Having finished off season 1 of Homicide: Life on the Streets, the missus and I have gone back to For All Mankind for season 3.
Homicide: Life on the Streets - season 1 was good. It’s obviously aged and while certainly reminiscent of The Wire it… at least this far in, does not have the narrative majesty of what David Simon went on to do. We’re going to stick with it and do a season here and there. Hoping that the later seasons will get closer to what I’m looking for.
For All Mankind - season 3 is also good, closing in on very good but not up there with seasons 1 and 2. The climax of season 2 was just so good that I think it’s having a knock-on effect in terms of a more subdued audience reaction this time around.
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Don't have Apple anymore so never watched For All Mankind but I really like Silo and if you haven't that one is a much watch. Between All Mankind, Silo and that upcoming Murderbot show, it seems Apple TVs big thing for some reason is to make prestige scifi shows with Swedish actors in the lead role
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@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.
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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.
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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 hugeThis is Us fans (come at me 😉) and this is so different, yet so familiar. Really excited to see where this goes.
@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.
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.
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@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?
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@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)
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