TV Show Discussion Thread

Quite slowly making my way through New Dr. Who since I’ve found it to be on Amazon Prime Video. (Hoping to get to the Capaldi era one day which I’ve never seen)

Just watched the special that first introduces David Tennant.

Gosh, David Tennant is such a handsome man.
It sucks that his character is basically stuck in a coma for 2/3rds of the episode, (I forgot that bit!) but when he gets back on his feet in the last 20 minutes, boy does he love to chew the scenery, ramble, and discover who he is as a new man.
Mmmm mm, my favourite Doctor indeed… :blush:

(I do quite hate the whole Rose/Doctor romantic tension in the show. I forget if it happens much in Tennant’s era, but to me it just feels really weird whenever it was teased in Eccleston’s.)

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The new season of Drive to Survive is out. We’re on episode 2 and it’s already clear it’ll be the most entertaining so far.

Way more behind the scenes than previous years plus everyone is more comfortable in front of the cameras.

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Another game series I’m not into but this actually doesn’'t look bad. :ok_hand:

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I´m a simple man. I see Walton Goggins in a Western-ish role, I´m in.

(Also I do like Fallout, but don´t have any expectations here)

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Snowpiercer Season 4 is finally coming out in 2025! Better late than never!

For context, Season 4 was ordered all the way back in July 2021 before the third season had even aired. However, in January 2023 it was announced that TNT had decided to not air the season since they were stopping with original scripted programming. The kicker? The fourth season had been filmed, had post-production completed, and was essentially totally finished and ready to go. And in the 14 months since then, there’s been pretty much no news, and given how nobody even picked it up during the writers strike when there was a drought of new programs I had lost all hope of it seeing the light of day. But it finally will!

Will it be good? I don’t know, but I do think it will be enjoyable. It’s got Daveed Diggs, Jennifer Connelly, and the Undying himself Sean Bean plus a good supporting cast. First season was really solid, second and third were okay, but the premise of the show is so cool it makes up for other lacking areas: A world frozen over with only a train full of a few thousand people as the only survivors, endlessly circling round the globe. Plus the set designs are just amazing!

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House of the Dragon Season 2 has gotten a premiere date of June 16! And they’ve released two trailers to promote it, one for the Greens supporting Aegon II and one for the Blacks who support the rightful Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen!

Season 2’s gonna be a lot more action-packed than Season 1 now that the Dance of the Dragons is on in full!

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I found myself really liking this show, despite some glaring instances of “plot armor make this character invincible right now.”

It certainly was better than any GOT past season 4. Really it was better than it had any right to be.

But be wary, HBO! You will not keep striking gold if you keep going to this Thrones material for 4, 5 different shows…

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HOTD Season 1 was super impactful for me. After the absolute travesty that was GOT Season 8 I had no hope of any Planetos-based show being any good. However, HOTD really reinvigorated my hope.

A series based on the Dunk & Egg novellas is also ordered and entering production. That could be solid, at least for the first three seasons which have published stories to be based on. Plus its first season can help tide me over since it likely won’t be till 2026 we get HOTD Season 3.

However, I think two shows being made is plenty and none of the other rumored shows seem that interesting to me. An Aegon’s Conquest show? It wasn’t that difficult or long, maybe it could be a miniseries but that’s it. A Jon Snow sequel show? Please don’t remind me of GOT’s ending. A show based on Princess Nymeria set 700 years before the Conquest? Why?

Of course, if a certain author got to doing more writing we might even get a proper adaptation of ASOIAF one day!

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X-Men 97.

Unironically and hands down the best thing Disney has produced from the Marvel Mines. Only three episodes are released, but it continues the Marvel Animated Universe from the 90’s.

It’s fun, engaging, mature in some areas. And as someone who isn’t big on Marvel I’m enjoying every bit of it.

Plus the updated intro is fun to watch too.

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Season 2 of the excellent Interview with the Vampire starts May 12. :smiley:

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Season 2? That is one long ass interview.

