Which television shows are you watching? Part III

[civvver]

I rushed through The Boys on prime. It was fine but the way my friends raved about it I was expecting a little more. The middle episodes dragged. But beginning and ending were good and it's has good humor.

Through 8 episodes of Glow. It definitely has that jenji cohen feel like weeds and orange (though I only watched like 1-2 episodes of orange). I only have one major gripe with it in that the director guy keeps hooking up with hot girls who seem waaay out of his league and they all seem to think he's attractive. I don't get it. He has like a squished face all the time like he just sucked a lemon, looks pretty weathered to me.

 

[Lemon Merchant]

I watched the first episode of Star Trek: Picard. The revelations about synthetics seems rather implausible to me, but hey, it wasn't a bad episode and I'll keep on watching.

Spoilers please! I haven't watched it yet.

 

[Arakhor]

That's not really a spoiler, don't worry, but I won't say anything else!

 

[EgonSpengler]

I saw the bit from The View when Patrick Stewart officially invited Whoopi Goldberg to do season 2 of Star Trek: Picard. If she'd smiled any wider I think her face would've exploded. It was cute. She had her long, grey locks for playing Mother Abigail in The Stand, but I think those'd work for Guinan too, if she feels like keeping them.

There are some characters in fiction whose mysterious origins ought to remain mysterious. Heath Ledger's Joker. Ron Glass' Shepherd Book. Some people want these characters explored more explicitly, but I typically don't. The Joker is supposed to be inscrutable. Firefly fans who paid attention know all they need to know about the Shepherd. It's all there, if you want it. I've never been able to make up my mind about Guinan, though. iirc, we learned a little about her in Star Trek: Generations, but it was either incomplete or unsatisfying. I haven't seen that one in a long time, my memory is hazy. I remember that, in the series, Data met her on 19th-Century Earth, and she didn't recognize him (the idea was that she hadn't traveled back in time as he had, she was actually there at the time, looking the same as she did in the 24th Century.) I also remember a moment in the series when Q is aboard the ship and he and Guinan hiss and growl like they're about to have a go, before Picard steps between them. Not only did they know each other, they didn't like each other. There was some history there. But I also thought, "Whoa, whoa, whoa. Back up the train. Was Guinan about to throw down with Q?! Just how powerful is she?" We never found out.

 

[Birdjaguar]

New to Amazon starting checking out some older shows that got good reviews.
The wife wanted to watch The Marvvelous Mrs. Maisel.
We're about halfway through season 2. (a long holiday weekend)
And I can see why the critics liked this show.
Tony Shalhoub gets the best roles and again shines here.
Some great acting all around.

It has been a great show. I can't wait for season 3.

 

[EgonSpengler]

It has been a great show. I can't wait for season 3.

I keep wanting to watch that, everybody seems to love it, but it keeps slipping off the end of my watch-list. I think if I could watch tv 18 hours a day, I'd (a) go insane and (b) still not be able to watch everything that looks good.

 

[Birdjaguar]

I keep wanting to watch that, everybody seems to love it, but it keeps slipping off the end of my watch-list. I think if I could watch tv 18 hours a day, I'd (a) go insane and (b) still not be able to watch everything that looks good.

The show is so very 1950s NY and and Jewish culturally. And Lenny Bruce is there. All the characters are true to form. And it is funny too.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

I haven't seen that one in a long time, my memory is hazy. I remember that, in the series, Data met her on 19th-Century Earth, and she didn't recognize him (the idea was that she hadn't traveled back in time as he had, she was actually there at the time, looking the same as she did in the 24th Century.) I also remember a moment in the series when Q is aboard the ship and he and Guinan hiss and growl like they're about to have a go, before Picard steps between them. Not only did they know each other, they didn't like each other. There was some history there. But I also thought, "Whoa, whoa, whoa. Back up the train. Was Guinan about to throw down with Q?! Just how powerful is she?"

Her species is especially long lived and have had various interactions with both the Borg and Q. They are not omnipotent like the Q though. I believe the Borg scattered her species throughout the galaxy and that this is how she wound up on Earth in the 19th century. It was a pit stop before moving on. I think Mark Twain might have also been an alien that she knew and that's partly why she came to Earth but I don't remember the exact connection.

 

[AmazonQueen]

Watched series 1-11 of Daziell & Pascoe again since the New Year.

 

[Takhisis]

Sym-bionic Titan. Cartoon Network managed to put it out of business but now they've shoved it onto Tooncast.

…and for some reason they're stuck broadcasting the very first episode in the same timeslot daily since last week.

