What Show are you currently watching?

Just finished Shinzanmono (2010) from Japan and of all it's movie specials. It's a very heartwarming mystery show about not just solving murders, but also helping people to get over them. Now onto season 2 of Altered Carbon.

 

Currently watching the UK crime drama A Confession.


Absolutely stelar show. Among the very best drama on TV. I 100% recommend A Confesstion to anyone who can a stomach a bleak crime drama. Also, beware that this is a biographical show based (very closey) on actual, and quite horrible, events.

 

I love that show!
And it has Martin Freeman!

 

I've just finished the second season of La Casa de Papel, very impressive, specially the first season.

Now I am curious to know what is about' the story, of the 3rd and the 4th seasons.

Because everything it seems complete after the las episode of 2nd season. I just hope they've kept the excelent level of the firsts two.

 

All Elite Wrestling

 

When you want to make more money and keep the money that you make... BETTER CALL SAUL!!!!

 

Dark Side of Ring

 

Peaky Blinders.

Awesome show.

 

The Clone Wars!

 

The Boys. I'm not into supers, nor comic books really, but this show is pure gold!

 

Just finished Special Affairs Team Ten (2010) from South Korea. A mystery drama with great writing, good acting, interesting characters and truly unique and unpredictable cases.



P.S. I believe Asian dramas are a way forward, at least for now. Why? Well, a couple of interrelated reasons: 1) Weak or strong, good or evil, honourable or deceitful - men are still written and portrayed as men and women are written and portrayed as women 2) With no white men around, there's an actual mystery as to who might be a villain 3) with no representation checkboxes, characters can simply be characters 4) anything distinctly political is pretty much always "on the cover", so can be easily avoided if necessary.
So yeah, once the Asians (including us) learn how to make proper sci-fi, I'll probably abandon the Western visual media altogether, except for selected franchises.

 

I just finished watching the SyFy 12 Monkey's TV series (available on Hulu) and HOLY MOTHER OF GOD!
This show is AMAZING! (@NinjaRen if you haven't seen this...do!)

I can't even begin, at the moment, to detail everything wonderful about it because I'm still picking my brain up off of the floor from being blown away.
I never watched it when it was on the air between 2015 through 2018 because I thought there was no way possible the TV show was going to stand up to either of the films, and especially not Gilliam's masterpiece. It didn't help that it was on SyFy, which for me, honestly, has a bad track record of cheese ball shows that have great concepts, but horribly cheesy execution and lame-duck writing.

I'm actually thrilled that I missed out, though, because that meant that I got to binge watch this (without commercials is best, but if you can't swing that, I'm sorry), and watching these in such tight succession pays huge dividends.

This is actually going to be the first TV show that I'll have ever purchased in hard copy, and it's going to sit right next to my Star Wars discs.
Why?

Because this little TV show of not much pop-culture fame (by comparison to the giants of Star Wars, Trek, Marvel, etc...) out-Star Warsed Star Wars.
Everything Star Wars does as a writing method, 12 Monkeys does in spades and much more tightly and clean.

What you need to be esoteric to appreciate with Star Wars is right on the surface in Monkeys.

There's a few spots where things are a tad weak, but they are chump change in comparison with the mental rationalizing Star Wars fans are accustomed to doing.
I can count the amount of "Wait...what?" from this show on one hand, and that's for a show spanning over 55 hours!

Star Wars main saga films span a bit over a third of that length and I've lost track of the "Wait...what?" moments, so that is an amazing accomplishment.

And it is an appropriate comparison because both are full of an interconnected operatic saga format of story telling in the ancestral ilk of the Shakespearean tragedy.

But even with being "on the surface" with it's weaving, which is just a jewel to see (so nice having it openly exposed and included rather than esoteric and obscure, because it means you don't have to be an archivist to catch it, and people won't tell you you're reading too much into things), there's still plenty of mystical symbolism scattered throughout for those interested in digging into the nuances (unfortunately there's not a huge fanbase with tons of hours thrown at picking at the show, so you'll be mostly alone in your digging around - some fan sites still exist, but they are rotting and not updated).

For example,


This symbol is a punch of stuff to dig into (that I'll leave for folks to discover on their own because I'm not going to spoil stuff).

It even has a very Star Wars air in terms of "good guys vs. bad guys" where you have a rag-tag hero group facing off against a super-fanatic cult empire villain group.

And Shakespeare has a run for his money on this show in terms of operatic melodrama (and I don't mean that in terms of CW melodrama, I mean that in terms of Star Wars melodrama).

Nearly every great ontological tangent touched on across Shakespeare's plays to do with our condition of mortality, fate, and charge of will is present and accounted for, and in the most nestled wrapping of intertwined relations like any solidly good operatic story.

I seriously cannot recommend this show enough to Star Wars fans (or...at least, fans who enjoy the operatic saga nature of Star Wars...if what you like isn't that, then probably give this a miss).

I will note, however, that those with soft constitutions for HARD violence should not watch this.
This has some VERY hard violence in it. I'm typically not a fan of hard violence myself, but in this it worked. It felt not only appropriate in the setting and made it easier to buy into the world, but also fit very well with the whole Shakespearean vibe that was running (because Shakespeare originally was extremely brutal to watch in terms of violence being portrayed).

Cheers,
Jayson

 

Currently watching The Tick.


I'm not much of a supers fan and comedy really isn't my thing, but MAN! This show is great!

What's more, I cannot for the life of me understand why it is so great, why I like it so much (because of the above caveats)! It is very writer-y, of course, and very together & well executed, and the actors are great, but still... why does this silly little thing work so freaky well?

 

Have you seen The Boys?

 

Yeah. That was alright, but the first season of The Tick was great!

 

Oh has anybody heard of Doraleous and Associates? If not, you should look it up on YouTube.

 

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