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Recently I went through and watched Hazbin Hotel. I really enjoyed it. I don’t usually like many adult cartoon shows but something about it got me into it. I thought the story was good and enjoyed the songs. Something I really liked was the art style. Many of the character designs I thought were really unique and cool.

Lots of the characters also had fancy suits & top hats :eyes:

Which uhh… I like lol

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On the Star Trek front, while Star Trek: Discovery is now currently airing its fifth and final season, Paramount have announced that Lower Decks fifth season will also be its last when it airs later this year. Discovery kicked off Trek’s current TV era and at one point Paramount had 5 Trek shows airing, with Discovery, Picard, Lower Decks, Prodigy, and Strange New Worlds, debuting in that order. With Discovery and Lower Decks ending this year, Picard having already ended, and Prodigy in the hands of Netflix now, it does seem like this era has quietly comes to an end, the “Discovery era” has ended whilst the new era shall be the “Strange New Worlds” era, as SNW is filming its 3rd season and will get a 4th season.

In many respects, the streaming era of Trek is a testament to Paramount’s hubris. They wanted Trek to be this big tentpole franchise for the streaming, clearly a mirror to something like Disney+'s constant Star Wars content. But Trek, arguably, has never been a franchise as big as Star Wars despite its large impact on culture. Most of the movies have never done massive numbers, and while Trek would enjoy a 16 year continuous run through the last '80s to the mid-2000s with The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and Enterprise. But even then, only 2 shows at most were airing at the same time (Deep Space Nine would air at the end of TNG’s run and most of Voyager’s run.) So to think that they could have 5 shows going at the same time, even with different styles and demographic targets, was just pure hubris.

Still, I really enjoyed Lower Decks, it has been running strong. I’m hopeful the Season 5 finale can be a good send off, the showrunner for Lower Decks had said previously he had hoped for more seasons but that it would be up to Paramount, so I’m hoping they were at least given time to prepare for a series finale, rather than it just be a season finale. I’m not really keeping up with Star Wars content but considering from what I know that Star Wars animated shows have had continuity and characters appear with each other and even in live action, hopefully this won’t be the end of the Lower Decks characters. I’d love to see what happens to Boimler and co in the future, see if they ever make captain in the future.

Still, this isn’t the end of Star Trek by any means. On Paramount’s end, the next big thing is the Section 31 TV movie starring Michelle Yeoh. I guess we’ll see how that pans out, it’s actually a first for Trek to get a TV movie like this (barring times where 2 TV episodes were aired together as a 90 minute movie in the past.) One of movies or mini-series could be the way forward to emulate something like Picard’s success without the commitment of a new series, and now that Trek has such a wealth of a material to pull from, with so many characters and settings and the like, it could be a good way forward. How about an Enterprise reunion?

Besides Section 31, Strange New Worlds will continue on with Seasons 3 and 4, and for all intents and purposes, will be the “main” Trek show of Paramount. I’m enjoying SNW a lot, it’s fun, it can be serious, and it’s not afraid to be a bit experimental, so I hope the show gets a long future. Finally we know that there is Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, which is in pre-production and will start being filmed soon. From what little we know, it sounds like it will follow Starfleet cadets as they are trained into becoming Starfleet’s best, aimed at teens and young adults. I don’t know, seems a bit weird to do this after both Prodigy and Lower Decks focus on characters who are essentially being taught how to be Starfleet, and how much excitement can academy life be without being a sci-fi soap opera?

The final Trek is Prodigy which is in the hands of Netflix now after Paramount dropped it. Season 2 actually aired in France through another distributor due to some kind of weird legal deal and miscommunication. Netflix themselves are still yet to announce a date when they will start airing Season 2, and whether or not they will greenlight a Season 3. Hopefully not too much longer, and we can only hope Prodigy gets the numbers it needs to keep going. Prodigy Season 1 is really great, definetly not just a “kid’s show”, a great introduction to Trek for anyone, and if Season 2 can build upon the first, it should really excel.

