The best new and returning TV series thread

[lemonhead]

Watching Andor these days, I think it's my favorite piece of the Star Wars productions, even including Eps IV/V/VI.
Grim atmosphere, some depth in many characters - even basic villains have a back story.
Just discovered what I think clinches it for me, what gives it a unique adult feel: there's one word that's never pronounced...

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Jedi !

Thought it was completely lame. Switched off after couple of episodes

I enjoyed it. It's a very good follow-on for EP4 - Andor moans as much as Luke Skywalker!

When he's not grimly shooting people in the head.

One thing that still bothers me is the cackhanded way they try to present the rebels as 'not so good' guys again like in Rogue One. Every morally questionable act they commit makes absolutely no sense and often has no payoff anyway, like Faye Marsay's character. Gritty and realistic? Nope, just bad writing.

Still watching but they can do a lot better.

[C69]

Just spent a few weeks watching The ones who Live, one of the follow ups to the Walking Dead. Absolutely rubbish.

Haven't watched it yet, but I wish they'd done a series of Daryl and Negan. Easily the best characters.

The actor playing Negan looks like he had an amazing time playing that role.

He is in the new series of The Boys, a brilliant actor tbh.

[tabascoboy]

Just spent a few weeks watching The ones who Live, one of the follow ups to the Walking Dead. Absolutely rubbish.

Haven't watched it yet, but I wish they'd done a series of Daryl and Negan. Easily the best characters.

The actor playing Negan looks like he had an amazing time playing that role.

There is a spin off ( the 5th overall) for The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon. Think it's showing outside the US much later after its 2023 original release though?

Sky and NOW have announced that they have acquired a number of the series in the franchise, with the original The Walking Dead show becoming available in full from Sunday 19th May and spin-off The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live airing from Friday 31st May.

Meanwhile, both The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon and The Walking Dead: Dead City will also arrive on the channel and streamer at a later point in 2024.

[sockwithaticket]

Just spent a few weeks watching The ones who Live, one of the follow ups to the Walking Dead. Absolutely rubbish.

Haven't watched it yet, but I wish they'd done a series of Daryl and Negan. Easily the best characters.

The actor playing Negan looks like he had an amazing time playing that role.

There is a spin off ( the 5th overall) for The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon. Think it's showing outside the US much later after its 2023 original release though?

Sky and NOW have announced that they have acquired a number of the series in the franchise, with the original The Walking Dead show becoming available in full from Sunday 19th May and spin-off The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live airing from Friday 31st May.

Meanwhile, both The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon and The Walking Dead: Dead City will also arrive on the channel and streamer at a later point in 2024.

I watched Dead City, it was more of the same tbh, albeit with fewer main characters you knew would be saved by plot armour.

It's amazing that TWD has had so many spin offs when there's basically nowhere to go with it. Once you stop making a horror show and start doing the 'humans are the real monsters' post-apocalypse thing it becomes much of a muchness unless the writing is outstanding.

[tabascoboy]

Stopped watching TWD after, I think 9 seasons, and no real interest in the spin-offs. Just got fatigued with a show that seemed to have no end point.

[salanya]

TWD did drag on at the end. A lot of the characters became parodies of themselves, and plots became repetitive. Yet the last season's plot was very rushed.

Not too fussed seeking out the spin-offs, though I'm interested in finding out what happened to Rick.

[Sandstorm]

TWD did drag on at the end. A lot of the characters became parodies of themselves, and plots became repetitive. Yet the last season's plot was very rushed.

Not too fussed seeking out the spin-offs, though I'm interested in finding out what happened to Rick.

Rick

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lost a hand and most of his mind

[Jethro]

The Acolyte is pretty good, it is finding its feet and the world building is excellent.

Seeing Jedi martial arts is really cool, and Lee Jung-jae is really good as Master Sol.

Bonus points for the cast triggering the usual cunts whining about everyone not being a white man. 

Sorry you just lost all street cred in one post, guess you also think Doctor Who Series 14 is the bestest ever.

Serious the Jedi are now the bad guys and we have space lesbians!?!

Thankfully Disney are rumored to have canned season 2 of The Acolyte due to only you apparently watching it.

