• rektdeckard@lemmy.world
    17·
    6 months ago

    The Expanse. I forgot how good the earlier seasons were, and looking forward to seeing the newer stuff for the first time.

    • jaaake@lemmy.world
      4·
      6 months ago

      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.

      • Dessalines@lemmy.ml
        4·
        6 months ago

        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 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.

  • rescue_toaster@lemm.ee
    10·
    6 months ago

    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.

    • mercano@lemmy.world
      3·
      6 months ago

      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?

  • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
    10·
    6 months ago

    Older than you are and worth looking at. [available on Youtube]

    The Prisoner. Imagine if Ian Fleming and Franz Kafka got together to do a TV show. A government official resigns and is immediately kidnapped. He wakes up in The Village; a lovely little place with nice views, great food, plenty of fun things to do, and no possible escape.

    I, Claudius. A very young Patrick Stewart is the least reason to watch this reenactment of the first five Roman emperors.

    Connections. Non-fiction. Wonderfully entertaining and informative. The creator’s premise is that scientific progress is almost never straight forward. Coffee houses open in London = coffee houses become popular places to do business = coffee house customers join together to invest in ships to the New World = the new ‘companies’ begin looking for ways to make their ships safer = they start to invest in making pine tar to protect the ships = add two hundred years and you have insurance companies and the chemical industry

    • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.ml
      1·
      6 months ago

      Welcome fellow gen-xer!

      I tried rewatching The Prisoner but I can’t get past Patrick McGoohan’s acting now. He has one setting, a hard squint and rage.

      I, Claudius is excellent and seeing John Hurt prancing about as a crazed Caligula is another reason to watch it. Brilliantly done series.

      Connections is very interesting, well done, and I remember it fondly from watching it as a teen but I never bought some of his “connections”. Like you said, claiming, say, coffee led to the chemical industry. Well they could’ve just as likely met over ham sandwiches too. lol “These two physicists met while playing tennis, therefore the invention of tennis led to the first atomic bomb…” oy!

      • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
        21·
        6 months ago

        I kind of think that lloyd’s of London starting as a coffee shop sort of proves that argument.

        • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.ml
          1·
          6 months ago

          I’d say it was a coincidence. It could’ve been a pub and we’d be talking about the creation of beer instead.

  • reddig33@lemmy.world
    9·
    6 months ago

    I recommend “Severance” on AppleTV. Also recommend “Shining Girls”. AppleTV is free this weekend.

    • Corr@lemm.ee
      3·
      6 months ago

      I would personally say season 2 kinda missed the mark for me. Scale/power creep turned the story from being much more character driven to be this plot with a lot of odd threads IMO. That said season 1 is incredible. Probably the best show I’ve ever watched.

    • rhacer@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      6 months ago

      My wife and I weren’t sure what to expect. We took one run at it, failed, then a few months later took another run. We are now thinking we need to watch it again. Truly wholesome.

  • BmeBenji@lemm.ee
    8·
    6 months ago

    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

    • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
      5·
      6 months ago

      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.

      • BmeBenji@lemm.ee
        4·
        6 months ago

        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

    • rhacer@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      6 months ago

      I’m on my fourth watch of Gilmore girls. Third with my wife. First with my daughter.

      Absolutely brilliant TV.

      • ByteMe@lemmy.world
        3·
        6 months ago

        Yeah, I’ve seen like 10 episodes so far and I love it already. I love her sarcasm and effortless humor