Series you've recently watched, are now watching or have given up on

Oh that’s right, someone upthread had mentioned the show is semi-historical. I hadn’t known that when I started watching.

As you say, the actual event was a 5 day siege, and a day or two of that was probably seeing them coming from miles away! OK, a little bit of an exaggeration, but the way they got ambushed in the show, totally caught by surprise, with hundreds of arrows suddenly raining down and being surrounded by raiders on horseback. again in broad daylight when they were expecting some sort of attack, was just silly. There’s compressing the timeline, but they could have done something like “ok, here they come, prepare for a battle” but the writers went for cheap, unrealistic shock and awe instead.

Other than that, great show so far.

I just finished S3 of Somebody Somewhere (Max). I just love this show. It’s like watching real friends (not actors) get through life. It seems very unscripted. Their interactions with each other are so natural. Their laughter is infectious.

Murder She Wrote Angela Lansbury

I didn’t watch in the 1980’s. The show’s audience was older. The aspercreme generation. :wink:

Well, I’m now in that audience and started watching Murder She Wrote on Peacock.

The writers had to produce 22 hour-long episodes a season. I expect some weak episodes. There are some gems in there too.

Tough Guys Don’t Die is a parody of the private eye genre. Jerry Orbach (known for Law & Order in the 90’s) hams it up with dialog that could be written by Mickey Spillane. Landsbury is hilarious in that setting with her prim Cabot Cove character.

It’s my favorite from season 1.

I really enjoy seeing all the great character actors from the 1960’s and 70’s. They are faces I remember seeing in childhood. It’s fun looking them up on imdb and remembering the shows they starred in.

I watch Murder She Wrote at bedtime when I’m relaxing. It is still an old geezer show.

I agree. Very low-key and real. And her singing was appropriately amateurish.

Agreed. I started out thinking they were a bunch of weirdos and by the end of the second episode I wished I could hang out with these people in real life.

I had the exact same thought when I first started watching. No one has celebrity looks, they all have quirks and issues. They’re like real people. I love Sam and Joel’s dynamic.

Also watching American Primeval because of this thread and it is indeed grim but pretty good. Cycling through Silo and Foundation as well. Need to catch up a little on The Agency.

Scavengers Reign (1 se. Netflix) Animated Sci-Fi + Body Horror. Follows the remaining crew members of the Demeter, a space ship that crash landed on a rich and colorful alien world. The show is a slow burn, there is not a lot of dialogue or introduction. Most of the appeal for me is working out what happened from the clues and the stunning visuals and strange ecology of this world. 5 episodes in and I love it so far.

Calls for a calm introspective mood so watch it only when you’re chill and the house is calm.

I enjoyed all of them. Quite well done.

My wife and I loved the show but surprisingly trailed off in the last season and never finished it. We keep talking about a rewatch.

I think after season five, which had been planned, as far as I know, the next couple of seasons do feel like the writers are floundering to put a story together. Then they will have a brilliant season or two then it goes back to meh. There are usually great moments in every season, though.

I can’t decide about this show. It doesn’t help that I finished Night Agent and went into The Agency with Night Agent expectations. The first episode didn’t impress me but I didn’t want to judge it on that. The second episode then went firing on all burners but in a confusing way. It probably deserves its own thread to discuss it.

Thanks for the discussion!

I really enjoyed Superstore too. But I stopped watching in 2020ish when they brought COVID into the storyline. I was burned out enough living though the pandemic that I didn’t want to see it in my escapist shows too.

Maybe it’s time to pick up with it again.

I had watched the first 5 seasons of Community when it came out. Love that show. But I hadn’t watched the Yahoo! carried season 6. So, time to watch that which means watching the whole thing from the start.

The first season has some all time great episodes. Just amazing stuff. Then it started going downhill. So the 2nd season paintball double episode just didn’t have the same feel as in season one. But generally still far better than most anything else.

While Harmon-less season 4 was dubbed the “gas leak year” to explain it’s lesser quality, season 5 wasn’t really any better. The cast losses hurt a lot. Most of the fill-in people were bad or just poor fits for this type of show. And what happened to Magnitude???

