What TV/Netflix show are you currently watching? (Megathread)

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Started 11.22.63   so far it is zaney and intriguing.  What a blast. The period set is very transportive and I find the plot brilliant. So far so good.

I also like James Franco as an actor for this role. He just has a 1963 vibe.

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Second season of Fallout is almost as good as the first.  I think they crammed in a little too much plot for 8 episodes and could have used a little more time to breathe, but it looks incredible and has a lot of far reaching implications for tge world of Fallout at large.

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I watched all of 'The Burbs TV series in one sitting, it started right after the Super Bowl so I figured why not. I had some interest beforehand but wasn't sure I'd actually watch. I haven't seen the movie before watching but I just finished watching it and loved it. The show is fine. The end of the first episode and start of the second made me almost quit watching with the unnecessary stuff about racism but thankfully it was dropped after that as the formula for the show set in with that formula being constant bait and switches. The highlights are the setting/filming location being Colonial Street on the Universal backlot which is where the movie was filmed with tons of exterior shots which I loved and the show itself looks quite nice with Dolby Vision. I'd say by the fourth episode the show got into a satisfying enough groove and I liked the ending. There's only eight episodes and at some points I'd check to see how long I've been watching an episode and it was only halfway through but I left it running but for the most part it moved quickly. There are plenty of references to the movie including one or two cameos and a returning actress playing a different role.

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The newest season of Futurama is easily the best and most consistent of the Hulu era.  Not a dud episode in the bunch.

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Tubi is basically becoming Boomerang on March 1st: https://x.com/Tubi/status/2022468701505695953

I'll probably rewatch some Top Cat and check out some of the lesser known Scooby-Doo and Flintstones shows for the first time.

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The fourth (and final) season of Resident Alien was really good.  More focused than seasons 2 or 3, but it doesn't forget to be really funny.  They give solid send-offs to all the side characters, and it really nails the finale in a way I didn't see coming.

Netflix's Beef was really something.  Very Coen-esque and masterful at shifting tones between comedy, drama, and thriller with amazing performances from Ali Wong and especially Steven Yuen.  Always kept me guessing so I was never quite sure where it was going.

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell - Probably shouldn't have watched this immediately after reading the book. Not that it is bad, but it just pales in comparison.

It: Welcome to Derry is about as good as the movies.  Do with that what you will.  Dialogue is horrible.

Watched the entirety of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms last night, and while it is great for the GoT universe to have a sort of return to fom (I enjoyed the show a lot), I am bit puzzled over the absolute frothing praise it is getting from some corners.  Sure, it's good, but I don't think it is quite "one of the best things ever on TV" good.

I was very pleasantly surprised by the first season Star Trek: Starfleet Academy.  It really managed to capitalize on a lot of the ideas that the later seasons of Discovery didn't manage to do anything with.  Sone great legacy storylines that go interesting places, and a really great villain turn from Paul Giamatti.  At its weakest with the teen drama stuff, but doesn't make those aspects so important that it tanks the show.  Can be a little glib, and has some of the same problems with feeling of the now that Strange New Worlds also struggles with, but nothing I can't get past.

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One Piece Live Action Season 2 - It's impressive that we not only got another good season of this, but that it's better than the first.  We once more get some wonderful additions to the story that only exists because of how far the series along is now, which is cool to see.  It once again goes all in on how goofy One Piece is from the hair styles, the creatures, it's why it works so well as an adaptation, because often adaptations want to cut back on the silly, to try and make it "real", which in turns just makes for a crap show often.  It's very much a show that embraces the good, the humor, the over-the-top.  I saw some people knocking certain aspects, often because people nowadays just see something like this as "cringe", whimsy isn't a thing, which is far to lame.

I think what makes this work too, is that it's very unapologetically "tokusatsu", it's cheesy and fun, like a lot of Japanese shows, the stuff Power Rangers is based on.  The show also does a great job at making the story work at a good pace.  I know this show isn't going to last all that long, I'd be surprised if we get to Water 7, but whatever we get will be cool.

So many of the actors really nailed their roles too which is awesome.  It's just a good time.

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Cyberpunk: Edgerunners is absolutely stunning to look at.  I really dig how this is still distinctly Cyberpunk while also just being a straight up sick as hell anime.  Insane violence erupts out of nowhere and everyone is just like "Yeah that's Night City for you."

Wife and I started For All Mankind on Apple TV.  Absolutely gorgeous to look at,, really great concept.  It's not quite The Expanse, but it scratches that itch.

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Caught up with what is out for the new season of Invincible and it's been solid, like it still sucks the production quality still has that clear drop the later seasons have had, kinda only showing up in very specific fights, which it mostly does for at least the end of Episode 5, but I wish they were doing better for more of the fights, like the fight in Hell, while I appreciated Slayer making a musical appearance, more to action quality would've been nice.

The drama is still good, a lot of this season being about Mark's mental state, where he sees himself, what is the right action to take to protect people, not just for him, but others are taking this into account also, such as Rex (Robot, still odd for him to take the name I feel).  Debbie also gives an incredible performance when meeting Nolan again, an interesting and I think much needed change from how I hear the book goes where Debbie eventually gets back with Nolan, which is wild.  I kinda love that the show is sorta Kirkman's way of remaking his story, that what he did before made sense at the time, but in retrospect, might not have been the best option overall.  Sorta like how The Boys getting to change up things quite a lot from what I hear is kinda of an awful comic.

