As a follow on to Ted Lasso I just started watching All or Nothing - Tottenham Hotspur. It makes an interesting comparison to the fictional events in Ted.
I am not a football fan ( I actually have no idea how the season ends in real life) and I only marginally follow American football but I think the All or Nothing series are really good and great to watch while exercising. Between the football, american football and the rugby ones I have watched it’s almost like the actually sport is irrelevant, the overall story of the teams I find compelling and the episodes are well paced. They could probably do one on an octogenarian lawn bowls team and it would be good. No doubt people who know about actual sport would disagree, but I think they are worthy as entertainment and you dont have to be a sports nut to enjoy them.
I know this one is several years old, but I just watched Over the Garden Wall. (I think I heard of it before and confused it with Over the Hedge.)
I liked Surreal Estate.
Wellington Paranormal was bad.
Above Suspicion is pretty good, kinda gory.
Finished 3% (the Brazilian tv show, not the racist right wing whiners). Great first season that turned into a laughably horrid melodrama following once loved characters racing to see who could be the most idiotic, most poorly written, and most inconsistent. Watched the 3rd season on fast forward, and just skipped all of season 4 except the finale.
There were some recs for “Supernatural”, so I gave the pilot a shot. I thought it was tiresome and had huge holes in the writing. For instance: one of the brothers is arrested, while the other takes off in the car to drive out to some remote ramshackle house to tackle the ‘lady in white’. The one at the police station uses a paper clip to unlock his handcuffs 
, then somehow transports himself without a car to the house location , mysteriously managing to pick up a gun along the way to save the day . Don’t think so.
I dont know if it’s still on but there was a totally offensive show called sally 4 eva
the plot is sally is British and unremarkably mousy to the point of stereotyping and lives with her family and they all seem to be stuck in 1955 or so every things bland generic and “safe” and there’s no emotion anywhere at all … She has a boyfriend who proposed who seems in the few eps i watched looked like a decent enough guy … and the only way you can tell it’s not a period drama is she works for a place that does web content (which makes her even drabber and mousy and seriously out of place
What happens is for some reason i can’t be bothered to remember she ends up in a bar and decides to have a drink or two and runs into the most offensive manic lesbian pixie girl character I’ve ever seen who gets her drunk, high, and pretty much does her in the alley of the bar and sally decides to chase her and form some sort of relationship … i think the season ended with her breaking up with the fiance who wanted her back … for the other girl that seemed to have no redeeming qualities other than to wake up sally’s life …it was like a bad CW teen drama from the 90s just trying to be “adult” but was nothing but offensively written stereotypical characters …
You continually misuse the word ‘offensive’. A lot.
I’m a huge fan of classic British sitcoms, typically from the 80s and 90s. I’ve been re-watching many of them and, desperate for something new, I noticed some good reviews of Keeping Up Appearances which I had not yet seen and decided to give it a try recently. It ran for five seasons but two of them had ten episodes, so for the British style of 6 or 7 episodes a season this was more like 7 seasons, plus four Christmas specials.
The premise didn’t initially sound terribly exciting – a very pretentious middle-aged woman aspiring to high social status, domineering over her henpecked husband and beset by an exceptionally boorish extended family. And it does start off slow – the first episode was kind of dull, the second a bit better, but then it really started to take off. Some of the episodes were hilariously laugh-out-loud funny – really brilliantly done. As with many British sitcoms, the subtleties of the acting, even among the supporting cast, were just wonderful! Still working my way through the fifth and last season, and I’ll be very sorry when it’s over!
Yeah, it’s not that type of series, you have to lean into it, and give up the hyper competent, unstoppable fighters (until the plot dictates they lose) will enter our reality. This isn’t our world.
It was finding it’s way at first, it peaks around Season 3, falls away after Season 5, but at no point are those sort of complaints ever addressed, and if you want a more reality based thing, try CSI… No wait… NCIS… No wait… Sorry, not got a recommendation for that in US series…
But it’s got humour by the bucketloads when good, and was pretty damned good.
