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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.
I haven't watched any of them yet, but my immediate watchlist has these recent additions on it:
And I've also decided that The Good Place would be a great rewatch with my girlfriend. She hasn't seen it, and I can't wait to re-watch it :)
Can't recommend 'Succession' enough!
It really is an exceptional show. However, it is a bit challenging for me to watch it since there's not a single person in that lot I empathize with. Are they all just a bunch of rich, conniving, entitled assholes from start to finish? I find it hard to watch a show when I don't like anyone. I mean, there are shows about actual murderous criminals that I find more redeemable :P
The Walk In - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt22175166/
Stephen Graham gives yet another outstanding performance in this British mini-series. It's about the failed plot by right-wing terrorists in the UK to kill a Labour politician, following the murder of MP Jo Cox and a nearly fatal attack on a dentist. (These are all things that actually happened, the programme is fiction but based on true events). I think this review is balanced: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/reviews/the-walk-in-itv-stephen-graham-review-b2192730.html
I've given up on that dragon thing. I might binge it when the first season is finished. I'd prefer a show that looks at every life of the peasants, and I hope some day someone does a The Orville equivalent series. I guess so far Norsemen / Vikingane is the closest I'll get. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpMvIZRUPf4
I enjoyed Welcome to Wrexham, although I'm only on episode 5. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14674086/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 Renolds and McElhenny have chemistry and the show's a fun cosy look at working class sport and towns and football.
TaskMaster has yet another series. Only the first episode so far, but I think I'll enjoy it. There's a few people I don't know on it this time which is a first for me, but TaskMaster has a weird way of making me like people even if I know I don't enjoy their other work.
I binged 5 Days at Memorial, and it's probably a bad idea for me to do that because I miss half of what's going on. So, with the caveat that maybe I missed this: it doesn't need to be 8 x 50 minute episodes. I like that the first episode makes it seem like everything is really bad, but luckily we've avoided disaster, and then the second episode says "oh ho no, here's the actual flooding". But still, if you're making me watch 6 hours you best be doing something with it. I might watch it again and pay attention this time, because so far Apple TV has been very good so I think maybe I'm just being unfair.
re: House of the Dragon, the official podcast is good... but if you're not feeling it, there isn't much to do there. I find that the scope is a little too narrow right now.
If we're going with other stories in that universe, all I want is a Faceless Men series.
Stephen Graham is amazing. Nothing else to add to that.
Taskmaster s14
Yeah, I think this is the first series where I haven't recognized everyone too, even if it was only vaguely in some previous cases. But Dara O Briain and Sarah Millican are both panel show vets, and hilarious, so even if the rest turn out to be boring (which is highly unlikely) I know I'll still enjoy the series. And the first episode was great so that bodes well, since some of them take a while before the contestants start hitting their stride.
Odd question, how are you watching Taskmaster? Youtube has up until season 11 but I'm having trouble finding it legally or illegally beyond there. Perhaps this is just a USA issue.
YouTube channel Ozmaritan has the episodes available on their community posts
I use a VPN to the UK and watch it on Channel 4's website:
https://www.channel4.com/programmes/taskmaster
But if that's not an option and you're fine with pirating or illegally streaming, you can check /r/panelshow every time a new episode comes out (E.g. Taskmaster S14E01). And if you click "load more comments" under the automod sticky there are always a bunch of torrent, direct download, and streaming links.
Although I'm sure it's different, 'The Walk In' reminded me of the show 'Slow Horses' (2021) that aired earlier this year. I haven't seen it discussed on Tildes - and it's quite an entertaining show if you like British humour.
I am thoroughly impressed by Bill Pullsmans performance in The Sinner. I can't remember the last time I've had such a difficult time liking the protagonist as I have with him. There's plenty of main characters in other shows with obviously bigger flaws and unlikable traits than Detective Ambrose but no one who annoys me the way he does. Dexter was literally killing people but seemed like a "nice" enough guy with questionable motifs and even Walter White was somewhat "likable" or at least understood throughout the show even when he spiraled into insanity. Harry Ambrose is neither but is just so fucking held back, understated and self loathing that I want to shout at the screen. And I love that.
I watched the first three episodes of Severance, not because of the video that was posted here but because I just got AppleTV+, and I had to stop because it was giving me too much anxiety