I need a new TV series to get into (old or new) v2

[EldrickOnIce]

Originally Posted by Timbo

Dark City : The Cleaner on showcase has me watching with interest.
2 episodes in so far, and its a good blend of dark humour, serial killer mindset.
It’s a New Zealand Dexter to some degree.

Give it a shot .

I'm convinced. Thanks!

[Shazam]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

Infinite multiverse stuff bores me. I know there are theories on it, but it's basically a cheat code for lazy writing. Nothing interesting ever comes out of it because anything, nay, everything is possible at all times. If it wasn't, then it isn't an infinite multiverse. And if everything is possible, nothing is unexpected.


I'm not sure who came up with this type of story first(wake up in a different strange world, slightly different than your own) but Philip K Dick probably wrote my favourite version of this with "Flow my Tears, the Policeman Said".

Asimov had a few short stories from the 1950s.

He had one that was about a page long; two scientists were discussing how there was a chance that anything could happen in a universe, then a giant pit appeared out of nowhere under them, and they died.

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by Shazam

Asimov had a few short stories from the 1950s.

He had one that was about a page long; two scientists were discussing how there was a chance that anything could happen in a universe, then a giant pit appeared out of nowhere under them, and they died.

Sounds like he hit his 500 words! Love Asimov.

[EldrickOnIce]

Originally Posted by Timbo

Dark City : The Cleaner on showcase has me watching with interest.
2 episodes in so far, and its a good blend of dark humour, serial killer mindset.
It’s a New Zealand Dexter to some degree.

Give it a shot .

We finished this.
Loved it!
Hoping for S2!

[octothorp]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

Infinite multiverse stuff bores me. I know there are theories on it, but it's basically a cheat code for lazy writing. Nothing interesting ever comes out of it because anything, nay, everything is possible at all times. If it wasn't, then it isn't an infinite multiverse. And if everything is possible, nothing is unexpected.


I'm not sure who came up with this type of story first(wake up in a different strange world, slightly different than your own) but Philip K Dick probably wrote my favourite version of this with "Flow my Tears, the Policeman Said".

I could have sworn I replied to this, but apparently not. Maybe that was in another universe.

Anyway, yeah I think you've got to have a reason for using a multiverse. One of my absolute favorite sci-fi stories is Ted Chiang's Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom, and it uses a multiverse to brilliant effect, essentially using it to make a case for good moral actions against existential uncertainty. And it follows what I think is the other key rule of multiversal stories: you've got to have rules and limits. (And you have to stick to them, the point of the story can't just be trying to break the rules and limits.) The highly-constrained nature of the multiverse in AitDoF is what makes it really interesting. He shrinks the story down, rather than letting it just expand exponentially, like so many multiversal stories want to do.

Also, I recently read a collection of Phillip K Dick stories for the first time since I was about 20. Man, there were a lot of supple women back then. Supple lady scientists! Supple lady bureaucrats! Supple lady grocery clerks! Love his ideas, but once I started noticing it I could help fixating on his usage of that word.

[EldrickOnIce]

Finally getting around to watching Luther. Not sure why after so long, but this is really good. Would prefer to never have Idris Elba character John Luther angry with me. Nor Ruth Wilson's character Alice Morgan.
I expect you all have watched this already, but if you haven't you should. 3 episodes in and is hard to turn off.

[DownInFlames]

Originally Posted by EldrickOnIce

3 episodes in and is hard to turn off.

It gets easier.

[EldrickOnIce]

Originally Posted by DownInFlames

It gets easier.

Hahaha!
Well played

[curves2000]

I am not sure if this has been mentioned or not but I absolutely love the show on History called "The Foods that Built America" It goes into detail about the various foods, brands and more and how they shaped our future and existence. Absolute great quality and you actually are amazed to learn a lot of things. It's a combo of tv show, documentary, biopic and more. It's very well done and the acting and the sets are pretty high quality too!

I believe you can stream on the History TV app or the Global TV app. I just watched and PVR on cable.

I am also now watching "The Brands that Built America" but this is more of a business and corporate version of the above. Also fantastic!

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by curves2000

I am not sure if this has been mentioned or not but I absolutely love the show on History called "The Foods that Built America" It goes into detail about the various foods, brands and more and how they shaped our future and existence. Absolute great quality and you actually are amazed to learn a lot of things. It's a combo of tv show, documentary, biopic and more. It's very well done and the acting and the sets are pretty high quality too!

I believe you can stream on the History TV app or the Global TV app. I just watched and PVR on cable.

I am also now watching "The Brands that Built America" but this is more of a business and corporate version of the above. Also fantastic!

I wouldn't say "Absolute great quality" & "the acting and the sets are pretty high quality" , the sets and acting have a high school play vibe to them. If I had a dollar for every time the "food inventor" stared off off camera right I'd be a rich man. It is very formulaic in both acting, sets & show structure.

I will acknowledge there are some "wow that's cool I didn't know that" moments.

It is essentially a 1 hour televised version of the radio sports "Great Idea".