Fall 2024-Summer 2025 New/Returning/Streaming/TV Shows

sk8pics said:
Try it with the existing email, it might work! I have two email addresses I've used, but I think canceling more than a month before has worked for me. I always put a note on my calendar to cancel before the October payment. It also seems like no matter what "people" say, they keep offering this deal. I had one deal at $1.99/month several years ago, but since then it's been $0.99/month.
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The fine print said subscribers in the past month weren’t eligible so I didn’t even try the same email. I only had one show in progress so it’s not a big deal to have a new profile. I’m just glad to have it back! I’d been watching Nashville every night and was having withdrawals. 🤣
 
I have been catching up on Shrinking on Apple TV+. Holy cow, the guy that plays the drunk driver, that killed the one therapist’s wife, is amazing. The nuances in his expression, and the way the light goes out in his eyes, are really amazing.
 
sk8pics said:
I have been catching up on Shrinking on Apple TV+. Holy cow, the guy that plays the drunk driver, that killed the one therapist’s wife, is amazing. The nuances in his expression, and the way the light goes out in his eyes, are really amazing.
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My sister added me to her account So I've been binging. He was in Ted Lasso. Amazing there too. I will definitely be looking for him in future projects.
 
LeafOnTheWind said:
My sister added me to her account So I've been binging. He was in Ted Lasso. Amazing there too. I will definitely be looking for him in future projects.
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Yes, I knew he’d been on Ted Lasso too, and he was one of the developers/producers for Shrinking. He was good on Ted Lasso but I think he’s been really amazing on Shrinking.

Incidentally, Best Buy has a free 3 month trial of Apple TV+, so you may be able to get your own account if you want to.
 
genevieve said:
A plug for Apple TV’s Silo - S2 either just did or is about to drop. Based on the amazing Silo book series (S1 covered about half of the first book, Dust).
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My Apple TV favorites:

Slow Horses--Gary Oldman and Kristin Scott Thomas are perfectly cast and I'm always up for good spycraft (and bad spycraft.)

Severance--I binged this one and the second season is almost here. It is a fascinating premise which leaves more questions than answers and so I await the next installment.

Silo--I like dystopian series if they aren't too dark. This one is interesting.

Bad Sisters---One sister has a horrible husband. Who killed him? But this is more than a mystery. Good cast too.
 
TanithandBenFan said:
Nobody Wants This on Netflix is so cute and fun. Adam Brody and Kristen Bell are magic together.
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This was a charmer. Please tell me there is a season two.

I was resting a bad leg and binged “ A Man on the Inside” on Netflix. I was worried that this might be “Murder He Wrote” but the mystery is only part of the story here and Ted Danson is excellent as a widower attempting something new.

I don’t know if anyone subscribes to PBS but the clever “Moonflower Murders” and “Ridley” are good mysteries.
 
Cachoo said:
This was a charmer. Please tell me there is a season two.

I was resting a bad leg and binged “ A Man on the Inside” on Netflix. I was worried that this might be “Murder He Wrote” but the mystery is only part of the story here and Ted Danson is excellent as a widower attempting something new.

I don’t know if anyone subscribes to PBS but the clever “Moonflower Murders” and “Ridley” are good mysteries.
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Nobody Wants This had been renewed for S2 😊

I really enjoyed Man on the Inside too. Lots of laughs but also very sweet and thoughtful.
 
Did anyone watch Douglas Is Cancelled? Sounds like a neat premise and my kind of thing, so curious if it's good.

ETA: OK, update that it was very good :lol:
 
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I've finished Netflix's Senna, and I have thoughts about it.

I am well aware that this series was not designed for people like me, who live and breathe the sport and have read nearly everything I can about that era; but even so.

