Topic: The TV Show Thread

@CJD87 I reccomend Slow Horses on Apple TV+, if only to watch Gary Oldman who is brilliant. The rest of the characters and story is also great too.

I see that the people that made Love, Death & Robots are making a new show all based on video game IP. The downside that is that it will be on Amazon Prime. Boooooo!

https://www.techradar.com/streaming/amazon-prime-video/prime-...

@CJD87 I second @JohnnyShoulder on Slow Horses - really good grimey British spy show that makes me laugh every time Oldman rips the **** out of everyone he interacts with.

@colonelkilgore And he also rips a fair few out himself! 💨 🤣

@JohnnyShoulder that he does 🤣

@JohnnyShoulder @colonelkilgore - Thanks lads, I'll give "Slow Horses" a 'ride' on your recommendations

I reside in the UK, so of course I have plenty of time for Gary Oldman - I see he's also an Emmy nomination for this year's Outstanding Male Actor in Drama Series.

@JohnnyShoulder that Video Game anthology show doesn't look too bad - especially the Keanu Reaves / Armored Core episode?!

@CJD87 imho it’s the best Oldman has ever been!

@colonelkilgore

@Ravix he’s always great… and was so in True Romance for sure but his performance as Jackson Lamb is just perfection.

@colonelkilgore yeah, I was just messing. He's played some weird characters as well as good serious roles. I feel like when I had 6 months of Apple via PS5 I watched absolutely nothing as they had jack shhh, but now it seems they have some good stuff on there. I'll try to remember it for if I sub to it again

@Ravix
Apple actually has some really solid stuff on there from back when I also had that 6-month thing. Silo was awesome (even my wife who doesn't usually watch scifi was into it), Severance was good albeit a little too slow paced for my taste, Masters of the Air was good, Manhunt was great, etc. From my experience it's about HBO levels of quality consistence.

@Ravix "Who and what is a Drexl?"

@PegasusActual93 I agree, they put out some high quality stuff that often hits my sweet spot (Silo is definitely one of them, Dark Matter is another recent example). I hate Apple, but I love Apple TV+ and it's tearing me apart

@Ravix In my experience Apple TV+ offers some of the better tv shows I've seen over the last couple of years. I've not enjoyed everything I've watched on there, but that is the same for any service.

I believe all shows are in 4K so they look better than the other services I've used. Amazon Prime i find is the worst, as most stuff is either too soft or dark. Another reason I don't like using the service or pay anything extra to remove adverts.

Andor (Disney+) - I took a few years off from streaming any of the Star Wars shows (& streaming anything, TBH) after getting burned out after watching a bunch of them (and a couple of the latter ones, like Obi-Wan & Boba Fett, started feeling a bit cheesy), but man what a show to come back to! It definitely could be a bit slow at times, but the world building was immaculate & what action it did have was exciting. It's perhaps the closest any of these Disney SW shows have come to achieving the feel of "prestige TV", and I look forward to seeing what they do next now that he's in the rebellion proper.

Ranma 1/2 (Blu-Ray) - Been collecting (& watching through) this since the spring, and I'm finally down to the last OVA episode. It's been really fun revisiting this one & I must have dropped it when I watched it online as a kid as I swear I've never seen the later episodes (past episode 70 or 80 I'd guess), so it's been a real treat. They pretty much stop introducing new recurring characters maybe 60 or so episodes in, but the cast is so fun I never really got bored.

Shogun (Disney+) - Heard a lot of good things about this one, and it was pretty excellent. One of those shows where you get really attached to some of the characters & it's pretty gutting (no pun intended) when they kill them off. Kinda disappointed that we never got to the big war, and it looks like it may be delayed further if not entirely avoided based on some late show manoeuvering, but I'm definitely interested in seeing where it goes from here.

Those About to Die (Peacock) - Didn't finish. Really only subscribed for the month to catch some Olympics stuff & decided to check this out on the side because I like sword & sandal stuff. Definitely a 6/10 type show at most, and though I was enjoying it well enough because I enjoy some gratuitous gore & nudity as much as the next dude, I wasn't going to resub for another month just to finish the last few episodes.

@RR529 Re: Shogun - Thought I'd chime in to say that they left off at the exact same point that the source material ended, so whatever comes next is not based on the original story by James Clavell... Personally, I thought it was a brilliant end to a brilliant show and I'm not particularly excited about a second season. I'll give it a chance, but I felt they should have left it as it was.

@FuriousMachine, Oh, I never read the book so I didn't know this is where it ended. TBH, I'm not even sure if they're doing a second season, I just assumed so.

I certainly wouldn't be disappointed if they left it as is.

@RR529 They are indeed working on a second season. Hiroyuki Sanada is on board, so it is assumed it will follow Toronaga. Toronaga is based on a real person, Tokugawa Ieyasu, so they do have historical records to draw from, and they have shown great competence with the first season, so it may not be all that bad. Time will tell, I guess.
If you want to learn more about the real conflict Shogun gets its inspiration from, I can recommend Age of the Samurai, a documentary series that may be available on Netflix (I think it's a Netflix production, so it should be available globally, but I'm not 100% sure)

I finished Terminator zero last night, fantastic show and I hope we get more seasons.

Forgot that PS3 was a great multimedia player, even plugged into a sh*t CRT my DVDs look a million times better than how they look on the 4K set. Had to break it in with a classic 😂

Finished watching House of the Dragon season 2. Another phenomenal GOT season! I just can't get enough of this show and season 3 is going to be absolutely amazing!