The best new and returning TV series thread

[Raggs]

I’ve had prime for some time now. In fact it was the first streaming service I had.

There were some very good series on it. But there doesn’t seem to be anything on it now. They seem to just now be pushing subscription ad ons like lions gate etc.

I can’t think of anything recent I’ve watched on it!?

I enjoyed carnival row, Good omens 2 is just released, the devil's hour was good, I liked invincible, the boys is some stupid fun.

Not mentioning older series that I assume you've watched like Vikings and expanse.

Hunters was too much for my missus.

[Uncle fester]

The Cavill nonsense is tiresome. The fanbois decided LHS was a bitch and piled into her & the showrunners but industry insiders indicate that Cavill was very difficult to work with.

They are all relieved he's gone.

[fishfoodie]

The wrong place to post this but just watched Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979) with Alec Guiness. What a show! Are there any any other mini-series from the same era?

On the Spy theme, I'd highly recommend The Sandbaggers they made a few series, & it's lot more like LeCarre than Fleming, showing the gritty side.

1990 had the tag line, "Nineteen Eight Four plus Six"", & it has a brilliant cast, & like TTSS you can tell they pushed the boat out with the budget ....

Yep IIRC they filmed in parts of Leeds as a location for the grim parts of Eastern Bloc cities [ edit - i meant this with regard to The Sandbaggers, made by Yorkshire TV ]

Some kind soul has put the entire series up on utube !

Highly recommended.

[Lisbon Nick]

Just watched on RTP2 (Portuguese equivalent of BBC) all three series back to back of Smother.

Greatly enjoyed it. My wife described it as more a soap opera on speed than a thriller but after the first couple of episodes we found it addictive.

[vball]

I watched The Rig on Prime (I could have watched it on BBC but just never got around to it. I got even more from it as I had watched Chris Packham's Earth show and it went through a lot of geology - and it really did help.

[Uncle fester]

The Cavill nonsense is tiresome. The fanbois decided LHS was a bitch and piled into her & the showrunners but industry insiders indicate that Cavill was very difficult to work with.

They are all relieved he's gone.

He may have been but he was good in the role and the show was decent at one point. Not amazing but not bad. It's straight up shite now. Started wta hing GOT again for the craic and am up to season 5. God it was good though some stuff that Grated in people at the time that I didn't mind, like the sand snakes, I can totally see are shite now. Liam Cunningham also thinking he is at a Sinn Fein Ard Fheis is extremely annoying. I will find it hard to watch anything that nob is in forever more

Cavill suited the role pretty well yes.
Will be interesting to see what happens with the new guy. He'll probably upset the incel fanbase by defending female members of the production from the horrendous abuse they've been subjected to online, something Cavill notably declined to do.

It's sad to think of just how good GOT was in is heyday. The thread on PR had a top five moments of the show and people picked totally different ones because they were so spoiled for choice.

[Blackmac]

I just finished binge-watching The Handmaid's Tale

It's not consistently brilliant, but the amount of time it slips below that level is not worth bothering about. Elizabeth Moss carries it along with the same force of will that her character displays in the story.

It's not what I'd call an easy watch, mind.


Now I've started Yellowstone

Yellowstone is ridiculously good fun apart from how badly miscast the youngest son is.

[Dinsdale Piranha]

He may have been but he was good in the role and the show was decent at one point. Not amazing but not bad. It's straight up shite now. Started wta hing GOT again for the craic and am up to season 5. God it was good though some stuff that Grated in people at the time that I didn't mind, like the sand snakes, I can totally see are shite now. Liam Cunningham also thinking he is at a Sinn Fein Ard Fheis is extremely annoying. I will find it hard to watch anything that nob is in forever more

Cavill suited the role pretty well yes.
Will be interesting to see what happens with the new guy. He'll probably upset the incel fanbase by defending female members of the production from the horrendous abuse they've been subjected to online, something Cavill notably declined to do.

It's sad to think of just how good GOT was in is heyday. The thread on PR had a top five moments of the show and people picked totally different ones because they were so spoiled for choice.

Yeah it was unbelievable. Every week a WTF moment. I think the Witcher will improve. It has to.

I hope to be proved wrong but I think The Witcher has already jumped the shark.

Season 3 has mostly been a bit of political intrigue strung out to a whole series.

[sockwithaticket]

Yeah it was unbelievable. Every week a WTF moment. I think the Witcher will improve. It has to.

Nah, if they could recognise and improve the problems, they wouldn't have put it out as is in the first place. It's the latest of a slew of recent shows where writers and producers aren't familiar with, don't respect and/or don't care about source material (Wheel of Time, Rings of Power, The Watch, Halo, Altered Carbon S2).

