What was the last TV show you watched?

[tamoko]

Will close account on Netflix to much ****
But Netflix started pretty interesting new series
Last Samurai Standing.
I found this is a really good made, wort waiting for next seasons.

 

[Touchofevil]

"Fallout" - About 2 years ago I was casting about for a new "first person shooter" to play as I was done with "Far Cry". I read many good and bad things about the "Fallout" series of games. I played Fallout 3 several times then went on to "Fallout New Vegas", in my opinion, the BEST game of the series. It was with great trepidation that I dipped my toes into the new Amazon series.

Personally I found it "enjoyable" but limiting. In the Fallout games YOU make the choices it's a shooter AND a Role Playing Game". you decide who lives, who dies and which way the story goes. I constantly kept second guessing the characters choices and decisions. It didn't help that two of the main characters wandered this wide and dangerous world with all of the awareness of chimps fresh from the zoo. They also took 2 great liberties with the "lore" established in the game that left me burnt. I won't go all nerdy on that topic but needless to say a sizeable fraction of the fanbase are lighting torches and sharpening their pitchforks.

All in all I think the show is good. They don't hit you over the head with "fan service" and the acting is outstanding. Even if you're not familiar with the game or the world it's set in you could do much worse.

Worf

The Fallout series of games are my favorite. I too played Fallout 3 many time, but unlike many did not enjoy New Vegas as much as most. It is fun, but fore me, Fallout 4 is the best I have played. I still play and enjoy it. So much so that I have yet to play the much maligned Fallout 76.

 

[jchance]

The War Between the Land and the Sea, a spin-off of Doctor Who, was surprisingly good, but the ending didn’t make much sense to me. I enjoyed binging it, just 5 episodes.

 

[tamoko]

NERO le Assassin on NF
Great costume design and Europe location. Excellent acting. Storytelling a little bit weakly, but acceptable for NF popcorn TV series.

 

[Zombie_61]

My wife and I have tried watching some of the "streaming" television series from here and there, and one of them that has held our interest is Murder in a Small Town (2024-2025). Rossif Sutherland (son of Donald Sutherland and Francine Racette) plays Karl Alberg, the Chief of the local police force (presumably somewhere in British Columbia). Rather low key, not many big dramatic moments, one of those dramas where the viewers are simply dropped into the middle of whatever's going on. Co-starring Kristin Kreuk (Lana Lang in Smallville), Aaron Douglas (Chief Tyrol in the 2004-2009 Battlestar Galactica remake), and a cast of people I'd not heard of before, the pacing is a little uneven at times but that seems to lend itself to stories that take place in a small town in the middle of nowhere. Not the best television show ever made, nor the worst, but it holds our interest and the cast doesn't try to "showboat" to make a name for themselves.

 

[Edward]

The War Between the Land and the Sea, a spin-off of Doctor Who, was surprisingly good, but the ending didn’t make much sense to me. I enjoyed binging it, just 5 episodes.

The "happy" ending felt a little too shoe-horned in for me, but that's very typical of RTD. I quite enjoyed it despite it being a little heavy-handed in places - again, very typical RTD, though to be fair people often forget it was the same in the 70s when the SeaDevils originally came for Pertwee-Doctor.

Also on BBC iPlayer at present is a six-part series following the misadventures of the Mitford Sisters, which I enjoyed very much. Not the full story, and I hope there's a second series on the way.


Over on Disney, within the last few days the second series of A Thousand Blows has dropped. I binged that yesterday, and it really is very good. Steven Knight's The Veil (FX, 2024) is also now available on Netflix. The first of his shows I've seen that was set in the present day rather than a historical piece. A fun romp through an espionage world that will feel familiar to fans of Bourne, 24, or anything else that is a bit "James Bond, but realistic". Elizabeth Moss as the lead is excellent, probably the nearest the Broccolis will ever let us see to what a female Bond could be like.

 

[Jon Crow]

The Fallout series of games are my favorite. I too played Fallout 3 many time, but unlike many did not enjoy New Vegas as much as most. It is fun, but fore me, Fallout 4 is the best I have played. I still play and enjoy it. So much so that I have yet to play the much maligned Fallout 76.