And before you start, not a Star Wars fan, last one I watched was Rogue One, it's been all downhill since imho.

Other shows you will no doubt cream yourself over "Velma", "Rings of Power", and "Wheel of Time" (if they are still making that atrocious shite).

Hey stones sink because they don't look up, I fear for the future of streaming with the current crop of numpties writing shows.

[sockwithaticket]

Stopped watching TWD after, I think 9 seasons, and no real interest in the spin-offs. Just got fatigued with a show that seemed to have no end point.

Don't think I made it that far. Despite having become utterly bored of it, I did give Fear The Walking Dead a bash because they claimed it'd be about how society fell rather than the aftermath which is something all these apocalyptic bits of visual media rarely cover. Thought it'd be interesting to see them do things like how the police and local officials respond to an outbreak, how they escalate up the chain of agencies and so on or even just how a population handles things as they gradually unravel. We got maybe two episodes of the latter before it slipped right into full blown zombies have taken over and becoming The Walking Dead with a different cast and locations.

[fishfoodie]

Thought it was completely lame. Switched off after couple of episodes

I enjoyed it. It's a very good follow-on for EP4 - Andor moans as much as Luke Skywalker!

When he's not grimly shooting people in the head.

One thing that still bothers me is the cackhanded way they try to present the rebels as 'not so good' guys again like in Rogue One. Every morally questionable act they commit makes absolutely no sense and often has no payoff anyway, like Faye Marsay's character. Gritty and realistic? Nope, just bad writing.

Still watching but they can do a lot better.

Look at any unsanitized account of a rebellion, Independence movement, Revolution, Civil War, whatever, & you'll find an endless list of acts that were counter productive, & just got editted out by the victor, because they didn't want to confuse their Grand-Children by telling them that they were allied with sometimes psychotic thugs who just enjoyed killing, or idiots who killed friendly civilians, because to save the village it was necessary to destroy it ......

Any level of warfare is messy, & Politicians understand this, but deceitfully decide to hide it from the populace, & present a Hollywood version to them, because then it's so much easier to justifying sending their chikdren off to die in a foreign land.

To me this is just a much more honest representation of warfare than we've been presented in the last hundred years thru various media.

[Raggs]

The Acolyte is pretty good, it is finding its feet and the world building is excellent.

Seeing Jedi martial arts is really cool, and Lee Jung-jae is really good as Master Sol.

Bonus points for the cast triggering the usual cunts whining about everyone not being a white man. 

Sorry you just lost all street cred in one post, guess you also think Doctor Who Series 14 is the bestest ever.

Serious the Jedi are now the bad guys and we have space lesbians!?!

Thankfully Disney are rumored to have canned season 2 of The Acolyte due to only you apparently watching it.

And before you start, not a Star Wars fan, last one I watched was Rogue One, it's been all downhill since imho.

Other shows you will no doubt cream yourself over "Velma", "Rings of Power", and "Wheel of Time" (if they are still making that atrocious shite).

Hey stones sink because they don't look up, I fear for the future of streaming with the current crop of numpties writing shows.

So you're not a star wars fan, but you are upset that there's other factions in the star wars universe that you weren't aware of? Or that the jedi do underhanded things sometimes?

Last thing you watched was rogue one, but you still know that it's all gone downhill since then based on what exactly?

[lemonhead]

I enjoyed it. It's a very good follow-on for EP4 - Andor moans as much as Luke Skywalker!

When he's not grimly shooting people in the head.

One thing that still bothers me is the cackhanded way they try to present the rebels as 'not so good' guys again like in Rogue One. Every morally questionable act they commit makes absolutely no sense and often has no payoff anyway, like Faye Marsay's character. Gritty and realistic? Nope, just bad writing.

Still watching but they can do a lot better.

Look at any unsanitized account of a rebellion, Independence movement, Revolution, Civil War, whatever, & you'll find an endless list of acts that were counter productive, & just got editted out by the victor, because they didn't want to confuse their Grand-Children by telling them that they were allied with sometimes psychotic thugs who just enjoyed killing, or idiots who killed friendly civilians, because to save the village it was necessary to destroy it ......

