Television, drug of the nation

Just did Severance again. Even better the second time around. Still had me hooked despite knowing exactly what happened. So so good.

Think we may do this too!

Slightly late to the party again (though not as much as usual) but the Halo TV series is surprisingly good. I mean, it is what it is but I only put it on to have something in the background while I did some tedious chores, thinking I'd be lucky even to stand it, and that was a fail because I just watched it instead.

I liked it quite a bit, but I'm a halo fan.

I played a few hours of it in total years ago, know almost nothing about it and I liked the show.

It's that time again, I'm here to tell anyone who might listen that Wu Tang: an american saga is still some of the best tv in recent years.

Really enjoying the man who fell to earth, somehow managed to skip ep1 but 3 left and quite into it.

The Devils Hour on Amazon.

Proper creepy, stunning acting, would recommend.

This was a fucking banger.

I'd seen zero advertising for this show, I only found it because it was at the end of the list of suggested shows to download on Prime. I was just scrolling through in case there was something I'd missed when I was downloading a few things to watch on the plane, and as it was Peter Capaldi on the thumbnail I thought I'd take a look. Showed up as 100% on Rotten Tomatoes.

It was gripping, intense at times, and a bit scary/horror film-esque without the jump scare bullshit.

Anybody watched Fleishman Is in Trouble? It really surprised me how good it is, it starts of as one thing and then turns into something else.

Watched the first episode the other day and thought wow fuck that's deep - then realized what I did in fact watch was the season finale 💁🏼

Anyone else obsessed with Physical 100 on netflix?

Would love a UK version with the likes of Max Whitlock, Tom Stoltman, Jack Carlin, Lewis Hamilton and some Instagram CrossFit bros going head to head in mad physical challenges.

Yeah really into it atm (Physical 100)

The dubbing makes it.

Is it not a scripted thing?

There's dubbing? I've been watching with subtitles.

Doesn't feel scripted to me. And of course the challenges would be hard to fake. I saw that the show got a bit of slack for one of the male vs female fights.

I tried to watch it but 15 minutes in and it’s still hyping itself without anything happening, I gave up

The first episode is a drag, it's just the contestants walking in one by one and checking each other out. Could just jump to half way through tbh

Yes DS9 is good. Has a great ark over the seasons, but, Babylon 5 is better.

An old rivalry I know.

I recall watching B5 on Ch4 in the day. Recall that at the end of the final season, around xmas I think, Ch4 messed around with broadcast times, so many fans missed the last or penultimate episode after 5 years invested in this series and then there was no catch up tv.

I recorded all the eps on VHS at the time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpb1OXvNNMc

You'll need to persevere as some dodgy episodes in S1. Then it becomes amazing

Physical 100 has a track racer in it. Think he competes in keirin races

Jung Hae-min

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There's dubbing? I've been watching with subtitles.

They dub the English / Americans too. It's amazing.

Wow, Miracle speaks Korean like 99% of the time anyways. I think it's just Dustin Nippert that is like half speaking English.

Started watching Alaska Daily on Disney and it's predictably twee, but there was a character in this week's episode called Brandon Block, which got me wondering if there are any other TV shows featuring 90s house DJs.

Started watching Fleishman Is in Trouble last night. Only 2 episodes in but enjoyable so far and keen to see how it progresses.

B5 went much, much darker than DS9, right from the start. But it's still a silly (and occasionally tiresomely whimsical) SF show; like all of them, you have to decide to set aside some critical objections to get into it.

That said, most Star Trek shows feel to me as if they were designed by focus groups. They also have a syrupy way of raising and solving difficult social issues in a single episode, with a few obvious bad guys and everyone else the absolute good. Wesley Crusher: "Mom, why did people used to take drugs?" Fuck off and die, Wesley. DS9 was still mostly like that, even if a bit better than usual. I'll take the show where fascists have taken over the government, genocidal murderers can get a pass if their research is useful and rogue federal agencies are selling drugs for their own purposes.