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has there been a telly thread this week? there is now.

Happy Wednesday folks!

What have we all been watching this week?

I finished season 2 of This Fool which was great.

Currently sitting on my arse watching episode 7 of Hijack which has been a brilliant wee surprise. Not usually a fan of scary airplane stuff but this has me hooked.

Righteous Gemstones season 3 finished up this week too. Love a bit of Danny McBride and this season has been phenomenal.

Can’t forget What We Do in the Shadows - hilarious as ever.

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In an effort to avoid being more productive I've decided to follow this guide and watch every Star Trek in chronological order.
It's gonna be the first time in my 30 something years of life I've actually watched most of these shows. So far I'm 5 episodes into Enterprise and I'm surprised by how much I'm enjoying it.
Those early 2000s Sky One adverts did this thing a huge disservice by making it look like a moody joyless submarine drama when it's already been super high on the campy goofiness scale, it's lots of fun.
- Oh that's so bizarre, an hour or so ago I independently suggested we do that too. But then I remembered how terrible some Trek is and changed my mind, haha, good luck on your journey!
  
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I'm watching American Dad. On Hulu.
THAT'S RIGHT AN AMERICAN INVADED THE THREAD MWA HA HA
- Welcome to the thread mate.
- The more the merrier!

I don't watch TV all that much anymore, I don't know where to start so I just wait for something to 'blow-up' and be something everyone talks about then I'll know what to do.
I work full time so normally after work I just fall down the youtube wormhole so my shout-out goes to Red Letter Media out of all that.
The only TV on my to-do list currently is 'Barry' and 'Silo'
- Can’t recommend Barry enough!

Is there more WWDITS? I must go.
- Yep - 4 episodes in to season 5!
  
  What is it showing on in the UK? (Or is it showing on the 'VPN' channels)

Our boys are 6 and 11, so there is little time for these things called "movies" that we used to watch in our younger days. So, in the last week we have squeezed in the following TV shows:
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. The most recent two episodes. Lower Decks crossover was fun fan service. Loved it. The Klingon War episode was also good but a hard watch. One of the few "space war" episodes that gets over the horror of war. Like an unfunny space MAS*H. Not sure I liked the ending though. M'Benga, Chapel and Pike don't come out of it well IMHO.
Also been watching the Quantum Leap reboot. It's cheesy AF, but fun, with a good diverse ensemble cast - there is a lot more stuff at the QL base, not just the equivalent of the Sam and Al characters. Which I think is for the best. The chemistry between Bakula and Stockwell was lightning in a bottle which they could never hope to recreate. The voice over at the start is terribly written though. The original series had that great vo. How could they screw it up so bad?
- Finally got my wife to start strange new worlds with me last night. She’s the bloody Trekkie yet I had to wait until almost the end of s2 for her to start. Nightmare! We’re 2 episodes in and I’m loving it so far. I can’t wait for lower decks crossover as I thought that was great.
- These last two SNW episodes have been quite the tonal whiplash! Not much of a fan of Lower Decks (though I concede they did well at playing rl cartoon characters), but the war episode was great. Definitely agree about the ending though, they're gonna have to come back to that later and resolve some bits I think, it just puts the characters in such a negative light otherwise.

Massive Pratchett fan here so I’m giving the new series of Good Omens a go, and I don’t know why I keep subjecting myself to TV Pratchett adaptations.
There’s the odd giggle, and I like the actors, but three episodes in it just goes nowhere, it’s just a series of skits with Aziraphale and Crowley.
They’re only one component of what made the book great, but I get the feeling that the production crew have gone “Tennant and Sheen are great, the show is now only about them”.
- Huge Pratchett fan also, so quite disappointed as I’ve been saving that for this weekend. Still give it a go as I’m much in the same boat as you with regards to Tennant and Sheen.
  Edit to add - have you given the Long Earth series a go that he did with Stephen Baxter?
  
  have you given the Long Earth series a go that he did with Stephen Baxter?
  As this is a telly thread I got all excited and wondered if someone had created a TV series of the Long Earth books ... but you just mean the books don't you?
  I'm not the person you wrote that reply to, but I definitely enjoyed them, but then I'm almost as big a fan of Stephen Baxter as I am of Terry Pratchett.
  
  I guess I’d caveat that I’ve never really enjoyed any of the TV adaptations, but they keep making them, so someone must be enjoying them!
  The Long Earth series is brilliant, I really enjoyed it. It doesn’t feel very Pratchetty but it scratches an alternate universe sci fi itch in a very satisfying way.

It's been mostly motorsport recently with Formula E and BTCC on the weekend but we did watch Ruby Gillman, Teenage Cracken as a family. Nothing special but it got a couple laughs.

I’ve just finished watching Tehran which is a great series about an Israeli in Iran doing spy stuff.
I’ve also just finished The Witcher and about to finish Hijack.
All three were great.
- Need to give Tehran a go. I finished Hijack yesterday and it was brilliant. Not sure I’m bothered about the Witcher after the last series I watched was kinda shit.

I feel like I'm always banging the Mr Inbetween drum, but it's so good. Particularly when every show seems to be passing the one hour runtime mark per episode, it's refreshing to have a great show with 30 min episodes
- Another of my favourites! Highly recommend this to most folk but hardly anyone I know has watched it

Started American Gods over the weekend before I learned the 12 Monkeys series was on itv player so watching that for the second time... Futurama as well.
- American Gods is one of my favourite books. Quite liked the show. Although not seen the most recent series.
  12 monkeys was great i thought!

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