TV 19 - Simpsons Did It

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

Yeah Netflix is really not churning out good stuff anymore

even mediocre stuff on apple is better.

I still say Bad Sisters may be one of the better shows not enough people watched last year. Sharon Horgan is great

[Kepler]

Silo.

Good concept, albeit stolen from a 50s SF novel. Bad writing and terrible acting, but I'm hanging on for a bit because of the idea.

[Slap Shot]

A catalog that is niche and doesn't have a super strong following. Netflix is (pardon the pun) a House of Cards (and their financials are a fraud) and I think a prolonged strike is going to hurt them easily the most.

(this is where someone trots out their BS "viewership" numbers which can manipulated and with them almost certainly are)

Then what are you basing your opinions regarding Netflix upon? I don't pay attention and have no idea either way.

[unofan]

A catalog that is niche and doesn't have a super strong following. Netflix is (pardon the pun) a House of Cards (and their financials are a fraud) and I think a prolonged strike is going to hurt them easily the most.

(this is where someone trots out their BS "viewership" numbers which can manipulated and with them almost certainly are)

Just saying, my daughter watches Netflix more than Disney+ thanks to all the My Little Pony stuff (and previously cocomelon), my wife watches all the k-dramas (though she uses Viki more for that lately), and I basically alternate between Netflix and Amazon prime depending on which reruns I want to binge in the moment.

Oh, and all that foreign stuff is popular in foreign markets, just saying.

Paramount, peacock, and all the network specific services this side of HBO are more likely to fail than Netflix.

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

Hooo boy, succession.

next week- election night- will be a big episode. I think Roman will do something monumentally stupid.

[ScoobyDoo]

I thought the Diplomat was pretty good. One hell of a cliffhanger at the end. I guess it's good there's going to be a season 2. Although with the writers on strike, who knows. Started The Citadel on Prime.

[Proud2baLaker]

Started S2 of Perry Mason last night. 3 episodes in and so far so good.

I had forgotten that Della is played by Juliet Rylance. I remember her from the series The Knick which I also thought was very very good. In which, Clive Owen was superb in my mind. Also on HBOMax currently.

[Slap Shot]

Someplace Somewhere - S2 on HBO. Comedy/drama about a woman that returns to her smalltown in Kansas while going through a midlife crisis. It's very well done. Understated, dry, but there are some great characters and even better dialogue. Definitely not for everyone but I really enjoyed S1 and so far S2 has not disappointed.

[ScoobyDoo]

Someplace Somewhere - S2 on HBO. Comedy/drama about a woman that returns to her smalltown in Kansas while going through a midlife crisis. It's very well done. Understated, dry, but there are some great characters and even better dialogue. Definitely not for everyone but I really enjoyed S1 and so far S2 has not disappointed.

I also watch this and I agree.

[ScoobyDoo]

I had forgotten that Della is played by Juliet Rylance.

She's a dream.

[French Rage]

Silo.

Good concept, albeit stolen from a 50s SF novel. Bad writing and terrible acting, but I'm hanging on for a bit because of the idea.

Haven't they done that idea a hundred times by now? Like, "The Island" from 2005?

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

Someplace Somewhere - S2 on HBO. Comedy/drama about a woman that returns to her smalltown in Kansas while going through a midlife crisis. It's very well done. Understated, dry, but there are some great characters and even better dialogue. Definitely not for everyone but I really enjoyed S1 and so far S2 has not disappointed.

I really like it!

I also love the guy who plays Joel, which is funny because first time I saw him was his creepy character in AHS: nyc last year

[Kepler]

Haven't they done that idea a hundred times by now? Like, "The Island" from 2005?

There is an entire subgenre of SF called "Subterranean Dystopia." It was very big when everybody had bomb shelters. The one I remember the most was either Pohl or Leinster and the hook was the population was evacuated to shelter cities, the war never happened, but the corporations in all countries discovered they could have larger profit margins by selling to a literal captive population, so they have been colluding to keep up the illusion for hundreds of years.

I would like a "reverse Idiocracy" treatment. We put the entire population underground and only ones who are rebellious enough to prefer death to confinement are released on to the surface -- where the best humans have created a paradise. A meritocracy of curiosity. Conservatives in the bowels, drowning in their own swill, fury, and superstition, liberals indulging their short-sighted moralizing running and loving the prison as the guards and bureaucrats, and then the humans up top, literally above it all and free of the noxious atmosphere of the mediocre, making art and traveling to the stars.

But I'm fairly sure you're not going to appeal to a mass audience by calling the bottom 95% useless deadweight, and saying all their beliefs and ideals are just putrefied remains of ideologies carefully instilled in them as a test of whether they are too gullible to revolt.

[Handyman]

Then what are you basing your opinions regarding Netflix upon? I don't pay attention and have no idea either way.

How they make their money. It isn't based on metrics and not as much about subs either. They run almost like a money laundering scheme.

[Handyman]

Severance season 2 halted as was the new Daredevil series...