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Yeah it's HBO.

We Own This City - the David Simon / George Pelecanos minseries from a year or 2 back about corrupt plainclothes cops in Baltimore in the 2000s-2010s, the FBI investigation into them and civil rights lawyers investigating the force at the same time (with the nacent Black Lives Matter movement in...

Watching a show called Lodge 49, on the recommendation of someone on a podcast I listen to.. It got 2 seasons in 2018-19 before being cancelled, Wyatt Russell (son of Kurt & Goldie Hawn) plays the lead character, as an amiable somewhat dopey 30-something guy whose life has gone into drift after...

So they finally made a 3rd season of this, over a decade on from the last one.. I'm 4 episodes in and so far it maintains the high standard of the original show, thankfully. I was a bit worried it would be inherently depressing (i.e. same characters working in the same dead end job, 10 years...

Severance - for about 4 or 5 episodes I was intrigued by the concept, then I realized I was starting to find it rather silly.. I don't know if the combination of bleak corporate culture dystopia and surreal comedy quite gels together, I found the shifts in tone a bit jarring. Great cast and I...

Great little show.. could deffo have done a 3rd season but at the same time I'm kind of glad it got chopped before it got endlessly run into the ground like every other semi-successful U.S. TV product.

Someone on another forum recommended an Amazon Prime show from last year called 'Undone', which I watched the entirety of over the last couple of nights (there are only eight 22 minute episodes so you can comfortably do it in 2 sittings). It's a bit hard to describe without giving away too much...

Watched it when it was originally out, my memory of it is that the first couple of episodes depicting the inciting incident and immediate fallout from that are the best part, and then it starts to cover some pretty well trodden ground about the harshness of the U.S. prison system. I seem to...

Devs - had high hopes with the Alex Garland involvement but I gave up after 3 episodes, thought it was a bit corny.. The Plot Against America - I'm only 2 eps in but seems quite promising, bit of the 'eat your greens' slow build of every HBO David Simon production but I'm sure it'll pay off.

Watched both seasons of Search Party, I think after reading about it earlier in this thread.. Season 1 I really enjoyed,. the combo of mystery / investigative storyline and darkly funny skewering of self absorbed 20-somethings works well (Alia Shawkat as lead is a big plus also). 2nd season was...

I caught up with Season 4 of Silicon Valley over the last few days.. It's still entertaining enough but it feels like a series that's running out of steam a bit. I wish they'd allow plot arcs to develop gradually over the course of the season, instead of the ongoing crisis-of-the-week thing...

Atlanta, Donald Glover's new series.. I really like this, after 4 episodes. Think something a bit like David Simon's Treme but quite a bit funnier and with a focus on hip-hop / rappers and kind of a surreal sheen to it..

Watched the first half a dozen episodes of You're the Worst, new-ish US comedy series.. It's decently funny, about two very cynical misanthropic people in L.A. who start a friends-with-benefits relationship that gradually evolves.. Put me in mind a bit of Black Books, if Bernard had met a female...

Louie Season 5- I liked the first two episodes quite a lot, he's back to more actual laughs and more self-contained stories. The farcical romantic encounter with the surrogate lady (and the fallout from it) was especially funny.. Didn't get much out of the Cop Story / Michael Rapaport episode...

Review with Forrest MacNeill New-ish Comedy Central series. Andy Daly plays a mild-mannered TV show host who has to partake in and review extreme life experiences suggested by his viewers (e.g. taking cocaine, eating 30 pancakes, being racist).. Daly's a very funny guy that I knew from improv...

Rick and Morty - hilariously twisted take on the Doc & Marty dynamic.. Rather dark in places, also. I'm annoyed at myself for watching them all too quickly seeing as the 2nd season seems to be months away.

Yeah the last season was disappointing, the idea was good in theory but it all felt a bit forced, not many proper laughs. Hopefully they can get back near the season 2-3 quality.

It's also kind of fascinating as an example of network interference, they gradually destroyed the show over the course of seasons 3-6 in an attempt to bring in more viewers - watch as the old ugly cops get killed off and replaced with younger better looking versions, and the writing gets more...

My guilty pleasure lately is Adventure Time, which is a cartoon apparently conceived by people who grew up on D&D and computer games.. It's hilarious, and the layers of detail and back story at this stage are amazing. Kid's TV shows are on another plane of weirdness now from what I remember.

Season 4 of Louie.. I loved the feature-length flashback to his grade school years (and it made me want to see any future movies he may direct), but to be honest I found large sections of the Hungarian lady multi-episode romantic arc a bit tedious.. The bits with his kids are great as ever...