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We've been chopping and changing our streaming subscriptions recently. We've got Amazon Prime and Now TV but cancelled Disney Plus in favour of Apple TV. So far we've watched Masters of the Air and Slow Horses, both of which we enjoyed. Mrs Bloke is watching the Dick Turpin thingy which I tried but couldn't get on with, any other recommendations?
Bad Sisters - written and starrring Sharon Horgan, with a brilliant cast is absolutely fantastic!
Ted Lasso is an absolute must, whether you're into football or not. Its very funny and just a truly lovely uplifting piece of telly
hmm Dick Turpin 'thing' is very odd. I didn't get on with it.
We (me and Mrs JAG) enjoyed "Silo" which is described as "Set in a dystopian future where a community exists in a giant underground silo comprising 144 levels"
Thanks all. Ted Lasso was already on my radar. Convincing Mrs Bloke might be a challenge, neither of us is into football but we both watched Welcome to Wrexham. More of a documentary than a drama, but it sets the precedent to watch something footy related I suppose. Silo sounds interesting too.
Just watched Black bird which I thought was pretty good. It's a screen play by Dennis Lehane (shutter island, gone baby gone etc) and based on a true story.
Slow Horses is brilliant and you'll have a few series to get through.
I think Ted Lasso is better if you aren't into football, as my wife loved it (she doesn't really much like football), I thought it was cheesy crap (I very much like football).
@blokeuptheroad - Its not really about football at all. If anything it mocks the whole thing. It just happens to be set in a football club but its all about the characters, who are all wonderfully written and acted. I don't know anyone who's watched who didn't love it
Bad Sisters was brilliant. Ted Lasso keeps being recommended but I found it a big yawn. Of the current series, we are enjoying Constellation.
We got a free subscription after ordering a fridge from Currys for my MiL.
I accidentally watched 40 hours for For All Mankind.
Wasn't there some thing with Idris Elba, Ben Miles and a plane?
Silo hasn’t had a mention yet and it’s some really great dystopian society sci-fi. Foundation is amazingly grand space opera. Shrinking is hilarious and poignant. Ted Lasso is therapy delivered as uplifting television. For All Mankind starts well as alternative past sci-fi and somehow stays engaging and current. Severance is engaging and disturbing. I haven’t watched Lessons in Chemistry. The Morning Show is apparently very good too but perhaps also not my thing.
All that and I forgot Slow Horses…
Slow Horses
As I said in the OP, I have watched and enjoyed that
Silo hasn’t had a mention yet
It has!
Lessons in Chemistry - yes, recommended.
Isn't that new Band of Brothers type thing about the airforce on AppleTV?
Also is Bad Sisters a remake of a Scandi series? Can't remember the title, but it was very good!*
Actually titles aren't my strong point today.
Oh Black Bird, I watched that, that was very good - Taron Edgerton was excellent. (And I know the title 😀 )
[*edit]It's a redo of "The Out-Laws" actually a Belgian series, not Scandi. Great stuff that was.
Most of the above (Severance and Slow Horses is why i renewed) plus i enjoyed For All Mankind, an odd sometimes fact sometimes counterfactual series with a few twists.
+1 severance
Isn’t that new Band of Brothers type thing about the airforce on AppleTV?
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2640044/?ref_=nm_flmg_t_1_prd
All good recommendations.
I would add Pachinko to the list
"Wasn’t there some thing with Idris Elba, Ben Miles and a plane?"
Hijack.
After binning off Netflix and Prime, Apple TV is one we kept around, we thought it was more quality over quantity. Agree with all the recommendations above and enjoyed The Afterparty too, the Big Door Prize keeps you watching just because you want to know what the hell is going on.
The police drama with Peter capaldi was decent. Can’t remember what it’s called though….
the beastie boys theatre show thing is a must watch
“Wasn’t there some thing with Idris Elba, Ben Miles and a plane?”
Hijack.
