Topic: The TV Show Thread

@Pizzamorg
As far as I am aware all the medical language and procedures is accurate as its been getting praised by medical professionals. It gets better and better as you watch, almost every storyline has a satisfying payoff.

That is even cooler then @PegasusActual93 so thanks for letting me know. The show is really putting a lot of trust in the audience, and I appreciate it for that.

Holy ****! We just finished season 2 of Wheel of Time in our rewatch in prep for season 3 (which finishes airing this Thursday)… and I forgot quite how good that finale was. Tears… frikkin tears!

@Jimmer-jammer the biggest drawback of the show imo is that it’s probably a little deep in the lore with little exposition, so can be a bit impenetrable for those who haven’t read the books. Hopefully if you stick with it long enough, the mists will start to clear 🤞

@Jimmer-jammer umbasa 🙏

@Jimmer-jammer I watched the first season at the beginning of the year of The Last of Us, and it exceeded expectations! I'm looking forward to season 2 and how it diverges from the games here on in.

Binged season 3 of Reacher over the weekend and I actually think it was probably the best season of the lot. While not the greatest actor in the world, I think Ritchson has really grown into the role and made it his own at this stage. Laugh out loud funny in moments too!

@graymamba I've enjoyed Reacher too, will be catching the latest season on my next run through of stuff on Prime.

Not finished yet, but I was just reading about how they want to make The Pitt an annual show, really interested to see how they make that work. Cause like if every season is a day in sequence, we'll be ten years older and these newbies will have only just finished their first week. But then if you have the show jump a year ahead every time, will that make it hard to invest in the show, because 364 days of these characters lives are happening off screen between every season?

@Pizzamorg
Season 2 comes out in January and is apparently set several months later during the 4th of July weekend so make of that what you will. Frankly I don't care if the actors visibly age, it's just nice to have a season of a show every year again instead of having to wait 2-3 years.

@Jimmer-jammer I haven’t yet but the missus brought it up yesterday as a potential next watch. Your appraisal has only added weight to the prospect… just as we were looking for our next show 🍻

@Jimmer-jammer my degree is in film-making as it goes, so should be spot on.

Oh yeah that is a cool idea, didn't think of that one. Every season could jump to another busy period on the calendar like Halloween etc

binging through Season 1 of Goosebumps on Tubi recently. the Get ouf the Basement two parter episodes about the dad scientists being replaced by plants it has Katherine Isabelle when she was just a kid back then.

Phanom of the Auditorium was neat but the story i felt it was rushed for a live goosebumps story.

@seinfeldfanatic
Goosebumps is a weird show, some good episodes but alot of them are unintentionally funny in a so bad its good kind of way. Bad child acting galore

I have now finished my quasi binge of The Pitt. I deffo liked it, overall. It is still "just" a medical drama at the end of the day, and despite some trappings, I dunno if I'd maybe go as mad for it as some of the reviews have. But like I say, deffo enjoyed the ride overall. I will say I appreciated how they landed the plane, enough wrapped up to feel like a satisfying thing on its own, but enough open to be explored further down the line. I was worried it was gonna wrap around on itself in a really contrived way, and I'm glad they avoided that. Deffo lit a bit of a fire in me to maybe check out some more medical dramas, feel like when you watch a really emotional show like this it leaves a hole behind, now time to find something to fill it.

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I will say actually one thing I loved, was the very clear agenda it had against those who refuse the help of medical professionals, those who would ignore a doctor but trust Google or some quack, you would worry a show would try and pussyfoot around these issues, but this show didn't pull any punches in that regard and I loved it.

@Pizzamorg
Noah Wyle talked in an interview about how pissed and frustrated he had become with all the pseudoscience BS and quackery that has increased especially in the wake of Covid and wanted the address that in the show so I'm glad they did.

Agreed, super cool he used the platform for that. Honestly, I feel like the show cut through a lot of stigmas around female representation, outward masculinity, class, all kinds if issues like that brief case with the misgendered patient, and how deftly it handled that and just moved on, it tackled some real heavy stuff in a way that fully embraced the issue and made its stance clear, but also done in a way that didn't feel preachy or forced, just a really sharply written, well crafted, show.

@PegasusActual93 @Pizzamorg I've had "The Pitt" high on my watchlist, but learning that it pulls no punches on hot button issues makes me really look forward to getting stuck in with it.

I've finished a few series in the last couple of weeks, most recently High Potential, a "procedural" from ABC that's available on Disney+ here. I'm typically not all that fond of procedurals, especially not the ones that dominate American network TV, but this one was elevated by a very charming Kaitlin Olson ("It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia"), a cast of characters it's impossible to not like and the cases they solve are mostly interesting. Also, "short" run of only 13 episodes in the season helps avoid it overstaying its welcome. Recommended if you're looking for some light entertainment to give you a smile or two.

I would also recommend The Agency, a spy thriller with Michael Fassbender, Jeffrey Wright, Jodie Turner-Smith, the awesome Harriet Sansom Harris and Richard Gere. This was one of those shows where my brain couldn't seem to retain the fact that I liked the show. I picked it up every other week to get two-episode batches, but it felt like something I should do rather than something I wanted to. But, every time, when I did, I was completely riveted. Some shows are like that for me, I have no idea what causes it.

Closed out Daredevil: Born Again yesterday. Some of you may know me as one of the last people in the world still enjoying the MCU, so this was of course the show I re-upped my Disney+ subscription for. I enjoyed the Netflix shows somewhat, but I was unhappy with the direction they took with many of the characters and their almost disdain for some of the elements of the source material. I was therefore not very enthused when I heard that this series would stick to the Netflix canon (at least, for the most part). I loved the cast from the Netflix shows, so I was hoping for more of a multiverse soft reboot (same actors, mostly blank slate story-wise). This was... fine, I guess? D'Onofrio predictably steals the show (I've been reading old Spider-man comics from the 70's and whenever Kingpin shows up, he speaks with D'Onofrio's voice) and Bernthal once again proves he's a great Punisher, but all in all it was a bit mid. All will be forgiven if they at one point bring back Jessica Henwick and Simone Missick as Daughters of the Dragon, though