I'm sure they've been mentioned, since I'm jumping in very late.

Ted Lasso is awesome. Agree about Yellowstone. Orville new season is fun. Been watching For All Mankind, pretty cool so far. Avoid Obi-Wan. It's extremely old now, but I discovered Blacklist recently. I dunno about the Boys. I watched and liked it, but now it seems just...stupid violent. Have to give it more time this season. And yeah, Only Murders in the Building is great too.

This just needs to be said. No other show gives such a great, upbeat feeling. I actually would watch a soccer match now as a side effect.

Also, Loki if you haven't seen it is good.

Forgot to mention a great Norwegian series retelling the Thor legend in a clever way. Ragnarok. You get used to the subtitles. (Netflix)

It may be a bit old news, but the series TURN is really well written - Washington's spy ring during the Revolutionary War.

The Old Man was meh. Pacing at times was slowwwww. And I often enjoy British series like Poirot and Foyle's War, where pacing slow is normal.

For All Mankind is good, but I wish they had kept it in the 50s-60s. Felt better "historically". Nothing wrong tho.

Not a show, but a film - PREY is streaming, and it's really good. I'd put in up there with Predator and Predators as the best of that IP.

Could be the network rules, you never know.

Update - took a look at the one mentioned. Horribly unfunny and bland.

You know, I loved Archer. Season TWO was the height of the show. I noticed that they slowly went away from the sex, and sex jokes, to just the rest - it was the sex stuff, like Swiss Miss, that made it a hit. Who can forget Skytanic? Or Archer's encounter with Framboise?

I never watched Leno, so hard to say. But if Leno was unfunny, if his jokes were weak at best, ham-fisted, and fell flat on delivery, then yes.

My reply:

I guess I just didn't see any humor. His delivery was horrible. Maybe it was just the one I saw. But I'm definitely the opposite of his target audience. I like rapier wit and good writing. The Daily Show, Colbert's former show, these are/were more my cup of tea.

Another series I really loved was Carnival Row. If you like steampunk or Sherlock Holmes, the only season so far is brilliant.

Other top shows, some I've mentioned before:

Ted Lasso - best feel good show on television.
Turn - Washington's spy network, very well written
Ragnarok (Norwegian) - retelling of the Norse myth in a modern little town
Yellowstone - Cowboy mafia

These are all fun and generally well-written.

Star Trek Discovery - not bad, I'm usually pretty jaded on Star Trek spin offs since TOS.
Longmire - troubled cowboy sheriff
Elementary - older now, modern recovering Sherlock Holmes, with Lucy Liu as Watson
Only Murders in the Building - very well written, Steve Martin, Martin Short, Selena Gomez
Murdoch Mysteries - detective in Canada at turn of the century - it's had it's ups and downs, but well-loved

This one was great, very deep, but it was only one season, so:
Messiah

Guilty pleasures:
Archer, Forged in Fire, The Great British Baking Show

I wasn't familiar, so I did some research...definitely not a fan. This clip is really troublesome, because it's not clear that he's not just bashing a minority instead of the bad work. Does he also bash white guys who do bad work? I guess I just don't understand the appeal, but I never liked this kind of format. I've seen better shows that talk about fixing bad work, from "This Old House" through HGTV and now streaming shows. This clip was just hate, and less about teaching. He's supposed to be a comedian. Was any of this funny? What was important to see in this clip that I missed? I've had gifted minority workers and crappy white workers in SoCal. It is also a challenge to find someone who you can trust and has the skill.

I did the same with the first episode or second episode, just couldn't get in to it. Obviously I'm in the minority from the ratings.

Well that I agree with - my dad and his brothers were bricklayers, my grandfather was a plumber who owned the firm that did the plumbing for almost all of the city's major buildings, schools, and my aunt and uncle were electricians who worked for Bethlehem Steel. So I spent a lot of my childhood on construction sites. Being a union man meant you could trust they knew what they were doing, and would do it right, having worked their way through journeyman, etc.. Too many hang out a sign without having that kind of training.

I think I need to see that!

I agree with Orville, they’ve matured over the seasons. I actually liked Charlie too - but if anyone doesn’t like her, watch the whole season - but I really loved the character writing in Discovery - my only mark against it is I don’t like the captain.

