What was the last TV show you watched?

[MisterCairo]

The last three episodes of season one of Preacher. Man, that has to be one of the most whack-a-doodle season endings of all time...

 

[Touchofevil]

An episode of "Mindhunter" on Netflix. It was just the first episode, but I was hoping for better. Better acting, better story-telling, better pacing. I read the morbidly entertaining book by FBI profiler John Douglas when it came out way back when so I hope it picks up.

 

[Worf]

"Full Metal Alchemist - Brotherhood" - Gotta love them Elric Brothers!

Worf

 

[AmateisGal]

The three-part miniseries, Ordeal by Innocence based on an Agatha Christie story. Just came out on Amazon Prime and wow, was it ever good. The way it's filmed...the way the story is told...all utterly brilliant.

 

[Touchofevil]

The first episode of Fortitude on Netflix. An interesting first episode. A pretty nice cast of actors. Some stunning visuals of Artic Norway.

 

[Ernest P Shackleton]

PBS. Our Man in Tehran parts 1 & 2. I could be misguided here, but my belief is that because I grew up in a time of Marx series of dolls for boys, Indiana Jones, and various movies based in Arabia and Persia; I have little else but fascination for the Middle East and the East. Not that I don't think there are awful elements. In my opinion, back then, xenophobia was not something I felt was pushed upon us, and I grew up in a small rural town thirty minutes from the nearest city bigger than 2000 people. If anyone was going to be hateful and afraid, we were. So, I love documentaries like this. A unique perspective. I enjoyed it quite a bit. It's unfortunate more people won't see it. It's unfortunate that the people who need such exposure the most won't see it.

 

[Touchofevil]

Better Call Saul and Yellowstone.

 

[Fading Fast]

The first season of "Episodes" a pretty good sitcom (since most are terrible, the bar is low) in which Matt LeBlanc shows more acting skills than he did in all twelve thousand episodes of "Friends." Despite a weak first few episodes and too many easy sex jokes, it still has some solid writing, truly funny lines and characters you start to care about.

The most recent full season of "The Great British Baking Show" on PBS - embarrassed by how much I enjoy this show and we truly don't like reality shows or baking competition shows, in general, but somehow the setting, emphasis on baking and its "British-ness" makes it all work.

"Can't Cope, Won't Cope -" a Irish, more-drama-than-comedy, thirty minute show about two young girls just out of college and living in Dublin trying to get their post-school lives started but also partying very, very, very hard as if they were still in college. As one gets more serious about "adulting" and the other doesn't, their relationship becomes strained. Oddly engaging even if I'm still struggling to get the (to my American ears) accent down. And if this show reflects reality, as a college kid who became an adult in the '80s - when life was regular and sex was casual - I'd say that relationship has flipped because the sex is regular in this show but life is casual as these girls (one in particular) have sex with everyone all the time but attend to their jobs and life only half-heartedly.

 

[Touchofevil]

An episode of "Fortitude."

 

[scottyrocks]

We've been binge watching Person of Interest On Demand for months. A couple of days ago we watched the series finale.

This could very well be the best series ever broadcast on network television.

 

[Seb Lucas]

I came late to this: Fargo Series 1, episode 6. I'm a big Billy Bob Thornton fan so I had to catch this. It's enjoyable and diverting, and evokes a great sense of mood, although it does have some dull patches and sometimes feels contrived. It's more like David Lynch than the Cohen Bros to me.

 

[HanauMan]

As a long time Superman fan I have just watched the first episode of Krypton. The plot revolves around events about 200 years before the appearance of Kal - El (Superman) and is set in the city of Kandor. Another childhood favorite comic figure is present in this series, Adam Strange, though not the one I remember from my old Mystery in Space DC comics. There are, however, already hints in this first episode as to how Kandor ended up in a bottle.

I was always fascinated by the story of Superman's home city as a kid and I'm looking forwards to the next episodes. Kandor and its society seem based on a failing totalitarian world with its population split between a powerful elite at the top and the 'rank less' powerless at the bottom. It is into this rank less society that Kal - El's grandfather and his parents are thrown.

I guess that this must be a British show because, bizarrely, everyone on Krypton seems to speak with a British accent (except for the actor playing Adam Strange, who sounds American). For some reason, the show so far reminds me less of the DC world I grew up with and more like the Mega City One of Judge Dredd stories that I read as a teenager in the British 2000AD comics.

