The TV you like thread - The Bear and Badger

SpaceGazelle

LivDiv wrote:

I didnt mind the ending either, at least wasn't as upset as most seem to be. The first four seasons are the cream, its the same for the books. At least the show has an ending.

The only outstanding show I can think of that gets better after the first season is Black Adder. I'm sure there are others but the first season has the benefit of originality. Succession was pretty consistent but the first season was still the best.

SpaceGazelle

Actually, sci fi can improve. Things like Star Trek.

Moot_Geeza

I didn't think much of the first season of Breaking Bad at the time...

SpaceGazelle

I need to give that a go.

SpaceGazelle

I like things that are only made for a single season and that's it. Godless on Netflix is excellent.

poprock

GoT reduced the number of episodes in latter seasons to spend more on each without fucking the overall budget.

And the acting in Three Body Problem absolutely does not improve. At all. (Benedict Wong phones his character in and still acts the others off the screen with ease.) It really does feel like a low budget ITV sci-fi drama all the way through. I quite enjoyed it anyway, but it’s not a Big TV Event by any stretch of the imagination.

LivDiv

Just watched the Curb finale. Brilliant.

AndCallMeCharlie

SpaceGazelle wrote:

LivDiv wrote:

The only outstanding show I can think of that gets better after the first season is Black Adder.

The wire, sopranos, Seinfeld, the bear, breaking bad etc?

RamSteelwood

SpaceGazelle wrote:

The only outstanding show I can think of that gets better after the first season is Black Adder.

The wire, sopranos, Seinfeld, the bear, breaking bad etc?

I suspect the statement is more about being significantly better after a disappointing first season, rather than a good series improving.

Parks and Rec jumps to my mind as a great show with a really poor first season.
Always Sunny is often talked about as making a big improvement with season 2, though i still find the first was funny just very roughly made (due to budget and experience etc)

JMW

Started Always Sunny for the first time only recently and thought the first few were pretty good, jumped forward to one of the latest to see if it was worth sticking with and thought what I landed on was terrible, much worse, so ditched it.
I did like the first couple of Parks and Rec more, mainly because it was just like The Office, but just drifted away from that too. Maybe I’ll go back and give it more of a chance.

Moot_Geeza

Bojack got better. Maybe not consistently improving, but a jump up after S1.

Dark Soldier

JMW wrote:

Started Always Sunny for the first time only recently and thought the first few were pretty good, jumped forward to one of the latest to see if it was worth sticking with and thought what I landed on was terrible, much worse, so ditched it. I did like the first couple of Parks and Rec more, mainly because it was just like The Office, but just drifted away from that too. Maybe I’ll go back and give it more of a chance.

Its fucking amazing, but its highs are REAL HIGH but its lows are unexplored ocean depths level.

RamSteelwood

JMW wrote:

Started Always Sunny for the first time only recently and thought the first few were pretty good, jumped forward to one of the latest to see if it was worth sticking with and thought what I landed on was terrible, much worse, so ditched it. I did like the first couple of Parks and Rec more, mainly because it was just like The Office, but just drifted away from that too. Maybe I’ll go back and give it more of a chance.

Always Sunny is prob my favourite TV thing. While there are some eps and later seasons that maybe don't hit the heights (though last season was really good), and some of the changes could be jarring jumping from first to later seasons...if you enjoyed the first few eps then you really shouldn't deny yourself some of the ridiculous magic to come just because you hit an episode that didn't work for you.

digi

The gang saves the day is amazing!

monkey

Loads of programmes have a slightly ropey first season before they find their groove. The Simpsons is another.

monkey

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GrowingTheBeard

Kow

The last few seasons of Sunny have been dismal. They really need to find something new to do. And not that fucking game development thing.

ShabbyMcCrabby

On the Twin Peaks chat.

g.man wrote:

Season two may or may not turn out to be something of a slog for you (it's divisive), but there's still gold in them thar hills, and if you haven't seen season three, then you should at the very least think of S2 as prepping for the S3 pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

Plus Fire Walk With Me in the middle too.

mk64

gonna watch this three bodies malarky

nick_md

Men Behaving Badly got way better when Enfield was replaced by Morrisey from S2.

RamSteelwood

Just cancelled Disney + and fortunately got full refund...after they just renewed it for a year at new full price of 110.
Had no idea they'd introduced 3 tiers of pricing like netflix, and wasn't expecting to renew at so much more than previous years.

afgavinstan

JMW, ignore Parks & Rec season one. Thank us later.

GooberTheHat

Anyone else enjoying Shogun? I'm loving it, apart from the fact that the English guy walks like he's just shit himself.

poprock

It’s a bit dense for me, but I’m enjoying it anyway. Watching it in parallel with Ripley, and the contrast in ‘stuff’ is dramatic. Shogun is rich, textured, overflowing with too much dialogue at times. Ripley is slow, quiet, and distant.

mrsmr2

My Disney will run out this weekend, which means missing the final 2 Shoguns.

It's been excellent so far.

monkey

It's a good watch.

JonB

I cancelled Disney recently, but will probably go back for a month to watch Shogun at some point.

In the meantime, I've hopped over to Amazon for a bit. Mr and Mrs Smith is very good.

Kow

Shogun is really good, yeah. The story is complex enough but also well enough structured that you don't get lost. My only gripe is that Cosmo Jarvis should have learned some Portuguese.

poprock

JonB wrote:

In the meantime, I've hopped over to Amazon for a bit. Mr and Mrs Smith is very good.

Aye. That one surprised me. Far more fun than I expected. And quite beautifully shot too.

Blocks100

Kow wrote:

Shogun is really good, yeah. The story is complex enough but also well enough structured that you don't get lost. My only gripe is that Cosmo Jarvis should have learned some Portuguese.

Just watched the penultimate episode and despite getting off to a strong start, I've found the pace of the subsequent episodes to be plodding in the extreme. Like, nothing ever happens.. Even Cosmo says as much. "You made a Jap Lord, but to do what?".

I thought it might be a TV version of Ghost of Tsushima and Shogun : Total War - lots of swishy Samurai sword fights and epic battles - but it really isn't is it?

They better be saving all that for the last episode.

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