TV shows you most recently finished watching

Did the 6 episodes of series 2 of Good Omens over a couple of nights. A very enjoyable watch but not as good as the first series. You can see the work that went into it but the main story was a bit weak and was mixed in with too much history stuff. 7/10

Finished Wolf last night on the BBC. God show but quite weird 8/10. Also completed The Power of Parker. Brilliant, I love it and it's great to get that early 90s feel. 

Just caught the first 2 episodes of The Peripheral. Brilliant, intelligent sci-fi - I wished I'd watched it sooner.

Last Light 5 episodes

Personally I think The Witcher went down hill when it started taking itself too seriously. The first series was a hoot because it was so silly and had a feeling of how did my agent get me into this nonsense. Highly enjoyable. Second series was just meh. After that it was around that time I cancelled my Netflix subscription because there was so little on there I was watching or anticipating coming back. Even Stranger Things peaked around Season 2 for me. The reviews for the recent Black Mirror don't seem that great either although I've not seen it so can't comment.

Just finished 'Witcher'.....great  fun but I agree that season 3 went astray....and I am upset Cavill is leaving.

I'm half way through Twisted Metal. It's loosely based on an old Playstation game (I admit I've not heard of). 10 shortish episodes - from IMDb: Follows a motor-mouthed outsider offered a chance at a better life, but only if he can successfully deliver a mysterious package across a post-apocalyptic wasteland. It's a blast - violent, funny and action packed from the word go. Think of it like a cross between Mad Max and Damnation Alley. The acting and editing are a bit ropey buy you hardly notice as there's so much going on. Anthony Mackie is surprisingly good and keeps the comedy flowing throughout. And Sweet Tooth the mad clown is violently bonkers but hilarious too (voiced by Will Arnett but played by an ex wrestler, but seamless). It's trash of the highest order, easily 9/10.

Got bored with the preachy nature of Doctor Who and also many assistants are needed, deeply chauvinistic if you ask me.

I was not a fan of the Chibnall/ Whittaker era partially because I found her companions largely did not engage me (Ryan was wooden and Yaz was Yaz). The show has long been kind of preachy and had messages (The Green Death is a favourite classic one of mine) but I feel like it was done so clunkily with Cbibanll's era, and there was a lot of unnecessary exposition of the show AND tell kind. I did quite like the Power of the Doctor at the end as I recall (nice to see the old faces at least for me), so it left on a kind of satisfying note. I had adored Peter Capaldi as the Doctor, and I love Steven Moffat's era, which would have made it harder for me to fall for Whittaker's doctor and in fact the Capaldi Doctor's "fam" of Bill, Nardole and Missy was brilliant to me. The ensemble in the two-parter World Enough and Time and The Doctor Falls, which includes another familiar face, was so brilliant to me ("brill" as Whittaker would say). Ensembles can work. I felt that Chibnall's, as showrunner, Doctor Who drew a lot on the Peter Davison and 80s Who era, and Davison's Doctor had various companions. I had hoped that Jodie Whittaker would get a Heaven Sent moment (that was an episode where Capaldi basically had a one-man show, and that and the aforementioned Capaldi two-parter were Doctor Who at its very best for me.

I've been into Doctor Who rather on-and-off since the 70s, starting with Jon Pertwee and then Tom Baker, and then I grew out of a it (would have loved a better served and longer time with Colin Baker on the telly). I now enjoy the post Tom Baker years much more than I did as a youngster (into my 30s I got very nostalgic).

From Doc Who to doc-dramas, I just finished both series/ seasons of Love on the Spectrum Australia and the one that takes place in the US. I really enjoyed it. It is a feel-good show (a bit creepy at times) and having gone through some of the difficulties of raising a child on the spectrum, it can be anything but feel-good dealing with an autistic child. Before that I watched Down for Love which is about Down Syndrome people on the dating scene. I had a Down Syndrome aunt who had very loving and lovely relationship with a cognitively impaired man.

The last "fiction" drama series before that I finished was 1983, which is a Polish alternative-timeline thriller.