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Since I spaced out and didn’t plan a Medium Cool post tonight, this seems like a good time to ask what everybody is watching.
Plus, I need a new treadmill show. I finished Three Pines, and Deadloch seems like it could be interesting but it’s too slow for treadmill material. Any suggestions? Seems like I have way too many streaming channels, which is undoubtedly true, but I don’t have Hulu.
comrade scotts agenda of rage
Not sure what you mean by a “treadmill” show and too lazy to look up.
But if you haven’t watched ‘Deadloch’, watch it. It’s Newhart (second show) Meets Crime Procedurals.
We’re in the middle of season 1 of “The Killing” but I’m guessing I got that rec from here and you’ve already seen it.
‘The Silence of Water’ is somewhat atmospheric but both seasons have been engaging, plus, it’s in yet another scenic spot in Italy.
Jager
I never watched “White Collar”. not bad.
Percysowner
@Jager: I always enjoyed White Collar, in fact I just started rewatching it. I love competence and the show has a lot of competence.
hells littlest angel
I just started watching Red Eye, which is fun (and I’ll watch anything with Lesley Sharp in it), but I don’t know if its far-fetchedness will hold up for six episodes.
Deadloch is one of the most excruciatingly unfunny things I’ve ever seen. Madeline Sami is for all I know a wonderful person, but her performance in this is just appalling. If her career suffers, well, it should.
wonkie
I’ve been watching The Gentleman. It’s a fun mix of dark humor, genuine tension, and satire with enough warmth and character development to keep me emotionally involved. Plus I can usually understand the dialog. (We use the captions for the deaf for most shows that aren’t in American English). I’m into escapism these days–not for me dramas set in the US, except Fallout. I don’t mind a drama premised on the US having been bombed out of existence. Other shows? Black Flag–pirates. All of the male characters are sweaty and dirty at all times, but the women all have clean hair and clothes, kind of like old cowboy movies. Actually, the show is like old cowboy movies in some other ways: lots of action, lots of good-hearted fallen women, evil outlaw enemy etc. It differs from old cowboy movies in that the forces of law and order are the enemy, but the main male protagonist dreams of retiring from crime, which I think was a theme on Gunsmoke a couple of times. What else? The Tourist, which I didn’t like. The convoluted plot is the main positive feature of the show, IMO. I also liked the lady cop thought there were times I wanted to shake her. However, I got way past tired of it. Not sure why. Maybe I just never cared about the main character.
Phylllis
I’ve been watching No Offense on Acorn. Three seasons, 1st with 8 episodes and the last two with six. British female-centric cop show set in Manchester. Couldn’t say if it’s treadmill material, but I’m halfway through season three and it hasn’t gone off the rails for me yet
PST
I rewatched Band of Brothers on Max over the weekend. I can’t believe that ran almost 25 years ago. It is moving, and in reading about the production it appears that far less was fictionalized than in most series today based on historical events (like The Crown).
Omnes Omnibus
I am rewatching season 5 of Babylon Berlin in preparation for the upcoming US release of season 4. I just want Lotte to survive and not become a Nazi. I don’t ask for much. I am also watching Bergerac, a British cop show from the early ’80s, set on Jersey, starring Tom Nettles who later starred as the first Inspector Barnaby on Midsomer Murders. Seeing Nettles as the young, rebellious cop is kind of fun. Plus the Channel Islands are an interesting location.
comrade scotts agenda of rage
My wife is watching ‘3 Body Problem’ and really liking it. I should probably watch it simply because of the Chinese Cultural Revolution aspect of it.
How far back in terms of series do you want to go? I never know what people have watched. We still love “I, Claudius” although the production values are definitely not up to current standards. Doesn’t matter.
Jinchi
We just finished watching The Sympathizer, which was excellent.
