Could use some recommendations from you fabulous people about what to watch next. Just finished The Gentlemen (after several of you reporting that it was good) and 3BP before that and liked both. Thank you very kindly.
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Have you seen Resident Alien? Wife and I both love that show.
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I havenāt tried thatāIāll give it a look tonight. Thank you!
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Hopefully it works for you. Tried it based on my affection for Alan Tudyk and he knocks it out of the park. Itās really more of a small-town dramaā¦except for the random points where it intersects with the fact that heās a shapeshifting alien.
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Seconding Resident Alien, also Slow Horses, Station Eleven, The Bear, White Lotus.
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Beef (Netflix)
The Bear (Hulu)
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For all my doubts upthread, completely won over by Yellowstone. Weāve binged seasons 1-4, doing the streaming service shuffle (Netflix then Amazon) and have subscribed to YAFSS (Paramount+) to get season 5. Well, the first half of season 5, stop doing that itās annoying.
Itās beautifully shot, and the pacing is spot-on. You have to admire a program with the confidence to do nothing for 5 minutes but show you the cowboys being undramatically professional, just for a couple of character development lines at the end of the scene.
The protagonists are all still terrible people, but at this point you understand why and even sympathise. (Except Jamie. Jamie is a whiny asshole who is hopefully doomed). A little bit of me would be quite happy to drive the obnoxious developer guy to the Train Station to defend the fabulously filmed landscape. Also I would be quite happy to watch a spinoff featuring Beth being aggressively obnoxious to the deserving.
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This is why I havenāt given this one a chance. I cannot stick with a show where I donāt like any of the characters. This is why I bounced on @OhBollox 's suggestion of White Lotus, which I tried a while back and just wanted all of them to be crushed by an asteroid.
Iāve been tempted by Paramount+ if only for the Star Trek. But I keep waiting for the service to be bought by some bigger service and bundled into a streamer I already have. Schtreamerfreude.
which I tried a while back and just wanted all of them to be crushed by an asteroid.
Part of the fun.
First Episode of Sugar seems promising, but Iāll tell you my final verdict when I am done with the series. Hope it does not get too bizarreā¦
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So, second episode of Sugar is even better. I might not be a good reference, as Metacritic and Rotten T. seem to rate it only as slightly above average, but in my book, even if the rest of the series is meh, it wouldāve been worth it still so far.
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Sugar Episode 6 : I really dislike this twistā¦. ( writing that in the hope if anyone is following as well, they share my concerns)
For all the hype behind it, I was decidedly underwhelmed by 3 Body Problem. There are some good sci-fi ideas at work that are let down by an entire cast of dull and unlikable characters. This one just didnāt grab me.
Weighing in on Fallout (Amazon Prime Video, now just as expensive but also new and improved with ads!) now that the semester has nearly ended and my assignments are turned in.
Required disclaimer about loving all things post-apocalyptic, nuclear war, yada yada. Also never played the Fallout games but am knowledgeable re the canon, backstory, etc.
I enjoyed it a lot. It was just campy enough in keeping with the theme, the production was well done, and I thought it was well acted. Love Walton Goggins, ofc.
Only quibble would be that I felt like the last episode was rushed, but clearly theyāve planned on S2.
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Three -Body Problem. I think it suffers in hopping around in time a little too much, but I like the cast (mostly), and I think their largely humdrum lives makes the story stand out better; having heavyweights like Jonathan Pryce, Benedict Wong, and Liam Cunningham on board is great, but the story notably suffers when dealing with the characters that are remixed from the book (typically using more than one character). Their bland attractiveness apart from the one who gets killed early on lol doesnāt help distinguish them, and TBP was a book that I felt was quite old-school, in that it led with its ideas rather than its powerful characterisation in the first place. Blanding them down a bit hasnāt paid off.
I also have to say, the CGI is fucking shit at times, which makes me wonder where all the money went, because it certainly didnāt go on sets either, now did it lads. I also note the reviews are calling it āsprawlingā and āambitiousā when itās not really either, particularly. Sprawling and ambitious for Netflix, I will grant you.
I could say more, but much like @biffpowās review, it will be a long list of complaints about some of the genuine shit in it, finished off with āI donāt like it has these flaws, but I like that it got made.ā Itās a real shame itās not better, but thatās mostly nothing to do with the books.
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Just finished the last episode of Sugarā¦ I really liked the show, despite the twist in the middle of the season . One of the best things Iāve watched this year. That I went to the series not expecting much and not having any prior knowledge what to expect, helped I guess.
Dark matter (2024). A scientist finds himself removed from his own version of the world, and follows his attempt to get back to his wife, and the mystery about what happened. Pretty good if youre somehow not multiversed out yet. Has Jennifer Connoly as the wife he is trying to return to, which seems reason enough to travel across 5 dimensions to me. Joel Edgerton perhaps does not have quite enough depth to his acting bag to consistently pull off whats being asked of him as the lead actor, though he is good at times.
2 episodes yet to release, and if they pull off some bullshit cliff hanger then cancel the series (Im looking at you peripheral) then I might just go back to reading books instead
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Loved the book, having a hard time getting into the show and I canāt put a finger on why exactly.
Iāve read the book this is based on and it was very good. Agreed re: Jennifer Connelly.
