• metaStatic@kbin.earth
    2·
    4 days ago

    I’ve recently fallen down an Anime rabbit hole after almost a decade of being out of the loop.

    The fact I’m re-watching “Bocchi the Rock” is a pretty big recommendation.

  • phughes@lemmy.caEnglish
    7·
    4 days ago

    I started watching Scavengers Reign recently on a suggestion from a friend. I normally don’t go for animated shows, but this one is really enjoyable for me. Calm & explorative.

  • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.ml
    5·
    3 days ago

    My wife has gotten into watching Green Acres. Omg the writing is so sharp, just one joke after another. The characters do get repetitive but that is the way with all sitcoms.

    The Mary Tyler Moore show is very rewatchable. The writing and characters are so well done. Ted Knight and Betty White are brilliant.

  • reagansrottencorpse@lemmy.ml
    7·
    4 days ago

    I’m watching the dune show, it’s not great.

    I’m also watching creature commandos which is pretty good if you don’t mind animation.

  • rektdeckard@lemmy.world
    22·
    4 days ago

    The Expanse. I forgot how good the earlier seasons were, and looking forward to seeing the newer stuff for the first time.

    • jaaake@lemmy.world
      5·
      3 days ago

      What I didn’t realize about Columbo until watching it last year is that every episode is basically a full movie. There’s no connection between each episode, Columbo himself is the only recurring character. Each episode is an hour 10 to an hour 40 long. Also, it’s by FAR the best production and acting on TV in that era. It’s legitimately like almost 70 individual films.

      • Dessalines@lemmy.ml
        4·
        3 days ago

        For sure. I’m only just now finishing the first season, and maybe 3 episodes in it should qualify as some of the best films ever made. The acting, the psycological warfare, the poor schlubby wife-guy underdog vs evil rich parasite undertones pervading everything… there’s so much going on, that I’m sure others have scratched the surface of.

        I also love how it inverts the mystery drama by showing you exactly what happened, and the suspense is in guessing where they messed up, and gave enough clues to columbo.

  • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
    13·
    4 days ago

    Older than you are and worth looking at. [available on Youtube]

    The Prisoner. Imagine if Ian Fleming and Franz Kafka got together to do a TV show. A government official resigns and is immediately kidnapped. He wakes up in The Village; a lovely little place with nice views, great food, plenty of fun things to do, and no possible escape.

    I, Claudius. A very young Patrick Stewart is the least reason to watch this reenactment of the first five Roman emperors.

    Connections. Non-fiction. Wonderfully entertaining and informative. The creator’s premise is that scientific progress is almost never straight forward. Coffee houses open in London = coffee houses become popular places to do business = coffee house customers join together to invest in ships to the New World = the new ‘companies’ begin looking for ways to make their ships safer = they start to invest in making pine tar to protect the ships = add two hundred years and you have insurance companies and the chemical industry

    • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.ml
      1·
      3 days ago

      Welcome fellow gen-xer!

      I tried rewatching The Prisoner but I can’t get past Patrick McGoohan’s acting now. He has one setting, a hard squint and rage.

      I, Claudius is excellent and seeing John Hurt prancing about as a crazed Caligula is another reason to watch it. Brilliantly done series.

      Connections is very interesting, well done, and I remember it fondly from watching it as a teen but I never bought some of his “connections”. Like you said, claiming, say, coffee led to the chemical industry. Well they could’ve just as likely met over ham sandwiches too. lol “These two physicists met while playing tennis, therefore the invention of tennis led to the first atomic bomb…” oy!

      • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
        21·
        3 days ago

        I kind of think that lloyd’s of London starting as a coffee shop sort of proves that argument.