 

[Synobun]

I just finished watching the third season of 13 Reasons Why. I didn't agree with the backlash the first season got, and thought it was both respectful and poignant. The second season was not good, though, and I thought it was a really weak continuation of the story -- one that shouldn't have been made. The third season redeemed the second, touched on more sensitive concepts, and it did all of this incredibly well IMO. An excellent rebound. 9/10.

 

[Takhisis]

Huzzah! TV5 is back showing Caïn, subtitled just in case I miss something, in a timeslot other than Sundays at 4:39 a.m.

 

[Synobun]

Dracula. Jesus, this is so bad. DNF during the first "episode."

The Count looked like the Grand Nagus from DS9. And the setup for the plot was just really abysmal.

Then I heard Moffat was in charge of it. So not a surprise in hindsight.

 

[AmazonQueen]

Dracula. Jesus, this is so bad. DNF during the first "episode."

The Count looked like the Grand Nagus from DS9. And the setup for the plot was just really abysmal.

Then I heard Moffat was in charge of it. So not a surprise in hindsight.

I quite enjoyed it. After some early WTH reactions I realised it was so bad it was good.

 

[tjs282]

Finished Jessica Jones S2, started Luke Cage S2.

@Synsensa:
Also finished The Dragon Prince S1 (only 9 episodes?!? Wotta rippoff! ). The artwork and character-design is beautiful, but (at least so far) the story and character/group-dynamics do seem very much a thinly-disguised capitalisation on/ rehash of Avatar. Also took a while for me to get used to Rayla's Scots accent, which I initially found a little random/off-putting. I mean, the story is set in a fantasy world, so why use such an obviously Earth-derived accent — which also seemed to slip occasionally (adding to the disconnect)? But I just googled Rayla's voice-actress, Paula Burrows, and found that her mum is Scottish, so I guess her/Rayla's accent is somewhat more authentic than I'd assumed. Callum also very much reminds me of Sokka — which I guess should not have surprised me, since both characters were not only written by the same person (Aaron Ehasz), but (as I discovered) also voiced by the same actor (Jack de Sena).

 

[Synobun]

@Synsensa:
Also finished The Dragon Prince S1 (only 9 episodes?!? Wotta rippoff! ). The artwork and character-design is beautiful, but (at least so far) the story and character/group-dynamics do seem very much a thinly-disguised capitalisation on/ rehash of Avatar. Also took a while for me to get used to Rayla's Scots accent, which I initially found a little random/off-putting. I mean, the story is set in a fantasy world, so why use such an obviously Earth-derived accent — which also seemed to slip occasionally (adding to the disconnect)? But I just googled Rayla's voice-actress, Paula Burrows, and found that her mum is Scottish, so I guess her/Rayla's accent is somewhat more authentic than I'd assumed. Callum also very much reminds me of Sokka — which I guess should not have surprised me, since both characters were not only written by the same person (Aaron Ehasz), but (as I discovered) also voiced by the same actor (Jack de Sena).

The accent mellows out after S1. I agree with you that it's a little off-putting, though, especially with how it "warbles" and switches as she speaks.

I'm not sure that I agree that it's simply a rehash of ATLA, though. Maybe I'm just misremembering S1 and am stuck sipping on the S2/S3 sizzurp.

 

[Synobun]

Another Life, season one. Not bad. Well, actually, it's pretty good. 8/10.

I found Katee's performance rather good, although for some reason my mind couldn't accept that she's, visually, a real human being. She switches from looking fantastic to being in the uncanny valley from one angle to the next. It was very confusing.

The show has some non-standard sexual portrayals. You could consider it tacky, but I don't think it was particularly bad. In fact, I actually kind of liked them, in the sense that they may make it more acceptable to stray from only 1-on-1 straight and gay portrayals in the future. There was a sex scene between a man and someone who is nonbinary, a scene between a woman and AI, and a scene between two men and a woman. None exactly memorable for me, but a real game-changer given the puritan conditions of TV.

The story itself is alright. The twist was cool. I'd recommend it. There are a couple episodes that kind of feel like filler but they do a decent job at setting character motivations.

Also: Medical Police, season one. Boo! 0/10.

 

[tjs282]

Also: Medical Police, season one. Boo! 0/10.

I watched the trailer for that, decided it looked awful. Thanks for confirming

 

[AmazonQueen]

Watching Good Omens atm, its ok, not great.
Michael Sheen isn't right for how I imagined his character.

 

[Kyriakos]

Servant.

Absolute garbage. Premise is ridiculous and so are plot holes, to the point where nothing makes sense.
Watched ep1 and then fast-forwarded eps 2 and 3. Won't bother with the remaining two.

Not surprising, when that Sham-alan guy is producer (and director of some episodes).