Looking for dark sci-fi or fantasy TV suggestions

dr wu23 wrote: Anyone watching His Dark Materials with Ruth Wilson and James Mcavoy..? I think it's pretty good....hope they do a season 2 and even 3 because the 3 books end up going into our earth and other realms.

 

Watching The Witcher on Netflix now. Not bad but it's a little hard to follow, Kind of all over the place. 

Argo2112 wrote: Watching The Witcher on Netflix now. Not bad but it's a little hard to follow, Kind of all over the place.

Edited by mathman0806 - December 27 2019 at 09:36

Enjoyed the final season of The Man in the High Castle, despite it being a bit rushed in order to complete the storyline when another season was ruled out. Rufus Sewell was great. In contrast, gave up on Mr Robot ages ago, but skipped to the end to see what it was all about (hmmmm ... 🤔) That’s a lot of time not listening to music that I’ll never get back! 🤣

gr8dane wrote: Blue Book.Retro sci-fi taking place in 50ies,during cold war and when UFO spottings were all the rage.

 

People who care about Westworld probably already know, some here depending on the time zone might have seen the first episode already, but the third season of this HBO series starts tonight.

I watched again through most of the first two seasons. Some didn't like the second season, and found it too confusing, but I enjoyed it and appreciated it even more this time around.



I'm a big fan of Westworld, so this is exciting for me.

And the Korean historical zombie series, Kingdom, just dropped recently. I loved the first season, beautiful cinematography, but still haven't started on the second (I heard it was better because it is faster paced, but I loved the pacing of the first season/ series, so that got me a little concerned-- such people likely have not been as into art house as I have been).

Edited by Logan - March 15 2020 at 16:52

Ok...why are there ads in the middle of my post?

^^ An obnoxious revenue generator that end up turning people off. I rarely voew this site without Ad blocking software (I usually use the Opera browser, but I also have ad block for Safari when using Apple devices).

While I loved season one of Westworld, and enjoyed season two much more than most (as many found it too confusing --I didn't). so far I'm not enjoying this new season very much. It's like because of the complaints about the confusion before, they have tried to dumb it down with exposition dumps and more info that I want.   I'm finding the dialogue clunky, some seemingly to me silly action sequences. I love Maeve, even if I don't always like the dialogue, and Arnold continues to be a favourite of mine, I have high hopes for Vincent Cassel's character (Engerraund Serac). I will continue watching, and I'm still glad it's continuing, but I feel they may have listened to the criticisms too much and gone too far the other way. More mind-f**kery, less exposition I say.

I kind of feel now that it's just another dumb show, albeit a dumb show I am still rather enjoying (I don't rush to watch the latest anymore) -- unlike Doctor Who, which I gave up on.


The first season of Westworld was so magnificent, I felt. I'm feeling diminishing returns now, but I expect this season to improve for me and I might like it all more when I can finally binge it. Westworld works best when binge-watched for me.

EDIT: I listened to a newly released Richard Herring podcast with Charlie Brooker (of Black Mirror) yesterday, but as usual, Brooker ended up spending an inordinate time talking about sh*ts.

Edited by Logan - March 27 2020 at 17:28

^^^ I really enjoyed Dark as well.

Planning to watching the second series of Kingdom (a Korean historical zombie show) next.

I binged the sometimes quite dark Star Trek: Picard -- just finished episode 10. It had its flaws, but I loved it. It has heart, the character of Picard genuinely moved me, and 7 of 9 kicked ass. It was better than I expected.