What TV series are you currently watching?

[DavidW]

I finished season 4 of Shetland.  That was a great season.  It was much better written than season 3 which was riddled with huge gaping plotholes.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

I finished season 4 of Shetland.  That was a great season.  It was much better written than season 3 which was riddled with huge gaping plotholes.

I watched some of the Shetland series; I should go back and revisit it.  If I'm recalling correctly (without giving much away), it has to do with a daughter (who works as some sort of police officer/detective--I forget exactly) who moves back to her hometown for familial reasons and then starts investigating a local death?  Or am I confusing it with a different British series?

PD

[DavidW]

I watched some of the Shetland series; I should go back and revisit it.  If I'm recalling correctly (without giving much away), it has to do with a daughter (who works as some sort of police officer/detective--I forget exactly) who moves back to her hometown for familial reasons and then starts investigating a local death?  Or am I confusing it with a different British series?

PD

Yeah that is a different series.  This one follows DI Perez as he solves murder mysteries on the Shetland islands.  It has such thick Scottish accents that I watch with subtitles on!

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Yeah that is a different series.  This one follows DI Perez as he solves murder mysteries on the Shetland islands.  It has such thick Scottish accents that I watch with subtitles on!

Hmmm...trying to remember the name of the show that I was thinking of.  From what I recall, the woman moved back home to help her father (who had health issues).  She had been working as some sort of a police officer.  The community which she moved back to was small.  A strange death/murder then happens locally and she gets involved trying to solve it.  Trying to recall where it took place?

And I understand what you mean about accents and having to use subtitles.  For me, it's also an issue with language use and sometimes also slang [I end up having to do some googling at times.]. 

PD

[Iota]

Hmmm...trying to remember the name of the show that I was thinking of.  From what I recall, the woman moved back home to help her father (who had health issues).  She had been working as some sort of a police officer.  The community which she moved back to was small.  A strange death/murder then happens locally and she gets involved trying to solve it.  Trying to recall where it took place?

And I understand what you mean about accents and having to use subtitles.  For me, it's also an issue with language use and sometimes also slang [I end up having to do some googling at times.]. 

PD

I think the series you're talking about is called Hidden, which was very good, quite gruelling at times. (Not quite as good as Hinterland, another Welsh crime series which preceded it, imo. But both drew me in and kept me firmly in place until the very end.)

[Pohjolas Daughter]

I think the series you're talking about is called Hidden, which was very good, quite gruelling at times. (Not quite as good as Hinterland, another Welsh crime series which preceded it, imo. But both drew me in and kept me firmly in place until the very end.)

Yes, thank you!  I don't believe that I was able to watch all of it...when did it end?  I might need to check back with library system and see whether or not I can get the final season.

PD

[JBS]

I've been spending the last week watching YouTube clips of Friends, as it is a show that I've never found funny, and I keep coming back to see what I missed, as it is a massive cultural phenomenon. I'm almost thinking that this might be a nice basis for an autoethnographic article. :-)

I watched it intermittently. Sometimes there were actual bits of humor. But it often seemed a show about nothing.
Speaking of shows about nothing, I was usually bored by whatever I saw of Seinfeld. Even less humor there.

Perhaps Yuppies in Manhattan are not as humor inducing as general culture thinks.

[Iota]

Yes, thank you!  I don't believe that I was able to watch all of it...when did it end?  I might need to check back with library system and see whether or not I can get the final season.

PD

The final series aired in Apr 2022 according to the Wiki link I put in the post.

[JBS]

I think this is spot on - or Yuppies, in general. There is a whole slew of situation comedies that I don't get, and I do think that yuppieness might play one of the key roles. I also think that the shows skew pretty much 100 percent to white American culture also might be playing a large role as well

Qualified yes to that:
--I might be called in terms of my cultural background a Yuppie, so in theory I'm part of the target audience.
--there are some shows which are even more overtly Yuppie that I enjoyed immensely (Frasier is the outstanding example) although perhaps they are more overtly satiric.

So there were perhaps things specific to those shows.  Perhaps it was simply the Bostonian in me harrumphing at those New York people.

[DavidW]

I've been spending the last week watching YouTube clips of Friends, as it is a show that I've never found funny, and I keep coming back to see what I missed, as it is a massive cultural phenomenon. I'm almost thinking that this might be a nice basis for an autoethnographic article. :-)

It is funny how YT clips can get me into a show.  It got me into Curb Your Enthusiasm, Fawlty Towers, and That Mitchell and Webb Look.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

The final series aired in Apr 2022 according to the Wiki link I put in the post.

Thanks, I probably should do some checking into when it came out on DVD.

PD

[KevinP]

Seriously retro: "Head of the Family," Carl Reiner's pilot for what would become The Dick Van Dyke Show, with Reiner himself playing Rob Petrie.

The subsequent changes improved it immensely.

[Karl Henning]

The subsequent changes improved it immensely.

No lie!

[SimonNZ]

[San Antone]

Project Runway and Making the Cut.

[VonStupp]

SW: Rebels
Seasons 1 & 2 (2014-16)
Freddie Prinze Jr., Jason Isaacs

Essentially, a continuation of The Clone Wars series my daughter and I watched earlier. A lot of crossover, especially in Season 2.

Since Disney owns Star Wars, they use John Williams' film music themes; a lot. Good to hear James Earl Jones again, though.
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[Papy Oli]

There She Goes (BBC Series 1, 2 & 2023 special) with Jessica Hynes & David Tennant.

From wiki: There She Goes is a British comedy-drama television series created and written by Shaun Pye, and based on his own experiences with his daughter who was born with a chromosomal disorder. The show follows the life of learning-disabled Rosie Yates, along with her parents Emily and Simon, and her older brother Ben. Both series are set in Rosie's present, but the writing features frequent flashbacks to her infancy and pre-school life (around ten years previously), when her parents were gradually learning of Rosie's disability.

Quite possibly one of the best and powerful drama series I have seen in years. Think along the lines of the "A Word" but with an even more unfiltered, darker portrait of the struggles, heartbreaks, deep love and howling laughter and sarcasm within this family. You will absolutely hate David Tennant at times, you will have your heart time and again shattered by Jessica Hynes' portrayal of the struggling mum but bear with it, their story is worth it.


     

[Pohjolas Daughter]

For some fun summertime distraction:  House of the Dragon (Season 1).  Prequel series to Game of Thrones.  Entertaining though I didn't enjoy it as much as the original series.  It's available on DVD for those who might be interested.

PD

[Todd]

More travel TV, the first episode of Brian Cox: How the Other Half Lives.  What better conceit could there be than to have Logan Roy investigate income and wealth inequality?  That had to be an easy pitch.  And a bullshit one.  Brian Cox - excuse me, Brian Cox, CBE - claims he's not a rich man, not a multi-millionaire (he actually says it on camera) and proceeds to act the role of investigative journalist, querying the poor and the rich.  He emotes.  He rails against injustice.  He demands equality.  He visits his poor hometown to show he's a regular bloke.  Etc.  Probably the best bit is when he interviews a British billionaire who proceeds to claim he supports a wealth tax - but only if it is global.  That part is so deliciously self-serving and intellectually dishonest that I literally LOL'd.  I think I may have drawn some glances from fellow passengers when I did.  Here's a perfect example of virtue signaling turned into marketable content. 

[VonStupp]

SW: Rebels (2016-18)
Seasons 3 & 4

Finished this series off with my daughter. Lots of SW lore here, and the dewy-eyed final season was well earned.
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