I just finished Shogun. Pretty good, don't know why is not more known

Rewatching The Expanse. I remember I was very critical of it first time around, but I also had the books fresh in my mind then. Second time around, I’m enjoying it a lot more.

Just finished the 3rd season. From what I remember tho, the show goes off the rails before ScyFy drops it, and then Amazon has to fight to get it back on the rails before it gets good again.

My biggest gripe of course with the show is that they quit with the Earth, Mars, Belter conflict resolution and we never get to see the cool alien war.

Still, it’s worth a watch for those who haven’t seen it. It’s solid sci-fi and it scratches a certain space itch.

I really enjoyed the expanse, it is something I need to watch again soon.

It is the time of year i rewatch Firefly to coincide with the show's release.

I have also been watching Lanterns, i am really enjoying this. It is a superhero show without being all action and no substance.

I am also continuing my Addams Family 1964 rewatch. Last night was episode 3.

X-Men '97 S02
Chad Powers S02

I'm really liking X-Men '97

My favorites over the summer have been Widows Bay, Reacher, and Silo.

At some point, I realized that three of my favorite recent watches were all about underground shelters following some sort of conflagration, and now everybody is getting curious about what's outside: Silo, Fallout, and Paradise.

1. The world fall to pieces.
2. Not watching billionaire funded propaganda. Go join a club.

The original Code Geass. The themes are still relevant to this day.

I've been meaning to check this out for a while, but the wife isn't the biggest subtitle fan so I don't know if I could get her into this one.

Does season 1 end where the old series ends? I've been curious after hearing it was getting more seasons.

Taskmaster has been about the only regular series I've been watching lately. The lineup of contestants feels very well balanced in their types of humor, so that's been fun. The Greek theme of the house looks really good as well.

Checked out ep 1 of the new Simpsons season. I kinda told myself I wasn't going to, and to just be done with it, but I was bored and gave in. I was not any less bored when it was over.

Also watching this month's Grand Sumo tournament. I forgot it was this month, so I missed it as it was coming out, but I saw a post in /All, so now I've been trying to avoid spoilers. c/Sumo got me interested earlier this year, and as someone not a sports person, it's been a ton of fun and rather easy to start following. I didn't think I could get my wife into it, but halfway through the second tournament I watched, she started to get into it as well, and she cheers for her favorite rikishi now too. It's fun to watch because NHK puts the highlights on Youtube, so each day you can watch in just under a half hour, it's got English commentary, and matches don't often last more than a couple seconds, so it's easy to stop and go do other things if you can't sit and watch it all at once. Their power and agility is really something else! It's something I never thought I'd be into, but it sucked me in fast once I gave it a fair go.

No idea how the og series end and don't want to spoil S01 ending here.

About the subtitles, it is extremely important to see it subbed. The way Mariko translate the words between the Japanese and the English guy is really important to the development of the plot and the characters. It would be interesting to have a version of the show more centered on the English guy without any subtitles until he starts learning Japanese and have the experience of not understanding what is happening around him until he starts understanding too

Seconding Taskmaster.

Every show is on YouTube and I think it's on Hulu now as well. It's probably on an actual channel in the UK too.

It would be interesting to have a version of the show more centered on the English guy without any subtitles until he starts learning Japanese and have the experience of not understanding what is happening around him until he starts understanding too

This is how the 1980 miniseries did it! 😆

The viewer is supposed to go through the same progression as Blackthorne, being at the mercy of translation and body language/actions until he learns Japanese. There is some narration and you get subs as he learns the language.

From some quick reading, Blackthorne is not as much the main POV in the new series, but he is in the original.

It's on archive.org if you want to watch it.

It's such a fun show. We tried to get tickets to the North American tour, but bots bought all the tickets in about 3 seconds. Boo.

I loved seeing Kumail Manjiani on the last season and Jason Mantzoukas before that. All the UK comedians I end up loving, but it was fun having some people that I was already familiar with.

Being old and shit I was completely sure that everyone just speak English and the audience had to understand that they actually speak Japanese.

Well, I guess I'm watching that version too.

It's been a few years since I watched it, so I had to look it up to check for sure on the language, and it's funny as so many threads show up on movie forums asking where the heck all the subs are at, and everyone else responds "yooooo, that's the whole point!"

It sounds both series cover the same content, but from fairly different POVs, so you should still get a unique experience from it even though you have major spoilers from having seen the new one. I hope you enjoy it!

the paper s02!

Lanterns is surprisingly engaging. I like shows with slow complex plots. Not your typical superhero show with asplosions. Kyle Chandler and Aaron Pierre are good.

Slow Horses.

After being a fan of Game Changer I tried to watch Taskmaster because the shows are really close conceptually. But the format of "interview and pre recorded clips" bored me. The section were they play "live" against each other was way more funny.

Scrubs revival s02. Still so good.

Slow Horses. Really hooked up, I also loved the credits track on this last episode.

I hadn't heard of Game Changer, but it looks like a lot of people I like have been on it, so I'll have to take a look at that.

The things I like about the segments being pre-recorded is that sometimes the contestants will have forgotten certain things they did, they can add some post production to challenges where they create a video short or song, or they can play a joke on a contestant and then we see how it plays out over the season. I think it was the previous season they had a guy carry an egg in a necklace around, and whenever Alex blew the whistle, he'd have to stop whatever he was doing and present the egg. At first he thinks everyone has to do it, but as the season plays back, he learns it's just him, and as a viewer, after a while I'd forget it too, and the when randomly hearing the whistle, it's "ohhh, he better grab that egg fast!"

