Topic: The TV Show Thread

@JohnnyShoulder I enjoyed it immensely at release but on this second watch, I was able to even better appreciate what they did with it. A truly fantastic adaptation!

Not finished yet, but I was just reading about how they want to make The Pitt an annual show, really interested to see how they make that work. Cause like if every season is a day in sequence, we'll be ten years older and these newbies will have only just finished their first week. But then if you have the show jump a year ahead every time, will that make it hard to invest in the show, because 364 days of these characters lives are happening off screen between every season?

Has anyone watched The Studio? Man alive, I haven’t laughed this hard at a show in a long time. It’s really very well done. Episode 2 in particular is a masterclass in setup and payoff. If you enjoy watching self-centred narcissists stuck in survival mode manipulate their way through self-imposed interpersonal dramas, look no further 😂 I’m looking forward to the rest of the season.

@Pizzamorg
Season 2 comes out in January and is apparently set several months later during the 4th of July weekend so make of that what you will. Frankly I don't care if the actors visibly age, it's just nice to have a season of a show every year again instead of having to wait 2-3 years.

@Jimmer-jammer I haven’t yet but the missus brought it up yesterday as a potential next watch. Your appraisal has only added weight to the prospect… just as we were looking for our next show 🍻

@graymamba It’s especially funny if you have any interest/insight into filmmaking and especially Hollywood. Rogen and crew are hit or miss for me but when they hit, they hit gold. This is some of their best work in my opinion. Hope it pans out for you and the missus! 🍻

@Jimmer-jammer my degree is in film-making as it goes, so should be spot on.

@graymamba Oh, that’s brilliant!

Oh yeah that is a cool idea, didn't think of that one. Every season could jump to another busy period on the calendar like Halloween etc

binging through Season 1 of Goosebumps on Tubi recently. the Get ouf the Basement two parter episodes about the dad scientists being replaced by plants it has Katherine Isabelle when she was just a kid back then.

Phanom of the Auditorium was neat but the story i felt it was rushed for a live goosebumps story.

@seinfeldfanatic
Goosebumps is a weird show, some good episodes but alot of them are unintentionally funny in a so bad its good kind of way. Bad child acting galore

I have now finished my quasi binge of The Pitt. I deffo liked it, overall. It is still "just" a medical drama at the end of the day, and despite some trappings, I dunno if I'd maybe go as mad for it as some of the reviews have. But like I say, deffo enjoyed the ride overall. I will say I appreciated how they landed the plane, enough wrapped up to feel like a satisfying thing on its own, but enough open to be explored further down the line. I was worried it was gonna wrap around on itself in a really contrived way, and I'm glad they avoided that. Deffo lit a bit of a fire in me to maybe check out some more medical dramas, feel like when you watch a really emotional show like this it leaves a hole behind, now time to find something to fill it.

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I will say actually one thing I loved, was the very clear agenda it had against those who refuse the help of medical professionals, those who would ignore a doctor but trust Google or some quack, you would worry a show would try and pussyfoot around these issues, but this show didn't pull any punches in that regard and I loved it.

@Pizzamorg
Noah Wyle talked in an interview about how pissed and frustrated he had become with all the pseudoscience BS and quackery that has increased especially in the wake of Covid and wanted the address that in the show so I'm glad they did.

Agreed, super cool he used the platform for that. Honestly, I feel like the show cut through a lot of stigmas around female representation, outward masculinity, class, all kinds if issues like that brief case with the misgendered patient, and how deftly it handled that and just moved on, it tackled some real heavy stuff in a way that fully embraced the issue and made its stance clear, but also done in a way that didn't feel preachy or forced, just a really sharply written, well crafted, show.

@PegasusActual93 @Pizzamorg I've had "The Pitt" high on my watchlist, but learning that it pulls no punches on hot button issues makes me really look forward to getting stuck in with it.

