New TV Season 2019-20

I love that It's Always Sunny had Dolph Lundgren as a guest star.

Man, Mr. Robot’s season 4 premiere was an intense way to increase the stakes. Loved the intense paranoia that is taking hold of this season.

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The open was insane. Just as Angela said, “There is nothing you can do or say to stop me,” my thought was, “Well, there is one way.” But then sh*t got even more real.

Clumber wrote:

I finally got around to watching Emergence. Stop me if you've heard this one before

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episode one introduced a young girl escaped from a hush-hush government research facility. After being taken under the wing of a small town sherrif, she befriends a young teenager and we discover she has telekenetic, and perhaps other, powers. Meanwhile shady government agents are doing everything they can to get her back

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but is it ridden with 80's nostalgia and a kick-ass theme?

Derp....posted this in the wrong thread, shouldn't assume a recent post is a recent thread. Sorry for the rehash

Watched Nancy Drew last night. Feels like Riverdale-lite to me. Came off as a standard angsty young people CW series. I'll be waiting for the entire season to be available via streaming. It might turn out to be a good show, I just don't want to invest waiting for the next weekly installment of a season long mystery (assuming they take the entire season to resolve the current story).

Wow the SNL Sesame Street bit last night was magnificent.

Stele wrote:

Wow the SNL Sesame Street bit last night was magnificent.

It was. I stopped watching SNL for a long time, but I picked it back up again a few years ago. Weekend Update going off on Giuliani and his associates was great. The pug making Cecily Strong crack up was fantastic. And I'm not usually into pop musicians, but I really enjoyed Camila Cabello's first performance.

The Purge season 2 episode 1 was surprisingly good. They did one purge from start to finish in one episode. I'm not sure if every episode will be like that. They also had a non crazy murder group purging for a change. The problem with last season was they only had crazy murder people. No body was out just stealing stuff or doing other non murder crimes,.

Man, I am really enjoying Evil This weeks episode was especially creepy!

Gaald wrote:

Man, I am really enjoying Evil This weeks episode was especially creepy!

Yeah, they don't hesitate to go to dark places and we love it.

Nevin73 wrote:
Gaald wrote:

Man, I am really enjoying Evil This weeks episode was especially creepy!

Yeah, they don't hesitate to go to dark places and we love it.

I'm liking it but think it will get cancelled.

I had set a pass for it, but we decided to skip it. I guess we should catch up.

We just started season 2 of Castle Rock on Hulu, and I feels much more dark and is much more stressful than the first season. Not sure if it makes it better.

But, Lizzy Caplain is just killing it as a younger version of Misery’s Annie Wilkes. She is the main reason the show so dark and foreboding.

Gaald wrote:

Man, I am really enjoying Evil This weeks episode was especially creepy!

Hrm...this weeks episode was probably the one I've liked least so far. But yeah, I find myself unexpectedly enjoying it.

So far the new shows that I'm sticking with are: Evil, Perfect Harmony, Prodigal Son, Stumptown

Perfect Harmony continues to hit that high sarcasm note.

Clumber wrote:
Gaald wrote:

Man, I am really enjoying Evil This weeks episode was especially creepy!

Hrm...this weeks episode was probably the one I've liked least so far. But yeah, I find myself unexpectedly enjoying it.

So far the new shows that I'm sticking with are: Evil, Perfect Harmony, Prodigal Son, Stumptown

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I thought the little girl at the slumber party story line was especially creepy and good.

I wonder if some of the case can be both reality and other worldly. So far they presented the cases as all or nothing. Like why couldn't a demon take over a person suffering from dementia. So for a cure you will need a priest and doctor instead of either or.

Clumber wrote:

So far the new shows that I'm sticking with are: Evil, Perfect Harmony, Prodigal Son, Stumptown

My wife and I are right there with you on Prodigal Son and Stumptown. Both shows are watched the moment they record. We've skipped Evil, but I might give it a go.

Teresa has a limit for the amount of horror type stuff she can watch, so Evil may be something I have to check out later. Between Prodigal Son (which, to be honest, is just Hannibal Lite), and Castle Rock, this isn't a great time to delve into it.

