What television series are you currently making your way through? (3 Viewers)

[rettucs]

'The New Look' on AppleTV+

myself and the missus were driving through France last week and passed through a town called Granville (that I'd never heard of before). Turned out it was the birthplace of Christian Dior and his childhood home was turned into a museum. We popped along for a visit. While the house/museum was underwhelming, the grounds and location were amazing.

We got to reading a bit about his back story, and learned about his sister, Catherine. She was quite something and we discovered this series while reading up.

Its excellent overall, but a little puzzling as to why they included Coco Chanel in the storyline (her story is interesting too). Its largely set during WW2 and we learn a lot about their various connections with both the nazis and the French resistance.

Fully recommended.

 

[seanc]

Someone was talking about an elderly friend who's been watching and quite enjoying "a housemates knee".

After some thought it was figured out that she meant "A handmaids tale".
Even the elderly friend herself was embarrassed and amused.

Which is about the funniest thing we can take from that show. I've been watching too and I do recommend.

 

[chris d]

The Simpsons S05. What was I laughing at now?

 

[chris d]

Oh yes, that crippled Irishman!

 

[chris d]

Andor S02 E08

Some cheese, but overall, good stuff.

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[GO]

Too busy for TV anymore. Only pre approved quality series are on the menu.

Too wit..... FAMILIES LIKE OURS.
It's on the TG4 player.
10/10/10.

 

[pete]

Squid Game. Grand. The VIPs' performances were still the weakest thing in it, but were a big improvement on the last time round.

Ironheart. I'm not the target audience, but it was fine.

 

[Richie]

Watching season 2 of Nathan Fielder's 'The Rehearsal', which is a demented bit of high-concept weirdness.. I didn't think the 1st season of this show entirely worked but he has a stronger theme to hang it on this time around (based around an apparently genuine desire to study communication failure between commercial airline pilots) and there are more out-and-out comedy moments, as opposed to just 'cringe' humour.

Also watching that new Adam Curtis BBC doc series Shifty, which I am enjoying, it's his usual style of cut and paste collage archive footage trawled from the BBC archives to give a portrait of '80s Britain, I kind of prefer now that he doesn't narrate them and just uses text captions.. quite funny in places, when it isn't showing you nightmarish clips of Jimmy Saville and Maggie Thatcher playing for the camera.

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

I tried to watch Foundation S03E01 but I had to turn it off, fucking rubbish

 

[pete]

Finished Murderbot. Grand. All wrapped up nicely but it's getting a 2nd season anyway.

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

I rewatched the original 5 episodes of V recently, don't think I've seen it since whenever RTE showed it in the 80s. Still holds up, didnt really expect it to

 

[therealjohnny]

Stumbled across Dalgleish recently. Very enjoyable, in that English understated murder mystery way. Watched all three seasons and would like more.

 

[Anthony]

Never watched it back in the day, so we started 30 Rock from Episode 1.
I'm loving Tina Fey in this, while hating the Baldwin.

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

Never watched it back in the day, so we started 30 Rock from Episode 1.
I'm loving Tina Fey in this, while hating the Baldwin.

What? Jack Donaghy is one of the greatest TV characters. The whole show is perfect.