WaterGirl
I am re-watching White Collar, and I see that it took only a handful of episodes before they went back to the original show intro. Boy, the one they tried to switch to in season 3 SUCKED,
WaterGirl
@comrade scotts agenda of rage: I walk on the treadmill every day, so I am always looking for a good show that’s very engaging to keep me company while I walk.
karen marie
I started watching The Outlaws after it was recommended here (but I don’t remember by whom). It’s pretty good but it makes me nostalgic for The Misfits.
WaterGirl
@Phylllis: I’ll have to try that!
zhena gogolia
@Omnes Omnibus: I love Nettles. We should watch that.
I adore Hacks, so I’m watching the episodes of Frasier on which Jean Smart appeared. They’re amusing.
billcinsd
I pretty much watch soccer, game shows and adventure/archaeology shows like Unearthed and Expedition Unknown. I guess Time Team, too. I have been rewatching Tim Hutton’s Nero Wolf Series, too
karen marie
@wonkie: Did you mean Black Sails? I hadn’t heard of it but Our Flag Means Death pretty much ruined any other pirate shows for me.
I looked up Black Sails on IMDB, and this made me laugh:
But, yeah, let’s have primary, secondary and post-secondary schools focus LESS on English and writing.
I’m especially touchy about this at the moment because I’m having to transcribe a ratty little half-day trial with only two witnesses, both of them Boston Police officers and both of them functionally illiterate. It’s horrible having to listen to these fuckwits mangle language and transcribe it in a way that it’s comprehensible.
zhena gogolia
McDonald and Dodds is fun, but maybe too mild for WG? They just came out with Season 4.
zhena gogolia
@billcinsd: I liked that Nero Wolfe series.
Cheryl from Maryland
Many others have recommended Monsieur Space , whose ending had issues. Nevertheless, Clive Own’s performance was inspiring, which has led me to rewatch The Maltese Falcon, Rear Window, Vertigo, and Chinatown. Chinatown is the least impressive.
Kayla Rudbek
Mr. Rudbek keeps on looking up YouTube videos on tandem bike touring and tandem biking in general. He found a video of a couple who are late 80-early 90s, where the husband used to have a 48-mile round trip ride to see his wife when they were dating. They’ve ridden all over England, did the Canadian Rockies in I estimate the 1960s, and are still riding today (surprisingly with no electric assistance). So now we have more life goals (although I will happily take electric assistance if we are riding a tandem bike in our late 80s-early 90s).
Another video was a tandem bike tour of the Cornwall coast (a much younger couple as the team), and there are 30% grades on the coastal roads there. Fun to ride down but they were having to get off the bike and walk on those uphills. Although the single bike riders were also having trouble with the uphills.
Citizen Dave
I think a good to great treadmill show would be the 8 episode “Beef” on netflix. A unique and twisted show.
I tend to be outside more because of spring/summer daylight, so not as much viewing.
We just finished Hacks and have 1 more (of 4) of an excellent doc on the Memphis Stax music label; both on Max.
JaySinWA
I finally broke down and got an MHZ subscription to watch the rest of Homicide Hills. Watched the first season on Amazon Prime from a recommendation here.
So I also picked up Babylon Berlin’s latest seasons with the MHZ subscriptions. We watched 1&2 a while back.
There’s an Australian Farce called Preppers that has the irreverence of Deadloch. I’ve only seen two episodes
ETA I guess I could have started by saying I was trying out MHZ, and all of these are from there.
Elizabelle
I actually do have a Medium Cool comment, although I rarely watch “television/streaming.”
Anyway, conversation with a friend last night who has watched the first two seasons of Ted Lasso, and is liking it. She says the character is from Kansas (??), and she wonders why he, and his mother, have Southern accents.
Got me thinking on how Southern accents now hit many viewers badly. I know I was wincing through “The Peanut Butter Falcon” (charming movie) a few years ago because of white males with Southern accents, until I realized what was setting my teeth on edge.
Face it, we are held hostage by Southern accents in government (Congress, ack!), and often religionism too.
