#1605 January 11, 2022, 12:17:00 PM Last Edit: January 11, 2022, 12:48:16 PM by jobrok1
Quote from: StoutAndAle on January 11, 2022, 09:11:23 AM
Watched "Superstore" on Netflix over Christmas. In the vein of "The Office" and "Parks & Recreation" - not as great as either of those at their peak - but after an average first season, it gets really good.
My yung'uns blitzed through this recently, as well.
Funny enough, safe humour.

They tore through Brooklyn 99 on Netflix also.
Youngest fella loves it. Rewatches episodes the whole time.

Modern Family and Malcolm In The Middle (untouchable) are other ones they go back to regularly.

Young Sheldon is their current flavour of the month.

Dexter New Blood. As ridiculous as ever but entertaining nonetheless.

Have finally gotten around to starting The Expanse. Only 3 eps in. Good so far, great in places, and you can feel it's picking up momentum nice and slowly.

I need to get back to that. Loved the first couple of seasons, got distracted a few episodes into season 4 and forgot about it. Great stuff though.

Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on January 13, 2022, 11:07:01 PM
Have finally gotten around to starting The Expanse. Only 3 eps in. Good so far, great in places, and you can feel it's picking up momentum nice and slowly.

First 5 or 6 episodes are slow world building then it kicks off. Fantastic show.

Started only murders in the building. New Steve Martin comedy on Disney. Seems decent, light entertainment really with a few laughs.

Quote from: Necro Red on January 14, 2022, 10:12:40 AM
Started only murders in the building. New Steve Martin comedy on Disney. Seems decent, light entertainment really with a few laughs.

Gets better as it goes on. Martin and Short are brilliant in it.

Watched the first episode but wasn't greatly impressed. Then I remembered I don't find Steve Martin funny.

He isn't funny. At all.

Quote from: Carnage on January 11, 2022, 12:05:21 PM
She was brilliant alright (she always is) but it wasn't great overall IMO. Very irritating format, slipping in and out of reality, and the characters moving from one set to another was just jarring.

Aye, and the tone if it too. The main cop being so brash and ott,  then next scene the couple are just being a lovely and quaint.

Quote from: Makeshiftatomsmasher on January 14, 2022, 01:28:43 PM
Quote from: Carnage on January 11, 2022, 12:05:21 PM
She was brilliant alright (she always is) but it wasn't great overall IMO. Very irritating format, slipping in and out of reality, and the characters moving from one set to another was just jarring.

Aye, and the tone if it too. The main cop being so brash and ott,  then next scene the couple are just being a lovely and quaint.
I quite liked it for that. Made it stand out from the usual murder documentary drama series. Although I can see why it might be a bit jarring. The brother recommended it to me and told me to watch out for it so was something I was expecting

New After Life. Enjoyed the first 2 seasons but they should've left it at that. Laughs are thin on the ground.

Watched the first episode of the new series last night, just out of boredom as I could take or leave the previous two series, but yeah, it's all a bit genteel really. If it wasn't for the odd utterance of "cunt", you may as well be watching an episode of Last of the Summer Wine. I really think Gervais is lost without Merchant.

Season 4 of El Marginal coming out Wednesday  :abbath:

Watched the first two seasons of that waaay back when I had an Argentinian girlfriend who introduced me to it , thought it was class, I watched a bit of the third one and it seemed to lose the plot a bit. Might give it another go if I'm at a loose end.