TV series recommendations general (excluding Netflix/ Amazon)

[DotCommunist]

Isn’t that on Netflix?

yes but everything comes from torrents or lookmovie streaming type sites for me

 

[Silas Loom]

yes but everything comes from torrents or lookmovie streaming type sites for me

One TV thread to rule them all and one TV thread to find them, that’s what I say. And a firestick to bind them in the darkness.

 

[DaveCinzano]

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

Heavily plugged on The Rest Is Entertainment (co-hosted by Marina Hyde)

 

[Millard]

The Good Doctor on Netflix.

 

[krtek a houby]

The Good Doctor on Netflix.

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[lazythursday]

Yesterday I resubscribed to Apple TV to watch Silo. I needed to switch account, because my partner paid last time and I'd said I'd pay this time, plus I was hoping for a freebie week or something. The process of logging out, logging in and successfully paying took about three hours, much of it stuck in a Kafkaesque login loop. Eventually I successfully paid but the channel wouldn't activate for another hour. And I was offered three months free, which at the final step magically changed to one single week.

That is the last time I shall be paying Apple and my fire stick is being ordered tonight.

Quite enjoyed Silo season 2 episode 1, though pretty much zero happened and you only really need to watch the first five mins and the final two.

 

[Chz]

I ended up having to create a new email account just to sign up for free AppleTV+. I don't know how the hell some not-so-technical people get by with AppleID and all that. It was a massive pain, and buggy as shit.

Though I never had any intention of extending the free trial, to be honest.

 

[Orang Utan]

I don’t understand what’s so complicated about it? I’ve never had any technical issues with AppleTV+. Indeed, of all the streamers, it has the best UI.

 

[Chz]

I don’t understand what’s so complicated about it? I’ve never had any technical issues with AppleTV+. Indeed, of all the streamers, it has the best UI.

Once I signed up, it's easy peasy. Though I disagree about best UI. It was the process of getting an AppleID that foxed me. Someone had already signed up using my email address, my alt address kept giving an unknown error when I tried it, and I couldn't get anything to process until I created a brand-new obnoxiouslylongusername Gmail account that I could get in.

 

[breadandcircuse]

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.

If you have Virgin or Sky, you don't need Now TV for The Jackal. I'm watching it now, as Sky have it On Demand, plus they broadcast the first 5 episodes the other night which I recorded. I have Virgin and thought I wouldn't be able to get it, but surprisingly I did.

It's okay, it got better after the first episode I thought, but I can't really get my head around the angelic looking Redmayne as a cool assassin.

 

[breadandcircuse]

Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light

Excellent and classy stuff. Apologies if it has been recommended, but I've only looked at the last couple of pages.

 

[lazythursday]

I don’t understand what’s so complicated about it? I’ve never had any technical issues with AppleTV+. Indeed, of all the streamers, it has the best UI.

It's the process of logging in. I'm doing it from a Roku. I've had things go wrong every single time. Last year the only way I could make it work was to get hold of an iOS device and log in on that first. You have to jump back and forth between TV and web, you get inexplicable errors, it takes ages to sync up once you've paid.

 

[moochedit]

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.

Only 4 more episodes of jackal left and 5 left of Dune.

 

[Voley]

I'm enjoying Day of the Jackal.

Don't mind the pace and I like the retro styling and nods to the original. Just 2 episodes in but intrigued so far.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

I just finished After the Party which is on Channel 4. It’s been slated a bit for being slow but I think it’s absolutely excellent. Highly recommended. By me anyway.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

And I’ve just started Ben Wheatley’s Generation Z, also on 4.

Seems entertaining so far and what’s not to love about Sue Johnston and Anita Dobson as zombies?