I wasn’t that impressed with the first season, but really enjoyed the 2nd season. I think you’ll like the 2nd season more. (I haven’t watched the 3rd season yet).
Have you seen “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” yet ? If you’re a Trek fan, you’re sure to enjoy this (much better than “Star Trek: Discovery”).
No, afraid not, SNW is on a subscription service I haven’t got so I’m missing out on that. I have seen Below Decks which has been amusing (mostly), because it has been on Prime, but apparently the latest episodes will only be in the same place as SNW (Paramount), so that’s that gone too.
This is the trouble with all the subscription services, you need to fork out about £50 a month to keep up with them all!
That just goes to show how different people are and their tastes. I thought Picard Season 2 was some of the worst Trek I’ve ever seen. But season 3 is some of the best. (I liked Season 1.) And yes, go watch Strange New Worlds!
I gave up on Glitch after season one. The idea was kind of intriguing, but it wasn’t clear to me where it could go that would make any sense (to me).
I think the way to go is to subscribe to a service for a month, just to binge shows, and then drop it before they charge for the second month.
I little while ago, I decided to watch all of Star Trek in broadcast order. I did TOS and TAS, and I’m currently in the middle of season 4 of TNG. I get to start DS9 after season 6, episode 11.
I’d seen some of each of the 20th century series, but not all of any of them, so it’s been a fun project. It’ll take me a while to get to the latest iterations, but they’re not going anywhere.
The only exception is Lower Decks, because my wife wanted to see it. We’re on season 3 and enjoying it a lot.
I love both those shows and will never forgive HBO for letting them go.
We’re about half way through season 4 on Accorn of Candice Renoir. She’s a police commander (probably closer to a US police captain, although her subordinate’s title is captain) with four kids. We’re enjoying it a lot. The actors are all engaging, and there are changes over the seasons which seems true to life. When she first started with the team they called her Barbie, but it’s gotten darker and deeper. There are family stories, too, but they don’t overwhelm either the crime plots or Candice’s issues as a flic. Plus, there’s the gorgeous South of France locale.
I am tempted to do that.
I have done that a couple of times.
If you’re disciplined in doing so (i.e., cancelling promptly) and signing up for only one service at a time, you can keep your expense down to less than twenty bucks a month.
I love that you’re doing this. It must really put everything in a different light. I was thinking out loud the other day and I asked, what other TV show, or really what other work of creative art, resulted it decades of continuity with different characters but the same universe? The only thing I could think of was Doctor Who. Even going back in time historically… The Odyssey? I don’t know.
By the end of season one we were expecting
It to be revealed that everyone resurrected was murdered including the Policeman’s wife. In this case by slow poisoning from the Replacement Wife who wanted her husband thereby resolving the ‘who should I make a life with?’ conundrum he was dealing with. It may still be a thing, but I doubt it as the show is going in other directions.
Rewatching The Sopranos with Inna. Her initial reaction is that Tony is too sympathetic of a character to be a mob boss.
Has she already watched the fifth episode, “College”?
We’re in Season 2.
I responded that part of the problem may be that when you make the bad guy the central character, the audience… via their exposure to other stories… assumes that the protagonist is always a “hero”. And, in addition, the bad guy is commonly the most interesting/compelling character (Satan in Faust/Paradise Lost, Darth Vader, etc).
Also, as she was raised in the Soviet Union, she was in a society where to make yourself powerful, you had to be as ruthless as a mob boss. It was a country ruled via intimidation, and, to her, Tony isn’t intimidating enough because he is consumed by guilt and governed by his emotions.
Breasts can jiggle audibly, and not only does it happen in anime, but so often that it’s a trope? Thanks for giving me another reason not to watch any anime 
Saw that and almost started watching awhile back but didn’t. Will put it on the watch list now. Thanks.
This is the show I miss most after canceling Paramount+. Very funny show. They did an amazing job walking a fine line between sharp parody and affectionate respect for the series.
Oooooh, intriguing. I think you could make a case for the “cast of characters” of the Bible persisting over centuries of “sequels” in the form of, say, medieval miracle plays. Same “supporting cast” of the Virgin Mary and others, brand-new protagonist in the form of yet another medieval saint!
I dunno about the Homeric epics, for example, whose continued development in later literature often seems to take the form of “retellings” from the perspective of one or another of the existing characters, rather than continuing the story with new characters. Well, except for the Aeneid, I guess; that’s more like the “continuity with different characters” that you’re talking about.
I guess what we’re discussing here is the literary history of the “spinoff”, with the caveat that the new work still has to be meaningfully within the old work’s universe, rather than just borrowing a secondary character to follow in a completely different environment. So superhero comics would seem not to count, as their narratives tend to be more reboot than spinoff?
Finished Black Spot. Loved it, wish it had more seasons. Then binged the heck out of Lupin, another winner.
I need to get more viewing recommendations from you, we clearly have a lot of overlap in the series we enjoy. Any other faves?