Topic: What's your favourite TV program of the moment?

[6pairsofshoes]

mishca, it's a serialization of the Margaret Atwood novel of the same name.  There was a film version with Natasha Richardson about 20 years ago.

And, yes, sadly, it's the story of the GOP attitude toward women under Trump (3rd term, eh? gaaak).  If memory serves, it's a Hulu series.

[smokester]

How women are treated in Trump's third term.

He might pull a Jinping and just have one term ... for life!

[6pairsofshoes]

Oy veh.  Just what we need, our own "dear Leader."

[smokester]

Yup. That's what I was getting at.

Just think what he'll be like when he grows up.

Anywho. We finished watching Guillermo del Toro's The Strain, and we have now moved onto Guillermo del Toro's Trollhunters.

That is one helluva jump!

[8ullfrog]

Saw trailer for Jack Ryan. Happy it won't be network regurgitation nonsense. Unhappy it's on service I never intend to subscribe to.  (Yarrr)

Doubly annoyed it won't be up until August 31st.

I hear Westworld has seriously gone to poo with the whole "what year is it? We won't tell you!" Nonsense, so I've watched none of it.

[6pairsofshoes]

I hear Westworld has seriously gone to poo with the whole "what year is it? We won't tell you!" Nonsense, so I've watched none of it.

Given this ringing 3rd-hand negative assessment, that's enough for me to stop watching it!   
Seriously, I do find that Michael Crichton is really good at popularizing futuristic science.   There is an undercurrent of themes also running through PK richard's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" and the moral conundrums arising from the ambiguous lines between humans and replicants in this series, at least in its current iteration.  I've never seen the version with Yul Brenner, but maybe it would be a good time to check that out of the library.  Forgive the fractured syntax.  I'm sleep deprived and too stupid to edit it right now.

We began watching Bosch.  Detective series set in Los Angeles.  Meh.  Maybe it will get better.  Is it me, or do John Hannah and Titus Welliver look so much alike as to be nearly indistinguishable? 

[Beatrix]

I'm almost to the end of the third season of black sails. 
And trumps abomination. 

[8ullfrog]

Hah, if you're still on the fence about dropping Westworld, they added Mind reading hats, and a third vague time period they call the far future, where a previously Human character is now a robot.

Also, they added a psychedelic group conciousness for the robots. Never seen that before.

Oh wait, Projection, BSG.

Not so fast BSG, one of the shittier episodes of voyager did it with "Unimatrix Zero" and that was probably curbed from something else. Banks?

Either way, if my computer shits itself trying to update, the brain partition copying hat has to golly up occasionally. How embarrassed would you be if you ran into yourself... running on windows 95?

I'm starting to think riffing on this show is more fun than watching it. Like how it's run by the non batman Nolan, like how that Marvel show is run by JED Whedon. 

[Beatrix]

Season four- black sails, enjoying it very much.
Since a new season of vikings is coming next month, I'll start on that again after I finish.   

[goldshirt*9]

The odd snatch of soccer I have seen ( not a lot) has conformed the shear lack of respect for referees and the level of play acting is on the increase.
Instead of the golden boot there should be a golden Bafta/Oscar  for some of the acting and then a golden finger for attitude towards the referee.
To think this happens from children to adults on all levels of the game.
SHAME on you all !

[mishca09]

I have been binge watching various south korean TV shows on netlfix

[6pairsofshoes]

I started watching 12 Monkeys.  Not brilliant, but I guess it will do if I'm too tired to read.  Most of the series I have been watching have hit the end of another season.

12 Monkeys, the film, was better, although it's been years since I've seen it.

[smokester]

We have started (more like tried to start) watching The Leftovers. It looked like a good contender for the next show we could wind the evening up with after exhausting all the shows that caught our eye.

It might be the intense heat we have had for weeks now in the UK. It might be the fact that I am working so hard I can hardly walk after work. It might be that I have had to deal with lots of after school business now my son has finally finished year eleven, a process that has extended my days even further. Or, it might be that this show is so effing slow that you'd need copious amounts of coffee to get through any particular episode. One way or another, after 6 attempts we've only managed 2.5 episodes...

[6pairsofshoes]

I tried to watch the Leftovers but soon lost interest.

I was looking forward to the new season of The 100 but it was just the same old same old people fighting and acting like jerks.  I get enough of that in the political feed on FB, so I just gave up.
 

[goldshirt*9]

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