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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've recently watched the nine newest episodes of Bluey (2018) and I found them to be a pleasant addition to the series. I loved Cricket and I suspect it will become one of the episodes we revisit most often. I liked Relax the least. The story itself was fine but I felt the main conflict didnt fit the character. It might have worked better with Wendy or maybe the border collies?
Overall I really like this batch and hope they can continue to make quality episodes
Back of napkin rankings:
Love to see Bluey as a serious discussion topic in a TV show thread.
It is remarkably well made and there's some episodes that are just downright beautiful. I think sometimes I'm watching it with more attention to it than my kid does.
I'm not at season three yet but it's rapidly approaching.
I watched Charlie Brooker's Dead Set. It's about a zombie outbreak, centered around the cast of Big Brother, circa 15 years ago. I thought it was ok; I enjoyed some things, such as Davina McCall playing herself, and I thought it was reminiscent of Dawn of the Dead (in a good way). If schlocky zombie horror in a vaguely Black Mirror-esque wrapping sounds good to you, you might enjoy it.
I watched it partly because I enjoyed the recent series of Black Mirror but didn't find it to be particularly true to what Black Mirror's roots are - hosted by our collective technological petards - so it was interesting to see something of Brooker's that was similar.
I just watched the first half of the first episode of Prank Panel. Looks like it aired in May and then the rest of the season started airing a couple days ago. It has a bit of padding out the runtime (short recaps after commercial breaks) but wow, the first prank was hilarious.
The show is a bit like Shark Tank but where people pitch pranks. The panel is Johnny Knoxville, Eric André, and Gabourey Sidibe (Precious from the movie Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire, based on the novel Push by Sapphire).
The first prank involved getting a marriage officiant to marry a brother and sister without realizing it.
I don't typically watch "reality" shows like this, but it was pretty damn funny.
I finally finished the latest season (21) of Family Guy. It was pretty good, but one of the final episodes was Lois-centric and it was very dull and disappointing. It was all about her being upset over a poor rating (and subsequent ban) from AirBnB, and her attempts to get her rating undone. It is fitting for her, but it was overall just kind of dumb. The season finale was pretty good though, albeit I was half-asleep for the last half of it.
I wonder how the ongoing strikes will affect production of season 22.
We watched both seasons of the Bear over the weekend.
Loved the first season. loved the 'food porn'. Loved the "oldschoolGhetto vs properHighClass" battle. Loved the earn respect. Scream but love. kitchen authenticity. Had Heart and an amazing soundtrack.
second season drifted, needed new drama, they went back in time more, and spread out... all of the above was served individually instead of together. Drama felt fake.... and then when they were finally back in the kitchen... it felt so artificial this time around. Freaking out about the 2 dozen tables of friends and family... apparently not needing anything from the fridge since carmy was locked in there, the GF "drama". I guess the last episode was just a huge let down, and overall second season didn't approach the first for me.
Then started Succession. 4 episodes in this week... its sloooow... each episode seems like a movie and find ourselves getting up and reading our phones a lot, but heard it picks up soon.
We just watched both seasons of The Bear in the last couple weeks. (Still have the last two episodes of S2 to finish though.) I didn't feel as let down by the second season but I can't stand the love-interest being jammed into the story. So far it feels like it was for no reason other than "movies and TV always need a romantic storyline" which happens more often than not.
I thought "Fishes" and "Forks" (eps 6 & 7) were such an amazing pair of episodes, back to back. The tension in Fishes was on another level, similar to "Brigade". (S01E03)
My fiancee and I were bored the other night and started watching Hijack on Apple TV+. Neither of us had very high expectations, but we zipped through the first three episodes and are eagerly awaiting the next.
Seems like such a slow time for TV. I am only watching Warrior and Hijack but the episodes are being slow dripped and I cannot find a single other show that I am into :/
In one of those periods where I feel like cancelling all my streaming services... there's not much on them right now.
What kind of shows have you watched and enjoyed? Perhaps I can provide some recommendations.
I just learned that there is a tv series, Dark Winds. based on my favorite mystery book series by Tony Hillerman.
https://www.amcplus.com/pages/dark-winds?utm_medium=search&utm_source=google&utm_campaign=dark-winds&utm_keyword=&utm_content=&gad=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjwnrmlBhDHARIsADJ5b_lpzEICr-_v6k92RvTSXmvK7anZEDDW46P1PZ1HeDx8nR6nZyuj8vIaAkPoEALw_wcB
The books are by Tony Hillerman and I also highly recommend them, but I am excited to watch Dark Winds if I can.
Last week, I was visiting family. At my parents’ after dinner one night, my mom said she’d found some episodes of The Office coming on. She’s never seen the show but knows I like it and wanted to watch it with me to see what the fuss was about.
The episode was from season 4, where Michael has to take a night job selling diet pills and Jim & Pam spend a night at Dwight’s beet farm B&B. It’s a great episode, one I always enjoy on streaming rewatches, but something felt off. I couldn’t put my finger on what until the episode was over and I realized that they’d cut out a bunch of scenes from it, including the scene where Jim & Pam leave a kind review of Dwight’s farm on TripAdvisor. Comedy Central had cut out the entire emotional payoff to one of the episode’s main stories just to squeeze in more ads.
As someone who cut the cord a decade ago, I was shocked at how much more emphasis was placed on laundry detergent and tone deaf karaoke about Burger King than the actual content itself. Is Comedy Centeal just particularly egregious about this, or are other cable networks just as bad?