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Seems like we used to have a thread like this. If not, we should. What are you watching (new or old, broadcast or streaming)?

I just started Netflix's "Archive 81" last night. Horror series about a man restoring old fired-samaged videotapes from the early 90s that hide... something (occult, I assume). A dual plot, as the hero has his own issues to deal with, and we watch the older story unfold videotape by videotape. A promising start.

Resident Alien.  Based on the comic book series.   They are doing a decent job of it.  Alan Tudyk is good.  Just odd  enough.

Just finished season 15 of Supernatural and I am currently working my way through Sapphire & Steel as well as The Ghosts of Motley Hall.

I tried to watch How I Met Your Father. I failed.

Yaaaaaaay! One of my all-time favorite shows growing up, Picket Fences, is on Hulu!

I just finished DEXTER: NEW BLOOD which I really enjoyed - a much better send-off for Dexter than the original series gave him.

And a very twisty Showtime series called YELLOWJACKETS which was very dark and compelling!

And my wife and I are enjoying THE BOOK OF BOBA FETT.

The original DARK SHADOWS, DOCTOR WHO and BORIS KARLOFF'S THRILLER

Peaky Blinders
Riverdale
Walking Dead
911

Blinders I just started on Netflix. The other 3 are airing on tv and watch as they air.

Stranger Things starts in May so I'll resume that.

Into The Labyrinth, Sapphire & Steel, Friday the 13th the series.

Finished "Archive 81" (good, not great), and I'm back to finishing up the entire "Seinfeld" run (I'm on Season 7), finishing the last season of "12 Monkeys," and I need to watch the final two episodes of "The Mighty Boosh."

Having finished "The Mighty Boosh," I turned to a series I've been meaning to watch for decades: 1967-1968's "The Prisoner." It combines two things I love: Swinging 60s style (lava lamps EVERYWHERE) and Kafkaesque existential parables.

I put 'V The Final Battle' on hold, until I found a good reason to resume the watching. Yes, even Jane Badler is not enough reason, at the moment, to keep watching the series.
So, I think I'm going to restart watching the season 2 of Family Guy. I don't know how far I will go through this.

Just finished The Book of Boba Fett.

The docu-series Secrets of Playboy on A&E.

Damn, ole Hef was into some seriously DANK s**t, yo!

Dad always talked about The Prisoner but I never saw it until 2020: it freaked me out that a series which was made the year I was born could almost predict the future so well. I think Patrick McGoohan saw the future coming and he didn't like what he saw coming  :buggedout:

Update:

I put all the others on pause, and finished up:

"Undone," Season 2 - Amazon Prime, rotoscoped time-travel drama, recommended (watch the 1st season first)
"Russian Doll" Season 2 - Netflix, Natasha Lyonne sarcastic hard-drinking NYC Jewish anti-heroine time-travel comedy, recommended (watch the 1st season first)

And I started a sci-fi drama called "Night Sky" with J.K. Simmons and Sissy Spacek as an old couple hiding a room in their basement that can teleport them to another planet. Only two episodes in but it's promising so far. I have an early access screener, it actually debuts on May 20, but so far I would recommend it if they don't screw it up.

Domino Masters, tho it just ended.

The Black List, both new episodes, plus old ones on DVD.

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I bought the original series last month and am slowly making my way through it

it aged nicely

So having completed "Night Sky" I would recommend it. However, I also must warn that a Facebook friend found it boring, even though he usually likes arthouse stuff. There is a lot of action in the finale, which leaves a lot of loose ends for a second season---if it gets renewed.

Also, I'm binging "Schitt's Creek" irregularly when I visit my parents. Best sitcom of recent times IMO.

Last night's mid-season finale of Better Call Saul was powerful TV but utterly horribly awfully depressing, even by the standards of a show that is almost always utterly horribly awfully depressing, as was its parent series.

I was given the entire TV series of Beetlejuice on DVD as a late birthday present, so watching that right now.

