Topic: The TV Show Thread

@graymamba hehehe, if it gets cancelled, I'll hold you personally responsible
Though, while Amazon also are quite axe-happy, they are willing to let a show find its footing sometimes before swinging the axe (unlike Netflix, who will eviscerate any show that isn't a huge success from the go) and they are reportedly seeing an increase in viewers season to season with WoT, so I think you can safely wait until you can binge it... for now
Me, I simply can't binge shows. More than two hours, three tops, of the same thing makes me restless, no matter how good that thing actually is. So I typically watch episodes in twos and have a couple shows going simultaneously (not watching them at the same time, you understand, but alternating between them). For example, right now I am alternating between "Severance", "Mythic Quest", "The Agency" and the first season of "The Leftovers", with "Wheel of Time" and "Daredevil: Born Again" being fresh additions (they will fill the spots vacated by "Severance" and "Mythic Quest" when they end this week).

And, absolutely, Rosamund Pike should definitely get award attention for her portrayal of Moiraine

@FuriousMachine Your TV scheduling is similar to my video game approach. Usually having 2 games and sometimes 3 concurrently where I will pop back and forth to keep from getting too bogged down. I think it helps to keep things feeling fresh. Sometimes I overextend myself though, and if I try to juggle too many games then inevitably one will suffer neglect and drop off.

However for TV shows I usually just do one at a time and if I intermix something it will be inserting a standalone movie every now and then to take a break from a long season. I have very limited TV time though, so that factors in.

Of those shows you’ve listed I’m interested in almost all of them. The only one not on my radar is The Agnecy. I think I’ll tackle Season 2 of Severance first and then maybe either WoT or The Leftovers. I never finished the original Daredevil series so I suspect I need to go back to that before trying the new one. I made it halfway through season 1 and then abandoned it for something else. It was growing a bit boring but I hear it picks up.

@FuriousMachine I used to be like you and have a load of shows ongoing at the same time. But I only watch one TV show at time now, and I rarely binge something over the space of a few days. About the only time I did was when I started with Game of Thrones and was way behind and needed to catch up.

@Th3solution It's a bit funny, I absolutely cannot have concurrent video games going unless they are very different games. If they are too similar I will continually have to re-learn button combinations and such. So, I typically focus on one game at the time and play that until I'm properly done with it, either by finishing it or feeling otherwise satisfied (or bored) with it.

"The Agency" is a bit of a strange one. I find myself reluctant to pick it up, but when I finally do I am absolutely riveted to it. Some shows are like that for me, I keep forgetting that I actually like them and have to "force" myself to watch them.

I don't think the Netflix "Daredevil" show is required viewing for "Born Again", at least not as far as I've seen, but it will probably give a little bit more context. I am personally not a huge fan of the direction the Netflix shows took, they seemed to be almost ashamed of the source material, but I absolutely loved most of the casting, so I'm a bit torn with "Born Again". On the one hand, I want the characters and actors intact, but I'd like to see clean slate in terms of story. Whether or not the Netflix shows turn out to be 100% canon or whether they are a multiverse thing where things are similar but not 100% the same remains to be seen, I guess.

"Severance" season 2 started very strong, but has tapered off a bit towards the end, in my opinion. Hopefully they will bring it back with the season finale. Also, an entire episode dedicated to Dichen Lachman's character was not wrong

@JohnnyShoulder I try not to juggle too many. The current count (six) is not representative, as it's that high mainly because three of them are about to end their seasons and two of them just started.
I don't have any hard and fast rules, but I will actively limit things if I start to feel like it's becoming overwhelming.

@FuriousMachine I used have a different one for each weekday, as weekends are film nights!

@JohnnyShoulder Sundays are typically "stay in and watch shows and movies" day, so I can conceivably watch two episodes of two or three shows and a movie or two on a Sunday, though I will more often than not sacrifice a movie in order to get in a couple of hours with a book and some comics. Weeknights will more often than not be spent playing games or working on a hobby coding project. Also, reading, if the book I'm reading has its claws in me, which happens every now and then.