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“Why worry about something that isn’t going to happen?”

We just finished HBO’s Chernobyl, the fantastic, heavy drama series written by Craig Mazin, the guy who would go on to write the TV adaptation of The Last of Us.

What a fantastic series.

It really conveys the feeling of dread, confusion, and shock that so many people involved and not involved in the reactor explosion felt, from the first moment of that event, to the final note about the investigation thereafter.

While I’m sure there are a number of innacuracies or exaggerations made to increase drama, tension or pacing in the series, it’s a pretty damning series for the Soviet Union, as it portrays them to always need to protect their own interests, even if it’s something the public ought to know.
A lot of the tension in the show stems from that abuse of power used to cover up truths to hide potential faults.

The main trio, essentially, Jared Harris, Stellan Skarsgard, and Emily Watson do a wonderful job as a somewhat dysfunctional group that eventually finds their way together and rallies to bring to light what happened at Chernobyl Power Plant.
I especially enjoyed Stellan’s character Boris Scherbina for his character arc throughout the mini-series.

You’ve probably heard it from many other reviews, but yes, I highly reccomend it. Great 5-episode mini-series with a fantastic cast and production behind it.

(Side-note: the opening episode to this series, and the pre-pandemic sections of TLOU series really make me want Craig Mazin to write a whole story about the unravelling of civilization in its real-time early hours. Chernobyl isn’t quite “end of the world” - though it can certainly feel like it - and in both cases, the tension is palpable, the cut-aways to people nowhere near the disaster are chilling, and it’s extremely nail-biting.)

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Didn’t finished yet, but I’m on episode 3 of the new Fallout show, must say, this years’ game awards show has a winner for the adaptation category.

Hopefully there will be more adaptations to add to the list.

The Borderlands adaptation looks questionable but honestly Kevin Hart is a very skilled comedian so surely it’ll be a fun watch.

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I have no clue about the quality of the Borderlands movie. I’m not expecting it to be great only because it’s just something I don’t see well translating into a movie.

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The trailer dropped like a month ago, sadly enough, they seem to have done everything correctly but it’s still not working, will watch it but I know that at best it’ll be a fun watch, it’ll end up like Jumanji, cringe but fun.

in case you like the nerdish deatils:

Last week we started re-watching the Wire. I forgot just how much I enjoyed that show. We’re burning through it. We’re mid way through season 3 already. Dominic West and Idris Elba are so believable, but really all the roles are perfectly cast. Even the little roles all seem to just work. I’m sure the excellent writing helps. If you’ve never seen it you should add it to your list.

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Fallout,

It seems like Todd Howard finally got a win under his belt after the mixed reception of Starfield. Fallout is the newest entry in the Post Apocalyptic Multi Media Franchise.

Funnily enough I didn’t really care that the series was gonna be adapted into a television series. I actually thought the adaptation was gonna be mediocre at best. Fortunately I was wrong.

Fallout is a show that doesn’t follow the by the numbers writing conventions of modern television and film. It has a story it wants to tell and it follows through with it. The three leads are enjoyable with them each bring their own unique personality to the table all with some degree of character development. The humor is dark and the show is just as violent as the games.

One critique I do have for the show is how it does rely on member berries so having knowledge of the series prior to this show does feel necessary to get the most out of it since it is canon to the games this is particularly true with the ending of season one where a specific iconic locale is shown and you will only understand the direction the series is heading if you played the games, Fortunately though anyone and everyone can watch the show and enjoy it. Even my own grandmother watched it.

A critique I disagree with is how people complained the wasteland is too lush. To that I say this explanation needs prior knowledge of the games to understand that despite nuclear fallout happening it didn’t completely wipe all foliage off the earth. It’s why Zion Valley and Virginia have plenty of foliage.

So yea fallout is good.

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