What TV series are you currently watching?

[TheGSMoeller]

...I cannot make up my mind whether it's utter crap or just crap.

Which one is a more positive review?
If you stick with it I'd be interested to hear what you thought, the plot takes some sharp turns once they start revealing what the true purpose of DEVS is.

[Daverz]

Just finished DEVS on Hulu, an 8-episode mini-series all written and directed by Alex Garland (Ex-Machina, Annihilation). A  unique story that focuses on the loss of loved ones, and the determinism of our reality, and connects them beautifully into a complex, and visually-stunning show. I loved DEVS, it's exactly the type of bold television that I want to see more of. It felt more like an 8-hour movie than 8 separated episodes, which was a very similar presentation to HBO's most recent Watchmen show from last year. 
DEVS is slow-paced, but consistent with its tone throughout, and the final episode is a real mind-bender. I'm an Alex Garland fan and excited to see what he creates next.

If you know any physics, or even just basic high school science, there will be a moment when you find yourself yelling "Radioactive decay, you nitwit!"  at the screen.   

[Irons]

Last night I watched the second episode of the new Van der Valk or, at least, half of it but before bailing out. Just not engaging with the characters or the plots. The one plus point - Amsterdam looks beautiful.

You are lucky as I had to sit through the whole thing last night as the wife wanted to watch it.

Loving "Killing Eve" (missed series 1&2). If I was to be bumped off I would choose her. It would be quick and she is pleasing on the eye.

[Papy Oli]

Loving "Killing Eve" (missed series 1&2). If I was to be bumped off I would choose her. It would be quick and she is pleasing on the eye.

Added bonus: Hearing her original strong Liverpool accent just before my departing would make me smile and laugh (appreciatively) all the way to the Pearly Gates 

[Biffo]

You are lucky as I had to sit through the whole thing last night as the wife wanted to watch it.

Loving "Killing Eve" (missed series 1&2). If I was to be bumped off I would choose her. It would be quick and she is pleasing on the eye.

One small mercy, I think there are only three episodes.

[Irons]

Added bonus: Hearing her original strong Liverpool accent just before my departing would make me smile and laugh (appreciatively) all the way to the Pearly Gates 

Sorry Olivier, only Russian will do for me. Something about beautiful women with East European accents.  

[Papy Oli]

to each their own, Comrade Lol 

[Florestan]

An excellent Russian series based on Aleksey Tolstoy's trilogy.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

You are lucky as I had to sit through the whole thing last night as the wife wanted to watch it.

Loving "Killing Eve" (missed series 1&2). If I was to be bumped off I would choose her. It would be quick and she is pleasing on the eye.

 

I just tried looking up free movies OnDemand with my service provider:  horrible!  Rather than saying just "free", for many of them they now say "Free with subscription"....makes trying to look up movies horrible!   I give up there.  Will try out some free online shows/movies trials to see which ones I like and might be worth it continuing.

Best,

PD

[Mandryka]

Which one is a more positive review?
If you stick with it I'd be interested to hear what you thought, the plot takes some sharp turns once they start revealing what the true purpose of DEVS is.

Episode 5 is very good. Looking forward to the next one now.

[TheGSMoeller]

Episode 5 is very good. Looking forward to the next one now.

Cool 

[Todd]

I started watching the second season of Dead to Me, and the first episode was OK, until the end, with its apparent plot twist.  I watched the first 45 seconds or so of the second episode to see if the plot twist was what I thought it was, and it was, and then I stopped watching.  The show is now dead to me.

[Mandryka]

I've got as far as Episode 3 of Devs and I cannot make up my mind whether it's utter crap or just crap. It certainly looks good though -- I've got lots of interior design ideas.

So having seen all of it apart from the last 15 minutes (I just couldn't do it, I have personal standards), it is absolutely total utter fucking crap. Apart from Episode 6 which is pretty cool.

Wonderful surfaces though -- radiant, beautiful surfaces. Like Einstein on the Beach.

I very much enjoyed being reminded of the Larkin

I work all day, and get half-drunk at night.   
Waking at four to soundless dark, I stare.   
In time the curtain-edges will grow light.   
Till then I see what's really always there:   
Unresting death, a whole day nearer now,   
Making all thought impossible but how   
And where and when I shall myself die.   
Arid interrogation: yet the dread
Of dying, and being dead,
Flashes afresh to hold and horrify.

