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[Rinel]

@TNP said in Good TV:

Umbrella Academy. 7/31.

Hunting high and low to seek revenge
Brand new moral code got made reluctant renegade
Leaving empty souls when he avenged
Evil spirits flowed he drank the blood like lemonade

[Auspice]

y'all I am kinda in love with the Baby Sitter's Club

my childhood

ETA: Starting to realize I love everything Marc Evan Jackson is in.

[Lotherio]

@Auspice This series is good, I had to dig up Melanie's attach scene from The Birds so my daughter's got the one girls Halloween costume thing.

[Warma Sheen]

I just watched Emergence on NBC. I really liked it. Then I heard it got cancelled. Such a shame.

[Cupcake]

I am late to the part for the Tales From Arcadia collections of animated series, but I sure did love 3Below. Now I'm watching Trollhunters, which I know is going backwards, and I'm super looking forward to Wizards, the third and final installment.

[Pyrephox]

@Cupcake said in Good TV:

I am late to the part for the Tales From Arcadia collections of animated series, but I sure did love 3Below. Now I'm watching Trollhunters, which I know is going backwards, and I'm super looking forward to Wizards, the third and final installment.

Trollhunters is awesome. I didn't think they were going to be able to match it with 3Below, and in some ways, it felt more rushed than TH, but it was still very good. I also look forward to Wizards.

[TNP]

Hamilton is on Disney+. They recorded the original cast years ago and it was going to be released 2021. But since Covid shut down Broadway, Miranda decided to release it early.

One month is $6.99. To see Hamilton, that's the deal of the century.

ETA: Okay, this should maybe have been in movies but whatever.

[Ganymede]

@TNP

I saw it live. I love the show. It's the most moving show I've watched since I first saw Les Miserables.

It still moves me. I cry with certain pieces. I adore the animated videos of the songs you can find on YouTube. And while the show isn't even close to being historically accurate, it's still very enjoyable for what it is.

[Lotherio]

@Pyrephox said in Good TV:

@Cupcake said in Good TV:

I am late to the part for the Tales From Arcadia collections of animated series, but I sure did love 3Below. Now I'm watching Trollhunters, which I know is going backwards, and I'm super looking forward to Wizards, the third and final installment.

Trollhunters is awesome. I didn't think they were going to be able to match it with 3Below, and in some ways, it felt more rushed than TH, but it was still very good. I also look forward to Wizards.

They both are good series, I figure in part the switch from Troll Hunters to 3Below was due to the tragedy of Anton Yelchin, Emilie Hirsch did a good job filling in but Anton really captured the essence of Jim. On a side note though, I enjoy most off Guillermo's work.

[TNP]

@Ganymede said in Good TV:

@TNP

I saw it live. I love the show. It's the most moving show I've watched since I first saw Les Miserables.

It still moves me. I cry with certain pieces. I adore the animated videos of the songs you can find on YouTube. And while the show isn't even close to being historically accurate, it's still very enjoyable for what it is.

I won the ticket lottery and was seated in the 2nd row. It was pretty amazing. It wasn't the original cast though so even beyond getting to see it again, I was especially happy to see the original cast. Miranda is fantastic.

And yeah, it's an emotional show.

[Wizz]

If you've got Prime and you like anime, give Pet a shot. It's...it's really heavy, friend. I just finished it and I'm a bit devastated.

Similar to Inception, Paprika, or Legion if you liked any of those.

[mietze]

Athlete A. It's on Netflix. Not an easy watch, but an extremely compelling documentary, especially if you follow or have participated in competative gymnastics. Though it mostly revolves around Maggie Nichols' complaint against Larry Nassar to USA Gymnastics, as well as Rachel Denhollander and the Indy Stars amazing journalism, the big picture view is also there and I think really important for consumers of elite gymnastics to be aware of.

[Ganymede]

Kids' shows are getting so good.

I laugh so hard at this clip all the damn time.

[Aria]

@Ganymede said in Good TV:

Kids' shows are getting so good.

I laugh so hard at this clip all the damn time.

"You have bunk beds" was the line that did me in.

[Ganymede]

@Aria

“Mojo not hideous! He is at least a solid 8!”

Dead.

[Sparks]

So, speaking of animated kids' shows...

There's a set of graphic novels by Mike Maihack which I have adored for years (since back in its webcomic days), called Cleopatra in Space. The comic is six volumes long; five of them are already published, with the sixth and final volume coming out next month. It's a mostly lighthearted adventure comic, albeit with some darker moments to it.

The basic premise is that Cleopatra, in her teenage years, discovers a mysterious tablet and gets thrown 30,000 years into the future, where the Nile Galaxy is threatened by an alien overlord named Octavian. There's a prophecy that only Cleopatra—someone presumably dead for, y'know, literally tens of thousands of years—can save them, one which has been largely discounted by almost everyone, right up until a very, very confused teenage Cleopatra falls through this inexplicable time rift...

But hey, no pressure, right?

Anyway, I had somehow overlooked the fact that it has been turned into an animated series by Dreamworks. The first season—which I guess is roughly an adaptation of Target Practice, the first graphic novel—aired in Southeast Asia last year, I guess but now it's out here! They've changed some things; Cleo's friends Akila and Brian (both human in the comic) have been turned into an alien and a cyborg, for instance.

Despite that, from what I've seen so far, it seems to stay pretty true to the spirit of the comic. (Not surprising, since apparently Maihack is the show-runner.) So I'm looking forward to watching this.

(Also, the opening theme is oddly catchy.)

[Ganymede]

It looks good, and I have that on queue after I get through She-Ra.

Anyhow, any show with a toxic male villain named Man Boy is the best.

[Wizz]

Man. So I finally saw Season 3 of True Detective, and while I loved the performances I was a little disappointed at first with how mundane the big reveal seemed to be at first glance. Season 1 is genuinely one of my favorite pieces of media, partially because it's just so weird and there are so many hints of something much bigger going on.

For nostalgia's sake, I decided to rewatch S1...and holy crap is it stunning how many big parallels there are, both in characterization and tons of small but very noticeable plot elements. Biggest chills I've had though is episode 5 during the confrontation with Reggie Ledoux, when he tells Detective Cohle that he's in Carcosa now and will do this again, time being a flat circle.

Given how time is such a big theme in Season 3, and given the circular nature of the ending...goddamn, I am now super fascinated to see where they go with Season 4.

[dvoraen]

I thought Netflix's Warrior Nun was decent, but it does start slow before it takes off.

[Wretched]

Okay so I'm like hella late to the show, but i just finished season 2 of 'The 100' and I can only conclude that radiation and inbreeding has made everyone very stupid.

I am however very entertained.