Watching season 2 of fallout, very enjoyable

 

[Jon Crow]

Watching season 2 of Tom Hiddleston the Night Manager, very good

 

[Worf]

It took me a while to Start Season 2 of Fallout! But I'm glad I did. I'm not exactly in a mood for "Post Apocalyptic" Sci Fi that skews so close to Current Events. Sigh....

Worf

 

[Edward]

It took me a while to Start Season 2 of Fallout! But I'm glad I did. I'm not exactly in a mood for "Post Apocalyptic" Sci Fi that skews so close to Current Events. Sigh....

Worf

I wish I had the discipline to wait til it's all on there before starting... I hate how the streamers are now so often shifting to a weekly-drop model. TBH, it would probably annoy me a little less if they didn't keep trying to pretend it's because we all miss watching regular TV week to week, rather than it being about discouraging short-term subscriptions for the purposes of binge-watching...

That grouse aside, enjoying the show being back, and particularly in this series the further flashbacks filling in the backstory of the pre-apocalypse world.

Another show I enjoyed recently was the Spanish Netflix series Billionaire's Bunker. A whole community of insanely rich people who are mostly really rather unpleasant, sold their places in a safe bunker to wait out a nuclear war. Except the kicker is that the bunker company have manufactured the appearance of the crisis and subsequent nuclear strikes with the intent of ripping off all the billionaires while they live underground thinking the world has ended. A lot of fun, and a lot of room for the story to develop over time. I hope for another series.

Over on the BBC iPlayer, there's a show called Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue. A very enjoyable piece of thriller silliness as we try to work out who of the ten passengers who survived the crash of a private plane was the missing tenth body that tied to the tenth passport found in the wreckage. Keeps you guessing to the end, not a comedy but campy and a bit tongue in cheek in the best way.

Oh... and ETA I've been rewatching Robin of Sherwood from the early eighties on ITVX, for the first time since it screened back in the day. A darker take on the Robin Hood legend which strongly influenced subsequent takes. It's a lot of fun, and holds up much better as a drama than I had expected it to. The only bit that has dated badly is the theme and other music supplied by Clannad, a then popular Celtic-synth affair. Even for that, it looks and feels a lot less dated than The Lost Boys of a few years later.

 

[Worf]

Yeah..... I'm enjoying it as well as this season is basically set in the Universe and Lore of "Fallout New Vegas" and game i've played at least 5 times and am thoroughly familiar with. Some observations:

"Deathclaws may seem silly to you but believe me when you're playing the game there's only one other creature that's almost as deadly Cazadores! DeatchClaws you can usually see or hear in the distance. They're also pretty direct in their assaults. Cazadores Are swarming stinging wasps the size of greyhounds who give you little notice before they swarrm up and around you on a moments notice. I've so many nightmares of em I hope they Never get included in the show. DeathClaws can be handled pretty well if you've the right weapons. But They can swarm you under quick as well and you only survive 1 strike. Two hits usually end you!

Little atomic bombs, shotguns grenade Launchers are my weapons of Choice in the Mojave. I also like scoped Hunting *****s 30.06 or heavier for sniping.

Worf

 

[Edward]

Yeah..... I'm enjoying it as well as this season is basically set in the Universe and Lore of "Fallout New Vegas" and game i've played at least 5 times and am thoroughly familiar with. Some observations:

"Deathclaws may seem silly to you but believe me when you're playing the game there's only one other creature that's almost as deadly Cazadores! DeatchClaws you can usually see or hear in the distance. They're also pretty direct in their assaults. Cazadores Are swarming stinging wasps the size of greyhounds who give you little notice before they swarrm up and around you on a moments notice. I've so many nightmares of em I hope they Never get included in the show. DeathClaws can be handled pretty well if you've the right weapons. But They can swarm you under quick as well and you only survive 1 strike. Two hits usually end you!

Little atomic bombs, shotguns grenade Launchers are my weapons of Choice in the Mojave. I also like scoped Hunting *****s 30.06 or heavier for sniping.

Worf

The more I see of Fallout, the more I like it. In general I think the show is very clever - they've managed to make something that appears to have stayed true to the source material, without requiring prior knowledge thereof so it appeals to those of us who haven't played it. (Resident Evil did this well, imo - and the ending to the first film was one of the best I've ever seen in its genre!) It's right in my aesthetic wheelhouse, really - full on atomicpunk. I hope they keep it going for a few seasons yet.