Do you think producers may have to take it easy on employing a Southern accent as a cheap way of establishing a sense of place or character?
We don’t live in Andy Griffith’s world any more.
Ken
Curiously, nothing, which is one reason I recently cut the cable. I haven’t even subscribed to a streaming service yet.
There’s a lot of old movies that are “free with ads” on YouTube, and that tends to fill my occasional evening TV need. I know they’re not hi-res 8K, but I’ve got low-res eyes so don’t care.
comrade scotts agenda of rage
@JaySinWA:
MHZ is great. We watched it pre-subscription 5+ years ago. Got it again to get ‘Wallander’ and, I hate to admit this, “Dom Matteo”, the latter is as bubblegum, predictable as one can get. My wife watches it for the Italian language help and I watch it for shots of Gubbio, and now starting in season 9, Spoleto.
There’s so much on MHZ on top of that.
Chris
The Bad Batch. A few episodes from the end. Gonna try The Acolyte next. TBB didn’t grab me the way The Mandalorian did, let alone Andor, but it’s grown on me all the same.
Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries. Finished Season 2 last night, one and a movie to go.
Been trying to do Star Trek: Discovery, but honestly, finding it a lot harder to stay hooked on that one than the other NuTrek shows I’ve tried. I couldn’t really stay hooked when it originally started airing, either.
Oh yeah, Shogun. Need to finish that one.
JaySinWA
@Elizabelle:
Well Golllllie!
Kent
Four series I have recently watched that were all good:
The Veil on Hulu with Elizabeth Moss. It’s a terrorism spy thriller with all female leads and lots of twists and turns that keep you guessing.
Interview with a Vampire on AMC. Excellent retelling of the classic novels
Sugar on Apple TV. Very film noir private detective series with some very bizarre and unexpected twists that also keep you guessing
The remake of Shogun.
RevRick
I just finished watching another lecture on How Railways Transformed the World on Great Courses+. That tickles the history buff in me and my boyhood fascination with railroads (the New Haven RR ran behind the houses across the street).
Chris
@Jager:
That and Leverage were the two Great Recession shows.
laura
@zhena gogolia: I am so very giddy that the 3rd season dropped. There is something about a british police procedural that scratches my insomnia itch- I believe that it’s the distance of the crime, the voices, and the restoration of order that makes me feel like Homer flying his bedstead – just really respond to that set piece. Big Ups for Passport as well- Astrid and Inspector Riciardi (be still my high top pantyhose) Brit Box and Touch of Frost, Shetland, Stuff! As well as Prime where I binged some Wallace & Gromit, The correct Ms Marple- the crisp and sharp Geraldine McEwan. I could watch all the Sherlock’s, all the local villagers, all the shows that right a wrong and set things straight. It sooths me. Also, british baking.
Phylllis
@zhena gogolia: I love McDonald and Dodds.
Phylllis
@WaterGirl: One of the things I enjoy about British shows like this is they can turn into the most epic game of ‘Hey it’s that guy’. I’d love an IMDB feed, sort of like closed captioning: Here’s where else you’ve seen him-Death in Paradise, Call the Midwife…
Also, Death in Paradise is a pretty good watch.
dmsilev
@Chris:
The first two episodes (all that’s been released so far) are decent. I don’t think it’s going to rise to the level of Andor, but so far it’s been good enough to keep me watching as the new episodes become available.
zhena gogolia
@laura: Hey, another Geraldine McEwan fan!
Hickson is very good, but those versions are soooo slow.
wonkie
@karen marie: Yes, that’s what I meant. The language is not appropriate to the times–which is another reason why the show reminds me of old cowboy movies, though considerably less wholesome.
jlowe
Letterkenny. On Hulu, though.
