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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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