Characterisation/casting
  • Senna: Gabriel Leone did a fantastic job. I still don't think he looks much like him, but he captured the mannerisms and voice quite well. Senna, of course, is portrayed rather flawlessly, with his dedication to racing being his only real "flaw" so far, and his hot temper.
  • Prost: I didn't expect that much better from a series heavily influenced by the Senna family but it's always disappointing to see The Professor - a four time world champion and great of the sport in his own right - as some kind of daytime TV villain. The actor at least looks like him, but Prost is portrayed as weak, cowardly, scheming. Even with his and Ayrton's "reconciliation" in the final episode - which was much more genuine in real life - it's still not portrayed genuinely.
  • Ron Dennis: terrible characterisation. Dennis is a strong person who has handled dual-number one pairings many times. He is shown here as weak and ineffectual, and completely at Senna's whims.
  • Belastre: Well, Belastre was a bit of a real-life villain and he definitely favoured Prost. But here his other more complex qualities as a leader are taken away, and he is just a gormless villain who wants to stop Senna at any cost.
  • Martin Brundle: If I was Martin Brundle, I might be seriously considering lawyering up after episode 2. Not only does the series straight-up call him a cheat, it also makes out that all the British fans supporting him were xenophobic nationalists, and heavily, heavily implies that Martin himself encouraged this. Martin also reappears as an ass in the Imola part, callously talking about how it's a risk that drivers die.
  • Jacky Ickx: Likewise, it is terrible to see the great champion Jacky Ickx reduced to a portrayal as Belastre's patsy.
  • Gerhard Berger: In real life, Gerhard was Ayrton's dear friend. The old saying is that "Ayrton taught Gerhard how to race, Gerhard taught Ayrton how to have fun." Their prank wars were legendary. Gerhard was also the only driver to see Ayrton in the hospital after the crash. In the series, the actor looks nothing remotely like Gerhard and is reduced to a few tiny appearances and one or two speaking lines, one of which he disrespects Alain in.
  • Niki Lauda: This actor is unfortunate that Daniel Bruhl set the bar so high in Rush. He doesn't really look like Niki though he manages the voice and some of the mannerisms reasonably well. I feel like they didn't really know how to use Niki and he got inserted rather awkwardly into the plot.
  • Sir Frank Williams: In real life he was a hard-ass, but not to the extent shown in the series. He certainly didn't yell at Senna to get in the car on the Saturday at Imola.
  • Rubens Barichello and Roland Ratzenberger: Neither are shown for very long, being relevant only because of their respective accidents. But they definitely don't look like their IRL counterparts.
  • Michael Schumacher: Michael who? Michael doesn't actually appear. The series seems extremely reluctant to name him until late in the sixth episode, referring to him previously as "your rival", "the Benetton driver", the "German driver". There are a few references to his name, a Benetton car shown a few times in the background, and a few shots of a driver with a helmet that is clearly Michael's. We see an actor's eyes just once, and they are not Michael's. Perhaps even the Sennas recognise that invoking the wrath of Corinna Schumacher is a bad idea. The few times he is referenced he and his team are explicitly accused of cheating.
The racing scenes:
  • Every. Worst. Trope. Ever. From the "downshift to overtake" to the over-use of CGI, the long glares and glances between drivers while barrelling down a straight at top speed (the Suzuka 90 scene was ludicrous for this), the constant use of the clunky pedal shots; the obvious track errors; the best racing scenes in the entire series is any time they use old footage. And when it's a series about a racing driver, that's so bad.
Story
  • Formula Ford/F3000/F2 sequence: This was uncomfortably exaggerated. It is true that F1 and the road to F1 is still, to this day, highly Euro-centric, and non-European/British drivers are still "othered". But that whole F2 sequence where it is heavily implied that Brundle was encouraging some form of xenophobic mob-mentality was very over the top.
  • Romance storylines: The Lillian one seems actually fairly true to life; it's clear that the family's stance on Xuxa being Ayrton's "official widow" has not changed. Adriane, his last and most serious girlfriend, gets barely a few minutes of screentime and no real story, though the fact that she was acknowledged at all is probably progress.
  • Senna vs Belastre: Exaggerated to the point of cartoonishness. There was no ridiculous scene where Ron Dennis was sweating on Senna faxing a letter of apology to Belastre to announce the drivers for the season - and as far as I know, that over-dramatic meeting doesn't take place. (It's never stopped a team changing drivers mid-year before, as, painfully, that still happens today.)
  • The journalist: I understand the concept of the journalist character - she was there to move the story along and give us a different perspective. At first she was interesting. But she was wildly over-used and I got very tired very quickly of her conveniently always being nearby to hear a bit of gossip or write a story. I also feel like some writers wanted her to be a romantic interest and some didn't.
  • Car safety, the rules and Imola: Probably the alteration I have the biggest problem with. Professor Sid Watkins himself was always insulted that people accused standards of getting lax. The simple truth is that F1 got lucky. After the tragic death of Riccardo Paletti in 1982, the only driver lost until 1994 was Elio de Angelis in private testing - and that caused a raft of rule changes about testing. No-one had relaxed. No-one let standards drop. And Max Mosely sure as hell didn't deliberately change the car regulations to be less safe. If they wanted to go with safety concerns for Imola, the infamous Tamburello corner had seen many terrible accidents, none fatal, over the previous ten years (indeed, this was probably a missed plot opportunity, as one of those accidents was in 1989 and featured Ayrton's friend Gerhard Berger). And there were legitimate concerns about the safety car, which as was shown, unlike today's safety car, was just a regular sort of car and was not fast enough to keep sufficient heat in the tyres of F1 cars. I would rather have seen those than a made-up plot point that insults the sport.
  • Roland wasn't dead at the track: (Well, he kind of was, but not officially.) When poor Roland was pulled from the car they knew he wasn't going to live, but he wasn't dead, either. This is important for two reasons: first, Professor Watkins would never have signalled to Senna that Roland was dead; second, in Italy, it is a legal requirement for a race weekend to be cancelled in the event of a fatal crash. Also, there absolutely was not blood everywhere at Roland's crash. He broke his neck and would have felt no pain. (There was a lot of blood at the scene of Ayrton's crash.)
There were a few fun moments too. I enjoyed some of the more obscure references: Keith Sutton's appearance (the bit about him taking pictures and Ayrton writing press releases to send to F1 teams is absolutely true, and Sutton went on to become one of the greatest photojournalists in motorsport); a guest addressing Ayrton's nephew Bruno as "you must be the racer in the family" (Bruno went on, against his family's wishes, to follow in his uncle's footsteps to race in F1); the montage at the end of Ayrton's career moments over Tina Turner's "Simply the Best" (which she sang to him live after Adelaide 93).

