Good TV (aka, the TV series spamthread), the second series

[Animalmother]

The Fallout style thing? Haven't looked at it as the trailer didn't really get me interested. I'm guessing there's about 4 to 5 episodes of content dragged out to 10, as is the style.

[Achtung Englander]

Yes

[Alan]

Servant

We just finished off the final season. Really enjoyed it all the way through. Nice 20min episodes that never overstay their welcome and a pretty decent wrap up. It goes some silly places here and there but always quite entertaining.

[Tommy]

Mythic Quest

It's no Always Sunny, but it's enjoyable enough. There's a few episodes in particular that I think are excellent

Spoiler

Dark Against Death in particular I thought was good and quite emotional, but I did watch it extremely hungover

, but I don't think it's groundbreaking or anything.

[Animalmother]

Tulsa King
Only watched the first couple of episodes but it's very good. Sylvester Stallone gets out of prison after 25 years and is shipped off to Tulsa by his mafia boss to keep him out of the way. He immediately starts setting up protection rackets and making money for the boss all the while struggling with modern life. Stallone is great and for a 75 year old still looks like he could fold you in half if the need took him.

[Raid]

I'm somewhat late to the party with Happy Valley, given that I'm watching the first season which came out in 2014. It's actually better than I'd been expecting, and given how much my mother (who still watches broadcast television) has raved about it I was already expecting it to be pretty damned good. It's all because of lead actress Sarah Lancashire, who quite understandably won a best actress BAFTA for this role. She sells the character so well that, in a fight at the end of episode 4, the tension and panic were palpable, a stronger reaction to anything I had watching The Last of Us. I don't think it's just because I've been through this town numerous times on the train and recognise the landscape.

I think if you can manage a return to a time when "gritty Northern drama" was a genre, this is absolutely worth your time based on what I've seen so far. There are only 18 episodes made over nearly a decade, and they're all on iPlayer.

[Sly Boots]

Happy Valley is great. Depressing, but great.

[Wrathbone]

Mythic Quest

It's no Always Sunny, but it's enjoyable enough. There's a few episodes in particular that I think are excellent

Spoiler

Dark Against Death in particular I thought was good and quite emotional, but I did watch it extremely hungover

, but I don't think it's groundbreaking or anything.

Yeah, I’ve just caught up to date with it. Great fun to watch, good characters (with the exception of Jo, who I find too overtly nasty compared to Danny Pudi’s understated scheming evil), interesting and relatable topic.

[Drarok]

I've enjoyed Mythic Quest overall, yeah. Agree about Jo, bit of a shit character but bearable.

I really enjoyed the depiction of Poppy getting into the zone, fingers flying, everything's awesome… then someone interrupts. I was like that Leo DiCaprio pointing meme, it's so true.

[Wrathbone]

I really enjoyed the depiction of Poppy getting into the zone, fingers flying, everything's awesome… then someone interrupts. I was like that Leo DiCaprio pointing meme, it's so true.

100% - my entire morning's been like that.

[Achtung Englander]

Slow Horses s2 (Apple+)

7/10

Better than season 1 but still a little over the top

[Animalmother]

All of Justified is now on Disney Plus, might give it a look after the recommendations here.

[Animalmother]

First episode of Justified, it's ok I suppose. Walton Goggins is always great, everyone left me a bit cold. It just felt like a 100 shows I've seen before, maybe it gets better as it goes on but I'm just not arsed finding out. Sorry chaps.

[Animalmother]

Severance
A small group of people working for a mysterious company have their consciousness split between work and home but have no memory of either essentially making them 2 separate people. It's a bit of a mind fuck but very enjoyable as more is revealed each episode.

Yellow Jackets
I've only watched one episode so still not sure about this one. Told in flashbacks, a girls soccer team that crashes in a remote mountain region and it all goes Lord of the Flies.

[Alan]

Dead Ringers (prime)
6 episode remake of the Cronenberg movie. Rachel Weisz plays the Mantle twins superbly and it feels like she had fun doing do. Its a really bloody good remake! Emphasis on bloody because there’s a whole lot of practical effects from graphic births to chopping and cutting. There’s a few moments towards the end that it gets a bit shakey and the uh.. repercussions of the climax seem more than improbable. It’s far from perfect but it’s still quite great. I recommend unless you’re super squeamish.

The Rookie
Nathan Fillion gets a divorce and decides to become a cop and be the oldest rookie on the force. I’m a few episodes in and apparently every day is full of action and shootouts. It’s really just another procedural but it’s watchable. It’s the kind of thing I’ll stick on while playing something grindy like Diablo or that SF6 world tour mode.