I just finished Star Trek Lower Decks. Best trek in a long time. They brought back hope.
I thought the finale was better than All Good Things… Everyone had a hand in saving the universe, even the Klingon dirt farmers. Diversity - YEA!
On to Strange New Worlds.
Engage the core!
Eject the core!
Shaxs, is that you?
excellent series. I binged watched it in January and am now sad that it wasn’t picked up for a sixth season.
Strange New Worlds is also a good series. However, I only made it a few episodes into season 2 of Discovery before throwing in the towel.
I more or less forced myself to watch Discovery Season 2 because I had heard that part of it was the set up for Strange New Worlds. After the first episode of Season 3, however, I gave up on it completely.
The wife and I just finished Love on the Spectrum. It’s a sweet show and interesting to watch though it does feel a bit exploitative at times but it seems show creator Cian O’Clery made a lot of effort to show the participants were shown fairly.
We just finished the 2021 version of All Creatures Great and Small. Consistently excellent. One of those series that could go on forever and never get old.
Noel and him were apparently friends. I really will be crushed if it turns out Noel Fielding is an abuser like Brand. I hope not.
Never liked Brand, but I love Noel in many things, especially on Buzzcocks.
Hope he’s a decent guy…please?
Season 2 is notably funnier than season 1, which actually helped, IMO. And, IIRC (haven’t watched it in 2 years), they are doing a decent job of showing the slow descent of the galaxy. But I haven’t read the books, so the show is pretty much all new to me and I don’t see it as a comparison.
Fielding’s main scandal appears to be an earlier “dating age gap” one, including (allegedly!) dating Pixie Geldof when she was 16 and he was 33. But he’s been in a relationship with Lliana Bird for over a decade, who is only 8 years his junior.
We’ve been watching an Argentinian sci-fi series called The Eternaut on Netflix. The setting is a post-apocalyptic Buenos Aires after an unrelenting and deadly snowfall arrives and kills people by touch. A few flakes on your skin and you’re a stiff. At first, it’s all about the survival of a small group of people, but about 15 minutes into episode 4 it takes a really weird turn that I never saw coming.
The production values are top-notch and the actors convincing. If you don’t like subtitles it’s pretty well dubbed. I didn’t expect to get drawn into this series but now I can’t wait to see what happens next.
MrsFtG has restarted watching it. It’s so dark she finds she has to have subtitles on to partially figure out who is talking (as well as what is being said).
I saw a YouTube video recently that basically said that darkness and muddled dialogue is the current “style” and the creators just don’t care if the viewers get lost.
It’s weird: when sub-titles were required a few decades years ago it was for the deaf and hard-of-hearing and much of the broadcast industry was opposed: now 40% to 50% of viewers use it.
A while back I started watching (the movie) Dunkirk. I don’t think I made it more than a quarter of the way through and had to turn it off. The dialog was so drowned out, I was having a hard time following the movie. I know it won all kinds of awards and has been praised for it’s audio, but I know I’m not alone here. After giving up on it, I checked online and found plenty of other people also having a hard time understanding anything and even some theaters having to tell people that it their equipment is working properly, this is how Christopher Nolan wants the movie to sound.
There is at least another two which are as funny.
It’s on my constant comfort rewatch, and most of the episodes I found meh, I’ve come to enjoy over time. There’s always a few episodes which some people don’t like, and it’s often different ones for different people, but the Irish episodes are often disliked (and excused because of the pandemic).
But yes, the nightman cometh is one of my favourites, and the show phrases have seeped into my vocabulary now.
Which?
Simple answer, no. It just diverges more. It’s really odd that there are some great things to enjoy about the show (Empire storyline and the cinematography, for instance) and some things that are just braindead (any storyline involving Gaal or Hari). The key to sucking any enjoyment you can get out of the show is to abandon any expectation it will be like the books. There will be nods to the books and the broad outline of the plot, but it’s really a completely different story.
I’ve tried to watch Government Cheese on Apple, but I find my attention wandering.
I’d say Charlie Work (S10E04), Mac And Dennis Move to the Suburbs (S11E05) and The Gang Turns Black (S12E01) (last two feature old (black) man). Other notables I find, one you’ve already seen, was Sweet Dee’s Dating a Retarded Person (S03E09), The Gang Gets Analysed (S08E05), Dee Day (S14E03) (always great to see Dee at her cruelest), McPoyle vs. Ponderosa: The Trial of the Century (S11E07) and The gang go to a water park (S12E02) and Charlie Kelly: King of rats (S06E10).
Okay, mine:
Mac Bangs Dennis’ Mom (S2E4)
Charlie Work (S10E4)
The Gang Goes to a Water Park (S12E2)
The Gang Gets Extreme: Home Makeover Edition (S4E12)
The Gang Hits the Road (S5E2)