[TheRetiredBridgeburner]

Tiste Simeon, on 14 August 2026 - 07:47 PM, said:

The excellent comedy murder mystery series Ludwig (starring David Mitchell and the incredible Anna Maxwell Martin) is back for series 2 next week so we're reaching S1 in readiness. Truly great stuff.

We've just finished doing exactly the same

[QuickTidal]

YES! Plug it into my veins!

[QuickTidal]

English people! Y'all have been keeping a secret.

I was on social media and saw an edit with what looked like Robin Hood set to Clannad music...so I was intrigued.

Thus I have discovered ROBIN OF SHERWOOD (1984-1986) and the excellence that is a FULL Clannad score, real sets across England VS any soundstages, and a gritty (albeit bloodless; all Xena) telling of the Robin Hood tales....Michael Praed's stellar 80's hair, Judi Trott's kind of gawky spindly Marion with a full spat of red curls backdropped against the lushest greenery you can find....amazing. Add in a young Ray Winstone as a grumbly Will Scarlet? So good. Is it hokey at times? It is. Is the action a bit overly campy? It is. Do I love it nonetheless? I do.

I know there are only three short series and I know there is some casting shenanigans in Series 3...but I'm still down for all of it (I'm about midway through S1).

And apparently in June of this year coincidentally it was announced that the daughter of original series writer/creator Richard Carpenter (who passed in 2012) had hired Mike Grell (who has written a lot of Green Arrow comics for DC) to write a trilogy of novels set in the canon and take place about a decade after the end of the show. So that's neat.

anyways. I like this a lot, but I'm a fan of like Xena and Merlin so this was always going to be my jam.

[Tiste Simeon]

Wait until you hear about Maid Marian and her Merry Men!

https://en.wikipedia...Men?wprov=sfla1

This post has been edited by Tiste Simeon: 24 August 2026 - 02:51 PM

[Slow Ben]

Dark Matter Season 2 out today.

Curious to see how the show goes without the source material.

Let’s find out!

[Tiste Simeon]

Slow Ben, on 28 August 2026 - 10:02 PM, said:

Dark Matter Season 2 out today.

Curious to see how the show goes without the source material.

Let’s find out!

Did you find out? Don't have Apple TV at the moment so I can't watch it.

I'm currently watching the TV show The Gentlemen, which is a sequel to the Guy Ritchie movie of the same name.

It's a lot of fun as you'd expect and bonus, it's got both Pearce Quigley as an insane highly religious Scouse gangster, and Giancarlo Esposito as a super rich dude who seems to be trying to muscle in on some of the criminal activity.

Oh, and Vinnie Jones of course.

[Abyss]

Tiste Simeon, on 11 September 2026 - 03:20 PM, said:

...

I'm currently watching the TV show The Gentlemen, which is a sequel to the Guy Ritchie movie of the same name.

It's a lot of fun as you'd expect and bonus, it's got both Pearce Quigley as an insane highly religious Scouse gangster, and Giancarlo Esposito as a super rich dude who seems to be trying to muscle in on some of the criminal activity.

Oh, and Vinnie Jones of course.

Loved S1, psyched to watch 2

[Slow Ben]

Tiste Simeon, on 11 September 2026 - 03:20 PM, said:

Slow Ben, on 28 August 2026 - 10:02 PM, said:

Dark Matter Season 2 out today.

Curious to see how the show goes without the source material.

Let’s find out!

Did you find out? Don't have Apple TV at the moment so I can't watch it.

Starting it this weekend. Wrapped up Season 3 of Silo first.

Thought season 3 was going to be a bit of a letdown after the first couple episodes, seemed like they kept re-hashing plot lines, but they stuck it. It’s the best season so far. Especially when they started the flash back to present day. I’m all in for Season 4, but dang it’s a slow burn.

[Slow Ben]

The Gentleman added to my watch list.

