchman, that is.

(Seriously, what do they air during your prime time?)

 

[Takhisis]

Uhm, there's TG1, Che tempo che fa, Unomattina, I Soliti ignoti, L'heredità, L'Italia con voi, Un posto al sole, I fatti vostri, Ballando con le stelle… it's a weird mix. Also there was Raffaella's interview show (I especially remember when she interviewed Sofia) but that, of course, is now off the air.
Also there was a programme where Luciana Littizzetto did some humorous segments from home but I don't remember the name. I think it was also Che tempo che fa, but I'm not sure.

 

[Sofista]

It's indeed Che tempo che fa. I can only guess they postponed functionally I Bastardi because they wanted to sell it around the Continent.

 

[Birdjaguar]

7 episodes in, Foundation is still strong. Well done and moving along very nicely.

 

[warpus]

I watched the first episode of Star Trek: Prodigy today.

Overall I love the visual style! It's.. beautiful. It looks soooooo much better than all the Star Wars cartoons IMO. Better than Lower Decks too.

Speaking of Star Wars, in the first episode so far at least it feels like.. it's pretty much set in the SW universe, not ST. I guess that's what they're going for? It sorta got a bit more Trekky near the end, but overall the visual style, all the robots, the way everything looks and sounds - it screams Star Wars to me.

The story was decent and I'm intrigued enough to keep watching so far. I thought this pilot was stronger than the Lower Decks pilot, although that show ended up improving and this one is aimed at kids moreso than the other one.. so we'll see.

 

[Sommerswerd]

I heard somewhere they targeted the dubbing at Asian-Americans who don't speak Korean, and not necessarily a much wider western audience. So all the inflections and exaggrated way of speaking and so on is done on purpose, so that it jives well with the expected audience.

I found it a bit offputting too, but I also found some of the charactrers dubbed rather well. That quiet girl was one example of that.. Her dubs always seemed on point. Any sort of character expressing any sort of emotion was where the problems started, IMO

I finally finished Squid Game. I thought it was very good. The dubbing/script gripes I had remain, but the dialogue isn't even that important, the overall story and messages of the story are easily strong enough to transcend the script. This show could have almost been completely silent and you still would have gotten the point. Good show. I wonder if they do another season.

 

[warpus]

They are working on a 2nd season, at least based on something I read about a month ago.

 

[Sommerswerd]

Also, on a related note... TIL that 46 billion South Korean WON works out to roughly 39 million USD. Pretty nice grand prize. I can certainly see people being willing to go through all that BS for a prize that large.

I've been thinking... was the "feast" an actual game/challenge, or just a social experiment/troll of the participants?

Eat your heart out Hunger Games, this was way more efficient, meaner, and more tense... with way less administrative interference.

 

[warpus]

I got the sense that they were trying to set them up to fight and kill each other and the feast was a part of that, but I also did not think all that was executed that well. By that I mean that it did not seem natural for all the killing to start when the lights went out. I might be misremembering the feast scene though.. but IIRC it happened right before that

I totally would not throw myself into a "Everybody except 1 person dies" lottery for any amount of money. Not my kind of odds. Probably would not even do it if only 1 person dies or whatever. Not my kind of odds either. Of course I also don't have the mob after me for debts

 

[Sommerswerd]

I got the sense that they were trying to set them up to fight and kill each other and the feast was a part of that, but I also did not think all that was executed that well. By that I mean that it did not seem natural for all the killing to start when the lights went out. I might be misremembering the feast scene though.. but IIRC it happened right before that

I totally would not throw myself into a "Everybody except 1 person dies" lottery for any amount of money. Not my kind of odds. Probably would not even do it if only 1 person dies or whatever. Not my kind of odds either. Of course I also don't have the mob after me for debts

It wasn't clear to me at least, and I don't think it was clear to the participants either, that this was a 1 man leaves situation. I think everyone believed that they would split the prize with all the participants who made it to the end. The first two games, Red Light- Green Light and the Sugarcake game could have theoretically allowed every participant to survive. Based on that, I thought that there would be multiple winners.

As far as the lights out thing goes, that is different from the feast it was a much earlier episode. The feast was at the sumptuous banquet table almost at the very end, and it came right after the circus-bridge game with the glass panels. The lights out battle was closer to the beginning. But like the feast, it seemed like the lights out battle was a sort of mini-game that was designed to test whether the participants would choose to take advantage and trim the herd out on their own. I guess it kind of went to the old man's speech about not being able to trust humanity.