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My favorite, along with DCI Banks.
What new series are you watching? *No Spoilers, Please*
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Started the eight episode mini-series "Clickbait" on Netflix.
A man gets kidnapped and a tape loop is posted on the internet of him holding a sign saying he will be killed when the video reaches 5,000,000 views. [Mods: This is not "spoilers", it's in the summary blurb on Netflix and is learned in the first 10 minutes of episode 1.]
Story follows the characters in his life that are trying to find and save him. Each episode highlights one of these characters. Episode 1 features his extremely unlikeable sister, Pia. (Whose name must be an acronym for pain in the @ss.) Episode 2 follows the police detective. Etc. etc.
The story tries to raise issues of the problems with social media and ubiquitous phone technology. Heard it all before, one hundred times. In this format it's kind of stale and preachy.
Wildly unlikely occurrences happen which caused me to quit watching after 2 episodes. Also, I simply did not care about the characters. So problems with the plot and unlikeable characters sunk this one for me.
A man gets kidnapped and a tape loop is posted on the internet of him holding a sign saying he will be killed when the video reaches 5,000,000 views. [Mods: This is not "spoilers", it's in the summary blurb on Netflix and is learned in the first 10 minutes of episode 1.]
Story follows the characters in his life that are trying to find and save him. Each episode highlights one of these characters. Episode 1 features his extremely unlikeable sister, Pia. (Whose name must be an acronym for pain in the @ss.) Episode 2 follows the police detective. Etc. etc.
The story tries to raise issues of the problems with social media and ubiquitous phone technology. Heard it all before, one hundred times. In this format it's kind of stale and preachy.
Wildly unlikely occurrences happen which caused me to quit watching after 2 episodes. Also, I simply did not care about the characters. So problems with the plot and unlikeable characters sunk this one for me.
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Watched the first 2 episodes of Succession last night. Other than the f-bombs it looks like it'll be good.
pb4uski
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I found that HBOMax has The West Wing available. It was one of my favorite shows when it was on primetime and I watched a few episodes and am hooked again. A great mix of drama and comedy, great writing and acting.. just very well done.
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Finished Bolyn, only 3 Episodes, an easy watch. Finished Big Sky Season 2. Not too impressed with either really. Watched Annika, liked that it was episodic. Yearning for a new British Police Drama that we have not already seen.
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Just a note since you bring it up (and this is to everyone reading this thread as a reminder) Mods don't catch all the spoilers in this thread, your fellow members are helpful keeping the thread clean as well in notifying us. We also certainly don't watch every show, and can't always know where something is truly a spoiler, so prefer to err on the side of removal/edit when there's any doubt.
Sharing to that extent (ie, the blurb) is fine! but beyond that is where other members help decide what's a spoiler. What's more important to most of us is recommendations and why you liked it, without plot points.
Even comments like ... "and then in episode 3 this character does a thing..." can be a spoiler - because some life/death scene in episode 2 now, well... I know they live to next week so it's a bit spoiled. I know more about the how the series will unfold vs. seeing it fresh with my own eyes. We all, I think, know that "and this is how it ends" is a spoiler. But little things along the way, pre-told, can diminish the experience for other viewers.
And so it's always best to keep recommendations to the briefest of summaries, and focus more on why you like them. Not a full review, not a synopsis. Less info is always better. One person's inconsequential reveal is another person's well-you've-ruined-it-for-me-now.
And really, if we love something enough to recommend it to others, we should want everyone to have that same experience from start to finish, as well as all the little twists along the way.
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I loved West Wing. If you like West Wing you would probably like Madame Secretary, very similar
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Yes, I was a fan of Madame Secretary and it has similarities.
Arron Sorkin, the producer of The West Wing also wrote The Newsroom with Jeff Daniels which played for a few seasons and was similar to The West Wing but set in a major network evening newroom... it was very good.
Arron Sorkin, the producer of The West Wing also wrote The Newsroom with Jeff Daniels which played for a few seasons and was similar to The West Wing but set in a major network evening newroom... it was very good.
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Understood. I have been guilty in the past of revealing too much and will endeavor to only give bare minimum descriptions, such as descriptive blurb provided by the network, and use generalizations instead of specific plot points. After a couple reprimands (which I do appreciate) I think I've gotten the idea of what is allowed and not allowed.
BTW, when I used to get physical books from the library I would NEVER read the descriptive blurb on the inside book cover flap. So I do understand wanting to come to the story with minimal knowledge of the plot.
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City on the hill. HBO. Typical no plot US cop show. Why directors think that lots of bad language, discrimination poor acting, and a big-name actor makes for a good Police Drama. They need to watch more UK Police Dramas and take note. Not sure who their audience is.
We are not anti colourful language folks, but this is ridiculous and pointless.
Dumped after halfway through the first episode. Sorry Kevin Bacon, but your acting sucks in this.
We are not anti colourful language folks, but this is ridiculous and pointless.
Dumped after halfway through the first episode. Sorry Kevin Bacon, but your acting sucks in this.