Overall, maybe I just have Senna fatigue - the number of "tributes" and memorials this year, on the 30th anniversary, was simply too many for my taste and reeked of trying to capitalise on it - but this was not the story it could have been. The problem is, that while Ayrton's mother and sister and brother yet live, there is no way his story can be told properly - because it will never show his flaws, not truly. Even the Schumacher documentary was more honest in that respect.
 
The latest update on the next season of Project Runway, to be aired on Freeform and streamed on Disney+ and Hulu.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

New ‘Project Runway’ Season Lands at Disney

The latest renewal for the long-running Bravo series is for a 10-episode run in 2025 on Freeform, Disney+ and Hulu, with casting underway for a host, judges and fashion design contestants.
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Last night for me was about music and I watched the yacht rock documentary on MAX and the John Williams documentary on Disney. Both were excellent.
 
Finished season 4 of Only Murders in the Building. Enjoyed it a lot, and holy cow the guest stars they had this season! John McEnroe, Ron Howard, Meryl Streep. It’s like the stars just called their friends and said, hey, wanna be in a show with us?
 
sk8pics said:
Finished season 4 of Only Murders in the Building. Enjoyed it a lot, and holy cow the guest stars they had this season! John McEnroe, Ron Howard, Meryl Streep. It’s like the stars just called their friends and said, hey, wanna be in a show with us?
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Basically, I think that's what it is. And then there are the rumors about Meryl and Martin Short...
 