This is off topic, but I always thought it would be cool to have a ST show focused on ship to ship combat during the war against the Klingons. But I know a military, gritty ship war is against the ST themes.

Disagree. I think the character development arcs are really good, and there's a brilliant diversity of people. The original series was quite progressive for it's era, I think they are following in the same footsteps. Star Trek was always about looking toward a better future and things like equality, etc.. It's been the driving force since Rodenberry envisioned the show. Not every episode is brilliant, but they are still a lot of fun if you like the Star Trek Universe.

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Funny you mention that one - I was going to point to it specifically as a very well-written episode that at first, I groaned about - oh no, another retread idea. But it wasn't.

Did you even read what I wrote? No, I said without seeing more episodes, I couldn't tell what the narrative of the show really was. So I asked, got an answer, and agreed with calling out bad contracting. Why did you stop reading? Were you that triggered? Why?

I enjoy Chris Pratt - I like the streaming film, The Tomorrow War. I watched half the first episode for Terminal List, just didn't get sucked in. Maybe I need to watch longer, I'll give it another chance.

Totally understand - I do the same thing, thinking I read something when I just read it wrong. No worries. I hope we eventually lower the temp in America for all this kind of thing.

Yep. Sucks that the only character I don't like is the captain and her boyfriend. Everyone else rocks.

I've watched Star Trek Continues, it was a pretty good fan-based show - they did a good job of capturing the feeling. I wish they had better actors for Sulu and Spock, but they do get some characters right. It's a fun little romp for the couple of episodes they have done.

Can these be old series as well?

North and South
BBC Poirot
Foyle's War
The Office (American)
Coupling (BBC):
https://www.snotr.com/video/2034/Jeff_meets_a_beautiful_girl

Battlestar Galactica (the newer one, even though I don't like it)
Grant (mini-series)
Upload
Twin Peaks
XFiles
The West Wing
Elementary
Sherlock Holmes (BBC)

Just started watching it based off what was mentioned here. Just skip S3, huh?

I like Jack Ryan. Oh, and if you haven't seen it, Reacher is a MUST.

Just now watching Sandman. Boring! 4 episodes so far of breathy whipers, angst, far away looks. I've read his graphic novels, and it's just as boring. Desatured 90s color grading, too. I know I'm in the minority. They should have done Kingdom Come instead.

I finished it, because like you I'm a completist, and because I was hoping things would pick up. Neil has a huge following, so it must just be me. But it didn't go anywhere, no character arc, just a dry telling of events? Ah, well. I've seen it at least.

That episode was hard to sit through. Ugh. But, again, most disagree, so I yield to the greater consensus. Oh, and Lion King also sucked ass.

It's odd, because I enjoy a lot of British television, where the pacing is a lot slower than in the US, like Foyle's War. But I was absolutely bored to tears, the diner was torture to get through. I know the Sandman comic, I've read several of the collected stories, but I could never get into it. The duel with the devil was a variation of the fight between Madam Mim and Merlin in 'The Sword in the Stone'.

Where there's a whip, there's a way..... (bonus points if you know where this comes from)

Hey, it's okay if you did. We don't judge.

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I never watched, But this type of thing sounds sadistic.

Two shows I have watched - Inkmaster and Forged in Fire. The first ridiculed and insulted the loser each week, I stopped watching. The second praised the effort and the good points of the loser, but still told them why they were booted. I still watch. That’s just me, I don’t take joy from meanness or someone’s misery. Unless it’s fiction and part of the story, of course.

Thanks, I wasn’t certain. I thought it might be a reality show with fictional elements.

Wouldn't it be nice if we could ala carte' the channels we get?

Don’t think so - the good channels subsidize the crappy channels, not the other way around. All I want would be the three networks + my news channel. I have Hulu, Netflix, Prime Video, Apple TV, AcornTV, Peacock and YouTube for everything else. If I want Sports, I stream it from Europe for free.

I think it's a reasonable request, but as some have posted, sometimes I don't remember which service it was on.

You can stream any US sporting event live from the UK. Several sites do this, but you have to have GOOD spam/hacker software protection. I used to use an old laptop that had nothing on it.

Huh, then I stand corrected. Since I just stream, at least I don't have to be part of that. Interesting info, though.

Have you watched the series "Reacher"? Great first series, fun stuff in the Jack Ryan vein. I enjoyed Jack Ryan so far. I think I have more tolerance for the genre since I only watched season 1 of '24'.

