Are we doing a TV Tuesday? We’ve just finished watching Annika. It was sort of refreshing to watch a “murder of the week” style show again. The best part of the show was obviously Nicola Walker, but also and Silvie Furneaux as her daughter Morgan. As a listener to the Doctor Who audios, Nicola’s scenes and obvious chemistry with Paul McGann was a high point too.
Anyway, we’ve finished that last night so looking for recommendations!
God, I wish there were more “X of the week” type shows. I know breaking bad and a bunch of really great shows came out and made the golden age of serial story heavy TV happen - but man, I’m exhausted having to watch 20 hours of something to get any kind of plot resolution.
I mess the days where you could just watch 40 minutes of a show and have a whole story start to finish. So much less exhausting not having to get super invested. I don’t have the energy for serial TV shows these days!
I blame CSI and Law and Order. I think they oversaturated us with “of the week” procedurals drama so collectively we all jumped ship to these shorter, high concept shows.
Another BF listener here - I really liked Walker and McGann on screen in Annika too.
Otherwise, my SO and I have the Ted Lasso finale lined up. The third season (yes, I know, but I agree with the Americans that there is a distinction between series and season) has been a necessary conclusion to the material in the previous two, but not without some fun moments.
And - in terms of other UK TV - we are just on to season two of Jam and Jerusalem which I totally missed at the time but am enjoying now.
Otherwise, in non-UK shows, Drops of God and Shrinking are the clear highlights in our lineup at the moment.
Muppets Mayhem is OUTSTANDING. It’s funny and sweet all the way through. But the episode where they parody the “Get Back” documentary is nothing short of genius. Highly recommended.
Been watching Jury Duty. Nothing this interesting ever happened while I was on jury duty!
It’s such a wholesome show isn’t it?
Yes, some of Ronald’s attempts at keeping a straight face are absolute gold.
BEEF on netflix was a surprise banger for me
After a while I just found it too stressfully destructive to keep watching!
Also I took out the 7 day trial for Paramount+ to binge Season 3 of Star Trek Discovery while working from home (my current contract is about 0.5 time). I have all the regrets.
At least Picard season 3 is worth a watch, and Strange New Worlds starts back soon!
I’ve just finished The Orville, I enjoyed it’s weird mixture of Star Trek and Family Guy humor.