Over on Disney Plus, I've been watching Under the Banner of Heaven https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1998372/ which is a drama based on a non-fiction book about a murder within a deeply religious community back in the eighties. It's a well done piece, so far - two or three episodes in. Andrew Garfield convinces as a devoutly religious man seeking to maintain his own faith while investigating a brutal double-murder committed within his own faith community. It so happens that (replicating the real life case) that faith group were LDS / Mormons, though in terms of the human interest story, you could extrapolate the themes explored and place them onto any faith context where good people are shaken by bad things done in the name of (a version of) their faith. Garfield has form for a strong portrayal of a man of religious convictions (see Hacksaw Ridge), reminds me somewhat of Ian Charleson in Chariots of Fire.

I finished the third series of Robin of Sherwood. It ends on rather a downbeat note which works well as an ending as it goes, though was never intended to be 'the' ending, the show having been cancelled after the series had wrapped, or (per the writer) they would have changed how it ended. A remarkably good run on the Robin Hood legend, though, particularly the existence of two Robins. The first, Michael Praed, announced he planned to leave the show during the filming of the second series owing to a big US work offer. Instead of simply casting someone else in the role, the show leaned into the change narratively, with Jason Connery (yes, that guy's son) being a different man who took on the mantle of Robin Hood, Son of Herne the Hunter. The two Robins had different characters, with the third series (as many episodes as the first two put together, so each Robin had an equal number of screen appearances) dealing a little less with the mysticism of the first two and a little more with the social justice themes and the idea of rebellion against the Anglo-Norman establishment just over a century after its brutal conquest of England (a brutality oft forgotten or glossed over even today in the "1066 and all that, Kings and Queens of England" rendering of history). There are events in the show that give dates of between 1180 and 1214, though the characters in no way age as they should in that timeframe. Sort of the opposite of MASH (where it gets noticeable towards the end that most layers have aged in real time over eleven years whereas the events depicted only run for four years...). But nothing that ruins it.

The look of the whole thing remains excellent, one of the more historically accurate in terms of costume. Part of why it looked so good was the amount they spent on it - half a million an episode. It had a budget that was unheard of on British TV back in the day. I don't think there's been a better version of Robin Hood since, certainly none so innovative. The elements of pagan mysticism in a screen Robin Hood were introduced by this show, and it had a Saracen member of Robin's band and Satan-worshipping cults a good eight years before the Costner run on the story. Very influential. The last version of Robin Hood on TV debuted in 2006 and ran until 2009 on the BBC. It was... of its time. No much cop imo - more Errol Fynn style adventure romp. I'd love to see it come back round in something more Robin of Sherwood style. There's definitely room for this vein of cod-historical, fantasy-lite stuff that takes it all in a different direction than the dragons and ****** of other properties.

 

[Edward]

The BBC's latest big Sunday night drama is the first television run at Golding's 1954 novel, Lord of the Flies. (All episodes available now on BBC iPlayer in the UK, worth keeping an eye out for landing elsewhere.) I've seen the first three of the four parts, will conclude it tonight. Some reviews have been mixed, but I think it was well done. I read the book at school as one of our set texts for English literature when I was, I think, about fourteen. Absolutely gave me the willies. I was convinced that it was exactly how things would play out in the real world; Golding's statements about the book being intended as allegory were something of a comfort.

There have been two previous English language adaptations for the big screen (a third in Portuguese). I confess I've seen none of these, though the 1990 adaptation put me off watching it by messing with the setting. An Americanisation of the book seems inevitable with big Hollywood money, but making them kids from a military school was a significant step away from the whole point of them being ordinary kids, stranded after a plane that was evacuating them from a looming nuclear war crashed on the island with no adult survivors. I gather there were a lot more significant deviations from the source novel in that one. There was also at a time a plan for Warmer Brothers to make an all-female adaptation for television, which would have been interesting. That fell through, though the project idea evolved into Yellowjackets, which I believe many on here have seen.

