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

[6pairsofshoes]

We are watching the SkyTv production of "Gangs of London." 

Summary:  Mean people are mean to each other and there's lots of blood.  I can't imagine this will end well.  And there's one man who seems decent, an undercover cop who is a skilled warrior.  Will he make it out of this mess?  Stay tuned.

10 episodes and we just finished #4.

[8ullfrog]

I'm watching invincible, but these four-episode seasons are for the birds.

Four episodes of premium production, but is it really worth the wait?

[goldshirt*9]

We are watching the SkyTv production of "Gangs of London." 

Summary:  Mean people are mean to each other and there's lots of blood.  I can't imagine this will end well.  And there's one man who seems decent, an undercover cop who is a skilled warrior.  Will he make it out of this mess?  Stay tuned.

10 episodes and we just finished #4.

First or second series

Watching Reacher S01

[dweez]

First or second series

Watching Reacher S01

I re-watched Reacher S01 a couple months ago. Ready for S02.

[goldshirt*9]

I have to wait for the series to finish nowadays.
Awaiting slow horses to finish (believe i have mentioned before) and the new WW2 Bombers ref T.Hanks

[6pairsofshoes]

I'm watching Fassbinder's "Berlin Alexanderplatz" on youtube.  Someone uploaded the entire 14 episodes with subtitles.  It's dated, but really well done.

[6pairsofshoes]

First or second series

Watching Reacher S01

Ha!  We got to the end of Season 1 of Gangs of London and didn't realize there were more of them.  We streamed it through the local library and it seems they don't have subsequent seasons, so we will have to find them elsewhere.  Strangely enough, they DO have the music for Season 2. 

I'll have to take a break from the cruelty, though.  Maybe the final season of Doc Martin as a palate cleanser.

[smokester]

Not a lot of cruelty in Doc Martin, true.

I dunno. He ain't the prettiest fella I've seen on TV.

[8ullfrog]

Mom loves Doc Martin, he never should have gone to the seaside town. Bunch of lead pipe drinkers in that nightmareburg.

[6pairsofshoes]

We often watch Frontline, a PBS documentary series.  They are usually compelling and good, but they deal with stuff that results in a strong pessimism about human nature.  Last night's was about young kids on various social media platforms engaging in violent fantasies that supported Neo-Nazism, racism, and just general assholery.  This escalates when one of them decides it's a good idea to use a top secret security clearance to distribute government secrets online.  At some point, youthful folly encounters the justice system.  It's hard to say whether this guy deserves decades behind bars for stupidity, but if the shoe fits, I guess he should wear it.

"The Discord Leaks."  Available via youtube. 

[goldshirt*9]

I do like PBS for documentaries.

[8ullfrog]

My dad watched NOVA religiously, I thought everyone did.

[6pairsofshoes]

We often watch Nova.  We were contemplating watching Fake or Fortune on youtube as they do lots of research into objects, often paintings, to see if they are what they are purported to be.

Really, I'm kind of casting about for something to watch so I'm open to suggestions.  Something other than a documentary, since there's lots of those accessible via youtube and the library as well as streaming services.

[6pairsofshoes]

We are watching "Tick and Whale" or "All Creatures Great and Small" (it's hard not to come up with alternative titles for some shows, like "House" became "Couch.").  After a surprisingly decent first season, Season 2 seems kind of dreadfully treaclely, especially with the music.  Tristan is missing and that's clearly a problem. 

There's some shows where you just want to attack the musicians, like that guitarist on This Old House.  Like shut up already with your lite jazz riffs.  Really.  We won't be traumatized by 10 seconds of silence.  Same with ACG&S and the "you're supposed to feel happy and emotionally touched now" queues via the music.  Why not just hit us over the head, or better yet, post subtitles and leave the music out of it?  It's kind of annoying to have to watch shows with the mute button at the ready every 2 minutes.

[6pairsofshoes]

There are very few mystery shows that we won't watch but for some reason, Murdoch mysteries are not shown on the local PBS station.  We should check out a few episodes.

There are some that we give a wide berth:  usually the ones with scrappy young women who are too scrapy to be believable for the time.  Miss Marple is fine, but Miss Fischer and Sister Boniface make us run the other way.  There are so many good ones, like Prime Suspect, with serious roles played by women detectives that the super cutsey ones turn us off.