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(sorry to clarify there I mean, a book I loved and read before the show/movie was done. Never preread GoT/Foundation/Witcher/His Dark materials etc)

Kindred was really, really good, but a) I went into it without having read the book and b) having read the Wikipedia summary of the book I don't think I'll come back for a Season 2, because I liked where it ended.

Started Slow Horses (v good so far)

Also I did resume Line of Duty and so far the second season is quite a bit better than the first (which was itself really good.) Two episodes in and so far I can say S2 E1 had one of the most brutal endings you can fathom, and can I say Keeley Hawes is incredible here? Sometimes it seems like when a show is trying to play games with you, presenting a character who could be either good or bad, it feels sort of cheap. But her character is such a complicated creation, and she plays her perfectly, and I have no idea where the truth lies here.

So I guess yall would recommend it to someone who's never read any Butler?

The TV series? Yeah, it stands well on its own.

The Last Of Us getting great reviews so far. Fingers crossed

omar i’m so jealous that you’re watching LoD S2 for the first time. DI Lindsey Denton is one of the very greatest TV characters ever.

Josh, I'm still mourning Los Espookys :(

Yes classic season 2, you’re so lucky to be watching it for the first time!

Tati and Orla from Derry Girls should hang out.

Kaleidoscope was surprisingly good, posters upthread who disagree are rong (sorry, posters upthread). Although this perhaps depends upon the order in which the episodes are delivered to you. In particular, watching 'Pink' as anything other than the penultimate episode might just ruin the show for you. Otherwise, it was a well-executed experiment that was also very watchable. The heist is a Macguffin, as it's all about the characters and their attendant performers. Who were all very good (I forgot how good Giancarlo is after becoming overly-familiar with Gus Fring over the past decade+). Although if you do not vibe with them then I guess you might not vibe with the show.

I might have cut Kaleidoscope some slack if they didn’t have a prison break plot predicated on the idea that the prison doctor didn’t have car insurance that would allow him to get his windshield replaced with no out-of-pocket expenses, a supply guy who seemingly had no supply connections, or an attorney who was also a master marksman, identity procurer, and all-around criminal-of-all-trades who still managed to somehow forget to wear gloves during a jewel heist.

Basically, the show spent a lot of time pretending to be clever when it was just deeply, deeply stupid and I bailed on it after 4 episodes.

I mean, it was all just spectacle in the end but I found it to be engaging spectacle. Plot-wise, there's plenty to quibble about (pretty sure a prison key carved out of soap would not actually ever work at all, for a start). But also, for all the quibbles, they were ultimately revealed to be a band of fuck-up criminals who basically fucked everything up across the board.

Re: Line of Duty - just started S1 from thread recommendation. Thanks! Just what I was looking for.

finally trying station eleven and it's moving along nicely

I realize this is actually on network TV as well as Peacock, but am I the only person stupid enough to get mildly excited by the Night Court reboot? It's a shame so many people from this show have died; hopefully Bull make some kind of reappearance.

I saw all the ads for it during the GGs last night. I can't say I'm excited about it.

i’m here for it

eh too hard to see the basket

I was rewatching a whole lot of original Night Court last year. One of my favorites as a kid that my
parents inexplicably let me watch

we’ve been watching the old episodes here & there for the past few months - still holds up imo

i dunno what the science is behind it or how they do it but it’s just charming as hell

plus i’ll ride or die for john larroquette forever cf: uyd for life

I will never poll the best female bailiff because Flo, Selma, and Roz were all good

otm

enjoying selma currently in our rewatch but looking forward to roz & flo

Re: Line of Duty, DI Lindsey Denton wiping the floor with IA in her S2 E2 interrogation and then returning Fleming’s phone to her with an understated very hilarious “stealing is wrong, my bad” was one of her many amazing moments in that one. Honestly brilliant portrayal, Hawes is perfect at not showing Denton’s hand at all, whatever hand it is.

night court is pretty much an amazing and perfect sitcom and a real precursor to things like Seinfeld with its disregard for whether stuff was socially acceptable or not as long as it was funny; not to mention it's commitment to weird shit like the Mel Torme obsession. It makes sense that 30 Rock revisited it (which I'd totally forgotten about until recently).

I watched it as a kid (of course) but don't remember being super into it... I think Harry Anderson (R.I.P.) may have seemed kinda smug to me(?) I should revisit it....

(Keep in mind, I never missed an episode of "Who's the Boss?" either - so that's the critical lens at work here)

based on my love of Night Court there’s a standing joke with one of my friends that one year I will go see Yakov Smirnoff’s show in Branson

this joke has been going twenty years. Yakov still has a show in Branson

My friend and I used to just recount Night Court episodes from memory to each other

Night Court was one of those shows which started in such a different place too, Dan Fielding was more a serious pipe-smoking snob and the almost co-lead was a harried court clerk played by Karen Austin. It was a little closer to a Barney Miller type show than what it eventually became.

John Laroquette is the poor man's Kelsey Grammar

or vice versa

vice versa or nothing! kelsey grammar is a poor man’s larroquette!

larroquette himself is, I believe, a genuinely nice and well loved guy, unlike grammar.

Also a fan of Pynchon.

larroquette = a classic
grammar = a dud

laroquette’s learned from past bad behavior, mostly because his alcoholic days were reeeeeeally bad

Fun Facts: Selma Diamond was one of the inspirations for the character of Sally Rogers on The Dick Van Dyke Show, and Florence Halop actually appeared on that series.

Also: no thread for tv's "night court"?!?!?!

Dedicated thread (of sorts) available here (and I do apologize): NIGHT CORUT

Hope we’ll see Jah and Seth on the show as perverts

The subtitles for Line of Duty look like they were written by someone with severe dyslexia

(any specific episode?)

heh

Xp I just started the first ep of season 1 after seeing it mentioned here and the subtitles are a mess (I have a really hard time watching without them)

What does this actually mean though?

<eldritch thrumming>

As a general thing I watch TV with subtitles on sometimes, and often it seems to have been done by some sort of bot or programme that gets it blatantly wrong - so a main character's name will be wrong because it sounded like it ran into another word. Not always - maybe it's just certain services. But if you rely on them it starts getting really confusing.

Xp to gyac: your sentence written by this transcriptionist would read like

Haatwdeos hist itactlluy anme ought

That’s the best typing I’ve ever seen from a cat