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TV Tuesdays Free Talk
Have you watched any TV shows recently you want to discuss? Any shows you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here.
Please just try to provide fair warning of spoilers if you can.
Just finished watching Raising Dion season 2 so mild spoilers throughout. I was disapointed to be honest. What I loved about season one's focus on the small town life, a couple small people affected by some really big things. Even at the hight of the chaos, nothing felt world ending. As the title implied, it was more about powers affecting one family, and how each of their roles change in the process. Now, it feels more tropey. Clear bad guys, the characters are more powerful, and have to band up against a more powerful villian. I also think it lost a lot of the charm that came with the skills of the child actors in season 1. I can't quite describe it, but the acting seems worse two years later?
I'm not sure what I was expecting for season two... but I just feel really let down.
I watched Archive 81 and thought it started out really strong (really creepy atmosphere, slow-burn horror aesthetic), but as the story progressed and the stakes got a bit higher it lost some of that. Overall I enjoyed it but I'm not too excited about another season if they're going to make one.
After that I started on Brand New Cherry Flavor, and holy cow is that ever a weird and uncomfortable show to watch. A big part of me wants to stop watching out of horror and disgust, yet I can't seem to stop clicking through to the next episode.
Reacher is great and should be watched. It sticks close enough to the book, which is nice.
Mayor Of Kingstown is... not great, but its good enough. Definitely not a must-watch, but good if you're not sure what to watch next and you already watched Reacher.
The Book of Boba Fett is really great. Nothing else to say about that one... I just love everything about it. I appreciate that Disney took on Shamook to improve the deepfake. Quick edit regarding this -- I really think that Bryce Dallas Howard and Dave Filoni are the best director for this stuff. I get that they maybe can't do every episode, but they should.
I watched Murderville on Netflix and I liked it a lot. Watched all of it in one sitting.
That led me to watch Murders in Successville, the original British show, on YouTube. Phenomenal.
I think the biggest difference is that the British show is bigger. Like there’s a bigger sense of scale. For those of you that don’t know, the show is an episodic thing where a celebrity comes in and they’re supposed to solve a murder.
And the end of each American episode, the suspects are put on a line, and the celebrity picks the person that they think it is. In the British version the celebrity has to shoot the suspect they thing it is. There’s a lot more special effects going on. And it looks more like a gritty crime drama, as opposed to the American version which just looks like a reality TV show.
They’re both good though, in their own right.