Rate the last TV Show you watched

[VladimirIlyich]

Saw the start of some cowboy one with robot cattle herders and couldnt get through more than a few minutes. Cant stand these stupid guns and aliens/demons episodes. Really boring and no plot.

[Numero Veinticinco]

There’s definitely a plot, though whether you find it boring or not is entirely subjective I guess. 

[Anubis]

Just watched series 2. Loved it. A solid 9/10. Watching it is like watching The Years Best Sci-Fi & Horror Short Fiction in televisual form.

[Butch]

12 hours ago, Numero said:

My favourites:

 

Beyond the Aquila Rift 

Shape Shifters

Helping Hand

Lucky 13

The Secret War

Sonnie’s Edge

Zima Blue

 

S2

The Tall Grass

All Through the House

Pop Squad (Seriously… amazing)

Snow in the Desert (again… amazing)

Life Hutch

 

 

 

Just started watching these and started on the second season. Snow in the desert was amazing. This is the future of film and its getting very difficult to be sure of what's real on screen anymore. The quality of cgi and animation is on another level. 

The santa one was really good. 

 

 

[Numero Veinticinco]

2 minutes ago, Butch said:

The santa one was really good. 

That was so fucked! I have a feeling Vlad isn't going to like that one!

[Anubis]

The Santa one was great. I’m going to show my nieces that! I have my reputation as an evil uncle to keep up.

 

The Tall Grass was very Lovecraftian. The protagonist looks a bit like Lovecraft and I re-watched the beginning of it to see if it had a name tag on his travel trunk, half expecting to see HP Lovecraft on there.

[Sweeney287]

I finished watching The Get Down on Netflix yesterday. 

 

Some great disco and early hip hop tunes throughout which certainly get the foot tapping away furiously. 

 

Acting is OK but it has a fine fettle of a young leading lady, Herizen Guardiola, and the acting is OK but for me, it was all about the music. 

 

6.5 disco balls out of 10

[VladimirIlyich]

5 hours ago, Numero said:

That was so fucked! I have a feeling Vlad isn't going to like that one!

I've just finished series 1 and felt it was very hit and miss.Slightly more shit than hit but when it was good it was very good. It's a great concept and with better stories and less guns and war shite it would improve no end. 

Will give series 2 a go as it deserves a bit more of a watch. Paradoxically,while I think anime is a bit shit the Japanese stories worked very well and more so than one or two of the US ones too.

[Numero Veinticinco]

13 minutes ago, VladimirIlyich said:

I've just finished series 1 and felt it was very hit and miss.Slightly more shit than hit but when it was good it was very good. It's a great concept and with better stories and less guns and war shite it would improve no end. 

Will give series 2 a go as it deserves a bit more of a watch. Paradoxically,while I think anime is a bit shit the Japanese stories worked very well and more so than one or two of the US ones too.

'less guns and war shite'. So, basically, it's the subject matter. If you don't like guns or war stories then you're going to not like it, although it doesn't make it shite. 

[VladimirIlyich]

9 minutes ago, Numero said:

'less guns and war shite'. So, basically, it's the subject matter. If you don't like guns or war stories then you're going to not like it, although it doesn't make it shite. 

How is it based on 'guns and war?' It's supposed to be a futuristic set of storylines covering all manner of subjects and genres. There were some episodes where there were none of either and they were mostly very good. The future doesn't have to be post apocalyptic every time.

[Torvald Utne]

Just watching the first episode of this Life, Death & Robots, what am I missing? I feel like I'm watching a cutaway on a console game.  Not for me.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

I'm years too late to this, but I've just watched Chernobyl. 

 

Fucking hell. 

10/10

[Harry's Lad]

7 minutes ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

I'm years too late to this, but I've just watched Chernobyl. 

 

Fucking hell. 

10/10

Brilliant television, very sobering to think that as bad as it was it could have been so much worse.

[VladimirIlyich]

8 hours ago, fungus said:

Just watching the first episode of this Life, Death & Robots, what am I missing? I feel like I'm watching a cutaway on a console game.  Not for me.

In all fairness series 2 is miles better. I'd advise watching that instead.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

8 hours ago, Harry's Lad said:

Brilliant television, very sobering to think that as bad as it was it could have been so much worse.

Also sobering to find out that the fireman and his wife  (Vassily and Lyudmilla Ignatenko) - who I'd assumed were fictional characters to humanise the numbers of victims  - were real people. 

[Anubis]

On 16/05/2021 at 15:53, VladimirIlyich said:

Paradoxically,while I think anime is a bit shit the Japanese stories worked very well and more so than one or two of the US ones too.

I thought the kitsune episode, Good Hunting, was excellent. Very sad. A warning how technology can hurt as well as help, sometimes draining the beauty and magic of the natural world.

[Elite]

Just finished City on a Hill season 2, really good. I hope it gets renewed.

[VladimirIlyich]

22 minutes ago, Elite said:

Just finished City on a Hill season 2, really good. I hope it gets renewed.

It's really top drawer stuff. Only eight episodes per season too.

[Captain Turdseye]

I started watching it the other day but I couldn’t remember half of what happened in the first series so I switched it off. 

[Carvalho Diablo]

Just finished season 1 of City On A Hill myself, very very average I thought.

 

Hardly any likeable characters, hardly any action, I won't be bothering with season 2.

 

5/10

[Harry's Lad]

I watched the first episode of Domina. Didn't really impress.

I'll give episode 2 a watch to see if it improves, if not, It's getting jibbed.

 

[rb14]

Schitts Creek - Netflix

 

We're just starting the fourth season. Absolutely awesome. Top performances across the cast. Tramples the death rattle of latter AbFab episodes into the dust. 

 

10/10

[rb14]

The Civil War (Ken Burns) - Amazon Prime + £££

 

No regrets at all about having to give the better part of twenty knicker for this nine-part series that is almost, but not quite, as good as the unsurpassable "The Vietnam War" by the same producer. Brilliantly constructed and deeply moving. Amazing and unmissable. It loses half a mark as we both find it a little tricky at times to keep track of who's who and what's what. 

 

9.5/10

[grazywalker]

6 hours ago, rb14 said:

Schitts Creek - Netflix

 

We're just starting the fourth season. Absolutely awesome. Top performances across the cast. Tramples the death rattle of latter AbFab episodes into the dust. 

 

10/10

I gave p after 1st episode as they wrecked my head. It seemed to be trying ot hard and over acted. Does it improve and you get used to it. I have battled through others esrly episodes of series and it won me around. 

[Numero Veinticinco]

2 minutes ago, grazywalker said:

I gave p after 1st episode as they wrecked my head. It seemed to be trying ot hard and over acted. Does it improve and you get used to it. I have battled through others esrly episodes of series and it won me around. 

I also gave up early, then returned to it and stuck with it for a while and started to love the people in it. Really glad I watched it.