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]

 

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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 March 6 by ShadySands

[rjshae]

On 2/16/2025 at 3:21 PM, rjshae said:

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.

It was a pretty good series, but by the final episode it was getting rather confusing, what with all the time travel and overlapping time loops. The motivation for the project director was pretty good though: with the development of true time travel, all bets were off. I.e. true time travel is the ultimate power and there was no saving everything if it fell in the wrong hands. That's a good reason for preventing it from ever being developed.

I've got this crazy conjecture that time travel is impossible. It's not that the physics can't make it work, but rather that any civilization that develops time travel ultimately ends up wiping itself from existence. (This also includes any civilization that makes contact with a time travelling civilization, ad infinitum.) That's why we'll never develop a time machine, because doing so would create a paradox that would wipe out the time machine.  Have fun with that one...

[BruceVC]

Last of Us Season 2, it looks excellent.  13 April 

 

[LadyCrimson]

Hm. Looks like one of the animation styles and sense of action humor I like. I may give it a shot. Not into the DMC lore, only tried playing that one game once. Could be fun.

 

[rjshae]

Paradise on Hulu. Decent thus far. The setting reminds me of the cosy apocalypse genre. It could just as easily be a generation ship. Why hasn't there been a generation ship drama series? It seems a natural for a human experiment drama; a modest population of people trapped on an isolated, self-sufficient ship for the rest of their lives. They could throw in the Fallout-style mad science experiments.

[majestic]

4 hours ago, rjshae said:

Paradise on Hulu. Decent thus far. The setting reminds me of the cosy apocalypse genre. It could just as easily be a generation ship. Why hasn't there been a generation ship drama series? It seems a natural for a human experiment drama; a modest population of people trapped on an isolated, self-sufficient ship for the rest of their lives. They could throw in the Fallout-style mad science experiments.

That was called Stargate Universe and nobody liked it, so it got cancelled.  

[Lexx]

My issue with those drama tv shows is that they all end up being exactly the same. Using the same tropes, the same lazy drama elements, it's just exhausting to me.