What TV Have You Seen?

[SymbioticFunction]

Originally Posted by nicholasrope

Gen V

Spin Off of The Boys set after the events of Season 3 of that series which sees students at a School that prepares teenage Supes for Crime Fighting or Showbusiness. However not all is as it seems with a dark secret which sets up a potential storyline for The Boys: Season 4.

TBH, I found this to be rather hit and miss, I really enjoyed the storylines that involved characters from The Boys but the teen angst is similar to things that I've seen before.

I didn't even know that this existed, thanks for letting me know about it.

[iank]

The Practice: The Candidate. Dylan Baker guest stars as a Senatorial candidate arrested for murder after a man, believed to be having an affair with his wife, is found shot to death in his marital bed. Baker claims mistaken self-defence, that he believed him to be an intruder attacking his wife, but neither he, his wife or his teenage daughter are telling the whole truth... This feature-length episode is a cracking start to season 6.

[Nordicdusk]

Watched the first episode of The Wire on Saturday I loved it. Took me a bit to take the main detective serious after watching him as the doctor in Brassic kept watching his eyes to see if he was looking at ladies knees

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Nordicdusk

Watched the first episode of The Wire on Saturday I loved it. Took me a bit to take the main detective serious after watching him as the doctor in Brassic kept watching his eyes to see if he was looking at ladies knees

For my money, The Wire is one of the top five greatest TV shows ever made. Dominic West and Idris Elba have extremely convincing American accents and are brilliant as McNulty and Stringer Bell, respectively, and the supporting cast of actors like Frankie Faison, Deirdre Lovejoy, Wendell Pierce, Lance Reddick, Chris Bauer, Amy Ryan, Clarke Peters, and Michael K. Williams is extremely strong.

Because the five seasons have different focuses, from drug dealing to smuggling, the media to the education system, means it never becomes 'samey' or formulaic, and the writing, mostly by David Simon and Ed Burns, is superb: powerful, funny, and thought-provoking.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

With two episodes to go i'm absolutely loving the first series of The Frankenstein Chronicles (2015).

Sean Bean plays Marlott, a London detective attempting to unravel why children keep turning up dead with various parts of their bodies removed and others attached in their place and why one corpse is made up of the body parts of eight missing children.

This is excellent. It takes the Frankenstein story and gives it a whole new twist incorporating the struggles of Victorian London giving the six part series a feel of Dickens, perhaps more so than Mary Shelley.

Bean is in great form at the top of a fine cast including Vanessa Kirby, Anna Maxwell Martin and Richie Campbell. It's gritty stuff and utterly compelling with it.

I did smile to myself when Marlott told another character he'd fought Napoleon at Waterloo. Could Marlott be Richard Sharpe in later life? He certainly looks like him.

I picked up this Blu-ray for a quid at the local Air Ambulance shop months and months ago. Glad i held off watching it as it's perfect Dickensian Christmas horror.

[nicholasrope]

Santa Clauses: Season 2

The gang is back and this time Santa is pushing his Son to become the new Santa but he is slightly incompetent, his Daughter is learning to become a Witch and can listen to Animals and a Mad Santa along with his head Gnome are freed from being a Nutcracker Toy. They then plot to take over Christmas.

I really loved this Season, it was so fun and entertaining with great performances especially from Eric Stonestreet (Mad Santa) and the girl who played Olga The Gnome.

Again there are references to the Films and hopefully there's a 3rd Season.

[iank]

The Bill: Bits and Pieces. A human hand found in a dumpster sends Uniform on a wild goose chase round a local estate. This 96 episode turns out to be a very funny episode with a great sense of gallows humour, and is also - bizarrely - completely stolen by a random guestie in the college roommate of the girl who knows where the hand originated, who is so cute and charming she walks off with the episode (and Nick Slater's heart ). Very fun.

[iank]

I'm rewatching Smallville atm, just started s2. Haven't seen these for 20 years. Not bad. Passable Buffy ripoff with Superman lol For season 2 they've deleted the dullard Whitney and replaced him as a regular with the great John Glover as Lionel Luthor, which is a massive trade-up and no mistake. Pete is still clinging on somehow though. They've clearly tried to help his character by letting him in on Clark's secret, but he's still no more interesting. I think the actor is just weak tbh.
To be fair, Smallville was mediocre against the shows it was competing with at the time but looks like a work of positive genius compared to 2023 television.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by iank

I'm rewatching Smallville atm, just started s2. Haven't seen these for 20 years. Not bad. Passable Buffy ripoff with Superman lol For season 2 they've deleted the dullard Whitney and replaced him as a regular with the great John Glover as Lionel Luthor, which is a massive trade-up and no mistake. Pete is still clinging on somehow though. They've clearly tried to help his character by letting him in on Clark's secret, but he's still no more interesting. I think the actor is just weak tbh.
To be fair, Smallville was mediocre against the shows it was competing with at the time but looks like a work of positive genius compared to 2023 television.

For the first two or three series it was definitely villain of the week stuff but i felt it improved massively after that and became one of my real favourites.

They seemed to overlook the story line where Chloe gets involved with sex trafficking though.

[iank]

lol That is still so weird.