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Anybody watch Upload? They’re about midway through season 3 now. It’s goofy but every episode probably has at least one silly moment that makes me laugh.

If you can stand the most Australian of Australians, Deadloch on Prime is a great watch.

seconded - well-constructed, funny murder mystery

It's a good pilot – you can see how they had the concept nailed from the beginning, and there are some fairly good action scenes for a TV show. Bruce Willis's schtick is really annoying, though!

I watched the pilot, too, and it was OK — like, you could feel the writers trying really hard to move past the 70s model of detective shows and into something "new, for the '80s!" But honestly it wasn't that different from, I don't know, Hart to Hart or something. I know it got better, because I've seen later episodes. But honestly, now I want to watch old episodes of Remington Steele (which was on first) to see how that holds up in comparison.

Yeah, the Wikipedia page mentions both those shows… I never watched either of them.

I remember the “meta” aspects of Moonlighting (talking to the camera, etc.) having such a big impact on my sensibility back then… I don’t know how far into the series they start doing that, though.

I remember when they did an episode in Iambic Pentameter. Not sure Hart to Hart ever tried that.

Apparently there was a celebrated dream-sequence episode shot on b&w film (so that the network couldn't chicken out and air it in color).

Conwoman Camille Brand (Whoopi Goldberg) becomes a national hero after accidentally preventing the assassination of a politician. David and Maddie decide to cash in on the publicity by giving her a job. A crooked policeman (Judd Nelson) spends much of the episode pursuing and attempting to arrest Camille. The episode ends with an extended sequence in which the characters wander right off the show's set into other parts of the studio, and several members of the show's production crew appear on camera as part of the plot resolution.

Anybody watch Upload?

I stopped paying attention partway through season 2 but I think it’s a reliably enjoyable show

Getting deep into Better Call Saul - I tried a couple of times before and didn't get into it but part of the way into season 3 I'm pretty sure it's better than Breaking Bad.

I thought that for a while, too. I don't now, but still a classic show.

Seeing some high praise for Blue Eye Samurai:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJ1yQn17lbE

Might be enough to renew my Netflix account.

seconded - well-constructed, funny murder mystery

Thirded - it's everything that a project codeworded "Funny Broadchurch" could be (and it's a very dark humour)

I've been watching the latest season of Upload, its still pretty good, got a lot of good chuckles out of me.

i don't think i ever finished the first season for some reason

Deadlock was ok. "cop too stupid to follow the law" is a joke I never find funny. See also The Heat.

anybody else watched The Boys spin-off Gen V?

I quite liked it, less heavy on the satire than The Boys and more of an R-rated CW superhero/teen drama.

the final episode hints that it's going to be more integrated with the main show's plotlines though, which bums me out because I thought it did well at establishing itself as its own thing. such is the nature of superhero franchises, I guess

Ooh I loved the Boys, thx for the rec!
Thanks to all the film noir pages I follow on instagram, I have joined in noirvember. Last night watched Hangover Square which is bonkers and borderline silly but has a great ending and a great supporting feline actor.

Gen V was very good. At times better than the Boys.

Bodies on Netflix - guess it's their new hit series but the first episode was not great.

It's fun and worth watching. It's like Dark but less complicated. Still a total plot hole mess, but enjoyable.

I tried with E01 but it dragged for me. there were some dodgy English accents amongst the police that kinda hampered those scenes

I've become a big fan of the guy who plays the jewish detective from the 40s, Jacob Fortune-Lloyd. He was in the Great and Queens Gambit as well. Very charismatic. Plays Brian Epstein in an upcomming movie. Gonna be a star.

His was one of the accents I thought was dodgy, but actually he was born and bred in London! Lol I dunno. Maybe because he was trying for a broad kind of East End accent - more working class than his own. I see he's playing the Duke of Buckingham in a new version of Three Musketeers which I suspect he will excel at

I've been enjoying Scavengers Reign on Max. Recommended if you enjoy stuff like Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Fantastic Planet, and the comic art of Moebius. It follows people who have been shipwrecked on an alien planet as they make their way through an endless maze of bizarre and creepy wildlife. It can be pretty gross at times but also has many moments of serene psychedelic beauty and a killer synth-heavy soundtrack.

Thank you for reminding me of that! I've seen it recommended several times, and each time I forget about it, except for that there was something on Max that was recommended.

I tried Bodies but everyone in it is so weird-looking (the detective in the future looks like a child with premature aging disease) that I couldn't hang. Plus, the plot was a mix of not-thrilling mystery and tired detective-story cliché. Oh, the Victorian guy is a closeted homosexual? SHOCK.

Currently watching Midnight Mass and 30 Coins, both of which are really good but are causing me to have a weird "why is this shit working on me? I haven't been inside a Catholic church in 30 years" reaction.

bodies was terrible thin gruel, v comic book adaptation (nothing against comic books, but adapted they are invariably feeble).

i watched it all anyway.

Hair loopies and some nice Kyoshi Warrior makeup, if nothing else.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waJKJW_XU90

Didnt they already make multiple movies/shows out of that franchise!?

Watching this very long one-take monologue that kicks off the final episode of The Bear’s first season just makes me keep thinking – “He had to memorize this monologue…”.

It totally takes me out of the show, in that it puts the focus on the performance and “creative decision,” rather than what it’s actually expressing. (Just my 2 cents, as an accomplished & celebrated director of television shows.)

Quite the Deus ex canopener at the end there.

(nothing against comic books, but adapted they are invariably feeble).

fizzles have you seen American Splendour?

also I assume animated adaptations are exempt from this statement

Didnt they already make multiple movies/shows out of that franchise!?

There was a sequel series and an awful/racist M. Night Shyamalan movie adaptation that everyone considers an abomination, and that's been all in terms of film/tv.

Blue Eye Samurai is gorgeously animated (the attention to detail is amazing), and brutally violent, and the choreography is superb.

talking about Bodies, I enjoyed it, but the finale was....wow, that's all it took? a multi-generational conspiracy foiled by an extremely obvious move that Mannix should have seen coming? it was basically A Christmas Carol

jfc Netflix expect us to feel sympathy for Robbie Williams now, like no?

_(nothing against comic books, but adapted they are invariably feeble)._

fizzles have you seen American Splendour?

also I assume animated adaptations are exempt from this statement

Is it just me or is the first episode of Murder at the End of the World (Disney+ in Ireland) boring as shit? The reviews all praise Emma Corrin, but I'm not sure they're doing much here beyond giving it the pixie face every now and then.

Is it the Frank Black Pixie face, because I would watch that

That face is broken iirc

American Splendor is very good.

the Harvey Pekar movie?

my foggy memory of American Splendor is Giamatti's raspy voice being quite amusing. He was complaining about stink lines emanating from him in the cartoon and was reassured they were motion lines! Might have to watch that again.

Lupin series 2 is as enjoyable as the first.

We've been saving it up for when we're all in town at the same time (not easy) but yeah super looking forward to it

is it?! i been watching series 1.5… i guess? and i enjoyed the first lot but the second lot is not so good. but still a decent and enjoyable way to pass the time obv.

i finished the luxembourg police show CAPITANI, which did indeed have a vv different second season, which was maybe better than the first. luxembourg has few homicides but all of them occurred in this show apparently! good, not great, but it passes the time well.

Yeah hoping new Lupin is more like the fun, first half of season 1

oh I don't remember a drop off in quality... the new one is high stakes and a bit dark in places, lots of flashbacks that might seem a but irrelevant till near the end, but there's also plenty of inventive trickery.