Suzanne
I need to start watching the most recent season of Lupin. I loved the first two seasons. But it’s subtitled, so I have to watch it. I need laundry-folding shows.
zhena gogolia
@Phylllis: I keep pausing the show to say, “There’s Captain Blamey from Poldark. And that’s one of Barnaby’s sidekicks, Jones I think . . .”
kalakal
@zhena gogolia:
I’m just getting into that. I like the convoluted Christie/Sayers/Allingham type plots. At first the characters seemed so exaggerated it put me off but having Robert Lyndsey as the guest star got me through the first episode. I’m enjoying it now.
Shetland is good. Based on the books by Ann Cleeves ( who wrote the Vera books) with the interesting idea of how do you solve crimes amongst a tiny, isolated population where everybody knows everybody?
WaterGirl
@Chris:
Are those along the lines of Miss Marple?
edit: oh, I wonder if that’s the show I watched once at my sister’s? Set decades ago? She was ahead of her time? Are those streaming somewhere?
lollipopguild
@JaySinWA: Surprise! Surprise!Surprise! Any complaints, I will make a Citizens Arrest!
Mousebumples
I love White Collar – excited to hear about a reboot, with most of the original cast (including the delicious Matt Bomer), except the actor who played Mozzie passed away a few years ago.
We just finished Suits (Netflix), which is also getting a reboot.
Other possible suggestions –
Trivia Man
Somebody here suggested Fisk and we are enjoying that on Netflix. About an Australian probate lawyer. Zany characters and quick laughs.
WaterGirl
@JaySinWA: I think if you go to hell, they make you watch Gomer Pyle.
WaterGirl
@zhena gogolia: What’s the premise?
zhena gogolia
@WaterGirl: Are you thinking of Mrs. Bradley (Diana Rigg)? Those are great. Best role ever for Neil Dudgeon.
Jacqueline Squid Onassis
We’ve been enjoying “Dead Boy Detectives”. There’s just the 8 episodes of season 1 but it’s fun and not entirely fluff at all, and it has a few astounding performances.
zhena gogolia
@WaterGirl: Set in Bath, England. Tough female POC officer from London is the supervisor for (hilarious) nerdy Sgt. Dodds, played by the BRILLIANT Jason Watkins. Quite long episodes, with very twisty mysteries and (usually) sterling guest stars.
Chet Murthy
@Trivia Man: FIsk was great! Episodes sped by too fast, wish there were more!
Chris
@dmsilev:
Oh, I’m not expecting it to be that good. Andor truly was one of a kind, to the point that I’m really hoping the second season manages to be satisfying given how much it has to live up to. But it doesn’t have to be that good for me to keep watching.
WaterGirl
@Mousebumples: I had no idea a White Collar reboot was in the works.
I 💕 Mozzie.
Chris
@WaterGirl:
Don’t know, no experience with Miss Marple. But it’s a show set in Melbourne, Australia in the 1920s, with the main character being a well-off society lady (and yes, fairly ahead of her time) who solves crimes.
WaterGirl
@zhena gogolia:
No. but I love Diana Rigg.
WaterGirl
@Jacqueline Squid Onassis:
Can you say more about Dead Boy Detectives?
Serious? Comedy? Creepy? What’s the premise?
Quaker in a Basement
Bodkin (Netflix)
An American podcaster travels to rural Ireland to do a story on an unsolved disappearnce years ago during a Samhain (pronounced SOW-win) festival. He teams up with an Irish-born, London-based journalist who is laying low due to legal entanglements with the British government.
Thrilling, sometimes dark, often funny with loads of twists and turns. Executrive producers include Barack and Michelle Obama.
zhena gogolia
@WaterGirl: Unfortunately, that actor died.
Mousebumples
I just heard about it today! Link
TheflipPsyd
My husband and I have watched the first four episodes of Billy the Kid (MGM). If you like biography and history, we’ve been enjoying it. The second season just started this past weekend. I got MGM for free for the first four months and when I went to cancel it, I was given another six months for 99 cents a month. I’ve so far enjoyed the Boys in the Boat (enjoyable but I think the book was a bit better) and America Fiction.
