Started watching Star Wars The Bad Batch and it's a fantastic spiritual successor/sequel to Clone Wars. Seems very slept on compared to the live action Star Wars shows on Disney+. Not exactly newcomer friendly and throws you right in the deep end under the assumption you are at least well versed in the movies and know who Palpatine is, what Order 66 is, who Grand Moff Tarkin is etc. but as a lifelong fan that isn't a problem for me.
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@BearsEatBeets Not yet. I'll wait until they are all out and watch them then. Unlike something like Arcane when I felt more inclined to catch the episodes when they came out, I feel that there is less reason to do this withe something like Secret Level.
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@BearsEatBeets Haven't gotten around to it yet, but I intend to. The "Exodus" episode is in the next batch, which is one I'm really excited about (though I will watch them all).
@LN78 The Vicar of Dibley one with the multiple Christmas lunches is a classic. Same with The Royle Family. And there’s plenty good Only Fools and Horses specials over the years. Peep Show’s episode with Christmas dinner is another good one but sort of fits so well into the series that I don’t even really think of it as a special.
Doctor Who has a bit of a mixed history with Christmas specials imo but I’d point to The Christmas Invasion as my favourite one and really brings back memories of Christmas ‘05.
Wolf Hall: The Mirror And The Light honestly is even better than the first season. Just brilliant. It’s shows like that which prove how far TV has come, to be getting performances from Mark Rylance which rival the very best movies can offer. Cannot recommend it enough.
Also been rewatching Friday Night Lights, one of my favourite shows of all time. On Season 4, The Son still being up there with the greatest TV episodes of all time. I’d definitely have it in the conversation with the classics from The Sopranos, Justified, Oz, Succession etc.
Finished off the last 6 episodes of Yellowstone last night and it was an incredible ending to one of my favourite shows of all-time (definitely top 5 and maybe even top 3 with The Wire, Breaking Bad). We laughed and we cried… and we already miss it!
Playing Outlaws put me in a Star Wars mood so I checked out Skeleton Crew. Only a few episodes in, but I am surprised by how much I am enjoying it, to be honest.
The premise didn't sound that appealing for me, and the first episode sorta makes you feel like you are gonna get a Star Wars Stranger Things or something (which is of no interest to me personally). But for as much as I dislike the children at the core of the story, I'm kinda in awe of everything else.
Seeing a Star Wars suburbia was really cool, and the production values are honestly kind of incredible. I don't know whether it is using actual practical effects, or just CG designed to look like practical effects (or some sort of hybrid of the two) but it almost doesn't matter as I just love how this show looks, and the action scenes are all excellent.
@Pizzamorg As with most things Stars Wars these days it was flmed using the Volume. The disadvantage it has is that most shows can end up looking similar and a bit cramped. Glad you enjoyed it and have heard surprisingly good things about it. I'll add it with Andor to my watchlist if I ever subscribe to Disney+ again.
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I just finished Fallout. It was the first TV show I watched in years and have to agree it lived up to the hype and praise. I spent most of each episode pointing out the various set pieces and signage that featured in the games, they really did a great job in the art and design. I hear The Witcher has a show now too so I might watch that next.
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@GirlVersusGame yeah, don't watch that. It's sh*t 💀 in fact, it's worse than sh*t because it gives you hope a few times and then takes a big steaming dump on you 😅
Fallout was made by people that respect the source material. The Witcher was written by people (idiots) that definitely hadn't read all of the books before they started writing S1 (absolutely incompetent way to write a show) and they didn't even fully understand the meaning of the short stories if we're being totally honest, so it is wildly inconsistent and lacking real flavour.
@JohnnyShoulder Andor is worth the entry fee alone, but maybe it's one to get on 4k disc, if there is such a release, rather than sub? Plus TW3's Yennefer stars in it, and kicks some serious bottom.
@GirlVersusGame I second @Ravix' take on The Witcher; if you like the books or the game, the series is a terrible adaptation. If you have absolutely no experience with the source material, you might find it entertaining. I know a few who hadn't known there was any such thing as The Witcher outside the Netflix series that enjoyed season 1, though I struggle to understand why. Worth noting before you lend my opinion any credence, though: I didn't particularly like "Fallout" either. While it was faithful to the game world, I found it unengaging and quit after three episodes.
@JohnnyShoulder Once again, @Ravix is spot on regarding "Andor", Definitely worth the price of admission alone and easily the best SW to have come out of Disney+. They also released a lovely 4K Limited Steelbook of season 1 that is absolutely worth the purchase, but I don't know if it's available any longer.
@FuriousMachine ah, you gave up on Fallout, and I can kind of get why, I was initially watching and enjoying the setting and overall feel to the world itself, but I wasn't engaged like I would be for any other good tv. I don't know when it was, maybe even after 4 or 5 episodes it finally clicked a lot more and I begun to enjoy it in a different way. Maybe it's a case of you just missing that turning point that I had with the show.
I wouldn't go on to say it's top tier or anything like that, but I know for sure I enjoyed it a lot more beyond a certain point. I even started watching it again a few months ago but stopped after a few episodes again, as it just fell out of the rotation, so now I'm wondering what the actual moment that it really drew me in was, but it's definitely one that can take a little while to get that point.
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@Ravix Right, I may give it a couple of episodes more, if I have time before I hit pause on Prime ahead of next billing. Going to finish "The Rig" season 2 and "Secret Level" first, then we'll see, I guess
@PorkChopExpress I haven't seen Cyberpunk or Yakuza. I didn't like the animation style of the former, so I haven't bothered with it, but seems like most people on here who saw it liked it, if memory serves. I was ready to dive in with Yakuza, but the common sentiment here was that it was quite rubbish, though one or two claimed that, if divorced from the games, it was watchable. I may still give it a go at one point, but it fell far down on the priority list.
I've never played any Castlevania, so I can't speak to how faithful the show is, but I really enjoyed the first series. Haven't had a chance to check out the new series just yet.
I also support the Andor recommendation. I haven't loved a lot of the modern TV or movies from Star Wars to be honest, but both Rogue One and Andor remain some of my absolute favourite stuff honestly in Star Wars in general.
I personally think the Mandalorian is crazy overrated. I thought Obi Wan was pretty boring, but I do like seeing Jedi / Sith action scenes with modern production values bringing us closer to what the we were promised from the upper levels of force mastery, rarely seen in the older stuff cause of budget / tech limitations. I've never seen the Acolyte, but I'm tempted to watch it and see if its really as bad as I'd heard, or if its just more loud rage tourists shouting out third hand information and the show actually is fine. I also gave up on Book of Boba after only a couple of episodes, I thought it was truly awful.
I've also basically seen none of the animated stuff, except the first season of Visions. I hear Bad Batch is good, but I dunno if I wanna wade through the entire of Clone Wars to watch it.
@JohnnyShoulder oh, man, there really isn't any other version available. That's a bit mad. Everything is just second hand/marked up with nothing in stock at any actual stores.
I guess Disney don't care about physical media that much 💀
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