Topic: The TV Show Thread

Started DopeSick and my god is it good! The missus and I weren’t even that keen on it going in as we have seen a lot of OxyContin season long-arcs recently in other shows (Bosch, Goliath etc.) and while we enjoyed those storylines, we just wondered what else could be added to the subject? Well… a lot as it turns out. It is as addictive a show as is its subject-matter and I’m left feeling a bit devastated that D+ doesn’t hold all of the episodes right now… phenomenal show!

Midnight Mass - the best TV show I've seen this year. And that is even when my sister spoiled that it had vampires in it. Thanks sis!

@JohnnyShoulder glad your sisters spoiler didn’t ruin your enjoyment too much… I agree, was a brilliant show.

@Kidfried Glad you’re enjoying Get Back and it does sound interesting. I like the documentary style films that give rare footage of things have interest in. I’m not the biggest Beatles fan in the world but I might get in a mood to watch it one day.

As for Disney+, if you’re not a fan of the animated classics, Pixar films, Marvel, or Star Wars, then there not much else on offer. The extraneous content originals don’t interest me much either. Stuff like Bake-offs, The Jonas Brothers, and That’s So Raven just don’t do it for me.
However, you have a lifetime of The Simpsons, which never gets old. Same goes for Phineas and Ferb. For a music aficionado like you, some old classics are sprinkled throughout like The Sound of Music and Mary Poppins for when you’re in the mood for that. But for you… I’m guessing you might enjoy Hamilton (although very American, I admit), and a couple of the newer fantastic music themed Pixar movies like Coco and Soul — both very enjoyable and although they have the Disney sheen, feel less cookie-cutter than some of their output.

If none of that seems interesting, then at least you’ll get to experience The Mandalorian which is fantastic, and worth the month’s subscription fee by itself.

@Kidfried @Th3solution See, this is where things get complicated. At least here in the UK, Star on Disney+ adds probably more content I’m interested in than the Disney stuff. Like they just added The Last Duel in 4K which I’ll definitely watch, same with Summer of Soul. A lot of good TV shows as well like The Americans, Fosse/Verdon, Atlanta and even stuff like The Golden Girls. I think a lot of the stuff is Hulu content that we get as part of Disney+ cause we don’t have Hulu over here.

@nessisonett Yeah, we don’t get those unless you buy the Hulu package (which I haven’t). That’s awesome that you get all that too. I want to watch The Handmaid’s Tale, but refuse to get Hulu just for that.

@Th3solution Hahaha, I have a whole rant about The Handmaid’s Tale but it’s too laden with spoilers 😂

Until they fix 4K on the Disney+ app on PS5, it's a no go for me.

Saturday Night Live UK is going to be the worst show of all time.

@nessisonett A comedy on Sky pretty much spells flop.

@Thrillho Honestly, the Never Mind the Buzzcocks reboot was brilliant but that’s mostly because of the panel they had and an obviously winning format. The rest have all been pretty garbage.

@nessisonett You’re the first person I’ve heard say that, mostly because most people can’t stand Daisy May Cooper.

@Thrillho I didn’t realise people weren’t big on her. Hadn’t really seen her on anything before but thought she was really funny. Beats having the same 2 faces on every panel show.

@Thrillho @nessisonett Currently living in Swindon, I officially love Daisy May Cooper.

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy I definitely need to check that out. The trailers look really good.

I’ve been gradually watching Castlevania and have found it pretty good. I’ve at the beginning of Season 3 and the series has been ‘hit-or-miss’, but mostly ‘hit’. Sometimes the animation looks fantastic and sometimes it looks ‘Saturday morning cartoon’ quality. Mostly it’s quite good though. The narrative is also mostly good but once Dracula was killed, it’s become less interesting. I’m not discounting that he will make some kind of miraculous return in order to keep the story going

There has been some decent quality video game related shows of late, whether animated or live-action.

Another show I was looking at this weekend was Cowboy Bebop. Anyone watched that yet and if so how is it? I’ve never watched the anime.

@Th3solution I was really really trying to be optimistic about Cowboy Bebop because the sort of people that were bashing it before it came out were doing it for reasons that I felt slightly uncomfortable about. But it’s unfortunately pants. Absolute pants. Perhaps you’d get something out of it if you haven’t seen the anime?

@Th3solution @nessisonett Cowboy Bebop has been cancelled now too.

@JohnnyShoulder @nessisonett Looks like a pass then.

Dunno if it's been mentioned previously but Succession.
Second only to The Sopranos as one of the greatest.

@hypnotoad Yep, did you see the finale on Monday?