What TV series are you currently watching?

[Stürmisch Bewegt]

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.

   

Yes, Broadchurch!  (Pounds the Telly with Glee and Gratitude)

[SimonNZ]

Beginning a second viewing

[George]

LOVE this show!

[Pohjolas Daughter]

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...) 

That's a wonderful show!  I've missed some of the episodes, but it still works.  Remember watching the original series years ago. 

PD

[Stürmisch Bewegt]

That's a wonderful show!  I've missed some of the episodes, but it still works.  Remember watching the original series years ago. 

PD

Glad you like it too, PD.  The Yorkshire landscape is appealing and the character acting ingratiating and compelling.  Too bad the accompanying score is worse than crummy.  Did you know the actor playing James Herriot was having an affair with his onscreen wife, Helen?  Lends a little spice to watching them - viewers don't know if their affection is acting or real or a bit o' both!    I remember it being a big fund raiser for PBS - it's hard not to like and the parade of animals (and people!) endlessly of interest.  Curiously, the series seems dated now, but that actually lends verisimilitude to the whole.   

[steve ridgway]

'The Serpent' - chilling but compulsive viewing:

+1 for that. It jumps back and forth in time a lot but manages not to get confusing, and being based on a real story makes it more horrifying.

[vandermolen]

Beginning a second viewing

A great series.

[vandermolen]

+1 for that. It jumps back and forth in time a lot but manages not to get confusing, and being based on a real story makes it more horrifying.

I binge-watched the last three episodes back-to-back last night. It was an excellent. It does jump around chronologically all the time but it seemed to work. Excellent acting by the two villainous leads, but also by everyone else + excellent musical score.

[Florestan]

I watched this on the Epic Drama channel but unfortunately missed the last episodes. The ones I've watched were very good.

[Todd]

The One.  Saw this high concept show pop up as a new viewing option.  The show offers an exploration of the implications of DNA based romantic matchmaking.  It's like eHarmony but even more sciency.  Or something.  There was potential for the idea, but unfortunately, the show is just lazy in structure, story, and dialogue, and the first episode sets the stage with corporate chicanery and a mysterious death.  (Gasp!)  And the actors are only routinely attractive C-listers.  Brave New World it ain't.  I made it through the first episode.  The one episode is enough.

[drogulus]

I watched this on the Epic Drama channel but unfortunately missed the last episodes. The ones I've watched were very good.

     That's the guy from Weissensee, Florian Lukas.

     I'm getting Deutschland 83, though the pipeline is a bit clogged as I'm watching a Belgian-Danish-German thingy where they speak English half the time.

[Florestan]

a Belgian-Danish-German thingy where they speak English half the time.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Glad you like it too, PD.  The Yorkshire landscape is appealing and the character acting ingratiating and compelling.  Too bad the accompanying score is worse than crummy.  Did you know the actor playing James Herriot was having an affair with his onscreen wife, Helen?  Lends a little spice to watching them - viewers don't know if their affection is acting or real or a bit o' both!    I remember it being a big fund raiser for PBS - it's hard not to like and the parade of animals (and people!) endlessly of interest.  Curiously, the series seems dated now, but that actually lends verisimilitude to the whole.

Are you talking about the original series or the new one?

I remember reading the books years ago...encouraged by an animal-crazy person who ended up going to vet school.    Loved them!

PD

[George]

[vandermolen]

'The Terror' about the disastrous Franklin Expedition of 1845 to find the North-West Passage:

[DavidW]

'The Terror' about the disastrous Franklin Expedition of 1845 to find the North-West Passage:

Nice!  I've read the novel and seen the miniseries.

[Papy Oli]

A 3-part BBC documentary called Football's Darkest Secret broadcast this week, covering the abuse of kids in youth teams over several decades in English football clubs, the cover ups, the breaking out of the stories years later and the rolling effect thereafter. It is a gruelling, sickening, harrowing watch seeing those now adults talking bluntly and courageously about having to deal with their burden everyday since the abuse started. I can't remember a documentary that kicked me in the guts like that in a long time. A very hard watch but one worthy of your time.

A review from the Guardian:
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/mar/22/footballs-darkest-secret-review-spare-and-unrelenting

The link to the BBC player :
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000ths4

For some reason, only episodes 1 & 3 are made available on catch-up. I saw No.1 earlier in the week Live and No.3 today on catch up. No idea why No.2 is not there (assuming some lawyers might have got involved and requested a suspension of the catch up version ?). I will have to keep an eye out when it returns. Episodes 1 & 3 are still definitely worth watching as they are.

[George]

[Fëanor]

I'm giving up on The Americans as I near the end of Season 3.  It was suggest by a member here as being "vastly superior" Homeland.  But I can't handle any more.

It deals with in "illegal" Soviet spy couple living in deep cover in the Washington in the Reagan era.  They strive with considerable success to obtain Star Wars, ECM, stealth technology, etc., etc.  In the background changes in the Soviet government with the death of Brezhnev, etc..  An emerging theme in S03 is Moscow Central's effort to recruit the couples American-born daughter to become a "2nd generation" spy more able to pass CIA, FBI, or military background checks.

All very intriguing.  However what puts me right off is that it is impossible for me to develop slightest empathy for this couple.  The writer portrays there personal lives, their sometimes mixed feelings for each other, their love for their children, but if it is the writers intent to illicit any sort of sympathy for them he fails.

This omni-talented couple have comprehensive skills from seduction and sexual techniques, to martial arts, to lock-picking.  Implausibly the 5'3", 110 lb. female is able to take down fit 200 lb. men, sometimes two, with relative ease, (despite apparent lack ongoing practice).  They are fanatically motivated by their love of the "motherland" and the "socialist cause" to routinely commit heinous crimes including the callous and remorseless murder of innocent people who are in the wrong place at the wrong time.  Granted, he is less fanatical than she is, be he doesn't shirk for his "duty".

In a nutshell their total lack of compassion much less sympathy for their American neighbors has made the series insufferable to me and to continue to watch has become self-abusive.

[Mirror Image]

I've been re-watching some Space Ghost Coast to Coast and what a hilarious show this is --- just as zany as I remember it.