AFI Awards Top 10 Honorees for 2024

AFI TELEVISION PROGRAMS OF THE YEAR
Abbott Elementary
The Bear
Hacks
A Man on the Inside
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Nobody Wants This
The Penguin
Shōgun
Shrinking
True Detective: Night Country

AFI SPECIAL AWARD
Baby Reindeer

Some surprises here. I have Nobody Wants This (Netflix) and A Man on the Inside (Netflix) in my watch list and they are new shows. But Only Murders in The Building (Hulu) got dropped from last year.
 
Reacher season 3

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Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
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BaileyCatts said:
Regarding pretty much every show in general ... after catching up on my DVR'd shows .....

whydoeseveryonetalksofastandmumblesomuchthatIcantevenhearwhattheyaresaying!!!! :mad: Rant over.
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It's how they mix the sound these days. I read an article about it.

We turn on closed captioning a lot. It helps.
 
BaileyCatts said:
whydoeseveryonetalksofastandmumblesomuchthatIcantevenhearwhattheyaresaying!!!
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And I thought it's my lack of English language skills. I'm kinda glad, that English as a first language speakers have the same problem
MacMadame said:
It's how they mix the sound these days. I read an article about it.

We turn on closed captioning a lot. It helps.
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Do you remember what they said about the why?
I turn on captioning too :)
 
BaileyCatts said:
Regarding pretty much every show in general ... after catching up on my DVR'd shows .....

whydoeseveryonetalksofastandmumblesomuchthatIcantevenhearwhattheyaresaying!!!! :mad: Rant over.
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I find the only shows where the speech is utterly clear are my daytime soaps. I use captions on almost everything else.
 
BaileyCatts said:
Regarding pretty much every show in general ... after catching up on my DVR'd shows .....

whydoeseveryonetalksofastandmumblesomuchthatIcantevenhearwhattheyaresaying!!!! :mad: Rant over.
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text_skate said:
Do you remember what they said about the why?
I turn on captioning too :)
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I had read that the problem is mainly with shows that are filmed for streaming purposes. Not sure what they are doing differently but presumably it’s because it’s cheaper. I got a sound bar last year and that actually did help. Only issue is sometimes the sound on Paramount+ is terrible; the first episode of Survivor this fall was really bad.
 
sk8pics said:
I had read that the problem is mainly with shows that are filmed for streaming purposes. Not sure what they are doing differently but presumably it’s because it’s cheaper. I got a sound bar last year and that actually did help. Only issue is sometimes the sound on Paramount+ is terrible; the first episode of Survivor this fall was really bad.
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It's because they mix stuff for the best situation and then for each lower situation, they mix it down instead of going back to the source and mixing for that exact setup. I know that's a bad explanation.

It's particularly bad for movies. They mix the sound so it sounds great in the theaters at the highest def / best sound system (IMAX?? I can't remember). Then they take that master and mix it down for each type of sound system/screen system and then down for streaming. Streaming is at the bottom.

For shows made for tv, this shouldn't be an issue which may be why the soaps are fine. Though I do sometimes find some tv shows are shot "artistically" using film techniques and those are a problem too. The people of reddit say that older shows are generally fine but newer ones are mixed by audio engineers who have their ass up their butts. I believe this. :lol:

This is then compounded by the fact that flat-screen TVs don't have room for good speakers because they are so thin. And the speakers they do have can't resonate as much because there isn't room. Or something. A sound bar can help with that.
 
TanithandBenFan said:
Somebody Somewhere has been breaking my heart this season. I just love how simple and honest this show is. And I really want a Joel in my life! He’s become one of my favorite TV characters.
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It sounds like the season 3 finale may be the end. :wuzrobbed
thedirect.com

Will Somebody Somewhere Season 4 Release? HBO Officially Confirms the Fate of the Series

HBO's hit comedy from Hannah Bos and Paul Thureen will likely never see the light of day again.
thedirect.com thedirect.com

Love this show so much but if that was the end at least it had a fabulous final episode.
 
Cachoo said:
Keira Knightley and Ben Whishaw, espionage and beaucoup Christmas scenery in London—“Black Doves” ended up being a binge for me.
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I am considering this show but don't like explicit violence. How violent is it?
 
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