Oh god, that was awful! We gave up on it in the second episode when it got laughably preposterous
For me it would be:
For All Mankind (there are some slow episodes in the first couple of seasons though)
Foundation (it seems it's a bit marmite but I really enjoyed it)
Severance
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters (bit weird in places and a lot of plot holes but still decent)
Invasion (as above although I also have to skip through most sections with the annoying kids in it in season 2)
I never really got into Ted Lasso or Slow Horses but generally they're often recommended
Bad sisters + lots
The police drama with Peter capaldi was decent. Can’t remember what it’s called though…
Criminal Record ?
Another for Silo & Slow Horses and I’ll also add Invasion ,thought hijack was ok as well but it is over the top
The Morning Show. Billy Crudup is excellent.
The Reluctant Traveller with Eugene Levy.
The Long Way Round is on there and it's my favourite telly series ever! Long way Down is not as good, and Long Way Up is very much a nostalgia cash in that didn't work for me. But nothing has every fired up my longing for adventure than the Long Way Round.
As advised above, Bad sisters is excellent, really enjoyed that.
I'm gonna go against the grain and say that after the first series I started to really dislike Ted Lasso. Probably says more about me than anything else, but it was overwhelming in its "positivity, everyone is huggy best friends, and everything is idealised and everything works out amazingly for everyone" tone. The first series was good though.
Foundation
For All Mankind
Monarch - Legacy of Monsters
Invasion
Masters of the Air
Thy're presently filming series 2 of Bad Sisters and it should be out later this year 🙂
Severance
Ted lasso
Slow Horses
Bad Sisters
Silo
Black Bird
Masters of the Air
Shrinking
Thanks all, enough viewing to keep me going for a couple of months! I showed the Bad Sisters trailer to Mrs Bloke. She likes the look of it so that's first on the list tonight. It's always a compromise when we watch stuff together. I really like the look of Silo, but it's not her thing. I'll watch that in another room when she's watching Dick Turpin 🙂👍
Oops, duplicate post.
We have had a great hit rate with Apple tv
Slow horses, as good as it gets for tv
Ted Lasso loved by me and loads at work
Lessons in Chemistry
For All Mankind
Silo
Morning Show
Constellation is good. creepy scifi.
All the big hitters are covered, but one not mentioned is Trying. Some people might find it a bit syrupy, but I really enjoyed it and it has an ace cast. It's very "North London" which added to it for me, having lived there in the past, but might be a turn off for others.
Ted Lasso Season 2 episode 4 has joined the Christmas must watch list chez Sandwich. Uplifting stuff.
We’ve just renewed after a year away. I’m catching up on season two of Foundation and both of us are watching Criminal Record. Not a huge fan of Jennifer Aniston but The Morning Show is very good tv.
The Velvet Underground documentary was brilliant.
Silo. Great
for all mankind was great, but I now have at least one of the later seasons to catch up on.
got a bunch of the way into criminal record
I cannot recommend Foundation.
I cannot recommend Foundation
How far in did you get? My wife gave up after one episode but I kept going and really enjoyed it. Difficult to figure out what was going on until the certain point in the series where it all came together.
Foundation improves the more you watch I found. Although its of a style I can see many not getting on with.
How far in did you get?
2 seasons. Pompous, turgid, drivel. Very disappointing given the cast and the source.
So, thread revival and update. Just finished Silo. Mrs Bloke was very reluctant based on the trailer but she loved it and we binged it. So we've now watched:
Slow horses
Masters of the Air
Bad Sisters
Manhunt
Silo
Ted Lasso (just the first series)
We've enjoyed them all to varying degrees and, importantly we've enjoyed them together. Normally finding stuff we both like is hard. Seems STW can do a better job of choosing TV for us than we can do ourselves! Thanks. Maybe Severance next.
Severance for sure
We've been watching Dark Matter (not to be confused with an earlier series of the same name but not same source material). Not read the book, but enjoying the adaption. Bit slow to start, but good when it gets going.
Reminded me I need to watch last series of Ted Lasso.