There is a repeated plot hole/cliche which we shout at the movie or tv show when it happens.
It’s PICK UP THE GUN.
So many times, people being pursued or knocked out a bad guy, and their weapon drops and they just don’t pick that gun up. Happens so much for plot holes all the time.
In Supernatural, they’ve already picked up the gun.
To understand soccer/football here’s a few recommendations:
The damned united A famous successful coach takes over the top team Leeds United in the 70s, and it goes horribly wrong. Gives you a flavour of historical football happenings.
Fever Pitch, Nick Hornby’s tale of being a fan of Arsenal through good times and bad and the life of a serious fan. Book explains it even better, but the films decent.
I watched season one of Bancroft but was so pissed at the title character being so utterly evil that I couldn’t bring myself to watching season two.
My go-to series is Silent Witness. I nearly gave up on the show but when the insufferable Sam Ryan left the series it became a thousand times better.
I don’t remember the episode well enough to specifically address these but, since it was a shotgun with rock salt (tool #1 in the ghost hunter’s arsenal, it seems) I assume it came from their car. I don’t remember being confused by the sequence of events but I couldn’t relate them without rewatching it either. But, anyway, if you hated the pilot you’ll hate the rest of the show because it largely follows the same beats (especially the first six or so episodes). If you can’t just run with it, it’s only going to frustrate you.
We’re into Season 3 and still enjoying it. This ain’t no Golden Age product and I don’t think anyone is missing out on amazing television if they don’t watch it but we’re still having fun. I probably pause the show and raise a point of order with my wife (“Hey, wait a second…”) at least once an episode which she patiently entertains.
No, it was a handgun, and the car had crashed into a house. Hey, it doesn’t matter; it’s obviously just not my cuppa.
Not sure if others have mentioned “Rake” on Neflix. It’s an Australian comedy-drama about a developmentally arrested attorney and all the people in his life. I was thoroughly enjoying it all through season 5. I think this is the last season and I think that something has gone horribly wrong with the writing. I may not make it through the end.
Yeah, funny series. But the man-child thing got old in the last season.
I’ve given up on two in just one sitting:
The Good Place, with Ted Danson - Just could not watch any more than three episodes of the technicolor bullshit, let alone 4 seasons. I don’t understand the high ratings. I suppose someone will come along to tell me to stick with it because it gets better… ?
Travelers, with Eric McCormack - was unbearable writing and acting. Again, well reviewed, but I could not stand the young adult audience plot devices.
We’ve just finished the last (so far) season of Unforgotten. Man, this stayed top notch all the way through. Shocker of an ending, though. There is another season on the way, but it looks like it will be next year.
Tried Tell Me a Story, but I don’t know if I’ll stick with it. I really hate angsty, dead-eyed teens in everything. Maybe a few more eps. I wish Paramount+ had an ad-free subscription option.
Also started Reservation Dogs, another Taika Waititi effort. Teens again, but I think this could be very funny in the long run.
It’s the closest thing to a course on Western ethics you’ll find on prime-time American broadcast television. That’s the framing which allowed me to enjoy it.
This series may not suit you, because it does not immediately deliver it’s payload and you appear to be too impatient for that.
Other people might say it as “stick with it because it gets better”, I wouldn’t. I won’t. A certain amount is the characters too, and if you hate those, well, the improved bits are probably going to be wasted on you.
It almost does. I get a 30 second promo commercial for one of their shows each time I use the channel. After that, everything is ad free. Is that what you get?
I actually stuck with this even tho Eric McCormack’s acting is amazingly flat. You did well by giving up early.
For me, although they are technically movies, I’m watching the Fear Street trilogy. Not great by any means but it’s a nice throwback to 80s slasher movies. I was a little surprised by how young some of the victims were. In part 2, a bunch of 10/12 year old kids get axed into pieces. It’s mostly off screen but you do see the blood and the body parts laying around.