Topic: The TV Show Thread

Went straight from The Pitt into the pilot of ER. One hell of a trip. But for all their differences, it is also wild though how many parallels run between the two shows, The Pitt clearly borrowed heavily from this, whether by design or not. Hell it almost feels like it could be a prequel.

I know there is almost 40 years between the two shows, but man, the hospital in ER doesn't look like any hospital I've ever seen in shows or real life, except maybe a few sleazy 80s horror movies. It is also so absurdly dark I dunno how they get any work done in there, everyone must have night vision. Also crazy to be reminded of a world of almost no screens, where paper is absolutely everywhere. It feels much older than the mid 90s, feels like it could be taking place in the late 70s or something.

Nice to also see some doubt and ineptitude too, weirdly. As The Pitt was full of people conjuring McGuyver solutions and I kept waiting for the moment it would blow up in their face, and it just never did. Probably one of my biggest criticisms with that show on reflection is how everyone was a super Doctor who couldn't really make mistakes, and any mistakes that were made were so completely out of their control they are immediately absolved. At least part of this seemed by design, so each one could failure could haunt specific characters, but I feel like in the real world over half of the patients in The Pitt would die from all the crazy stuff they do.

Edit: Interesting, so the second episode of ER appears to take place in a different set (or maybe the first episode was on location to lower costs?). It keeps a lot of the quirks of the original location, but just seems to have made everything much bigger, cleaner and brighter. It is funny if this is a set, and the first one was a real location, cause this set feels way more like what I'd expect from a real hospital.

Has anyone started The Last of Us part 2 yet? I believe it's started on Sky/Now in the UK. And Max(?) Everywhere else(?)

I haven't really been convinced to watch it just yet for some reason, and i'm still thinking I will probably end up watching Shogun and/or Andor (🤦‍♂️🤪) first.

@Ravix Max here and I've watched the first episode. Started strong, IMO

@Ravix @FuriousMachine Yeah I'm in the UK and watched the first episode of season 2. It felt it was the exactly the same as the game, but as I've not played the game since it first realised that was my memory confusing things. It is more tomdo with how it is structured so far. For instance, Ellie and Dina kissing at the dance happened much later in the game. In my head, that was near the start but probably getting it confused as it appeared in the trailers for the game.

I wonder if they will follow through with how episode 1 ends? My mate is convinced that they will not kill off Pedro Pascal this early.

But yeah, really good so so far. I'm ok with the casting choices, as the acting is top tier. Which is all the matters to me in that respect, not if they look like the character from the game.

@Ravix It is one episode every Monday in the UK.

@JohnnyShoulder I've long held the theory that they will end the season on that thing, having maybe spent some time this season establishing Abby and her mates and making us sympathise with their position. If they do it properly, they could do the meat of the Seattle part of the game in s3 and foist a lot of interesting conflicting emotions on the audience. Still, question then remains, what will be the plot drive in s2? A hint was maybe the final shot of the episode. I'm curious to see how they will proceed as the first episode made my faith in my theory wobble a bit

@JohnnyShoulder @FuriousMachine

Not sure how many episodes there will be, but the HBO/Game of Thrones formula suggests to do big stuff in the penultimate episode (ep 9 of 10 in GoT for instance) and I quite liked that formula. Until in House of the Dragon I assumed that was happening until I realised Ep 9 of S2 was the end of the season and I was like, "wait what?" Expecting a 10th episode 😂 hard to explain, but a great Finale and a great Penultimate episode are very different things, and in that show what would have been a truly epic set up for the finale, suddenly became a disappointing finale and set up for season 3.

So, I assume HBO won't want to mess up like that again and get the writer come out and bulls*** their way out of why they made the decision to pace it out like that 😅

Also, agree on the casting. People just get ideas stuck in their head about things like that rather than suspend disbelief like in any other show and watch it for what it is. And you've probably convinced me to mayyyyybe watch it sooner rather than later.

@Ravix There are seven episodes in Season 2. Think they already said they events of the second game will be spread over multiple seasons, and it has already been renewed for a third season.

@JohnnyShoulder well, watch out for episode 6 then 😬😬😬 although reducing episodes again makes me wonder if we get another House of the Dragon situation.

