What TV shows are you currently watching

mingeroonie said:
Up to episode 6 of Silo season 1, seems to have gone a bit slow, so hoping it picks up a bit
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It's very good but the books are better. S1 of the TV series introduced a lot of padding that wasn't really there in the novels and only got to about halfway through BookOne. The good stuff is yet to come, depending how closely they follow the source material. Book 2 being essentially a prequel which gives you all the background you need on how, why and by whom the Silos were created.
 
Vox machina S3
7/10 for me due to what I feel. Is becoming a standard....Rushing through and not explaining things.
Suddenly something is a thing.. That was never a thing before. Or they'll be somewhere and it isn't apparent why.

But I do struggle with this more than most people I think. But more shows are doing it.

Witcher was the absolute worst for it. And I couldn't watch it. At least this has place names on the screen when they "fast travel"


I don't know if it's a rights issue. But I would love to see DnD spells explicitly used by name sometimes.
 
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Just finished BSG (2000s version).

Best sci fi of all time? Maybe. I know a lot say it is.

I'd give it a 9 or 9.5 out of 10.

Yes. It's better than any one star trek as there are virtually no "dull" episodes.
Its not super cheesy sci fi either. Leans into a lot of genres.
 
Season 5 of What we do in the Shadows, as I prepare for season 6 in a couple of weeks.

Only 2nd time watching it and it was very good, definitely better than the previous couple of seasons. Laszlo and Guillermo steal the show, as always.


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Supacell

In South London, a group of normal people suddenly develop superpowers, and the only apparent connection between them is that they are all Black; as they deal with the impact of their powers on their daily lives, one man must bring them together.
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Basically if Netflix made the Misfits series

6.5/10 Not great, but not terrible


Bizarrely it didn't occur to me all the cast were black until reading the synopsis, but it doesn't feel like some DEI agenda pushing propaganda
 
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Having watched WWF/WWE in the 90's or early 2000's, I just watched Mr. McMahon on Netflix and found it quite nostalgic and very interesting and also quite sad at times. (I didn't realise how many of them died so young)
 
413x said:
Just finished BSG (2000s version).

Best sci fi of all time? Maybe. I know a lot say it is.

I'd give it a 9 or 9.5 out of 10.

Yes. It's better than any one star trek as there are virtually no "dull" episodes.
Its not super cheesy sci fi either. Leans into a lot of genres.
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Some elements of it are unsurpassed with the world building and the way things develop in the first few hours. The long continuous opening shot through the ship is great. I didn't like where it went later though.
 
Watching the latest Prof Cox series Solar System on iPlayer, excellent as always, but is it just me or is it only streaming in 1080p and not 4k? That's criminal for a show like this :(
 
Rroff said:
Some elements of it are unsurpassed with the world building and the way things develop in the first few hours. The long continuous opening shot through the ship is great. I didn't like where it went later though.
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I'd agree it tailed off a bit in the end. But I still enjoyed the mix.
I really like for all mankind as it has a more nuanced sci fi style. Obviously very different.

For how much I love star trek there are some really terrible episodes. And BSG/for all mankind doesn't really have any like that.

When a show has no "bad" episodes I usually give it a high rating.
 
Binge watched all 4 seasons of Emily in Paris this last week when down with covid. It's completely annoying for so many reasons yet it was a guilty pleasure.

Looking forward to S3 of The Lincoln Lawyer coming out next week on Netflix: had also binged watched the first two seasons a couple of months ago.
 
Rewatching the Battlestar Galactica reboot. Finished the first 2 seasons and I forgot quite how good this series was. Most of the writing and character development is so much better than a lot of modern stuff which just shows how bad most of the business really is now. The main cast are perfect in each of their roles.
 
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