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We have another 3 month free trial of Apple TV so binge watching what we can. Surprisingly, my wife, who is not big into sci-fi wanted to watch Murderbot and we are both enjoying it. I am vaguely familiar with the books but have never read them. Pretty funny.

I'm also watching Hijack on my own and like it too. 7 episodes similar to the "24" series style where every episode is about an hour in real time. Will move on to Chief of War with Jason Mamoa after that.

New season of Slow Horses was amazing as usual. Already mentioned The Studio is great. Apple TV has a lot of great shows.
 
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Flipping through the Peacock offerings yesterday, my wife and I decided to start watching All Her Fault, a limited 8 episode series with Shiv from Succession, Michael Pena, and Dakota Fanning starring. Intended to watch an episode, maybe two, but six episodes later and staying up too late for the start of a work week, we were hooked with each episode's suspense building. Really looking forward to capping it off tonight. A good show to watch with your wife--as I shared with a co-worker this morning, it should put most husbands in a really good light compared to Shiv and Fanning's spouses.
 

GophersInIowa said:
I'm also watching Hijack on my own and like it too. 7 episodes similar to the "24" series style where every episode is about an hour in real time. Will move on to Chief of War with Jason Mamoa after that.

New season of Slow Horses was amazing as usual. Already mentioned The Studio is great. Apple TV has a lot of great shows.
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Just finished the latest season of Slow Horses. Just a really, really well done show. Glad it's moving forward, the Gary Oldman character is one of the better characters I've seen in a show in a while.

We watched Hijack a while back. Elba is an actor that I really like almost anything he's done. It's been a little while but I want to say, from my recollection, that my only knock on Hijack was that it's one of those where you asked multiple times, "why didn't they just do this?". Minor gripe, but it was worth watching as I recall.

If you like Elba, the British series "Luther" is pretty good. It's dark, but I really really enjoyed it. I can't recall what platform it's one.
 

coolhandgopher said:
Flipping through the Peacock offerings yesterday, my wife and I decided to start watching All Her Fault, a limited 8 episode series with Shiv from Succession, Michael Pena, and Dakota Fanning starring. Intended to watch an episode, maybe two, but six episodes later and staying up too late for the start of a work week, we were hooked with each episode's suspense building. Really looking forward to capping it off tonight. A good show to watch with your wife--as I shared with a co-worker this morning, it should put most husbands in a really good light compared to Shiv and Fanning's spouses.
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Just watched the first one. Looking forward to more.
 

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Just watched the first one. Looking forward to more.
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Finished it last night and it didn't disappoint through the finale. Chekhov's gun from the early episodes comes in significantly in the finale, it's a pretty satisfying conclusion. Michael Pena deserves all the work he can get, he's outstanding, with Sarah Snook right there with him.
 


GophersInIowa said:
We have another 3 month free trial of Apple TV so binge watching what we can. Surprisingly, my wife, who is not big into sci-fi wanted to watch Murderbot and we are both enjoying it. I am vaguely familiar with the books but have never read them. Pretty funny.

I'm also watching Hijack on my own and like it too. 7 episodes similar to the "24" series style where every episode is about an hour in real time. Will move on to Chief of War with Jason Mamoa after that.

New season of Slow Horses was amazing as usual. Already mentioned The Studio is great. Apple TV has a lot of great shows.
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Chief of War is really good. Recommend for sure.
 


Finally got around to powering through the last season of True Detective: Night Country.

Very uninspiring, to say the least, despite Jodie Foster's efforts to salvage the storyline. If it would have been more than just 6 episodes, we probably wouldn't have finished it, or maybe we would have, I don't know.

I'm not a fan of anything really supernatural related anyway, and while that wasn't the entire plot, it was a fair amount. I can't recommend watching it at all.
 

coolhandgopher said:
Flipping through the Peacock offerings yesterday, my wife and I decided to start watching All Her Fault, a limited 8 episode series with Shiv from Succession, Michael Pena, and Dakota Fanning starring. Intended to watch an episode, maybe two, but six episodes later and staying up too late for the start of a work week, we were hooked with each episode's suspense building. Really looking forward to capping it off tonight. A good show to watch with your wife--as I shared with a co-worker this morning, it should put most husbands in a really good light compared to Shiv and Fanning's spouses.
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Thanks for this recommendation. We just finished and enjoyed it a lot. I would agree with the last sentence, haha.
 



Just watched the first episode of Pluribus on Apple.

Like it very much and will watch the rest. The creator and Show runner is Vince Gilligan and it stars Rhea Seehorn.
The title of the series refers to e pluribus unum, a Latinphrase meaning 'out of many, one'.[

It’s a sci-fi post apocalyptic premise and those generally aren’t my bailiwick, but I like his work on the X-Files and he also co-wrote Hancock, so I thought it was worth a try, as he always has creative perspectives.

FWIW - 98% on rotten tomatoes.
 

Sorry if this has been mentioned, but I don't keep up on this thread all the time. Anyway, started "Task" on HBO MAX with Mark Ruffalo leading an FBI drug task force. Really good. Have watched the first 4 of 7 episodes. May finish tonight.
 
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Gopher_In_NYC said:
Just watched the first episode of Pluribus on Apple.

