What are you watching/streaming?

[Crispy]

Blindspot was good, i think i still have to finish the last season, but like may shows ive seen and watched, i had to find alternative means to watch like Coen, as we didnt get them here and /or i refuse to pay more ontop of the $170 a month for multiple services and Internet.

Like CRG - the ads on Amazon shit me, but i refuse to pay more currently, but they are nothing compared to HBO ads
And stuff like lower decks was on Amazon for the first couple and then, lo and behold you have to pay for paramount to watch it or find it somewhere

Oh and another one to watch is Silo, set in the future after an apocolypse on earth ( well the US at least) there are currently 2 seasons with 2 more coming to complete the entire story.

 

[luvmytoolz]

I'll throw Mobland out there, terrific series with seriously high quality starpower.

Helen Mirren especially is just psychotic!

 

[Windows]

Someone mentioned Robin Hood earlier. Is it any good? I haven’t heard anything about it.

 

[luvmytoolz]

Someone mentioned Robin Hood earlier. Is it any good? I haven’t heard anything about it.

It's not great, but it's enjoyable enough and a good waste of time. I don't mind it at all. If I had to pay to watch it though that would be different.

 

[Michael Kellough]

Apple TV content is mostly watchable but I hate having to wait a week to see the next episode. (spoiled by Netflix) So I usually wait for a season to be completed before watching. A couple years ago that wait-and-see habit bit me hard when while paying for HBO to watch Westworld. They dumped the whole series (as a cost cutting accounting maneuver) just a week after the last episode streamed while I still had several more to see. Does anyone know where the last season resides now?

 

[johnmpf]

I have always been partial to The Wire. All five seasons were great. I really liked how each season had a new theme, while still keeping the main characters in the loop.
My guilty pleasure was watching The Gilmore Girls with my wife. Great writing and characters.

 

[rvieceli]

While I like streaming a series, sometimes I just want a movie and not have to fret about the next however many episodes there are.

I am very fond of 1950 and 60 science fiction, more and more are becoming available (usually for free to stream. Amazon Prime used to have a decent selection of titles.

Them!, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Tarantula etc.

For those not of that persuasion here is a great watch.

2012 release "Stand Up Guys" starring Al Pacino, Alan Arkin and Christopher Walken.

Kind of a dark comedy, crime drama, buddy film. Great movie and an enjoyable watch.

Ron

 

[luvmytoolz]

I am very fond of 1950 and 60 science fiction, more and more are becoming available (usually for free to stream.

I love old sci-fi's, Day of the Triffids, The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Time Machine, Things to Come, etc, just terrific stuff.

Equally love the old Bogie films, The Maltese Falcon in particular. Fantastic film.

It's funny to think about now, but when mum eventually got a colour TV (which was a massive investment!) we weren't allowed to watch any black and white shows on it as it was a waste!

So no more Superman with George Reeves, Monkey, etc!

 

[peter halle]

When you mention getting a color tv it took me back to being a kid. When my parents immigrated to Arizona there was no extra money. At that time - late 1950's - early 1960's) when something came on tv they rented one. The coverage of the assassination of Kennedy was on a rented tv - black & white - and the first tv I can remember watching. A rented color TV was used for the 1968 Olympics. We did get a used color tv soon after.

Peter

 

[luvmytoolz]

I was flicking through my media and found a series I can't believe I haven't mentioned already, quite possibly the best series we've produced in Oz so far, "Mr Inbetween".

Don't know if you guys can access it via your streamers, but it is just fantastic and absolutely worth a watch if you can get it!

 

[Michael Kellough]

I was flicking through my media and found a series I can't believe I haven't mentioned already, quite possibly the best series we've produced in Oz so far, "Mr Inbetween".

Don't know if you guys can access it via your streamers, but it is just fantastic and absolutely worth a watch if you can get it!

Never heard of that but it’s supposed to be available on Hulu here. I’ll check it out.

 

[4nthony]

Oh and another one to watch is Silo, set in the future after an apocolypse on earth ( well the US at least) there are currently 2 seasons with 2 more coming to complete the entire story.

Silo was great. Season 3 has wrapped up filming with a planned early 2026 release.

 

[luvmytoolz]

Never heard of that but it’s supposed to be available on Hulu here. I’ll check it out.

It's an absolutely awesome series and Scott really nails the role so much you end up rooting for him, this short gives an idea of the tone of the series:

 

[Windows]

I watched the first episode of the Robin Hood show and it was OK, but a bit dry. Competently shot and acted, but earnest rather than dramatic (and not fun like some of the Robin Hood shows go for).

If you want some Robin Hood action, I’d recommend mid-‘80s Robin of Sherwood over this based only on the 1st episode.

I’d watch another episode if it were free, but I’d have to pay, so not going to chase it down. I got the first episode free on Amazon. Just missing that spark. You’ve really got to impress with that first episode in today’s world of overabundance and immediate access.

 

[bertv]

I watched the first episode of the Robin Hood show and it was OK, but a bit dry. Competently shot and acted, but earnest rather than dramatic (and not fun like some of the Robin Hood shows go for).

If you want some Robin Hood action, I’d recommend mid-‘80s Robin of Sherwood over this based only on the 1st episode.

I’d watch another episode if it were free, but I’d have to pay, so not going to chase it down. I got the first episode free on Amazon. Just missing that spark. You’ve really got to impress with that first episode in today’s world of overabundance and immediate access.

The problem with a lot of series is that they are too long. I get it that the producers would rather have 8 episodes than 6 (more for the money!), but often the quality would really improve if they would go for brevity. Robin Hood suffers from that issue -- the story develops too slowly and the number of storylines is too great for any kind of depth. (Eg what is Rebecca’s role supposed to be, apart from bad gril versus good girl?)

