I’m re-watching The Magicians with my wife, since she’s never seen it. It’s been long enough since I watched it last that I don’t remember a lot of things that happened, so there’s a lot of “I forgot got that!” moments for me, which is fun.
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Star Trek: The Next Generation
It’s my comfort show so I’ve probably watched it all the way through dozens of times, but it’s still the best tv show ever put to screen.
I’m rewatching DS9!
I just Finished Voyager like a bit over a week ago, now I’m watching TNG, gotten up s5. (ofc seen both previously)
Next up, probably rewatching DS9 then. In like, three-four days (tomorrow is going to go to Dune Two)
Just recently finished rewatching House MD.
Hugh Laurie is ridiculously handsome. Olivia Wilde is beautiful beyond words.
And Jesse Spencer’s hair, by the gods.
All up, the show meandered and was formulaic (by design). Parts of it aged terribly, but was a good rewatch
It is really formulaic. But in my opinion they really stirr it up nicely with some episodes where he‘s hallucinating while detoxing or being in a ketamine coma. Really liked the mindfuck.
My SO hadn’t seen House so we’re doing it now. It’s going slow because while it’s a great show, it’s a little too formulaic to be binge-able. We’re in the next to last season now.
I recently finished a Frasier rewatch which actually made me realize I’m not sure I EVER finished the last season. Still a great show but I doubt I’ll watch the reboot.
Avatar: The last airbender
Because it’s good.
Same!
Theoretically it was in preparation to watch the new Netflix series.
After finishing the first season; before starting season two I put on the Netflix series. I made it about 5 minutes into Ep1 before deciding I’d just finish my rewatch of the original series instead.
Man, that Netflix show is bad…
I found it to be… fine. The actors and your expectations settle in after a couple of episodes. The Zuko actor is actually pretty good, Iroh is a different take but damned if Paul Sun-Hyung Lee’s enthusiasm for every goony-ass genre part he does isn’t infectious, and Sokka and Katara grow into their show personas. Aang… eventually gets less distracting.
The production design is authentic to the show, and Appa, Momo, and June’s mole-wolf-horse thing are all well done. I don’t think this show was necessary at all, and parts of it are stubbornly weak, but if it gets a new cohort of fans into the universe and watching the cartoons, it could be a net positive.
The thing that bothered me the most is how Aang sounds exactly like Dewey from Malcolm in the Middle
LOL. Fair enough. No two ways about it, he’s a weak link, and that’s a BAD part to have as your weak link, but eventually I found him to be okay. I think they cast him for his look and his ability to play “earnest,” and he does that fairly well. I would have preferred they went with somebody who could pull off the mischief side more convincingly.
I liked the first episode of the live action show well enough. I might add it to our rotation.
Moderate your expectations, but it’s fun enough if you are not expecting it to recreate the joy of first watching the cartoon.
It’s like a big budget Ember Island Players. :-)
Everything you say sounds reasonable. I might give it another go but something about the whole universe my brain was just fine with accepting in animation but it just absolutely bounced off of in live action.
I am not going to lean in too hard on recommending it, LOL. It’s deeply flawed, including too many costumes having that “straight from the wardrobe department” sheen, but with time and lowered expectations, I think there’s some fun there.
Well I’m going to at least push it until I see Uncle Iroh. I didn’t know Paul Sun-Hyung Lee was in the show and TBH that was the real selling point of you’re reply 😂
Schitt’s Creek - about halfway through the second season where things really start to gel. I unabashedly want all of Moira’s outfits.
Highly re-watchable. It starts off good and just gets better.
Rewatching The Wire right now. I started clicking on a bunch of clips and my algorithm kept feeding me more so I figured I might as well just watch it all again. Never gets old for me anyway.
It’s so condensed with the way the scenes are edited together with no transitions. It really doesn’t hold your hand with the slang and jargon either.
I watched it last year but I feel like I should rewatch it just to understand it better.
Got that paaaandemic
Me and my daughter are (re)watching Samurai Jack. It’s a lot of fun and the art style is still gorgeous.
We’re going to skip the last season though. That one was definitely a lot darker and she’s still too young for that.Loved that cartoon! So cool that you’re watching it with your daughter.
Currently I’m rewatching Stargate SG-1. It has held time surprisingly well. Lets see if I agree with concurrent watching of Atlantis when I get to those seasons, which I thought a little silly at the time.
Atlantis is a little silly, but in a campy way that never takes itself too seriously. SG-1 does a better job at keeping the tone pretty serious throughout, but with comedic intervals whereas Atlantis definitely tries for more humor. Both are really good though.
I love both, but I actually prefer Atlantis’s ongoing series arc over the more episodic/season arc structure of SG-1.
Possibly unpopular opinion (?): Universe was a fantastic show that got cancelled right as it was getting really good. Stargate’s answer to Voyager and Battlestar Galactica. Really wish we could have gotten more of it. With the way they left things, it’s not too late to revive it if they can get actors on board. They can easily explain cast aging or not returning with the final cliffhanger.
I return over and over to Community, Fringe, and Justified.
With Fringe it’s very easy to notice new things each time through since there are just so damn many Easter eggs.
