Finished watching three seasons of Young Sheldon. Still enjoying it. Now watching Season 2 of Centaurworld, which remains weird and wacky and occasionally poignant.
The spouse bingewatched the first season of Superman and Lois and says she liked it. I got tired of the generic DC superhero show plot points after a while as it was becoming tedious and predictable, and wandered off. Came back later and asked my wife “What’s going on?”. She said “It’s hard to explain but basically everybody is possessing everyone else and are fighting.” And then it all wrapped up in a fairly predictable way, and then there was a final twist at the end at which we both went “Oh look, it’s going to be [person].” And it was.
I always have such high hopes for DC shows when they start out, and they always disappoint.
Some us over in the UK wouldn’t have lasted that long. It wasn’t universally liked. It was “popular” with a certain set of watchers. I’m not sure exactly who, but few people I know liked it.
They really cranked up the crazy in season 2. Too much, in the first few episodes, IMHO. It gets better by the end, though. (If you haven’t noticed, this season is 10 episodes like the last one. But they edited the final three into a single, shortish-movie-length episode, with the break points still noticable.)
I’m getting close to the end of season 1, as well. I’m loving it so far- I grew up as a NASA brat, so a lot of the series is close to my heart. My mom actually worked (and, sadly, died of a sudden heart attack) in JSC Building 1, which is where much of the show takes place (although they didn’t actually film in that building, as I understand it).
We just finished season 1 of Invasion- and towards the end we were hate-watching it. We’re still not certain what happened… and don’t much care to tune in next season to find out.
Immediately after finishing Invasion, though, we started watching See (also on AppleTV). It’s simply fantastic. Amazing world building, and good acting in what must have been miserable working conditions.
The second season of For All Mankind is also available on Apple TV+. I saw both seasons over the summer. I liked them, as I was also interested in the space program from the time I was a kid.
Well, Ansen was played by Jere Burns, so it’s not all bad. He is quite enjoyable as a sleaze ball. There’s a wonderful line where Michael tosses a bullet to him and says “Next time it’ll come a lot faster.”
I’m catching up on my vintage Dexter so I can eventually see the newest version. Yes, it gets ridiculous but I actually didn’t have a problem with the WTF final episode.
I also am new to Lost- it’s been great to view on DVD. I wasn’t sure I would dig it but I didn’t like Fringe initially, either. That got to be a good series. What’s not to like about a Porcupine Man??
I’m pretty sure that quote was Raylan Givens in Justified. It’s very much his style. It’s not Michael Weston’s style at all - “Guns make you stupid. Duct tape makes you smart”.
I’m casual watching the Korean reality series Street Woman Fighter and Street Dance Girl Fighter. Both shows are about Korean dance crews competing to be the winner. Street Woman Fighter featured 8 adult crews and ended in October. Street Dance Girl Fighter features 16 high school dance crews being mentored for competition by the crews from Street Woman Fighter
I’m casual watching because there’s certain crews in both series that I have an interest in and skip most of the forced “dramatic” banter and buildup.
Next year, Street Man Fighter has already been announced.
Even if you’re not a fan of modern dancing (I’m not), all the crews on both shows are amazingly talented.
The thing about Lost was that it was always coming close to being a great series and falling short. That was somehow worse that a series that just settled into mediocrity.
No, it promised that it was going to make sense. This was a load of nonsense. Fringe actually made sense, and even the final season being a completely different shift from the rest, it still made total sense.
I’d say the last good moment from Lost was a flash forward at end of Season 3. That’s it. Why were the others on that Island? And why did they want to kill everyone else? Unanswered apart from “because”. Like so many things.
Season 2 was a massive spacefiller. There’s about ten episodes which could be removed. Big budget renewal syndrome.
Anyone can make up a load of crap promising it will make sense
Or to put it another way:
“There’s not enough time to explain - The Chronicles”