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

[Drak]

Originally Posted by CliffFletcher

I don’t know why so many critics have complained about this season of White Lotus. It was great. It’s the only show from the last few years besides Succession that I watch day-of when a new episode drops.

There was a lot packed into the finale, but it all played out entertainingly, with dramatic twists and resolutions. And of course everything about the production, from the cinematography, to the sound design, acting, dialogue, etc - remains top-notch.

I do wonder if the premise can be sustained for a fourth season, though, without starting to feel formulaic. And you’d think an ultra-exclusive hotel chain where so many people have met violent ends would start to get a bad reputation.

I liked it but the ending has some poorly written stuff in it, Imo.

[Yamer]

Started The Pitt last night. 2 episodes in and I'm hooked.

[8 Ball]

Originally Posted by Yamer

Started The Pitt last night. 2 episodes in and I'm hooked.

Yes, it is really well done.

[zukes]

Loving The Pitt! We're through 10 or 11 episodes. Fantastic, gripping TV.

[csnarpy]

Originally Posted by Yamer

Started The Pitt last night. 2 episodes in and I'm hooked.

This show is amazing. Seriously though, if you have Noah Wyler and John Wells then it will have that ER feel. But to me this is just better and I was a big ER fan. Is it wrong that when I’m explaining the show to others that I just call him Carter?? Lol

[Sidney Crosby's Hat]

Originally Posted by bdubbs

Overall a pretty good show, but there are definite ebbs and flows.

I find myself getting super frustrated with Mark's whininess at times, but then I have to pause to realize he's basically a teenager or young adult throughout all of this turmoil and then it becomes understandable again.

Funny, these are my exact thoughts about Severance.

[looooob]

Originally Posted by csnarpy

This show is amazing. Seriously though, if you have Noah Wyler and John Wells then it will have that ER feel. But to me this is just better and I was a big ER fan. Is it wrong that when I’m explaining the show to others that I just call him Carter?? Lol

I refer to him as Carter while my wife and I are watching the episodes. its great TV. different era (post the Prestige TV revolution) than ER, I think both are great and it is a very unusual circumstance to have Wyle just slip into a drama with a similar setting 20 odd years later- but it feels comfortable but different and not gimmicky which I wasn't necessarily predicting

[Erick Estrada]

Originally Posted by Sidney Crosby's Hat

Funny, these are my exact thoughts about Severance.

Severance is a mystery box show like Lost which will have an expiry date long before the last episode as people tend to get frustrated when they invest time into storylines that end up unresolved.

[zukes]

The ending to 1923 was poor. Ruined what I thought was an excellent series.

Spoiler!

-Alex just happens to survive when the people driving her don't?

- The train which contains her husband just happens to be going by the exact spot the car stopped and not only that, Spencer just happens to be looking out the window and is able to tell that it's his wife who he has to believe is still overseas.

- He jumps from a train that is going full speed? Yet is running right away?

- The train decides to stop now that a passenger has jumped off and seems closer than when Spencer jumped.

- Then after the ridiculous intercontinental trek that Alex takes, she just decides to die instead of having her legs and arm amputated? Come on!

- Somehow 10 Dutton's can take on 50+ bad guys?

- Old lady Helen Miren is somehow an excellent sniper?

- What was the point of the actress that is in Landman? She was a complaining whiner that added nothing to the story and her Dutton husband was a putz.

I could go on, really disappointed.

[Fuzz]

I figure at some point people will have watched enoguh Sheridan shows to realize he's ####ing hack. This isn't prestige TV, it's daytime soaps with more swears and higher production value.

[Inglewood Jack]

Originally Posted by Erick Estrada

Severance is a mystery box show like Lost which will have an expiry date long before the last episode as people tend to get frustrated when they invest time into storylines that end up unresolved.

Shows with drawn out mysteries are not inherently bad. I think Severance dances right on the line of drawing out the questions to keep viewers coming back, and just dicking around to extend airtime.

The problem I have is how the people in the show react to the mysteries they encounter. The way the Lumon people talk is grating and the unexplained timeline of the weird mix of modern and analog tech are things I've just had accept as part of the setting. But the Innies and Outies keep running into these obscenely bizarre situations and never seem to question things the way normal people would. Sure Dylan spouts "What the f***?" a lot but besides that, there's a real lack of truly relatable characters for me because I'm yelling at them to ask what the hell is going on, and they mostly just don't, or it's not shown.

At least give me a little bit more of a curious fish out of water so that there's an anchor between our world and theirs. Then you can choose to reveal the mysteries or not, but at least the fish tried to find out.

I also think a lot of scenes were drawn up specifically to be meme-able. This shouldn't really be how memes are created.

[Erick Estrada]

Oh I like Severance. The first season was brilliant. For me the 2nd season was merely good, not great due to various issues with the pacing and storytelling. The acting is top notch and levels above Lost.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

I figure at some point people will have watched enoguh Sheridan shows to realize he's ####ing hack. This isn't prestige TV, it's daytime soaps with more swears and higher production value.

And yet he wrote Sicario, which is a banging movie.

[woob]

I'm fully on the Severance train. It's such a high quality show with superb cinematography, great acting, sci-fi mixed with old school, and lots of wtf moments. When a tv show/movie in in sci-fi territory, I don't need it tied to my world at all. There's enough to know it's a human story, within a different arc of time, and that's enough for me.

That being said, I could see others not having that same point of view.

[DownInFlames]

The first episode of the newest season of Game Changer on Dropout was incredible. The three contestants were given a year to complete fifteen challenges. It was like a complete season of Taskmaster condensed into an hour. The amount of creativity and subterfuge on display is insane.

https://parade.com/tv/sam-reich-game...view-exclusive

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

And yet he wrote Sicario, which is a banging movie.

I'm probably a weirdo, but I thought that movie was really overrated, but I always chalked that up to perhaps my mood when I watched it. I didn't know until few weeks ago he wrote it, so I'm gonna have to re-evaluate my original theory that it really is overrated and maybe watch it again.



Did you know he's also the horse broker arsehole in Yellowstone? That blew my mind.

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by woob

I'm fully on the Severance train. It's such a high quality show with superb cinematography, great acting, sci-fi mixed with old school, and lots of wtf moments. When a tv show/movie in in sci-fi territory, I don't need it tied to my world at all. There's enough to know it's a human story, within a different arc of time, and that's enough for me.

That being said, I could see others not having that same point of view.

Ya, but those people are wrong.

[driveway]

If there are any Anime fans on here, Frieren: Beyond the Last Journey is phenomenal. Recently took the top spot on MAL from Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood and, imo, is worth the rating. First season is on Crunchyroll.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by driveway

If there are any Anime fans on here, Frieren: Beyond the Last Journey is phenomenal. Recently took the top spot on MAL from Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood and, imo, is worth the rating. First season is on Crunchyroll.

I'm not entirely certain how much of this was in English.

[btimbit]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

I figure at some point people will have watched enoguh Sheridan shows to realize he's ####ing hack. This isn't prestige TV, it's daytime soaps with more swears and higher production value.

I'm over them now because they all feel the same, but for me his shows are in the same vein as Sons of Anarchy (not just because he's in that too, just the example that comes to mind). They're not that good, I won't applaud the writing or the story, and the characters are about as deep as a kiddie pool.

But it's fun. Shouldn't get any awards, but can be a good time.

That said, it's time to do something different and stop doing a dozen shows at once, the quality nosedives real quick