The TV and Streaming Thread: That's Entertainment!

[LadyCrimson]

MAX/HBO - The Pitt.  An emergency room medical show. It's being released one episode a week, up to 5 episodes at this moment. I knew of, but never watched or wanted to watch that old "ER" series, which I guess this is getting kind of compared to because of the lead actor (and one of the producers) Noah Wyle. But The Pitt's concept is the whole season is a single day of Noah's head doctor chr. So one hour or so=one episode. A lot of interns/students, a lot of guest patients that stick around for multiple episodes. Takes some medical realism liberties like all shows but it's probably better than most. I liked it enough to watch all 5 available episodes. Hope it stays focused on the ER workings. With it being a single day, won't be any silly office romance/divorces type soap drama I assume.

Netflix - Sakamoto Days. Anime, action/comedy. Super-assassin who retired/married/got fat but still has super-assassin abilities, ends up being rediscovered/has to do stuff. It's pretty funny in the OTP anime fashion, I like it so far.

[rjshae]

Hulu -- Lazarus Project. It's been pretty good so far, being about a time loop setting in a sci-fi, mission-oriented context. The team is working to prevent mass extinction events by setting up a loop baseline then jumping back to repeat events when things don't go right.

[ShadySands]

Equalizer TV show - it's really bad but it's fun to binge for some reason. It really is terrible though and I wouldn't watch it weekly but my wife and I have made several drinking games out of it.

Ghosts - this one my wife mostly watches without me but I like it okay. I've watched, while doomscrolling on my phone, both the UK and the US versions and in this instance I think I like the US version better.

High Potential - We really liked this one and can't wait for the second season. I mean, not enough to check out the French version, but still.

Matlock - While I think the premise of the show is absurd, I'd probably watch Kathy Bates read the phone book.

 

 

[Lexx]

Watched that new Dexter show. I've expected nothing and was surprised how it did not suck at all. Would say the casting was pretty good-- some of those people I even had to look up on google because they felt so close to the original, it was scary.

[kanisatha]

9 hours ago, ShadySands said:

High Potential - We really liked this one and can't wait for the second season.

Yeah, I was surprised ABC didn't give this show a full season 1 extension.

[LadyCrimson]

Watched Elevation (Netflix). Decent cast. Felt like a long pilot for a cheap sci-fi cable series. Hubby kept making me laugh with some sarcastic "logic" comments.

Watched 1 episode of Zero Hour (Netflix). Mostly because DeNiro, curious. Hubby's more the political drama/thriller type then myself. The premise itself is kind of intriguing but by the end of that episode I was wondering if DeNiro's chr was insane. It's all quite over-dramatic, reminded of the dramatic pacing of something like that old 24 series, except without bomb threats.
--The best moment was when there was this brief bit of DeNiro/other going into a room, sat down, and walls moved up to surround them and glowed, indicating uber anti-tech privacy. Hubby hollered "CONE OF SILENCE!" I laughed for a minute. (Get Smart reference/joke). I haven't seen hubby watch a 2nd episode of it, if that says anything.

Watching TV with hubby is always better than by myself. 

[Amentep]

 

[Warning: adult language]

I like the astrix trailers tweak of the trailer-before-the-trailer silliness.

 

[LadyCrimson]

The Pitt - 9 episodes in and I'm still liking it. A couple episodes were really great, most are pretty good. Stays with the patient stories and doctor reactions/actions, like I hoped. Some heartfelt moments, some occasional ego spats between interns and highers, but no big drama. So far.

[ShadySands]

We started Star Trek Prodigy season 2. The first few episodes were pretty frustrating but then it started getting pretty good. Easily my second favorite nuTrek show.

Edited 9 hours ago by ShadySands