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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.
Final episode of Alien Earth tonight and, unless it totally sucks, I think this is easily a top 5 TV show this year. That's both an indictment of the 2025 TV lineup and a compliment to the best extension of the Alien IP since definitely Prometheus, but maybe all the way back to the original.
I'm only halfway through the season at episode 4, but so far it's fantastic.
Something I've noticed is that whenever I think "Did the people in the show notice that a suspicious or weird thing is happening?", the show will address that right away. They'll show a character is aware of what's going on and is allowing it to happen intentionally. The only other show I remember that kind of thing happening in was Better Call Saul, where there were times Saul/Jimmy would try to pull a trick on someone that you would expect to work in a poorly written show, and as I said out loud it was stupid, the other character like his brother or whoever would notice and call him out in the show.
I also noticed that, thanks to Timothy Olyphant's character reading the ship logs, he tends to know the stuff about Xenomorphs that the audience already knows, such as how the eggs and face huggers work. So unlike many Alien installments, we don't have to sit there and watch as these clueless characters learn all the stuff that we've seen other characters get killed by a thousand times at this point.
Agreed, the only dummies making mistakes are the children and the 'boy' genius, Kavalier.
Is anyone else watching Task? It was made by the same person who did Mare of Easttown and has a similar vibe - weathered Pennsylvania law enforcement officer tries to solve a crime and keep their life together. I'm really enjoying it so far. The acting has been great and there's a lot of tension in each episode.
Also, most of the actors are from the UK/Ireland but they do a great job with the PA accents. They've got a real Idris as Stinger Bell thing going on.
Line of Duty - 7/10
Six seasons of an anti-corruption police unit somewhere in the UK. Had some very rough moments, especially the first season, but overall good tv, especially season 5 was great!