Looking for new series to watch

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Wife and I are enjoying Mr. Inbetween. Australian hitman show from FX, short episodes. Some hits and misses. Funny, and though the hitman developing a conscience thing is well worn, it's entertaining and done well.

Getting sick of Yellowstone too, but wife still wants to watch it. You can tell the writers are spent. Too much phoning it in with cowboy visuals or one mega dramabomb. What I want to know is how Yellowstone and Succession ended up being produced at the same time. No way it was a coincidence.

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Mr Inbetween is superb

Tulsa King

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Apparently they aren't gonna stop the Yellowstone spinoffs with 1923. They are going to do 40's and 60's I read somewhere. I like it, I don't think it is slow at all. Plenty of storylines to follow. But I can see kids being bored with it. I remember my parents watching 'Dallas" when I was a kids and it drove me nuts. This is very similar I would think.

Beth is a cunt, and I like her character less each episode. Waiting for her and Jamie to kill each other is great though.

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So you like soap operas?


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So you like soap operas?


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I did not mind watching that hot little blonde chick in 1883.

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I did not mind watching that hot little blonde chick in 1883.

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As close as you’ll get to a hot little blonde?


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I'm not sure where else it's available (we found it on Acorn), but my wife and I watched a good series last night called "Code of a Killer." It's a three part miniseries that discusses the advent of DNA fingerprinting and how it was first used in a criminal investigation near Leicester, England in the mid-80s. The scientist who developed the method was working at Leicester University and a police detective investigating two rapes and murders nearby heard about the technique (up till then it had only been used for paternity testing) and asked the scientist whether the DNA technique could be used to ID criminals. The science part is interesting, but there are also a few twists in turns in the murder investigation making it a very compelling story all around.

We’re enjoying Wednesday.

We recently rewatched The Rings of Power and enjoyed it more the second time. I thought it moved faster on rewatch.

We watched one episode of Yellowstone, and that was enough. It’s basically Dallas. And living in Montana, it carries some baggage.

1923, though- a period piece with Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren? OK.

Just started Derry Girls, and it definitely has its moments.

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Just started Derry Girls, and it definitely has its moments.

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The best moments always seem to involve the church.

The English on Amazon. Red herring is ending but still good.

I searched but didn’t see it mentioned. Bad Sisters on Apple TV was excellent. Dark and really funny.

Got me looking into Sharon Horgan’s other stuff. Currently watching Catastrophe which started out great but has fizzled a bit in later seasons.

Really liked Bad Sisters at first, then began to just hate every body in it.

2 episodes into Last of Us and I am not impressed. Visuals cool at times but otherwise I am not getting the hype. I didn't really like Station 11, and it was better than this. I never even heard of the game, so I guess this is just not my thing.

Anyone have any 30 minute show recs? In that category I'm recalling we liked Catastrophe and Party Down and more recently Mr. Inbetween.

Took a little effort to get into Last of Us but now I’m hooked.

Willow, as requested by my tweens.

Just finished 1883 and liked it in spite of the stupid girl and her insufferable narration. For some reason I always have the urge to shit on Tim McGraw as an actor but he's got some chops and is way less annoying to me than Costner. Started 1923 and I'm 3 episodes in. Mirren and Ford are good but there's not much original in it so far. It's a lot of Legends of the Fall and some Out of Africa mixed in. I was liking the Africa storyline but the whole love affair part just seems so predictable. The original Yellowstone was good and these others have their moments but they're already running out of original material so I can't imagine them getting 2 more separate series out of the "Duttons/Yellowstone against the world" schtick.

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Anyone have any 30 minute show recs? In that category I'm recalling we liked Catastrophe and Party Down and more recently Mr. Inbetween.

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Cunk on Earth. Mocumentary on Netflix, think Sir David Attenborough mashed up with Borat. Very deadpan and LOL funny.

We’ve been enjoying “Human Playground”

I wasn’t sure about “The Last Of Us” at first but have enjoyed the last couple of episodes.

In the 30 minutes and funny category:

“Shrinking” is really good. More funny that I thought from the trailers. Harrison Ford is great in it.

“What We Do In The Shadows” is hilarious. I liked the movie and think the show is even better.

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Just finished 1883 and liked it in spite of the stupid girl and her insufferable narration. For some reason I always have the urge to shit on Tim McGraw as an actor but he's got some chops and is way less annoying to me than Costner. Started 1923 and I'm 3 episodes in. Mirren and Ford are good but there's not much original in it so far. It's a lot of Legends of the Fall and some Out of Africa mixed in. I was liking the Africa storyline but the whole love affair part just seems so predictable. The original Yellowstone was good and these others have their moments but they're already running out of original material so I can't imagine them getting 2 more separate series out of the "Duttons/Yellowstone against the world" schtick.