Those behind this BBC version (adapted by Jack Thorne, most well known for his script for Netflix's celebrated Adolescence) have chosen to set it in the era in which the novel was published. This is achieved very well in flashbacks. For events on the island, there remain hints of the period look (the boy's haircuts, then all wearing short trousers, Piggy's braces ("Suspenders" in American English) and glasses) as events see the boys shed much of their clothing and revert to something more primitive, which also gives it something of a timeless feel. Themes of class difference between the choir and the 'ordinary' boys are apparent but not laboured. Individual performances by the lead cast are superb. Largely unknowns (the young man playing Jack will doubtless be a much big name in short order as the new Draco Malfoy), there's a real believability to the performances. Standouts for me are the two boys playing the most complex characters from the book - Ike Talbut as Simon, and David McKenna as Piggy, both of whom are making their professional debut here. Twelve year old McKenna has been directed to play Piggy with his own Belfast accent. A particular form of Belfast that is softer and clearly 'educated'; his delivery of Piggy's lines fit beautifully with the character I recall on the page. A working class kid with a natural curiosity, intelligence, encouraged to better himself through education. As per the book, he is the oft-ignored voice of reason, in favour shallower but more charismatic alternatives.

The adaptation is presented with each of the four episodes largely concentrating on the experience from the point of view of one of the boys - not as narrator, but more adopting them as a key character for the themes explored in that part of the story: Piggy's organised society with democratic rules, Jack's rejection thereof, Simon's philosophising (the Beast in both its appearance and Simon's realisation of what it really is is especially well rendered). The final episode, which I will watch tonight, centre on Ralph. This has worked really very well.

Worth seeing.

 

[Doctor Strange]

(I accidentally posted this on the Movies thread yesterday, now copying it here.)

I'm surprised to report that I'm enjoying HBO's A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.

I'd loved Game of Thrones (and not having read the books, I didn't freak out at the differences or feel betrayed by the wonky last season) but I've found House of the Dragon only barely entertaining enough to stick with ('cause there's basically nobody to root for among those Targaryen nutjobs).

But A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is short - only six half-hour eps - and delightfully different. We're just hanging with the smallfolk at the roughly midway point between the other series, timeline-wise. There are Targaryen and Baratheon nobles around the periphery, but they aren't the focus, it's on a modest hedge knight just starting out after being the squire to another hedge knight who died.

Anyway, it's been a nice change from the political machinations of the other shows, and it took three eps for it to come up with a patented George R. R. Martin surprise... thankfully not a murder, for once. Definitely recommended if you want to spend quality time in Westeros.

 

[Edward]

(I accidentally posted this on the Movies thread yesterday, now copying it here.)

I'm surprised to report that I'm enjoying HBO's A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.

I'd loved Game of Thrones (and not having read the books, I didn't freak out at the differences or feel betrayed by the wonky last season) but I've found House of the Dragon only barely entertaining enough to stick with ('cause there's basically nobody to root for among those Targaryen nutjobs).

But A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is short - only six half-hour eps - and delightfully different. We're just hanging with the smallfolk at the roughly midway point between the other series, timeline-wise. There are Targaryen and Baratheon nobles around the periphery, but they aren't the focus, it's on a modest hedge knight just starting out after being the squire to another hedge knight who died.

Anyway, it's been a nice change from the political machinations of the other shows, and it took three eps for it to come up with a patented George R. R. Martin surprise... thankfully not a murder, for once. Definitely recommended if you want to spend quality time in Westeros.

It sounds worth a perusal. I think I can get it on one of my streamers (the big Thrones prequel series hasn't reached them yet). We got about as far as the third season of Thrones on DVD years ago and didn't get around to it again after that. I must go back to it now the hype has died down, though. Quite enjoyed spotting a lot of familiar locations, not least the base of the Wall, which was filmed about five minutes' drive from my parents' house in the village I grew up in.

 

[Edward]

The BBC's latest big Sunday night drama is the first television run at Golding's 1954 novel, Lord of the Flies. (All episodes available now on BBC iPlayer in the UK, worth keeping an eye out for landing elsewhere.) I've seen the first three of the four parts, will conclude it tonight. Some reviews have been mixed, but I think it was well done. I read the book at school as one of our set texts for English literature when I was, I think, about fourteen. Absolutely gave me the willies. I was convinced that it was exactly how things would play out in the real world; Golding's statements about the book being intended as allegory were something of a comfort.

There have been two previous English language adaptations for the big screen (a third in Portuguese). I confess I've seen none of these, though the 1990 adaptation put me off watching it by messing with the setting. An Americanisation of the book seems inevitable with big Hollywood money, but making them kids from a military school was a significant step away from the whole point of them being ordinary kids, stranded after a plane that was evacuating them from a looming nuclear war crashed on the island with no adult survivors. I gather there were a lot more significant deviations from the source novel in that one. There was also at a time a plan for Warmer Brothers to make an all-female adaptation for television, which would have been interesting. That fell through, though the project idea evolved into Yellowjackets, which I believe many on here have seen.

