Topic: The Unoffical TV Show Mega Thread

I watched season 1(six episodes) of The Pentaverate on netflix. Created by Mike Myers, it seems very inspired by The Guild of Calamitous Intent, the villainous organization from The Venture Bros. I thought it was a decent watch. Mind you, I was also kind of desperate for something new to watch. If you liked The Venture Bros or Mike Myers, you may like it. It's not without it's flaws, but I'd recommend it.

I've been re-watching Dinosaurs on Disney+, it's still great, but now I can't get I"M THE BABY GOTTA LOVE ME out of my head again... Season 4 episode 13 is still my Favourite episode...

Watched the first three episodes of Lupin III Part 3 on Pluto TV over the weekend (I had actually watched all the other episodes on Funimation earlier this year, but they didn't have those first 3 for whatever reason).

Doesn't change my opinion of the show, but it's nice to have finished it for completionist reasons.

Inside No 9 tonight was fantastic. Was completely led astray based on previous episodes and the twist is genuinely something you will not see coming yet makes total sense when it does happen. Anyone in the UK should definitely give it a watch on iPlayer.

I'm in absolute disarray right now.

Finished up season 1 of the Man in the High Castle last night.

Really interesting alternate history drama overall, though it looks like they may be going a bit more fantastical with it than I had imagined going in, with a character seemingly travelling to the "real world" from their reality in the last moments of the final episode. Though I guess it's not that surprising given the existence of the tapes. Looking forward to see where it goes.

Just watched Obi-Wan Kenobi
I really enjoyed it and young Leia was a nice surprise, and Sister 3 killing The Grand Inquisitor is making me hope for Jason Isaacs "the real one". Seeing Obi-Wan doing stuff on Tatooine was cool. I think Liam Neeson as Qui-Gon has a very good chance of popping up.

I enjoyed the first two episodes of Obi-Wan overall, but I dunno, something about them just felt off to me. It just all felt kinda... cheap, maybe? I dunno how to explain it.

The Inquisitors looked like Doctor Who villains with none of the menace they had in animated or drawn forms, complete with silly voices and all.

All the locations looked like studio sets rather than real locations and this wasn't helped by some pretty ugly greenscreens in there.

And I dunno, sequences like the Third Sister using Force assisted parkour was probably cool in concept, but in execution I was just like... what even is this. I wanted to go 'Oh *****' whenever the Inquisitors were on screen, in the same way you do whenever Vader is on screen. Like just compare the Vader entrance way back in New Hope and just the energy, intensity and immediacy versus these three clowns in bad cosplay.

@Fizza you can blame Nadine Dorries for that.

On one hand she’s doesn’t seem to understand what her post as Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport is and seems to be attacking anything that isn’t pro-Bojo like with taking Channel 4 private but on the other hand we definitely need her to stay as no one else provides as many entertaining cringy and stupid moments in government like her recent tik tok rap…

As with the other Disney+ shows, I'll probably wait until Obi Wan is complete (or has like one episode left) before I start watching it.

Finished up City Hunter (well, the 51 episode first season anyways). Excellent.

80's anime series that follows Ryo Saeba, the "City Hunter" (essentially a gun for hire who takes on jobs the law either can't or won't). While there are plenty of episodes that play it pretty straight (and a handful are dead serious), there are a good amount that find him in more humorous situations as well (and there trends to be some humor in the more straight laced episodes too). Granted, most of the humor centers around Ryo being an unrepentant womanizer (although he's often foiled by his assistant Kaori, who often bashes him with a giant mallet in such situations, even if his only crime is making her jealous).

Really the only thing in a similar headspace that I can think of are the older Lupin III series (like those, it doesn't have much of an overarching narrative, rather each episode tends to be it's own adventure), though I'm actually certain I prefer this (despite growing up with Lupin III Part 2 on Adult Swim). While it does have it's share of gags, it doesn't seem to get AS zany as Lupin can (both in terms of situation & character design), with some surprisingly good attention to detail when it comes to vehicles & firearms which is cool.

Currently free on Retro Crush.

Atlanta is amazeballs, if I was a braver person I'd even say it tops Community and his career as Childish Gambino too. I'm currently waiting for season 3 to finish so I can binge it in a weekend.

I do find it funny people are going on about WandaVision or Loki being the best Marvel show when they don't touch the mending bending brilliance of Legion.

@Rambler, while this is a British site, a good number of users are from the US, where most of Disney's more mature catalog is segmented off into Hulu (including all the FX shows like Atlanta, Sons of Anarchy, etc). This may play a part as to why you don't hear people referring to that stuff as Disney+ shows.

@Link-Hero, I want to watch the Boys myself, but am gonna hold off until I finish the Man in the High Castle.

Just finished season one of Stranger Things. It's pretty good.

@Link-Hero Well the average user on here doesn't like straying too far from Disney or anime so it's not surprising they aren't watching a sweary violent show coated in meta irony and sarcasm.

The Boys is well worth a watch. It's a fantastic faithful adaptation of the original comic (done by the same team who did the also awesome adaptation of Preacher) with the highlights being the cast all around but especially Karl Urban who smashes his role, there's some cool easter eggs like Simon Pegg plays Hugh's dad and back in the 90s when the comic was written Hugh was based on Simon Pegg's Spaced character and some really nice tender moments away from it's general madness.

It's dark humour driven though so it's sweary, rapey, cynical and gorey but it's used to elevate its themes and story rather than to be shocking even if it does almost touch the shocking for the sake of it line a few times though.

Not really sure what to make of that first episode of Ms Marvel. I can't relate to it even slightly, but maybe that isn't a problem as I get to learn about different cultures. It all certainly seems quite charming, but I didn't really get much proof of concept from the first episode.

Also last week was the first episode of Obi Wan I properly enjoyed, and I hear people calling this week's episode the worst yet, so currently putting off watching that until I have more time, as I haven't enjoyed the show overall anyway.

Have been working my way through Peacemaker, I absolutely love it. Strikes the same kind of magic that makes Gunn's work so enjoyable.

@Pizzamorg the first episode of Ms Marvel felt like what the "MCU" Spiderman credits art looked like, to me anyway.

I actually liked all of that stuff, I feel like without it the show would have been visually really dull and bland. But there was almost no story to this opening episode and it's gonna get real old, real fast, at least for me, if we're now four episodes in and it's just 'my parents are strict here is a doodle of my imagination' for another 45 minutes. I know there is the post credit scene thingy which seems to be setting something up, but that first episode was really just a whole lot of nothing.

@Pizzamorg I totally agree

Recently I've been watching tons of Mystery Science Theater 3000. I think I'm in love, the riffing on "cheesy old films", the cast, the humor. So pretty much everything, I don't have much else to say I really like this show.

(the songs, the writing, the cheap feel, I could go on tbh)