Yeah, my sister watched Elsbeth and since I was in the room at the time, so did I. Hated it. Hated her. I’ll leave the room if my sister continues to watch it. I think I’ve seen promos for its upcoming season, so I think it’s coming back. I mean, it’s dumb and cutesy to the point of triggering projectile vomiting, but couldn’t the mysteries at least be interesting???
Just finished the first season of Severance and loved it. So many subtle clever touches. Scary and funny. I can’t wait until January.
There was no plan. Ronald D. Moore admitted after the show ended that it was just a throw away line meant to keep viewers interested and they would think of what the plan was later at some point. That’s probably a good microcosm for the show itself — they didn’t have a plan to follow up that terrific first season and the show just went downhill from there (with the occasional Adama Maneuver moment).
Maybe rewatch the first season and then stop when it just gets too stupid to keep going. The Final Five Cylon models reveal is a good place to say “enough is enough.” Or maybe the 50th time Starbuck shouts, “WE’RE GOING THE WRONG WAY!”
I had been watching religiously in real time every episode, despite what I felt was a steady decline downwards. Hit that one and promptly stopped. I finally watched the final episodes some time later, grudgingly. Was not impressed.
That said what that show was still good, it was pretty damn good.
To me it is much more than a massive fall in quality than Lost. Lost at it’s best was an ok episode of BSG, it had so much potential and chance of excellent storylines. I could have fan fictioned something a hundred times better than the later seasons and I’m not talented. Like Season 5 onwards of Game of Thrones, I was hate watching it after Season 2? 3?
Last night I watched episode 1 of Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, which dropped on Netflix a few days ago. I’ll be watching the rest of it.
Finished season 4 of The Umbrella Academy (netflix) – I don’t regret watching and there were some good bits but overall meh to meh+. (Not sure than can be a season 5) Also finished season 6 of The Dragon Prince (also netflix) Finally have some background info on Aaravos.
Eureka (2006, 4 se, Prime) My young teenage son and I have been going through a bit of a withdrawal since finishing Young Sheldon and now Gravity Falls and he asked me if there was anything similar.
“Yes son, there is much I can teach you.”
So I thought I’d dust this show off from 20 years ago. His mother and I enjoyed it before his birth, but if I recall the wheels fell off the bus with the writing and cast changes and we couldn’t bring ourselves to finish season 4. My son and I are in the middle of season 2 and some of the tech is a bit dated and the CGI was always a bit hokey but for the most part it has held up!
I think this all lends the show a degree of charm. The cast and town of Eureka has heart. The characters are memorable and the ‘sci-fi macguffin of the day’ is a light feel-good formula that is fun to come back too. Won’t vouch for seasons 3 or later, but the first two are certainly worth another look for the modern sci-fi nerd who needs a light sitcom fix.
Now that I’ve finally convinced Apple that I really do want to subscribe to their service, we’ve started on Slow Horses. Ep1 follows the book pretty faithfully.
The episode where the sheriff goes into an area where he doesn’t have security and some sort of mavity effect pushes him down is cute. BUT. The acting chops to pull that off make me laugh to this day! That’s the sort of thing that made Eureka worth it.
We did try a rewatch a while ago but I think only got through one season.
Oh for sure, there are loads of moments that remind me of an original cast Star Trek crew jumping all over the bridge and falling to the floor to show a Klingon attack. The budget was tight (too tight I feel as they kept loosing quality cast who would go on to bigger projects) but that kept narrative focus. Writers have to expand the love triangle or whatever cause the CGI sci-fi budget was blown with the opening disaster shot. I would argue that improves the show.
Jaws wouldn’t have been a better film with 40 additional minutes of shark footage.
