What TV series are you currently watching?

[DavidW]

I'm on the third season of The Gilded Age. Bill Camp plays J.P. Morgan, so all's right with the world.
   

I want to watch it, but I never even finished Downton Abbey.

[drogulus]

I want to watch it, but I never even finished Downton Abbey.

     There's more realish history in this one. The attention to detail is pretty intense.

[hopefullytrusting]

I am not yet a Man of a Certain Age to truly appreciate the show, but I am old enough to understand how great the show is (helps to have 3 powerhouse leads who know how to defer) - this is a show I will definitely return to when I am of age (nearing 50), as I think I'll understand it a bit more with a few more years under my belt (although, it does seem predicated on the classic "American Dream," which is something I haven't desired since I was a little kid, so I might not understand that wrinkle even with more years under my belt).

[George]

I am not yet a Man of a Certain Age to truly appreciate the show, but I am old enough to understand how great the show is (helps to have 3 powerhouse leads who know how to defer) - this is a show I will definitely return to when I am of age (nearing 50), as I think I'll understand it a bit more with a few more years under my belt (although, it does seem predicated on the classic "American Dream," which is something I haven't desired since I was a little kid, so I might not understand that wrinkle even with more years under my belt).

An excellent show!

[SimonNZ]

A little disappointed by this new version so far. And the decision to have it bounce around a non-linear narrative was a big mistake, and is handled clumsily.

I'd be interested to learn if covid happening during its post-production changed the final edit, but wikipedia at least has no info about that.

[George]

Stick - good little show!

[DavidW]

A little disappointed by this new version so far. And the decision to have it bounce around a non-linear narrative was a big mistake, and is handled clumsily.

I'd be interested to learn if covid happening during its post-production changed the final edit, but wikipedia at least has no info about that.

Yeah, it was shockingly bad! There was little understanding of what made the novel so beloved, and many of the characters are not done justice. The flashbacks used to develop character do not make sense for the story. This is not Station 11, it is The Stand. And it is not just a bad adaptation, it is also dull as dishwater.

[Florestan]

Various episodes on AXN. Nothing to write home about --- but the readhead is gorgeous. 

[VonStupp]

The A-Team (1983-1987)
George Peppard, Mr. T,
Dwight Schultz, Dirk Benedict

My wife has taken to watching the A-Team every once in a while. She likes the light tone amidst 80's TV action.

I had forgotten how silly the show was, only remembering the action element.

VS

[Iota]

Parenthood

The new BBC documentary series with David Attenborough, documenting extraordinary examples of parenting and sacrifice in the animal world. Have just finished Episode 1, which among a host of other remarkable scenes, features the loveliest gorilla footage I've ever seen.

[Mister Sharpe]

Anoniem (Anonymous), a Dutch series based in Rotterdam about a soporific high school history teacher who goes - in segreto - vigilante on a drug lord and dealers (while his wife, a public prosecutor with problems of her own, wields a case against the same criminal).  With obvious inspirations from Superman and Batman and Breaking Bad, I wasn't expecting much from this series, but it more than manages to keep one's attention. (Streaming on MhZ) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21441628

[hopefullytrusting]

You would think I would have learned by now, but no actress has led me more astray than Eva Green. Thanks to The Dreamers, I think that I will like anything she is in, but I never do - she's not that great of an actress, and, in my opinion, she has selected poorly when it comes to what she has chosen to act in. My latest in this line of disappointments is: Liaison



And, this should be a can't miss - "realistic" espionage! That is exactly my genre, my jam! I will admit - it is very well shot - I cannot take that away, and its plot is appropriately convoluted. It's major flaw, again, in my opinion, is with the male lead: Vincent Cassel (think the James Bond problem, but even less believable because it is freaking Eva Green, easily one of the most beautiful people on the planet - it actually gave me sitcom vibes with the attractiveness disparity between the two).

I cannot recommend this show, and, yes, unlike The Who, I WILL BE FOOLED AGAIN (when it involves Eva Green)!

[71 dB]

I started watching Buck Rogers in the 25th Century again on Blu-ray. I discovered this about 9 years ago and it is time to revisit it. I love this kind of Star Wars-inspired silly scifi. 

[George]

Second time going through this series and enjoying it even more than the first.

[Karl Henning]

On Saturday evening I binge-watched the seven episodes of a 1981 BBC miniseries of Sense & Sensibility. Very nicely done. 

[AnotherSpin]

Far better to revisit a truly good series than to plough through one new release after another, only to be disappointed time and again. Line of Duty, starting from the very first series. And while many scenes come back to memory without the slightest effort, the show still feels remarkably fresh.

[hopefullytrusting]

Going to start this one soon: Black Doves



Yes, I judge things by their cover, and I judge that cover to be cool.

Also, the slug makes it sound like it is right in my wheelhouse: After her lover is murdered by members of London's underworld, a spy - who is publicly the wife of the British Defence Secretary - is protected by an old friend from their agency.

Plus, it stars Q (from the Daniel Craig James Bond films) and Natalie Portman's decoy (from Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace)!

[SimonNZ]