Great TV series - What are you watching now?

[TiMSport]

So is "Debris" any good?

[Captain Blood]

Started "The Serpent ". Good 1st episode. Murder drama based on a real life crime in the 70's.

[upstatedoc]

Is anyone watching the curse of Oak Island? And if so why? They've never found anything. I can't believe the show is still running.

[DNYC1919]

Mexican drug cartel actions always has me enjoying

But i figured we can try to get into a little London crime wave hand to hand gritty street action. Gangs Of London. give it a shot

[King Rudi]

Originally Posted by TiMSport

I suppose I'll watch the season finale of TWD tonight. Admittedly interested after seeing some of the previews showing Negan with his bat again.

Did this sideways dumpster fire ever improve? The girlfriend wanted me to start watching it with her on Sundays, when we first got together. I started the show with episode 1 of whatever season it was that Negan loved up Glen real nice with the bat. Great start to getting into a show. Every damn episode after was nothing short of complete garbage. The last episode I watched was when Corals daddy got evac'd in the helicopter. I can only hope it got better from there. The story, the characters and the acting was just complete shite.

I don't discount that at one point the show was really good. Had to be the seasons before I started watching. The girlfriend was a die-hard fan and she stopped watching before I did. I kept waiting for something to happen, aside from a bunch of talking and back-stabbery. Also, this show has the slowest, weakest and easiest to kill zombies of any Zombie movie/TV show. Makes it hard to recreate the mindset of terror when they are basically the walking dead version of whack-a-mole. Shit, I still have nightmares about whack-a-mole.

[TurboSid]

https://www.ign.com/articles/warrior...-max-bruce-lee

Renewing my HBO subscription today just because it keeps getting better and better

[TiMSport]

Originally Posted by King Rudi

Did this sideways dumpster fire ever improve? The girlfriend wanted me to start watching it with her on Sundays, when we first got together. I started the show with episode 1 of whatever season it was that Negan loved up Glen real nice with the bat. Great start to getting into a show. Every damn episode after was nothing short of complete garbage. The last episode I watched was when Corals daddy got evac'd in the helicopter. I can only hope it got better from there. The story, the characters and the acting was just complete shite.

I don't discount that at one point the show was really good. Had to be the seasons before I started watching. The girlfriend was a die-hard fan and she stopped watching before I did. I kept waiting for something to happen, aside from a bunch of talking and back-stabbery. Also, this show has the slowest, weakest and easiest to kill zombies of any Zombie movie/TV show. Makes it hard to recreate the mindset of terror when they are basically the walking dead version of whack-a-mole. Shit, I still have nightmares about whack-a-mole.

Well it's hard to say for sure. I stopped watching the series after season 6 or so. Just didn't have the time to keep up so I ended up recording about 4 seasons worth on my DVR. Finally one day and as a result of COVID, I found myself with more time to watch TV. I figured WTF, I have all those old episodes to watch and I invested a lot of time in it already so I decided to give it a go. There were no doubt some stupid story lines and boring episodes mixed throughout, but some were also quite good. I think it may have been seasons 9 and 10 that pleasantly surprised me. A new group of villains appeared.

Jumping to the season finale of the most recent season (11?), it was really good and if you're interested in Negan. That single episode alone explained a shit load about why he became the asshole he did.

Overall I'd have to say I'm glad I watched the series.

On the other hand, I think I liked the spinoff "Fear the Walking Dead" better. Much better than I had expected and there a little bit of crossover with TWD in terms of characters which is interesting. FTWD has more depth in character presentation IMO.

[ramman434]

I watched TWD for years, but about 4 years ago my wife and I got super bored with it. It just felt like the same crap over & over. SPOILER ALERT**: we stopped watching after the season after Carl died. I think Negan had just escaped or something. We also stopped watching Fear the Walking Dead at the same time (Morgan had somehow crossed the country and met up with this cast in TX I think).

Just got super boring. The 1st few seasons of the original were great.

