Topic: The TV Show Thread

@JohnnyShoulder @RogerRoger I recently watched the making of docs on Mandalorian and thought the group loving was mostly restricted to the cast and director episodes. I would recommend some of them to fans of the show though, specifically the Volume/Legacy/Practical Effects and Music episodes. The episode about the volume was certainly the most interesting to me how they developed this new system of filming using Unreal Engine to create real time cgi set.
I think I'm going to cancel my Disney+ now and renew when the second series of Mando starts. Although I may give Clone Wars one more try but the first two episodes didn't grab me.

As for top 5 shows, that's super tricky, I'd probably want to do a seperate list for comedy and one for drama. But can't believe no-one else has mentioned my probable all time favourite Band of Brothers.
So this would be mine

Band of Brothers
West Wing
The Office (US)
Parks and Rec
Community might just beat Game of Thrones as both lost their way near the end but Community less so.

Loads of good stuff deserving a mention include

Flight of the Conchords
Peep Show
The Inbetweeners
I'm Alan Partridge
The Mentalist
24
Plus I really like Forged in Fire on the History channel.

@BearsEatBeets I forgot about Band of Brothers, that’s a brilliant show. My mum bought the big metal box set back when it released and we’ve still got it and watched it multiple times.

@BearsEatBeets Yeah if I didn't have 6 months free of Disney+ I would be cancelling it after i watched the making of The Mandalorian. Not enough content for me too keep an ongoing paid subscription.

Started watching Community on Prime from the start recently. I like it, it is consistently funny and full of likeable characters.

Any fans of Curb Your Enthusiasm?

@Draco_V_Ecliptic Curb Your Enthusiasm and It’s Always Sunny are the two shows that put a spanner in my “Americans can’t do cringe comedy” attitude. American comedy characters at least tend to at least have redeeming qualities or a heartwarming episode or two but those shows never let you forget that the characters are horrible people, which I appreciate. I still have nightmares about the American Peep Show and Inbetweeners, they’re horrible.

@nessisonett Yeah, they started showing the original season of Curb on Sky Comedy recently, and whilst I prefer the later seasons, where it's pure "gold" , I still think the essential flair and charm of the series is preternaturally there in the early episodes. Do you think Larry will do any more seasons?

@LN78 Was about to say the same thing. I'm always rotating between the services. They hold your watch history for about 12 months (this differs for each service) so there is little danger there. I've got my mum under my Netflix sub, but am always using it. When I've stopped using it before I've just checked with her that she has finished watching everything for now, and only cancel then. She understands she is getting for free from me so causes no aggro between us or anything.

@nessisonett Yeah I had the metal box dvd set for Band of Brothers but swapped it for the also metal Bluray box. It's a quality box but can be tricky fitting on shelves with other blurays. I've never seen the american Peep Show or Inbetweeners but when they try and convert our shows it rarely works. It made how much I enjoyed the US Office all the more surprising.

@RogerRoger I started at the very beginning for Clone Wars as I've never seen it but did see a feature film which I think precedes it years ago. I've heard it gets very good later on but will see if it entices me enough to go through it all. West Wing is such a quality show, I have all the series on dvd and keep hoping they would do a quality transfer and bring out a bluray set. Actually the original 24 didn't grab me when I watched the first couple of episodes when it first aired but later gave it another go and got hooked. I once watched a whole series in one day (it wasn't a busy day). It kind of started retreading ideas in later series but was still enjoyable to watch.

@JohnnyShoulder Have you reached 'Paintball' yet? It's probably a high point in the series. It's a shame it never found a bigger audience while it was on as it struggled to keep getting renewed for each season. It has some great characters, brilliantly acted with some very inventive stories. While the quality fluctuates in later series it has some of my favourite individual episodes of any tv programme. Troy and Abed rule!

@BearsEatBeets No not got to that one yet. Just watched the one when Jeff plays Pool in short shorts. 😂

@Draco_V_Ecliptic I think with everything going on, it’s increasingly difficult to create satire when real life feels like it on a regular basis. That being said, Larry David is a master at creating comedy from pretty much nothing and given how much material there is out there, I think we’ll probably see some more seasons.

@nessisonett I especially enjoyed the Seinfeld 'reboot' within the show.

I thought I'd throw this out there in case anyone else has seen it, but I recently watched an episode of X files from season 8 called Via Negativa. It really was a brilliant episode and and a stand out for Robert Patrick's acting skills. He basically carries the episode alone but it also features the always brilliant Skinner/Dogget team up and an appearance from The Lone Gunmen.

In my rewatch, Im about halfway through the TLG series now with about 6 episodes left of X files season 8.

Anyway just thought I'd see if anyone else remembers this episode and what they think of it!

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy yeah that is really sad news about muniz, I had no idea. Malcolm in the middle was great.

Bryan Cranston pops up in an episode of X files actually, just thinking about it.

I did end up watching all of Millenium too, it was a great show and I loved all the characters. So sad that it only got 3 seasons. It's good youre taking your time with X files, there is so many monster of the week episodes that are just brilliant. Unfortunately there are a few stinkers too but I guess we all have to take the rough with the smooth.

TLG is a definite highlight. We watched another tangenitally linked show called Harsh Realm too, it was actually pretty good but there were only 9 episodes before they pulled the plug. I got it from cex for 50p so I'd say it's worth a watch!

@Draco_V_Ecliptic Yes! I love Curb Your Enthusiasm! My favourite episode is the one with the p***y rash. 😂

@nessisonett I find the schmaltzy nonsense that underpins a lot of American sitcoms quite irritating. I love that in Seinfeld the characters were genuinely selfish, contemptible people, which just made it even funnier. They never learn anything, they never grow, and why should they?

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy haha Cranston is a legend! I really need to watch breaking bad. I didn't get into it at the time because of all the hype (it normally inflates my expectations so I end up waiting before I watch the "next big thing"). But Vince Gilligan is a main dude on X files so I may well end up finally giving it a go after this!

I've seen bits of better call Saul though which I thought was good and seemed to feature the actor who played classic X files/lone gunmen man in black Morris Fletcher.

Yeah that's the episode! There's this really heavy sequence where Dogget doesn't know whether he is in a dream or not and he just looks totally messed up. I'm sure it had to do with make up/lighting too but it's just a brilliant scene that he shares with Skinner that really shows how vulnerable he can be. I think Dogget is just one of my favourite characters, he's just a really stand up guy despite all the resistance he faces from other characters. He gets quite a hard time from people, especially Mulder. Shame it didn't carry on more than two seasons with him! I was never that big of a fan of Reyes really though and I do sort of prefer the Dogget/Mulder and Dogget/Skinner episodes. I did love the one where Skinner tells him he's compromised by Krycek and the first thing he does is go down there and jump into his car window and beat the crap out of him despite not knowing any of Krycek's history.

Doggett > Mulder/Scully don’t @ me 😂😂

@nessisonett I'll @ you in agreement unless you are being sarcastic 😅

Started watching High Score on Netlflix show about the history of video games. The narrator is irritating the content has been done better by other people.

@blacklivesmatter I saw that pop up on my suggestions and was thinking of giving it a try since I loved “The King of Kong.” Sounds like “High Score” is not near as good.

@Th3solution I’ve only heard good things about it, other than a little spat I had on NLife with some people who complained about Netflix and their ‘SJW agenda’.