What are you currently watching? (May contain spoilers)

Watching that C4 Qanon programme that was on a couple of days ago.

Holy fuck, these peeps are nuts.

Oh. My. God. Season 5 Episode 2 of Money Heist. They are absolutely nailing it with this season. I have never wanted something to happen in a TV programme quite as much as I wanted the end of this episode to happen.

Gomorrah S5E1 - just make sure you've caught up on everything before you start this one is all I'll say...

Curb S11E4 - absolutely fucking brilliant so far

Yeah I was quite liking those couple of years when Cliff was cancelled.

Shame he hadn't done terrible things as we're now having to suffer him everywhere again.

Didn’t Cliff win some cash from the BBC and Police for implying he was a wrong un and showing his house being raided on tv?

I can’t decide whether Dopesick is great or just has a great cast.

I think I’d probably prefer it as a documentary though.

Oh hi simple

I'm about halfway through Gomorrah Season 5.

It's great, but tbh it feels a bit rushed, like they wanted this to be over and done with. Characters are pushed into conflict with other characters over the space of a single episode, other characters act like compete idiots for no reason, betrayals happening everywhere at the drop of a hat. Which would be fine if their motivations always made sense, but they often don't.

...wow, I'm basically describing the end of Game of Thrones, aren't I. Well, it's a lot more satisfying than that!

I think part of the problem is that there's only maybe 3 or 4 major characters who survived Season 4, and you can't really hang the story just around them. You've got to have some new people, basically.

And there are a lot of new people! But because this is (probably) the final season, you don't really get much time to get to know them.

No, absolutely not. There's all this talk about HONOUR and BROTHERHOOD and all that. But when it comes down to it, these people are fighting about who gets to sell cocaine in a suburb of Naples.

It's hardly heroic stuff. Most of these people deserve to die in a fire, and the world would probably be a better place for it.

Brooklyn '99 - nearing the end of the first season.

I quite like Andy Samberg and there are some good lines here and there and the occasional superb sequence. One guy looks so much like Jon Arbuckle from Garfield come to life it's genuinely confusing that Garfield predates him.

The lack of laughter track means that when the writing isn't so hot or the jokes are obvious it doesn't grate. Equally I know many people love this show and I'm not really seeing the reason for high praise yet?

If anyone is a fan, how representative is the quality of S1 for later seasons? Is it going up or down from here?

Holt is a legend.

Watching Wentworth, a remake of Prisoner cell block H and finished the first series and it's actually quite good.

Dark Matter Ep 1

I was kinda in need of a space show. Starting to rewatch Babylon 5 rekindled the interest, but I've found the static setting, combined with the age of the show, and having seen it before,  mean that it's a bit too sedate and dry at times. 
The expanse was meh, and despite enjoying the first few seasons of Killjoys, it seemed to be about to jump the shark around season 3. 

So, in a rare moment of downtime, and in search of something easy to watch and sci-fi, I tried the other SyFy space show. Dark Matter. 

Initial impressions were a bit meh. They had a bigger budget for the ship than Killjoys, but the characters seemed a bit bland or archetypal.
Design/Aesthetics is a bit 90s 'everyone wears baddass black'. You have your badass sexy chick who fills both the empowerement and eye candy roles. Your bland sexy dude. Your asian guy who's good with katanas because he's asian. Your Seven-of-Nine clone. Your cute/ditzy/weird/nerd girl with colored hair, plus a couple of others.

Once they get down on land it's the same quarries and factories that Killjoys uses, and even the same actors as the first dude they meet is one of the main antagonists from Killjoys. 

But but but it did surprise me with the twist at the end. In hindsight, I probably should have seen it coming, but I wasn't really expecting a twist so soon. Simply by virtue of that twist it makes gives things potential to be a bit more interesting. 

I'm not sure I'll stick with it, but it seems like a solid if generic 7/10 space scooby gang show. But if they run with the potential of the twist, it could give it a bit more of an interesting spin. 

I tried watching some episodes from one of the later seasons (S21) of The Simpsons, from after when I gave up on it (I dunno, but before 21 I guess), and ooof fuck damn wow. Yeah that really had gone downhill. It seems like only 20% of the episodes were actually funny or even mildly clever, and that's being generous (there is the odd one which is randomly like "old Simpsons", but only middling old Simpsons). Also there were some weird continuity/drawing errors in a few episodes, which was bizarre (like the teacher collected all the phones from the kids and put them in a drawer, then we got a brief shot a few seconds later of the kids sitting at their desks with smashed/smoking phones in front of them - I guess they re-wrote it but didn't entirely re-draw it).

If I watch any more I guess I'll have to get a watch guide that points out the few worth watching.