Watched the pilot, and I think it has, well, potential.
This will hinge on whether Kaitlin Olson can deliver a character that people want to watch week after week. She’s pretty over-the-top, not surprisingly, but also shows a little more depth than most of her previous characters. We’ll see how it goes.
Since getting apple+ to watch Slow Horses, and not all episodes drop at once of the new season, I’ve started watching Severance (another one I wanted to watch). Man, it starts out dark right away in the first episode. I thought there might be a little bit of normal before the creepiness started, but nope. I’m enjoying it, though, in the way you enjoy shows like this that squick you completely out.
I think I’ll have to start on Ted Lasso after I’m done to reprogram my brain (see what I did?). I never thought I find myself freaked out by Patricia Arquette.
I liked the book, but half of the entertainment comes from the switching first-person narrators. Not sure how well that would transfer to a TV series.
As is my custom, I’m going to give this show one more episode before I give up on it. From the very beginning of the first episode I found the main character extremely annoying. She’s supposed to be cleaning, but all she’s doing is giving everything a quick spritz and a swipe. Throughout the show she’s pushy and totally disrespectful of the rules of evidence; no way any law enforcement agency would put up with that crap.
Come join the pre-waffle party egg bar social for everyone when season 2 starts on January 17.
It’s also been running for 34 years and only now gets a US version. The BBC showed the US version, and as they don’t have ad breaks it’s about the same length as the extended UK version. But it seemed to drag on for a lot longer. I’ll give it a few more episodes to see if it settles down. And to see if the audience stops with the whooping and hollering as that was off putting.
Oh, good, I have time to finish. I know about the waffle parties, but I don’t know about egg bars. Yet.
I just finished watching the Netflix animated series Captain Laserhawk: A Blood Dragon Remix. It was completely bizarre and I loved it.
It’s like a satirical combination of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners with the Ubisoft video game catalog (Assassin’s Creed, Beyond Good and Evil, The Crew, Rainbow Six, Rayman, Splinter Cell, Watch Dogs). If you ever wanted to see Rayman in his underwear snorting cocaine off of a hooker’s ass, this is definitely the show for you.
I hope they make more episodes, since it had an open-ended finale.
Right.
Well here are the things they got wrong. First of all , a big police force like the LAPD does not hire a cleaner. They hire a bonded and background checked cleaning service. Who wear uniforms, and work in teams.
Next, this may shock some of you, but the LAPD does not close at night. 
Patrol is of course 24/7, and admin goes home, but there are night shift detectives- because- and this is kinda weird- murders also happen at night. Weird, huh? 
Next of all, you lock up all sensitive files when you leave. Even at my job, which was Civil enforcement of Money laundering laws. Computers locked, all documents off the desk and secured. That file left out like that? Two weeks off without pay. If it was first offense…
Next if she is obsessive- she couldnt be doing such a crappy job of cleaning. It would drive her nuts.
Then they made her annoying and unlikable with the stunt at the grocery store. There were other people waiting in line. Next- her stunt with the math is not a sign of High IQ- Einstein would not do that. It is a autistic-savant trick or ability. Then she steals grocery carts, which is rude.
And you cant just hire someone like that. It would take at least a month of paperwork and approvals. Not to mention why is she asking for a raise if she didnt even see the offer?
I predict a short end to this show. But hell, I thought the same for Elsbeth.
Well, I didn’t expect it to be a documentary.
It kind of reminds me of Psych, which I liked a lot, and was ridiculously unrealistic, but entertaining. High Potential doesn’t seem quite as silly as Psych so far, but I’d actually like to see it move a bit in that direction.
I don’t mind escapist cop shows that don’t worry about accuracy. Whether or not I keep watching will depend on where the main character ultimately lands on the likeable/annoying curve.
I rewatched the miniseries of BSG last night. Then read this thread.
I also bounced around a bit on the BSG wiki. I’m not sure if I’m going to watch the series again or not.
As I remember my first watch of BSG, it’s got great moments and some good characters. It’s also got some really weird moments. I’m not sure there was a plan. I can’t decide to rewatch it to see how it holds up, wow, twenty years later. What say the rest of you?
Thanks for the discussion!
BSG started off great and fell apart after around the end of season two. I watched in gobstopped disbelief as it ended on one of the most trite 1950s SF cliches in existence.
We started watching Des last night on Britbox. Starring David Tennant as the real-life serial killer Dennis Nilsen. Tennant is perfect as the emotionless sociopath. Very chilling.
I was only able to watch three episodes of Elsbeth before removing it from my watch list. Pretty much the same reasons: Annoying main character who shoved her way into crime scene investigations because she knew better than the professionals.
I have no idea if this has been mentioned here or not because the stupid name is essentially unsearchable, but I just started the mystery/horror series From, which started season three yesterday. It is pretty much a vampire show with the serial numbers filed off.
I guess my question is should I watch it again? It’s been long enough that I remember broad strokes but not specific moments. Are those worth it? Or not? Or some “best of” the series?
Still pondering that.
Thanks for the discussion!
Greatest show of all time. I love it from beginning to end and it is firmly ranked 1st in my shows of all time list.
Oh, thanks for heads up. So far I kinda like From (and after getting through two seasons I am not at all sure it is the show you intimated), but I haven’t kept track of it on the schedule. It has a very horror-Lost vibe to me with its slow dribbling of revelations, which means it may very well end up dissolving into an amorphous pile of utter nonsense. But so far it is holding my attention.
Psych was billed as a comedy drama, so of course stuff is played for laughs.
I finished watching the full series of BSG (just last night!), after seeing it for the first time a few years ago. For some weird reason, I missed its initial airing; I can’t remember why. Maybe I had the 1978 version stuck in my head, the one with Lorne Greene.
I was in college in 1978 when Jimmy Doohan (Scotty) gave a talk on campus. He took questions from the audience, and I was able to ask him what current sci-fi shows he liked; he mentioned BSG as one of the best (of the era).
I’d hate to be in the camp that BSG made no sense after the first two seasons (or two-and-a-half), but it had so many really? moments towards the end. I kept on with it, appreciating some hard-edged sci-fi, but also I liked the world building, “closeness” to our world (frak? non-square paper!), but especially the music. That opening theme - just wonderful! I usually FF or skip openings, but I watched the opening music on every episode.