What television series are you currently making your way through? (5 Viewers)

The stylisation is probably the main reason it's so bollocks haha

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it's not good, it's absurd, the characters don't talk and act like real people, and it's overly stylised. but it's watchable
it's cliched and the scenes where the handmaids are walking along in slow motion are ridiculous self parody. seems to be winter all the time.
June seems get away with a huge amount considering the fate of other folks who were killed ages ago.
when the Gilead guy who abducted and continually abused June in his household was arrested in Canada they somehow let June's husband interrogate him ?!
the lead actor being a member of dystopian religion herself also doesn't add up.

Dystopia in America is going to be corporate Trump stylee - so the whole thing is out of sync with that.

I watched the first series but saw a synopsis on you tube of where it went after. not very far - it's very slow moving.

TV drama is rarely worth a fuck. listen to music instead.
 
I spent years not watching TV at all ever but during the first lockdown I needed a bit of escapism and TV did the trick. Turns out some of it is alright.
I didn't watch TV at all from early 1994 to early 1997. I started to watch football again at that point.
in the early 90's we only had RTE plus the Astra satellite channels (no BBC, ITV, C4) Satellite TV was mostly only worth watching for sport, The Simpsons and Yo! MTV Raps in those days.

nowadays I watch the news, lots of cycling and football plus some other sport, plenty of docs esp. music ones but I never transitioned to being a regular viewer of TV drama for adults. I rarely watch movies except on you tube. I've said this a few times.
 
it's cliched and the scenes where the handmaids are walking along in slow motion are ridiculous self parody. seems to be winter all the time.
June seems get away with a huge amount considering the fate of other folks who were killed ages ago.
when the Gilead guy who abducted and continually abused June in his household was arrested in Canada they somehow let June's husband interrogate him ?!
the lead actor being a member of dystopian religion herself also doesn't add up.
Pretty much nails it all
 
watched episode 2 of Cant Get You Out Of My Head ... absolutely fucking awesome on every level. Especially if you like 70s revolutionaries

This may well be the perfect documentary series for me
 
It is grim. It's grim as feck, but hey that's how many people live in this world. The wife watched half of episode one and was very triggered. Proper freaked out.

It's far from perfect. I don't think it's over-stylised I think it has a distinctive style. Yeah the characters act oddly with each other, but I think that's in keeping with the show.

I didn't like that Margaret Atwood took offence to it being called science fiction, like she taught sci-fi was a dirty word. It is a dystopian near future world.
The Margaret Atwood "don't call it sci-fi" wars have been going on for years man, you have no idea what hornets nest you're poking at here.

Anyway, I only watched about half of Season 1 and found it a bad adaptation of the book, albeit a decent show in its own right - righteousness porn or something. It didn't do much for me but it was very finely sculpted.
 
Two episodes into the 2019 War of The Worlds. Ok so far.
Finished this last night. It's pretty good, fairly bleak stuff. It's also very European, which is nice for a change in my post apocalyptic TV show viewing.

On to series 2 tonight where it'll probably all turn to shite.
 
Rewatching Inspector Morse.

John Thaw (born 1942) was only 45 when he first played Morse (1987)

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I've run the numbers anumber of times and it seems it's true
 
If we're on a theme of bleak, I've been watching Time on BBC. It's about as much fun as a show starring Sean Bean and Stephen Graham can be expected to be. Only three episodes mind.


I've had to stop watching in parts. Cried in parts. Didn't laugh once.
 
Attempting the get the most from AppleTV+ we watched the three episodes available of a new thing called Physical. Based on a bulimic, self loathing woman in the early 80s. Not bad, not great.

Also watched the pilot of Mythic Quest, it's The Office and Community in a gaming company. Annoying but has potential.
 
If we're on a theme of bleak, I've been watching Time on BBC. It's about as much fun as a show starring Sean Bean and Stephen Graham can be expected to be. Only three episodes mind.


I've had to stop watching in parts. Cried in parts. Didn't laugh once.
Brilliant show
 
Brilliant show
Yes, thanks, I forgot to mention. It is a great show and everyone should watch it. Just be prepared for it.
My interest was piqued when I read an interview with a long term prisoner who said that it was very real and he had seen every single thing in the show happen in real life. His only criticism was he saw all that over the course of a couple of decades and not in the couple of years of the show. Because prison is actually really long most of the time.
 
Yes, thanks, I forgot to mention. It is a great show and everyone should watch it. Just be prepared for it.
My interest was piqued when I read an interview with a long term prisoner who said that it was very real and he had seen every single thing in the show happen in real life. His only criticism was he saw all that over the course of a couple of decades and not in the couple of years of the show. Because prison is actually really long most of the time.
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