Those behind this BBC version (adapted by Jack Thorne, most well known for his script for Netflix's celebrated Adolescence) have chosen to set it in the era in which the novel was published. This is achieved very well in flashbacks. For events on the island, there remain hints of the period look (the boy's haircuts, then all wearing short trousers, Piggy's braces ("Suspenders" in American English) and glasses) as events see the boys shed much of their clothing and revert to something more primitive, which also gives it something of a timeless feel. Themes of class difference between the choir and the 'ordinary' boys are apparent but not laboured. Individual performances by the lead cast are superb. Largely unknowns (the young man playing Jack will doubtless be a much big name in short order as the new Draco Malfoy), there's a real believability to the performances. Standouts for me are the two boys playing the most complex characters from the book - Ike Talbut as Simon, and David McKenna as Piggy, both of whom are making their professional debut here. Twelve year old McKenna has been directed to play Piggy with his own Belfast accent. A particular form of Belfast that is softer and clearly 'educated'; his delivery of Piggy's lines fit beautifully with the character I recall on the page. A working class kid with a natural curiosity, intelligence, encouraged to better himself through education. As per the book, he is the oft-ignored voice of reason, in favour shallower but more charismatic alternatives.

The adaptation is presented with each of the four episodes largely concentrating on the experience from the point of view of one of the boys - not as narrator, but more adopting them as a key character for the themes explored in that part of the story: Piggy's organised society with democratic rules, Jack's rejection thereof, Simon's philosophising (the Beast in both its appearance and Simon's realisation of what it really is is especially well rendered). The final episode, which I will watch tonight, centre on Ralph. This has worked really very well.

Worth seeing.

Addendum: I did indeed watch the last episode and the ending is as accurately rendered from page to screen as I could have dared hope. The end of Piggy's story is slightly elongated (but reaches the same conclusion) from the page, in a way that is much more affecting than a straight take on it might have been.

Some very nice casting of the infrequent appearances by adult characters (mostly in the flashbacks, an addition not in the source material, but perfectly rendered in a way that really complements Golding's characters). Rory Kinnear and Danny Mays are both stand-outs in their fleeting appearances - as one would expect. Tom Goodman Hill is note perfect as the British naval officer who arrives on the island at the end. Well worth a looksee if you get the chance.

 

[Zombie_61]

...I hate how the streamers are now so often shifting to a weekly-drop model. TBH, it would probably annoy me a little less if they didn't keep trying to pretend it's because we all miss watching regular TV week to week...

We do?!?!? I've always loathed having to wait a week until the next episode, and was so pleased when they started selling DVDs and Blu-rays with the entire season in one container. I mean, yes, we had to wait until after the end of the current season before we could buy them, but it always annoyed me that other options weren't made available to we "at-home viewers", and pleased that once they were available at local stores those 20-something episodes (plus special features) could be viewed at any time.

 

[Edward]

We do?!?!? I've always loathed having to wait a week until the next episode, and was so pleased when they started selling DVDs and Blu-rays with the entire season in one container. I mean, yes, we had to wait until after the end of the current season before we could buy them, but it always annoyed me that other options weren't made available to we "at-home viewers", and pleased that once they were available at local stores those 20-something episodes (plus special features) could be viewed at any time.

Yip. I'm much more at home with watching one thing at a time until I've seen it all, then moving on to the next. For me the great thing about streaming is it's on-demand nature... I don't want to go back to the rubbish bits of TV! The Box set was a genius invention, though. Prior to Netflix becoming a thing, there were several series that I bought on disc because it was vastly cheaper to buy entire season that way rather than spend £30 a month on the TV package that it would otherwise have necessitated to see it, typically spread across three months at a time.

 

[Worf]

dd

(I accidentally posted this on the Movies thread yesterday, now copying it here.)

I'm surprised to report that I'm enjoying HBO's A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.

I'd loved Game of Thrones (and not having read the books, I didn't freak out at the differences or feel betrayed by the wonky last season) but I've found House of the Dragon only barely entertaining enough to stick with ('cause there's basically nobody to root for among those Targaryen nutjobs).