Peaky Blinders season 6
Ms. Marvel

I'm also occasionally working my way through the 60s "Batman." One of the greatest TV shows ever!

Obi Wan Lenobi

It’s ok. Starts a bit slow, but it picks up around the 3rd episode. Last two I watched felt a bit too much like remakes of earlier Star Wars films, but they still had a few good moments. Probably’ll watch the last one tomorrow.

It's almost 4 am, I'm tired, I can't sleep and then I saw that: I am now smiling, thanks.  :smile: :smile:

some old episodes of One step Beyond and Thriller. not as good as Outerlimits/ TZ

Just finished season 3 of The Boys.

I'm on episode 4 of COLUMBO, wih Peter Falk.
Steven Speilberg directed the 3rd episode!  :buggedout:

Finished 12 MONKEYS. Enjoyed it, but what a crazy mess. 4 seasons of rewriting timelines every episode necessarily leaves you with a lot of questions.

Going to try RICK & MORTY next, which every young person I know seems to love.

Started THE SANDMAN. Two episodes in, not bad. Never read the original.

Finished THE SANDMAN a while back.

Last night I started GUILLERMO DEL TORO'S CABINET OF CURIOSITIES. First episode was not bad, but not one of the three I was looking forward to. We'll see what the future holds.

I enjoyed the 2nd episode more than the first (not saying the first was bad or anything).

Law & order,  NCIS, FBI.

I agree, the second was a bit more fun. Always enjoy a grave-robbing plot. Third episode up tonight.

I just watched the whole series this week.  Some were better than others, but all were pretty good.

Third was better than the second which was better than the first. I like how this is trending.

I finished The Rings of Power and I'm glad I watched it. It had more annoying/bad moments than good, and no great moments, but it was not without good parts to recommend it, so...I hope it gets better, and I am not regretting seeing it. The two best sections of the show were (to my surprise) those set among the proto-hobbits, and the dwarves, who were immeasurably better-presented than the dwarves in 2010s The Hobbit films. Galadriel, the elves, Numenor, the goings-on in the Southlands (aka future Mordor) all ranged from boring to bad to insulting to Tolkien. If I were to grade the series...I'd give the entire presentation about a C-. Though I will say the aspects I did not like were readily identifiable and correctable, if anyone in charge of the show should choose to do so.

I watched it with a mindset that separated it entirely from Tolkien and just saw it as "another fantasy tv show". By that standard, I thought it was ok and would rate it slightly higher, but not by a huge amount (C I guess).

Almost done with House of the Dragon and have enjoyed it a bunch.

Let me know when you've watched episode 5, Pickman's Model.

I'm rewatching STARGATE SG-1, I'm not even halfway through the first season, and I already remembered why it's my favorite show of all times, and the best sci-fi series ever created.
It's absurdly good. The dialog, stories, characters, villains, and overall progression of the show, all combines perfectly into a never-ending adventure, filled with existential and moral discussions. Even the wardrobes and sceneries are marvelous. And this includes the ones that look really cheap.

Westworld.

Stranger Things & Cabinet of Curiosities.

Very good, solid Lovecraft adaptation! I also liked episode 4, "Outsider," which was a nice black comedy change of pace. This is a high-quality anthology series.

The only thing I didn't like about that episode was Glover's accent. I was wondering if it was an accurate one?

It sounded like a New York accent to me. The scenario was set in Boston but a New York native could easily have attended school there. The choice was strange on Glover's part but I ended up liking it.

Perry Mason on HBO. I still think the real subplot was he was a Russian spy.

Finished "Cabinet of Curiosities." An excellent series, even the weaker offerings were good. I'd rank them

The Autopsy
The Viewing
The Outside
Pickman's Model
Graveyard Rats
Lot 36
The Murmuring
Dreams in the Witch House

Also sort-of watching the Netflix sitcom "Blockbuster," about the last Blockbuster store operating in the US. It's... OK. My dad likes it, so I watch it with him sometimes when I'm at his house.

As soon as I get my satellite dish up and working again after three years 😳 I will see what Starsat has to offer for USD30 per month.