I've finished a few series in the last couple of weeks, most recently High Potential, a "procedural" from ABC that's available on Disney+ here. I'm typically not all that fond of procedurals, especially not the ones that dominate American network TV, but this one was elevated by a very charming Kaitlin Olson ("It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia"), a cast of characters it's impossible to not like and the cases they solve are mostly interesting. Also, "short" run of only 13 episodes in the season helps avoid it overstaying its welcome. Recommended if you're looking for some light entertainment to give you a smile or two.

I would also recommend The Agency, a spy thriller with Michael Fassbender, Jeffrey Wright, Jodie Turner-Smith, the awesome Harriet Sansom Harris and Richard Gere. This was one of those shows where my brain couldn't seem to retain the fact that I liked the show. I picked it up every other week to get two-episode batches, but it felt like something I should do rather than something I wanted to. But, every time, when I did, I was completely riveted. Some shows are like that for me, I have no idea what causes it.

Closed out Daredevil: Born Again yesterday. Some of you may know me as one of the last people in the world still enjoying the MCU, so this was of course the show I re-upped my Disney+ subscription for. I enjoyed the Netflix shows somewhat, but I was unhappy with the direction they took with many of the characters and their almost disdain for some of the elements of the source material. I was therefore not very enthused when I heard that this series would stick to the Netflix canon (at least, for the most part). I loved the cast from the Netflix shows, so I was hoping for more of a multiverse soft reboot (same actors, mostly blank slate story-wise). This was... fine, I guess? D'Onofrio predictably steals the show (I've been reading old Spider-man comics from the 70's and whenever Kingpin shows up, he speaks with D'Onofrio's voice) and Bernthal once again proves he's a great Punisher, but all in all it was a bit mid. All will be forgiven if they at one point bring back Jessica Henwick and Simone Missick as Daughters of the Dragon, though

Went straight from The Pitt into the pilot of ER. One hell of a trip. But for all their differences, it is also wild though how many parallels run between the two shows, The Pitt clearly borrowed heavily from this, whether by design or not. Hell it almost feels like it could be a prequel.

I know there is almost 40 years between the two shows, but man, the hospital in ER doesn't look like any hospital I've ever seen in shows or real life, except maybe a few sleazy 80s horror movies. It is also so absurdly dark I dunno how they get any work done in there, everyone must have night vision. Also crazy to be reminded of a world of almost no screens, where paper is absolutely everywhere. It feels much older than the mid 90s, feels like it could be taking place in the late 70s or something.

Nice to also see some doubt and ineptitude too, weirdly. As The Pitt was full of people conjuring McGuyver solutions and I kept waiting for the moment it would blow up in their face, and it just never did. Probably one of my biggest criticisms with that show on reflection is how everyone was a super Doctor who couldn't really make mistakes, and any mistakes that were made were so completely out of their control they are immediately absolved. At least part of this seemed by design, so each one could failure could haunt specific characters, but I feel like in the real world over half of the patients in The Pitt would die from all the crazy stuff they do.

Edit: Interesting, so the second episode of ER appears to take place in a different set (or maybe the first episode was on location to lower costs?). It keeps a lot of the quirks of the original location, but just seems to have made everything much bigger, cleaner and brighter. It is funny if this is a set, and the first one was a real location, cause this set feels way more like what I'd expect from a real hospital.

Has anyone started The Last of Us part 2 yet? I believe it's started on Sky/Now in the UK. And Max(?) Everywhere else(?)

I haven't really been convinced to watch it just yet for some reason, and i'm still thinking I will probably end up watching Shogun and/or Andor (🤦‍♂️🤪) first.

@Ravix Max here and I've watched the first episode. Started strong, IMO

@Ravix @FuriousMachine Yeah I'm in the UK and watched the first episode of season 2. It felt it was the exactly the same as the game, but as I've not played the game since it first realised that was my memory confusing things. It is more tomdo with how it is structured so far. For instance, Ellie and Dina kissing at the dance happened much later in the game. In my head, that was near the start but probably getting it confused as it appeared in the trailers for the game.

I wonder if they will follow through with how episode 1 ends? My mate is convinced that they will not kill off Pedro Pascal this early.

But yeah, really good so so far. I'm ok with the casting choices, as the acting is top tier. Which is all the matters to me in that respect, not if they look like the character from the game.