Topic: What's your favourite TV program of the moment?

[6pairsofshoes]

We are watching White Lotus.  The conclusion is:
combination of Murder she wrote and Fantasy Island. 
The title sequences have award winning artwork and the show is worth watching if only for those graphics.  We are on season 3.  Right now, other than Walton Goggins and his girlfriend, the rest of them could easily just fall in a hole somewhere and not be missed.
Jennifer Coolidge does a great job of playing a self absorbed annoying rich woman who stumbles through life nearly clueless in the first 2 seasons.  Tom Hollander is wonderful and demonstrates such range as an actor, that it's a real pleasure to see him act no matter what he's in (Season 2).

There's some good talent on here but the group of 3 girlfriends in the 3rd season is so shallow and artificial as to beggar belief.  They surely could come up with some better dialogue than this.  Anyway, in for an inch, in for a pound or whatever that saying is, we'll slog through the 3rd season.

EDIT:  well that was amusing to a moderate degree with a disappointing ending.  This show likes to provide disappointing ending.  I guess it makes it "edgy" or something.  I can't say I hated it but I have certainly seen better.  They sure threw money at it.  The sets were fabulous and they hired good actors.  Just the writing that was predictable or disappointing in some way.

If anyone has suggestions for some thing else worth watching, I'm all ears!

[goldshirt*9]

Watched the second series of The last of Us. I assume that finishes it off ?

[8ullfrog]

I have been watching murderbot. It is an incredibly fun show but the episodes are infuriatingly short.

Like if the episodes were an hour, it would be an amazing show. 20 minute episodes are almost a youtube video at this point.

I also want to know what the deal with the wormhole is. Everyone has to travel through the wormhole, and even the in universe media mentions the wormhole.

[6pairsofshoes]

I have been watching murderbot. It is an incredibly fun show but the episodes are infuriatingly short.

Like if the episodes were an hour, it would be an amazing show. 20 minute episodes are almost a youtube video at this point.

I also want to know what the deal with the wormhole is. Everyone has to travel through the wormhole, and even the in universe media mentions the wormhole.

I read one of the books in the murderbot series, Network Effect.  It was entertaining.  I did not feel compelled to read more in the series but I can see how it would make for interesting tv.  The wormhole seems to be the main transport but it's been so long since I read the book, I can barely remember it.  Maybe it's explained in the first of the books?  I think I was looking for Hugo award winners as I searched for some new SciFi novel to read and stumbled across that one.  I think it's been made into a movie.  I'll see if I can scare it up.

It's nice to see you back, goldie.  I hadn't heard of that show so I'll see if I can find it as it sounds promising.

[8ullfrog]

poo, my regular streaming site appears to have been killed by cloudflare. This absolutely sucks, finding a new streaming site that doesn't try to malwarefuck my browser is difficult.

I should have diversified my bonds. Wu Tang Financial warned me!

I got lucky, only my old mirror is dead. The new mirror worked great! And the new episode of murderbot was both highly amusing and infuriatingly short.

[6pairsofshoes]

On amazonprime video:
Ivan the Terrible.
Great costumes and sets.  In Russian with subtitles.  I think he needed to be more terrible to have earned this name.  I just finished episode 3.  I don't think this production gives much of an insight into his lasting impact on the Rus, the people who developed the modern state of Russia.  He does seem to prefigure the ambitions of Putin in terms of territorial expansion.  There's several boyars and members of the Orthodox Church who continually plot against him so there are internecine power struggles in the empire.