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.
King of the Hill
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.
Just finished rewatching The Magicians recently! The last season is so bad and cheesy lol. But I love it still. I’ll never not love Josh. I don’t know if you are at his introduction yet, but it’s so good, I always laugh so hard.
Currently I’m rewatching The Expanse. I’m having the same reaction, from the first season. Like I don’t remember anything basically, it’s great hahah
Josh is great! I love all the characters for one reason or another. We’re in the middle of season 4 currently.
I gotta say I never “love” Kady, but I do love all the others in different points. They change a lot. Some I love all the way, like Elliot. Some are harder at the start but get much better at the end, like Penny.
I do love them all as characters all the way through tho, even Kady. She’s just a bit triggering for me lol, always storming out of places, never being able to talk… and by the end when she starts to get better in that regard she practically disappears.
But something that I really like about the show is how all of them are at one point or another really unlikable as people. They really just suck sometimes, in major ways. But it makes a lot of sense in the universe, given how magic works etc. I also guess this is one of the reasons many people hate the show and can’t get into it. Like in season 1 most of them are just terrible people hahahaah
Anyways, love The Magicians.
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.
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.
Community is streets ahead.
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.
I’ve just re watched Avatar:TLAB and Legend of Korra for the 3rd time at least
Have also watched TLAB at least three times. So good. Korra two times I think. About to be a third soon I hope.
Zhu Li, do the thing!
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.
I’ve just gone through it again. Must be the sixth time. And, as always, I spot something I’d missed.
The slang… My god that’s amazing :)
Final Space, kinda like a better Rick and Morty. Not an amazing series and it definitely did not age well, but it has it’s moments.
Doctor Who from Eccleston on. We missed much of it (including all of the Capaldi and Whitaker years) so it’s still new to us, and we’re catching up just in time for the new guy. I used to roll my eyes at folks who insisted Who was worth watching, but I was clearly wrong: It’s such a fun (and sometimes devastating) show. Loving it.
We are slowly making our way through it. It’s weird, because it is a fun show, but we rarely watch it when it comes time to turn on the TV.
Farscape! I haven’t seen it since I was barely even a teenager. I loved the show and it meant a lot to me, but there are a lot of years between then and now so I’ve forgotten a lot. I’ve been shocked by how outrageously, flamingly queer it has been. Not like the unacknowledged, and often unintentional, homoeroticism of most genre shows of this era but gay sex only half way into the first season.
The show is just pretty great in general too, I love the Henson puppets and aliens so much. Ben Browder is a great lead with a ton of charisma. Just be warned if there are any topics you’d want to avoid, the show would have a fairly long list of content warnings. It can be very dark and not everything has aged perfectly.
I literally just started that again last night!
I haven’t watched or re-watched almosy any tv shows since GoT but the one I’ve rewatched like 4 times is Prison Break.
Currently, re-watching Ghosts US with my girlfriend since she’s never seen it.
That’s my guilty pleasure. The high-concept, some of the performances, and the BBC heritage leave it a step above most of the CBS boomer-comedies, but I can’t in good conscience tell people it’s “good.”
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.The game is really fun, if you haven’t tried it then I would suggest that.
3rd Rock From the Sun.
Malcolm in the Middle.
I am perpetually rewatching Seinfeld, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Reno 911, Trailer Park Boys, King of the Hill, