Topic: The TV Show Thread

@PegasusActual93 yeah a strange little coincidence that 🤔. Yeah I’m up to date on Silo but didn’t really connect with season 2 the way that I did with season 1… will still tune in for next season though. Haven’t seen anything of Murderbot yet but I’ll look in to it.

I started season 3 of True Detective. Season 1 is one of my all time fave shows. I doubt this will be as good, and I'm already getting a wierd vibe from it.

@JohnnyShoulder
The Star Trek movies had what was called the odd number rule where the odd number movies were inferior and the even numbered ones were the good ones. True Detective seems to have the opposite curse where the odd numbered seasons (1,3) are the good ones while the even numbered seasons (2,4) suck. We shall see if the upcoming season 5 keeps that trend going.

@PegasusActual93 I hear season 4 is a bit divisive. I probably won't get to that for awhile yet.

Poor Michelle Trachtenberg. I know she got maligned in Buffy and the character wasn’t exactly brilliant but she also spoke out about Joss Whedon alongside Charisma Carpenter so the set clearly wasn’t a fun place for those actresses to be. EuroTrip is also an absolute guilty pleasure.

Been dabbling in the Big Finish Doctor Who stories again since we got a release date for the next series. Got to Flip-Flop which is one of the most remembered stories cause you can play either disc first or second and it works both ways, which was cool in 2003. Unfortunately the story itself is quite literally the Great Replacement conspiracy theory. Apparently the guy who wrote it said in an interview in like 2010 that he was being ironic by parroting those viewpoints but it’s aged horribly cause it’s played entirely straight and it’s also just a very hard thing to make jokes land about. Like I’d trust maybe Chris Morris or Frankie Boyle to create satire about racist conspiracy theories about refugees but clearly not this bloke who’s just accidentally made Steve Bannon does Doctor Who. If there was ever a ‘right wing Doctor Who’ this would be it. Funnily enough the closest we’ve got to this was a Jodie Whittaker one where she defends Space Amazon, the show’s always been ‘woke’ and I was surprised just how many pro-Miner Strike episodes there were back in the day when I watched the original series.

Just started Paradise and, one… the first ep was class and two… it’s frikkin’ Dan Fogelman! The missus and I were huge This is Us fans (come at me 😉) and this is so different, yet so familiar. Really excited to see where this goes.

binging through Lost Season 1 on Netflix and Robot Chicken Season 5/6 on Hulu

@seinfeldfanatic I miss Robot Chicken...

@FuriousMachine
Robot Chickens most recent episodes were in 2022 and it hasn't been cancelled so hypothetically its still running to this day.

@PegasusActual93 Yeah, I know, but cancelled or not, with no new episodes coming out, it more or less amounts to the same thing
There is of course a small glimmer of hope attached to the fact that it's not officially cancelled, so I'll cling to that.

@FuriousMachine
Adult Swim shows are NOTORIOUS for going years between seasons. Just ask Eric Andre fans. So this is not uncharted territory.

I miss Final Space. Every so often I think "I really quite fancy watching that again" and every so often I remember we can't. Another reason WB can go f*** itself 😭 cancelling a show is one thing, but writing it off for tax reasons so it can't be shown anywhere ever again is just pure nasty business.

@Ravix
You can either sail the high seas or buy it on digital storefronts if you dont mind spending a few bucks.

@PegasusActual93 wait, you can actually buy it still? I thought they went scorched earth as they can't be seen to make any money from the property as it was a tax write off?

@Ravix
Not sure what country you are in but in the U.S you can still buy Season 2 on Amazon and Season 3 on Youtube.

I dont know if its just me that notices this but whenever Robot Chicken has a G.I. Joe skit, theyre always funnier than the last GI Joe skit

@Herculean WL Season 3 is pretty great right? Such a masterclass in the building of tension, and exploration of human behaviour/psyche

The dynamic between the 3 women is really brilliant I think. Also, Patrick Schwarzenegger is fantastic as the eldest son in the Ratcliffe family (Saxon?)

I'm slightly enjoying WL Season3 a little bit more than Severance Season2. Severance has maybe had 'higher highs', but also low points and dips in pacing (yesterday's episode in particular felt quit uncessecary)

@Herculean yes the boat trip is sure to light some fire under the guests.. not to mention that there is some huge dramatic potential, assuming all the guests are on board and will be permeating one another’s spaces! Can’t wait

Finished the first season of that Goosebumps remake… reboot… thing? From the other year. Despite loving Goosebumps growing up and still trying to remain in horror circles online, I don’t remember ever hearing about this, and found it by accident during a bored afternoon scrolling through streaming services looking for something to do.

It is weird how much an ending matters sometimes. Especially when it is bad. And especially when a show has not just one bad ending, but two. The show is effectively 7 solidly paced episodes, with an eighth episode that rushes into a not well earned Hollywood ending, but an ending I suppose at least wraps up the show in some kind of conclusion. However, we then shift into a sort of two episode epilogue arc, which is fun for a while as it massively escalates things in bonkers directions, but it leads to the "true" ending which is just a massively anti-climactic cliff hanger which will never be resolved, as my understanding is season two is an entirely new story.

Mid way through this show, I would have said it has a bit of a “Goosebumps adaptation by the CW” energy to it, but I must confess, for as meme'd as the CW tropes / formula have become, I actually enjoyed a lot of those shows growing up, and so I was actually quite enjoying this, but with the way the final three episodes played out, I just feel like I massively wasted my time.

It is a shame too, as I think there is a lot to like here. I enjoyed the way Goosebump’s elements were integrated and woven into the wider story, plus, with it being aimed at a slightly older audience and the general upgrades to cinematic technologies over the decades, this show is able to deliver horror / set pieces the original show could only ever dream of, bringing it far closer to the darkest things your childhood brain could imagine while reading the books.

I also really liked the cast and characters. Justin Long playing the same vague cowardly dirtbag he plays in every horror thing he is in was an especial treat, but the core group (of adults in their 30s playing teenagers like in every American show) were all so likeable, I didn’t mind when it felt like the show ground to what was effectively a complete halt to explore some soap opera plotlines that didn’t really add much to the overall show.

But yeah, I dunno, just feels like a real tough recommendation to anyone know, given I now know this was going absolutely nowhere. Like why invest your time into something that doesn't respect that investment at all?

I was also going to give the second season a go, but knowing how this left me feeling, I'm not sure I wanna risk having my time wasted again.