Any level of warfare is messy, & Politicians understand this, but deceitfully decide to hide it from the populace, & present a Hollywood version to them, because then it's so much easier to justifying sending their chikdren off to die in a foreign land.

To me this is just a much more honest representation of warfare than we've been presented in the last hundred years thru various media.

The psychopathic thugs are grand, you understand what they are and are left to contemplate why in your own head. That's fine. We're talking about senior leadership decisions that are dangled in front of us screaming 'grey area' that have flip all underlying logic other than to check our cheering on the good guys. I've no problem with that either if they execute it correctly and show the repercussions.

Every second counts in visual media. You have a point to make, a story to tell, a character arc to set up. Plant some seeds, set things in motion and then provide some conclusion one way or another.

Otherwise you've wasted people's time setting up a thread that doesn't go anywhere. The final episode is a perfect example of that and it's just downright annoying; the writers set up this huge moral quandary/confrontation that made no sense to begin with and either forgot or didn't bother to go through with it. Bad writing.

[inactionman]

Just finished Those who are about to die. On amazon prime, quite enjoyable, some good tense situations. Very few "Good guys" and definitely enjoyed the feeling of never being 100% sure who was going to win out and how etc.

The missus was getting a bit upset about me sloping off to my study every evening, so she insisted we watch something together - she thought I might like this, as I love the amphitheatre, Vindolanda and just about anything Roman.

I was entertained, and the CGI of ancient Rome did really catch my imagination (even if the close up chariot racing looked a bit daft), but I find it all the plot and acting more than a bit overblown.

[LoveOfTheGame]

Just finished Those who are about to die. On amazon prime, quite enjoyable, some good tense situations. Very few "Good guys" and definitely enjoyed the feeling of never being 100% sure who was going to win out and how etc.

Only watched one episode and was not blown away by it. But will give it another shot.

First episode is very much a case of introducing a ton of different characters, it did feel a bit stilted, definitely improved as it goes on in my opinion though.

Ok, wifey and I finished watching it last night. Enjoyed it overall, only negatives I have is some of the CGI and acting was below par. It's quite staggering considering the budget they had. I'd give it a 6/10, perhaps even a 7/10 based purely on the fact that there were gratuitous boobies being shown throughout the series. Said gratuitous nudity should always trump average CGI and acting in my humble opinion.

[vball]

Only watched one episode and was not blown away by it. But will give it another shot.

First episode is very much a case of introducing a ton of different characters, it did feel a bit stilted, definitely improved as it goes on in my opinion though.

Ok, wifey and I finished watching it last night. Enjoyed it overall, only negatives I have is some of the CGI and acting was below par. It's quite staggering considering the budget they had. I'd give it a 6/10, perhaps even a 7/10 based purely on the fact that there were gratuitous boobies being shown throughout the series. Said gratuitous nudity should always trump average CGI and acting in my humble opinion.

I too finished it last night. Quantity of boobies declined from the start.
Very easy to watch and trotted along at a good paste.

We only have a 32" TV so a lot of the CGI looks real to me.

[Slick]

Just watched the Netflix doco on the Wembley debacle at Euro 2000. Didn’t realise quite what a shit show it was, utter scum

[Jethro]

Just watched the Netflix doco on the Wembley debacle at Euro 2000. Didn’t realise quite what a shit show it was, utter scum

Have to agree, why England shouldn't get any more international football Good doco though, surprised the Coppers didn't round up the idiots admitting they got in without a ticket.

[Biffer]

Fully remastered Blake's 7 coming on DVD, with remastered special effects.



By the looks of that trailer, the upgrades to the SF are pretty good and the video has been upgraded to high def at least.

[fishfoodie]

Fully remastered Blake's 7 coming on DVD, with remastered special effects.



By the looks of that trailer, the upgrades to the SF are pretty good and the video has been upgraded to high def at least.

For once the Beeb didn't store the prints under a leaking pipe, or destroy them

I think there's actually HD upscales of the series knocking around, but a full remaster treatment would be outstanding

[Biffer]

Anyone watched Kaos on Netflix? I'm a couple of episodes in and quite enjoying it.