I much prefer Better Call Saul. I thought Breaking Bad was wildly overrated. It was good just not all time good.
Wow, I think City on the Hill is quite good and Kevin Bacon is great portraying a very unlikeable character.
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I finished watching Station Eleven and enjoyed it a lot. I read the book before the watching the series and it’s very different. For the first two episodes, the deviations from the book bothered me, but having watched the entire series, I’d say it’s just as good as the book, maybe even better.
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Finished Queen of the South, so after Narcos and QOTS looking for something different from drugs.
Just started watching Gloria, set in Portugal it’s about a listening station around the Cold War or slightly later era. 2 episodes in and quite enjoyable.
Glória is a Portuguese historical thriller drama television series. It was released on 5 November 2021 and is the first Netflix production originating in Portugal.[1] It tells the story of a young spy operating in Cold-War Portugal, amid the intrigues of the USA and Soviet Union. According to Variety, the show cost 6 million euros to produce, making it the most expensive series in Portuguese television history.
Just started watching Gloria, set in Portugal it’s about a listening station around the Cold War or slightly later era. 2 episodes in and quite enjoyable.
Glória is a Portuguese historical thriller drama television series. It was released on 5 November 2021 and is the first Netflix production originating in Portugal.[1] It tells the story of a young spy operating in Cold-War Portugal, amid the intrigues of the USA and Soviet Union. According to Variety, the show cost 6 million euros to produce, making it the most expensive series in Portuguese television history.
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I guess we are just spoilt. We watch WAY too many British Police Dramas, where, although they have their fair share of bad language, their acting and writing are way better. I must admit I was put off by the constant use of profanity for no reason and the continuous focus on discrimination.
We started to watch "Crime" after City on the hill. Not as good as some UK dramas but very watchable. Some folks will have trouble with the deep Scottish Accents.
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Would you give us at least a snippet, please?
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Is anybody else watching 1883? Supposedly it's the prequel to Yellowstone.
Very good series on Paramount+.
Very good series on Paramount+.
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We like the British police dramas too. Scotland is in the UK but sometimes we turn on the captions for heavy UK accents.
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Cobra Kai
Karate Kid has been one of my most favorite things since I was a young boy in the 80s and I've seen them so many times - I know each chord of music , each generic dialogue and the moves mean so much to me.
So Cobra Kai - I thought "oh God. Yet one more remake-reboot-refresh by the Instagram Culture that can't be creative, so they'll take something great from before - darken it, sexualize it, add special effects and strip it of heart, history, heritage". That's honestly How I feel about most of this era's pop culture.
BUT - MY GOD Cobra Kai is a home run. They slightly modernized it - fine - but in a non trashy, non obnoxious, non formulaic way. And they have kept so much of the original's themes , music, feelings...... I simply love the series and it's been a pleasure sharing Karate Kid and Cobra Kai with my daughter - and eventually my son also.
Just ended Season 4 (I watch each season twice. )
Karate Kid has been one of my most favorite things since I was a young boy in the 80s and I've seen them so many times - I know each chord of music , each generic dialogue and the moves mean so much to me.
So Cobra Kai - I thought "oh God. Yet one more remake-reboot-refresh by the Instagram Culture that can't be creative, so they'll take something great from before - darken it, sexualize it, add special effects and strip it of heart, history, heritage". That's honestly How I feel about most of this era's pop culture.
BUT - MY GOD Cobra Kai is a home run. They slightly modernized it - fine - but in a non trashy, non obnoxious, non formulaic way. And they have kept so much of the original's themes , music, feelings...... I simply love the series and it's been a pleasure sharing Karate Kid and Cobra Kai with my daughter - and eventually my son also.
Just ended Season 4 (I watch each season twice. )
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OK, I wrote the above in January, 2018. Four years later my outlook on the topic is exactly the same. If anything I hate modern fictional TV series even more now than I did; honestly I hardly ever turn on my TVs any more. What a waste of money they turned out to be!
On the other hand, I do watch more nonfiction amateur youtube videos now than I once did. Have been enjoying a series by a very young Arizona lawyer named Robert Gouveia, who covers big cases in the news (Ghislaine Maxwell, Ethan Crumbley, Alec Baldwin, and that sort of thing), explaining some of the legal aspects clearly so that even the legally simple-minded members of his audience like me can understand what's going on. I like learning a little about our justice system by following along. And who knows? Next week I could switch to a youtuber with totally different content for a few months.
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Not to disagree with you (and I don't) but Fiction (Belle Lettes- Pretty Words) does require suspension of belief. The greatest Fictions have always been quite preachy -- from "The Iliad and the Odyssey" to modern times. Think "Moby Dick," "Hunchback of Notre Dame," "Wizard of Oz," "Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory," "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," "Slaughterhouse Five," etc.
Granted nothing on Television is going to compare with that... Oh! wait! there was "Twilight Zone" wasn't there.
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That's Frank's solution to the problem - - he listens to old movies and TV, so that he doesn't have to listen to contemporary stuff. Often he gets distracted though, and listens to newer movies about comic book characters instead. Then he tells me how terrible they are.
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