The mick
Succession, perhaps the best script I’ve ever experienced
Person of Interest.
Ahhh such a good show
And becoming incredibly relevant.
You can almost tell when the Snowden revelation dropped because the story becomes cartoonish.
Like the writers felt the need to outdo reality. Like you say, perhaps the show will be superseded by reality once more.
Columbo
Just one more thing….
What I didn’t realize about Columbo until watching it last year is that every episode is basically a full movie. There’s no connection between each episode, Columbo himself is the only recurring character. Each episode is an hour 10 to an hour 40 long. Also, it’s by FAR the best production and acting on TV in that era. It’s legitimately like almost 70 individual films.
For sure. I’m only just now finishing the first season, and maybe 3 episodes in it should qualify as some of the best films ever made. The acting, the psycological warfare, the poor schlubby wife-guy underdog vs evil rich parasite undertones pervading everything… there’s so much going on, that I’m sure others have scratched the surface of.
I also love how it inverts the mystery drama by showing you exactly what happened, and the suspense is in guessing where they messed up, and gave enough clues to columbo.
I’m watching the dune show, it’s not great.
I’m also watching creature commandos which is pretty good if you don’t mind animation.
. Curb Your Enthusiasm
. Drawn Together
. King Of The Hill
Here’s a list of some of the good ones I have seen:
I just watched the pilot episode of “Servant” and it looks promising. M. Night Shyamalan.
Super old show called scrapheap challenge or junkyard wars, which depends on whether it’s the british or american version. I loved this show as a kid.
I had completely forgotten about Junkyard Wars!
I’ll take the UK version any day. Robert Llewelyn did a great job as host. Did anyone ever have a successful build using hydraulics?
Severance is an all too graphic caricature of life in corporate America and I had a visceral reaction to watching it that made me feel dead it was awful don’t watch it because the show is magnificently well done and immaculately satirical stay away from this terrifyingly good show watch it
Years ago I picked up the book ‘Gone Girl.’ I got about twenty pages into it and put it down because I couldn’t stand the smug, entitled yuppie narrator.
Later, I watched and enjoyed the movie, and read some of the author’s other books.
It made me realize what a good writer she is; she made me hate a character so much that I couldn’t read the book.
When I played Cyberpunk 2077 for the first time, I chose the “nomad” backstory which defines essentially a character who has been so burned by late stage capitalism that they ran away to live in a small commune in the desert.
While playing through the game, I thought the advertisements littering Night City were incredibly jarring like they were supposed to be from a Borderlands game, or at least one that was way more tongue-in-cheek. The world of Night City was far too depressing to reasonably include those utterly ridiculous ads and it made it hard for me to feel immersed. Then it hit me; that’s exactly how I was supposed to feel, and then it paradoxically made me feel like this game set in a future world with insanely high-tech appliances available to all its citizens was indistinguishable from my own. I literally forgot multiple times that this game was set in an alternate future and not just in some city in California
Nice story. Thank you for posting it
I started watching Scavengers Reign recently on a suggestion from a friend. I normally don’t go for animated shows, but this one is really enjoyable for me. Calm & explorative.
I’ve been enjoying Skeleton Crew as it releases.
Severance is the best show of the 2020s IMHO.
Rewatching it now!
Obligatory one piece (spss one pace spss)
thunderbolt fantasy
I just found an archive of complex era desus and mero
Shrinking is excellent
