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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'm keeping up with What We Do in the Shadows and the new season of Futurama, both on Hulu.
The former is always a delight, but the latter's first episode of season 11 really put me off. ...But I have a sneaky suspicion that that was the point. Whew! I am glad to have more Futurama, though.
...i'll elaborate once I figure out how the hell spoiler tags work over here.
I had no idea that What We Do in the Shadows is back! Gonna catch up on that soon
Just binged Silo over the last couple days. Really liked it and kept me engaged, wanting to know more. Now begins the problem with streaming services, the long wait for the next season. I'll probably forget all the plot and then be confused whenever season 2 airs.
Apologies ahead of time for the short rant. Few things bothered me about this show, but overall it was good and I enjoyed it as long as I didn't think too hard about minute details.
While I liked the show, I felt a few details were missing. One of the big questions I have is why are they (who even is "they"?) so secretive about the creation of the silo and "relics" from before the silo? I understand the whole idea of control and wanting to keep the population under "their" thumb (I suspect there is some secret overarching governing body that wants to maintain control), but what does sending people to their death over something like a pez dispenser accomplish? Is it just to instill fear and maintain that aspect of control? I just don't understand some simple things and there's no real explanation for them.
Definitely a spoiler, be careful if you haven't seen the show yet
And why hide the fact that there are other silos? Is it just the idea that it's easier to control smaller pockets of population than one large one? It makes sense that the helmet shows a false reality when outdoors so people will want to clean the sensor, but with all this technology how is there not a mechanism built in to clean the sensor? I mean for christ' sake we have cars from the 90's that can spray their own headlights to clean them. Obviously don't use a liquid for this scenario but they built these silos, they could have figured out something...I have the books on back order. I prefer to read the original format beforehand anyhow.
Third season of The Righteous Gemstones is fantastic so far.
I legitimately want to watch Baby Billy's Bible Bonkers.
I pirated The Bible Game for my modded xbox back in 2006 or so. The game was pretty corny, but good for drinking with. It had bible trivia and these minigames that were simple and fun.
If Baby Billy's Bible Bonkers is anything like that, it would be the best.
Just finished season 2 and had a blast. At first I was a little jolted by the direction of the show—is it comedy, is it drama—and if the characters doing outlandish stuff would acceptably lead into the emotional, heartstring stuff. And it ends up working surprisingly well. Baby Billy is such a great, terrible, fucked up, well-written guy (so far!)
For anyone enjoying Gemstones so far, I'd also highly recommend Vice Principals if you haven't seen it already. Completely different subject matter, but wonderfully paced and lands somewhere between morose comedy and tense drama.
Justified is good but so corny at times... as if it were airing on CBS in a 9pm slot.
I'm finally going through this season of Jack Ryan. I wasn't feeling it at first, but its pretty decent. Its missing something to really pull me in, but its still really good. Its good that it doesn't have any stupid kids like Justified*
* its Olyphant's daughter, so I'll cut her some slack... but her character is so poorly written.
Vivian Olyphant is not an actor. She's an actor's daughter that was given a part that she doesn't deserve. Sometimes it even seems like Timothy looks at her in dismay at how terrible she is at acting.
Being a resident of Detroit, I do enjoy seeing it on screen, though. I hope they show some of the nicer stuff and not just the ruins.
her voice is so shrill. It really feels like they asked her to play as an eight year old or something. Ugh. They always dump kids into these shows and they almost always ruin everything.
I'm watching season 2 of Star Trek Strange New Worlds and its some of the best trek I've seen since the older shows back in the 90s. I've really enjoyed every episode so far and its such a relief to see someone finally get the spirit of star trek right after all these years.
The crossover episode between SNW and Lower Decks had us grinning from start to finish! I imagine it must have been surreal for the lower decks actors to be in front of a camera acting, instead of voice only. It's been a great mix of episodes so far from the thinky serious to the ridiculous silly.
Recently I've been watching this weird show, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman. Basically Twin Peaks meets Spongebob Squarepants.
Does anyone think Foundation is going anywhere? I haven’t read the books, really want to like it but it’s not making it easy.
As a huge Asimov nerd, yes. They finally introduced the main antagonist in the most recent episode. Whether the show runners can put it all together is certainly in doubt, but there's a lot more to this story as Asimov laid out.
Oh good, I hope they pull it together. The world needs some good space opera.
Still no new TV shows of interest during these dog days of summer :(
Waiting for new episodes of Warrior and Hijack to drop each week is all I've got going.
What stuff have you really liked before? Maybe we can rec some other stuff
Secret Invasion has finished its run now.
I was into it for the first episode or two but it just became so very boring. And the last several episodes being 30 minutes is really weird for what I am assuming has to have been meant (or at least attempted) to be more of a prestige show. Pretty disappointed with it, but that is unfortunately to be expected with Marvel shows now. She-Hulk and Hawkeye are the only ones I really enjoyed throughout - am a sucker for science fiction and fantasy so I will keep watching almost no matter what. Season 2 of Loki might be good too, but Echo looks like it should have gone the way of the Batgirl movie to be honest. So come on... give me something good 😬
Has anyone been watching Vice's wrestling docu-series Dark Side of the Ring? The fourth season has almost finished airing; it's incredibly compelling and I've loved every episode.