Loving The Rings of Power so far. Probably also loving the amount of money they've poured into it. Anyone having anything to say about Strange New Worlds? Haven't seen it yet.

That makes me put it on the priority watch list. Thanks. I have a love / hate relationship with Star Trek. Loved TOS, the films through ST6, hated Next Gen so much didn't watch it until 30 years after the first show - it was ok. Not a fan of anything since until Discovery. And even that, don't like the captain, but love the crew.

Good shows:

The Expanse is probably the best in terms of hard sci-fi.

I’d recommend Star Trek Discovery for its great character arcs.

Star Trek Strange New World was mentioned here.

Of the other things mentioned, avoid The Lexx, it’s very low budget and painful to watch.

Best supporting cast, The Expanse. So far I've only done two episodes of the Rings of Power, loving it so far. I mentioned it long ago, but I really loved the first season of Carnival Row. Fantastic storyline.

Shohreh Aghdashloo (Chrisjen), Cara Gee (Drummer) - there were so many good and strong characters. Wes Chatham was another.

When Next Gen premiered, I was in college. The target audience, because I also loved TOS and sci-fi in general. But I could only stand about 20 mins - first for me, the art sucked. The ship had too many holes, was stubby, fat and ugly. The unitards were formless sacks, the Oki-data displays were hideous. The bridge had CARPET on it. (For me - The best Star Trek designs lived in Wrath of Khan). This was just hideous and then they stuck a child on the bridge. That was it for me. It was 30 years before I made myself watch the rest of the episode, and then the seasons - once you got past the awful art designs, the stories weren't bad. So you never know until you watch enough of a season to let it settle.

I'd say that was a step up from the unitards. Plus, he could double as an extra on the George Pal version of The Time Machine, or even Logan's Run.

We are eagerly waiting for the next season. Hands down one of the best series ever.

Yes, it's brilliant! Working on the second season now.

Yeah, I have issues with that list. First, there is Alien, and Aliens. Everything else is crap in the series.
Die Hard, Die Hard 2, Die Hard 4 (and no other, even the one I worked on - 5)
Terminator, T2, maybe T3, then Dark Fate
Indy 1, and that's it.
Star Wars, Empire, Return of the Jedi, and Rogue One. The rest are awful.
Mission Impossible 4, 5 and 6. Skip 2 for certain.

I have some other quibbles, but those are the big ones. And skip the Hobbit Trilogy.

That list was horrible. I guess it was just really, really subjective. I cannot stand Sopranos. XFiles should have been much higher. Agreed with Mary Tyler Moore and Bob Newhart. I don't watch a lot of television, apparently, there were a lot I've never seen.

Not a fan of gore, I tend to go for Supernatural, X-Files reruns. For film, 1944 The Uninvited is the best ghost story out there.

I stopped watching shortly after the Glenn fake death. It was strong at least until then - I stopped because it was getting too stressful, but I never found it to be dull, and certainly never went "politically correct". Whatever that means. I knew that a major character would be dying, so I didn't want to see it happen. Cannot imagine it without Rick.

They had the model of the house on display at the last ComicCon. I wondered if it was any good. Thanks!

Watched first episode of The English. Not sure about it yet. Yellowstone is back on!

Watching Wednesday, fun series

One of my favorite series - fantastic story

This based off the Fleishman books?

As God is my witness, I thought Turkeys could fly. Classic episode. Oh, the humanity!

By the way, did you notice Christina Ricci is a recurring character in the series? She's always going to be the perfect Wednesday to my mind, just as Raul Julia was for Gomez and Christopher Lloyd was for Fester.

I watched the first episode and said that too. Never made it to the second.

We thought maybe the feed was off - I didn't know this was dubbed? I might try again (wife will NOT watch another) - but there seems to be difficulty telling a linear story.

Ragnorak was all subtitles, and I still loved it. It's an uncanny valley to have the words out of sync with the lips.

I find it's easy to read subtitles and get the actor's full performance. If you haven't already, I still highly recommend Ragnorak. It's a fun take on the Norse mythos in a small Norwegian town. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragnarok_(TV_series)

I really liked it too, once it found it's place. The one about Gordon going back in time seemed like a setup for the obvious trope, but they did a fresh take on it I didn't expect.