Well, to each its own, but I find it just the right kind of cheesy. But I cannot binge it either…I am still in early season 3 half a year after starting LEVERAGE.
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Parks and Rec gets better after season 1 and 2. 1st season is pretty awful. Wife and I recently finished Life in Pieces (prime) and enjoyed it. Curb Your Enthusiasm (hbo) is my favorite tv comedy show. An older show though they recently (year ago?) had a new season.
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I watched the first season of The Spaderlist, but I gave it up. I would go back to it if someone told me it got a lot better as it went on (hint, hint), but the disparity between Spader’s acting and the rest of the cast’s…“acting”? was too much for me. If there was a weekly supercut of just Spader’s scenes, then I would absolutely watch that.
I shall take this opportunity to recommend Person of Interest, which is a show in the vein of what’s being discussed and that absolutely gets better as it goes along.
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Absolutely loved Person of Interest … that show really did get better over time, and I thought it was good from the get-go. Sarah Shahi and Amy Acker’s characters made the show stronger.
Wife and I are on season 5 of the Blacklist, and I think it probably peaked in season 2 or 3. The procedural aspects of the show are still solid, but some of the serialized parts are getting annoying and others didn’t pay off when they did wrap up.
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PoI struck me as utter garbage, after a few episodes. 500 people getting shot in the knee is taking the piss. It gets better?
I thought so, but I’m admittedly not the most discerning TV critic, so take that with a grain of salt.
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It definitely gets better. As soon as Amy Acker’s character shows up, the show becomes exponentially more watchable. It starts doing genuinely unexpected things and just ramps up as it goes on.
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I second this. Parks season 1 and season 7 can pretty much be skipped. From the latter half of season 2 through the end of 6 it is some strong stuff. My wife likes it better than Community; for me it is just a bit lower. But we both enjoy it.
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For All Mankind. So, this is pretty decent! Alternate history, but quite well-rooted.
“Pilots! We should have stuck with the monkeys.”
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Loved the first season of FAM… anxiously looking forward to watching the second season < glares at wife >
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You only mentioned it last January! How the fuck did I miss that,
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Flack, on Amazon Prime. 1 season, 6 episodes.
Starring Anna Pasquin as a female Don Cheedle in a more modern take on House of Lies.
It’s good, but not great. Entertaining for the forty minutes or so, but I’m left feeling like the season needed more than 6 episodes. It’s almost like drinking a diet soda - it’s ok, but you leave feeling like you didn’t have the real thing, if that makes sense.
How the fuck indeed lol…
It was one of the best shows on Apple TV+ and pretty damn decent on its own - it gets better as the season progresses.
Diet Dr Pepper > any other soda, diet or otherwise
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Cherry Vanilla Diet Dr Pepper > Regular Diet Dr Pepper
Doctor Pepper was the inventor, not the drink.
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We finished Season 1 of Warrior Nun on Netflix last night, and I can’t recommend it enough. We went into it not expecting much, but about half way through the season I had to look up the creator of the show, and it turned out to be Simon Barry, the creator of another show I think was highly underrated, Continuum.
What we especially liked about the show was that it frequently seemed to be heading into a familiar TV trope, and then would take an unexpected turn. Not major plot twists, just unpredictable directions. I really enjoyed it for that aspect. Sure, we guessed some, but plenty of surprise too.
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100% agreed. I really liked that show so I will give this a try after writing it off when I first saw the preview some months ago.
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Just discovered this.
Going to be watching it all today rather than do anything risky like get out of bed.
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That was a fun show.