 

[Edward]

Episodes is worth persevering with - a fantastic show and, speaking as someone who hated not only Friends but also everything else he has done since, Matt e Blanc s an absolute revelation in this, playing a skewed version of himself. It's also a very clever insight into the differences between the mechanics of UK and US television more broadly.

As a long time Superman fan I have just watched the first episode of Krypton. The plot revolves around events about 200 years before the appearance of Kal - El (Superman) and is set in the city of Kandor. Another childhood favorite comic figure is present in this series, Adam Strange, though not the one I remember from my old Mystery in Space DC comics. There are, however, already hints in this first episode as to how Kandor ended up in a bottle.

I was always fascinated by the story of Superman's home city as a kid and I'm looking forwards to the next episodes. Kandor and its society seem based on a failing totalitarian world with its population split between a powerful elite at the top and the 'rank less' powerless at the bottom. It is into this rank less society that Kal - El's grandfather and his parents are thrown.

I guess that this must be a British show because, bizarrely, everyone on Krypton seems to speak with a British accent (except for the actor playing Adam Strange, who sounds American). For some reason, the show so far reminds me less of the DC world I grew up with and more like the Mega City One of Judge Dredd stories that I read as a teenager in the British 2000AD comics.

Though ironically, Joe Dredd and hid colleagues would have been American as Mega City One was basically the entire East Coast USA, or at least a fair chunk of it. I know what you mean ,though - it had a very distinctive aesthetic. This encourages me to check out that Krypton show. (On a side note, are you aware of the Mega City One show Netflix has currently in development?)

 

[Fading Fast]

Episodes is worth persevering with - a fantastic show and, speaking as someone who hated not only Friends but also everything else he has done since, Matt e Blanc s an absolute revelation in this, playing a skewed version of himself. It's also a very clever insight into the differences between the mechanics of UK and US television more broadly....

Agree completely. I thought he was a one-note actor on "Friends," but he has shown wide range and surprising nuance on "Episodes." He, so far, is carrying the show - no LeBlanc, no show. The only other actor coming close to him is Kathleen Rose Perkins as Carol. Her manic, but human portrayal of the "second" in command at the network is brilliant.

 

[Ernest P Shackleton]

Preacher. I can see why someone might not like this season if they were set on that energy and vibe. This season has been very funny. It's too bad All Father had to go. This Angel of Death and Tulip rivalry could be a good one.

 

[MisterCairo]

Finished up the last two episodes of season three of Into the Badlands. Love this show!

 

[MisterCairo]

Preacher. I can see why someone might not like this season if they were set on that energy and vibe. This season has been very funny. It's too bad All Father had to go. This Angel of Death and Tulip rivalry could be a good one.

Also catching up on Preacher. Looks like I do not need to see at least one of the next episodes...

 

[Ernest P Shackleton]

Also catching up on Preacher. Looks like I do not need to see at least one of the next episodes...

I apologize. I wasn't thinking.

 

[Benzadmiral]

I'd forgotten to tape last Sunday's episode on MeTV of The Fugitive, so I dipped into my Ellery Queen (1975) DVD set. "The Adventure of the 12th Floor Express" sets up a seemingly impossible murder; "The Adventure of Miss Aggie's Farewell Performance" (co-written by series developers Levinson & Link, and producer Peter S. Fischer) gives us Eve Arden as a fading radio star (remember the series is set in 1947) who gets murdered. Both stories hinge on dying message clues. Sure, that was one of the hallmarks of the EQ novels and short stories . . . but in 2 episodes in a row? And the mysteries are rather simple by EQ/John Dickson Carr standards, or even those of the 1974 movie The Last of Sheila. Sheila is the one film I've ever seen which truly captured the EQ spirit of the grand puzzle, though it wasn't an EQ story. Any Ellery fan would love it.

Pat Harrington as a guest star in "12th Floor" wears a gray fedora with great style, though, and the sets and cars and clothes are wonderful treats for FL people. (All except Jim Hutton's shapeless wool hat. I wanted to burn it back in 1975, and I still do.) Plus Hutton and David Wayne, as the definitive Inspector Queen, have a true father-son chemistry, one which the scripts highlighted.

 

[MisterCairo]

I am watching the Jewel in the Crown, the classic mini-series from 1984, having bought the dvds. I did not watch it at the time, not sure why, probably not the highest priority program for a 16 year old, but I am really enjoying it now, ahem, a little older...