TV: What TV series are you currently watching/recently watched?

[Osprey]

I started watching Teacup, Peacock's new supernatural horror mystery. It's about something mysterious and unnatural threatening a couple of rancher families and it's... OK. It feels like the lower budget show that it is, with writing, directing and acting that aren't bad, but a clear step down from much better shows on other streaming services. The writing is very mystery box based, like Lost or Dark. Halfway through, there are still many more questions than answers. I thought that there'd be more horror, based on the reviews that I read. It's mostly just supernatural mystery. It still hasn't really hooked me, but I'll finish it. It helps that most of the episodes are only 30 minutes.

Edit: The second half of the series has been boring. Even with the short episodes and 5-hour total series runtime, it's dragging and taking me a while to finish. I can't recommend it unless you have nothing better to watch.

 

[Jack Straw]

 

[DaaaaB's]

Still working my way through Lost, over halfway through season 4 now. This season hasn't been as good but still enjoying. I find it funny how often characters go strolling through the jungle by themselves or in a very small group despite they're being a deadly smoke monster, deadly booby traps, polar bears and hostile natives out there. Fun show to watch though. I'm glad I'm able to binge it as opposed waiting week to week. All the cliffhangers would've drove me crazy.

 

[Jovavic]

Still working my way through Lost, over halfway through season 4 now. This season hasn't been as good but still enjoying. I find it funny how often characters go strolling through the jungle by themselves or in a very small group despite they're being a deadly smoke monster, deadly booby traps, polar bears and hostile natives out there. Fun show to watch though. I'm glad I'm able to binge it as opposed waiting week to week. All the cliffhangers would've drove me crazy.

Watching Lost as it aired was incredibly frustrating, they'd air an episode then the next one was two weeks away, it finally airs then you gotta wait three weeks for the next.

 

[DaaaaB's]

Watching Lost as it aired was incredibly frustrating, they'd air an episode then the next one was two weeks away, it finally airs then you gotta wait three weeks for the next.

Oh yeah that would've been annoying. Especially when they're only 40 minute episodes that sometimes don't even touch on the cliffhanger from the previous episode. That being said, I do kind of like the shorter episode length as it really lets me zip through them versus most shows that I watch which are hour long episodes. Of course, there's advantages to having longer episodes as well.

 

[kingsfan28]

I just rewatched the OG Battlestar Galactica. and I can now see why Lucas and Star Wars were pissed

He was just pissed at John Dykstra for being a producer and using the cameras techniques he in invented [including the camera rigs], that Lucasfilm paid for on Star Wars. Lucasfilm tried to sue for plagiarism but lost [then settled later ], which is pretty funny when you look at how much Lucas "borrowed" from other movies . Watch the end of the 1955 movie "The Dam Busters", the SW trench run is an almost shot by shot recreation from that movie, including direct quotes.

 

[Babe Ruth]

I watched the first two episodes of NBC's St Denis Medical..
It's basically 'Superstore' transferred from a retail store to an emergency room. And they even brought some of the old Cloud 9 employees (the actress who played Sandra, and the demented pharmacist).
Typical workplace humor. First episodes weren't bad. I'll probably keep watching.

 

[hoglund]

I've been watching the reboot of Frasier, I'm almost done the 2nd season and just found out that there will be no 3rd season.

 

[kingsfan28]

Been watching The Jackel on Peacock. It's quite good, Eddie Redmayne captures the essence of the assassin for hire from the book and 1973 movie really well. Looking forward to more episodes.