[C69]

Fully remastered Blake's 7 coming on DVD, with remastered special effects.



By the looks of that trailer, the upgrades to the SF are pretty good and the video has been upgraded to high def at least.

For once the Beeb didn't store the prints under a leaking pipe, or destroy them

I think there's actually HD upscales of the series knocking around, but a full remaster treatment would be outstanding

No

[Uncle fester]

Anyone watched Kaos on Netflix? I'm a couple of episodes in and quite enjoying it.

No but reviews are good and Jeff Goldblum is usually watchable.

[Gumboot]

Anyone watched Kaos on Netflix? I'm a couple of episodes in and quite enjoying it.

No but reviews are good and Jeff Goldblum is usually watchable.

No, but intend starting it this weekend.

[fishfoodie]

Slow Horses season 4 kicks off next week !

[Jethro]

Anyone watched Kaos on Netflix? I'm a couple of episodes in and quite enjoying it.

What's that about then?

Watched The Cowboy War (Netflix), which surprisingly turned out to be a documentary, interesting in a prequel to Trump way.

[Biffer]

Anyone watched Kaos on Netflix? I'm a couple of episodes in and quite enjoying it.

What's that about then?

Watched The Cowboy War (Netflix), which surprisingly turned out to be a documentary, interesting in a prequel to Trump way.

Greek Gods in a modern setting. Jeff Goldblum is Zeus.

[Uncle fester]

Working our way through Succession and just watched the episode where Logan hits his grandson with a can. As the parent of a similar child, I'm a bit traumatized.

[Gumboot]

Anyone watched Kaos on Netflix? I'm a couple of episodes in and quite enjoying it.

What's that about then?

Greek Gods in a modern setting. Jeff Goldblum is Zeus.

Just watched the first episode, and I'm hooked.

[Jethro]

Anyone watched Kaos on Netflix? I'm a couple of episodes in and quite enjoying it.

What's that about then?

Watched The Cowboy War (Netflix), which surprisingly turned out to be a documentary, interesting in a prequel to Trump way.

Greek Gods in a modern setting. Jeff Goldblum is Zeus.

I'm in :)

[Jethro]

Anyone know where you can watch The Dead Lands season one besides AppleTV

[Oxbow]

Freddie Flintoff's Field of Dreams on Tour. I'm as hard as nails obviously, but this is making even me get dusty eyes. Fella deserves a Knighthood.

[sockwithaticket]

Anyone know where you can watch The Dead Lands season one besides AppleTV

I've heard that a site called bingewatch.to could be of interest.

[Oxbow]

A good friend of mine says this might be of interest too.

https://seriesonlinehd.net/tv/the-dead-lands-60126

[Bullet]

Slow Horses as brilliant as ever. Only one episode released, I thought that they were going to be weekly 'pairs'...

[Jethro]

Alien: Earth confirmed for a 2025 release on Hulu/Disney+

Teaser dropped this week.

[lemonhead]

Working our way through Succession and just watched the episode where Logan hits his grandson with a can. As the parent of a similar child, I'm a bit traumatized.

Worth watching?

Seen the first episode and a bit more, mildly interested so far but there's a feckload of seasons to get through.

[Jethro]

Anyone know where you can watch The Dead Lands season one besides AppleTV

I've heard that a site called bingewatch.to could be of interest.

Darn the Feds are all over it

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[Slick]

Freddie Flintoff's Field of Dreams on Tour. I'm as hard as nails obviously, but this is making even me get dusty eyes. Fella deserves a Knighthood.

Yes, it's surprisingly good

[inactionman]

Freddie Flintoff's Field of Dreams on Tour. I'm as hard as nails obviously, but this is making even me get dusty eyes. Fella deserves a Knighthood.

Some sad news:

An 18-year-old who appeared in Freddie Flintoff's Field of Dreams BBC TV show has died following a crash.

Umar Mahmood was driving an Audi A3 Sport when it left the road and hit trees on Chain Caul Way, in Preston, at about 22:55 BST on Tuesday. A 16-year-old boy travelling in the back of the vehicle was also killed.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyly8y5xlxo

[tabascoboy]

The Last of Us 2 Official teaser