Apple TV+ recommendation thread

Thanks Muddy. We're on episode 2 at the moment and paused at that due to the ending (my wife didn't like it) and the YA sex scenes which we thought were a bit out of tone with the rest of it. I liked Altered Carbon (the first one more so), but not so much the Expanse, (part way through season 1) and didn't like the recent Burnhams at all

Yeah the sex scenes are a bit pointless.  It's like they felt obliged to put some shagging in coz Game of Thrones, but still wanted a PG certificate.  I guess the constant swimming is a cultural thing but Gaal spends more time in a bikini than your typical space mathematician.

Foundation has some great actors, especially the always-amazing Lee Pace, and is often shot beautifully, but man it sure relies pretty hard on idiot plots for a show allegedly about mathematically calculating the future. About 75% of the major plots so far could have been dealt with by someone doing the obvious or rational thing rather than holding the idiot ball and one of the big ones could have been stopped dead by any one character having a tiny bit of spine.

I agree, Foundation started off very promisingly but then it seemed to dip in story quality, I'm still willing to see out the series but it has pushed my suspension of disbelief at times. Effects are top notch though.

If the whole series was dumped on at once, I could see me hate watching the rest of it over a week or so but, yeah, not weekly. I watched three to see if it really was as bad as it first seemed and that was probably enough.

EDIT: Invasion that is. Im sticking with Foundation albeit through slightly gritted teeth.

RE:lost in space. Made it through the first season just because I'd bought a new TV and wanted something in shiny new Dolby Vision. The second season was terrible. Actually made me angry at points, the Robinson's are mawkish idiots and it seemed totally confused as to whether it wanted to be a dark brooding sci-fi or a children's TV show.

I know what you mean about the quality of TV effects though. Another Life on Netflix is in the same boat as looking great but the writing is hot garbage so the end result is boring.

I was looking forward to trying Invasion next but it sounds like I shouldn't get my hopes up.

Also on Apple, we thought For All Mankind was excellent in places. It's a very different sort of sci fi to the likes of Foundation but it's a great concept, well executed.

Anyone watched Finch yet? I've heard he's a bloody good robot.

It is.

Foundation started poorly then got interesting, then lost its way a bit and just sort of stopped. I honestly had no idea I'd watched the season finale until a week later when there was no new episode.

Watching Invasion now and it's similarly inconsistent. Not exactly bad, just not as good as I'd like it to be.

I’ve been not quite hate watching invasion but it’s so slow and inconsequential that you can watch it in the background while you do anything.

There is about five or ten minutes of worthwhile plot per episode so you can just tune out the rest of it. Unless you really care about whether or not the stay at home mum will kiss the hunky doctor because her husband mistreats her and she is just finding her own sense of self outside the family unit in the MIDDLE OF A FUCKING ALIEN INVASION.

Yeah. It's not quite as bad as Amazon Prime in that regard. At least there's a tab on the top that focuses on A+ originals, but they should have that be the opening page.

It's superb.

How many episodes are you up to? Because it barely gets any better and even when it does it finds some way to bring the show to a screeching halt to have someone cry about their feelings.

Whilst it's a small catalogue, it is mostly all original stuff and actually you might be surprised at how many of the TV series in particular get under your skin. Some decent movies, too. Household Phatts has turned it on for a few months at a time when things of interest pop up again; we do the same with Disney Plus.

But it's still just Netflix and, to a lesser extent, Amazon Prime that are up permanently.