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Regorp 04-20-2022 08:24 AM
TV shows
 
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Originally Posted by Boomer (Post 2085610)
I admit it. The confines of the Covid era got us hooked on watching a lot more television in the evenings. The habit seems to be here to stay, so now I want to know if TOTVers have any new recommendations.

I have a few:

The best thing I have found lately is Julia — about Julia Child’s life and how her show took off. The actress playing Julia is wonderful — you gotta love her — just like the real Julia Child. It is worth subscribing to HBO just to watch this. (They are dropping the episodes weekly and I think there are maybe two left in the queue.)

Ken Burns Ben Franklin (PBS)

I recently stumbled across Abbott Elementary. It is about teachers and other staff at a school in Philly. It concentrates on the teachers. It has a nice, sweet touch and some likable characters in funny situations. . .

Abbott Elementary is just a happy little show about a year-in-the-life of a school staff, on the job. (I figured it would get canceled because it is neither raunchy nor is it heavy handed or just plain stupid. But I just read that it will be back. I guess “Rotten Tomatoes” loved it. I did.)

. . .And as a bonus, it does not have a laugh track. (I hate laugh tracks. Who doesn’t though.)

That’s all I’ve got for now. Anybody else?

Boomer
Love these shows: The Goldbergs; Young Sheldon; Tuesday Night FBI trilogy; Blacklist; Big Sky; Star Trek:Picard. Just a few. Enjoy!

Stu from NYC 04-20-2022 08:43 AM
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Originally Posted by dewilson58 (Post 2085796)
We are in season 7, getting redundant, does it make a rally??
We just enjoyed the characters and the growth of them. Did miss Mallory though.

Stu from NYC 04-20-2022 08:43 AM
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Originally Posted by jamorela (Post 2085815)
Ordinary Joe! How different one’s life could be if we had chosen another path!
Enjoyed it but disappointed it got cancelled mid season

Stu from NYC 04-20-2022 08:47 AM
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Originally Posted by Regorp (Post 2085895)
Love these shows: The Goldbergs; Young Sheldon; Tuesday Night FBI trilogy; Blacklist; Big Sky; Star Trek:Picard. Just a few. Enjoy!
Have really enjoyed Blacklist up to now but this season seems to have downhill and may stop watching.

Big Sky season 1 was very good almost up to date with season 2 but thought it has been very drawn out.

Jeffery M 04-20-2022 08:58 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Boomer (Post 2085610)
I admit it. The confines of the Covid era got us hooked on watching a lot more television in the evenings. The habit seems to be here to stay, so now I want to know if TOTVers have any new recommendations.

I have a few:

The best thing I have found lately is Julia — about Julia Child’s life and how her show took off. The actress playing Julia is wonderful — you gotta love her — just like the real Julia Child. It is worth subscribing to HBO just to watch this. (They are dropping the episodes weekly and I think there are maybe two left in the queue.)

Ken Burns Ben Franklin (PBS)

I recently stumbled across Abbott Elementary. It is about teachers and other staff at a school in Philly. It concentrates on the teachers. It has a nice, sweet touch and some likable characters in funny situations. . .

Abbott Elementary is just a happy little show about a year-in-the-life of a school staff, on the job. (I figured it would get canceled because it is neither raunchy nor is it heavy handed or just plain stupid. But I just read that it will be back. I guess “Rotten Tomatoes” loved it. I did.)

. . .And as a bonus, it does not have a laugh track. (I hate laugh tracks. Who doesn’t though.)

That’s all I’ve got for now. Anybody else?

Boomer
Outer Range- A new series on Amazon Prime

Murdoch Mysteries- On Acorn

Battle Creek TV series- On Amazon Prime

The Prisoner series-On Amazon Prime, Pluto, Roku

Sherlock series- Free on Tubi, Crackle

White Chapel series- On Amazon Prime, Hulu

REDCART 04-20-2022 09:11 AM
We Own This City Starts 4/25 on HBO
 
There’s a new cop show coming out 4/25 on HBO “We Own This City”

Based on the book "We Own This City: A True Story of
Crime, Cops and Corruption" by Baltimore Sun
reporter Justin Fenton, this gritty drama chronicles the
rise and fall of the Baltimore Police Department's Gun
Trace Task Force. It exposes the corruption and moral
collapse that befalls an American city in which the
policies of drug prohibition and mass arrest are
championed at the expense of actual police work.
Created and written by David Simon, creator of "The
Wire," and George Pelecanos, production took place
in Baltimore.

sallyg 04-20-2022 09:53 AM
Any PBS Masterpiece series are worth a look.

Ecuadog 04-20-2022 10:26 AM
I enjoyed Pamela Adlon's Better Things on FX.

Direwolf 04-20-2022 10:28 AM
Two more
 
"Ghosts" is a sitcom from CBS that is wrapping up season 1, but I think you can watch past episodes on paramount. It got 95% on rotten tomatoes.

"From" is a horror/suspense on Epix that is also just wrapping up season 1. Think "Lost" but darker and scary.

