I was wondering, were TV shows like Twin Peaks, Homicide: Life on the Street, Millennium and The X-Files popular in your countries during their day, i.e. '90s? I find myself often coming back to the first three like a moth to a flame (I still haven’t watched The X-Files, though, and I’m about to find out whether it’s a ban-worthy offence).
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Twin Peaks was pretty big here in Germany, at least until that ‘Who killed Laura Palmer’ was solved, X-Files was very popular (not my thing personally). Homicide I heard about much later (after The Wire).
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Watched those two and they were popular. BTW, I think Twin Peaks were earlier (80s?) than the X Files.
X files was by far the most popular of those shows. Definitely worth watching even if just for the cultural references to the show.
I never watched Twin Peaks but I think that was also very popular in the UK.
I loved Millenium, that wasn’t as popular as the other shows sadly. Being much darker in tone and shown on a 10pm Sunday slot probably didn’t help with that.
I, like you, was a big fan of Homicide: Life on the street. I think it was fairly popular but the UK at that time was blessed with a number of big US cop shows that were all very popular so it probably never got the viewing figures it probably warranted in terms of quality. I think audiences preferred shows like NYPD Blue.
Bloody hell, it’s two-part, and the second part is a series 
Finally got round to watching season 4 of Slow Horses. Binge watched all six episodes, now feeling miserable I have to wait for season 5
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I wrote this about Severance after my S1 rewatch. I’m watching S2 week by week as they come out and having the same sort of reaction I had to S1 when I first watched it. It’s odd. It has my attention, but I wouldn’t say I am exactly enjoying it. I am trying to not get too caught up in trying to solve the mysteries or decode the hints and just let it happen as I think that path leads to inevitable disappointment. I wonder if not participating in that part of the show is why I am enjoying it less than others (those who are doing that)?
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I am also watching a new Mystery Box show on Hulu called Paradise. It focuses on a USSS agent responsible for the security of what appears to be an ex-president in his post-office life who one morning checks in on him and finds him dead after beating beaten over the head. The first episodes hints at a big scandal in his presidency (is that why he is now dead) and conflict between the agent and the ex pres (is that going to implicate him in the murder), but then the end of the first episode has a huge bombshell that completely changes the trajectory of the show.
Its really fucking stupid, but in a “I can’t take my eyes off this stupidity” way. Like Manifest.
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Reacher season 3 just released. 3 episodes.
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Two episodes in an all I can say so far not much has happened but it is really quintessentially White Lotus and is marvelous. He really has landed on a way of doing something different with each season but still so incredibly familiar that even when not much is happening in the first two episodes it feels worthwhile
His characters are awful and its great to watch.
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Jurgen Klopp documentary - Doubters to Believers…
Just released on Amazon Prime
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Well, that should fill in for my blank football weekend. I might give St Pauli vs Dortmund a go as well.
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That’s good… Enjoy.!
Don’t forget to have that bowl of onions you will be peeling at the same time at your side though…You know, just in case someone walks into the TV room when it is on 
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I was not feeling great yesterday after a really long day at work the day before so knocked off early and lay down in front of some mindless tv. I picked the Uber Dramatization Super Pumped with JGL and Kyle Chandler. It was awful in a way that you could tell in retrospect it was made by the people who made Billions. But the story is still compelling enough to stick with it.
In the end it was good choice of trashy interesting tv for where I was
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What did everyone think of the Klopp doc then? Thought it was fine. Emotional ending.
Would have liked a bit more behind the scenes stuff ala All or Nothing, but I suspect that much of that was edited out when results didn’t fit the predetermined narrative last season.
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Poignant, interesting, but as with when Shankly left, better things followed.
"They will be fine, or even more"
Footnote:-
Harvey’s dad is a bell end
SkyArts now:
The Story of The Jam: About the young idea.
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10 years too late. But for those who are following WWE. John cena’s heel turn has finally come about.
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