What TV are you watching now (2020)

[Heresiologist]

Watched the first episode of, Doom Patrol, last night. It's based on Grant Morrison's wacky version, so not sure how long I'll keep watching, but the characters & acting were engaging enough. I remember buying a couple of issues of the original Doom Patrol comics, back in the Nineteen Sixties, along with The Metal Men, two of my favourite & weirdest, DC series, when I was a youngster.

Please be sure to post your thoughts once you've decided to abandon or continue the series.

I remember really liking a lot of Morrison's run on Doom Patrol. I've had the series marked as "to watch" for quite a while now. There a lot of items ahead of it in the queue, though.

Speaking of which, I blazed through Chernobyl earlier this week. Normally it might have taken me half a month or more to finish. Amazing and horrifying.

I might be approaching the point where I'll watch anything Jared Harris is in, especially if his character is doomed (like in The Terror).

I said the exact same thing to my wife! And I said something similar about the second season of Umbrella Academy on Netflix. Another decent show by the way. But you're right, when a show is set in a specific time period I get put off when the soundtrack doesn't match. Glad I'm not the only one.

Me and the kiddo are now four episode into Umbrella Academy season 2. The kiddo was a big fan of season 1, so season 2's been a long time coming for her. Her favourite is 5. Not sure if that should concern me.

Anyway, I've noticed the same jarring soundtrack problem in some of the Umbrella Academy episodes. Boney M, The Stranglers and Styx songs just didn't work for me as background for a series set in 1963.

I could maybe give The Stranglers tune a pass as it sounds like some something from the later psychedelic era of the 1960s and therefore sort of in the period ballpark. I suppose it's all meant as emotional shorthand reinforcing the thrust of a scene. Or maybe it's just some wanky chasing of Guardians of the Galaxy's mixtape and its success at drumming up money for old songs.

[Pietro_Mercurios]

Tonight, I watched a random episode of, The Avengers: Steed & Peele (colour years). The one with the transvestite psychedelic, hypno-nanny. Then I watched the Buffy (tVS), episode, about her having to pay the plumber, right after coming back from the dead. Then I watched an episode of, "The Mrs Bradley Mysteries" The Rising of the Moon.

Two very feisty ladies, Diana Rigg & Ruth Bader Ginsburg, gone in the same month.

[Pietro_Mercurios]

Watching the Dutch news this evening, discovered that Juliette Gréco, extraordinary 'existentialist Muse' & chanteuse, has also gone.

[Pietro_Mercurios]

Please be sure to post your thoughts once you've decided to abandon or continue the series.

I remember really liking a lot of Morrison's run on Doom Patrol. I've had the series marked as "to watch" for quite a while now. There a lot of items ahead of it in the queue, though.

Speaking of which, I blazed through Chernobyl earlier this week. Normally it might have taken me half a month or more to finish. Amazing and horrifying.

I might be approaching the point where I'll watch anything Jared Harris is in, especially if his character is doomed (like in The Terror).

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I''ve just watched eps. 4&5 of series 1. So, I'm a third of the way through the first season & still watching. It's nuts & occasionally surprisingly gory & violent. I like the Doom Patrol characters. They're all troubled. I haven't been watching much beyond detective stuff, recently, this is the first TV superhero stuff I've watched in a while.

Son really got into, Chernobyl, as well. Too dark for me.

[Heresiologist]

I''ve just watched eps. 4&5 of series 1. So, I'm a third of the way through the first season & still watching. It's nuts & occasionally surprisingly gory & violent. I like the Doom Patrol characters. They're all troubled. I haven't been watching much beyond detective stuff, recently, this is the first TV superhero stuff I've watched in a while.

Son really got into, Chernobyl, as well. Too dark for me.

You might like The Outsider limited series, based on the Stephen King novel of the same name. It's pretty much a detective story, filled with troubled characters. And a monster. Depending on your mood, though, it might approach or even get into the outskirts of Chernobyl exclusion zone darkness.

[lemec]

I've been watching some of Season One of The Fall Guy.

I watched Season One and some more after it of Get Smart again, because I did not remember some things from it, and it is streaming now. Had to test it out out a larger TV as well.

Another re-watch of Stargate: Atlantis.

Some of "Van Helsing" TV Series that was recently added to Netflix.

I watched some Voltron cartoon episodes with the vehicle force, because I missed most of them originally, and I love Outer Space stuff.

[EverKing]

I watched some Voltron cartoon episodes with the vehicle force, because I missed most of them originally, and I love Outer Space stuff.

When I was young I had the full set of the vehicle force toys, kept in their original box when I wasn't playing with them. They vanished when we moved when I was 8 and I'm pretty sure my parents figured the box was junk and tossed the whole lot. That and my gen1 original Transformers "Jetfire" toy (actually an American re-issue of the Robotech 'Valkyrie' toy--also mysteriously vanished during the move) were my two biggest toy losses as a child.

My wife and I have been watching the two season Sense8 series by the Wachowski's on Netflix. I have been quite impressed with it and although the second season really seems to bring the LGBT+ undertones of the show to fore the overall messaging of the commonality of human experience across all walks of life is really moving.

[lemec]

That's cool. I'll have to look for a complete Voltron some day. I was fascinating that they could land their big spaceships in the water. I am a Robotech fan, and I had a Jetfire, but sold it on e-bay a few years ago to condense my collection. I think I had the red plane for Voltron's chest.

As a side note: I also saw Sense8, and it's hard not to get caught up in some of those scenes, where I cheer for the characters. They were perfect at expressing emotion.

[zlogdan]

I have canceled Netflix and I enjoyed a promotion to sign HBO where I am seeing two amazing shows

Westworld
Lovecraft's Country

Before, I signed a Brazilian streaming service for two months which gave me access to the seasons of The Big Bang Theory I had not watched ( 8 onwards ) and Young Sheldon, which are two of my favorite shows.