New telly shows thread

[Deckard]

Went for a punt on a NICE black mirror type show with Chris O'Dowd on Apple TV "The big door prize" and a gentle but funny start so we will watch the rest - weird seeing the oddball from Frasier in it as the storekeeper.

[Harlequin]

That's odd. He came across, to me at least, as just aloof/distant and set in his ways in S1. But S2 seemed to show a lot more autie/aspie traits in the character.

This post from the same thread nails a lot of what I was seeing in S2 (and describes it better than I could):
https://www.reddit.com/r/AutisticPride/ ... &context=3

...although it also suggests the TV portrayal is more ASD than the books (which I've not read).

It's the way he speaks and thinks in absolutes, no grey, everything black and white, and is often confused by others not behaving the same way.

Interesting. The character never struck me as my kind of thing but now I might give an episode or two (of the second season) a go.

And thanks to that thread I also now know why you (rightly) don't see "Asperger's Syndrome" used as much as you used to!

Absorbed into the spectrum.

[NorthWay]

Prime has a new "Mr & Mrs Smith" which is kind of a re-spin of the film or the old series, but very much its own thing. Saw the first episode and the start of the second, but I think I'll leave it at that. It. Is. Just. So. Darn. Slow.
Not going anywhere. And from one of my colleagues who was bored and had time to kill; it does not get better.

[phattslagg]

Yeah this one has been consigned to the “wife watches it on her own” file. It basically feels like other stuff by Donald Glover which just seems to be a vehicle for him to be him.

[Deckard]

Much like Sean Connery, Richard E Grant, Brian Blessed and Alan Cummings then.

[Deckard]

Well the end of The Curse was.....well.....totally weird but suitable I feel and we have just started watching Evil , an extremely well regarded long running american tv series which could be pitched as X-Files doing a paranormal event every week with a bit more comedy.... 3 eps in and really enjoying it and doesnt hurt that the priest is an extremely good looking idris elba look-alike.

[Harlequin]

Well the end of The Curse was.....well.....totally weird but suitable I feel and we have just started watching Evil , an extremely well regarded long running american tv series which could be pitched as X-Files doing a paranormal event every week with a bit more comedy.... 3 eps in and really enjoying it and doesnt hurt that the priest is an extremely good looking idris elba look-alike.

Did you not see Jessica Jones or Luke Cage, in which he played the latter character?

Evil gets even better as it goes along and Michael Emmerson seems to be enjoying his wicked role immensely. The fourth season is due to start in May.

[WiteWulf]

I couldn't finish the first episode of The Curse, absolutely hated it

Evil, though, is superb. Really enjoyed that. Didn't know there was a 4th season coming, so that's nice.

On a "check your brain in at the door" note, we recently finished watching the gloriously daft and schlocky Manifest. Saved by Netflix after cancellation so it could its final season it has a pretty decent, if slightly predictable ending. Four seasons of utter metaphysical pseudo-science nonsense to numb your mind to

[VNVObit]

Just hit my radar as Michelle Yeoh is in it -

watched it. She is superb in it and why I binged it
enjoyable show overall with some good bits of humor and fighting.

[Deckard]

She is my fave actress of the last 5 years along with Natasha Lyonne

[Deckard]

Funny to see Evil Season 1 EP 3 copy EXACTLY the death of chris morris in the IT Crowd....

[Mat]

I started watching the Netflix adaptation of The Three Body Problem today, having read the books a few years ago now.
So far, it's a very good adaptation that is pretty faithful to the books (there's some gender-swapping, and a less China-centric focus).

The problem is, while I admired the coherence of the story and the research that must have gone in to writing it, I found it very nihilistic, and quite off-putting at times. Okay, not all stories have to have a happy ending. But these books never let up, lurching from disaster to disaster, eventually finishing with:

Spoiler: show

the destruction of the entire universe.

And the series is quickly reminding me of that.

I suppose the only thing that seems more upbeat than the books is that it doesn't seem to have the uncomfortable misogynistic undercurrents that I found the books to have (yet).

To the casual observer, that may seem like an odd statement.
After all, aren't the central figures in the books mostly female and scientifically accomplished?

Well yes. Yes they are.
But that still didn't take away from the creepy way the author wrote them.

I will watch this all the way through, as there's a lot of intriguing ideas in there, and I'm keen to see how they adapt them.
But I'm not sure I'll completely enjoy it.

[Deckard]

No expectations of Renegade Nell on Disney but always like Nick Mohammed (who is also on the new series of Taskmaster) and who doesnt like a bit of comedy medieval matrix action with a great budget ? Very pleasantly surprised - a solid 8

[Deckard]

So I didnt even know this was a thing to just now - and rave reviews too -

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radi ... -a-tv-show

[noodles]

Is the Fallout series any good ?