[TiMSport]

Originally Posted by ramman434

I watched TWD for years, but about 4 years ago my wife and I got super bored with it. It just felt like the same crap over & over. SPOILER ALERT**: we stopped watching after the season after Carl died. I think Negan had just escaped or something. We also stopped watching Fear the Walking Dead at the same time (Morgan had somehow crossed the country and met up with this cast in TX I think).

Just got super boring. The 1st few seasons of the original were great.

That's basically how I felt around the midway point of the series and stopped watching. If I didn't have a lot of extra time and have all the episodes recorded, I may never have gone back. Now I'm actually glad I did. The last 2 seasons "kind of" made up for a couple of the less than stellar ones.

[ramman434]

^^Honestly, I just don't care to watch anymore lol. If I had it close at hand & the time, like you've described, I might be inclined to try to get into it again.

From a recommendation of friends, my wife and I started watching Ted Lasso on AppleTV on our flight this past weekend. So far we've watched 4 of the 10 episodes and love it. AND I AM NOT A JASON SUDEIKIS FAN.

I'm surprised at how much I enjoy it.

[TiMSport]

Hmm too bad I don't have Apple TV.

[ramman434]

Originally Posted by TiMSport

Hmm too bad I don't have Apple TV.

I'm doing the 7-day free trial and then canceling just so we can watch lol

[RickFLM4]

They actually have paying subscribers to Apple TV+? We have had a free subscription for over a year from the purchase of iPhones and they keep extending it. There isn't much we've watched on it and most of the content ends up disappointing.

[Murf993]

Originally Posted by RickFLM4

They actually have paying subscribers to Apple TV+? We have had a free subscription for over a year from the purchase of iPhones and they keep extending it. There isn't much we've watched on it and most of the content ends up disappointing.

Same here, I have't paid for it and had it for 6 months now. For All Mankind is pretty good, so far that's all I've watched. I was thinking about giving Tehran a try.

[RickFLM4]

Originally Posted by Murf993

Same here, I have't paid for it and had it for 6 months now. For All Mankind is pretty good, so far that's all I've watched. I was thinking about giving Tehran a try.

Tehran was ok, but like the other shows we watched on AppleTV+, it started off better than it ended. Good TV for free, but haven’t seen anything worth paying for and it’s also a pretty limited library. The best think I remember watching was a documentary about some elephants.

[stein_325i]

Only show the wife and I enjoyed on Apple TV was The Morning Show. Otherwise nothing really too interesting or enough content for us to add yet another subscription.

[Patrick303]

Season 1 of For All Mankind was decent, but haven't started season 2 yet. The only show we really enjoyed on AppleTV was Defending Jacob.

[Clark_Kent]

Originally Posted by Murf993

Same here, I have't paid for it and had it for 6 months now. For All Mankind is pretty good, so far that's all I've watched. I was thinking about giving Tehran a try.

I wasn't a fan of Tehran and had to abandon it after about two episodes. It started off great and seemed to have potential but then it ran out of steam quickly. There are now so many options for content since everyone is piling into streaming and content creation but I find most of it is trash. It's difficult and time consuming to sift through the noise. I suppose this isn't a problem if you're willing to watch just about anything.

[OkieSnuffBox]

Originally Posted by Clark_Kent

I wasn't a fan of Tehran and had to abandon it after about two episodes. It started off great and seemed to have potential but then it ran out of steam quickly. There are now so many options for content since everyone is piling into streaming and content creation but I find most of it is trash. It's difficult and time consuming to sift through the noise. I suppose this isn't a problem if you're willing to watch just about anything.

Yeah, I find us rewatching a lot of stuff lately.

[IllSic_Design]

Snabba Cash on Netflix was pretty entertaining.

[Captain Blood]

We finished "the serpent" last night good series. Definitely worth watching.

Started "this is a robbery". Very promising beginning

[stein_325i]

Anyone watch Mare of Easttown? Heard its supposed to be very good, and one of Kate Winslet's best performances as well.