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[Weekly Thread] What have you been watching?

Weekly Thread: What have you been watching?

Free talk thread to discuss what you’ve been watching and ask for recommendations. Be sure to tag spoilers.

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  • Still watching Justified: City Primeval, but Full Circle has finished now, so I'm 50% down on my Olyphants.

    Only Murders in the Building is back, so I'll start that after watching some sort of recap for Season 2
    Rez Dogs is back too, but I'm still plodding my way through Season 1
    They've made a TV show of Strange Planet - haven't watched any eps yet but I like those cartoons that get posted to !nathanwpyle@lemmy.world
    Foundation, too. Either it's getting better or my standards are getting lower (I don't mind which)

    • Always down for a good Olyphant show, just checked into Full Circle and it's a pretty stacked cast all around too. I've added it to my list! I've still got to go back and finish Justified at some point before I can get to City Primeval but it definitely has been on my list.

      Only Murders in the Building Season 3 has so far delivered on pure fun once again. New added characters bring a bit of fresh air with the biggest new characters played by Paul Rudd and Meryl Streep. It's that good-time TV that makes a nice addition to a watchlist.

      Reservation Dogs continues to impress me during Season 3. I've enjoyed the show since the first episode but it was Season 1, Episode 7 (California Dreamin') where I realized how special of a show it really is. That quality continues onward and Season 3 is no exception. Season 3, Episode 3 (The Deer Lady) is an absolute masterpiece and one of the best pieces of television ever done. This show definitely ended up in my favorite ongoing series list. I've laughed, I've cried, and I've appreciated every moment of it.

      Strange Planet translates to TV surprisingly well. The first few episodes landed the tone, subject matter and comedy of the comic in a satisfying way. Not everyone is going to like the extended format of the comic's world but with the spirit of its source material and fitting performances by a cast including D'Arcy Carden (The Good Place, Barry), Danny Pudi (Community, Mythic Quest), and Yvette Nicole Brown (Community, Avengers: Endgame), I had a good time. The fourth episode brings more of the Rick and Morty side of Dan Harmon and Steve Levy's style over to Nathan's universe that deviates a bit. Still, it doesn't lose the discomfort of confronting things and the relief after finally doing so that the comic often explores (and is something Harmon and Levy know well). If you like the comic or want something different, it's at least worth giving an episode or three!

  • Watched the first episode of The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon, last night. It was good! Nothing amazing yet, but it had a lot to do in one episode. They clearly wanted to kick things off with action as well as set up the new setting and season hooks. There are new zombies that seem to be acidic, there's a spiritual mysticism / prophecy and faith elements we haven't seen much of in TWD before, and the medievalesque French setting is really satisfying to me.

    Daryl's a great character to be the stranger in a strange land. He still clearly wants to be a lone wolf, and equally clearly still needs the purpose and belonging only other good people can provide. I was surprised in places to see him not jerking away from / being hostile to the familiarity of people he barely knows, but it's kind of nice to think that all that time with Rick and the gang has actually helped to socialize him some.

    How exactly Daryl ended up in the situation that led him to France is still a mystery, but he does say basically that he started this journey because he was searching for something more / bigger than survival in the Commonwealth. As readymade as the divine(?) mission the nuns want him to take on seems for this, it's consistent with his character that he's not buying into it, but the aligned interests of the help he needs and the fact that they clearly are in need of help still hooks him in.

    The villains of the season haven't shown much personality yet, and the nun Isabelle (who seems setup to be the co-lead) hasn't hooked me yet. She's had a lot of exposition to deliver so far though; I'm hoping that's not the main thing they use her for throughout the season, or Daryl's going to have to carry a lot more performances than his usual range of sarcasm, stoicism, rage, and brooding mystery can really cover. 😆

    But I'm still cautiously optimistic. When I was still watching the original TWD, the on-the-road story that this plot is promising was always the kind of thing the series delivered best on. This new setting is showing a ton of promise, and I'm intrigued to see how the Laurent storyline, with these new elements of prophetic mystery and hope for humanity, plays out.

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