See this link.
Yesterday I saw a take-off on it with a woman on the verge of semi-hysteria while on the phone with her dentist’s office.
Have you tried Young Wallander (Netflix, 2 seasons) with Adam Pålsson in the title role? A bit bleak but I liked it.
19-2, a french-Canadian police patrol series. Starts interesting but damn, those idiots constantly dig themselves into a world of trouble.
Mare of Easttown 2021
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I watched Task and wanted to
watch Brad Ingelsby earlier series.
There are many of the same themes. Poverty, depression, loss of hope. The main cop character is dealing with a tragic loss in both series.
Mare drifts more into soap opera. I really don’t care about all these peoples secret lives and entanglements.. Unless it connects to the investigations.
Mare has several character and plot surprises. Task was more cut and dried.
Good series. Highly recommend.
They murdured my durdur.
I wasn’t aware of it. We’ll have to check it out. “Wallander” was kind of bleak too.
I think she’s acting pretty rational for:
Someone who has seen 99.9999999% of humanity’s personalities disappear and watched her long term partner die in front of her. In fact, I’d say she’s far more rational than the one pretending that’s still her child, and far less shitty than the Vegas guy.
There is also an extensive thread on the board.
Thanks. I’ve been avoiding the thread until after I’m done with the season.
I hadn’t seen that SNL before. They hit the high points. Mare was related to or had conflicts with everybody in town.
Gunpowder, 2017 BBC series which made its way to HBO Max.
It is OK… if you know the history, not a lot of suspense here. The reformation/wars of religion period is particularly ugly and depressing, so you’re not going to be overwhelmed by spectacle. Generally faithful to the events in question, though I assume many of the conversations were made up for the series (and they were in modern English, not Shakespeare/King James Bible English, so, yeah).
3 episodes, 3 hours. Not a big committment.
I’m probably the last one here to watch The Pitt. My wife and I did two to three episodes a night over the past week, and finished season one yesterday.
Just great, great television. As some have already mentioned, they did roll out a handful of tired medical show tropes here and there, but mostly it felt very raw and real, if a highly amped-up version of “real.” There were episodes that felt a little too chaotic, almost to the point of being exhausting to watch. But they always seem to follow with a somewhat quieter hour so everyone can catch their breath a bit. And I have no doubt they hit pretty close to the bulls-eye of what a mass-casualty event is like at an actual ER.
We decided not to start season two until all the episodes are out. I’m looking forward to late April!
How does The Pitt compare to Noah Wyle in ER?
It would be interesting if he was the same doctor. Now, older and adjusting to the new world of todays, over-stressed health care system.
I watched ER regularly. I haven’t seen The Pitt. I experienced it twice in real life last year. Kidney Stone and then months later Sepsis.
Not sure I want to know what the staff are doing while I’m on a gurney waiting and hurting.
It’s not too hard to imagine John Carter evolving into a version of Dr. Robby, I suppose… but it’s been many years since I watched ER.
There’s a med student on The Pitt that kind of reminds me of Wyle’s original ER character, though.
No, I still haven’t gotten around to watching it yet, but I plan to, eventually.
The showrunner of The Pitt was one of the producers of ER. The original idea was a sequel to ER showing John Carter working through the pandemic. They went to the Michael Creighton estate about the idea. Then they decided to go a different direction and with a different (real time) format. The Creighton estate is suing them even though it’s obviously not the same character and a completely different show.
I don’t know if we’re gonna wait for all of them to come out, but we are gonna wait for a lot more to come out before we watch it. I think we started watching season one win a little more than half of them were out.
Started Series 18 of Taskmaster. I like the grumpy guy.
Jack Dee, perhaps?
Yeah, he’s funny! Plus he has the kind of personality I think is really going to bounce off of Greg’s very nicely.