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September 3, 2018
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The Official TV Thread

Just thought I'd start a thread where we can all share what we've all been watching.

I'm just finishing the fifth and final series of The Gentle Touch starring the lovely Jill Gascoigne as DI Maggie Forbes. It's a programme from the 80s and is excellent.

Next up for me is the second series of Monkey, known as Monkey Magic in the States I think. If you haven't seen it then you HAVE to check it out. It's a Japanese programme from the 80s that tells the legend of Monkey, Piggsy, Sandy and Tripitaka who travel through Asia to pick up the Buddhist Sacred Scrolls. Some may be familiar of the legend from the video game Enslaved: Odyssey Of The West.

I love rewatching stuff from the 70s and 80s regularly, they don't make telly like that any more which is a real shame. All we seem to see these days is mostly reality TV bollocks with the odd gem hidden here and there. :(

So what are you guys and girls watching?

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    kojack
    kojack
    Honored Contributor
    April 3, 2020

    kojack said:

    One tv series (not zombies) that I'm really excited about is the Tales From The Loop series being made by Amazon. It's based on the artwork of Simon Stalenhag, from his books Tales From The Loop and Things From The Flood, about life in the 80's in Sweden near a particle accelerator that messes up reality. (The series won't be set in sweden though)
    His website has a HUGE amount of his artwork, including multiple shots of each piece to zoom in on various details.

    There's also a film being made right now about Simon's third book Electric State, about a girl and her robot sidekick traveling across post apocalyptic america (I don't have the book yet, but from the artwork I've seen it appears VR headsets wiped out or enslaved most of humanity).

    One and a half years since that post and... Tales From The Loop came out on Amazon today!
    It's got 8 episodes, each about 52-57min.
    The visual style is a perfect copy of Simon's artwork.

    It's pretty heavy. I've just watched 2 episodes and I'm going to have to do something to cheer myself up (maybe some Audica). It's awesome, but it's almost like a slow burn twilight zone.


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    Wildt
    Inspiring
    April 3, 2020
    I just finished season 1 of Altered Carbon, and liked it quite a bit. Was all ready to start season 2 until I saw the abysmal reviews from people who loved season 1. 
    Any of you guys seen it?
    kojack
    kojack
    Honored Contributor
    April 3, 2020
    I liked Altered Carbon season 1, but season 2 just didn't feel up to the same standard. Still an ok show, but it didn't seem as good.
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    Wildt
    Inspiring
    April 3, 2020
    Roger that. I'll skip season 2.
    getlines
    New Participant
    April 14, 2020
    I finished watching I-Land last night and it was great. Only a one series wonder which is unusual these days and only 7 episodes long. B

    FitBoy01
    Up and Coming
    April 15, 2020

    snowdog said:

    I LOVED Babylon 5, I rewatch it every few years. Farscape and Lexx too.


    I am with you Dude
    Anonymous
    April 16, 2020
    I watched the second series of Top Of The Lake and really enjoyed it.

    Both series revolve around a Kiwi cop that returned home after working in Oz and the second series she goes back to Australia again.

    She's dead fit too ????

    First series started with a pregnant 12 year old trying to top herself in a lake and second series started with a pro's body in a suitcase being dumped in the sea. ?
    Luciferous
    Inspiring
    April 16, 2020

    kojack said:

    I liked Altered Carbon season 1, but season 2 just didn't feel up to the same standard. Still an ok show, but it didn't seem as good.


    The first book Altered carbon is really a classic and I can thoroughly recommend it.  I must have listened to it three times on audible. The second book is just a good read but nothing memorable. They must have decided to skip it and just write something based on the world.

    It could be a book further down the line but I doubt it as they screwed with the first story line so much it probably had a knock on effect to the other stories.

    Season one was good as a stand alone but they butchered the story. Still I enjoyed it. 

    I would skip season 2, it's a standard formula based attempt, politically correct to the point of complete blandness. Normally what happens when the first is a success and then too many people get involved trying to please everybody.

    I am going to end by recommending the book again as it is a brilliant, atmospheric,cyber punk, dystopian story that is  even better than Blade Runner (although in that case the film was better than the book it was based on) :) 




    Digikid1
    Honored Contributor
    April 19, 2020
    Just watched the series "Salvation" on Netflix.  Good series.
    kojack
    kojack
    Honored Contributor
    April 29, 2020
    I just started watching The Midnight Gospel.

    Umm, yeah. I'm 2 episodes in and I don't know if I want to watch the remaining 6.
    I love the bizarre art style, but the dialog is mind numbingly boring. It's like watching an  episode of Liquid Television or Trip Tank but replacing the audio with a philosophy podcast that is 99.5% unrelated to what you are watching.

    For example, the first episode is a zombie apocalypse with batshit crazy stuff going on, but the entire time the dialog is just the show's creator talking to Doctor Drew Pinsky (some american radio show host) about meditation and marijuana use.

    I just finished the second episode 5min ago and I barely have any clue what it was really about. Visually it was about a horrific meat processing system taken from games like the original Prey (the human processing) or Quake 4 (the Strogg conversion), but the dialog was a 20min chat with a woman talking about how jesus felt love while on the cross. And something about being accepting of death. I think.


    Basically it's just the main guy having an interview with someone on a topic, then the animators make a crazy unrelated sequence that's lip synced to it.

    I may actually like it if I turn the sound off.

    Wait... why am I watching this when episode 5 of Tower Of God (anime) came out 1.5 hours ago!


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