Landman.
I’m usually not crazy about BBT, but in this case, he really carries the show IMHO.
- Silo
- Ted Lasso
- A Man on the Inside
Silo is dogshit. The pacing is so unnecessarily dragged out. And season 2 is boring af. No idea why they did what they did. Thr books had perfect pacing.
Is it just me or has the main character really done nothing all season except several failed attempts at a supply run? My brain keeps tuning out
Huh. I’m only a few episodes in but it seemed promising so far. Oh well.
Meh, there are always people who think their opinion is the only valid one. FWIW, I’m enjoying the hell out of S2 and liked S1 and the books. If you’re enjoying what you’re seeing so far, keep it going and hopefully you’ll keep liking it and if you don’t, you can always quit.
You may be ok if you’re not waiting week to week for a new episode. S1 was good…really good. S2 is still good but slow.
I loved Silo S1.
Yea it’ll slow wayyyyy the fuck down. Keep watching lol. The first few eps were solid. Then it plunges off a cliff.
Me fast forwarding through the underwater stuff so I don’t have to hold my breath. Might get the books for the same reason.
Silo season 1 was 5% plot, 5% character development, and 90% emoting to dramatic music, so I didn’t bother checking out season 2.
Season one of Silo was great. Season two is a poorly edited mess.
Marvelous Miss Maisle is solid from om beginning to end. Not a minute, scene or note is wasted. The writers know how to pack every scene with as much energy and storytelling as possible. Just perfect.
Columbo
Just one more thing….
What I didn’t realize about Columbo until watching it last year is that every episode is basically a full movie. There’s no connection between each episode, Columbo himself is the only recurring character. Each episode is an hour 10 to an hour 40 long. Also, it’s by FAR the best production and acting on TV in that era. It’s legitimately like almost 70 individual films.
For sure. I’m only just now finishing the first season, and maybe 3 episodes in it should qualify as some of the best films ever made. The acting, the psycological warfare, the poor schlubby wife-guy underdog vs evil rich parasite undertones pervading everything… there’s so much going on, that I’m sure others have scratched the surface of.
I also love how it inverts the mystery drama by showing you exactly what happened, and the suspense is in guessing where they messed up, and gave enough clues to columbo.
I started watching Scavengers Reign recently on a suggestion from a friend. I normally don’t go for animated shows, but this one is really enjoyable for me. Calm & explorative.
Jury Duty, binge watched and loved it, I couldn’t stop laughing.
Silo.
Severance (rewatching cause season 2 is around the corner).
Star Trek Strange New Worlds (also rewatched waiting for next season).
Came here to say Severance. Great show, I just watched it this week.
I’ve recently fallen down an Anime rabbit hole after almost a decade of being out of the loop.
The fact I’m re-watching “Bocchi the Rock” is a pretty big recommendation.
I just finished Only Murders in the Building. I love it. Its a whodunit with Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez. The whole cast always feels to me like they’re always having a lot of fun!
The ones I’ve been watching and it’s been good are:
- Dark Matter;
- Severance;
- Silo;
- From;
Dark Matter season one, yes. Not a fan of season two myself.
Currently watching From and really enjoying it.
Silo. It’s so fucking good. So are the books.
- The good place
- Inside job
- Dogs in space
- Daredevil
- Final space
Older than you are and worth looking at. [available on Youtube]
The Prisoner. Imagine if Ian Fleming and Franz Kafka got together to do a TV show. A government official resigns and is immediately kidnapped. He wakes up in The Village; a lovely little place with nice views, great food, plenty of fun things to do, and no possible escape.
I, Claudius. A very young Patrick Stewart is the least reason to watch this reenactment of the first five Roman emperors.
Connections. Non-fiction. Wonderfully entertaining and informative. The creator’s premise is that scientific progress is almost never straight forward. Coffee houses open in London = coffee houses become popular places to do business = coffee house customers join together to invest in ships to the New World = the new ‘companies’ begin looking for ways to make their ships safer = they start to invest in making pine tar to protect the ships = add two hundred years and you have insurance companies and the chemical industry
Welcome fellow gen-xer!
I tried rewatching The Prisoner but I can’t get past Patrick McGoohan’s acting now. He has one setting, a hard squint and rage.
I, Claudius is excellent and seeing John Hurt prancing about as a crazed Caligula is another reason to watch it. Brilliantly done series.
Connections is very interesting, well done, and I remember it fondly from watching it as a teen but I never bought some of his “connections”. Like you said, claiming, say, coffee led to the chemical industry. Well they could’ve just as likely met over ham sandwiches too. lol “These two physicists met while playing tennis, therefore the invention of tennis led to the first atomic bomb…” oy!
I kind of think that lloyd’s of London starting as a coffee shop sort of proves that argument.
Arcane
Second season wasn’t the best
! Viktor literally wanted to make an utopia, and he is a villian? !<
Severance is an all too graphic caricature of life in corporate America and I had a visceral reaction to watching it that made me feel dead it was awful don’t watch it because the show is magnificently well done and immaculately satirical stay away from this terrifyingly good show watch it
Years ago I picked up the book ‘Gone Girl.’ I got about twenty pages into it and put it down because I couldn’t stand the smug, entitled yuppie narrator.
Later, I watched and enjoyed the movie, and read some of the author’s other books.
It made me realize what a good writer she is; she made me hate a character so much that I couldn’t read the book.
When I played Cyberpunk 2077 for the first time, I chose the “nomad” backstory which defines essentially a character who has been so burned by late stage capitalism that they ran away to live in a small commune in the desert.
While playing through the game, I thought the advertisements littering Night City were incredibly jarring like they were supposed to be from a Borderlands game, or at least one that was way more tongue-in-cheek. The world of Night City was far too depressing to reasonably include those utterly ridiculous ads and it made it hard for me to feel immersed. Then it hit me; that’s exactly how I was supposed to feel, and then it paradoxically made me feel like this game set in a future world with insanely high-tech appliances available to all its citizens was indistinguishable from my own. I literally forgot multiple times that this game was set in an alternate future and not just in some city in California
Here’s a list of some of the good ones I have seen:
