TV series recommendations general (excluding Netflix/ Amazon)

[The39thStep]

Just started The Night Of with John Tuturro in it. Its been on my watch list so long but I'd always swerved it. A young fella from an Indian subcontinent family in America decides to go to a party where there will be women and ends up in a police cell. Staggeringly good first episode, , the events of that night forensically unfold, filming is great and the whole thing is very atmospheric.

 

[Orang Utan]

Just started The Night Of with John Tuturro in it. Its been on my watch list so long but I'd always swerved it. A young fella from an Indian subcontinent family in America decides to go to a party where there will be women and ends up in a police cell. Staggeringly good first episode, , the events of that night forensically unfold, filming is great and the whole thing is very atmospheric.

Riz Ahmed is the star of it

 

[lazythursday]

Finding it so hard to find anything worth watching at the moment. I try to do subscription-hopping, and wait till I've identified at least two things I really want to watch before doing so.

Might be worth going for NowTV once enough episodes of Jackal and the new Dune prequel thing are out but not yet. Apple at the end of Jan for Silo and Severance. But nothing appeals right now. So much dross.

 

[Silas Loom]

Finding it so hard to find anything worth watching at the moment. I try to do subscription-hopping, and wait till I've identified at least two things I really want to watch before doing so.

Might be worth going for NowTV once enough episodes of Jackal and the new Dune prequel thing are out but not yet. Apple at the end of Jan for Silo and Severance. But nothing appeals right now. So much dross.

We do seem to have reached the end of the New Golden Age Of Telly. Even with a firestick widget offering everything for free, I’m watching more films now.

 

[The39thStep]

Riz Ahmed is the star of it

He's great

 

[Orang Utan]

I just pay for them all. I wish I was organised enough to do subscription hopping. I daren’t even look at how much it costs me every month to barely watch any TV (I doubt I watch more than 5 or so hours a week of it)

 

[Orang Utan]

He's great

Is John Turturro in it as well then?

 

[The39thStep]

Is John Turturro in it as well then?

He is and tbh I have only had it on my watch list because he is in it. I wasn't aware Riz Ahmed was in it until I watched the first episode.

 

[lazythursday]

I just pay for them all. I wish I was organised enough to do subscription hopping. I daren’t even look at how much it costs me every month to barely watch any TV (I doubt I watch more than 5 or so hours a week of it)

What actually happens with my careful plan is I forget to cancel and I do end up paying for them all, then about nine months later realise, cancel everything and start again. Which is where I am now. And I can't justify subscribing to anything. Perhaps I should just instead pay for a firestick and learn how to pirate everything again.

 

[kalidarkone]

I wasn’t convinced for much of the first episode but then started to get into it. Finished the second episode now and will probably stick with it. Many flaws but it does have some amusing bits.

The first episode is quite believable and then it goes a bit scooby doo and ridiculous.

 

[Johnny Vodka]

Finding it so hard to find anything worth watching at the moment. I try to do subscription-hopping, and wait till I've identified at least two things I really want to watch before doing so.

Might be worth going for NowTV once enough episodes of Jackal and the new Dune prequel thing are out but not yet. Apple at the end of Jan for Silo and Severance. But nothing appeals right now. So much dross.

I got now entertainment for £2.99 a month for 6 months the other day. Dunno if that offer is still on.

 

[belboid]

Might be worth going for NowTV once enough episodes of Jackal and the new Dune prequel thing are out but not yet. Apple at the end of Jan for Silo and Severance. But nothing appeals right now. So much dross.

Bad Sisters back this week as well, so a one month sib when Severance is all up would definitely be worth it.

 

[T & P]

Day of the Jackal is pretty good

 

[Orang Utan]

Has anyone seen The Franchise yet? New Armando Ianuccis series on Now that takes the piss out of Marvel

 

[Silas Loom]

Has anyone seen The Franchise yet? New Armando Ianuccis series on Now that takes the piss out of Marvel

Reviews have been disconcertingly bad, considering how much Ianucci is revered.

 

[Orang Utan]

Reviews have been disconcertingly bad, considering how much Ianucci is revered

Dunno why I’m curious. Didn’t bother with Avenue 5 and Veep, and have only seen a few episodes of The Thick Of It. I keep expecting better from him though, as his early output was great and he’s done some great things like David Copperfield. Mind you, he also wrote that dogshit Brexit poem

 

[T & P]

Has anyone seen The Franchise yet? New Armando Ianuccis series on Now that takes the piss out of Marvel

A few episodes as my OH seems to like it. Terrible.

 

[krtek a houby]

A few episodes as my OH seems to like it. Terrible.

Pity, he's usually on form. Veep, The Thick of It & The Death of Stalin are fab.

 

[T & P]

Penguin finale is brutal - and brilliantly good, at that. Colin Farrell has to be odds-on favourite for an Emmy this year.

 

[Santino]

Penguin finale is brutal - and brilliantly good, at that. Colin Farrell has to be odds-on favourite for an Emmy this year.

It's a shame that

Spoiler: Spoiler

Victor never got to say 'I have to go p-p-p-pick up The Penguin'.

 

[Silas Loom]

Penguin finale is brutal - and brilliantly good, at that. Colin Farrell has to be odds-on favourite for an Emmy this year.

Difficult to choose who gets the gongs, the actor playing Sofia was great too. Then the kid who assumed Farrell’s persona with a pitch-perfect Gotham accent was incredibly good for a youngster.

 

[Silas Loom]

Day of the Jackal is pretty good

One episode in and something feels flat. On paper it should all work and be very gripping. Mrs Loom thinks it’s the pacing.

 

[Spymaster]

Until I Kill You.

Possibly Anna Maxwell Martin's best performance.

 

[kabbes]

Until I Kill You.

Possibly Anna Maxwell Martin's best performance.

Yes, this was good.

 

[T & P]

Until I Kill You.

Possibly Anna Maxwell Martin's best performance.

How grim is it? I am particularly wary of crime dramas based on real events because life is fucked up enough as it is.

 

[Spymaster]

How grim is it? I am particularly wary of crime dramas based on real events because life is fucked up enough as it is.

There’s a bit of blood and violence but it’s not particularly grim. More of a psychological drama.

 

[T & P]

There’s a bit of blood and violence but it’s not particularly grim. More of a psychological drama.

Cool. I can cope with that. I just can’t do with tales of, say, people kept in basements as sex slaves, or being tortured extensively.

 

[Epona]

What?

Sorry, but it's grim as fuck.
Trigger warnings include violence, sexual violence, kidnapping/being held hostage, coercive control.

If you can't do people kept in basements, T & P, steer well clear of it.

 

[DotCommunist]

Been watching Supacell. Its Misfits crossed with Top Boy, basically. Worth a look.

 

[Orang Utan]

Been watching Supacell. Its Misfits crossed with Top Boy, basically. Worth a look.

Isn’t that on Netflix?