TV Programmes You'd Recommend To A Friend

[rebelmusic]

I finished 1923 on Paramount plus in a few days. I really enjoyed it after not liking the previous season called 1883. They are both prequels of Yellowstone which I’ve never watched.

I loved both the prequels after watching Yellowstone. Yellowstone is a pure soap opera and you'd need to suspend your disbelief quite a bit...but I still binged the whole thing. Decent enough brain candy TV

[John83]

Anyone watching season 2 of Severance? I enjoyed the first season, but have my fears it'll all fail to come together coherently.

[SkStu]

Yep, watching it John. I am enjoying Season 2 but have the same concerns. It seems like it would have been best to be wrapped up in 2 seasons with resolution of Mark/Ms Casey/Helly R etc. storyline - - but they are working on a third season.

[TonyD]

Have recently started watching Barry, having seen a few mentions of it. Well worth checking out. He is an ex marine who becomes a hit man, but then stumbles into an acting class and decides he wants to give it all up and become an actor. He finds that easier said than done however. Unusual premise, but a good lot of laughs, and good twists and turns in the plot. Henry Winkler does a good turn as the acting teacher and there is a camp Chechen gangster who is a good laugh. One of the Sky channels is showing it at the moment so it might be available to download.

[Kingdom]

I love The Wire and refuse to consider that anything is its equal.
Therefore We Own this City a cop show based in Baltimore was always gonna be of interest. And it's very good albeit I've not watched it all.

[passinginterest]

The Last of Us season 2 seems to have divided opinion a bit. I though it was very good, if not quite the same level as season 1. The last episode did seem a bit rushed and the boat journey seemed very out of place. The cliff hanger ending also not ideal with such a long wait between seasons. I never played the games but I've picked up enough bits to understand why they've done it this way, but it's frustrating from a viewer perspective.

I've got one episode of Andor left and that's been excellent. It really feels like grown up Star Wars, feels gritty, lived in and dangerous in a way other Star Wars series/films don't.

Four Seasons and Sirens are both pretty easy watching and entertaining enough to pass a few hours on Netflix.

[SkStu]

I'll throw a shout out for Hacks by the way. Very funny.

Been waiting for all of TLOU to be released before digging in.

[SkStu]

I love The Wire and refuse to consider that anything is its equal.
Therefore We Own this City a cop show based in Baltimore was always gonna be of interest. And it's very good albeit I've not watched it all.

I thought it was excellent.

[John83]

Murderbot is a few episodes in. It's a sci-fi based on a series of books. Alexander Skarsgard stars as the eponimous security cyborg in a corporate dystopia who has secretly hacked the software that keeps it under control. It can then do whatever it wants, which it turns out mostly means watching trash soap operas. It hides in plain sight to avoid being tagged as a rogue, hunted down, and destroyed. Murderbot is extremely socially awkward - really just wants to be left alone - and provides an often exasperated and sarcastic running commentary. It's a fun character, a little different from the run-of-the-mill. I've enjoyed a few of the novellas and the show is doing a good job of translating the first one to screen. It's being released on Apple TV, with four episodes out so far.

[nigel-harps1954]

Got around to watching Man In The High Castle lately. Thoroughly enjoyed it. An alternative history, based on the Philip K Dick novel, where the axis powers won WWII and effectively took over the world, but set in post war America where Japan control the Pacific east coast and the Nazi American Reich controls the West coast.

Excellent show, start to finish without much weak points throughout the four seasons.

Solid 8/10 for me.