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Blue Eye Samuri was great. There were some comments about it upthread a couple of months back.

I enjoyed Onimusha

The final episode of Mr and Mrs Smith was so self-indulgent and awful that it made me retrospectively resent the rest of the season, which I had just about been enjoying up till then.

martin starr AND dana delany are on Tulsa King? i'm in! although the fact that its made by that Yellowstone guy gives me pause. that show always gave me the vibe that it was probably a favorite of the Proud Boys or something. not as bad as Peaky Blinders did but up there. a favorite of Idaho militia members at the very least. even if it did have a lot of overt transgressive man branding and torture that some would say was a progressive nod to the gay male BDSM community out there. that bunkhouse was steamy! Cole Hauser would be perfect to play The Renderer in a movie version of the James Purdy book Narrow Rooms. on the other hand, few American screenplays in recent years impressed me as much as Taylor Sheridan's Sicario. And Maria and my dad really did enjoy Lawmen:Bass Reeves.

also: i am really enjoying season 1 of Halo. but you guys always scare me away from Season 2 of everything!

That's because season 2 of everything is bad. That's why Netflix has learned to preemptively cancel everything

I've not seen either scott but a mate reckons S2 is way better than S1 and that some of the later episodes are up there with the best sci-fi in recent years xp

Said upthread but s2 of Halo is fine/good. Not great, not bad, not disappointing, just not as compelling as s1.

got it. i guess i didn't expect much when i started watching but its fun.

Very bummed to run out of Slow Horses. Why they gotta be 6 episode seasons

i kinda love @fter midnight. glad i got paramount+ now. for halo and that show. and okay tulsa king.

How do we feel about the regime? I enjoyed the first ep but feel it might wear out its welcome soon enough

I watched a few eps last night (over my wife's shoulder)... it was "good," if not really my thing.

I feel like I should try The Expanse again. It would be my third attempt. I don't remember what happened the other times. Life probably. Don't tell me, it starts to suck in the 2nd season.

i'm still enjoying @fter midnight. i had no idea it was based on an old comedy central show made by the reno 911 guy. he's on the new one! i guess i wasn't watching comedy central in 2013. anyway, its perfect viewing while i clean and price old soul 45s.

The Expanse does not get worse, it gets even better, watch it now!

we just started Fargo S5 and HOLY SHIT at that first episode, we are riveted now

xp Yeah, with Chris Hardwick... I've seen it coming up recently, I just assumed it never went off the air (or whatever). Didn't know it was a reboot.

yah new host is stand-up taylor tomlinson. jesus, i am watching a taylor sheridan show and a taylor tomlinson show and i listened to a taylor swift record last week. this country will be the death of me...

"The Expanse does not get worse, it gets even better, watch it now!"

okay! that's what i like to hear.

I made a thread: The @fter midnight & Rolling Taylor Tomlinson Thread

"The Expanse does not get worse, it gets even better, watch it now!"

okay! that's what i like to hear.

yeah, the fedora might have slowed me down as well. too b-level blade runner gumshoe. but i like him in general as an actor. and i can get beyond that part of it.

“B-level Bladerunner gumshoe” is a perfect description of what irritated me in the first episode or two.

Nothing has filled the Expanse gap in my viewing. It’s a terrible run for TV sci-fi aside from Strange New Worlds.

100% love the Expanse. First season started a bit tough with that neo-noir act but it gets over that pretty quick and then just gets better and better.

The Regime on the other hand...just finished first episode moments ago and not sure how I feel about it. Interesting people behind it and I can see it being good but...I feel like if you're going to do really absurd broad satire, the humor of it needs to hit, and I just didn't find this funny. I had one or two giggles but that's it. Like maybe if you're doing broad satire like that I want Duck Soup or something. Like Succession and Veep at least sort of take place in a real world and were funny.

Love and Other Details managing to get even worse in the finale

The Expanse is 100% awesome,I think a lot of the noir elements at the start are almost a red herring for what follows with that character, his arc is really interesting and winds up pretty funny and moving in equal shares. The cast is maybe intentionally prickly, but you grow to really like them. It's a shockingly high quality program, it makes most other TV sci-fi look cheap in its wake. It adds some phenomenally charismatic characters along the way, too.

everyone otm re: The Expanse. In terms of TV sci-fi competition, only For All Mankind has come close for me, but it's been flagging these past couple of seasons whereas The Expanse stayed good throughout

are you guys going to watch 3 body problem on netflix? maria wants to see it. she read the books. i didn't. not yet anyway.

i'm still going to finish Halo. which has some, uh, quality issues, but i have been enjoying it for what it is. evil lizards and stuff. i know nothing about the game. but i am lobbying maria to watch the expanse with me.

apple tv is like the one thing i don't have and a streaming bridge too far for me. i have to have SOME limits. so, no for all mankind or foundation for me and whatever else they have.

Foundation is terrible anyway

i'm curious about 3 body problem but i've terminated my netflix subscription and don't feel like re-upping for that. maybe if it gets decent reviews.

i've read the first book and it's okay - some interesting ideas and I enjoyed learning a bit about china's cultural revolution/aftermath, but found most of the characters and dialogue kinda flat/one-note.

We get into Three Body Problem a little here: We Are Bugs in this thread for The Three-Body Problem 三体 and its various adaptations

(in short: the Tencent series is long, b-movie-ish, but has an odd charm that kept me going. a serious, big-budget series may not do the story any favors)

Also, Is anybody else watching The Expanse? is a great thread to follow along with if you're watching for the first time.

the tencent version is behind a registration now, i noticed. first two episodes are freely viewable but nothing more.

Well goddamn. It's definitely available on the dark.net, if you know how to navigate it. You'll need 40GB of space.

People forgetting that Severance is sci fi?

The Netflix 3BP is by Benioff and Weiss, right? Are people OK giving them another chance to ruin some books (which i also found one-note)?

I've come across fan theories that "For All Mankind" is a prequel to "The Expanse," lol. I've heard so many "Expanse" recommendations from people I trust, but iirc we watched a couple of episodes and while they were OK we conceded we just did not have the energy to dedicate to an epic multi-season sci-fi opus. Kind of reminded/reminds me of all the recommendations of "Babylon 5," which a lot of people love and which I will never watch.

not even close!

as has been stated many times in these threads, Ep 4 is where it starts taking off and it just gets better and better

yeah as soon as the Martians show up it all kicks in

I think that's why people were connecting it to "For All Mankind."

Yes basically as soon as they've been seized by the Martian crew and everything rather quickly goes bad for both parties, it's really on. The only not great part about the show was it ended after six seasons, though I'm cautiously optimistic they might bring it back sometime in some form in the future.

Maybe in 20 years.

I think Expanse is a lot easier to get into than Babylon 5 fwiw (though I did like B5). Less episodes, more action, less complicated

i totally thought that babylon 5 was a star trek thing for the longest time. i don't really watch the star trek spin-offs. they always look so goofy.

there is an old show on netflix on a ship and there are monsters...is it canadian? i kinda liked it. always meant to go back and watch it all.

i went back and watched The 100 again during the pandemic for comfort. i liked the last season a lot. considered getting a 100-themed tattoo. i'm probably the only fan here. it's okay. i like the mix of fantasy + scifi. and combat. and cool women.

I liked it too. They went dark as fuck at times.

wait, i might be thinking of Farscape. i would watch that too. but the one i started had people waking up on a ship and they didn't know who they were or whatever.

yeah, i was strangely engrossed by The 100. well, not strangely. i just took it more seriously than i thought i would have. i didn't want them to die!