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The Last TV Show/Episode You Watched... (quick one or two sentence reviews)

House of Dragon S3E7…
Idiom rules, character and peril engage, on point acting…gynaecology diagrams etc would be useful, but this just shines a light on how awful GoT S7/8 were and how little it would have taken to nail it.
Idiom
Character consistency
Less vfx, more human drama.

Sigh!
 
Umbrella Academy has to be the worst drop-off any show has experienced since Heroes.
Watching Season 4 was just depressing.

I also finished watching Smallville for the 3rd or 4th time recently. That's a very rocky show, but worth watching, imo.
It's a shame you can't just say "skip this season" or "skip this storyline" you kind of have to take the good with the bad.
 
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Oh no, I haven't started the new season yet. Is it really that bad?
 
asterixsmeagol said:
Oh no, I haven't started the new season yet. Is it really that bad?
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It might be a matter of opinion.
I loved S1, didn't hate S2, hated S3, and despised S4.

The whole time I was just reminded of how much better this was done in S1, or how much cooler that character was in the beginning.
The later seasons of Heroes are what I would compare it to, but milage may vary.
 
WilliamRedRobin said:
It might be a matter of opinion.
I loved S1, didn't hate S2, hated S3, and despised S4.
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That's a real shame, I really liked parts of seasons 1 and 2, I was looking forward to 3 but kept forgetting to check it out. I didn't even realize there was a season 4 lol
 
Baby Reindeer (2024)
I really loved it. Great performances, cinematography, editing & music.
Obviously comes from a very personal place what with the writer of this true story taking on the role of himself himself.
Amazing.
 
Six feet Under : Not into serial drama much, but I'm enjoying it so far, I'm in season 2 and the dad is by far my favorite character even tho he's just a hallucination.

The Penguin episode 1: Yeah, that was good, at least this one doesn't look like a noir film parody and is not shying away from profanity and violence. It's pretty much a hard-boiled classic crime story in all its glory.
 
DirtyCop1036 said:
Six feet Under : Not into serial drama much, but I'm enjoying it so far, I'm in season 2 and the dad is by far my favorite character even tho he's just a hallucination.

The Penguin episode 1: Yeah, that was good, at least this one doesn't look like a noir film parody and is not shying away from profanity and violence. It's pretty much a hard-boiled classic crime story in all its glory.
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I loved Six Feet Under when it was on. I wonder how it holds up. It’s still easily a top five series finale for me.
 
Moe_Syzlak said:
I loved Six Feet Under when it was on. I wonder how it holds up. It’s still easily a top five series finale for me.
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For someone who never watched a single episode until a couple weeks ago, I can say for sure that it holds up pretty damn well. It reminds me a lot of American Beauty, in the atmosphere, the humor and even the music.
 
DirtyCop1036 said:
For someone who never watched a single episode until a couple weeks ago, I can say for sure that it holds up pretty damn well. It reminds me a lot of American Beauty, in the atmosphere, the humor and even the music.
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I assume you know that the show’s creator, Alan Ball, also wrote the screenplay for American Beauty. That’s part of the reason I asked if it holds up as American Beauty has not held up as well.
 
Finished two shows yesterday.

A Gentleman in Moscow. I loved the novel but was skeptical it could retain the things I loved about it on the screen. Thankfully they really didn’t try to replicate those things. It’s its own thing really and I quite enjoyed it. Ewan is great as is much of the supporting cast. The only gripe would be it feels overly long. It could’ve been two episodes shorter IMO.

The Diplomat s2. This is a show I watch with my better half. We enjoy it and Keri Russell and Rufus Sewell are fun to watch together. I wish we had more of them together frankly. This season upped the ante on some already outrageous twists which strained our good will for the show. For us, it works best on a personal level and the intrigue has gotten a bit much. Side note it was great to see Allison Janney back in The West Wing mode.
 
Moe_Syzlak said:
This season upped the ante on some already outrageous twists which strained our good will for the show.
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Yeah the first season was really enjoyable up until the last episode or two where they took a sharp turn into a completely different genre that I felt the same way about. It was a weird directorial choice and it sounds like s2 continues that theme unfortunately.
 
Moe_Syzlak said:
Finished two shows yesterday.

A Gentleman in Moscow. I loved the novel but was skeptical it could retain the things I loved about it on the screen. Thankfully they really didn’t try to replicate those things. It’s its own thing really and I quite enjoyed it. Ewan is great as is much of the supporting cast. The only gripe would be it feels overly long. It could’ve been two episodes shorter IMO.

The Diplomat s2. This is a show I watch with my better half. We enjoy it and Keri Russell and Rufus Sewell are fun to watch together. I wish we had more of them together frankly. This season upped the ante on some already outrageous twists which strained our good will for the show. For us, it works best on a personal level and the intrigue has gotten a bit much. Side note it was great to see Allison Janney back in The West Wing mode.
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The combination of those two shows sounds like coincidence to me. I haven't seen them, but just by what you wrote, it makes me think of The Americans where Keri Russell plays a soviet spy!

It was a good series, better after season one which has episodes more like "vilain of the week" type episodes. I was also hoping for a bit more tension with their FBI agent neighbor, but over all, it was a good time in this 80s era, end of the Cold war series!
 
daedal said:
The combination of those two shows sounds like coincidence to me. I haven't seen them, but just by what you wrote, it makes me think of The Americans where Keri Russell plays a soviet spy!

It was a good series, better after season one which has episodes more like "vilain of the week" type episodes. I was also hoping for a bit more tension with their FBI agent neighbor, but over all, it was a good time in this 80s era, end of the Cold war series!
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Yeah I loved The Americans. Neither above show much reminds me of it though, even with Russell in the latter.
 
Jrzag42 said:
I'm on the last episode of season 2 of Titans. I'm really loving this show, which is surprising after l've only heard bad things about it.
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Season one and two are great. It was cancelled and brought back and a lot of people didn't like the shift to focus on new characters in 3. I just got a little bored with it, which is a shame because again, one and two are great. IMO.

Shoot I just realized you said Titans and not Young Justice lol
 
Moe_Syzlak said:
A Gentleman in Moscow. I loved the novel but was skeptical it could retain the things I loved about it on the screen. Thankfully they really didn’t try to replicate those things. It’s its own thing really and I quite enjoyed it. Ewan is great as is much of the supporting cast. The only gripe would be it feels overly long. It could’ve been two episodes shorter
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I'm watching right now too, but I still have two episodes to go. Really enjoying it as well, especially McGregor.
 
No, but I'm watching with my wife who has. And I did vist the hotel in 2018.
 
Finished the show last night. I did enjoy it, but I didn't really know what to make of the last scene. I thought the camera walking around through their dacha and the surrounding land was meant to be a first-person view of a KGB agent coming to kill them, my wife thought it was just artistic cinemetography. As I said, she did read the book so I'm inclined to accept her interpretation, but she also said after that scene that she wasn't 100% sure how it ended because she read it when it was brand new.
 
asterixsmeagol said:
Finished the show last night. I did enjoy it, but I didn't really know what to make of the last scene. I thought the camera walking around through their dacha and the surrounding land was meant to be a first-person view of a KGB agent coming to kill them, my wife thought it was just artistic cinemetography. As I said, she did read the book so I'm inclined to accept her interpretation, but she also said after that scene that she wasn't 100% sure how it ended because she read it when it was brand new.
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I thought it was intended to be Sophia imagining them in Finland or maybe even Rostov’s childhood home. later in life, hopeful that they lived out their days together happily but not really knowing.

FYI the ending of the novel is ambiguous as well.
 
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