- Gerrit

zendog3 04-20-2022 10:48 AM
I subscribe too, and have been watching Wondrous (formerly the heat courses.) I have been cooking some of the dishes taught by Culinary Institute of America Chef. an example of good science is "What Einstein got Wrong." I have recently been fascinated by a series on the Gnostic gospels.

craigrmorrison 04-20-2022 11:36 AM
Tv viewing in TV
 
My wife and I have always enjoyed the Chicago series.
Chicago Med
Chicago Fire
Chicago PD

We also like
Blue Bloods (Tom Selik)
The Good Doctor

Hope this helps you with your decison.

Craig

Mjsscotto 04-20-2022 11:44 AM
Tv series. “Julia”
 
Julia, on HBO Max. 8 Part series about Julia Child and her entrance into TV. Great acting, great show

jimjamuser 04-20-2022 11:56 AM
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Originally Posted by MartinSE (Post 2085637)
We tend not to watch that many "new" shows. And we find British shows for the most part better written and acted. Masterpiece on PBS is highly recommended. Here is what we are currently watching.

Unforgotten - Detective in England that works "Historic" cases (what we would call cold cases here)

Elementary - Reimagined Sherlock Holmes and Watson. Takes place in the modern US, Watson is a Female and Sherlock is a recovering drug addict. It is EXCELLENT.

Severed - SciFi - Company developed technology to sever your mind into two parts, so one part has memories only at work other has memories only at home. VERY weird, very interesting. Not for everyone.

Rookie - "fun" light viewing, Police Rookies Starring "Castle" from the Series "Castle" (also highly recommended for light viewing.)

Slow Horses - British setting of MI-5, Slow Horses refer to agents that screw up and get assigned to a group that doesn't get assigned any work - but manage to get some and get into trouble doing it. Not a comedy, excellent.
I like British-made movies and series both comedy and thrillers. I only get Prime so that is somewhat limiting. A recent comedy series "The Outlaws" was something I liked. It had Christopher Walken as one of the main characters - he is always unique. I liked "Fleabag". "Counterpart" was very good. Mr Robot was a classic. Also the Man in the High Castle. Humans was good. Utopia was good. A recent series "Outer Range" was good (it started slowly). Forget "Split Second"

craigrmorrison 04-20-2022 12:02 PM
Tv viewing in TV
 
My wife and I have always enjoyed the Chicago series.
Chicago Med
Chicago Fire
Chicago PD

We also like
Blue Bloods (Tom Selik)
The Good Doctor

Hope this helps you with your decision.

Craig

jamorela 04-20-2022 12:19 PM
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Originally Posted by Elixir34 (Post 2085822)
Outlander. 6 seasons, 75 episodes so far. 7th season in production.
I watch it and read all of the books including the newest one.

Betty Wagner 04-20-2022 12:20 PM
Tv watching
 
Ovation: Midsumer Murders; The Rookie, Spectrum's Joe Pickett
The Good Doctor, The Resident

Worldseries27 04-20-2022 02:37 PM
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Originally Posted by martinse (Post 2085856)
outlander is very good scifi without focusing on the scifi. However, i thought they overdid the sex. I don't mind sex in a show if it adds to the plot, and at first it seemed to by, it seems a bit obsessive (i guess now everyone is going to run watch it - lol).

Also, there is a lot of torture, which some will find hard to watch.
i researched the show when i saw the scotts had relocated into north carolina near todays blue ridge parkway.
To this day there is a " gathering of the clans" there each year with many festivals to enjoy. Vrung your own kilt.

Graspher 04-20-2022 03:44 PM
Red Rock - great story with tons of episodes.

Stu from NYC 04-20-2022 04:14 PM
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Originally Posted by Graspher (Post 2086107)
Red Rock - great story with tons of episodes.
Lots of people liked it but for some reason we could never get into it.

paulat585 04-20-2022 05:14 PM
Before bed: Seinfeld. Just finished watching the whole series for the 5th time.
Nobody mentioned TLC. I watch the 90-Day Fiancé series, which is hilarious, also Dr. Pimple Popper and a new one about artificial body parts.
Before that, the news, Jeopardy, and the new Judge Judy. (She says the things I wish I could.)
There is also a new season of Barry coming on HBO(?)
Thanks for all the suggestions. Will try some of them, especially the comedies. Loved Last Tango, Veep, 30 Rock.

Kathy2018 04-20-2022 05:19 PM
Thermae Romae Novae (New Roman Bathhouse), anime series, on Netflix. A Roman architect from approximately 130 A.D., Lucius Modestus, is fired from his job designing bathhouses because his ideas are old fashioned. One time in a bathhouse he falls down a drain into a 21st century Japanese hot spring. Each time he goes down the drain, he enters another part of Japanese bathhouse culture. At the end of each episode, the writer/illustrator visits a different Japanese hot spring or bathhouse that inspires her series. The English narrator’s booming voice fits perfectly. This was reviewed in The Daily Sun.

Boomer 04-21-2022 11:03 AM
We are two episodes into Killing Eve and wow — hooked. Two brilliant women — Good v. Evil — and funny in that dark, edgy way. (Eve and Villanelle. . .a writer smiled wryly when choosing those two characters’ names.)

Boomer

Ecuadog 04-21-2022 04:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Boomer (Post 2086479)
We are two episodes into Killing Eve and wow ...

Boomer
Jodie Comer is great.

JMintzer 04-21-2022 04:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Ecuadog (Post 2086629)
Jodie Comer is great.
Check her out in "Free Guy", with Ryan Reynolds...


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