 

[luvmytoolz]

I watched the first episode of the Robin Hood show and it was OK, but a bit dry. Competently shot and acted, but earnest rather than dramatic (and not fun like some of the Robin Hood shows go for).

If you want some Robin Hood action, I’d recommend mid-‘80s Robin of Sherwood over this based only on the 1st episode.

I’d watch another episode if it were free, but I’d have to pay, so not going to chase it down. I got the first episode free on Amazon. Just missing that spark. You’ve really got to impress with that first episode in today’s world of overabundance and immediate access.

Yeah it's a bit slow, I'm on ep5 and it started picking up quite well by about ep3 and is an enjoyable enough series, but if I had to pay I wouldn't bother.

 

[Picktool]

Ever thought of going way way back, like times with no cell phones, email & credit cards.
Where every scene pretty much lit up a smoke and/or asked if ya wanted a drink?
Most gangster movies were pretty long and multi-chaptered.
Alot can be found YooTube

Before television, a trip to the cinema might include a cartoon, a newsreel, and a serial along with the main feature/s.
The serials--nicknamed cliffhangers, for their tendency to leave the hero in dire straits (such as, say, hanging from a cliff)
ran between twelve to fifteen chapters, and were deliberately designed to lure the audience back to the next show to see the outcome.

There were three major suppliers of serials (or chapter plays, as some like to call them), and these were Universal
(best known for Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers), Columbia (the cheapest outfit, offering Superman, Batman, and Jungle Jim),
and Republic (briefly known as Mascot), widely regarded as the best of the three.

The following is a chronological checklist of all the Republic serials. Whether westerns, detective dramas, espionage thrillers,
or pulp sci-fi, they all basically had the same plot, but ya know what? They were so energetic and full-on, it never got old...
There were many returning two-fisted, square-jawed leading men, but the real stars were Howard and Theodore Lydecker,
who did the model work and special effects, and the small army of regular recurring stunt-men, who smashed up the sets in
fights that seemed to last forever (or at least until the last unbroken stick of furniture).

If you've never seen one, try one drected by John English and William Witney from the late '30s/early '40s when they were at their peak,
and then you'll be dipping into this list like a box of chocolates... Mmm--mm.

The best is when you see the main character get into wild brawls and the stunts they performed.
i dunno, just a break from todays...

Enjoy

 

[Coen]

I love Person of Interest, it's one of those shows like Stargate that you can happily binge every so often. Just pure entertainment.

Yeah. The Blu-Ray box set with all seasons has also re-surfaced. I bought it. When I arrived home, it was in a box outside my front door. More bicycles than packages being stolen around here...
It was however on the French Amazon but even they have somewhat workable translation now. Turns out... the box I received has it's box with French and Dutch language. The five cases inside are 'L'Integégrale de la saison 1' etc. to season 4 and then the last one is "Season 5" hahaha.

 

[peter halle]

Currently watching Black Rabbit - a limited series. I spend more time scratching my head then enjoying. Consider this a PSA.

 

[Crazyraceguy]

I am watching "Person of Interest"; the series from 2011-2016


And yeah, the missing seasons, mislabeled episodes and season, disappearing series while mid-seasons are just more annoying things.

I keep finding more and more sh*t that is just becoming worse. Like Windows 11 is even worse than 10, and while 10 was better than 8, it was still worse than 7 (*). More and more changes aren't making things better, but worse. With more and more things I have the feeling that around 2016 we arrived at a peak and that since then a lot of things just went downhill.
Now it's only more bloat, more "milking" (subscription based everything), more violation of privacy ("this app requires access to contacts, photos, messages"), more vendor lock-in ("Only Available in Apple Store and Google Playstore"), more f***ng irritating Ai bots everywhere.

(*) Just to give one example; Windows 7 could recognize the network you were on and have a "location specific default printer". So whenever I would hit Ctrl+P to print something, it would always come up with the printer at that location. But in Windows 10... "this feature has been discontinued". WHY?

I watched Person of Interest back when it was originally broadcast. Not a spoiler, but it kind of changes focus, in the later seasons. It does what a lot of shows do, less about the cases, getting more into the characters and their personal interactions. It's not bad, just different.

I'm totally with you about "improvements" not always being what they are cracked up to be. Windows was always bloated with legacy stuff, as it matured. They just kept dragging the old, just to keep the original user happy. Then they finally did it with XP. Later versions seem to be more about trimming useful features, as you noted. Now they want everything to be subscription based (or cloud)
Personally, I like 11, for the touch-screen aspect. I'm not a power user though. I don't do much more than surf the internet and some image editing. The Shaper Studio is cloud based, no real computing locally.

The interface from my phone to my 2014 Camaro was seamless. It could not only receive texts, but it would also read them aloud. It even had its own phone number. It could make and receive phone calls, without having a phone pair to it. Sadly, it was just a 2G system, which eventually sundowned.
The 2020 Colorado, that I have now, requires Android-Auto (or Apple car play) to have such interaction. Natively all it does in bluetooth connectivity (phone, streaming audio)

Blindspot is interesting viewing. Season 1 and 2 were better than the remaining. Streaming on Britbox and Netflix I believe.

Ron

That's another one that started off strong and lost the plot.

That’s the one I meant! Never saw it on the original network and was amazed at the number of episodes. Around a hundred total?

Back when network TV was a higher percentage of viewing, most of the primetime shows were like that (26ish per season)

I did end up finding season 2 of 19-2 on Roku. I kind of forgot about that one. I had a Roku player box (technically still do, but don't use it) Now that it is built into smart TVs, Fire sticks, etc. I just needed to add it to the home screen.

I still can't get my Firecube to play Netflix. Every time I try to log on, it wants me to pay, but if I do it through the TV itself, it works fine.