Topic: The TV Show Thread

@JohnnyShoulder I'm beyond excited! The Haunting of Hill House was my favourite show of 2018 with ease, and I'd also put it in my top 3 shows overall. It's just the perfect miniseries. I really did not have any complaints. A great story full of lovely twists, incredible cinematography/directing (episode 6!!!) and fantastic acting. I hope Bly Manor can come even anywhere close. I'm trying to keep my expectations down, but it's hard when you're coming off of Hill House. The loss of Mike Flanagan as the sole writer is a bit concerning, but I'm sure it'll still be a good show. The teaser was a great first taste, anyway, although the tone does look quite different!

I'm actually watching The Haunting of Hill House rn. It's pretty good, although some of the scares are kind of cheap. I actually like the family story more than whatever supernatural stuff is going on.

Watching and loving The Boys. Rewatched the first season recently to help me get into the mood.

It's just a brilliant show, so cynical and bloody and full of venom. I love it!

I think I enjoy more the superhero shows that come from more obscure sources. Not just The Boys but also The Umbrella Academy and Legion. They're just much more interesting to me than the big Marvel and DC shows. Not saying these are bad (Daredevil was really good) but just my personal preference.

@Col_McCafferty I've only recently started watching The Boys. I added it to my watchlist ages ago and just never got around to watching it, but the recent adds for the second series prompted me to start it. I'm only 4 episodes in but think it's awesome so far. I love the corrupt heroes angle and Karl Urban is excellent. Also the way it played out the 'terrorists on the plane' scenario was a particular highlight. Hopefully I'll get a few more episodes in this weekend.

@BearsEatBeets You're halfway through S1 now but glad you're enjoying it. S2 apparently is 10 episodes long but after the first three dropped last night the rest will be released weekly. That's fine by me!

@Col_McCafferty Agree with you there pal, those are probably my 3 favourite super hero shows too! Legion is a proper head **** of a show!

@BearsEatBeets Glad you are also enjoying The Boys, just finished the first episode of Season 2 but it is a very bingable type of show. Not something I normally do, but found it hard to stop watching it.

@JohnnyShoulder The first season of Legion was so very good. It was funny, unsettling, weird, charming and sexy esp Sydney.

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@Col_McCafferty Pretty sure S2 of The Boys is eight episodes like S1, before you get your hopes up! I'm mostly excited to see Aya Cash from You're the Worst in this new season as Stormfront. She's an incredible actress, and so far she has not disappointed. Her stuff in episode 3 was great. I'm not that big of a fan of The Boys overall so, honestly, I treat the rest of the show as my waiting time for more Aya Cash, but that works for me! Glad to see you've also loved Legion though. That and Watchmen are probably my favourite superhero shows overall.

I also finished P-Valley from Starz and Upload from Amazon Prime yesterday. Anyone watched either of those? P-Valley is a drama about the lives of female strippers in America, and it's really, really good. It's got the coveted 100% positive on RottenTomatoes too, so you don't just have to take my word for it! Upload is a show about a digital afterlife where you can choose to go when you die. It's from Greg Daniels, the co-creator of shows like Parks and Rec, The Office and Space Force. It's solid, but I didn't love it.

I finished Season 1 of Arrow and I’m onto Season 2 now. It’s just so silly but really fun. Didn’t see that ending coming either, they really don’t hold back on the wanton destruction.

I like to watch America's Next Top Model when still being aired on Star World.

Okay so I've just finished the first season of The Boys and it's freaking brilliant. The premise of super powered people in the real world rather than fighting bizarre enemies of the week is so refreshing. That and them being far from beacons of virtue. The writing and acting is great so far but Antony Starr as Homelander is outstanding. I will save starting the second season for tomorrow but eager to see where they take this. I've just done a quick bit of research on the comic it's based on and was pleased it see it was a finite series. This makes me optimistic it may carry through to a fulfilling end when many a good tv shows fail to achieve it. If it maintains the quality of the first season through to the end this may well become one of my favourites.

@BearsEatBeets Yeah the comics are more extreme on every single level. I've only got a few of them and plan to get them all once the TV show has finished.

Huey in the comics was based on early Simon Pegg (who also wrote the foreword in one of them iirc), so was good to seem play his Dad.

Season 2 takes a couple of episodes to get going, but episode 3 was amazing. The whale scene was both shocking and hilarious at the same time. Huey is getting on my nerves a bit, but they are following his arc from the comics and hopefully he will get over it soon. Homelander is still fantastic and Billy has all the best one liners. 'C' Mon, let's go. F****** Pinocchio's staying in there'.
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I'll probably watch episode 4 later today or tomorrow.

@JohnnyShoulder I'm fine with a slow build up. Billy has some great lines, his Spice girls speech was funny in the first season. I'm tempted to check out the comic line having seen the show but like you will probably wait until it's finished. Elements of it remind of another comic line I thought was really good about a more real world take on a 'Superman' style character - Supreme Power.

I'd recommend it for a read.

Finished up the second season of Arrow. Yep, two seasons in a couple of weeks. I have to say that those last few episodes were right up there with Daredevil as some of my favourite TV superhero episodes I’ve seen. Deathstroke was just brilliant, a villain that isn’t explored enough as he’s great in the comics as well. Hopefully we’ll see him more in the Snyder Cut.

Oof, just finished season two of Cobra Kai. That was... something. AMAZING fight choreagraphy, and one of the most emotionally gutting episodes of television I've seen since Breaking Bad's "Ozymandias."

Also watching The Haunting of Hill House, which is just fantastic. Last episode was done in what looked like only a handful of shots and was reminiscent of a stage play due to how constrained the sets were and how reliant on dialogue and character chemistry it was. Amazing acting all around.

@Ralizah Yeah that episode of THOHH was a great piece of filmmaking. I can't wait to hear what you think of the next episode (or it could be the one after, I forget now), which I think was my favourite of the series.

Looks like I'll be getting Disney + again next month.

@BearsEatBeets Yeah can't wait. I've not heard any news of any other new shows coming to D+ to tempt me from cancelling my sub when the free period expires.

@JohnnyShoulder Will your free peroid cover the second series? Apparently it will be 8 weekly episodes so won't finish until the end of the year. I'm going to resubscribe the day the first episode airs or maybe few days after to try and cover it in 2 months of subs.

@BearsEatBeets It should do, it lasts to the end of Jan next year.