Topic: The TV Show Thread

Tried the what to watch shuffle button in Netflix and got a German Sci Fi show called Dark, I wouldn't normally watch things that are dubbed but decided to give it a try and glad I did. For me this is one best shows on Netflix. While complex it is very well thought out and clear they carefully planned and mapped out the show from beginning to end. Set in a German village it starts following the disappearance of teenager it what seems a straightforward mystery but it turns out to be a very ambitious and complex time travel plot.

Been looking for something ‘good’ for a bit and just stumbled upon Snowfall. Four seasons late to the party but that’s fine, I have a load to catch up on... halfway through season 1 and really enjoying it.

Also, Mare of Easttown was very good.

@InvaderJim I've heard Dark was great but I'm yet to watch it myself. Usually a show not being in English (or being dubbed) is a bit of a turn off for me too but if it's really good, it becomes a non-issue quickly.
I actually watched that team's newer show, "Tribes of Europa" and thought it was fine, a decent piece of post-apocalyptic sci-fi, but nothing spectacular.

@InvaderJim I started this show but the dubbing didn't fit the characters imo and there were so many of them, often practically talking over each other, that reading the dialogue was kinda difficult. It was super interesting but ultimately too much work for me. Just left me wishing I spoke German so I could enjoy it as intended. Oh well.

@zupertramp Could you not watch with subtitles? Babylon Berlin, the Deutschland trilogy and Das Boot all work well with subtitles imo.

@nessisonett yeah that's what I meant by reading. Subtitles. Idk maybe wpm in German is just too high for this slow talking southerner but I just found it hard to follow. And it seemed like a show where you need to be paying attention.

Weird because I've watched a ton of subtitled films. I'm not a total dullard.

@zupertramp Ahh see, us lot speak English at a pretty breakneck speed so I’ve not really had the same issues when it comes to following dialogue in Japanese or German which are pretty fast languages. Although watching any Masaaki Yuasa movie or show is an ordeal. The dialogue is the fastest I’ve ever heard.

I started watching scrubs again from the beginning on Disney+ last night. Such a funny and also sad show. Also good to see Crewman Daniels from Star Trek Enterprise in a few episodes!

@ralphdibny Funny I actually started watching those from the beginning a month or so back. Didn't realize they were on Disney+. I have the DVDs but only up to season 7. Somehow never got 8, which I consider to be the last season.

Pretty much my favorite sitcom but man is some of the humor dated. My (now basically adult age) kids were watching it with me and I'm pretty sure they were like "wtf did they just say" most of the time. Lol.

Don't know who crewman Daniels is but I had forgotten how much of the Spin City cast shows up over the course of the series.

@zupertramp haha well I don't think any of the humour is mean spirited, not so far anyway.

It might be one of those UK only Disney+ things. We don't get Hulu so a lot of the Hulu stuff is on Disney plus over here instead. Don't even know if scrubs would be a Hulu thing or not anyway

@ralphdibny Yeah we’ve got tons on Disney+ they don’t get in the States. I’ve binged the first season of Angel already!

So Netflix have already cancelled Jupiter's Legacy. Don't think it's even been out a month.

@JohnnyShoulder Welp, guess I’ll scratch that one off the list. Not gonna waste my time with watching that then.

@ralphdibny yeah I don't see most of the jokes as being too harmful but I could see why people of a younger age might cringe a little. Like with Todd, for example. Or Kelso.

And unrelated to that but watching Christa Miller grow more and more plastic with each season is kinda sad.

@Jimmer-jammer I too find it really weird when a comic book I've read gets made into a TV show or film, as it is initially difficult to get my head round some of the the changes.

I can remember when Preacher first aired and it took me a few episodes to get used to the casting of Tulip, but I soon warmed to her as they got her personality pretty much bang on.

I've been quite lucky in that respect as only The Boys and Preacher have been made, and I've been really happy with the final product. Everything else has already been made into a TV show or film by the time I've read the comics.

@JohnnyShoulder I knew nothing about Preacher going in but I loved Ruth Negga as Tulip so it's interesting to hear that.

I take it she looks entirely different in the comics.

One thing I will say is I feel like they, idk, neutered her in the second season (or was that the third?) so I'm curious if that tracks with the comics?

Lol.

The Hallmark Channel presents... The Last of Us.

The missus and I bunged Sweet Tooth yesterday. We liked it. The ending was a bit anticlimactic as it just kinda sets up the next season but was good all things considered. Very apt what with pandemics and such too

@zupertramp @Jimmer-jammer Admittedly, I've not finish the Preacher comics yet, think I have a couple of the TP collections to go, but no I don't recall Tulip's softer edges coming through that much, and yeah she looks totally different in the TV show. All the other characters were pretty much spot on though.

When I'm watching something like this, I'm not expecting them to follow the story and character arcs 100%, just that they get the tone from the source material right. There is things from Preacher and The Boys comics that I do not think could be filmed, and they are already quite graphic in terms of violence and stuff.