The TV Thread

Yeah, I understand where you're coming from. Some of the changes are fine. Other changes I don't really get. It's the same with every book adaptation for me.

Very happy to see Brooklyn Nine Nine saved for a 6th season. I even managed to get my partner hooked and he generally hates American TV comedies.

What's that about? is it the China three Kingdoms?

I've, finally, been watching Arrow from the beginning. Pretty good show so far. Though a bit 'slow' right now but since I made it through about half way Season 4 the first time I know it picks up.

I dropped that one. I watched up to season 2 but it ended up being boring to me.
I really like Willa Holland and the girl who plays as Sarah (for eye candy purposes) quite a lot, but I no longer watch series just because I fancy some actress/ses. And I'm really not into super hero type of stuff, that's why I don't care about Marvel in general. I had a different childhood, so the genre really doesn't mean anything to me.

Saw the first episode, and it was really uninspiring. Definitely a strong candidate to get cancelled after the first season.


Loved both of those. Didn't expect I'd get into Handmaid's Tale, but I somehow did. Still don't think it deserved the Emmy over Westworld last year though.


Counterpart was/is dope. Literally nobody knows about it though.


The entire Arrowverse is lame at this point. Arrow started off well, but can't stand it right now. Flash was the same. Legends? I regret starting it. Didn't make that mistake with Supergirl though.

I'll try to give it a go at some point, probably will try to torrent the thing, since YT has shit quality.
I really wish we had more kind of "historical" series and what not, that's why I'm patiently waiting for the next season of The Last Kingdom, and Vikings to finally finish the latest season.

I gave Knightfall a go a few months back, gee I hated it. Boring AF, nothing really happens, not digging a single actor in that one. It gets a tiny wee better after episode 5 or so, but before that is just awful. Not even the high CGI first episode was that interesting to watch.

I'm very picky with video quality myself, and YT shit re-encoding usually does not help.

Vikings is probably my favorite pseudo historical series of the moment. And things are getting interesting, even more so, if they end up showing the invasion of the Normans (Rollo's France) and how the Caliphate kicked the vikings ass out of the Iberian peninsula once they invade.
I liked Marco Polo too (it involved both China and the Mongols), but sadly that one got canceled after S2.

The other pseudo historical series I watched was S1 Britannia. It has shit reviews on IMDB (actually the score raised a bit now), but I gave it a go nonetheless.
It's about the second Roman invasion to the British Isles (first one failed miserably), not the best plot and some people may outright agree it sucks. And I do admit I have a bias towards Roman stuff, but for me the show was interesting enough, plus some of the characters, or the majority of them are hilarious in one way or another. The guy who worked in The Walking Dead as the "governor" is here as the roman general, and one of the chicks sounds familiar too.

Actually, it's nothing like it, the time period is way before, when the Isles were crowded by just tribal people, and we are talking about the Roman Republic, very old stuff. However if had to compare which show is better, I'll pick Vikings any time of the day.