Anyway, season 6. Some missed opportunities. Esp. with Frankie. Near the end it was running on fumes. The next to last episode seemed like it was a script for a different show that got remapped poorly to the Community characters. But the series finale was quite interesting. The study group, er, Save Greendale Community, was thinking of how season 7 would go. Allison Brie especially shines due to being given the opportunity to play various versions of her future self.

It was painful to watch how they stopped giving Gillian Jacobs interesting things to do and just Britta-ed her over and over.

I could watch much of the first season again and again. A chunk of seasons 2 and 3 another go. But only very few episodes after that.

#andamovie

Not a series, exactly, but series-adjacent:

If you missed Ladies & Gentlemen… 50 Years of SNL Music, I highly recommend checking it out. I thought it would just be a collection of performances, but there are interviews, fun facts, lots of nostalgia. Very cool and interesting.

Streaming on Peacock, and probably free On Demand if you have cable.

We watched premiere episodes of 2 new series last night:

The Pitt (HBO…sorry, Max) Chaos in a hospital emergency room (in Pittsburgh, hence the title). Very ER-like, although this time with 50% more medical jargon. Starring ER alumnus Noah Wyle.

Paradise (Hulu) Sterling K. Brown is security for a former president (James Marsden)…with flashbacks to the time when they were in the White House. (For some reason, they never use the phrase “Secret Service”) Takes a real 90 degree turn at the end…I will say no more.

I’ll definitely watch episode 2 of both.

My wife and I watched it on Monday evening. We enjoyed all 3 hours of it, and we agree with your recommendation!

I would also definitely recommend this. I loved the fact that they talked about some lesser known things, such as the chaotic performance Fear gave on the Halloween 1981 episode.

The pilot and the first few episodes are very action-oriented, but that calms down some. They actually get into some pretty good character development and explore some pretty heavy topics with respect to the military and what the job costs those men.

Plus, the action actually gets better, as you get more into it and get a handle on some of their lingo and how they operate.

It does suffer from plot armor and a certain degree of dramatic license with what the team members would actually be able to get away with. But for all that, it’s entertaining and they do a surprisingly good job of developing the characters (even Brock, Full Metal, & Trent) over time.

Outside of SEAL Team, we’ve watched a few new shows. The first was Matlock and enjoyed it- the show-within-a-show aspect is pretty fascinating.

Another show I enjoyed was Landman, although a large part of that was watching Billy Bob Thornton and his oil industry housemates deal with the chaos introduced by his wife and daughter.

We have enjoyed The Lincoln Lawyer, but it’s not ‘serious’ TV. Same goes for High Potential.

Yeah, it comes on Sunday nights on PBS, and it’s a gem. I had never watched it in the past, but it’s spectacularly done. Another show that’s on and I’ve been watching (never watched it originally) is The Golden Girls. That’s another show I had discounted when it was on (why would a early 20s guy want to watch a show about old ladies?), but have come to find out that it was far, far funnier than I had ever realized.

He was probably making Galavant.

I’ve been watching that as well. And if it’s not obvious, each episode follows one hour in a single fifteen-hour shift, with the first episode covering 7-8am. As you noted, very ER-like, though with present-day medical technology.

Ah! I missed that. This seems to make it likely that not all medical mysteries will be neatly wrapped up in each episode.

I’m about halfway through Creature Commandos on Max and really digging it. I saw this listed for about a month now and ignored it since DC animation (or anything DC these last few years) is usually not my cup of tea.

Apparently, there are only 7 half-hour episodes but it has already been green lighted for a second season.

Fist thing to know: This is NOT for kids. Sex and gore abound. Second thing: The writer and showrunner is James Gunn who brings to DC that Marvel sense of humor and fun that DC has sadly lacked these many years.

The premise is essentially The Dirty Dozen with a half dozen monsters instead of 12 criminals. Starting with the second episode we get a peek into the backstory of a member of the team. The one about “The Bride” is an interesting twist on the Frankenstein story. The one for “G.I. Robot” is very funny and includes a character from my favorite DC Silver Age book, Metal Men.