Also, when they present the clips and make it look like one person has won an event, and then they pull a "but wait!" and show them cheating or accidentally breaking a rule and they get disqualified is funny.

Nothing wrong with not liking it of course!

So out of what im watching I want to give a shout out for primal. Except for one episode it does not really use language so its kinda neat that anyone could be watching it and get the same experience.

yeah caught second half of 01 and 02. not bad. got back to the old format and making callbacks to itself. better than the med school thing.

Try to watch it from the beginning (knowing the players and being para social with them is half the fun) but skip season 3 (covid season) except s03e01. That one is good.

I just finished "The East Palace" and enjoyed it a lot. As a bonus the Ggeomeoksali is really cute,at least to look at:

I've finally gotten around to watching Breaking Bad. I'm at the start of season 2 right now. It's clearly a quality show. Even when I think a plot line or performance is lacking, the production itself is always nice.

I've noticed the "brown filter = Mexico" thing in American cinema for a while but feel like I'm seeing where the memes about it really come from. It's pretty heavily used in this show.

So far I would recommend it!

I will also always recommend the Buffy the vampire slayer T.V. show, Psych, and Monk.

Yes I love the old 'weekly procedural'.

I'm watching the ships roll in, then I watch em roll away again. Highly reccomend.

Is it not?? Based on famous book, was already a show, won a bunch of awards, is getting a sequel.
Anyway, I liked it too! no clue what they'll do for s02 though since the book story already ended

Just finished House of the Dragon S03 and the other GoT spinoff, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. HotD I watch for the dragons, it delivers. AKotSK surprised me, I really like it.

Movies: The Fury (another dePalma about psychics), Pressure (WW2 drama with Brendan Frasier), Mars Express (hand-drawn animation cyberpunk), Planetes (vintage anime, Nasa-punk), Coyote v Acme (animation gold), Forgotten Island (animation pink), Ted Lasso (girls team is great), Star Trek DS9 (rewatching, more relevant than ever)

Comic book for bonus points: Maus (holocaust documentary where every nation is anthropomorphic animals, the nazis are cats, the mice go to maushwitz)

I think it's pretty well known, but it's not super popular due to requiring people to read dialogue instead of multitasking while listening to the 5th rehash of a basic plot point.

Pretty great show :D

Widow's Bay

would strongly recommend.

+1 for Lanterns.

My only regret is I started a week early, and could only binge the first 7 episodes!

Frank is a superhero in that show, with all he survives.

Maybe it's been long enough. I'll rewatch the first half, anyway.

I'm running out of things to watch, so thanks for the reminder.

We are at just about the right spot to get (most of) the original cast back and pick things up.

Hopefully Captive's War will be decent as well. I'm enjoying the books.

Lanterns is super solid, and I honestly really liked the ending once I gave it a beat. I'll say no more in case you haven't seen it yet.

Oh wow! Thanks! I didn’t even know about this new series by these guys. I’ll check it out!

But yeah I forgot about the Earthers who disappeared behind a gate and told everyone fuck off, then emerge as a fascist nation.

Been reading The Final Architecture series by Adrian Tchaikovsky which with its similarities (and differences) to The Expanse it got me itching to revisit the series. I’d have no doubt that Tchaikovsky was inspired by S A Corey when writing it.

you should check out ludwig for more procedural goodness

Wifey doesn't usually like cartooney fantasy, almost exclusively likes romantic comedies, romance dramas and catastrophe movies... For some reason I cannot explain, she's loving one piece live action.

Anyone who is into one piece and has trouble sharing tastes with your partner, try it. I'm really liking it so far (we're barely four episodes in). The casting IMO is fantastic (I'm sure I'm not the first one noticing) and the changes work really well, cinematography does a few kinda odd dreammy things like these low angle face closeups with bokeh that somehow tie everything together with a strong aesthetic.

It's also fun and silly with just enough seriousness to pass for a more mainstream (non anime oriented) show.

I've seen some screenshots here and there and was worried some things would be too goofy, but it works really well in action.

I know I'm late to the party, but I'm certain I'm not the only one.

Golden Axe is Temu Vox Machina, but that's not to say it's bad, exactly.

Re-watching FX comedies again.

Finished "what we do in the shadows"
Just started " you're the worst"

Loving them

Ooh Also just watched "My name is Earl" for the first time and loved it

This is reminding me of all those old syfy shows i need tk revisit like Killjoy, 12 monkeys, magician

I watched You're the Worst for the first time over the summer, it was so good.

Ok, I just finished the 80's and holy shit. The new one is waaaa better than the original lmao. The only thing I think the original is better is in the Spanish pilot character. And know I need to read the novel to compare with each

Aww, well I hope it at least wasn't a total waste of your time.

It was good. It was an interesting read to compare both and see how they decided to show each and the difference on characterization. Specially Blackthorn that are basically two pretty different characters on each one. The 80's one is more happy and interested on learning about japanese culture, whole the new one feel more grounded and just trying to survive another day to get the shit out of Japan. My wife felt that the 80's version explained better the background political conflict, because of the narrator and the more explicit translation. While the new version was more show don't tell and some of the motivations on the conflict could be lost if you don't pay attention.

Oh, good.

I still haven't gotten to check out the new series, but it definitely looks like it should be pretty awesome.