What TV Shows Are you Watching?

pennywise37 · March 09, 2025, 07:48:21 PM

Twin Peaks is a slow a really slow start but it gets better however, season 3 i can't get into since it's done way differently than it was on CBS wasn't it? i'm still on Arrow season 1 episode #9 since Stephen Amelle is now on Suits: Las Vegas it got me into the mood to go back and watch some Arrow.

zombie no.one · March 19, 2025, 09:58:35 AM

Quote from: pennywise37 on March 09, 2025, 07:48:21 PMTwin Peaks is a slow a really slow start but it gets better however

Yeah I've been told this. I think one of my main flaws (in a film/tv sense) is I've never had much or any patience for things I'm not immediately grabbed by... "it takes a few episodes to get going" is not a phrase that inspires me to check something out

Still watching ROBOCOP the 1994 series. It's like an accurate satire of 2025.

Rev. Powell · March 19, 2025, 11:15:57 AM

Quote from: zombie no.one on March 19, 2025, 09:58:35 AM
Quote from: pennywise37 on March 09, 2025, 07:48:21 PMTwin Peaks is a slow a really slow start but it gets better however

Yeah I've been told this. I think one of my main flaws (in a film/tv sense) is I've never had much or any patience for things I'm not immediately grabbed by... "it takes a few episodes to get going" is not a phrase that inspires me to check something out

You could also argue TP gets worse as it goes on, particularly the back end of Season 2. I think if you don't like the first episodes, you're not going to like the rest, UNLESS your complaint is that the beginning makes too much sense and isn't "Lynchian." It definitely gets weirder and more convoluted as it goes. (I can't wrap my mind around the idea of not liking Badalementi's score, though!)

zombie no.one · March 19, 2025, 01:26:47 PM

well I don't dislike the music as such, just its over-application (IMO)

lester1/2jr · May 07, 2025, 04:08:48 PM

I'm halfway through the first season of Broadchurch. No, it's not about an all female Protestant branch, it's the name of the small coastal town in England where a murder takes place. The whole season is the investigation.

Dr. Whom · May 09, 2025, 01:02:33 AM

Just finished Projekt UFO on Netflix. Minor spoiler, it is not really about UFOs, but very much about Polish society in the early eighties on the eve of Jaruzelski's coup. If you are looking for the Polish Stranger Things, you will be disappointed. If you want an examination of life during the Communist regime, on the other hand, you'll like it very much.

lester1/2jr · May 10, 2025, 04:08:45 PM

I finished Broadchurch. I was a little unsatisfied with the ending, but it wasn't horrible and the whole thing was good.

A little kid in a seaside town like in that Morrissey song (for those who were sad in high school) is found dead on the beach. A detective who has some sort of plot tension enhancing heart ailment and who just screwed up a huge case somewhere else is for some reason brought in. He provides the distance needed to look at things objectively while his local counterpart helps him navigate the local community ...stuff. Who dun it? Is it the weird plumber guy with the shaved head? or the gayish priest?

4.5 /5

I might stick around for season two

lester1/2jr · May 28, 2025, 04:24:57 PM

Well, I stuck around for Season 2 and am about halfway through now. I thought it was just going to be the trial of the crime from the first season but it's been more interesting than that. The studly possibly murder guy doing blue collar labor is hilarious "attention female viewers not enough of you watched the first season".

Rev. Powell · May 30, 2025, 09:11:45 AM

Finished "Dark Crystal Age of Resistance." Pretty good if you like high fantasy and always looks great. A little heavy on "lore" for me--Icouldn't keep all the races and tribes straight--but I guess that's what attracts a lot of people to the genre. All the detail obscures the fact that it's a familiar old plot about the hero's journey.

Started "Cobra Kai," the series that's a sequel to "Karate Kid" from the perspective of that movie's chief bully, now a middle-aged loser. Cool idea.

lester1/2jr · May 30, 2025, 03:37:43 PM

Finished Broadchurch season two. Again, there are always going to be first season supremacists out there, but I thought it was great. Having it just be the trial would have been too slight, so they filled it out nicely with this whole other case. Charlotte Rampling was one of the lawyers and some of the ways they tried to develop her character seemed extraneous. The other lawyer, played by the black lady from Law and Order now with a seemingly authentic British accent, concept/ lines, etc worked a bit better.

Season 3, or as the British say Series 3, next. Not until i watch some more stupid crap first, though.

sprite75 · May 30, 2025, 09:49:54 PM

Even before I heard about Loretta Swit's passing today I've lately been watching M*A*S*H over the past few days.

lester1/2jr · June 11, 2025, 04:42:50 PM

watched a couple Outer Limits episodes

Corpus Earthling - I love the concept of two rocks taking over the Earth and the idea that they would inhabit human beings' bodies to do so adds a horror element, but it was kind of slow moving. I don't know if it needed to be shorter or campier or what, but I love the concept itself. Amazing title, too.

Demon With a Glass Hand - The action aspect here is really substandard even for the 1960's, but it's an amazing idea. The guy has the key to the enemy's entire thing, but they send a bunch of randos to try and catch him. It doesn't add up. Why didn't they all go at the same time? Why didn't they put cameras everywhere? How did they become successful imperialist aliens with such shoddy martial arts techniques? The mood was good. They should have gotten a young Bruce Lee to work on this one though. He could have kung fu'd through the mirror portal tunnel!

zombie no.one · June 11, 2025, 05:20:31 PM

KNIGHT RIDER season 1

one of the first tv shows I remember being excited about as a kid. I'm pretty sure as a 6 year old, Thursdays meant FRAGGLE ROCK, then KNIGHT RIDER. it seemed like the coolest, most hard edged and grown-up show possible (KNIGHT RIDER, not FRAGGLE ROCK)

it is, of course, amazingly cheesy. the early 80s cheese is strong. the concept of a self-driving car (which is exploited so as to stun / perplex an unsuspecting bad guy (or good woman) in every episode) is of course now a reality.

the Hoff doesn't have to do much, just recite lines with a perm. KITT is annoying. the star is the totally innocent early 80s cheese-ness

ER · June 11, 2025, 06:59:49 PM

Disraeli

Sitting Duck · June 12, 2025, 06:41:42 AM

Quote from: zombie no.one on June 11, 2025, 05:20:31 PMKNIGHT RIDER season 1

one of the first tv shows I remember being excited about as a kid. I'm pretty sure as a 6 year old, Thursdays meant FRAGGLE ROCK, then KNIGHT RIDER. it seemed like the coolest, most hard edged and grown-up show possible (KNIGHT RIDER, not FRAGGLE ROCK)

In retrospect, Fraggle Rock was probably the more hard-edged and grown-up of the two.