What TV series are you currently watching?

[Karl Henning]

Finally giving The Outer Limits a proper viewing.

[SonicMan46]

I'm having frequent trouble with the DVDs, alas!

Hi Karl - had to go back to the page w/ early February posts - you're talking about Kung Fu! 

As stated, I sent my DVD set to my son - not sure if he still has the box nor whether he had problems w/ the discs?  Dave

[DavidW]

I'm rewatching Babylon 5 which was recently remastered in hd.

[Fëanor]

I'm rewatching Babylon 5 which was recently remastered in hd.

I recently rewatched all the Babylon 5 TV series in HD video;  (I don't recall watching any of the movies based on them).  OK at best.

I enjoyed rewatching the Andromeda series more; it's less serious but also less pretentious.  I can't help but observe that Lexa Doig, who played the role of the ship's avatar, is one of the most beautiful ladies that I can bring to mind.

[SimonNZ]

Still going along for the ride, but they've definitely lost their focus and the story is all over the place, seemingly rethought for each episode.

[SimonNZ]

lately:



six one-hour episodes so everything in that long history is quick and once over lightly, but still a perfectly worthy watch

[david johnson]

for me: Debris and Resident Alien.  I am angry Project Bluebook was not renewed!

[Fëanor]

Just finished the first and as yet only season of Tribes of Europa on Netflix.  This is slightly better than average post-apocalyptic sci-fi drama.  IMDB rates it 6.8/10 -- about right:  I give it a solid 7.

There are several character/situation threads in train, all to be continue next season of course.  Actors are solid but unremarkable except Oliver Masucci as the character, Moses, who adds some touches of humor.

[Todd]

The Good Lord Bird.  Ethan Hawke paired with his wife to bring this to the small screen, and the results are striking.  Based on the novel of the same name, it is the tale of John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry.  A bizarre, very modern sensibility take on the events with their roots in Bleeding Kansas, the story centers on the odyssey of Henry, a young slave Brown mistakes for a girl, calling him Henrietta and nicknaming him Onion.  Onion meets various people, regular and great, slave and free.  There's the gentlemanly Jeb Stuart, the powerful and persuasive Harriet Tubman, and the thundering Frederick Douglass, here played by Daveed Diggs in an inspired piece of casting, where the great man is portrayed as something less, something more plausible than his (rightly) towering image usually suggests.  There's a touch of the surreal, with stilted dialogue that comes across as a purposeful modern attempt to approximate colloquial speech of the time, and humor aplenty.  Some of the individual scenes rate with the best television and movies of the century.  A brief scene with Keith David in the first episode, where two slaves discuss how various slaves are related, comically skewers various unpleasant practices of the era.  The extended sequence centered on a slave named Sibonia demolishes, in mere minutes, the entirety of everything anyone ever attempted to say in defense of the infernal institution.  The dinner scene between Brown and Douglass encapsulates the differences between passionate calls for action and more level-headed realism.  The scenes between Joshua Caleb Johnson, extremely fine as the central character Onion, and Maya Hawke (a bit of nepotism creeped into the production) have freshness and vitality, showing that the young will always be young.  And at the center is Ethan Hawke as John Brown.  Prone to mumbling, overly long prayers, and poor planning, when roused to cite the good book in his denunciations of slavery and calls for its violent destruction, he roars fire and brimstone.  Brown was crazy, but he was right.  It is telling that this somewhat off-kilter show manages to rely on an anachronistic soundtrack that nonetheless works perfectly.  The best TV I've seen since The Americans ended.

[Stürmisch Bewegt]

Currently looking at the 3-episode limited series, Armadillo from 2001, a fascinating and challengingly opaque look at the perils and problems of an insurance adjuster.  I really like James Frain, so glad to see him in something new (to me!). 

[Papy Oli]

If you haven't seen Bloodlands on the BBC and you were thinking you ought to, just don't.

That's 4 hours I'll never get back.

Anything else you'll decide to do will always be better than this.

[Irons]

If you haven't seen Bloodlands on the BBC and you were thinking you ought to, just don't.

That's 4 hours I'll never get back.

Anything else you'll decide to do will always be better than this.

Watched the first episode then switched to the Unforgotten a decision I have not regretted.

[Papy Oli]

Watched the first episode then switched to the Unforgotten a decision I have not regretted.

Not seen Unforgotten yet, will have to give it a go.

We also have The Bay season 1 on the go as well... Struggling with this one too, a bit dragging.

[George]

[SonicMan46]

Still watching the Murdoch Mysteries finishing Season 6 last night and the first season of NCIS: New Orleans (liked the original much better so not sure if we'll purchase the 2nd season?).

Bosch - just into the first season (apparently a 7th will be the final one?) - we started this series a while back and stopped for some reason - both of us enjoyed, so starting over a few nights ago.  Dave

[DavidW]

Bosch - just into the first season (apparently a 7th will be the final one?) - we started this series a while back and stopped for some reason - both of us enjoyed, so starting over a few nights ago.  Dave

I haven't seen the series, but I've read most of the novels in not only Bosch but also the Lincoln Lawyer series and the Jack McEvoy series.  All three series are interconnected.  Michael Connelly is my favorite contemporary mystery/detective writer.

[George]

[Papy Oli]

Finished the 1st season of The Bay last night. Quite slow to get going, you have to bear beyond the first two episodes then it ramps up nicely in intensity and tension after that. Satisfying closing of most of the loose threads in the last episode as well. It is not Broadchurch but it's still decent TV and it nicely offsets the disastrous Bloodlands from earlier in the week  We'll continue to the recent season 2 at some point.

     

[vandermolen]

'The Serpent' - chilling but compulsive viewing:

[Stürmisch Bewegt]

We are certainly playing catch-up in the TV series department. Began watching All Creatures Great and Small on BritBox and perhaps even more remarkably, thoroughly enjoying it!  British actors, my wife and I are convinced, rule (the waves, air waves...)