But A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is short - only six half-hour eps - and delightfully different. We're just hanging with the smallfolk at the roughly midway point between the other series, timeline-wise. There are Targaryen and Baratheon nobles around the periphery, but they aren't the focus, it's on a modest hedge knight just starting out after being the squire to another hedge knight who died.

Anyway, it's been a nice change from the political machinations of the other shows, and it took three eps for it to come up with a patented George R. R. Martin surprise... thankfully not a murder, for once. Definitely recommended if you want to spend quality time in Weste

(I accidentally posted this on the Movies thread yesterday, now copying it here.)

I'm surprised to report that I'm enjoying HBO's A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.

I'd loved Game of Thrones (and not having read the books, I didn't freak out at the differences or feel betrayed by the wonky last season) but I've found House of the Dragon only barely entertaining enough to stick with ('cause there's basically nobody to root for among those Targaryen nutjobs).

But A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is short - only six half-hour eps - and delightfully different. We're just hanging with the smallfolk at the roughly midway point between the other series, timeline-wise. There are Targaryen and Baratheon nobles around the periphery, but they aren't the focus, it's on a modest hedge knight just starting out after being the squire to another hedge knight who died.

Anyway, it's been a nice change from the political machinations of the other shows, and it took three eps for it to come up with a patented George R. R. Martin surprise... thankfully not a murder, for once. Definitely recommended if you want to spend quality time in Westeros.

Hmmm.... I sometimes "TOY" with the idea of returning to Westeros BUT then I remember Season 8 of GoT. I hated that load of lumpy Brown Dribblage so badly and felt so betrayed that I've yet to watch one minute of either Dance of Dragons or AKotSK's. I can't do it. As the old saying goes... Fool me once Shame on you....
Fool me twice........ Well We Won't be Fooled Again! GWB.

Worf

 

[Edward]

The Breslau Murders (2025), on Disney+. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt32360916

1936, Breslau, Germany (Now known as Wroclaw, and part of Poland since 1945). Franz Podolsky, is a German police detective. No fan of the regime now in power (which doesn't seed him as truly German, given his Polish father and heritage). Drinking and gambling problem, dysfunctional marriage. An archetypal noir detective, but in a very different context that we normally see that played out. Right from the off we see Franz is a man who believes in justice, and isn't afraid to get what he sees as justice without going by the book. Suspended pending investigation, he is given a chance to redeem himself when a Polish athlete, part of the team who are to represent Poland in the upcoming Berlin Olympic Games, is murdered in his hotel room, alongside a local prostitute he was with at the time. All initial suspicions point to a political murder (it is widely known the athlete is Jewish, and when interviewed by the press he is also quite open about his confidence in beating his German rival, whom he calls a "loser" as he has beaten him twice before), but Podolsky believe there is something bigger gonig on in the background.

I'm halfway through the series, and it's very enjoyable. A Polish-language production, Disney have chosen to present it to me as standard dubbed into English. They made a good enough fist of it - it's not especially obvious it's dubbed when you're watching - the biggest giveaway is that slightly disjointed feel the voices always have in a dubbed production. I can't quite explain it - it's not that they clash with the visuals, I don't think it's even the differenced in mouth movements that you can see if you look closely, it's more something to do with them being added later the the sound mix, like listening to a recording of someone singing along to a recorded track rather than as part of the original band mix, if that makes sense. Still, I get used to it quickly, and it doesn't detract from the quality of the show overall. Some critics on IMDB have obviously watched the original language version and objected to it being in Polish rather than German, given the politics and wider social context of the period, though I rather suspect in reality that this is simply a matter of the original target audience being primarily Polish.

Content warning for those who are sensitive about That Sort of Thing or have Little Eyes watching with them, Podolsky's relationship with his wife does involve a number of (relatively tame) ***ual scenes, and she's very often ******* across episodes.

Series runs eight episodes, and I'm currently at the halfway point. So far, I think it's pretty entertaining. The setting, an imperfect but well meaning man trying to deal with "ordinary" crime and wanting to see justice done while dealing with being under the shadow of Adolf's regime, works well. Particularly with it being 1936 and as a viewer knowing that there's a decade yet of this to come, and it's only going to get worse. I have no knowledge of the show or the characters other than having chanced across it on Disney Plus, but depending upon how it turns out, I could see this having the potential to spawn further series with these characters.