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Second season of For All Mankind is great.  Felt like a step up from the first (which I did really like) in pretty much every conceivable way.  Terrific show.

Third season of For All Mankind would be the best so far if not for two storylines that involve the children of characters from seasons 1+2.  They ultimately end up in some very interesting places, but getting there is rough.  Everything it sets up for season 4 is pretty great, but some of the end feels a bit rushed.

And the fourth season of For All Mankind done.  Still pretty great, but they seem to be moving away from the harder speculative sci-fi and more towards a harder focus on the socio-political commentary.  Not necessarily a bad thing, just a shift in the overall focus of the show.

Second season of Paradise starts of really strong, but I really started losing interest and noticing just how melodramatic everything is in the back half.  It wants to move beyond the initial elevator pitch, and I don't know that it is really working for me.  Still an entertaining watch, but not really all that great.

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Invincible Season 4 - I hate that this show keeps on being so enjoyable with its story and characters while having very underwhelming animation.  The quality animation came out so briefly and they've taken so many shortcuts.  Like this show should be so big, but the art is so stiff, so not what it could be.  And it's not even just comparing to high quality anime we get on the regular, but there's western animation that is far above this.  Castlevania was doing crazy stuff and I've seen people bring up stuff from television years ago like the 90's/00's Batman/Superman/Justice League show that had better art and more impactful animation, but a massively high budget show like Invincible in 2026, with it's 8 episodes (Long episodes or not) just can't do it? And the show has degraded in quality, I remember Season 1 being better, but it's like they streamlined things since then and it's just lead to lesser quality, which is just very frustrating.

I still really like this show, I'm looking forward to the couple seasons left, I'm glad it's around, I just wish the animation and art could match up to the rest of the shows quality.

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Invincible Season 4 - I hate that this show keeps on being so enjoyable with its story and characters while having very underwhelming animation.  The quality animation came out so briefly and they've taken so many shortcuts.  Like this show should be so big, but the art is so stiff, so not what it could be.  And it's not even just comparing to high quality anime we get on the regular, but there's western animation that is far above this.  Castlevania was doing crazy stuff and I've seen people bring up stuff from television years ago like the 90's/00's Batman/Superman/Justice League show that had better art and more impactful animation, but a massively high budget show like Invincible in 2026, with it's 8 episodes (Long episodes or not) just can't do it? And the show has degraded in quality, I remember Season 1 being better, but it's like they streamlined things since then and it's just lead to lesser quality, which is just very frustrating.

I still really like this show, I'm looking forward to the couple seasons left, I'm glad it's around, I just wish the animation and art could match up to the rest of the shows quality.

I'm on episode 5, and this is pretty much where I'm at.  I really like the show and the way it handles comic book tropes, but sometimes it feels really flat.

Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat - Bigger and more outlandish than Jury Duty in a way that makes the first season look quaint and simple.  The whole premise is so much more complicated this time around, which lets them get away with being a bit wilder and more outlandish, but that also kind of makes it feel like subtraction via addition.  Sure there's more, but what made the first season so good was how small and quiet and believable everything was.  Still a terrific series, and I hope to see more.

Season 2 of The Pitt kind of does the reverse.  It's still anxiety inducing and incredible, but there's no huge 'thing' that happens this season to rival the first season, making it feel a more subdued.  Which isn't necessarily a bad thing, it is just a different overall fell.  And when you are the best how on TV by this wide of a margin, you can do that.

Finished Invincible.   Thoughts remain pretty much the same.

Season 3 of Shrinking is the weakest.  Still a superb show, with amazing performances across the board (Harrison Ford doing some of the best work of his career).  This season just felt a bit too much like a traditional sitcom, and kinda dropped the ball with one of the more serious storylines.

Pluribus is super interesting, but I felt like the pilot was the best episode.  It was really cool seeing Vince Gilligan flex the showrunner skills he got from Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul for a story that felt like he could have written during his time on The X-Files.

First season of 911: Nashville is absolute trash.  I love it.

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters continues to be fine.

Broken Trail is a pretty good basic cable Western mini-series with Robert Duvall.  Close to being great, with almost all the flaws being related to the fact it is a mini-series instead of a movie. Why hire Walter Hill if you aren't going to go all in on the dirty realism? A movie would have given him that freedom. It is incredibly well paced for 3 hours, but there's not quite enough depth to the story to fill out that much runtime. Production value isn't as high as a feature film would be. It's Lonesome Dove-Lite, but thankfully Lonesome Dove is incredible, so that's hardly a bad thing.

Margo's Got Money Troubles is another Apple TV show.  And it is also pretty great.  Killer cast. Funny and heart-wrenching.

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Got through The Boys: Season 5 and while I don't know if I would say that the series is overall great, felt like after the first season or two, it was kinda up and down, good moments, kinda lame moments, crazy moments, but it ended well enough for what it was.  I never had any interest in the spinoff things and I don't really care about the prequel series either, just feels unnecessary, so I'll be ending it here with the series.