Hated Dark Matter. It might just be me but I really don’t like it when I know what’s going on but the protagonist doesn’t. I can’t face multiple episodes of conflict and extrapolation. It’s not like he has an excuse, they even gave him the script before filming started.
Trying
We’re on season 3 of Slow Horses, after my physio recommended it. Properly good. Oldman owning it.
So far, we've watched:
Foundation
Silo
Slow Horses
Manhunt
Severance
Masters of the Air
Liason
Films: The Family Plan
All excellent bar Liason, which is very average.
Forgot about flims... the Tom Hanks one is good... Finch.
In addition to Trying, there's also Lessons in Chemistry that was mentioned on the first page, but not in the thread revival.
Watching Series 3, episode 2 of Slow Horses, ‘Drinking Games’, where River is swanning around in the Cotswolds. He was certainly in Stroud, I recognised the railway station, ‘cos I’ve used the car park there for a gig. Not sure where the flying club is, but the village of Upshott, while it’s in the Cotswolds, is actually about thirty or so miles south of Stroud - it’s Castle Combe, and the pub is The White Hart. Had a few beers in there over the years, some of them before riding back home, it’s only five miles from where I live.
It’s always fun when somewhere you know really well suddenly pops up on telly.
Something else I’ve noticed, and for which I commend the props and costume people, and that’s Oldman’s glasses - they are perfectly in keeping with his character and the period when he would have first worn them: they don’t have an anti-reflective coating on them!
Oh, and the Cessna River was flying in is based at Rochester in Kent! It’s a Reims-Cessna FA152 Aerobat, so could probably do those aerobatics. 😁
We watched the first 2 episodes of Criminal Record last night and it’s pretty gripping stuff. It’s really dark and Peter Capaldi is doing a fantastic job of being malevolent and menacing.
Tried to watch Criminal Record, was a good premise, but it felt like a soap opera half the time, the plot gets worse the longer the season goes on as well, with some truly weird plot drivers happening that makes you wish it was an episode of eastenders rather than an apple TV production.
We really enjoyed it all the way to the end... but it did pluck pot twists out of thin air a bit... more like 24 than Eastenders though.
I am working my way through Dark Matter, drama/sci-Fi about a man travelling to an alternate timeline of his to steal the life he wishes he had chose from another version of him. Pretty interesting so far.
It’s really dark and Peter Capaldi is doing a fantastic job of being malevolent and menacing.
Ha! That’s Capaldi’s standard acting style! He’s always like that, which is why he’s my second favourite Dr Who actor, after William Hartnell. 😁
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I am working my way through Dark Matter, drama/sci-Fi about a man travelling to an alternate timeline of his to steal the life he wishes he had chose from another version of him. Pretty interesting so far.
That's high up on my list to watch, looks good.
Has anyone tried Constellation?
Has anyone tried Constellation?
Yes, I thought it was decent, good cast.
Thread revival. Has anyone watched Tehran? I'm two episodes in and enjoying it so far, pretty tense stuff.
Has anyone watched Tehran? I’m two episodes in and enjoying it so far, pretty tense stuff.
Sounds interesting, I'll give it a try.
Perfect thread timing. mrsG got a 3monthj AppleTV subscription with her new phone and we binged quite a bit of Slow Horses this weekend. Superb series and Gary Oldman is brilliant...
MrsG is Ted Lasso fan and we'll try Bad Sisters based on the recommendations above
Bad Monkey with Vince Vaughn doing what VV does best. He plays a washed up detective and the setting in the Florida Keys makes it an easy watch.
mrsG got a 3monthj AppleTV subscription with her new phone
Severance is one of the best shows in the last few years. Top class cast, just try not to keep being surprised every time you remember that it was directed by Derek Zoolander.
Has anyone watched Tehran? I’m two episodes in and enjoying it so far, pretty tense stuff.
I tired of it pretty quickly and stopped. Given the shitshow of the Middle East don't want anything reminding me of it.
Slow Horses new series has started (only ep 1 so far)
Really enjoying Sunny (near future Japanese set mystery. Part English/some subtitles).