They can get away with that if they make a good enough show and draw in a large enough audience from outside the established fan base, but if they don't then the terminally online nerds who love the source material will fuckin' let them know and poison the well.

The Boys is an example of a show that has some pretty big deviations from the source material, but stayed true to the spirit of it and so it's pretty widely liked.

[Ymx]

Everyone complained about the timelines of Witcher season 1. I quite liked it.

Season 1 was the best by far. I was hoping the S2 was just a bit of a lull. But S3 I’m struggling to keep watching.

[sockwithaticket]

I binned S3 after 3 and a bit episodes. Wasn't even good enough for background fodder for tasks like laundry folding and bass practice.

[Uncle fester]

Ironically season 3 of the Witcher is the one that has followed the books most closely.

[Ymx]

It’s become a bit tacky with the princess.

The scene where she slays the boat monster is very cringe.

[yermum]

Justified city primeval is ok it has none of the charm of the original series .

The lack of Boyd crowder is a massive loss

[CM11]

I'm only an episode or two into the third season of the Witcher but I thought the fight scene at Kaer Morhen was one of the best in terms of recreating a big fight from the games and we were finally seeing the relationship that existed between Geralt, Yennefer and Ciri at the start of the third game.

Disappointing that it sounds like the full season isn't great. I wonder did they just get caught between three stools, satisfying the books, the game and the general audience who didn't have any knowledge of the first two.

[Hal Jordan]

Finished Good Omens 2 last night. Pretty good and entertaining, although the 4th episode jarred badly with the general tone of the series and the source material, and the ending thankfully largely avoided too much fanservice for the tiresome slash fiction crowd.

Jon Hamm's grey overcoat in the 6th episode was gorgeous.

[CM11]

Finished Good Omens 2 last night. Pretty good and entertaining, although the 4th episode jarred badly with the general tone of the series and the source material, and the ending thankfully largely avoided too much fanservice for the tiresome slash fiction crowd.

Jon Hamm's grey overcoat in the 6th episode was gorgeous.

Just finished myself. Entertaining but not a patch on the source material from the book. That said, I loved the seamstress nod to Discworld and that conversation in the fifth episode was worth it alone.

Very much a setup for a third series but they're stretching it as it is.

[sockwithaticket]

Justified city primeval is ok it has none of the charm of the original series .

The lack of Boyd crowder is a massive loss

I'm on Episode 3. It's solid, but not much more. The supporting cast of characters are nowhere near as interesting as those from the original series, though Boyd Holbrook is trying his best to inject some charisma into his character. The daughter is downright irritating. Detroit as a setting has been much less characterful than Harlan County.

[pjm1]

The Cavill nonsense is tiresome. The fanbois decided LHS was a bitch and piled into her & the showrunners but industry insiders indicate that Cavill was very difficult to work with.

They are all relieved he's gone.

He may have been but he was good in the role and the show was decent at one point. Not amazing but not bad. It's straight up shite now. Started wta hing GOT again for the craic and am up to season 5. God it was good though some stuff that Grated in people at the time that I didn't mind, like the sand snakes, I can totally see are shite now. Liam Cunningham also thinking he is at a Sinn Fein Ard Fheis is extremely annoying. I will find it hard to watch anything that nob is in forever more

Cavill suited the role pretty well yes.
Will be interesting to see what happens with the new guy. He'll probably upset the incel fanbase by defending female members of the production from the horrendous abuse they've been subjected to online, something Cavill notably declined to do.

It's sad to think of just how good GOT was in is heyday. The thread on PR had a top five moments of the show and people picked totally different ones because they were so spoiled for choice.

Re: Cavill, I thought it was well known he is a massive Witcher nerdboi? One of the reasons he was so into Season 1 (and I thought worked well) was because he was challenging the showrunners and basically anyone else about authenticity and the style he wanted to play the Witcher in. The background story of Yennefer was, for me, just that - a parallel story that didn't overtake Geralt's. Ciri is introduced but, again, in a secondary way.

S2 then came along and it was all about Ciri, a lot more about Yennefer and Geralt was relegated to bronze medal podium position. Which seemed odd for a series under his name. Apparently he fell out massively with everyone about the direction they were taking it (too woke, too much deviation from the books/games). I can see why and I'm assuming he saw the script for the third season and thought, "sod that".


Onto other series... played catch up with Foundation on Apple TV. I think I'm still to watch the most recent episode, but really enjoy it. So long since I read the books, I'm enjoying it for the big production and generally decent acting. It's good but it seems not universally loved.

I've just started watching Silo, also on Apple TV. Seems good so far - an episode and a half in.

[mat the expat]

Really enjoyed Blue Lights.

