Same, I think I’ve only caught the first two or three episodes, I find out now there are three seasons waiting for me.
The Fall of the House of Usher (2023, Netflix, Sub) - Just finished it. In all a solid 8 part modern retelling of some Poe classics. Recommended, obviously.
I was disappointed in one aspect of the conclusion though.
In the final story, The Cask of Amontillado, the reader has no idea why the protagonist is angry with the victim. THAT is what is so terrifying. This horrible fate is happening because, we do not know. That’s the fear of insanity that Poe is always trying to instill. It’s the reason the main character likes the old man in The Tell Tale Heart, he just hates the eye and must kill him because of it. Here we know why the Ushers are killing the dude and almost sympathize with them, that’s not horror but justice. I suppose the story is so well known the ending is blown no matter what, but it is a shame.
AFAICT from occasional indications throughout the show there are buses. Also, the fact that Olivia doesn’t have the kind of money required to ransom her daughter from international sex traffickers doesn’t mean that she’s absolutely penniless. The occasional Uber or something is probably available.
I haven’t watched any of the CSI or NCIS serieses in years, but when I discovered there is an NCIS Sydney it sounded weird eniugh that I had to give the first episode a try. I did not love Sydney, and we will definitely not be friends forever.
I think you meant Stringer accents? 
We just watched the first episode of Rake. I liked it. Hugo Weaving as a cannibal was awesome Also, that version of Bolero that played over the ending credits was just the chef’s kiss.
We were looking for something to watch when we finish Candice Renoir which has only four episodes left on our Accorn. So, we’ll go on to Rake after we’re done. Thanks for saying it was Sydney. I didn’t see either the bridge or the Opera House, so I couldn’t tell. Sorry. I don’t know the Sydney or Melbourne skylines well enough without clues that obvious.
If anyone liked Leverage there’s a new-ish series I found on freevee called Almost Paradise. Basically Leverage but only Elliot.
Just finished the first two episodes of Beacon 23. Gritty, serious SF. So far, so good.
We’ve been enjoying this series. Though there are a lot of murder and mayhem cases to solve, it manages to have a lighter vibe to it, kind of like “Death in Paradise” had, with a good lead character and supporting cast. We’ll be sorry when we run out of episodes!
Finished:
Loki (S2). Loved it. There’s a whole thread devoted to it, but I think this is my favorite treatment of the multiverse idea.
Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation (S2) - As I previously mentioned, there’s some great animation and great world-building here: we’ve got a world-shattering disaster to be explained, some sort of hinted-at god fight, an ancient villain living in a floating fortress we haven’t seen yet, families scattered across continents to be reunited, people kidnapped from other dimensions, political intrigues, civil unrest, assorted monsters, etc etc. So why was the main theme of S2 about fixing the protagonist’s erectile dysfunction? A waste of a great world for juvenile sex fantasies, alas.
Started:
Invincible (S2) - We’re still covering stuff I read in the comics so no surprises yet, but the ongoing theme of “The solution to every problem just creates a worse problem” continues. Extreme gore also continues.
Whoops… good place for me to put a typo!
We finished up S7 of Shetland over the weekend. I really liked the way they wrapped up Jimmy’s story line. He really does need to get a life. 
Anybody know when S8 with the new DI hits Britbox? I’ve seen TV ads that say “coming soon”, but it looks like the new season just started broadcasting at the beginning of Nov, and I have no idea what the gap is between first run and when it shows up on Britbox.
Streamed Dateline last night about the Giglo Beach bodies and the arrest of the serial killer.
Interesting, right?
Well, no. Not at all. Hour and a half episode, maybe 10 minutes on the investigation. There were literally hours worth of interesting stuff about the problems with the investigation that they ignored. The focused the rest of the show was mostly emotional reactions from victim’s loved ones. OK, fine.
But then they are interviewing serial killer’s former business associates and people from his neighborhood. Seriously, a business associate and a guy from the neighborhood talkin g abut how close they came to being killed…which was not at all.
Lastly, and an admitted nitpick, several family members of victims stated to the effect that they wanted US to know what kind of people they were and their good qualities and not that they were victims. But the fact that they were victims is the only reason I should know anything about them at all.
I think it is November 29th… I am hearing good things about Jimmy’s replacement, Ashley Jensen, and I was already excited about seeing her in that kind of role. She was the best part of Extras.
I’ve been watching Onimusha, another of Netflix’s stable of animated shows based on video games (see also: Castlevania, Tekken: Bloodline, The Cuphead Show, Dragon Age: Absolution, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, etc).
It’s semi-interesting as a supernatural samurai series. The art is a little bit odd because you have the usual stable of exaggerated anime character models but the main character is a realistic-ish character based on Toshiro Mifune. It’s not quite as off-putting as the Netflix series Super Crooks which has really bizarre characters, plus Josh Duhamel in old-age makeup from the show Jupiter’s Legacy.
I haven’t finished the last few episodes, so that says something about how gripping the story is (i.e., not very).
Watched the first episode of The Curse. Will watch more.
Watched 2 episodes of Crime Scene - Times Square Killer
I will not be watching any more. Half the episodes turn into a history lesson on the 70s, a history lesson on porn in NYC, then history on prostitution in NYC, then some emotion-provoking interviews with several who I frankly did not believe. And interviews with people who were in NYC at the time but not involved with the victims, the crime or the investigation.
In short, they are turning an interesting Dateline episode into 3 hours of shit I don’t really care about and could have been covered in half the time.
I watched the 3 part Exposed: The Ghost Tarin Fire on Netflix about an amusement park tragedy in Sydney, Australia that killed 6 children and 1 adult. The whole first episode, I was thinking they were just going to throw a bunch of unproven theories at the viewer with no convincing conclusion. But I was wrong. In the final two episodes, there is a very focused and convincing allegation of arson and police corruption that connects all the dots.
We blitz watched All the Light you cannot see” one wet and cold evening. It was pretty good, certainly some suspension of disbelief needed here and there , probably a source of coming from a book and the needs of a Tv show caused that , but worth while. Mark Ruffalos accent got a bit much , but that’s a minor quibble
Looking for the next show .
I watched Generation Kill for my exercise show , also good , I hadn’t seen it before so first time. I can see they may have wanted to make a second season, but I think the story was all told and didn’t need more of the same points expounding.
Looking for next exercise show, I got a few episodes into Jack Ryan final season a while back but it wasn’t holding my attention, also a couple of episodes of The Witcher season 2 , so probably back to finish those up.
Mrs. Solost and I watched the first episode of “A Murder at the End of the World” on Hulu last night.
A young woman named Darby who is a true crime author as well as a very talented programmer / hacker is invited by a reclusive tech billionaire to an Icelandic retreat with other notable original thinkers in various fields. Her ex-boyfriend, who used to help her with her true-crime sleuthing but abandoned her years before, is now a Banksy-style famous guerrilla artist and has also been invited, setting up some conflict and sexual tension for the intro ep. Then a MUHHHdahhh happens (not a spoiler since it’s right there in the title). Presumably Darby SHErlocks out who the killer is in the subseqent eps.
Several semi-known actors kept me going “who IS that?” and had me looking up IMDB on my iPad-- Emma Corrin, who played Lady Di in The Crown; Brit Marling, who played the weird angel-crazy whatever she was on The OA, Alice Braga, who I knew I saw recently but couldn’t place her (it was in an awful Ben Affleck movie called Hypnotic, but she was good in it).
The premise feels a little Agatha Christie, or “Knives Out” style derivative, but it’s entertaining enough. Will continue watching!