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[Warma Sheen]

@Rinel I was the same. I watched the show first on Syfy, so Seasons 1 and 2, then (since it was cancelled) I picked up the books cause I loved the show so much that I just had to know what happened with everything. The story was too good to just stop there. And I loved the books even more. Then Amazon picked the show back up and now I'm in the middle of watch Season 3. Still great.

For those that have read the books, but not seen Season 3, Amazon really lets Chrisjen be who she is in the books in a way that SyFy did not (or could not). It is fantastic.

I love it when you can enjoy the books and the TV show (or movie) at the same time. It doesn't always happen, but even with different story choices for media reasons, the stories just really flow together. Although it is super weird that the TV show series seems to begin and end in the middle of each book, it doesn't feel off at all.

I also love that they've included most, if not all of the Expanse novellas. You can tell the people working on the show have a love of the material.

As far as Science Fiction on TV goes, The Expanse has been one of the best things I've enjoyed in a really long time. Sadly, that was specifically what SyFy was going for when it dumped the budget into it that it did, but it also got cancelled because of that budget.

[Auspice]

@Warma-Sheen said in Good TV:

Amazon really lets Chrisjen be who she is in the books in a way that SyFy did not (or could not).

Probably could not. Chrisjen swears like a sailor (and I love it).

Reading the books, btw, makes it all the more hilarious that Wes Chatham practically demanded to be Amos. (Tho from having read an interview, he'd only read the first book, began reading others during filming, but it started to affect his playing of Amos, so now he'll only read one book ahead ... which makes him kind of an adorable nerd IMO :P)

[Aria]

@Ganymede said in Good TV:

Mindhunter is turning out to be a truly fascinating series.

And not just because Jonathan Groff is in it.

I truly love this series and am greatly irritated by how much time passes between seasons given that it's hardly a blockbuster production. I watched all of Season 2 the weekend it dropped and have recommended it to pretty much anyone who will listen, including friends who work in film. Even the opening credits are fabulous.

[Ghost]

Anyone enjoying American Horror Story 1984?

AHS has been kinda off/on for me. I might watch one episode and love it, then another has me going "this is kinda pretentious and formulaic".

I don't DISLIKE this season, but I'm hoping for some better twists and cleverness like I saw in Roanoke and Cult.

PS. Also nice to see Emma Roberts in a role other than fashionista bitch on wheels. Dont get me wrong, she's a great Regina George trope, but just happy to see her getting written for different character types.

[surreality]

The current AHS tickles my 80s fetish, so I'm obligated to love it. Some bits I've seen coming, some less so. It's still fun to watch it play out.

A lot of people seem to hate the current cast, which is sad to me since I have crazy love for two of the shows by the same producers where some of them were regular cast and were fantastic: Scream Queens and Popular.

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Anyone who liked AHS: Cult has bad taste in television. It was the low point of the series.

[Auspice]

I watched Murder House, couldn't get into Asylum at all. I really liked Coven....... and haven't watched any of the others since.

[surreality]

Roanoke is as my favorite so far, I think. But I have a weakness for paranormal shows, and it nailed the tropes.

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I really enjoyed... most seasons. Coven and Hotel really stuck out for me as my favorites. Roanoke was somewhat weak (until the twist, which redeemed it) and Cult just felt like the writers were sitting in a dark room, masturbating over politics.

Freak Show was a bit of an odd duck to me, but it still really struck some of the right chords for me with the references to discrimination and the ugliness of America during that time period.

Asylum I really liked, and it really made me cringe. A close family member of mine was sent to an asyium in the 60s and given shock treatments to fix her 'mental illness' because she ran away from home after an uncle molested her in her teens... so it dredged up a lot of dark feelings for me.

Murder House I didn't really get to watch until -after- some of the other seasons, so I didn't appreciate it as much. Well, until Apocalypse rolled around and made Murder House pretty great.

[Jaded]

Reminder, new episodes of Letterkenny drops on Monday.

[Ganymede]

@Jaded

[Aria]

So I've discovered that by cutting down our cable package (which I really kind of want to cut entirely), I can't watch the new episodes of Supernatural until the day after they air.

If any of you jerks post spoilers for Season 15 in here without tags, I will hunt you down. And I will find you. And once I do, I will bring my dog with me and let him poop all over your yard without picking it up. You can totally pet him after because he's a giant Muppet who loves everyone, but still. Poop.

That is all.

[Derp]

@surreality said in Good TV:

Scream Queens

I loved the hell out of Scream Queens.

[Lisse24]

Happy Departure Day, y'all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzakrA2NUpg

[Cupcake]

@Lisse24 Let the mystery be.

[Coin]

I finally caught up on Riverdale and just...

... so, it's not that it's bad, it's that you have to suspend your disbelief with a forklift. I mean, I get that a lot of people got annoyed because they basically took Archie characters and mangled them, but since I don't care about that so much, I finally decided to let the absolute surreal nutjobbery of this show take me and if you can manage that? It's a nice ride. It might be best for binging, for me, though.

Now for the meat of the post:

Raising Dion is phenomenal and you should all definitely watch it.

[The Sands]

@Coin To be more accurate, I think; the characters appear to you to be mangled versions of the Archie characters.

For some reason during the past 5-10 years Archie comics has been fairly successful with a line of comics deconstructing the Archie characters and putting them into much more serious situations, including things like Archie getting married, getting divorced, and dying. I don't really get it because I haven't read them (I'm simply not that interested in a 6 issue limited series of Archie trying to do his Federal taxes). I just know that they're out there. I think the characters from the Riverdale show probably owe more to those more recent lines than to the historical comedic line.

The Sabrina series on Netflix is much the same, drawing from a line of horror comics that Archie Comics produces that features Sabrina, rather than being based on the older style Sabrina comics.

They also still print lines of comics done in the older humorous style (as a side note, I don't read those, either. I just know about the existence of the 'parallel lines' from keeping up on my geek news).

[Coin]

@The-Sands said in Good TV:

@Coin To be more accurate, I think; the characters appear to you to be mangled versions of the Archie characters.

For some reason during the past 5-10 years Archie comics has been fairly successful with a line of comics deconstructing the Archie characters and putting them into much more serious situations, including things like Archie getting married, getting divorced, and dying. I don't really get it because I haven't read them (I'm simply not that interested in a 6 issue limited series of Archie trying to do his Federal taxes). I just know that they're out there. I think the characters from the Riverdale show probably owe more to those more recent lines than to the historical comedic line.

The Sabrina series on Netflix is much the same, drawing from a line of horror comics that Archie Comics produces that features Sabrina, rather than being based on the older style Sabrina comics.

They also still print lines of comics done in the older humorous style (as a side note, I don't read those, either. I just know about the existence of the 'parallel lines' from keeping up on my geek news).

Oh, probably, but the newer Archie comics are far less iconic (especially to non-comic book intense people) than The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina which was much more readily received (and pushed a hell of a lot more boundaries than newer Archie stuff in an era where pushing boundaries is a good thing for sales).

Either way, it doesn't so much matter where the mangling is perceived or "real"; the show is its own canon, IMO, (and same with any adaptation of anything).

It's still surreal as fucking hell, man.

[Jaded]

For those Ohioan fans of Letterkenny, they're doing a live tour and will be in Cleveland on March 27 and Cincinnati on March 28th. You can get more information at Letterkenny.tv.

[Ganymede]

@Jaded

Oh, I know.