What series should I watch next?

Disclaimer, on Apple TV.  Loved it 

jeffl said:

My favorite series of the year  

yahooyahoo said:

The Diplomat is very good. Just finished season 2.

I had to re watch Season 1 because I did not remember what happened and then I binge watched Season 2.  The characters, suspense, pace and general dialog are fantastic.  The foreign policy details are absurd, and sometimes annoying fantasy, but it is still a good fictional story. I'm looking forward to Season 3.

Based on reviews, I'm almost done with first season of "Blue Lights," a cop show that takes place in Belfast N Ireland.  Very well reviewed and quite good. I got a one week free trial of Britbox to watch it but discovered that it's also on Kanopy.  BTW I find that the general search function on the home page of TV is not reliable.  It may say that a show or movie is only on X channel but if you go into a particular channel, like Kanopy, and search there, you sometimes find the show or movie you're looking for.  

Very strange series, The Leftovers watching it as one of the rerun series on HBO.

Cults, the Rapture, Armageddon, I resisted but like any good cult and its adversaries I got sucked in. 

Based on novel by NJ novelist Tom Perrotta, who also wrote Election and Little Children, both made into movies.

bub said:

Based on novel by NJ novelist Tom Perrotta, who also wrote Election and Little Children, both made into movies.

Did you ever see the series? Some excellent actors. It left me with unanswered questions, but I did miss a few episodes.  Still have the feeling that it was deliberately mysterious to the end.

Severance Season Two starts on Friday and got a great review in the NYT.  

jeffl said:

Severance Season Two starts on Friday and got a great review in the NYT.  

I didn't watch Season 1 of this, but I'm aware of the premise. Should I watch Season 1 before starting on Season 2?

I've struggled to start Severance for some reason.  My wife just mentioned that we should do so.  I've heard nothing but good things.

Reiterating my praise for the Brit cop show Blue Lights. The last episode of season 1 was truly fine TV and almost brought me to tears.  Only 6 episodes.

bub said:

Reiterating my praise for the Brit cop show Blue Lights. The last episode of season 1 was truly fine TV and almost brought me to tears.  Only 6 episodes.

Where is it streaming? 

Streaming on Britbox, which you can get a 7 day free trial for, and also on Kanopy.  Per my earlier comment, you cannot trust the general search engine for all channels.  You wouldn't know it was on Kanopy unless you search in Kanopy.  I'm not the only softy about the finale:

https://www.thesun.co.uk/tv/28043481/blue-lights-finale-bbc-drama-future/

The_Soulful_Mr_T said:

jeffl said:

Severance Season Two starts on Friday and got a great review in the NYT.  

I didn't watch Season 1 of this, but I'm aware of the premise. Should I watch Season 1 before starting on Season 2?

absolutely. 

Totally recommend Presumed Innocent on AppleTV.

Morganna said:

Starting a new series on Showtime, The Agency. It stars Richard Gere, so his talent plus my fascination with CIA cloak and dagger themes made me consider it worth a look. So far it looks interesting, 3 episodes in.

Anyone checking it out?

The season finale comes out Friday. The show is well produced and well acted.  A bit slow at times, but I'm eager to see how the story lines progress in the last episode.

I loved it too  

rcarter31 said:

Totally recommend Presumed Innocent on AppleTV.

Just started Lockerbie: A Search For Truth on Peacock.

Intense first episode!

For 4 days I've followed the dark path of True Detectives. 4 excellent seasons on HBO produced by Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson.

I recently started re-watching 'Northern Exposure,' forgot what a wonderful show it was, quite timeless.... some of the best prime-time TV ever made...

paulserr said:

I recently started re-watching 'Northern Exposure,' forgot what a wonderful show it was, quite timeless.... some of the best prime-time TV ever made...

If you loved Northern Exposure for its quirky characters and small-town charm, you’ve gotta check out Everwood. It’s got that same heartfelt vibe but with a bit more family drama

We just finished Severance first season ( binged in a few days)

It’s weird for sure.  But it gets really good. The last two episodes were great.

Gonna let season two accumulate more so I’m not chomping at the bit to watch it every week ( I’m already chomping)

I loved it!

Watched the first 3 episodes of PARADISE last night, on Hulu. Sterling K. Brown, Julianne Nicholson, James Marsden. Sort of an espionage/futurist mashup. So far, I'm liking it  a lot.  Next episode drops Tuesday.  

