What’s good on Apple TV?

Ted Lasso Season 2 episode 4 has joined the Christmas must watch list chez Sandwich. Uplifting stuff.

We’ve just renewed after a year away. I’m catching up on season two of Foundation and both of us are watching Criminal Record. Not a huge fan of Jennifer Aniston but The Morning Show is very good tv.

The Velvet Underground documentary was brilliant.

So… a couple of episodes in to Bad Sisters and we are really enjoying it. Ta for the recommendation.

Silo. Great

for all mankind was great, but I now have at least one of the later seasons to catch up on.

got a bunch of the way into criminal record

I cannot recommend Foundation.

I cannot recommend Foundation

How far in did you get? My wife gave up after one episode but I kept going and really enjoyed it. Difficult to figure out what was going on until the certain point in the series where it all came together.

Foundation improves the more you watch I found. Although its of a style I can see many not getting on with.

How far in did you get?

2 seasons. Pompous, turgid, drivel. Very disappointing given the cast and the source.

So, thread revival and update. Just finished Silo. Mrs Bloke was very reluctant based on the trailer but she loved it and we binged it. So we’ve now watched:

Slow horses

Masters of the Air

Bad Sisters

Manhunt

Silo

Ted Lasso (just the first series)

We’ve enjoyed them all to varying degrees and, importantly we’ve enjoyed them together.  Normally finding stuff we both like is hard. Seems STW can do a better job of choosing TV for us than we can do ourselves! Thanks. Maybe Severance next.

Severance for sure

We’ve been watching Dark Matter (not to be confused with an earlier series of the same name but not same source material). Not read the book, but enjoying the adaption. Bit slow to start, but good when it gets going.

Reminded me I need to watch last series of Ted Lasso.

Hated Dark Matter. It might just be me but I really don’t like it when I know what’s going on but the protagonist doesn’t. I can’t face multiple episodes of conflict and extrapolation. It’s not like he has an excuse, they even gave him the script before filming started.

Joined AppleTV tonight just for Slow Horses – up to episode three, loving Gary Oldman’s character, absolutely chewing the scenery!

Trying

We’re on season 3 of Slow Horses, after my physio recommended it.  Properly good. Oldman owning it.

So far, we’ve watched:

Foundation

Silo

Slow Horses

Manhunt

Severance

Masters of the Air

Liason

Films: The Family Plan

All excellent bar Liason, which is very average.

Finished S1 of Slow Horses, ready for S2, loving it. 👌🏻

Forgot about flims… the Tom Hanks one is good… Finch.

In addition to Trying, there’s also Lessons in Chemistry that was mentioned on the first page, but not in the thread revival.

Watching Series 3, episode 2 of Slow Horses, ‘Drinking Games’, where River is swanning around in the Cotswolds. He was certainly in Stroud, I recognised the railway station, ‘cos I’ve used the car park there for a gig. Not sure where the flying club is, but the village of Upshott, while it’s in the Cotswolds, is actually about thirty or so miles south of Stroud – it’s Castle Combe, and the pub is The White Hart. Had a few beers in there over the years, some of them before riding back home, it’s only five miles from where I live.
It’s always fun when somewhere you know really well suddenly pops up on telly.

Something else I’ve noticed, and for which I commend the props and costume people, and that’s Oldman’s glasses – they are perfectly in keeping with his character and the period when he would have first worn them: they don’t have an anti-reflective coating on them!

Oh, and the Cessna River was flying in is based at Rochester in Kent! It’s a Reims-Cessna FA152 Aerobat, so could probably do those aerobatics. 😁

We watched the first 2 episodes of Criminal Record last night and it’s pretty gripping stuff. It’s really dark and Peter Capaldi is doing a fantastic job of being malevolent and menacing.

Tried to watch Criminal Record, was a good premise, but it felt like a soap opera half the time, the plot gets worse the longer the season goes on as well, with some truly weird plot drivers happening that makes you wish it was an episode of eastenders rather than an apple TV production.

We really enjoyed it all the way to the end… but it did pluck pot twists out of thin air a bit… more like 24 than Eastenders though.

I am working my way through Dark Matter, drama/sci-Fi about a man travelling to an alternate timeline of his to steal the life he wishes he had chose from another version of him.  Pretty interesting so far.

It’s really dark and Peter Capaldi is doing a fantastic job of being malevolent and menacing.

Ha! That’s Capaldi’s standard acting style! He’s always like that, which is why he’s my second favourite Dr Who actor, after William Hartnell. 😁

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I am working my way through Dark Matter, drama/sci-Fi about a man travelling to an alternate timeline of his to steal the life he wishes he had chose from another version of him. Pretty interesting so far.

That’s high up on my list to watch, looks good.

Has anyone tried Constellation?

Has anyone tried Constellation?

Yes, I thought it was decent, good cast.

Thread revival. Has anyone watched Tehran? I’m two episodes in and enjoying it so far, pretty tense stuff.

Has anyone watched Tehran? I’m two episodes in and enjoying it so far, pretty tense stuff.

Sounds interesting, I’ll give it a try.

Perfect thread timing. mrsG got a 3monthj AppleTV subscription with her new phone and we binged quite a bit of Slow Horses this weekend. Superb series and Gary Oldman is brilliant…

MrsG is Ted Lasso fan and we’ll try Bad Sisters based on the recommendations above

Bad Monkey with Vince Vaughn doing what VV does best.  He plays a washed up detective and the setting in the Florida Keys makes it an easy watch.

mrsG got a 3monthj AppleTV subscription with her new phone

Severance is one of the best shows in the last few years. Top class cast, just try not to keep being surprised every time you remember that it was directed by Derek Zoolander.

Has anyone watched Tehran? I’m two episodes in and enjoying it so far, pretty tense stuff.

I tired of it pretty quickly and stopped.  Given the shitshow of the Middle East don’t want anything reminding me of it.

Slow Horses new series has started (only ep 1 so far)

Really enjoying Sunny (near future Japanese set mystery.  Part English/some subtitles).