Topic: The Unoffical TV Show Mega Thread

Oh boy, looks like I missed some spicy She-Hulk talk over here. lol Not that I'd ever watch that horrible show. Oh no, I'm a sexist because I won't watch a stupid show. Bite me.

I pulled the plug on Disney+ yesterday.
It was a long time coming, but the current crises combined with the low amount of actual good stuff being released on the service, made me realize that money is better spend on other things... like M&Ms.

@Monoahlith I find Disney+ is really a legacy platform for it's old stuff however the best new offerings aren't Marvel & Star Wars (which always hits a certain level of quality where even the "garbage" shows people obsess over it) but really the adult shows. Atlanta, Abbot Elementary, The Drop Out, Pam & Tommy, Dopesick, Pistols, Prey etc are exceptionally good.

I am feeling mixed by Solar Opposites though, created by one of the creators of Rick & Morty. It leans too much towards Family Guy rather than Rick & Morty, I find the subplot of the miniaturised abducted humans living in a make shift world better than the main show, and it makes me end up appreciating Rick & Morty more as they keep getting it's writers pinched by Marvel yet the quality has remained tight.

@jump
Its legacy content is indeed excellent, but most of those can be found elsewhere.
Prey I thought was pretty good but if that's the best D+ original movie until now, that's pretty sad if you ask me. Not into Rick & Morty or Solar Opposites, so can't comment on those. Atlanta is excellent.

I'm going to handle D+ like I do with other subscription services from now on and subscribe for a month every once in a while to catch up on everything and then cancel the subscription again for a while until enough new content has been released. Been doing that with Netflix for years now.

@Monoahlith I would have thought you would have rated Luca as their best original movie since you had it as an user name/profile many, many users ago.

I'm struggling to view Netflix as something to keep. These $100+ million movies they make are so unremarkable even with the A list talent both in front and behind the camera yet still come off as straight to DVD quality and the drama/thriller movies seem more miss than hit with the good ones seem to be independent movies sold at film festivals rather than Netflix produced. Alot of the shows I liked have now all ended now and there's not much coming into fill the gaps, even Stranger Things I'd be happy to miss as it's gone too teen rather spooky wooky. It also didn't help that Millarworld wasn't the Marvel replacement they thought it was and should have just saved their money and renewed Daredevil. Plus I'm still sad over Cowboy Bebop, they were SO close to getting it right.

@jump
No, you're right. Luca for animation, Prey for live action. I should have specified that.

Reviews for the new Star Wars show Andor are out and they're very strong.
I might have to re-subscribe to Disney+ to watch this.

Shows I've finished in the last few weeks.

Midnight Diner season 3 (Netflix) - Pretty much more of the same, but that's no bad thing. There was an episode early on centered around the younger Yakuza guy (can't think of his name off hand) that was absolutely gut wrenching. Loved the final episode where they got everyone back for the New Year celebration though.

High School of the Dead (Blu-Ray) - I'll never get over how genuinely good this show is. Yes, it's filled with OTT ecchi/cheesecake, but it genuinely takes it's concept & world building surprisingly seriously. It's animation is leagues above what I've usually come to expect from "fan service" fare, the action is super fun, & yet it knows when to step up and clue you in on how the world at large (and government/military agencies) is reacting to the breakout. I even warmed to all the American-isms that were almost certainly added to the dub (references to Wal-Mart, the NRA, even Sarah Palin, etc.) which ended up complementing the tone, IMO. I'm stunned it never got a season 2.

Triage X (Blu-Ray) - Based on a manga by the same guy who made HOTD above, I have similar thoughts about this one. The animation is noticeably not quite as good, but here we have another "ecchi" anime that vies to take it's narrative/action elements seriously (this time about a group of hospital workers, & students from an affiliated high school, who moonlight as vigilantes during the night, "operating on the health of the city"), to be more than just T&A. Like the above, it never moved beyond it's first season though, which is a shame (at least I have the manga to fall back on).

tonight ive been watching the pilot episode of Eureka that i recorded earlier today since the Sy Fy Channel had a little marathon of Eureka during the morning

Yo @Kevesilanz are you still about or have you changed your name again and I didn't realise?

I remember you talking about having a huge amount of love for Deep Space Nine. I've just watched the new Lower Decks episode where they did a cross over with DS9 with the actors playing Quark and Kira coming back to reprise their roles. The opening is fantastic where they poke loving fun about having to stare in awe at the station pylons.

There is a Barney true crime series coming out.

also true crime legit needs to stop right now and slow down.

@Kermit1 I vaguely saw something about this already as Amber Heard’s mates are producing it. Not that it would change the quality of this as it’s gonna be rubbish no matter what.

I think you’re being abit hard on true crime. Just like any genre there’s complete pish and shows of genuine quality. Like for example I really enjoyed Dopesick as they explained the how and why the US legal opioids epidemic happened by showing the set up of an aggressive sales system and tricked doctors with tricky mathematical graphs and talk of being liable for not treating pain.

@jump I probably should have said it needs to take a chill pill. But then again it's making someone money somewhere.

@Kermit1 all shows are making someone money regardless of the genre.

Ignoring thrash like Depp vs Heard which is really celeb gossip or crass and inaccurate sensationalism like that new Dharma show I think true crime about white collar criminals is good for the average person at least. Like the point I was trying to make earlier it makes those crimes more accessible to understand as too often it flys over the average person’s head so they don’t care as much as they should.

@jump I don't really know how to feel about true crime. On the one hand it shows the true evil of people and can educate people, on the other it kinda slightly glorifies pure evil in a way.

I'd say more but if my George RR Martin rant (that was on this thread) is anything to show I'm not good with words.

I've been watching Rings of Power and while I liked the first two episodes for its grandeur, episodes 3, 4 and 5 were way too slow and it got very apparent that they're breaking canon from the books left and right. Episode 6 was really good though. I guess the only ways to appreciate this show is to either ignore everything you know about what Tolkien wrote in the Silmarillion and appendices or never having read them in the first place.

Also been seeing Andor on D+. My goodness, this is real Star Wars. By far the best SW content Disney has made so far.

Still haven't gotten around to watching Lower Decks but every time you mention it my interest gets piqued.

In today's edition of 'random news story you won't be able to predict until you read it'.
https://twitter.com/i/events/1577327739807272960
It's been hinted at for ages but still: good for her.

@Fizza Meh, I've seen jokes and spoofs about her being lesbian for ages. Now if they really want to push the show into new edgy unexplored areas they should explain Shaggy and Scooby's relationship.

"Insert Seinfeld meme here"

Has anyone ever watched the original Twilight Zone? The concept is something I would definitely like and it’s such a landmark show it seems odd to me I’ve never watched it but I’m curious if they hold up nowadays as plot twists are so common in todays media.