The Tube.

[astfgyl]

Having pretty much given up telly for a couple of years I got round to watching season 11 of curb your enthusiasm and did a lot of laughing. Still a couple of eps left to go but it's an improvement on the previous couple of seasons

[Emphyrio]

Watching The Staircase at the moment. Recommended.

[jobrok1]

Watching The Staircase at the moment. Recommended.

Is that series based on the Netflix documentary?

[Emphyrio]

Yup. I accidentally put on the documentary first til I realised it was the Colin firth one that was recommended to me. And even after those 5 mins it was obvious Firth nailed the role.

[StoutAndAle]

Yup. I accidentally put on the documentary first til I realised it was the Colin firth one that was recommended to me. And even after those 5 mins it was obvious Firth nailed the role.

Is it worth watching if you've seen both the original documentary and the newer Netflix one?

I'm not sure how much more they can wring out of it.

Firth (from the adverts) sounds exactly like yer man - Michael (?) Peterson.

[Emphyrio]

I didn't watch the doc, only the first few mins. I'm a bit jaded of those true crime documentaries but the series is well worth a watch. If you've seen the doc I can't imagine it being worthwhile watching the show though. It's kinda strange doing a serialised version of a documentary too but how and ever.

[Eoin McLove]

I recommend The Kominsky Method (again). Really funny stuff.

[StoutAndAle]

I didn't watch the doc, only the first few mins. I'm a bit jaded of those true crime documentaries but the series is well worth a watch. If you've seen the doc I can't imagine it being worthwhile watching the show though. It's kinda strange doing a serialised version of a documentary too but how and ever.

The first "Staircase" doc is one of the OG true crime series. It's from about 20 years ago. Before Netflix started stretching ABC "20/20" news reports to interminable lengths.

[Emphyrio]

We Own This City. Quite good. Went off in a direction I wasn't expecting but the constant timeline jumps were annoying. Hopefully they write another show. John Bernthal is great in it.

Under the Banner of Heaven. Think it tries a True Detective thing but at over an hour for each episode it's very dragged out. Gave up on it.

Picard. 3 eps into S2. It relies too heavily on familiar faces turning up to propel the story forward. Those faces have earned a lot of goodwill over the years so I'll see it out, especially with S3 being the final season but I dunno if I would recommend.

[Carnage]

Picard improves as it progresses, but you'll see the 'twist' coming a mile off.

[Emphyrio]

Ya, ep3 was very good to be fair, much better than the previous two, so hopefully it keeps up that standard.

[jobrok1]

I thought Picard S2 was a bit of a let down, tbh.
Ep1 was great... really got my buzzing for more. Then it just fell apart a bit.

Nothing like ST: Discovery, though.
Fuck me that's a terrible addition to the franchise.
Only good think to come out of it might be ST: Strange New Worlds. But I wasn't overly impressed in Ep1 of that either. Hoping it improves.

[Emphyrio]

Was it S2 that had Anson Mount? That was a good season but other than that it's the most atrocious show. Pure box ticking exercise. Gave up during S3.
Hoping Strange New Worlds is good.

[Carnage]

Season 2 was mighty alright but S3 was poor enough. Haven't bothered with S4 yet, but looking forward to Strange New Worlds. Has anyone watched Lower Decks or Prodigy? Not sure if I can be bothered with animated Star Trek.

[Makeshiftatomsmasher]

Season 2 was mighty alright but S3 was poor enough. Haven't bothered with S4 yet, but looking forward to Strange New Worlds. Has anyone watched Lower Decks or Prodigy? Not sure if I can be bothered with animated Star Trek.

My wife had lower decks on before. More of a humorous based show. Also, not sure if it's the show itself or the network that runs it, but there is a lot of that "bleeping " in the dialogue.  Like a distracting/ annoying amount of it.