Glued to Glastonbury? Binged all episodes of Sharpe?
Let us know what you’ve been watching this week, and what we should get into.
Finally finished Season Three of Agents of SHIELD, it was pretty good - even though there are so many episodes I don’t think there are too many non-events in it.
Also finished the second series of Oh Cook! on Prime. Everything James May does is brilliant.
We tried Puzzling on C5 with Lucy Worsley. It’s… not good. It feels like a Poundland Only Connect, with Lucy specifically trying to be VCM. It especially doesn’t work when in Only Connect VCM “knows” all the answers whereas LW has to “ask the computer”. It feels less natural.
God, by the time I got to the end of AofShield I was so done with it. they spun it around so many times with time loops, space battles, trying to work the fact that “the snap” happened into the universe. God there was so much to remember. Remember all the mutants? The Darkhold?
I was glad to be done with it, even if I can look back and say for the most part while I was watching it, I was having fun.
I think I only watched until the end of Season 5. I’d clocked out of it largely by that point. I applaud their attempts to keep it in tune with the rest of the cinematic universe, but it ruined a lot of the plot they had going. Something I think the big Avengers movies did with a lot of the regular character movies.
The whole issue regarding Inhumans being delayed and ultimately ending up being released later badly also doesn’t help, considering AoS was trying to lead in to it with their mutants.
Puzzling was so bad. I couldn’t finish one episode and I love quiz shows like that. The flow was terrible. I think they must be cutting out a lot of thinking time, they’d just give you the question and immediately cut to the team answering it without giving you any time to think about it yourself.
Only Connect is good because they keep all that discussion and thinking time in and let you listen in. So maybe you don’t know that the random name was a cardinal, but you hear them mention it and you know the next guy is a giant and suddenly you’re shouting “American Football teams” at the TV.
Patiently waiting for the next episode of Silo while watching a couple of episodes of The Power when the sprog is in bed, while halfway through the 2nd season of La Brea (so bad it’s good) and the 3rd season of For All Mankind which started out really interesting but is starting to lose it’s shine.
I moaned a few weeks ago that I’d kicked off a trial for Paramount+ so that I could watch Star Trek Discovery during food and snack breaks while WFH, but bounced off it. In the end, I sort of got into it and now I’m about halfway through the final episode, which I’m saving for this mornings coffee break. Would I recommend it? Hmm… I mean probably not. Unless you’re a bit of a Star Trek nerd like me. Of course, I wasn’t able to binge it during the trial. That’s how they get you! Make mediocre shows that you can’t quite watch in a week.
I hear that got a lot better after S1, but much like with Picard S1 was so completely terrible that I can’t quite face putting myself through any more of it.
Am I judging too harshly?
Probably not, to be honest. I’m not sure if Discovery got any better. It just got… More…
I gave up on Picard halfway through S1. But then I watched S3 and really enjoyed it, so I went back to S1 and S2. Honestly, both were a bit “meh”.
Oh well, at least we’ve got Strange New Worlds! I’ve also been informed by at least three different people from the Trekkie instance so far that I need to watch The Orville, so that’s on the list.
Indeed you do, a lot of fans equate The Orville to original Star Trek but with a slight tongue in cheek, much like Galaxy Quest
Noted!
Not a massive Trek fan but enjoyed Voyager. I really couldn’t get in to Discover. Season 1 was ok but it all felt a bit too cheesy or predictable.
Star Trek New World on the other hand has been great. I think that’s also on Paramount+
Currently watching strange new worlds (star trek), lovered the first series and now second is out. first episode was but too “action hero” but second was ok, third ep this week is apparently time travel which can always be a bit hit and miss
That first ep had me worried (WHAT was that fight scene?!) but they really pulled it back with the second imo. I honestly never really thought we’d see a proper good faith attempt to make a Trek series with a more old school approach so I’m willing to forgive the odd niggle because you can tell they really care about trying. Didn’t know we were about to do time travel but I’m here for it!
Has anyone given Silo a look on AppleTV+? I’m a big fan of the books that it’s based on but I’ve heard very little in regards to the show. Opening episodes got decent reviews but I wouldn’t mind a normal person’s take.
Can’t help with a normal person’s take, but for me, it is one of the two shows that I want to watch as soon after an episode drops as possible at the moment (the other being SNW). The quality has kept up and there is plenty of good character development. Some people have said that it is a bit slow, but I don’t find that myself.
I’m really enjoying it, the set is really good and helps with the whole dystopian gloom, some of the acting is a bit iffy, but the storyline is good in a “makes you think” kinda way
Haven’t watched the show but just to out myself as a total idiot here, fun fact: I accidentally read the books backwards and didn’t realise, I just thought it was an artsy narrative structure 😂
Watched Threads (1984) recently.
Still holds up, but unrelenting bleakness!Oh yeah that’s hard to watch. The bleakest ending to anything I’ve ever seen. I don’t think it’s something I ever need to watch again, but it’s worth seeing once.
I just watched Beyond the Sea from Black Mirror season 6. Trying not to watch the whole series in one go like I did last time.
Bit late to the thread but I’ve been watching the first season of The Bear and so far so good.
Also can’t wait for the last episode of Silo. It’s soo good and the best thing I’ve seen on TV in some time. Highly recommended it.
We watched Karl meet some gorillas in another episode of An Idiot Abroad. Next up he’s visiting Route 66. During the day I’ve been a bit too glued to Wimbledon qualifying and various other tennis matches instead of being productive.
Almost done with s02 of The Bear. Think I liked s01 a bit more, but it’s still a very good show.
What is the polite way to tell someone that the smell of a horse that died 2 weeks ago shouldn’t be coming out of your ass at 10AM?
Anyway, I’ve been watching Australian MasterChef. It’s fun to watch and is one of the few cooking shows where there is a mix of “I can cook better than most of these people” and “Oh that’s a good trick I’ll do that in the future”. It’s an easy watch with my wife and judge the contestants, make up our own dishes and rate theirs based on appearance and imagined flavour. 😂