Probably a lot of political 💩💩 with very few movies and sport. 😝😝

Wednesday.

Saw a few eps at a friend's place, binged the rest. Damn flu won't let me sleep. I like it all in all, good Tim Burton fantasy and family stuff.

The Walking Dead
Chucky
American Horror Story: NYC
Destination Fear
On Patrol Live
Mysteries Of the Deep

I'm working my way through this miniseries I bought because I wanted to learn more about WW2

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Andor: something like half of it is clunky, and it can be streamlined some more. It's not as bad as Obi-Wan and Boba Fett, but not as good as Mandalorian.

Cobrai Kai is notable because it manages to roll along even with a convoluted plot. Stranger Things, however, hasn't done that for the recent season.

I saw the first two-hour episode of Dark Skies (1996), and it looks OK.

Fish and others are not very funny, and I understand why they were cancelled early on. I also couldn't continue with The Ropers, and was surprised to realize that after re-watching Cheers, I found it over-rated, especially in contrast to most episodes of Frasier.

I tried Step by Step, and I think there's something wrong with the chemistry of characters, e.g., the kids sound unnecessarily mean towards their step-parents, but it's supposed to be the source of conflict of many episodes.

After decades of watching gore, instead of becoming de-sensitized, I've become too much of a fraidy-cat. That's why I don't feel like watching shows like Cabinet and Midnight Mass, although I hear they're very good.

I did try Picard for a few episodes, and that was a nightmare because it was gory and very anti-Trek. STD is a bit better, but the storytelling and characterization are terrible.

The War is fine, but also check out World at War, at least for artistic merits. And with Burns' Vietnam, also The Ten Thousand Day War.

I also bought Burns' Vietnam ministers (for the same reason I bought The War) and will start it once I finish The War

started this tonight

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I'm down to watching just four regular series on broadcast TV: Penn & Teller Fool Us, Ghosts, Young Sheldon, and Quantum Leap. Everything else is either streaming or YouTube.

Deep Space 9.

Charlie's Angels season one on the tubi

Japanese Tales of the Macabre.

Animated Japanese horror stories. The stories are interesting, although they don't always have a traditional structure, make sense or have a resolution. Both the music over the opening and closing credits are annoying although for different reasons. The disjointed closing song is especially grating though, even if it suits the show. It reminds me a lot of the manga I used to watch in the 80s.

Oh and at the very end of the credits is a short easter egg story.

On Netflix.

Just started this one myself. Two episodes in, I agree with your assessment (except that I like the music). Hoping that there will be a knockout story or two on the back 10.

I haven't watched the full series yet, but I plan on. I think it is because I want to hear all of the story at the end of the credits lol.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. It's been encouragingly better than the odious Discovery and the character-shattering Picard, but less fun than Below Decks. I'm three episodes in and crossing my fingers it doesn't warp over any sharks.

I liked the third one, "Hanging Balloon."

The Last of Us. Doing well so far, although I've never played the games. (OTOH, several turned the cut scenes for the first and those plus some gameplay into movies, and are available at YT.)

And having finished off the series, I can say the one episode I strongly recommend is "Layers of Fear." Truly freaky. It's only the third highest rated episode on IMDB, but I think it's by far the best of the lot, followed by "Hanging Balloon," followed by everything else.

I gotta say I found Picard season two almost damagingly awful.  I consoled myself with the thought that it too is set in an alternate universe from the "real" Picard.

I've read nothing but bad things about that show. I'm currently rewatching TNG and I'm afraid to tarnish those good memories with something so bleak and anti-trek like that.

I was ready to write off all Trek after Enterprise but Lower Decks and Strange New Worlds have restored a mite of hope. Bask in the glow of TNG as long as you can.

I am on the last couple of episodes of Deep Space 9. It is a shame it took so long to have some really enjoyable episodes.

Finally finished up THE PRISONER. Wow, what a classic!