Community is just comfort food, kinda like Justified. Not deep and intricate plotting, but simple fun.
Justified is coming up on my list to watch for the first time.
It’s a great show, I’m sure you’ll enjoy it. Very well written and acted.
Timothy Olyphant and Walton Goggins are fantastic but there’s also a recurring character, Wynn Duffy, played by Jere Burns, and I love almost every scene he’s in.
There’s also a weird amount of cast overflow between my three shows in minor supporting roles. Maybe that’s true for most shows and it’s just that these three I return to.
Goggins is a treasure. Between Righteous Gemstones, I’m a Virgo and Invincible he’s killing it all over right now.
Community is streets ahead.
Can’t wait for the community movie.
Game of Thrones
I like watching it because it’s like studying really manipulative jerks. I find it so interesting how they operate. Interestingly, I noticed that I paid lots of attention the first four seasons. However, starting on the fifth season, I was more distracted on my phone. Now that I’m on the sixth season, an entire episode and a half will go by while I’m surfing Lemmy on my laptop. It just gets way too corny, predictable, and the plot armor is blaring. I’m still gonna watch it until the end…or at least play it in the background until the end. I guess I need my fill of disappointment and some practice rolling my eyes. It’s still crazy to me that a show that became a cultural phenomenon tanked itself so terribly to the point that it lost nearly all respect.
Edit: Give me the mic! I’ve got something to rant about.
The fact that the armies of Westeros went from warring each other to caring about the Army of the Dead is ridiculous! The only proof anyone had was based on John Snow’s and the Wildlings word from their experience at Hardhome. While John Snow had the respect to be able to convince the men of the Night’s Watch, he didn’t really do it. He didn’t go on a persuasive and descriptive campaign to explain the danger they were in. He did such a poor job, that he was assassinated by mutineers. Yet, he is revived by the Red Woman, and all of a sudden, the families of the North are rallying behind him to prepare against the Army of the Dead. He then goes to Daenerys, a girl that has every reason to mistrust him, with this wild claim about walking dead without giving any sort of convincing argument, hoping she will pledge her armies and dragons to this cause.
So then, the plan to convince everyone that this is real is to send a team of some of the most prominent characters and best fighters they have, including the fucking King in the North, beyond the Wall to catch a wight. WTF. Why would you send the leader of the Wildlings on a suicide mission‽ Even more, Why would you send the King on a a suicide mission‽ If they die, the whole thing is done.
Of course, they find themselves surrounded by the Army of the Dead, and their only hope was to send a kid from King’s Landing that hasn’t ever seen snow until this trip, to run a damn marathon while sleep deprived, malnourished, and dehydrated. By pure luck, those that stayed behind were able to just chill on the island while the ice was forming. The Night King had long range weapons he could have used to kill them, but he just hung out for 4 days instead. Meanwhile, Snow Team 6 is freezing their asses off and likely starving, dehydrated, sleep deprived as hell, yet have the energy to go full on battle with zombies once the ice hardens.
This is just so ridiculous. I can’t even watch it without disbelief and frustration. Thank goodness for House of the Dragon. House of the Dragon still has its ridiculous moments/story lines (e.g. an entire battalion sneaking up on a beach in plain sight of the Crab King’s archers), but it’s nowhere near as bad as the last 4 seasons of Game of Thrones.
send a team of some of the most prominent characters and best fighters they have, including the fucking King in the North, beyond the Wall to catch a wight.
This is a classic Star Trek move as well especially DS-9
Babylon 5.
I rewatch it every few years, this time with the SO who finally caved and decided to watch it with me. Despite having seen the entire series half a dozen times I’m still finding things I never noticed before. And while it’s always been rather timeless, a lot of its themes are so much more applicable now than ever before. Cannot recommend it highly enough.
Other recent rewatches shared with the SO and found to have stood the test of time: Gargoyles, Batman TAS, Brisco County Jr, Daredevil, Star Trek TNG.
Going through The Expanse again. Such a good show that unfortunately got soured towards the end by a bad egg in the cast. But I’m enjoying it regardless, the work everyone else put into that show deserves praise. They found such a good balance point on the hard vs. soft sci-fi spectrum. Just enough realism and scientific accuracy to make the setting feel authentic without getting in the way of the story.
And Dominique Tipper as Naomi effortlessly code switching as she interacts with Inners and Belters is astounding. Not just her, all the Belter actors do such a great job with their dialects, but because of her screen time and back story it’s a lot more varied for her.
who’s the bad egg?
The guy who played Alex turned out to be a creepy guy toward younger women iirc
Cas Anvar, one of the main cast. Between the filming and release of the 5th season a massive wave of sexual harassment and assault allegations came out about him. He was dropped from the show for the final season in response to an investigation of the claims.
Schitt’s Creek. Only watched it (the series) one other time. Big fan.
Stargate SG1
Monk.
I need to give that one a run through again. Great show.
I love how his character is the exact opposite in Galaxy Quest in almost every way.
Monk is one of the best acted shows I’ve ever seen. That’s comparing it to The Sopranos and Gilmore Girls!
Monk, 30 rock, community, avatar, DS9, TNG, Babylon 5.