The_Soulful_Mr_T said:

Watched the first 3 episodes of PARADISE last night, on Hulu. Sterling K. Brown, Julianne Nicholson, James Marsden. Sort of an espionage/futurist mashup. So far, I'm liking it  a lot.  Next episode drops Tuesday.  

While waiting for the next episode of PARADISE to drop, I started watching NOBODY WANTS THIS, a 10-episode Romcom on Netflix staring Kristen Bell as a Waspy podcaster who falls for a handsome young rabbi. Laughs ensue. Very short episodes and fun. (Man, she looks good.)

My wife and I watched season one and found it mostly amusing, with some subtleties and a few stereotyped characters.  I'm sure we will give season 2 a whirl when it comes out.

The_Soulful_Mr_T said:

While waiting for the next episode of PARADISE to drop, I started watching NOBODY WANTS THIS, a 10-episode Romcom on Netflix staring Kristen Bell as a Waspy podcaster who falls for a handsome young rabbi. Laughs ensue. Very short episodes and fun. (Man, she looks good.)

The_Soulful_Mr_T said:

Anyone watching The Sticky? With Margo Martindale? I'm just 2 epis in and I like it. I think it's like Twin Peaks meets Fargo meets The Sopranos.  I love Margo M. In this, she really lets her inner demons fly.  I'll watch more. 

I knew someone had mentioned The Sticky. We watched it last weekend and now I'm bummed we have to wait so long (if it's renewed) to find out what they come up with next.

I also saw The Jackal recently. Mrs Ski loved it, but I found by the end of ep. 2 I couldn't care less if the pro- and/or antagonist lived or died - in fact I was kind of rooting for them both to meet their makers Final Destination style. They also had a habit of cutting away from someone in imminent danger and in the next shot everything's fine and they never explain how that person is still alive or how they got there. 

It was such an infuriating show that I immediately chose to watch season two of The Rig, which is complete bollocks and has some of the worst performances by some of Britain and Canada's finest actors, a plot written by a 13 year-old, and what looks like half the budget of season 1, but damn it I really really like oil rigs.

Last night binged the first 3 episodes of Zero Day on Netflix with Robert DeNiro, Jesse Plemmons, Connie Britton, Joan Allen, Dan Stevens (Downton Abbey), Matthew Modine and Angela Bassett as the President. 

DeNiro plays a former President who is called upon to lead a team investigating a major cyber-attack. Fun fun, fun!

The_Soulful_Mr_T said:

Last night binged the first 3 episodes of Zero Day on Netflix with Robert DeNiro, Jesse Plemmons, Connie Britton, Joan Allen, Dan Stevens (Downton Abbey), Matthew Modine and Angela Bassett as the President. 

DeNiro plays a former President who is called upon to lead a team investigating a major cyber-attack. Fun fun, fun!

OK now I'll have to get Netflix

I just started watching The Pacific produced by Tom Hanks.  It follows the 1st Marine Division through the Pacific in WW 2.  Very powerful movie which, more than a lot of war movies, drives home the awfulness of what those men went through.

We're enjoying Running Point on Netflix with Kate Hudson.  Mindy Kaling is behind it and any sitcom with her involved has been pretty good.

Morganna said:

The_Soulful_Mr_T said:

Last night binged the first 3 episodes of Zero Day on Netflix with Robert DeNiro, Jesse Plemmons, Connie Britton, Joan Allen, Dan Stevens (Downton Abbey), Matthew Modine and Angela Bassett as the President. 

DeNiro plays a former President who is called upon to lead a team investigating a major cyber-attack. Fun fun, fun!

OK now I'll have to get Netflix

Finished Zero Day over the weekend. If you like government intrigue, corruption and espionage (which I like ONLY on TV!) and you resist multi-season shows, this is a nice, tight, 6-episode drama. Some tense cliffhangers and good acting.  I thought it was great. 

Borgen on Netflix — for political junkies — amazing 3 seasons set in Copenhagen . 

To my amazement, shortly after posting this last evening, I found a 2022 continuation of this series which had been set in a time frame about 12 years earlier. What fun to find the actors, aged, and still working in Danish politics — children grown up, etc.  

interesting — and timely — that Greenland is front and center in this new series, because of its rich store of precious minerals , and as it is a protectorate of Denmark!

There was promise made in the first episode I watched — beautifully filmed on  location — as was the earlier program in Europe— was whale-watching ahead!