When the new series of Star Trek movies came out I upset Kristi by mentioning this meant that all of the original series would now be non-canon and that everything else that followed would also be changed by it (yes, I know all about the alternate universe stuff, but I still managed to wind her up over it).

Reliving my childhood with Monkey.

I watched this mini-series last month

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it was fun, but I was very disappointed that the big reveal at the end of it was obvious to me

Since I got Paramount+ I been catching up on a couple recent seasons of The Amazing Race I hadn't seen. It's one of my favorite shows of all time. Just watched contestants eat Corsican maggot cheese (exactly what it sounds like) the other night.

My wife and I are addicted to THE LAST OF US.  Gets better with every episode.

Decided to catch up on the Kids in the Hall. I'll re-watch the classic episodes later, but I'm starting with the 2010 miniseries "Death Comes to Town." First episode was not great, had a "Brain Candy" feel to it, but it is a short watch overall (only 8 episodes), so I'll give it a chance.

Ghosts on CBS

I know its an American version of a British show, but I am enjoying it so far.

Also started "Cunk on Earth" (Netflix). Cunk is hi-larious!

Last of Us is great, but it's like Walking Dead, except with better writing.

I hope they don't run it to the ground, which is what happened to the storyline of the second part of the game version. It's like Twilight, e.g., a melodrama using apocalyptica for the setting.

Picard season three. I....I can't....look away. Bleeding eyes! Bleeding eyes!

Little Demon.

Danny DeVito plays Satan who is attempting to corrupt his daughter. Lots of swearing, animated nudity and gore with similar humour to shows like Family Guy.

Is Andor worth a twelve-hour investment?

Carnival Row Season 2.

I am having problems remembering what happened in season 1, it has been so long between the two. Seems to be a decent watch though.

Willow.

Good show until Warwick Davis turns up. His acting really isn't up to par with the rest of the cast. I am getting some Lovecraftian vibes from it (hell, one of the character's family name is Hastur and he knows some strange old languages, so if he turns out to be evil I will not be surprised). Lacks the sense of fun that the movie had in spades.

I've tried giving the Night Court sequel series a chance. But its not that good. Best way to describe it, its a Disney/Nickelodeon  live action series with no kid actors.

I get where you're coming from and don't disagree, it lacks the soul of the original, but that said I have seen every episode so far and do kind of look forward to it. Without Dan Fielding back the show would be much less worthy of my time. Sad to think how few original cast members remain.

Personally I think the world has run out of stories, or at least original ideas for stories.

Andor is at best banal; similar can be said for Obi-Wan and Boba Fett. Meanwhile, Mandalorian is turning into an Andor.

Picard's awful; similar applies to STD.

Last of Us ended up copy-pasting the video game. It's OK if you ignore some problems with the story, but if the second season will follow the second video game, then don't bother.

The new Night Court's is dreary.

I started watching Mayor of Kingstown yesterday: Jeremy Renner is great in it.

BATTLESTAR GALACTICA (1978)

a bit earnest and melodramatic, not enjoying it anywhere near as much as the completely wtf  GALACTICA 1980

Lucifer.

Rewatching this one and finding it just as good the second time around.

They had difficulty with Battlestar because I think the target audience was supposed to be kids and teens, but the premise of the main story arc is adult (genocide). Hence, dealing with that and then including the kid and the robot dog.

70s tv logic: if in doubt… robot dog!

Season 41 of Survivor: the most annoying thing I may have ever seen on TV. Unpleasant, disloyal, unsubtle, bumbling people thinking they are all so smart when really they're just disgusting and mean in spirit. Worst cast ever, worst season ever, and yet....I watched it, so....yeah.

I'm giving this a shot

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shadow and bone
  this one is very dense info wise, i'm rewatching season one for the 3rd time before i start season 2, i know i missed stuff.

Conan.

The fairly cheesy 1997 TV series.

Halt and Catch Fire. Very underrated.

One of my favorites.

Last night I watched all three episodes of Waco: American Apocalypse, Netflix's documentary about the infamous standoff between the Branch Davidian religious cult and the ATF in Texas in 1993, which of course came to a tragic end.