Quaker in a Basement
@WaterGirl: I was introduced to Miss Fisher last summer when visiting friends in Cork. Yes, Miss Fisher is far ahead of her time in terms of her independence and self-reliance. She’s much younger than Miss Marple–she’s a babe.
I don’t know if it’s streaming anywhere in the US, though.
WaterGirl
@zhena gogolia: I know. I cried, then, I teared up now. Thinking about the show without him. The world without him.
eclare
@Mousebumples:
He was also Carrie’s friend on Sex and the City. He was so good
The reboot wrote him off as going on a spiritual awakening to Japan. He sent a kimono to Carrie. So heartbreaking.
brendancalling
Kleo: German series on Netflix. Preposterous but good.
Chris
@WaterGirl:
I sort of watched Game of Thrones on and off when one of my roommates was watching it, and I remember the point where I was looking at the credits and just went “holy crap, Diana Rigg is in this? … Holy CRAP! THAT’S Diana Rigg?”
I didn’t even realize she was still alive (at the time). It was nice to see she was staying awesome in her old age.
Nelle
Way off topic. Just arrived here today to find that this site is very tiny on my phone. If I enlarge it, it doesn’t fit on my screen and I have to go back and forth. Only this site. Should I do something? ( just found out I have to have cataracts surgery so I doubt everything I see.)
PAM Dirac
@Quaker in a Basement:
Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries 3 seasons is available on Amazon Prime. Also the movie and the spin off: Miss Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries. The spin off is about Miss Fisher’s niece. I think it is OK, but the original was really great, so it is a bit of a let down.
Trollhattan
@jlowe: love, love, love Letterkenny. So many seasons and it just gets better. Pitter-pat.
Discovered and binged Dickenson on Apple. Hard to describe but very different from a standard period piece. Wonderful cast.
Trollhattan
@Nelle: Bigger phone? Sorry, but someone had to.
Screen resolution setting or perhaps a browser setting.
Chet Murthy
@Trollhattan: “love, love, love Letterkenny. So many seasons and it just gets better.”
Can confirm.
Chris
@PAM Dirac:
Part of the appeal of it to me is the time period – after finishing Peaky Blinders, I was on the lookout for another Roaring Twenties show, but preferably one less dark and with protagonists I actually liked, so that fill the bill nicely.
So yeah, I doubt I’ll check out the niece’s spin-off when I’m done.
Nelle
@Trollhattan: Ha. I already have a too big phone. Sounds like it isn’t plaguing others.
raven
hoops
WaterGirl
@Nelle: Have you opened BJ on your phone before? Has it always been this way?
Chet Murthy
@Nelle: It might be useful to know what make/model of phone ? And whether it’s up-to-date, system updates-wise ? And just in case, if you’re using a nonstandard browser (which I doubt you are, but just in case).
I read/comment on B-J from an almost-always-up-to-date Google Pixel 7 (Android), no problemo.
J. Arthur Crank
@Nelle: The browser may be opening the desktop version rather than the mobile version. If this is the case, I am not sure how to tell it otherwise.
Mr. Bemused Senior
@Chet Murthy: I have a Motorola g 5G, Android, Chrome. “Runs good” except for the occasional long line with no spaces “breaking the blog.” [Usually fixed before long.]
Trollhattan
That’s a Texas-size ten-four.
Chet Murthy
@Nelle: Also, have you visited the site from your phone in the recent past, and had it work fine? If so, do you remember when (just roughly). This is just to confirm that it did work well in the past, or that you’d never tried it until recently.
Nelle
@Chet Murthy: Samsung Galaxy 12, I think. I read on it way too much and it’s always been fine, until today. Teeny tiny print.
I’ll just have to wean myself off of too much BJ. I’m ready for a good luddite wail and rant. The roku quit so then there is all the folderal of getting a new one, setting it up, getting the apps updated. This is why we are old parents (we were 39 and 46 when our youngest was born). He came over to help. It’s also why I talk to young people. The hs senior from across the street came over to try to fix it. (Whoops, you all thought I was talking to young people to get them to vote. I’m befriending them to save me from technology.)
