I haven’t watched TV in years; kids and my previous job really killed that.

There’s SO much out there since I last picked up a remote, and I have a fucking huge backlog.

I’m open to anything, as long as it’s well done.

Series I liked: Vikings, Norsemen (hysterical), The Americans, GoT, Man in the High Castle, Expanse, Spartacus (Batiartus is amazing)

I’m scratching the surface of Boardwalk Empire, but open to other rabbit holes.

  • memfree@beehaw.orgEnglish
    3·
    3 months ago

    GoT

    You did NOT like GoT. Take that back!

    But there’s a lot of good recommendations already, so I’ll re-affirm a few of them that I both saw and enjoyed (exclusions are probably because I didn’t see the shows):

    • Black Mirror
    • The Last of Us
    • Three Body Problem
    • The Foundation
    • Hacks (for a change of pace from the rest)
    • Mr. Robot

    Some alternate ideas:

    • The new Dr. Who – but only the first … maybe 3 seasons, then STOP before you get into another GoT debacle.
    • The Watch – low budget adaptation of Terry Pratchett that made some fans FURIOUS by its re-imagination, but pretty grounded in Pratchett-ness if you can get past that. Probably for fans only. I’m told it is required that Pratchett fans watch Good Omens but can opt out of viewing The Watch.
    • Resident Alien – is low budget, low humor, and stupid. I watch it anyway.
    • Upstart Crow – wanted to be Black Adder, but… not quite. Still a pretty good riff on Shakespeare.
    • Malgas@beehaw.orgEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      The Watch […] pretty grounded in Pratchett-ness

      You’re literally the only person I’ve heard say anything like that. Sir Terry’s own daughter has disavowed it, saying that it “shares no DNA with my father’s Watch.”

      • memfree@beehaw.orgEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        I know a lot of people never got past the the total re-write of … well, everything. I understand that. If you go in wanting the source material or you will be horribly disappointed. If, instead, you go in saying, “Alright, I know the fans are in revolt, but let’s just see why this got made if it is so far from the source,” then I think you will see that yes, every aspect is changed, and the story mash-up misses the original points, but… But – BUT as a show, it was a change of pace (within what limits TV allows) and still retained a feel of a Watch novel. It wasn’t a clone of Game of Thrones or Black Adder, or anything else – and, true, it certainly wasn’t a clone of Night Watch, either. It was its own thing, and I’m a bit bummed out that the hatred means it will never get another season.