Like it very much and will watch the rest. The creator and Show runner is Vince Gilligan and it stars Rhea Seehorn.
The title of the series refers to e pluribus unum, a Latinphrase meaning 'out of many, one'.[

It’s a sci-fi post apocalyptic premise and those generally aren’t my bailiwick, but I like his work on the X-Files and he also co-wrote Hancock, so I thought it was worth a try, as he always has creative perspectives.

FWIW - 98% on rotten tomatoes.
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We're about halfway through and really like it as well.
 



GophersInIowa said:
We're about halfway through and really like it as well.
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Glad you like it.

I’m finishing up Down Cemetery Road, with Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson, produced by BBC. Last episode drops today.

Kind of a wacky British who dunnit, with some good humor- you might like that as well.
 

Ogie Ogilthorpe said:
Finally got around to powering through the last season of True Detective: Night Country.

Very uninspiring, to say the least, despite Jodie Foster's efforts to salvage the storyline. If it would have been more than just 6 episodes, we probably wouldn't have finished it, or maybe we would have, I don't know.

I'm not a fan of anything really supernatural related anyway, and while that wasn't the entire plot, it was a fair amount. I can't recommend watching it at all.
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Agree. Based on what I can tell....it's something that they just slapped the True Detective title onto. Finished it only because there were only a couple episodes remaining by the time I had realized that I barely cared to find out what was happening.

Gopher_In_NYC said:
Just watched the first episode of Pluribus on Apple.

Like it very much and will watch the rest. The creator and Show runner is Vince Gilligan and it stars Rhea Seehorn.
The title of the series refers to e pluribus unum, a Latinphrase meaning 'out of many, one'.[

It’s a sci-fi post apocalyptic premise and those generally aren’t my bailiwick, but I like his work on the X-Files and he also co-wrote Hancock, so I thought it was worth a try, as he always has creative perspectives.

FWIW - 98% on rotten tomatoes.
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Watched the first two episodes. It's great. Very much looking forward to watching how this all unfolds.
 

Just finished the first half of the Stranger Things final season, and as the kids say (or said not so long ago) it slaps. The first half finale's got me juiced for the down the stretch wrap up of the show.
 

We just plowed through "The Last Frontier" on Apple TV. We liked it, I wouldn't NOT recommend it. It was solid if you're looking for something to put on the list. I thought the woman who played the female lead, Haley Bennett, was a less than perfect choice for the role though. She was "okay", but she probably prevented the series from getting a higher rating, at least from me anyway.

It's a good show, but I do tend to like shows based on frigid, arctic climates and this filled that bill. I give it 1.5 thumbs up out of 2!
 

Ogie Ogilthorpe said:
We just plowed through "The Last Frontier" on Apple TV. We liked it, I wouldn't NOT recommend it. It was solid if you're looking for something to put on the list. I thought the woman who played the female lead, Haley Bennett, was a less than perfect choice for the role though. She was "okay", but she probably prevented the series from getting a higher rating, at least from me anyway.

It's a good show, but I do tend to like shows based on frigid, arctic climates and this filled that bill. I give it 1.5 thumbs up out of 2!
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It was enough to get me to want to watch season 2 but barely. Agree on the actress. And the show could have been two separate shows with two different storylines. I hated the Jason Clarke character’s wife and son. Their reaction after his secret was revealed was ridiculous.
 

I never watched Miami Vice back in the day but Damn, this is one heckuva list of people who appeared on the show. Holy crap.

 

We just plowed through another Apple TV series, starring Uma Thurman, called "Suspicion". Chalk one up for, should have done my homework before pulling the trigger.

8-episode series, for the most part we were enjoying it and it was keeping our attention and trying to figure out what was going to happen, who the "bad guys" were, etc. And then it just goes completely off the rails in the final episode or so with some climate change activism whack job storyline, not to mention it left a litany of things that were never explained, the dots didn't connect, never explained what happened, who did certain things, multiple layers of different factions involved and it never tied up who ultimately did what. Just a dumpster fire ending to what could have been a pretty good show

Time to finally get started on "Landman" with Billy Bob; just heard too many good things. I'm also curious if anyone has watched another show on Apple TV called "Smoke" with Taron Egerton? I had it on my list, looked interesting, but I just saw a review somewhere that really wasn't very flattering, I think from Ebert. That may go to the back of the list
 

Ogie Ogilthorpe said:
We just plowed through another Apple TV series, starring Uma Thurman, called "Suspicion". Chalk one up for, should have done my homework before pulling the trigger.

8-episode series, for the most part we were enjoying it and it was keeping our attention and trying to figure out what was going to happen, who the "bad guys" were, etc. And then it just goes completely off the rails in the final episode or so with some climate change activism whack job storyline, not to mention it left a litany of things that were never explained, the dots didn't connect, never explained what happened, who did certain things, multiple layers of different factions involved and it never tied up who ultimately did what. Just a dumpster fire ending to what could have been a pretty good show

Time to finally get started on "Landman" with Billy Bob; just heard too many good things. I'm also curious if anyone has watched another show on Apple TV called "Smoke" with Taron Egerton? I had it on my list, looked interesting, but I just saw a review somewhere that really wasn't very flattering, I think from Ebert. That may go to the back of the list
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Landman is great, although I think the storyline with his family is kinda unnecessary. Have not watched Season 2 yet.

Have not seen Smoke.
 

Dark Matter on Apple is worth your time if you're into sci-fi stuff. Stars Joel Edgerton and Jennifer Connelly. About a physicist that gets abducted into an alternate version of his life and his struggle to get back to his family.
 

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