New telly shows thread

[Deckard]

Ive never played the games but yes its brilliant !

[Misfit]

Not played the games either but really enjoyed episode 1

[VNVObit]

Started watch House of Ninjas on the weekend and enjoying it so far (on episode 4)
Some nice touches of humour in it (particularly liked the family discussion about being “normal” - all ninjas with the exception of the youngest child.
Should appeal to anyone who enjoyed Brothers Sun

[Deckard]

How have I never heard of Psych which started in 2006 ?

I was nosing around looking for something like Poker Face or Murders in the building and found it mentioned on Reddit along with these others -

White Collar , The Mentalist, Monk, Eureka, Warehouse 13 ,The Librarians

Its a comic detective series where he pretends to be psychic as he has great observation skills - Seen a few eps and it's great and only another 100 episodes or so to go before I can watch the copycat'ish show The Mentalist.

[Harlequin]

How have I never heard of Psych which started in 2006 ?

I was nosing around looking for something like Poker Face or Murders in the building and found it mentioned on Reddit along with these others -

White Collar , The Mentalist, Monk, Eureka, Warehouse 13 ,The Librarians

I like Psych, WC, Eureka/W13 and, to a lesser extent TL*. I have never seen any of TM and Monk, which I initially found interesting, seemed to gradually descend into laughing at the Phobia/Mental Illness of the Week.

Its a comic detective series where he pretends to be psychic as he has great observation skills - Seen a few eps and it's great and only another 100 episodes or so to go before I can watch the copycat'ish show The Mentalist.

I feel the show has much Moonlighting in its DNA.

Also, watch out for the pineapples!



* A follow-on from the three The Librarian comedy action TV movies, turned into weekly artifact quests akin to W13 (both owing some debt to the less comic late-eighties Friday the 13th: The Series).

[Deckard]

Yeah someone else mentioned the Pineapples and them taking potshots at The Mentalist in the show

[Misfit]

Arcane (Netflix) - not new, I discovered it as season 2 is about drop and I saw a trailer in my feed.

No idea how I missed it, or how it hasn't been talked about, but it is staggeringly good and some of the most beautiful animation I've ever seen.

Not really sure how to explain it, watch the trailer/review below.

Side note - For those with an Ambilight TV the intro sequence (at least on my v2 Ambilight) is also awesome. The intro pulses, flashes and colour changes and gives the light show a real workout that it excels at.



And in the words of the highly critical Critical Drinker 'Fuck, Yes...'

[Deckard]

Bit late to The Boys but boy is it good - Nice to see Bones from Star Trek in a great role and boy is it dark and funny - An assbomb FFS !

Spot on with how "Supes" would actually work in a corporate world too.

[Misfit]

Terminator Zero looks interesting, out next week on Netflix (29th August)

Animation seems to be better than live-action lately...

[VNVObit]

Bit late to The Boys but boy is it good - Nice to see Bones from Star Trek in a great role and boy is it dark and funny - An assbomb FFS !

Spot on with how "Supes" would actually work in a corporate world too.

Latest season was a little softer (and madder in places) than previous ones
Looking forward to the next one just to see what they do. Really loved the comics and this is a pretty good within the confines of a tv version (herogasm is somewhat tamer than the comic )


Just finished Sugar on Apple TV+ reminded of the Parker comics (though on the right side of the law). Interesting twist which only becomes apparent latter half of the season. Really enjoyed it as a detective series (not up to True Detective but still pretty good)


Just started Sunny (also Apple TV+) and enjoying it so far (conspiracy/mystery series). Just 2 episodes in so far and relationship between the main protagonist and Sunny (eponymous bot of the series) is developing in an interesting way

[Deckard]

Watching Grotesquerie which is just a mad almost surreal horror tv cop series with a black female alcoholic cop and a nun chasing a 7 type killer but amped up by a 1000% - last nights episode which is normally an hour was 30 mins and half of that was one tracking shot at the start with a car crash, a drone shot , a fight and tons of walking through rooms and talking - I was VERY impressed.

It does make 7 look a bit like Bambi though....and I really don't feel like it will have a happy ending.

[Deckard]

Hooray - What we do in the shadows is back - always brilliant and the last series apparently.

[VNVObit]

just finished bingeing The Diplomat Season 2.
Really enjoyed the first and the second season is good and final scenes have a twist



Silo Season 2 has started and first episode is intriguing
Looking forward to this one

[Misfit]

The first few episodes of Arcane season 2 have hit Netflix.

Continues to be great.

A short snippet of a slow version of Linkin Park's Heavy is the Crown at the end of ep1 gave me goosebumps.

[Deckard]

I know I sound like a broken record but anyone not watching Only Murders in the Apartment should be - every series has been great and its now v meta and I love the films directors The Brothers Sisters who are obv meant to be the Matrix director brothers sorry sisters.