I admire but don’t think I can emulate your self-discipline here. I wanna know what happens next with Leaphorn and Chee and Manuelito, dammit, and if that means I have to shell out a couple months’ fees to AMC, oh well. Thanks for the heads-up, Chefguy!
I’m subscribing, as there are other things on there worth watching, and even at the no ad price, it’s far cheaper than Max and some others.
Yeah, maybe, though I just took a look at AMC+'s website, and I’m not seeing a whole lot that’s new other than Dark Winds I’d like to see, and their older shows mostly have all the episodes on other Streaming channels we have, like Netflix. What are you watching on AMC+ that you like?
I tell ya, we cut the cable maybe 5 years ago because paying for a few key streaming channels cost a fraction of what cable cost. Now cable’s almost starting to look like the cheaper alternative again, if one wants access to a reasonably wide variety of shows.
I don’t know yet, as I just subscribed today. I did, however spot a lot of stuff that I have no interest in, like all the zombie crap.
Fortunately for me AMC is part of my cable service, but I agree that there’s currently almost nothing on AMC worth watching.
It is for us, too. But if you want it to be ad-free, you have to opt for AMC+, which is extra.
After so many people raved about it, I finally got around to watching Severance season 1. And yes, though it was a familiar genre of mystery box, it was executed really well. I’ll take a nominal break and then start on season 2 when all episodes have dropped.
It means I miss out on the daily discussions, but I tend to get spoiled when traversing that route, so it’s probably better this way.
Well, I cheat. I record all the shows I want to watch on my DVR and fast-forward through the commercials when I watch them later.
Ah, right. We had one in Portland, but don’t feel like paying Comcast for one here.
We’ve started watching Colin From Accounts. Thanks to the title character/dog two people meet and stuff happens.
3 episodes in. The first wasn’t all that good. Gave it another try. The next two we’ve watched so far are better but not wow in any way.
One measure I use for such shows is predictability. If I know from the first 5 minutes how the episode is going to end, that’s not good. (I tried watching Modern Family in two periods. Each ended because of this. Plus that mega-trite talk-to-the-camera stupidity.) So several nicely done lesser surprising things. But some of the big things were visible a mile away. E.g., so episode 3, time for X to happen. Yep.
Anybody else seen this? Does it get any better?
We enjoyed both seasons well enough to watch a third if they make it. Most of the story and humor derives from the leads’ difference in age. Something the real life actors/writers have personal experience with.
Thanks for taking one for the team, I am in your same boat and have been on the fence about watching this for some time. I was worried more about Hollywood’s historically low budgets for anything Bible themed rather than aversion to religious themed television.
Where these characters explored in any contemporary way or was it simply The Bible: Excerpts of David on screen?
I liked season one well enough, but the penultimate episode was so terrible it almost ruined the whole series for me.
I didn’t know there was a second season; I’ll have to check it out and hope there’s not such a clunker in there.
I liked it from the beginning, but I think yes. I am looking forward to future episodes. I’m not normally a fan of cringe humor but this works for me.
Watching Shrinking on Apple TV+ and it’s very enjoyable. Jason Segel is pretty funny in the role of beleaguered psychologist mourining his dead wife (what is up with that, Apple? Dead wife seems to be the premise of every show), the comedy is great with some compelling drama, Harrison Ford is not phoning it in. I just really like it. My husband likes it too, and he’s always a little leery of TV depictions of psychologists. Segel’s character becomes wildly unethical with his clients, but that often backfires, and enough characters are pissed off about it that it works.
Finally… We’ve been watching Severance on Apple TV+. It is certainly the best science fiction TV series I have ever seen, it may be the best TV show I have ever seen, of any genre. If you are a fan of science fiction, it does science fiction so good and so hard. The basic premise, for those not in the know, is an alternate future in which people’s work consciousness (innie) can be separated from their outside work consciousness (outie.) The innies are effectively slaves whose entire consciousness consists of office work. This is all they know and have ever known. The writers take this very simple premise and spin from it a vast array of profound existential questions that have stayed with me long after finishing an episode. It’s deeply creepy, hilarious, inspiring, and good at everything. Adam Scott and John Turturo and Christopher Walken are fantastic, but the prize goes to the woman who plays Helly R, Britt Lower. Acting, writing, set design, cinematography, all superior. Even the opening credits/theme song is haunting and strange and beautiful and fits the show perfectly.
To quote my husband: Whatever you’re doing instead of watching Severance, it’s the wrong choice.
In that case, allow me to repost something I wrote over in the main Severance Season 2 thread:
By the way, if you like Britt Lower, the actress who plays Helly, check out Circus Person, a short film that she wrote, directed and stars in. It is a bit artsy, but I found it clever, funny and moving.
(Note that, while it is not in any way sleazy–quite the opposite, really–it does contain a certain amount of nudity, so consider it potentially NSFW.)
Enjoy!
We just watched the series finale last night and I’m sorry to see it come to an end. I think I’ve laughed out loud more for this series than anything else on TV right now.
They are currently filming a new season that will incorporate the recent fires into the plot, that wasn’t the series finale.
I think it is the best acting/role of his career.
Thank you! I’m so glad there’s a Severance thread! I should have known!
We finished Season 2 of “The Night Agent.” Neither of us got into it the way we did the first season. The final episode, however, was quite good. It had more dramatic tension than the previous episodes combined.
I’m really tired of the Evil Iranians trope. I felt the same way about the Evil Mafia trope, the Evil Mexican Drug Lord trope, and the Evil Russian Crime Family trope. Can someone please come up with some different ethnic groups to fill the “evil” role? How about them Evil Swedes?