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TV nerds: What should I Watch? (slrpnk.net)

submitted 3 months ago by Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net to c/askbeehaw@beehaw.org

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I haven't watched TV in years; kids and my previous job really killed that.

There's SO much out there since I last picked up a remote, and I have a fucking huge backlog.

I'm open to anything, as long as it's well done.

Series I liked: Vikings, Norsemen (hysterical), The Americans, GoT, Man in the High Castle, Expanse, Spartacus (Batiartus is amazing)

I'm scratching the surface of Boardwalk Empire, but open to other rabbit holes.

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[–] memfree@beehaw.org 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

GoT

You did NOT like GoT. Take that back!

But there's a lot of good recommendations already, so I'll re-affirm a few of them that I both saw and enjoyed (exclusions are probably because I didn't see the shows):

Black Mirror
The Last of Us
Three Body Problem
The Foundation
Hacks (for a change of pace from the rest)
Mr. Robot

Some alternate ideas:

The new Dr. Who -- but only the first ... maybe 3 seasons, then STOP before you get into another GoT debacle.
The Watch -- low budget adaptation of Terry Pratchett that made some fans FURIOUS by its re-imagination, but pretty grounded in Pratchett-ness if you can get past that. Probably for fans only. I'm told it is required that Pratchett fans watch Good Omens but can opt out of viewing The Watch.
Resident Alien -- is low budget, low humor, and stupid. I watch it anyway.
Upstart Crow -- wanted to be Black Adder, but... not quite. Still a pretty good riff on Shakespeare.

[–] pi_fang@beehaw.org 2 points 3 months ago

I thought Resident Alien was hilarious. Great Adolescent humor.

[–] Malgas@beehaw.org 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The Watch [...] pretty grounded in Pratchett-ness

You're literally the only person I've heard say anything like that. Sir Terry's own daughter has disavowed it, saying that it "shares no DNA with my father's Watch."

[–] memfree@beehaw.org 1 points 3 months ago

I know a lot of people never got past the the total re-write of ... well, everything. I understand that. If you go in wanting the source material or you will be horribly disappointed. If, instead, you go in saying, "Alright, I know the fans are in revolt, but let's just see why this got made if it is so far from the source," then I think you will see that yes, every aspect is changed, and the story mash-up misses the original points, but... But -- BUT as a show, it was a change of pace (within what limits TV allows) and still retained a feel of a Watch novel. It wasn't a clone of Game of Thrones or Black Adder, or anything else -- and, true, it certainly wasn't a clone of Night Watch, either. It was its own thing, and I'm a bit bummed out that the hatred means it will never get another season.