The Young Ones (BBC) on youtube

Before TBS pulled the plug on this

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I watched this.... and hate myself for liking it and am now following it on Rumble.

Similar problems with Mandalorian as with Galactica. They don't know if they should go back to the goofy roots of the franchise, i.e., the original trilogy, or try something like an adult political thriller, i.e., the prequels.

But goofiness has its limits, as seen in the last episode. The only thing I could remember about it was the weird presence of Jack Black. But it's as least not as bad as the political thriller episode featuring the former Imperial employees. Even kids would have fallen asleep with that.

The "Waco" docu was OK, together with the one about the female bodybuilder.

Rennervations with Jeremy Renner: so far, so good.  :smile: :smile:

Trying COPENHAGEN COWBOY by Nicolas Winding Refn on Netflix. First episode was slow, but interesting. Girl sold to an illegal brothel as a witch because the superstitious co-owner believes she can make her pregnant. I assume some actual supernatural powers are going to manifest later. 6 episodes 1 hour each is a commitment, so something better happen!

Finished COPENHAGEN COWBOY (S. 1). I can't really recommend it generally, but if you like slow-paced, arty action movies with a supernatural component, give it a go. I kind of hate the fact that it ended on a "cliffhanger" (by Nicolas Winding Refn standards), because the prospects of Netflix paying for a second season is always a gamble. (About 2/3 of shows get a second season).

Moving on tonight to the gender-swap reboot of DEAD RINGERS on Amazon Prime.

And the odds of getting a third season are laughably slim.

Yep, they are infamous for only greenlighting two seasons. Anyone on Netflix who leaves loose ends after season 2 is playing with fire.

The new "Dead Ringers" isn't all that much like Cronenberg's movie, despite sharing a good number of plot points/elements. I'd say it's more of a "depraved drama."

Maybe they are taking a leaf out of Disney's playbook. I believe they have a standard policy of never greenlighting a 3rd season of any show unless it is a huge hit.

Yeah, there are articles out there about the business model. The idea is you draw in new subscribers with new shows their interested in, then they tend to hang around even if that show gets cancelled. So more new shows > quality long-running shows for their profit margins.

i just now finished " sweet tooth" season 1&2 on netflix, and LOVE IT! i'm also watching riverdale, from and mrs. davis weekly.

Finished up on The Mandalorian and I am back to working my way through The X-Files.

ah, good idea! i just got hulu back for the summer, i'll add that to the summer binge.

Finished "Cunk on Earth." Highly recommend.

Nearing the end of my full watch through of "Seinfeld."

I had paused watching "Kids in the Hall: Death Comes to Town" on Prime for a couple of weeks, and when I came back to it, they had lost the rights. An extremely annoying feature of the streaming landscape.

Instead, I started watching the original "Kids in the Hall" broadcasts. I had forgotten that they did a blackface sketch! It's funny, not offensive.

You know it's strange. In the early '90s I watched KITH and would laugh myself silly but every time I've tried to watch the old episodes or the new ones....it's flat, nothing seems amusing anymore.

Ever seen Buddy's Christmas special at his chalet? ("That's not YOUR ass!")

That said, I am going to try to catch season two of Welcome to Flatch.

Finished my rewatch of "Seinfeld," about to take up the second season of "Demon Slayer."

binging warehous :smile:e 13 and eureka. i forgot how great they are!  :cheers: :bouncegiggle: :twirl:

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True Detective Season 3

Breaking Bad

I've been watching the teen horror series MIDNIGHT CLUB on Netflix.
Pretty good, actually.

The Civil War (miniseries) - Ken Burns documentary

Good Omens 2.

I had some reservations going into the second season, but the first episode and a half have been engaging enough. Both myself and Kristi are looking forward to watching the rest of the season.

I'm considering it. Like you, I have reservations that a sequel was needed.

Just did a quick watch of the 4-episode anime "Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan." Macabre horror stories, uneven, would not really recommend, but you could do worse.