Television Anyone recommend me any TV Shows?

I watched Ludwig at the weekend. Binged all 6 episodes.
I enjoyed it. Had a bit of a Sherlock feel to it, but with a bit more comedy I guess.

Worth a watch in my opinion
 
Cannot take a list seriously when it's got Slow Horses (I really do like it) as the 4th best show of the year.
 
OnlyTwoDaSilvas said:
Wife wanted to rewatch Everybody Loves Raymond. We're midway through season 3, it has not aged well. I don't understand how it was ever popular in the first place.

Every episode is based on three continuously running jokes. Ray wants sex and doesn't get it. Frank hates his wife. Robert is jealous.

Roberts jealousy is mildly funny. He's probably the only good actor in the show. The rest is boomer humour.

We should probably stop, but there's a curiosity to it. Surely it's gets better? Surely it can't get any worse?
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Ray Romano speaks like he’s got the worst sinus infection known to man. Apparently he’s a cool guy who recognizes that ELR was kind of shit. A friend worked with him a few years ago.
 
Any reviewing body that ranks the most recent True Detective abortion that high should be scorned.
 
Further along in Dune: Prophecy now. 3 episodes down. A bit of a lull in the past episode. Starting to feel a bit too much like late-period GoT. All the acting borders on stately: wooden, stiff. Like everyone is auditioning for some English drama school.

I’m sure when this was pitched they pointed out it’s basically GoT in space (with the LANDSRAAD power moves), and has elements of every YA franchise from Harry Potter to The Maze Runner (with the Bene Gesserit sisterhood being space witches). Focusing on young acolytes before they’ve taken their vows, as in this last episode, also felt a bit like some of the weird Star Wars Jedi Academy spinoff shit.

Basically this series is the rise of the Sisterhood, with the Harkonnens filling in as House Stark, and the Atreides taking up the House Lannister role.

Most things in the Dune universe are recognizable (ships, weapons, etc.) but so futuristic as to be alien. The recent Dune movies nailed this. This show is set right after the war with the thinking machines, so 10,000 years*** before Paul Atreides, but it unfortunately feels recent, with horses and clans hunting animals while bare chested in the forest, etc.

There’s a bit of a charisma vacuum so far. Emily Watson is interesting but she’s not lead-a-space-opera interesting. There’s a weird mystic guy who can burn people with his mind, but he’s not in enough scenes.

Main issue is the dialogue/writing. Made from Frank Herbert’s extensive notes but written by his untalented son, Brian. Brian is basically the Eric Trump of dialogue smithing. Brian and Kevin J Anderson did a whole series of Dune novels together but they are unreadable. That side is appearing more in the TV show now, which is incredibly sad. Series based on The Great Schools of Dune, a trilogy by Brian and Kevin. I tried reading House Atreides and House Harkonnen, but both were worse than fan fiction. So I don’t know if they figured their shit out by the time of this trilogy of books, but I doubt it.

Mid season lull, hopefully, and the series can recover.

***had to look up the era. So it’s 10,000 years before, makes sense there are horses and space clans who refer to their family as “my people”, although there are spaceships that can fold space already too.
 
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John XII said:
Just finished 100 Years of Solitude. They've had to tone a few things down from the book but it's absolutely brilliant. The story speaks for itself, the production, acting and cinematography are first class.
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Seen the first three episodes. First two were pretty good. Third was amazing.
 
Wibble said:
Hmmm. I didn't enjoy the book at all so I'm thinking that I should skip this one.
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I read the book when I was a teenager and didn't really get it to be honest. After watching this I'll definitely have another go at reading it.

Iker Quesadillas said:
Seen the first three episodes. First two were pretty good. Third was amazing.
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It gets better and better imo. The portrayl of the son "with the buttocks of a woman" is brilliant :lol:
 
Not sure if this has been mentioned, but I watched the first 2 episodes of My Brilliant Friend.
It's very promising. Seems like a slow burn but I've heard it's really worth it.
 
I watched 100 Years of Solitude on Netflix. It's a TV adaptation of a famous book of the same title by Gabriel García Márquez, and considered one of the best books in Latin American literature. It follows the Buendia family in a Colombian town across generations. It's a book I read but never truly got into, as I honestly found it a bit hard to follow due to the writing style and character names. But this TV show is, to my eyes at least, one of the most accurate and faithful reproductions of a book that I've ever seen, and it really is beautifully shot and well-acted. I loved it.
 