"Draw this sh** out as long as you can because we actually need some content for season 3"

"yes, sir. Certainly, sir"

I don't know if you partook in HotD (I now see why that acronym is less frequently used 😂) but if you did, tell me I'm not crazy. I was genuinely thinking this show is pretty good overall, can't wait for next weeks big Finale because of where it seems to be leading. But it was just the end of the season 😅

@Ravix I just finished House of Dragon recently, and admittedly season 2 did end a bit suddenly, but I knew that was the last episode beforehand so wasn't as taken back by it.

The missus and I just finished our rewatch of The Last of Us season 1 and so glad that we did as my other half loved every second… the two year wait seemed to have purged her of any memory of it for some reason and now can not wait for season 2.

While we wait for season 2, we started the now complete season 3 of Wheel of Time and… holy **** does episode 1 hit like a season finale. We’re now three eps deep and I can confidently say it’s a production is in its sweet spot rn. I don’t know if it’ll generate the viewership needed to green light a season 4… but the execution from all involved is s-tier at this point. As a fan of the source-material, personally I’m having a ball. The missus on the other hand needs to pause proceedings semi-regularly for me to provide some context… but is real high on the show too. Seems like amazon hit their fantasy adaptation pay-dirt with the also-ran and not the favourite.

I’m watching the final series of Bosch Legacy (freevee/Prime).
Sad to see it end after ten seasons, including the original shows Bosch.
The show is about a LA cop who plays fast and loose with the rules, he has his own rules and answers to no-one....no Easter Egg hunt for this guy.

Night One of WrestleMania was just kinda mid in my opinion. Lots of the matches felt like they could have easily taken place on TV. Didn't feel like we really stepped up that gear or two to make it feel like a proper PLE Match. The one exception was Stratton / Flair, but I dunno if it was even that good, or it just stood out in such a mediocre collection of matches cause it delivered the closest to what you'd expect from a PLE Title Match. To be clear, the show wasn't horrible or anything. The final stretch of the main event was fun, some matches like the Fenix match had at least a couple of cool spots, but for the most part the whole night felt very skippable and will probably look like a significantly better show come Raw when you just see the edited highlight packages of each match.

@graymamba I totally agree on "Wheel of Time" S3. Magnificent! I have two episodes left, but the next couple of days are busy, so unsure if I'll get them before the end of the week. I've been seeing reports of increased viewership, so I think there's a good chance for s4

@CaptD I'm also quite sad about it ending, but I know Titus Welliver will show up as Bosch in the the new show about Renée Ballard this summer. I hope he becomes a semi-regular on that show (which would make sense, as they work quite closely together in the books) and I know Welliver loves playing him, so fingers crossed. Here's hoping Madison Lintz pops by as well from time to time. I'm properly stoked for Maggie Q as Ballard, though! I'm hoping I'll get through the books the new series is based on before it drops this summer

@CaptD I didn’t know this was the last ever season, quite gutted about that actually. Love Welliver’s portrayal of Bosch… and there goes my hopes of a Lincoln Laywer cross-over.

@FuriousMachine
I wasn’t aware of the new show and yes that would explain the rather random event in one of the episodes. I’m not too familiar with Maggie Q, I’ve seen the unique name before but that’s about it and I didn’t recognise her or see her name in the credits.
The show does have a number of further possibilities, as you say Madison Lintz would be good as would Mimi Rodgers.

@CaptD Her most well known credits are the Divergent movie series, the 2010 CW action series "Nikita" and appearing in most, if not all, episodes of the Kiefer Sutherland drama "Designated Survivor". She's quite badass and one of the most beautiful women in the world, in my eyes. Madly in love with that woman

@graymamba @FuriousMachine

Sum up for me what Wheel of Time actually is in 20 words or less (or whatever it takes)

I might check it out based on your responses (and increase those viewership figures a touch more 😛) as I picked up Amazon Prime, primarily for the delivery part of their service, again 😅 but looking to maybe check out some shows to see if there's anything worth watching this time around. I had nothing specific in mind until reading you big up the latest season, so maybe it could be the one.

@Ravix high fantasy, where a society is ruled by benevolent witches. A much prophesied being is thought to have emerged that could change everything, for better or worse.

Sorry, went 7 words over there 😉

@graymamba Good one, spot on! 🙂