I fully agree with you, and so does my office-mate. But I’m happy to have more episodes to watch if they can pull it off (fingers crossed).
I tried a series called Cannes Confidential on Acorn. For whatever reason it didn’t have subtitles which was annoying for a show based in France. The “charming conman” was English, so does that mean the French find Brits suave and cool?
We watched the first three episodes of My Adventures with Superman.
There have been so many versions of the Man of Steel over the years that it’s hard to stand out. This one is visually appealing, with a kind of retro anime style, and features an interesting take on a young adult Clark Kent who’s still struggling to come to terms with his powers.
I think it’s aimed at a younger audience, and ultimately it’s not adding all that much to the Superman legacy. But it’s not bad, and not much of a commitment at seven half-hours. We’ll likely finish it.
I just finished watching this too (by the guys who did the series “Norsemen”). It held my interest to the end, but I kept hoping that it would get funnier; there were a bunch of scenes where I thought “this is a theoretically humorous situation, but there’s not actually any punchline to make me laugh”.
I thought poking fun at cutting up albinos for use in magic charms was too tasteless for me, personally. And I disliked how it ended on a cliffhanger.
On the basis of comments posted here, we started Captain Fall recently. I liked the premise enough to want to see what they would do with it. Now three episodes in. I’m not certain how highly I’ll rate it after I’ve seen the whole thing, but I think I’m in for the duration.
Also, many thanks to solost for encouragement to continue with Glitch. We’re still one episode away from the finale, but I’m glad we stuck with it.
Here’s a new one for us: FUBAR, also three eps in. Arnold Schwarzenegger is an elite CIA operative who wants to retire and focus on winning his wife back; she divorced him because his career kept him hopping around all over the world, rarely home to be a good husband or father. As it happens, he finds out that his daughter is also an elite CIA operative, and they get teamed up together to stop a bad guy who wants to build a nuclear device and kill millions of people. It leans heavily into the usual action-spy tropes, but it does it with its own style and a good dose of humor.
The characters pull most of the weight here (you might say the show is “character driven,” if you don’t object to that term). There’s lots of stuff going on between father and daughter, including her resentment that he wasn’t a good father (not to mention the lies he had to tell his family to keep his real job a secret). She’s torn between wanting marriage and her adrenaline-fueled career, knowing she can’t do both successfully and being afraid that she’s going to end up like him. He can’t help but be a protective father to a grown-ass woman who, as he sees it, is taking a lot of unnecessary risks even though he realizes, deep down, that he’s going to have to let go and accept that she needs to do her own thing. That’s just a tough thing for him to deal with. Still, they have to figure out how to work together on this assignment. And Arnold is always fun to watch.
Just proof that it is a good thing there are so many shows for different tastes. We tried to watch the first ep, and thought Arnold amazingly wooden. (Yeah, I know. But maybe Terminator/Predator/etc had enough action for me to ignore it!)
I think we were turned off by the amount of pretty ugly violence in a supposed comedy (short of a splatter comedy.) When the guy got shot in the head on stage? I think we turned it off after they repeatedly ran over the guy on the air strip.
We gave it a shot, but bailed.
For us, Spike and Dru are in town, so all is good in our TV world for some time to come! 
FUBAR wasn’t quite bad enough to be ‘so bad it’s good’. It has its moments but overall it was just a bit… naff/lame.
I won’t defend him against the charge of “woodenness,” but I’ll note that the emotional range the writers put him through here is pretty much turns with exasperation, frustration, confusion, worry, and maybe a few other related feelings that all might be expressed in very much the same way. And maybe there’s a reason for that. I think he does well enough with it not to be jarring.
The reason I like him here is simply the persona he projects. I get the sense that he’s having fun with it and isn’t taking himself too seriously, and when you put a guy like him in a show like this, that’s what you want. I’m not proposing that the show is Good Television™, but I find it entertaining.
I preferred Arnold’s performance to that of the actor playing the main villain, but that is probably more down to the writing. Some of the villain’s lines were pretty cringe-worthy.
We are rewatching the expanse and currently on S3. I forgot how funny it could be.
I’ve just watched a few episodes of Fisk on Netflix. They are only 30 minutes long, so they go by pretty quickly. It’s an Australian comedy and I can’t quite decide how I feel about it yet. I think I’m going to go ahead and finish the series and even though I am not sure how I feel about the show, I feel like I will miss the characters when I’m done.
“Madam, with all due respect, where are you going with this?”
brilliant smile “Wherever I goddamn like!”
I think they’re shooting for “over-the-top melodrama” on a lot of the business that goes on, and that’s fine with me, in principle. I also think the writers miscalculate now and then. I can forgive a few lapses here and there, but it depends on how frequent those lapses are and how far over the top they go. For example, the aforementioned shooting on stage. I’ll give 'em one, to show us how evil this guy is. But I don’t think we need more incidents like that. One time makes the point.
Yeah - while I would’t call myself an Arnold fan, I enjoyed enough of his movies to give this a shot. Probably didn’t help that I recently read a couple of articles about him, which impressed upon me how old he is (76). Maybe those contributed to me thinking he was too old for these roles with the resul thtat I didn’t really buy him as either the dad hiding his existence, or as the super spy. Couldn’t help noticing when they cut away from him for the stunt doubles.
Maybe I coulda given it another shot, but there is plenty else to watch. As I’ve said, my wife and I are trying to reduce the amount of murder, rape, and mayhem we consume for entertainment. (Yeah - I know - Buffy!). Glad you’re enjoying it.
How do you do it and still find anything to watch? I’ve decided to not watch anything involving serial rapists, serial killers, Mexican drug cartels, the Mafia, the Russian Mafia, the Irish Mafia…et cetera.
Those are the only plots you can find sometimes.
I don’t think I would call myself an “Arnold fan” either, but there’s something about him that I usually respond favorably to. Charisma? I dunno. An Arnold-attitude, maybe? Haven’t thought all that much about it.
But if it’s objectively not giving you what you’re looking for in a show, there’s certainly no reason to keep on with it. (And rereading this before hitting Reply, it strikes me that that might be read as sarcastic, but it’s not. Just straight-up what it says.)
We just watched that episode last night and fell out of our chairs laughing. She is awesome in this.
Have you seen Mrs. Davis? Shohreh Aghdashloo Is awesome in it.
We’ve mostly enjoyed Bosch, and the most-recent series, with Bosch as a P.I., was an interesting turn, with former background characters taking on more prominent roles and some interesting new characters introduced. I even began to like his whiny daughter a bit. (I’d like to see Crate and Barrell used more often!) For some reason, though, I thought this was the end of the series. But no, it ended on a cliffhanger, with a new series slated to be dropped sometime later this year. I’m glad there are plans to continue the series. It’s one of the best we’ve come across in recent years.
Finally slogged through the end of Lincoln Lawyer, S2. They left it in a cliffhanger, just in case there’s some pent-up demand to see these people again. The introduction of Haller’s mother near the end of the season was pointless and annoying; terrible actor mugging for the camera. The onscreen romance between Haller’s ex-wife and his investigator was clearly just wrong. For one thing, it was obvious that they had no use for each other off-screen; if you can’t even fake a kiss. . . The director seemed to be obsessed with Becki Newton’s legs. The daughter was an unnecessary and boring subplot. I, for one, will pass on a season three.
Yeah, I finished season 2 of Lincoln Lawyer also. I like the basic premise, and enjoy law series in general, so I’ll probably watch season three if it happens.
I do think all the ex-wives are unnecessary, and the daughter was there why? I knew the restauranteur was guilty of something; they could have been more subtle with her character.