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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 just started watching Bodies based on a recommendation from RedLetterMedia. It seems very English in a "V for Vendetta"/"Children of Men" sort of way, but I've enjoyed the first two episodes a lot, and I'm looking forward to seeing what happens next.
They also recommended Silo, so I guess that's what I'm watching next...
Been binging Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
I've always considered myself a pretty big Trek fan but had only seen TOS, TNG, and the Kelvin movies. "Why would I watch a show about some space station when I could just keep watching USS Enterprise content?" I naively thought.
I just started Season 4 and wow, how wrong I was. Incredible writing far more nuanced than even the best of TNG. Characters that grow and change and fail. A little heavyhanded with the CARDASSIANS = NAZIS parallel but hey if that means we get episodes like "Duet", I'll take it. Crazy how this show was so accepting of trans and queer folk back in 1993 - it's actually a little depressing to see how far we've regressed. Terminally-online idiots would certainly call this show "woke propaganda" today. But IMO this is some of the best sci-fi television I've ever watched. I just watched S4E2 "The Visitor" and cried multiple times.
My fiance has always been pretty anti-sci-fi (she's more of a cottagecore girly) but after watching me watch a few episodes she's gotten hooked as well. Been telling her for years she'd love Star Trek if she gave it a chance, so it feels pretty vindicating :)