[worry]

Okay, I watched Rooster. The other - other - other Bill Lawrence show on right now that a couple of you have mentioned. It might be the coziest, lowest stakes one of them all. Steve Carell is a good fit for his brand of humor. The Four Seasons isn't exactly the same thing Bill Lawrence is doing, but it's a close cousin and Carell just has a knack for these kinda guys. And I appreciate any show that will get Rory Scovel onto my TV.

Furious (on Hulu in the US): Very engaging manhunt-type thriller where you spend like half the time with the killer (played by Lola Petticrew, who I've never seen before but is fantastic) and the other half with the main investigator, an FBI agent (Emmy Rossum, who is also great). It's got weightier issues on its mind than your average procedural, while still doing the cat-and-mouse stuff really well too. A few episodes have Rob Delaney playing a rich doofus, so that's a big plus.

[Tiste Simeon]

Agreed on both Rooster and Furious. Excellent shows.

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

Was pleasantly impressed with Reacher season 4's depiction of Philadelphia until the white police officer started talking with a New York accent and Reacher said he was at "the Uptown on Frankford, listening to music"---it's on JFK, WTF... and they don't have live music. Bleh.

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

OMG he disrespected Gritty

When people do that here we feed them to him!

... and instead of an actual Philadelphia diner they made up some bullshit "Morning Bell Diner". Quadruple bleh.

There's also a lot more to the culinary culture than cheesesteaks.

This post has been edited by Azath Vitr (D'ivers: 18 September 2026 - 01:14 AM

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

Oh and about that posh brasserie in Rittenhouse (traditionally the richest part of Center City Philadelphia) with the outdoor seating where Reacher &co sit down...




More exciting than the show... and WTF is that guy doing running after him---does he have a bigger gun tucked away somewhere? He's going to try to tackle and grapple a guy with a gun over a laptop?

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

Okay... one actor playing a newscaster (in a scene set in Philadelphia) did a bit of a Philadelphia accent, but they were still lazy enough to leave in his Canadian pronunciation of "out". Most of the show was actually filmed in Toronto. (Clearly a Canadian plot to impugn the sacred dignity of Gritty, for which our hockey team whatever it's called shall enact most righteous... no I'm kidding of course.)

Actor playing the white Philadelphia cop is from the Bronx, seems like he's just doing his native accent. So lazy.

The scene in the Magic Gardens (a labyrinth of mosaic mirror fragments, art, found objects, and text) was nice though. Might go there to listen to Iranian music on Friday night. Here's hoping they lead us in chants of Death to America (the sing-along).




Too bad the show doesn't show any of the "fuck Trump" and anti-ICE stickers scattered about Philadelphia.

(My last digression on this here I promise...)

[Tiste Simeon]

I just finished Reacher S4 last night, still a lot of fun if not quite as clever as the first 3 seasons.

I can't comment on the Philly specific things but maybe Azath can tell me where they were at the end please? Was it one of the great ladies because afaik there's no sea near Pennsylvania. It looked very nice.

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

Tiste Simeon, on 24 September 2026 - 10:50 AM, said:

I just finished Reacher S4 last night, still a lot of fun if not quite as clever as the first 3 seasons.

I can't comment on the Philly specific things but maybe Azath can tell me where they were at the end please? Was it one of the great ladies because afaik there's no sea near Pennsylvania. It looked very nice.

It's supposed to be the Atlantic Ocean. The beach is probably supposed to be the (New) Jersey shore. Though IDK if it could possibly be Lake Ontario.

(Philadelphia is right next to New Jersey and about an hour away from the Jersey shore. There are some beaches in Pennsylvania by Lake Erie but that's about six and a half times further away from Philadelphia.)

This post has been edited by Azath Vitr (D'ivers: 24 September 2026 - 10:22 PM

[Tiste Simeon]

Ah that makes sense thanks. I often get confused about geography especially as time to travel between points in films and TV shows appears to vary based on plot requirements haha

[Tsundoku]

Tiste Simeon, on 25 September 2026 - 06:04 AM, said:

Ah that makes sense thanks. I often get confused about geography especially as time to travel between points in films and TV shows appears to vary based on plot requirements haha

Did JJ Abrams or Disney produce the show?