I frankly got bored with season 1 and watched it till the end just to see if my guess of the perp was correct (it was). I had little desire to watch the second season and have even less now.
If this is to me, I haven’t watched it, so that would be correct.
As I understand it, House is abrasive and that wears on me. I was watching TBBT at the end because it was a habit by then but I did not like Sheldon at some point and definitely at the end. It’s stopped me from enjoying rewatches of early seasons with him due to knowing how he gets worse not better, imo.
Interesting. I know my brother started watching Elsbeth, mixed results for him IIRC, and he hadn’t seen the Good Wife. I don’t think he has watched The Good Fight.
I think I talk about these shows and how surprised I was to thoroughly enjoy The Pitt because usually I watch SciFi/fantasy/supernatural type shows. It is way out of my normal viewing to watch and like a show about doctors or lawyers. Not completely unprecedented but strange for me.
I liked Blindspot until her tattoos were accurate two years later in real time, five months in the show’s timeline. It was too much for me. The Blacklist was another one where James Spader is fascinating to watch, captivating, but the rest of the show got old fast for me.
Speaking of James Spader, I watched the premiere and maybe two episodes of Boston Legal. I liked Ally McBeal by David E Kelley, for its quirkiness, but this one didn’t hit. It sucks for me to find something to watch!
Thanks for the discussion!
A Man on the Inside - season 2
I’ve been enjoying it and would consider it ‘watchable’, but will concede it’s a downgrade from the charming first season.
This felt like season 3 of Veronica Mars, but much worse.
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The included a Veronica Mars actor, which was cute.
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Season finale shows a clip from Veronica Mars, so I’m sure it was on their mind.
I agree. Watchable, but not good enough.
Oops yeh sorry, ended up replying to the wrong post!
It started okay, but it was the first medical drama i watched that had a Doctor addicted to opioids. Later Houses constant sexual harassment of Cuddy got too much. I liked the scenes with House in the free clinic, especially his rant about ‘tiny coffins” to the anti-vaxx mother.
So, highs and lows.
Ok now I really am confused about who I was replying to haha. I think it actually was Dr D after all.
It’s okay, you asked a general question, I think, anyone would be free to answer. I think many agree with my critiques. That doesnt mean they didnt like the show, except maybe the last season, which is generally hated.
I’ve watched this show a time or two (not every episode, but enough to know what’s going on with the story arc most of the time). For me it mostly strikes a good balance between drama and procedural. Until season 5, where the plot starts to really go off the rails, and the unlikability and poor decision making of the characters stops being cute.
I just finished season 2 of The Silo. I really love this show- an AppleTV sci-fi show based on a book series. It’s a post-apocalyptic story where society (consisting of 10,000 people) live in an underground “silo”, with limited access to or understanding of what happened to the outside to force them to live there, or even what the world before was like. Unraveling those questions is one of the central mysteries, with different factions of people holding different levels of power and responsibility.
It’s a great mix of art direction and acting and mystery. The plot moves slowly, which is a common criticism, but I like the atmospheric setting and the oppressive sense of living in a giant metal tube underground. Some episodes are swings and misses, but in general it’s been great TV.
Was browsing Netflix last weekend and saw The Residence and remembered that some people in this thread liked it. Didn’t realize it first came out back in March, so we are very late to the party.
Finished it last night, and I agree with many of the comments upthread: fun, engaging, with some excellent characters and performances. Could have used a little trimming. I’d be very interested in watching Uzo Aduba play Cordelia Cupp again; she was great, and I hope there’s a follow-up at some point.
Seeing Al Franken play a Senator made me really miss him as an actual Senator.
I finally finished The Last Frontier (Apple). Somebody actually did their homework on Alaska places, names, and pronunciations. The story kind of dragged at times, but all in all wasn’t bad.
I’m finishing up Kingdom (Netflix, 12 episodes): 17th century Korean court intrigue is complicated by famine and a zombie plague in the hinterlands. The visuals are great, the story is engrossing and there are some interesting twists on the usual zombie tropes.
There’s a new British murder mystery show called Cooper and Fry, starring Yasmin from Doctor Who, and Barrow from Downton Abbey. It’s pretty standard fare, but instead of being set in a cosy Cotswolds village, it’s set in the spooky local-myth-ridden North, where angry grizzled folk blame everything that happens as the fault of arcane witches or wizened creatures that live in the woods.
I think I like it, but it’s a bit dark.
I watched Kingdom a couple of years ago and really liked it. Another interesting role for Bae Doona, who first came to my attention in the very weird Sense8.
Still working my way slowly through Mad Men, still cringing at the systemic and thoughtless misogyny, racism and classism. But the most jarring scene so far (middle of Season 2) happened when Don and Betty took the kids and their brand new Cadillac out to a pristine meadow in the countryside for a picnic.
As they’re preparing to depart, Don drains his beer (forgot to mention the constant drinking and smoking in this series) and heaves his empty can out into the meadow. Oof, but it got worse. Betty grabs the picnic basket, pulls the blanket out from under the pile of trash that had accumulated – and then casually walks away from it.
We could have an entire conversation about how Americans’ views on littering have changed since my youth but those actions shocked me to my core.
There was another scene in Mad Men in which one of their children pulls a plastic dry cleaning bag over their head, which was another nod to how much things have changed.
I tried the first episode of that, but didn’t find it different enough from Generic Extruded Police Procedural Product to want to watch any more.
I just finished AP Bio. I really liked it and I’m disappointed that it’s over.
I think it needs a talking Great Dane.
One thing that I found funny/interesting is the disparity between character and actor names. The character named Diane is played by an actress named Mandip.