Topic: The TV Show Thread

@BAMozzy I second the recommendation by @beemo. Mindhunter is brilliant. Takes a couple of episodes to get going, but once they interview the first 'sequence' killer it will have you hooked.

I enjoyed Altered Carbon but can see it not being to everyone's tastes. It can be quite hard to keep following everything going. I will probably get digital stones thrown at me for this, but I found it like a more interesting Blade Runner as I found the two film quite dull to watch.

Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Comedy set in New York, shocker I know lol. The main star is Andy Samberg, so if you like his humour you will most likely have fun with this show.

Breaking Bad is a must if you have not seen it. Ozark is quite similar too and I have heard really good things about it.

If you like horror The Haunting of Hill House is reccomended.

@KratosMD Some of those shows aren't on Netflix in the UK. For instance Black Flag is an Amozon Prime original show and Legends of Tomorrow is on Now TV.

@JohnnyShoulder @KratosMD I am not really into 'real life' drama's - by real life I mean things that could be happening in the world today so don't tend to watch cop/crime shows (unless its comedy like Brooklyn 99 - which I have seen every series as its on E4 in the UK). I tend to watch TV more to escape the real world, more to get away from news or things that could be a dramatisation of 'real life' - hence I watch things like Sci-fi, Horror (more supernatural type horror than real life horror) & Fantasy. I will check out the trailer for Mindhunter though to see if its likely to appeal.

There can be odd shows I watch - like Elementary or Sherlock which could be quite 'real life' and I know Orange is the new Black was based on real life and quite enjoyed the first 2 series when they were shown on one of the channels I get on Sky (the Sony channel I think). In general though, I tend to watch things like American Horror Story, the CW DC shows, Westworld, Game of Thrones, Doctor Who, Preacher, the Gifted etc. Loving iZombie at the moment too...

I don't like reality TV either

@KratosMD No worries, it's confusing with all these streaming services that all have different shows in different countries.

My mate in work has Sky and when I recommend something I have no idea what Sky channel it's on. I'm like 'ummmmm, Now TV?'. 😂 Yeah I know it does state the TV channel but it is not something I pay close attention to lol.

@beemo cool - I will check that out. So far I have watched season 1 (the only) of Sabrina and nearly watched all of Season 1 of iZombie. I want to watch the marvel series that haven't been shown on Sky and shows like Stranger Things, Black Mirror (I think its called), Star Trek, Lost in Space and Castlevania - some on my TV app for HDR and the others I will probably watch via SkyQ's Netflix app.

I haven't had access to Netflix for long so was looking for recommendations on shows that are similar to those but haven't yet been shown on a channel on Sky. I was surprised by how much Netflix has of its own and a little disappointed to see how much it has that I had already watched on Sky - especially movies. There is still more to watch than I have time for though so I am happy I have access at last....

Season 2 of The Sinner starts in the UK on Nextflix on Friday. The first season was superb and I couldn't stop watching it.

@BAMozzy Black Mirror is bleak but great. The anthology style means it covers such a weird array of topics and are all completely separate (bar a few clever touches in certain episodes). Everyone has such a different list of top 5 episodes as well as the episodes are so unique. The array of actors and directors they've had is amazing too.

@Thrillho My son recommended Black Mirror to me and did enjoy Anthology type series like the Twilight Zone, Outer Limits etc. Its certainly in my list of shows to watch - although may finish iZombie first. As its an anthology though, I may watch episodes when I want a break from episodes of one specific show as I can't binge watch shows.

@BAMozzy Black Mirror is great but not for everyone, some people just don't get it. The humour is pitch black and some episode are so surreal. There is a lot of swipes at modern life (especially social media which is probably why it resonated with me so well lol) and what it could become, in true Charlie Brooker style.

@beemo @BAMozzy I'll have to respectfully disagree with beemo on that one and strongly recommend against watching The OA. Watching the trailer I was most certainly intrigued, but the show took all it's potential and ran it into the ground over the course of 8 increasingly worse hours. It's truly one of the worst shows I've ever seen, and I'd like to think I've seen quite a lot. The ending is an absolute joke too.

@Thrillho Come on, we all know Nosedive is the best episode of Black Mirror! No disagreeing!

@Kidfried I think you mean The End of the F***ing World, but The End of the F***ing Workshop sounds interesting too.

@Tjuz Really? I thought it was a pretty average episode. Anyone who says anything other than San Junipero is objectively wrong

I even have the soundtrack to the episode on a pretty awesome vinyl record.

@Kidfried The End of the F***ing Workshop sounds like the Tarantino version of The Office.

@Thrillho San Junipero is most certainly second. Nosedive was just the perfectly paced adventure, with the perfect climax and the perfect lead actress. It's easily the closest Black Mirror has ever come to an all-around perfect episode.

@RogerRoger Wow - winner!

Have you seen the Batman TAS 'Honest Trailer' yet? it's pretty spot on!

@FullbringIchigo regarding the past weekend's Doctor Who episode - I quite liked it; even though it was pretty typically Chibnal - the 'countdown clock' MacGuffin wasn't too overplayed. JW is still entertaining, Yaz and whateverhisnameis are still completely overshadowed in all respects by everyone else on screen and the TARDIS is still effectively awol.
The Doctor even almost did two thirds of the episode without her magic wand! (The Sonic Screwdriver is the bane of most of new Doctor Who).

In other TV stuffs; the new series of Black Lightning is great so far, The Good Place feels like they're running out of ideas and Sabrina is really rather good!

Also, apologies to any and all for late replies - had half term off work and I'm normally just one here skiving

@RogerRoger I had a US DVD set for a long time and also a few rips - it was often in heavy rotation. It really is a great show. I envy your lack of recent watching! (that's a terrible sentence, sorry).

Sub Zero is much overlooked - not quite as good as Phantasm, but no Batman films are really.

@RogerRoger It wasn't just a rebrand -there was a slightly more WB cartoonish style to everything, not as much detail - it always reminded me of Freakazoid in that sense.

I'm hoping that Superman TAS and JLU get the same treatment, but I'm not holding my breath.

I got my Batman Animated Remastered Blu-ray set a few days ago but haven't watched it yet. I'm not a fan of the packaging, though since it's quite hard to take out or put the discs back into the cardboard sleeves.

@RogerRoger The unboxing I saw the other day was a book style with the discs in cardboard sleeves.
I thought it looked quite nice myself, but the unboxer did seem to need to give a good tug to get the discs out.

@RogerRoger Yeah, the packaging/box had some dents unfortunately. They shipped mine in a box that was probably twice the size of the item. The item moving around inside the box is what probably cause the dents.

@KALofKRYPTON

but the unboxer did seem to need to give a good tug to get the discs out.

Yeah, it does require a bit of effort to take the discs out or put them back in.

@KratosMD I've been meaning to watch that for ages, but was out off by what some people said about the first two seasons. Will defo give it a watch sometime now though!

Whoop, whoop! Feeling the Gotham love! Awesome show, my husband and I love it 😎