Seriously, every two days I get a nice but irritated “invitation” to join the ortho’s health portal. No, I will not. I have to have two surgeries, I think, this summer. Plus other care. Do I want to be on the health portals of the seven different care providers I have to see? I can’t keep it all straight. I can, and will, wail and rant.
Nelle
@Chet Murthy: It was working fine yesterday. It’s only this one site. Weird.
Chet Murthy
@Nelle: OK, and since it’s a Galaxy, I’m assume Android, and that you’re using “whatever browser comes with”. Some thoughts:
Just some ideas. If it worked yesterday, and today it doesn’t, then it’s likely not something that changed with B-J. So maybe it’s something in your phone, the phone browser, or its settings.
A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)
@PST: I recorded (DVR) the entire series yesterday (there was a marathon showing on a station) and have watched 2 episodes. Whew!. The D-Day one was intense. And then dipping into the series all day while we were watching other stuff, and saw the Battle of the Bulge, also intense. I remember we had just gotten Direct TV at our house for the first time so we could watch it, and it was just before 9/11. Great show. Hard to believe those soldiers went through all that and the Rethugs today are fascism-adjacent.
JaySinWA
@WaterGirl:
Thanks for the (un)kind thoughts. I’ll take my chances, YMMV. There’s a school of thought that hell is what you make it.
Shazam to you as well
ETA given that I wouldn’t watch it when it was live, at least most of it would be new to me, and given how forgettable it was, it would probably continue to be new to me ad infintitum.
Luminous Muse
Friends told me for months that I had to watch Slow Horses. I finally did. It’s a unique twist on the British spy genre with great actors. It’s worth watching just for Gary Oldman (who played a straight spy Smiley in Tinker, Taylor, Soldier, Spy) and his antagonist played by Kristen Scott Thomas. The writing and dialog are spectacular. They somehow pull off mixing serious suspense with dark hilarity (Oldman’s character in particular.)
The only problem is that I finished it a month ago and can’t bear to watch anything else. So I’m reading the books by Nick Herron, which are also good.
ascap_scab
Season 2 of We Are Lady Parts (Peacock) dropped about a week ago.
Yes, you need to see season 1 to get it.
Geeky biochemical engineering Ph.D. student Amina Hussein becomes the unlikely lead guitarist of Lady Parts, an all-female Muslim punk band.
Chet Murthy
@Luminous Muse: I haven’t watched the series, but I’ve read a good number of Herron’s books. _The Marylebone Drop_ is the most recent, and I remember the description of the Hungarian cafe in the intro: it reminded me of Le Carre’s description of the expat bar in Hong Kong at the beginning of _The Honorable Schoolboy_.
Robert A Savell
@hells littlest angel: Have to disagree there mate. Madeleine Sami’s propensity for generating hilarious euphemisms for bodily functions could put the Bard to shame. But clearly YMMV.
Gloria DryGarden
@Luminous Muse: I adore Kristen Scott Thomas. I’ll have to see if I can get this
Kelly
@WaterGirl: We liked Dead Boy Detectives. Comedy and Drama. The detectives are a couple of ghosts that help other ghosts trapped between life and the hereafter due to some crime committed against them. A Neil Gaiman project. Also the afterlife has a lot of bureaucracy ala The Good Place.
Gloria DryGarden
I finally went to a friend’s house to watch a movie on prime, that’s been getting heavy advertising on YouTube. It’s a rom com based on a book, called “The idea of you”
Anne Hathaway stars w Nicholas galitzine, in an age gap romance, where one of them is very famous. All woman producers. Sweet, and emotional. I’m blown away by this male lead, who I’d never heard of before. He’s very nuanced and plays such a range in his acting, probably about to become a star. The character he plays, and their relationship in this movie is very charming.