The mind blanks at the glare. Not in remorse   
—The good not done, the love not given, time   
Torn off unused—nor wretchedly because   
An only life can take so long to climb
Clear of its wrong beginnings, and may never;   
But at the total emptiness for ever,
The sure extinction that we travel to
And shall be lost in always. Not to be here,   
Not to be anywhere,
And soon; nothing more terrible, nothing more true.

This is a special way of being afraid
No trick dispels. Religion used to try,
That vast moth-eaten musical brocade
Created to pretend we never die,
And specious stuff that says No rational being
Can fear a thing it will not feel, not seeing
That this is what we fear—no sight, no sound,   
No touch or taste or smell, nothing to think with,   
Nothing to love or link with,
The anaesthetic from which none come round.

And so it stays just on the edge of vision,   
A small unfocused blur, a standing chill   
That slows each impulse down to indecision.   
Most things may never happen: this one will,   
And realisation of it rages out
In furnace-fear when we are caught without   
People or drink. Courage is no good:
It means not scaring others. Being brave   
Lets no one off the grave.
Death is no different whined at than withstood.

Slowly light strengthens, and the room takes shape.   
It stands plain as a wardrobe, what we know,   
Have always known, know that we can't escape,   
Yet can't accept. One side will have to go.
Meanwhile telephones crouch, getting ready to ring   
In locked-up offices, and all the uncaring
Intricate rented world begins to rouse.
The sky is white as clay, with no sun.
Work has to be done.
Postmen like doctors go from house to house.

[FelixSkodi]

Season 2 of 24. (I have the complete set.)

[André]

Light stuff for me these days:



Apparently this canadian whodunit series ran for 13 seasons. I just discovered its existence. Humour and mystery are in good balance.



I love Rachael Stirling - loved her mother, too, when I (and she) was younger  . And Julie Graham, too. Good actress.

[vandermolen]

Box of Delights - a BBC Children's series from 1984.
I'd never heard of it before until a friend mentioned enjoying it as a child. It has a good cast including Patrick Troughton and Robert Stephens. It was very charming and we watched all six half-hour episodes on DVD over two evenings. Nice use of Hely-Hutchinson's Christmas Carol Symphony as theme music:

[Florestan]

Apparently this canadian whodunit series ran for 13 seasons. I just discovered its existence. Humour and mystery are in good balance.

Yes, this is very good. (The cover is rather misleading, though, as there is no black female main character. The woman on the cover plays a role in one episode only. )

You might also like this series (Australian)



and this one (Canadian)



(this time the black lady is indeed one of the main characters.)

[Biffo]

Yes, this is very good. (The cover is rather misleading, though, as there is no black female main character. The woman on the cover plays a role in one episode only. )

You might also like this series (Australian)



and this one (Canadian)



(this time the black lady is indeed one of the main characters.)

Not sure which series you have got up to but she starts out as an assistant to Dr Ogden and later takes over her job.

[Florestan]

Not sure which series you have got up to but she starts out as an assistant to Dr Ogden and later takes over her job.

I've seen dozens of episodes until now and Dr. Ogden's only assistant and later replacement is Dr. Grace, with a short interregnum of Dr. Francis.

I have seen no episode whatever with a black female coroner.

Fwiw, I watch the series on the channel Epic Drama.

Strange. 

[Biffo]

I've seen dozens of episodes until now and Dr. Ogden's only assistant and later replacement is Dr. Grace, with a short interregnum of Dr. Francis.

I have seen no episode whatever with a black female coroner.

Fwiw, I watch the series on the channel Epic Drama.

Strange. 

For a long time here in the UK we were several series behind Canada and a couple behind France. On holiday in France we saw a couple of episodes with a new detective and it was completely baffling. Now, as far as I am aware all available series have been shown on UK television, including the three pilot episodes with different actors. Apparently Series 13 is now showing in Canada but not yet in the UK.

Shanice Banton plays Violet Hart and there is a long list of episodes in which she appears, from at least series 11 onwards -

https://murdochmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Violet_Hart