[Weekly Thread] What have you been watching?

We just finished Season 2 of The Bear on Hulu, which is focused on the gang starting a new restaurant. I really enjoyed it, and my partner said that The Bear is probably top 5 shows of all time when we finished watching, so I'd highly recommend it.

I loved the first season but loved the second even more. Richie's character development is exquisite.
- The Richie episode was so great. Huge smile on my face at the end of that one!

This "weekly thread" is 1 month old btw. Could we have a weekly one?
Edit: to add something relevant to the conversation I just finished watching Miracle Workers. It's a comedy with Steve Buscemi and Daniel Radcliffe and it's kind of absurd, more like something the actors did to entertain themselves. It's ok but not amazing. Also watched Afterparty. 1st season was OK but the 2nd one was to cliche and cringe to continue.

Hijack, because I like Idris Elba. I'd struggle to recall a show with so blatant cliffhangers and some characters' actions were pretty dumb, but generally could recommend. Not great, but good enough to check out.

Not great, but good enough to check out.

This seems to be the floor for Apple TV shows, with the ceiling being "this is absolutely incredible". The quality of their shows (again, from the floor) is really only challenged by HBO

Still watching Justified: City Primeval, but Full Circle has finished now, so I'm 50% down on my Olyphants.

Only Murders in the Building is back, so I'll start that after watching some sort of recap for Season 2
Rez Dogs is back too, but I'm still plodding my way through Season 1
They've made a TV show of Strange Planet - haven't watched any eps yet but I like those cartoons that get posted to !nathanwpyle@lemmy.world
Foundation, too. Either it's getting better or my standards are getting lower (I don't mind which)

Always down for a good Olyphant show, just checked into Full Circle and it's a pretty stacked cast all around too. I've added it to my list! I've still got to go back and finish Justified at some point before I can get to City Primeval but it definitely has been on my list.

Only Murders in the Building Season 3 has so far delivered on pure fun once again. New added characters bring a bit of fresh air with the biggest new characters played by Paul Rudd and Meryl Streep. It's that good-time TV that makes a nice addition to a watchlist.

Reservation Dogs continues to impress me during Season 3. I've enjoyed the show since the first episode but it was Season 1, Episode 7 (California Dreamin') where I realized how special of a show it really is. That quality continues onward and Season 3 is no exception. Season 3, Episode 3 (The Deer Lady) is an absolute masterpiece and one of the best pieces of television ever done. This show definitely ended up in my favorite ongoing series list. I've laughed, I've cried, and I've appreciated every moment of it.

Strange Planet translates to TV surprisingly well. The first few episodes landed the tone, subject matter and comedy of the comic in a satisfying way. Not everyone is going to like the extended format of the comic's world but with the spirit of its source material and fitting performances by a cast including D'Arcy Carden (The Good Place, Barry), Danny Pudi (Community, Mythic Quest), and Yvette Nicole Brown (Community, Avengers: Endgame), I had a good time. The fourth episode brings more of the Rick and Morty side of Dan Harmon and Steve Levy's style over to Nathan's universe that deviates a bit. Still, it doesn't lose the discomfort of confronting things and the relief after finally doing so that the comic often explores (and is something Harmon and Levy know well). If you like the comic or want something different, it's at least worth giving an episode or three!

Foundation season 2. It's been so good this season that I'm actually rewatching season 1 to pick up the details I missed. It really is cinematic, beautiful, and well acted. Very well acted.

And I'm rewatching BSG.

I enjoyed season one, but I’m finding season two really dull.

It’s also suffering from the “let’s introduce fifty new characters this season” syndrome.

Fisk! Funny show about an Australian lawyer who joins a small wills and probate firm, she's kind of.... Not a winner, and doesn't socialize well. It's very funny.

Agree with this. I'm pleasantly surprised by it's dry, wry and spry humour. Nothing wrong with a bit of consonance.
- I thought it would be typical wacky white woman in an office comedy at first but it really isn't. It was just as much about her office mates as it was her and how weird working for a small business can get.
  
  Also I totally bought one of the gold waving cat statues too.

I've been rewatching Third Rock From The Sun. It's held up beautifully. There's just the right amount of weird in it.

Just finished season 3 of Righteous Gemstones and season 2 of Good Omens. Both great I thought - Righteous Gemstones was better than expected.

Good Omens was as good as I’d hoped - difficult to go too far wrong with Michael Sheen and David Tennant!

Miracle Workers, Warrior, Afterparty, Only Murder in the Building.

I liked the first season of Miracle Workers and wish they would have continued with that concept. I like the idea of anthologies but what the heck was this lol I almost stopped watching it. The title doesn't make sense anymore I don't understand why they would name it Miracle Workers if this was always the plan?

The later seasons are fine if anyone's thinking of picking this up. It'll just feel like less of a betrayal if you go in knowing it's an anthology with completely different settings and characters and not a single concept series
- I barely even think of it as a scripted show anymore. I just see it as some good actors having fun. I knew Daniel Radcliffe was awesome before but this show just cemented it.

Foundation and invasion.
Foundation is good. Characters being gender swapped is a little annoying. Or is it? I dont know anymore.

I started watching Line of Duty. Been pretty good so far. It's a British crime drama about an anti-corruption unit taking down bent coppers.

Just finished another rewatch of Patriot. I think a good way to bring the show back is to do a british spin-off following Spike.

Currently watching :

The Afterparty S2
Only Murders in the Building S3
Miracle workers S3
Winning time S1
Billions S5
What we do in the Shadows S3
The Morning Show S2

Just finished :

The Gold
The Bear S2
Insomniacs After School S1
Painkiller
The righteous Gemstones S3
Manhunt S2

Dropped :

New Bandits

Watched the first episode of The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon, last night. It was good! Nothing amazing yet, but it had a lot to do in one episode. They clearly wanted to kick things off with action as well as set up the new setting and season hooks. There are new zombies that seem to be acidic, there's a spiritual mysticism / prophecy and faith elements we haven't seen much of in TWD before, and the medievalesque French setting is really satisfying to me.

Daryl's a great character to be the stranger in a strange land. He still clearly wants to be a lone wolf, and equally clearly still needs the purpose and belonging only other good people can provide. I was surprised in places to see him not jerking away from / being hostile to the familiarity of people he barely knows, but it's kind of nice to think that all that time with Rick and the gang has actually helped to socialize him some.

How exactly Daryl ended up in the situation that led him to France is still a mystery, but he does say basically that he started this journey because he was searching for something more / bigger than survival in the Commonwealth. As readymade as the divine(?) mission the nuns want him to take on seems for this, it's consistent with his character that he's not buying into it, but the aligned interests of the help he needs and the fact that they clearly are in need of help still hooks him in.

The villains of the season haven't shown much personality yet, and the nun Isabelle (who seems setup to be the co-lead) hasn't hooked me yet. She's had a lot of exposition to deliver so far though; I'm hoping that's not the main thing they use her for throughout the season, or Daryl's going to have to carry a lot more performances than his usual range of sarcasm, stoicism, rage, and brooding mystery can really cover. 😆

But I'm still cautiously optimistic. When I was still watching the original TWD, the on-the-road story that this plot is promising was always the kind of thing the series delivered best on. This new setting is showing a ton of promise, and I'm intrigued to see how the Laurent storyline, with these new elements of prophetic mystery and hope for humanity, plays out.

Just watch the 4 new episodes of the Crown...utter muck. Very clearly shyed away from any possible controversy with the one storyline they've teased out for four seasons. Puts a sour taste in my mouth about the whole series, Claire Foy seasons were great.

Fraisier. It's alright. Kind of getting bored of it though.