What TV series are you currently watching?

DavidW · December 21, 2023, 06:51:58 AM

Calling all Columbo fans! I started watching a tv show called McDonalds and Dodds that really follows the formula. We the audience see what happened... the killer is clever... but the unassuming Dodds is always one step ahead asking seemingly pedantic questions until he catches the killer.

Great stuff! And funny too.

Todd · December 23, 2023, 04:14:41 AM

So, 1883 is a great good time and Yellowstone is an uneven primetime soap, so because of that and the casting of this show, I had doubts. My doubts were well-founded. Harrison Ford was great as Han and Indy (in the 80s only), and good from time to time otherwise, but he has never been a good actor, and this show demonstrates his limitations and his propensity to phone it in now. Helen Mirren is better, but she has little to work with. There are several parallel plotlines, and the two main ones set out west - the ranch and the Rainwaters - are both very, very bad overall. The Out of Africa-esque love story plotline is the most enjoyable, but it is so preposterous in places, and has such a silly plot twist near the end of the season, that it caused a genuine LOL moment. (I shan't spoil it.) At least Mr Sheridan decided to use some hot lesbian sex in this show, too, so there's that.

drogulus · December 23, 2023, 08:16:00 AM

I'm almost finished with my Austrian Tatort, which I have enjoyed muchly.

SimonNZ · December 24, 2023, 04:02:29 PM

A cut above for this genre. Very glad to see there's another two seasons to watch.

George · December 25, 2023, 11:35:57 AM

San Antone · December 26, 2023, 03:05:28 AM

Band of Brothers is a 2001 American war drama miniseries based on historian Stephen E. Ambrose's 1992 non-fiction book of the same name. It was created by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks, who also served as executive producers, and who had collaborated on the 1998 World War II film Saving Private Ryan.

Karl Henning · December 26, 2023, 01:09:08 PM

It's a mildly funny thing: As part of my Christmas viewing, I decided to scare up "Door to Death" and "Christmas Party" from the Nero wolf series with Timothy Hutton & Maury Chaykin, and I've gotten sucked back into the series as a whole.

drogulus · December 28, 2023, 07:47:10 PM

I'm acquiring The Life and Loves of a She-Devil on dvd. You can buy it on Amazon for $145.99. I paid less.

SimonNZ · January 02, 2024, 04:30:08 PM

Stopping this after two episodes. All of the early panic and societal breakdown and survival tropes have been done far better multiple times elsewhere. This seems just colour-by-numbers.

But the real deal breaker is that the fungus people zombies are like something from 70s Doctor Who.

Pity.

Iota · January 03, 2024, 10:09:44 AM

Agatha Christie, Witness For The Prosecution, BBC iPlayer,

Toby Jones, Andrea Riseborough, David Haig

A gripping, unsettling and memorable two-part adaptation, that seems to me to penetrate far deeper into the psyche of the protagonists than Agatha Christie ever did (though it's a very long time since I've read one of hers). Something that proves dramatically very effective, and makes it feel almost more a drama of human aspiration than a whodunnit. Toby Jones (as ever) and Andrea Riseborough are particularly impressive.

Quote from: SimonNZ on January 02, 2024, 04:30:08 PM

Stopping this after two episodes. All of the early panic and societal breakdown and survival tropes have been done far better multiple times elsewhere. This seems just colour-by-numbers.

But the real deal breaker is that the fungus people zombies are like something from 70s Doctor Who.

Pity.

I seem to remember doing something very similar with that when I tried it. I found it completely uninvolving.

drogulus · January 03, 2024, 07:00:24 PM

The She-Devil will have to wait.

The wonderful actor Tom Wilkinson died a few days ago, so I felt the urge to watch Spyship again.

steve ridgway · January 03, 2024, 11:38:50 PM

Mr. Bates Vs The Post Office on ITVX. A drama documentary based on the true story of over 700 sub-postmasters wrongfully convicted, even jailed, due to bugs in a new IT system.

BBC News gives the background.

SimonNZ · January 04, 2024, 10:17:04 PM

Started:

Mookalafalas · January 04, 2024, 10:38:31 PM

Rewatching this series. My favorite comedy series, alongside Modern Family.

George · January 06, 2024, 06:54:37 PM

VonStupp · January 07, 2024, 01:24:49 PM

Doctor Who: Season 10 (2017)
Peter Capaldi, Peal Mackie, Matt Lucas

Finished up Capaldi's reign as Doctor Who.
VS

Irons · January 07, 2024, 11:49:13 PM

The Adulterer.

A Dutch drama that has taken a decade to reach our shores (Walter Presents). Well worth the wait!

DavidW · January 09, 2024, 06:05:16 PM

I just finished season 7 of Shetland. Great ending to the show, goodbye Perez.

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oh wait there is a new season!

George · January 09, 2024, 06:12:44 PM

Just getting started on this show. So far, so good.

SimonNZ · January 13, 2024, 12:46:43 PM

Four episodes in and I find I'm liking this season way more than some others seem to have.

Glad that they've dialed back most of the teen-like crudeness and that they are much less focused on the Lifestyles Of The Rich And Famous flash, to the extent that these long dialog-heavy room-bound scenes could almost be recreated on a stage without losing anything.