Currently watching Bad Monkeys on Disney+ with Vince Vaughan. Really enjoying it.
 
johnnyteutonic said:
Not sure if this has been mentioned, but I watched the first 2 episodes of My Brilliant Friend.
It's very promising. Seems like a slow burn but I've heard it's really worth it.
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Just finished the last fourth season during holidays.
You're right it's one of those series you don't go raving about how amazing it is but now that it has ended I feel like missing a limb. Might read the books now.
 
As with others, not sure if it’s been mentioned but I cannot recommend Shrinking enough! It is on Apple TV but is bloody incredible!
 
Globule said:
It's okay, but I felt the pacing was weird. Feels like there's at least one scene missing for every two or three shown.

Muncie is somehow completely elusive, yet is always readily available, visiting all the places he's most likely to.
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To be honest now that I’ve finished it, it was blah overall. I thought that the first 2-3 episodes were great but then it became very samey and the ending was cack
 
Wing Attack Plan R said:
Further along in Dune: Prophecy now. 4 episodes down. A bit of a lull in the past episode. Starting to feel a bit too much like late-period GoT. All the acting borders on stately: wooden, stiff. Like everyone is auditioning for some English drama school.

I’m sure when this was pitched they pointed out it’s basically GoT in space (with the LANDSRAAD power moves), and has elements of every YA franchise from Harry Potter to The Maze Runner (with the Bene Gesserit sisterhood being space witches). Focusing on young acolytes before they’ve taken their vows, as in this last episode, also felt a bit like some of the weird Star Wars Jedi Academy spinoff shit.

Basically this series is the rise of the Sisterhood, with the Harkonnens filling in as House Stark, and the Atreides taking up the House Lannister role.

Most things in the Dune universe are recognizable (ships, weapons, etc.) but so futuristic as to be alien. The recent Dune movies nailed this. This show is set right after the war with the thinking machines, so 10,000 years*** before Paul Atreides, but it unfortunately feels recent, with horses and clans hunting animals while bare chested in the forest, etc.

There’s a bit of a charisma vacuum so far. Emily Watson is interesting but she’s not lead-a-space-opera interesting. There’s a weird mystic guy who can burn people with his mind, but he’s not in enough scenes.

Main issue is the dialogue/writing. Made from Frank Herbert’s extensive notes but written by his untalented son, Brian. Brian is basically the Eric Trump of dialogue smithing. Brian and Kevin J Anderson did a whole series of Dune novels together but they are unreadable. That side is appearing more in the TV show now, which is incredibly sad. Series based on The Great Schools of Dune, a trilogy by Brian and Kevin. I tried reading House Atreides and House Harkonnen, but both were worse than fan fiction. So I don’t know if they figured their shit out by the time of this trilogy of books, but I doubt it.

Mid season lull, hopefully, and the series can recover.

***had to look up the era. So it’s 10,000 years before, makes sense there are horses and space clans who refer to their family as “my people”, although there are spaceships that can fold space already too.
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I find the whole Dune thing incredibly boring
 
I binged watched Buffy the Vampire Slayer - up to some episode early in Season 2. Aside from the nostalgia factor, I don't think it holds up well.
 
Landman, 8 episodes in, continues to be very good. That being said, I have almost never seen two more pointless characters as the mother and daughter in this show. That screen time would be much better spent literally on any other character(s).
 
wr8_utd said:
Landman, 8 episodes in, continues to be very good. That being said, I have almost never seen two more pointless characters as the mother and daughter in this show. That screen time would be much better spent literally on any other character(s).
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There is only one reason they are in it and it's creepy as feck
 
TheGame said:
Started Godfather of Harlem, onto ep 5, excellant so far and great cast.
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It's decent. It's gone completely under the radar in the UK. Probably because it was only available on Lionsgate Plus which latest about 2 minutes. Hopefully it's available somewhere else now.
 
We started day of the Jackal last night. On episode 3 now. Really enjoy Eddie Redmayne (he’s extremely talented and I feel like his chameleon nature lets him really show off his acting chops) but I can’t stand the main intelligence officer character and I’m a little worried the family drama side of stuff is going to take over.
 
Charlie Foley said:
We started day of the Jackal last night. On episode 3 now. Really enjoy Eddie Redmayne (he’s extremely talented and I feel like his chameleon nature lets him really show off his acting chops) but I can’t stand the main intelligence officer character and I’m a little worried the family drama side of stuff is going to take over.
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I was exactly the same. Without giving too much away, there is the family drama unfortunately but it doesn’t take over. She does continue to be annoying though.
 
I just finished Earth Abides. Not bad but the final episode seems very rushed and skips over so much detail of the second, and particularly the third section of the book. So it looks like a missed opportunity to me.
 
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