Glad it's been renewed.

[Bullet]

Hijack with Idris Elba is a really good watch.
Seems to be lot of good on Apple TV but probably not enough for another subscription

[Ymx]

Hijack with Idris Elba is a really good watch.
Seems to be lot of good on Apple TV but probably not enough for another subscription

I watched it, but mainly through stubbornness. The main character was that annoying every decision is right type.

[Jock42]

Hijack with Idris Elba is a really good watch.
Seems to be lot of good on Apple TV but probably not enough for another subscription

I thought the plot had more holes than a curly wurly. Really lazy writing and that chase scene was genuinely laugh out loud funny

[Blackmac]

Hijack with Idris Elba is a really good watch.
Seems to be lot of good on Apple TV but probably not enough for another subscription

I thought the plot had more holes than a curly wurly. Really lazy writing and that chase scene was genuinely laugh out loud funny

Totally agree. Thought it started okay but it became genuinely shit.

[yermum]

The latest Star Trek strange new worlds is totally mad. Super camp musical episode. Was actually quite entertaining.

[sockwithaticket]

The latest Star Trek strange new worlds is totally mad. Super camp musical episode. Was actually quite entertaining.

Will be skipping that one then.

Did enjoy the Lower Decks crossover episode, though.

[Jock42]

The latest Star Trek strange new worlds is totally mad. Super camp musical episode. Was actually quite entertaining.

Will be skipping that one then.

Did enjoy the Lower Decks crossover episode, though.

Yeah it bored the tits off me.

[sockwithaticket]

The latest Star Trek strange new worlds is totally mad. Super camp musical episode. Was actually quite entertaining.

Will be skipping that one then.

Did enjoy the Lower Decks crossover episode, though.

Yeah it bored the tits off me.

I wish musicals only bored me, they break something in my brain and put me on edge. Really can't stand them.

[Oxbow]

For a man of a certain age, Retro Electro Workshop is pure joy.

[Gumboot]

The first couple of episodes of Cabinet of Curiosities are great. Exactly what I'd want from a Guillermo Del Toro horror show.

Sounds good.

I binged series 1 of The Bear recently and really enjoyed it.

Been watching this over the last few nights, really into it now

Have just finished the second season, and it's just as good as the first.

Terrific telly.

[Gumboot]

Really enjoyed Blue Lights.

Glad it's been renewed.

Me too, it's great.

[Grandpa]

Is The Bear on anywhere else apart from Disney?

[Hal Jordan]

Watched Peacemaker.

Gunn showed once again why Snyder is an absolute hack who doesn't understand that a dark backstory doesn't mean everything has to be monochrome and po-faced.

Vigilante was hilarious every time he appeared.

John Cena is a pretty good actor and, unlike Dwayne Johnson, is quite happy to poke fun at himself and allow others to breathe on screen.

[Ymx]

Is The Bear on anywhere else apart from Disney?

Not heard of it. Watching it now.

My brain wants to simplify the characters, but there are new dimensions being added to them as time goes. Like it.

Thanks !!

Edit: oh I see it was mentioned above, thanks to Gumboot and Slick in that case.

[Blackmac]

Really enjoyed Blue Lights.

Glad it's been renewed.

Me too, it's great.

Yeah, superb. Sadly two of the most interesting characters have died or been written out.

[Grandpa]

Is The Bear on anywhere else apart from Disney?

Not heard of it. Watching it now.

My brain wants to simplify the characters, but there are new dimensions being added to them as time goes. Like it.

Thanks !!

Edit: oh I see it was mentioned above, thanks to Gumboot and Slick in that case.

I guess you have Disney?

[Ymx]

Yep

[Gumboot]

Is The Bear on anywhere else apart from Disney?

Sorry, missed this earlier.

It's probably not much help to you, but my friend downloads it from a torrent site. Allegedly.

[sockwithaticket]

Watched Peacemaker.

Gunn showed once again why Snyder is an absolute hack who doesn't understand that a dark backstory doesn't mean everything has to be monochrome and po-faced.

Vigilante was hilarious every time he appeared.

John Cena is a pretty good actor and, unlike Dwayne Johnson, is quite happy to poke fun at himself and allow others to breathe on screen.

Of all the ex-wrestlers trying to make a go of it as actors I think Dave Bautista is probably the best at actually acting. Cena did a very good job with this character and showed more range than I'd previously thought him capable of. Actually looking forward to season 2. Snyder and his sycophantic fanboys can get in the bin, Gunn may actually usher in an era of watchable DC universe stuff.

[sockwithaticket]

Minx is back on and picking up where it left off as an unexpected delight. Jake Johnson was born to play a scuzzily wholesome soft porn editor/distributor.