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Seen and liked a lot:
Sneaky Pete (Amazon) - a con man is released from prison and adopts his cell-mate's identity in order to escape from the consequences of what got him into prison in the first place.
It's got a very good combination of script, acting and design going for it. We saw S1E1 when in Barcelona over Christmas on someone else's Prime membership, and when our watch of S1 finished, I was delighted to see that S2 had been released.
Quacks (BBC2) - A new sitcom where a Victorian surgeon, his 'eager to be more than a wife' wife, an 'alienist' and a chemist get into assorted medical scrapes, with lots of commentary on sexism, classism etc.
Better Call Saul (AMC in the US, available on Netflix in the UK a day later as a 'Netflix Original Programming', ha!) - S4 is looking good as Jimmy continues to turn into Saul.
The contrast with some other prequels (cough, Solo, cough) is striking: despite the fact that we know that a large chunk of the cast will survive to feature in Breaking Bad, there is still interest in their story because it we do learn things about them that we didn't know before. In part, that's because Breaking Bad had intelligence too and didn't lay it all out.
Not properly started watching yet:
Westworld S2.
Might or might not resume:
Dirk Gently (US Netflix version) - the BBC ones were great, thanks to Stephen Mangan and the scripts. The US version is.. less good, isn't it? I got about halfway into S1 before going 'I want to watch something else' and haven't gone back.
Mixed:
Hang Ups (C4) - speaking of Stephen.. I've seen the first episode and felt that it's trying too hard. We'll see if I get to like it or not. I see there's now a WP page for it and it classes it as 'improvisational comedy' despite half a dozen writers. That would explain a lot.
Who Is America? (C4) - even more mixed, but when it works - as with the fate of the group persuaded to have the 'catch an illegal immigrant' party - it's very good.
Accidentally wiped before watching:
Versailles: somehow I never got around to watching the first series of this, despite the the promise of bisexual action. Now the third series has finished, I see that the TiVo was set up to only keep 25 episodes, which means it's wiped the first half of the first series. Should I see it?
Should have been wiped before anyone saw it, unshock:
Insatiable - apparently going the complete disaster it looked to be, so even more reason not to watch it.
Waiting for the BBC UK showings, so I can go 'I told you it was good':
Killing Eve.
Sneaky Pete (Amazon) - a con man is released from prison and adopts his cell-mate's identity in order to escape from the consequences of what got him into prison in the first place.
It's got a very good combination of script, acting and design going for it. We saw S1E1 when in Barcelona over Christmas on someone else's Prime membership, and when our watch of S1 finished, I was delighted to see that S2 had been released.
Quacks (BBC2) - A new sitcom where a Victorian surgeon, his 'eager to be more than a wife' wife, an 'alienist' and a chemist get into assorted medical scrapes, with lots of commentary on sexism, classism etc.
Better Call Saul (AMC in the US, available on Netflix in the UK a day later as a 'Netflix Original Programming', ha!) - S4 is looking good as Jimmy continues to turn into Saul.
The contrast with some other prequels (cough, Solo, cough) is striking: despite the fact that we know that a large chunk of the cast will survive to feature in Breaking Bad, there is still interest in their story because it we do learn things about them that we didn't know before. In part, that's because Breaking Bad had intelligence too and didn't lay it all out.
Not properly started watching yet:
Westworld S2.
Might or might not resume:
Dirk Gently (US Netflix version) - the BBC ones were great, thanks to Stephen Mangan and the scripts. The US version is.. less good, isn't it? I got about halfway into S1 before going 'I want to watch something else' and haven't gone back.
Mixed:
Hang Ups (C4) - speaking of Stephen.. I've seen the first episode and felt that it's trying too hard. We'll see if I get to like it or not. I see there's now a WP page for it and it classes it as 'improvisational comedy' despite half a dozen writers. That would explain a lot.
Who Is America? (C4) - even more mixed, but when it works - as with the fate of the group persuaded to have the 'catch an illegal immigrant' party - it's very good.
Accidentally wiped before watching:
Versailles: somehow I never got around to watching the first series of this, despite the the promise of bisexual action. Now the third series has finished, I see that the TiVo was set up to only keep 25 episodes, which means it's wiped the first half of the first series. Should I see it?
Should have been wiped before anyone saw it, unshock:
Insatiable - apparently going the complete disaster it looked to be, so even more reason not to watch it.
Waiting for the BBC UK showings, so I can go 'I told you it was good':
Killing Eve.