General TV Discussion and Thread for Shows Without A Thread Thread
OOTV doesnt like family comedies much huh? Raising Hope and The Middle are two of the best(possibly the best outside of NBC)comedies on tv yet no threads.
Just an observation.
Don't want to risk getting spoiled in the dedicated thread, do we have a consensus on True Detective latest season quality ? At least watchable ?
I made it through approximately 2 episodes. I tried, I really tried because of the dearth of good television but couldn't make it. I am really picky with television though so ymmv.
Semi-related rant:
The wokeness in modern television has gone off the rails. I tried latest season of Fargo and couldn't get through that either. Both shows go out of their way to show lead female characters as borderline superheroes and men, specifically white men, to be either idiots, evil, or a combination of both. I feel like I am being brainwashed with a lot of these shows.
Earlier seasons of Fargo (and the movie) had strong female leads that worked because they didn't push the realms of believability too far. The females were smart in a believable way the men weren't.
Completely unrelated to your question but I don't want to start a new post:
Modern stuff I *have* liked, in case anyone missed them and/or can point out a suggestion I may have missed.
Beef
Severance (really enjoyed)
Silo (kind of enjoyed)
Mr. Inbetween (awesome)
Squid Game
Devs
Overrated crap I couldn't stomach:
Yellowstone
Succession
Stuff I liked at first then began to loathe:
Last Of Us
Ozark
Well-made show but bored me to death and I stopped watching: (sacrilege but just being honest)
The Bear
A show I could NOT STOP WATCHING and wished I found it sooner but maybe glad I didn't:
The Bureau (French)
Rewatching Shameless (US) after 13 years is great so far.
I remember bailing in season 7 or 8? But those first 4 seasons really are something special.
Cracks are starting to show now in S5 again though.
Just leave it to Showtime to run a good tv series into the ground with way to many seasons lol.
Probably can count on one hand the number of shows that were still good after 7 or 8 seasons. The sweet spot seems to be about 6.
i'll always prefer a show run too long, rather than too short.
i don't see "too long" as a problem. i just see it as giving me control when i want the series to end. because no one is forcing me to watch lol
agreed, early seasons of shameless were great
A show I could NOT STOP WATCHING and wished I found it sooner but maybe glad I didn't:
The Bureau (French)
Based on your post, especially regarding The Bureau (I loved it)...here are a few recs (if you have seen some, your opinion would be appreciated):
Pagan Peak
Dead Mountain
Pachinko
Wolf Hall
Babylon Berlin
Billie & Billie
Umbre
I Hate Suzie
Snabba Cash
El Marginal
This Way Up
The Mechanism
Zero Zero Zero
Blinded By The Lights (Polish)
Kingdom (Korean)
Moving and Big Bet needs to be on every list
i'll always prefer a show run too long, rather than too short.
i don't see "too long" as a problem. i just see it as giving me control when i want the series to end. because no one is forcing me to watch lol
Somewhere there is a parallel universe where I am the happiest version of myself, because Luck (HBO) ran for 6 seasons instead of 1.
Holy Shogun. That one probably deserves a thread. Godaaaamn.
the original plan was for it to go like 10 seasons x 10 episodes :shocked:
maybe more
would have been fine if they just let competent people run it
but yeah in general a lot of shows hang on too long because the ratings stay good, quality is secondary. unfortunate
lost was originally a carefully planned out 3 season story arc and then abc demanded more episodes and threw bags of cash at the creators so they started improvising and by doing so they added so much stuff that their original plotline had to be abandoned - that's why so much stuff that played central roles in early episodes were later just completely ignored or just hand waved away with some cheap explanation
the big thing they did to stretch it out were flashbacks
every single flashback and memory scene/episode/plotline was just jammed in there to make more episodes
Screw y'all trashing Lost. S4 and S5 were still great.
S6 was bad, but the ending was very good imo. Top 5 all time.
Never seen Shameless, but every clip I've ever seen of it makes it look well made and something I have no interest in watching.
You should really try the first season. It was pretty ****ing great for a while and still watchable once it jumped the shark.
Have you seen the original? I've a soft spot for it because it was filmed where I'm from.
oh yeah i loved lost through and through, but there's a distinct reason why nothing was explained at the end because they were just winging it for a while and as a result had so many loose ends that they figured it was easier to just ignore it than to bother tying them up
GoT fans may of enjoyed this more then! Short and snappy.
Game of Thrones team explain what happen...
The Game of Thrones team have explained what happened to the planned spin-off Bloodmoon.
HBO originally spent $30-35 million on a pilot for a new prequel series, but cancelled it in 2019.
HBO's chief content officer Casey Bloys explained it was a hard project to work on as the book's author, George RR Martin, had only written about eight lines of text for the time period the show was set in.
Three episodes into Mr. and Mrs. Smith and it is bizarre, but not in a good way. The relationships stuff is quite well-written and the two leads have nice chemistry, but holy crap...the assassin/spy stuff is so, so bad.
First, the missions are ridiculous. This "company" needs to hire two disgraced military/CIA people without personal connections to what...deliver a bomb to a house or bug two phones? Seems like overkill.
spoiler:
I had the same reaction. Also, I'm not sure who exactly are they working for. Maybe I missed it. I probably will drop it, even thought basic concept is interesting.
Just finished this and wasn't great.
I thought it started off well, but it doesn't go anywhere. It's an 8 episode season with very little ep to ep story development.
Each ep could almost be a standalone.
Could've been a lot better if there was a more concise storyline. Was essentially just ridiculous missions with filler.
Think I'm going to try Totems next.
