I know it will get complicated. But the first 10 episodes are alright.
Shadowfax is born free and he is basically the king of all free roaming horses.
I loved Sandman. Was worried that it would be a bit out there although Iāve liked other Gaiman adaptations. I think the episodic nature of it worked well and it was nice having a couple of stand alone episodes to break things up.
Oh, and the dream of cats segment looked gorgeous. Was it partly rotoscoped? The animation looked amazing.
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Limie is the only jock geek I think Iāve ever known 
Well Iām a geek and have played in Middlesex county div II and was on my uniās NCAA div 3 tennis team.
Does that count?
Yeah Iām shit at tennis too.
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Oooh, seeing that Mac gif - the docuseries about the purchase of Wrexham has just started over here in the US. So far itās been really well done, and while I know they are actors, both McElhenney and Reynolds comes across really well
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Watching Sexy Beast again, some of those Don dialogues, just genius acting by Sir Ben.
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The creators of Dark have a new one about to release here called 1899. Canāy wait
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I know Iām late on this but just started The Handmaidās Taleā¦ I donāt think itās too much of an exaggeration to say that a lot of the concepts behind the world they live in are straight out of the Republicans mouths. Obviously the costumes etc are a bit excentric but the whole forced births, women as second class citizens, blaming women for getting rapedā¦ Weāve seen all of that from the right in recent years.
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Oh goodness I had to stop watching that, itās too depressing.
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Yeah Iām not sure if Iāll watch all of it. It seems very well made and acted but the story cuts too close to the bone at the moment!
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@Sweeting Itās important to remember that it was written in the early 80s as a commentary on Reaganās America. Itās been treated as the 1984 of womenās issues and the dangers of the patriarchy. That is unfortunately treated as a niche issue and so was much less known than Orwellās work. Until they made a tv show about it 30 years later in direct response to the acceleration of the threats Atwell described in her book.
Like you, I too had to stop watching it. The first season was definitely hard work but exceptional. And important. After that I felt it lost its center. Rather than being about the response to the oppression, it started being more and more about the oppression itself. It came to feel more like misery porn. I fought through the end of he second season and then couldnt go back for any more. They are now about to release the 5th season, and by all accounts it has just kept doubling down on the misery every since.
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The Handmaidās Tale: I watch seasons 1 and 2 without too much issues (depressing, yes, but there were good stories and motives by the characters)ā¦but came S03, HBO/production company were just milking it (thatās the main reason I prefer 2 seasons max for any series, as ideas are generally still fresh)ā¦it became a struggle to slog through, but against my better judgement, I watched all the episodes (13 for S03!). S04 was even worse, there were no hope and no end to the miseries. After episode 5, I finally drew the line and stopped.
Killing Eve is another one. Season 3 was just stupid, and I donāt feel like watching S04.
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Woah, Rings of Power launched last night with the first 2 episodes. For some reason I thought it didnt start until Sunday. Going to cook some pizza and nerd out tonight 
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Seems like it happens to a lot of shows, after two seasons the novelty wears off and you see the pattern of the stories. Example: You, The Last Kingdom. Great first two season then youāre like āhavenāt I seen this before?ā
Very few tv shows are put together with a real plot in mind. They are put together as a concept with maybe some rough narrative touchpoints they think they can hit. At some point you have to be able to go beyond an interesting concept and deliver a story worth telling, either in terms of plot or character arcs. If you dont start with those in mind its difficult to find them midstream. West World is as good an example I can think of. Severance as well. I know lots of people loved that, but it felt to me like an exercise of a the writers room saying to each other "fuck, how do we make 8-10 episodes out of a 1 paragraph concept?
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