Main issue with Handmaid's Tale is that it feels like there's no driving force in the writer's room. They will start on plotlines and then immediately abandon them an episode later and characters who are set up to be huge players disappear with no explanation. It just seems like they wanna cover a bunch of bases at once and can't actually decide on what the season's "about" (This is the issue I had with the Candyman reboot movie as well).

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They could be brother and sister!

Cobra Kai has plenty of flaws, but it's a no-doubter that I must binge ASAP when a new season releases

It's such a fun, easy watch. Johnny's humor alone makes it easily worth it.

Legend Of Vox Machina is bogged down by extremely lowbrow and unfunny comedy sequences, as well as rushed pacing (in part due to wasting time with said comedy sequences). Every single time I vocalize this critique, I'm hit with "So...like a DnD game????" (I am not being hyperbolic when I say I get this reply literally every time), which ignores the fact that A: They actively torpedo dramatic moments from the material it adapts for the sake of comedic subversion and B: You do not need to adapt literally every aspect of material and it goes without saying that lowbrow humor is infinitely funnier in improv than it is scripted for a number of reasons.

I stick with it because it has a genuinely good underlying story it's adapting and shows competency in adapting it when it's willing to take itself seriously. If the show hadn't gone with the constant "THIS ISN'T YOUR GRANDAD'S FANTASY SHOW" moments (it literally starts out with a "The Fellowship of the Ring died XD" style scene), then it might even have Invincible levels of good word of mouth and viewership.

This makes me happy to read. That woman destroyed Star Wars

I used to have this with Riverdale. The plot went to crazy town after season one (and even before that it was only so good), characters changed each week and it felt like the writers were picking what they were going to do, who liked who, who was sleeping with who, who dies etc. it by throwing darts at list, and overall it was just ridiculously campy.

But to their credit the actors were clearly trying their best with the material available, the cinematography and set design was utterly beautiful well beyond a show of its quality should have any right to be and the action sequences were surprising impressive, and well camp can be kind of fun its own way if you don't take it to seriously.

Then it just got to silly even for that to justify it and I dropped it.

Seinfeld, The Office, Scrubs, Schitts Creek.

It was a joint production between the BBC and Amazon. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_English_(TV_series)

Probably a stupid question but if I like detective shows would I like this?

At the acropolis.

Prime really wants to break into “prestige” television on the level of HBO, but they’ve never quite been able to make a water-cooler show no matter how much money they throw at it.

The closest they’ve come is The Boys, but even that isn’t on the level of HBO/classic AMC offerings. I wonder what the missing ingredient is.

Spy shows really took off lately, but it doesn't feel like that quality followed.

My dad really loved the old TV show... actually loves would be more accurate. He wakes up and watches Perry first thing basically every day. Is there value in this show for him? Or should he just continue and enjoy his nostalgia with the old one? We watched an episode or 2 together and he didn't really like it, but I just read that halfway through they go to more of a lawyer route.

It is not everyone, just some of "experts judges" of the recent awards shows and I do not think they hate. Probably lots of them never even watch it and others just like the competing shows better.

Actually critics loved it. At the 28th Critics choice awards held in Jan, BCS won Best Drama beating HOTD and Severance.

So it is wrong to say the show did NOT win a single award. It is not true.

Bob Odenkrik won best actor, Giancarlo Esposito won best supporting actor but I agree Rhee Seahorn got screwed over even by the critics.

And that’s why it died on network tv. Network is for safe bets (cop shows, lawyer shows, hospital shows) anything outside of those almost always die

Hopefully there are no questions about the Parthenon.

I don’t think it’s unreasonable to expect people to watch a show to understand it. If you don’t want to watch it, cool, but you don’t get to complain about not understanding why things happen the way they do.

First episode is up.

You've gotten me confused with one of the other people you are arguing with about how they aren't smart enough to understand the show mate

That was a BBC show…

Personally I didn't buy it was the same guy who became Saul whatsoever. Just didn't mesh for me. The fun of Breaking bad and in particular that version of Saul was missing.

Is this just a barely disguised ploy to get Corden to go back the UK?

Apparently it’s based off a famous case about a wrongly accused Latino man in the first half of the 1900s. I forgot the name of the case but it seems to be the inspiration.

great, another ''ambitious'' series by Amazon smh