What TV Shows Are you Watching?

Rev. Powell · March 13, 2026, 08:25:50 AM

I got Sling for a month for March Madness and looked for a short run TV series I'd be able to watch in a month. Best candidate seemed to be "Kevin Can F**k Himself." (After I started watching I discovered it was on Netflix, so I could have watched it anyway, but so be it.) The series' gimmick is that (almost) every time Kevin is onscreen, it's a really bad sitcom with deliberately lame jokes and a laugh track, but when it follows his wife Allison, its a darker dramedy. Kevin's a thoughtless buffoon in the sitcom, but I think the implication is that he's a really bad guy, but we can't see his behavior directly. An interesting premise, but after one episode I'm not entirely sold: I've got hope it will improve.

M.10rda · March 13, 2026, 09:08:37 AM

I've been interested in checking that out eventually - I really like Annie Murphy.

Alex · March 14, 2026, 08:36:46 AM

Rewatched the first season of Babylon 5.

Sitting Duck · March 15, 2026, 08:20:40 AM

Quote from: Alex on March 14, 2026, 08:36:46 AMRewatched the first season of Babylon 5.

Which do you consider the worst episode of the season, Infection or Eyes? IMO the former is ham-handed hackery, while the latter takes an idea with some potential and completely whiffs it. Then again, you might regard something else as worse (though I can't imagine what).

Alex · March 15, 2026, 01:52:28 PM

Quote from: Sitting Duck on March 15, 2026, 08:20:40 AM
Quote from: Alex on March 14, 2026, 08:36:46 AMRewatched the first season of Babylon 5.

Which do you consider the worst episode of the season, Infection or Eyes? IMO the former is ham-handed hackery, while the latter takes an idea with some potential and completely whiffs it. Then again, you might regard something else as worse (though I can't imagine what).

I didn't mind Eyes, although I don't care much for Infection, as I've seen that plot too many times before. TKO feels weak for a similar reason (I felt like I was watching an old Charles Band movie all through that episode).

Sitting Duck · March 16, 2026, 07:22:17 AM

Quote from: Alex on March 15, 2026, 01:52:28 PMI didn't mind Eyes, although I don't care much for Infection, as I've seen that plot too many times before. TKO feels weak for a similar reason (I felt like I was watching an old Charles Band movie all through that episode).

Perhaps you're thinking of Arena from 1989, which is reminiscent of the fight tourney portions of the episode. Oddly enough, Claudia Christian was in that flick.

Sitting Duck · March 26, 2026, 06:22:35 AM

Currently making my way through Batman: The Brave and the Bold on Tubi. It's called that because it was both brave and bold of them to go against the trend of presenting the Grimdark Knight characterization as the only legitimate depiction of Batman by having him team up with mostly heroes from DC's B-list and engage in Silver Age style tomfoolery.

lester1/2jr · May 24, 2026, 04:47:48 PM

I'm watching Humans, a British tv series that has a couple of seasons. Pretty standard sci fi plot about how our reliance on technology has led us to be slaves to it or whatever, but it's apropos because of AI and whatnot. The women playing the robots are attractive and the human sexuality aspect, how both the men and women end up wanting to have sex with their robots, is addressed with humor.

bob · May 24, 2026, 10:05:57 PM

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still working my way through this and it's been amazing

I'm on season 6

Jim H · June 20, 2026, 11:23:38 PM

I started watching the Mentalist. I'd seen a few episodes of this when it originally aired, and my recollection is that Simon Baker was terrific in the lead and it was pretty fun, but fairly slight. That's pretty accurate, and sometimes that's exactly what you want. It's kind of like a more dramatic Psych, incidentally.

A big thing that made me want to go back was rewatching a clip I'd seen on YouTube where the lead character talks with someone who got violent revenge, and the character is just very pleased he did, zero regrets (good performance too). The moments of the show where it handles the idea of violent revenge seriously are pretty interesting - the lead character's wife and daughter were brutally murdered by a serial killer, and his main motivation is to kill him painfully and personally. He will often talk to characters who were seeking revenge about how they feel now, and the answers vary. This is something I find personally a good topic, and is something I've tried researching before - it's surprisingly weak, with lab experiments that read like very poor experiments for real personal revenge.