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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.
if you haven't already, check out We Own the City -- its sort of a spiritual sequel to The Wire.
everything he's done is great. If I were to rank them, The Wire, The Deuce, Generation Kill, Show Me a Hero, The Corner, The Plot Against America. The Plot Against America was well done, but its worth reading the book first.
even thought you didn't totally feel the series, you might enjoy the book. I'm probably mixing the two with the 'successor' portion.
If this were one storyline in a 6th season of the Wire, I think it would have been enough.
Outside of the weekly stuff on right now, I decided to just watch from the start of Cats does Countdown (only one episode per night.) I have a little spreadsheet to play along etc. I'm shit with the letters but good with the numbers.
That being said, Poker Face starts tomorrow and has a cast so good its either going to be amazing or absolutely awful.
It looks pretty great from the trailer. Definitely excited!
right! Three episodes are already out, but I haven't started. I'm surprised Rian Johnson is dipping into TV.
Old news and not a first watch for me, but I have been watching Reacher on Prime. I read several of the books 15 - 20 years ago, and this is a great adaptation. Alan Ritchson is maybe perfect casting for Reacher - he's big and absolutely jacked, but he's also great at showing Reacher's intelligence. I like Malcolm Goodwin as
BabineauxFinlay, and there's a whole slough of great side characters. I think they're getting at least a second season, and I'm excited about that.If you want to watch a no-nonsense show that's straight forward - big smart guy vs. lots of bad guys and corruption - then this is a good option. There aren't really any twists or turns; you know where this is going the whole time, but it is fun getting there.
I saw the first two and a half episodes of Poker Face. Rian Johnson seems to be completely sticking to this whole murder mystery thing, and in a way this feels like a Knives Out spin-off. It’s good. I think it was probably obvious from all the marketing material, but this is essentially a modern day Columbo. I’ve seen a couple of episodes of Columbo, can’t say I’m a huge fan of that show, but I can see why Johnson really likes it.
It’s a throwback in a lot of ways. There is somewhat of an overarching plot for Natasha Lyonne’s character but it’s mostly episodic. Lyonne goes from town to town solving murders. I’m not sure how into it I’m gonna be, but it’s good. It’s probably the best Peacock original.