And, I’m guessing, I’m too late to this thread.
Kelly
Currently in the midst of season 3 of Black Sails. Swashbuckling pirates. A bit gory what with cutlasses and cannons. Solid characters but the storylines tend to have a few “why in the world would you do that?” moments.
We’ll watch season 3 of Sweet Tooth after the pirates. Loved Seasons 1 and 2. After a plague wipes out 90% of humanity, new very different children are born. Most people don’t take it well.
billcinsd
Although I haven’t watched it recently, I used to love Remember WENN, which has some episodes available youtube and is on AMC+ and some other free places. It’s written by Rupert Holmes and set at a struggling radio station in Pittsburgh just prior to the US entry into WW2.
A sample, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Uh-x9aLMHk
PaulB
I’m bouncing back and forth between several series.
“Patrick Melrose,” with Benedict Cumberbatch.
Season 3 of “Resident Alien,” with the amazing Alan Tudyk.
Season 3 of “Hacks.”
Season 2 of “Will Trent.”
Season 3 of “Bridgerton.”
“Dead Boy Detectives.”
Season 2 of “Interview with the Vampire.”
I’ve got too much stuff in the queue. A good problem to have, I guess, but less so when you have ADD and have trouble sticking to, and finishing, a series.
karen marie
@Kent: Have you watched Creamerie on Hulu? I loved it. Out of New Zealand, great writing, acting. Some people might consider it be sci-fi. It’s a post-apocalyptic story about a virus that killed off all the men.
comrade scotts agenda of rage
@Robert A Savell:
The dialogue is brilliant.
VFX Lurker
Like Lucifer, it’s loosely based on a spinoff from the Sandman comic book in the 90’s. Two dead teenage boys from different eras choose not to enter the afterlife, and they solve crimes on Earth instead.
I’m curious about both the Lucifer and Dead Boy Detectives TV adaptions. I enjoyed the recent Netflix adaptation of Sandman, so I’m interested in the adaptations of the Sandman spinoff comics.
Craig
Thanks for the Three Pines recommend, I’m enjoying it.
Craig
I don’t know if it’s been mentioned, cause I’m late, but Sugar on Apple+ is a beautiful, crazy ride.
ChiJD Doug
thruppence
Late to the party, but I’d recommend The Law According to Lydia Poet. Young woman in early twentieth century Italy aspiring to become a lawyer against universal opposition. She solves crimes that are being hung on falsely accused women. In Italian but the English dub is good. And her outfits are so DANG cute!
Shinobi42
Will Trent, old episodes of Some More News
Annamal
@VFX Lurker: The Lucifer adaptation is almost entirely different from the comics, only Mazikeen is even remotely similar.
Dead boy detectives wears its Sandman origins with pride, it’s more chaotic and aimed at teens but the Neil Gaiman flavour is there in the background despite the fact he wasn’t directly involved.
CorgiMum
@thruppence: Agreed, the costumes were beautiful! I enjoyed this series.
CorgiMum
@Craig: I just finished Three Pines, I thought it was very well done, Alfred Molina is great in this.
CorgiMum
@Robert A Savell: I thought the character was annoying at first. But I really enjoyed how the characters of Deadloch grew throughout the series, especially Eddie, Dulcie, and Abby. Some really funny bits (like the seagulls on the cctv) but also, the mystery was pretty good too.
Kosh III
Re watching Lucifer
Almost done with S2 of The Bear
Loved Dead Boy Detectives
When I’ve got time on my hands I rewatch favorite scenes from GOT such as when Dany says “Yeah MF’er, I speak Valyrian.” And anything with Lady Mormont and Lady Olenna.
Last night we stumbled onto Marry My Dead Body, a buddy/crime/comedy about a straight cop who marries a gay ghost. In Chinese with dubbing. Set (I think) in Macao. Hilarious!
Just finished ST:Discovery and waiting for ST: Strange New Worlds.