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Drops of God

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1528274...2520of%2520god

On Apple

First two episodes done

Wish I could binge it

It's that good

Drops of God: good enough to keep me watching but the overblown emotional drama is starting to wear me down. Needs more wine geekery!

Also on Apple: Silo. Two episodes out - liking it. It's like a Snowpiercer but better - better realism, character development.
Warning: if you hate dark settings i.e. low/minimal lighting, stay away.

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Drops of God: good enough to keep me watching but the overblown emotional drama is starting to wear me down. Needs more wine geekery!

Also on Apple: Silo. Two episodes out - liking it. It's like a Snowpiercer but better - better realism, character development.
Warning: if you hate dark settings i.e. low/minimal lighting, stay away.

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The Silo books were pretty cool, and just saw that trailer/intro the other day. Kinda curious to see how it translates

Just finished "Beef" on Netflix. Highly reviewed and definitely entertaining, but kinda ran off the rails the last couple of episodes.

Wife and I have an unwritten rule that as soon as a dead dad shows up a show is kinda played out. This one didn't have that, but out of nowhere had a pair of talking crows. Way worse than a dead dad.

Speaking of beef, we really enjoyed The Bear on Hulu, and they are expecting a second season soon I think.

Finally, as I don't really follow this thread, if you aren't watching Ted Lasso you should.

Amy Wong was surprisingly good in that. Not many comedians can pull off major acting roles like that.

I enjoyed the books and just started Silo on appletv+, pretty good start

the english was great
shrinking was great

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I enjoyed the books and just started Silo on appletv+, pretty good start

the english was great
shrinking was great

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Gonna do a fliperoony and read the books after watching the show; then I can whine about how the books didn't stay true to the show.

Just watched the first episode of Washington Plumbers in HBO Max. It was outstanding.

https://youtu.be/QuKM2sTTmHg

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Just watched the first episode of Washington Plumbers in HBO Max. It was outstanding.

https://youtu.be/QuKM2sTTmHg

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I’m about to start it. Looks intriguing.

“No names were changed to protect the innocent. Because nearly everyone was guilty.”

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Gonna do a fliperoony and read the books after watching the show; then I can whine about how the books didn't stay true to the show.

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I'm planning on doing that for The Expanse.

Any else into, Joe Pickett on Paramount+, it’s really good.

Yep. First season had its share of annoying flaws, but so far the second season is chargin'.

My oldest daughter has us watching A Small Light on Disney Plus and it's quite good. Like all Holocaust/WWII stories it is both extremely heartbreaking(partly because you know how it ends) and also uplifting as it reminds us that even in the face of mans inhumanity to man we can find the courage and compassion to standup.

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Gonna do a fliperoony and read the books after watching the show; then I can whine about how the books didn't stay true to the show.

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I’ve learned that I can enjoy an adaptation more if I’m not familiar with the source material. If I’d read the Umbrella Academy before watching the series, I’d have been annoyed by the way they adapted it for the screen. But because I read the comics afterwards, I enjoyed both of them for what they were. (I think it took them until the third season to get the tone right. The comics are unhinged, and the series started off too slow and serious.)

That’s going to be my approach to Silo/Wool.

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I’ve learned that I can enjoy an adaptation more if I’m not familiar with the source material. If I’d read the Umbrella Academy before watching the series, I’d have been annoyed by the way they adapted it for the screen. But because I read the comics afterwards, I enjoyed both of them for what they were. (I think it took them until the third season to get the tone right. The comics are unhinged, and the series started off too slow and serious.)

That’s going to be my approach to Silo/Wool.

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The books were excellent.
Where is the screen adaption?

Here ya go: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/the_umbrella_academy

Or were you referring to this? https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/silo

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Just watched the first episode of Washington Plumbers in HBO Max. It was outstanding.

https://youtu.be/QuKM2sTTmHg

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Yeah, it was a well done show beginning to end.

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Yeah, it was a well done show beginning to end.

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I quite enjoyed it. Hard to go wrong with that casting.

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Or were you referring to this? https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/silo

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That's the one!
I hope they did the books proud.

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That's the one!
I hope they did the books proud.

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Just finished it; fine work.
Highly recommend.

Hopefully they'll do a couple of more seasons (the source material already exists).