The best Star Trek movie ever made was Galaxy Quest and the best Star Trek show ever made is The Orville.

I say this having never watched Star Trek in any form, but Galaxy Quest and The Orville are damn good, so I stand by my wild assumption.

 

Was coming here to second this recommendation. Superb drama. I was surprised by how well they nailed Russian atmosphere and demeanor while having all the dialogue be in English with non-Russian actors. Usually doesn't work all that well. Only two of the 5 episodes currently available, but I was fully on the edge of my seat within the first 15-20 minutes or so of the first one, Grew steadily more entranced/horrified as it continued on.

 

What in actual tarnation

 

Anyone seen Killing Eve? Sandra Oh's facial expressions are almost another character of their own, haha. She's brilliant. Also, killer soundtrack.

I dislike the husband sidestory, and wish she'd been single or something. It doesn't really add much to the story, and just makes me feel bad for both of them. If I wanted that, I'd rewatch Blue Valentine, but oh well, it's not too much of an issue. Amidst all the terrifying shit, Killing Eve manages to be quite funny.

Just started season two of Barry. I stopped at the start of the first episode a few weeks ago, but I'm glad I picked it up again. Not sure if I'm forgetting something, but Barry seemed erratic in episode 1.

 

Chernobyl is absolutely fantastic, can't recommend the series strongly enough. I was only 1 years old when it happened but my mom still recalls the fear about what foods were safe to feed me and my 2 year older brother in Sweden after the radioactive cloud came over us. Only last year a hunter shot a boar about an hour north of Stockholm that had over 39 000 Bq/kg, for reference its only safe to eat things under 1500 Bq/kg. Pretty crazy shit.

 

Watching bodyguard gave me PTSD. While camera takes and the so was done pretty good it does trigger people after a while

 

Amazon prime

 

Only if you're not in the US or Canada.

 

So, not sure if anyone was watching it, but the Lethal Weapon TV series got cancelled. It's a shame as well since the first two season were really great and even fans of the original movie liked it. Unfortunately, Wayans just had to go and ruin a great thing. Sean William Scott gave it his all and if the show had started out with him and Wayans then it would have been okay but Clawford's absence probably turned away a majority of the fanbase. Wayan's family scenes were genuinely boring to watch as it just seemed so generic while SWS's family scenes were, for the most part, acceptable to view and in line with his character.

My new favourite show, Whiskey Cavalier got cancelled which I'm really gutted about. To me, it was a lot like Chuck which in my opinion is the best TV Show of all time. I'm guessing the name of the show turned away most viewers. The name is corny sounding to be honest. It's meant to be the protagonist's codename but it was literally only mentioned about one or two times and that too in the first episode. Chemistry between the two leads is pretty good and the back and forth is always entertaining to watch. They might have moved the relationship too fast (At least by TV standards instead of IRL standards) but they're both trained spies so could recognise theirs and others feelings pretty easily. The rest of the cast was pretty annoying at first but they do eventually grow on you, especially Jai and Ray.

 

Just wanted to add that for those who like Chernobyl, HBO also have a companion podcast with the writer of the show on youtube, its great stuff.

Link

 

yeah, it's an amazing piece to get some background information. Also very entertaining to hear about the writing process.
Chernobyl is the highest rated TV-show ever on IMDB now btw.

 

And luckily the author finished the story so they can’t stumble at the end of the adaptation!

Chernobyl is great and it’s the primary reason I still have HBO.

 

Really liking Chernobyl so far, but I wish they'd not started with the accident happening, and instead built up to it a bit.

I've always been really fascinated by the mechanics of how something that big goes that wrong, and one of my favorite reddit albums covers this specific disaster extensively:

https://imgur.com/a/TwY6q

 

Spoiler

From the preview, it looks like the last episode will cover the run-up to the disaster during the trial of Brykanov, Fomin, and Dyatlov.

Chernobyl has been fantastic. I'm currently halfway through a book on the subject, thanks to it.

 

Good Omens is easily one of the best adaptations ever. It helps that the screenplays were written by Gaiman, but everything else, especially the casting, is done better than well.

They should do a remake of Neverwhere now in my opinion. From fragments of the original on YT you can tell it didn't age well with its 90-ties TV Show aesthetic.

 

I binged it, despite having never read the book. Basically Gaiman and Pratchett doing their very best Douglas Adams impersonations and it works wonderfully.

Tennant and Sheen were such great picks.

 

Magic: The Netflixening

 

@Sorrows, I'm sure I've seen an interview somewhere where Gaiman said just that, that he was a lot more rigorous about keeping things in/unchanged than he might have been if it was just his own book being adapted. I don't know whether he had anything specific in mind when saying that though - personally, I'd say the Newt/Anathema 'romance' could have been stripped out to no ill effect at all, but then, I'd say the same of the book too.

On the whole though, thoroughly enjoyable. Sheen and Tennant were great, although Tennant was basically just doing another variation on his most famous roles - it fits very well, but I don't think he was especially stretching himself here. No real complaints anywhere else, although no-one came close to the leads (Jon Hamm was close).

 

It's probably going to be absolutely terrible.

I'll watch it anyway.