I’m working my way through “Star Trek: Discovery” on Paramount.
Now, I’m old. TOS holds a dear place not only in my heart but it truly did help to form my moral framework as a kid.
My understanding is that this iteration of Star Trek is held in high contempt by many fans. Feh, I say. It’s as enjoyable as a lot of other series and has some novel plot and tech ideas.
Enjoying it immensely.
I recently met one of the show’s directors at a comicon and he agreed that they’ve spent a bit too much time in the future.
Not sure I get all the DISCO hate, but to each their own. My biggest hurdle with it has been accepting it as canon, not just the radical Klingon redesign but I also just can’t reconcile that “manticore and lots of sex” happens in the same continuity as “Greco-Roman wrestling and Space Lincoln.” But if I just say to myself “different timeline” I find it a heady, brilliantly-acted and -designed space opera. Tig Notaro’s line readings alone are epic.
I suspect (and it would be nice to know), if it’s the real original broadcast version, which featured original music, rather than the DVD releases, which feature muzak instead. The usual cost of copyright crap.
I own the dvds, so didn’t feel guilty trying to find the one with the right music on the torrents. I got a version with no seeds, so had a couple of episodes which didn’t complete. Not got around to watching them again, long since lost the info as to WHICH episodes didn’t complete, and probably will be a crap picture but the real music.
We have started “The OA”. It’s well reviewed, but the first two episodes were a little slow. A blind girl vanishes, and then shows up years later with full sight. Mystery ensues.
I know you’re probably not going to listen, but if you skip season two, you might retain your plucky idealism.
Season 3 was some of the best Trek I’ve seen, ditto for Strange New Worlds.
Disco I could take or leave. Didn’t finish.
Picard s1 was in my opinion uneven, some good, some bad, some so-so. S2 started quite well but by the end was absolutely terrible. S3 was good but I think my expectations had been set so high by reading fans’ opinions that I was left a bit disappointed. It was pure fan service at times and that came across extremely cheesy to me.
Yes. That show goes in many directions, and I recommend it to people as to be one worth sticking with. Where Season 2 went was just bizarre and the end, well, I do wonder where the hell Season 3 might have gone onto.
I watched this with my wife and we enjoyed it, although it probably won’t go down in the TV hall of fame as a classic. I thought the main character Bruce was the least interesting part of the show, though; I found him more annoying than funny or endearing.
Just finished. It’s only eight episodes, but somehow felt like a longer commitment than that. I’m not sure what that says about it.
It’s very uneven, and the tone kind of ping-ponged all over the place. It starts out a silly, somewhat dark comedy. More serious elements are mixed in as it goes, but rather haphazardly so. Episode six was difficult to get through but ultimately satisfying, and episode seven is a true stinker.
As a whole, I’d say it’s worth watching, but not a strong recommend. There is apparently a second season in the works.
I know I’m very late to Better Call Saul, but I started it this week and I’m enjoying it very much. I’m glad there are several seasons so I won’t have to look for anything new for a few weeks.
I remember when it was first announced that BCS was happening, and nobody quite knew what to expect. Another hour drama? A half hour dark comedy?? Can it possibly be even 1/10 as good as Breaking Bad, or is Vince Gilligan going to spoil the legacy of BB, similar to how the Matrix sequels / Star Wars prequels somewhat tarnished the originals?
But, BCS, in my humble, is not only as good as BB was, but is quite possibly superior.
I’ve never watched BB, a fact that probably played a part in my delay to watch BCS.
I’ve learned that sometimes it takes more than one try for a show or a book to take, so I’m glad I came back around to this. Definitely highly recommend.
Was interested in “Colin from Accounts” after hearing a NPR story about it…but didn’t have Paramount+…but Im visiting my folks so I have finally been able to watch it.
I have not enjoyed a new show this much in ages… but as someone mentioned upthread it does rely a little bit on people keeping secrets for very little reason.
My parents binge shows now like…4 episodes a night…like hours long show and it gets to be a bit much. At the start of my visit they started season 8 of Homeland… I eventually had to ask them to watch something else since…damn that show is just misery upon misery (and also “24” levels of stupid by the end)
Peacock has a new, seven-episode series that’s a prequel to the Seth MacFarlane film Ted. Not much to do over the weekend, so I binged it. Vulgar, as you’d expect, but I found some it funny.
Mrs. Solost and I watched the first one last night. Despite the vulgarity, pot use, and general MacFarlanesque nature of it, there was, ironically or otherwise, a bit of a wholesome retro 80s sitcom vibe to it, almost as if it’s an updated ‘Alf’ for the 2020s.
Not great, but something to watch with one’s brain turned off.
I despised Breaking Bad.
The whole idea of making a criminal a hero- in his crazy scheme that wont and cat work turned my stomach.
Walter White was not portrayed as a hero in Breaking Bad.
His motive- to make enuf $$ to support his family after he died- that is a heroic motive.
Mind you- it wouldnt work.
Despite that, he was not portrayed as a hero.
Yeah, well , you know, that’s just , like, your opinion , man . 