Not to mention we just finished Murder In the Bayou on Showtime, which is just a documentary, but it is a creepy and horrid tale.

Watched SEE which is about society being destroyed and everyone going blind. I'm not sure if the blind thing will hold up. Blind Aquaman defends his home from blind invaders. The blind ungrateful people want to take his newborn kids. Some more grateful people side wide Aquaman. The evil blind queen finds out about the special kids so she does something hot or very nasty. I vote that lady be nasty. Lucky for her court everyone is blind so couldn't see what she did. You do that in your bedroom or bathroom not in the middle of the room you use to greet people. And you really don't do that while make a speech to your father or the lord. Yeah that queen be nasty. Keep those kids away from her.

Watched the first episode of His Dark Materials and found it interesting but slow. I don't think the show will last long mainly because of cost.

Finally finished Succession season 2. The more time goes by, the more I love the show. There's a tremendous amount of fantastic acting and the moments of humour, when they hit, they hit hard.

There's Youtube original in its second season which is some of the best TV there actually is. Impulse is...well its great.
Basically Jumper director created TV series on the same teleporter premise and made it five times bettee, mostly because the series format allows actual character growth, unlike the Hour an the Half of white screen.
The actors are marvelous, the script is thoughtful, the special fx feel very grounded and analog just like in the Bourne Identity and other movies of his.
It really rocks.
Impulse and Wayne really make the Youtube kind of interesting outlet for fresh quality series unlike Netflix.

That sounds fun. I liked that movie a bit and even read the book. Always felt like there should be more to that universe.

I found the first season to be very lukewarm. Is the 2nd better then or just more time of the same?

I really enjoyed the first season of Impulse and I am looking forward to watching the second! So much TV right now!

Clumber wrote:

Episode 2 of Stumptown was a lot better than the pilot, and I just now realized that the actor that plays Dex also played Robin on How I Met Your Mother (sometimes I'm dumb like that)

I've found it watchable, but ultimately fairly rote and unimpressive. There are worse ways to spend an hour on a weekday, at least.

It did convince me to buy the first Stumptown comic book, which is AMAZING and I wish the show was more true to the source material.

slazev wrote:

I found the first season to be very lukewarm. Is the 2nd better then or just more time of the same?

It grows all the time. The tension, the common threads of the parallel stories, they all start intertwining together more and more and the ending actually seems to hint at things going in overdrive in season 3.
I liked it a lot but I repeat myself I guess.

Up to episode 3 of See. I'm really liking it. Queen might not be as nasty as I first thought. She still does nasty things but maybe their way of praying is nasty.

Huge time jump. The actors for kids look nothing alike through the jump. Nobody aged at all. Kind of surprised at how long worked on things.

World building gets a bit stronger. The situation is spelled out in the first minute of the first episode. However, by episode 3 you see support for that situation.

Minor spoiler about the special kids and education

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The kids are left books to read but there is no one to teach them to read. Somehow they learn to read and how to build stuff without a teacher. Also they were left a rather small chest of books. The range of knowledge they have seems to be greater than what could have been in the box. Note the box also had toys, baby books and fiction.

His Dark Materials is really very good. It’s slow and stately for sure, but it gives the story time to breath and for the characters to grow and evolve. Ruth Wilson is an excellent Mrs Coulter, and the young actor playing Lyra is also very good as well.

Anyone else watching For All Mankind on Apple TV+? If not, you're missing some of the best SF on TV.

It's an alternate history story based on the premise, "What if the Space Race had never ended?" In 1969 the Soviets land on the Moon first; stung by being beaten to yet another space achievement, Nixon takes it personally and kicks off a very ambitious expanded space exploration programme, but NASA is prepared to cut a few more corners this time to make sure they get there first.

Five of the 10 episodes of season 1 have been released so far, and the show has already been renewed for a second season. It started strong and just keeps getting better. The latest episode, "Into the Abyss", had me glued to the seat as Apollo 15 (and America's first female astronaut) explores an unplanned part of the moon, followed by a surprise development at the very end that promises even more spectacle to come as the timeline diverges further from our own.

You have my att... Oh, Apple+.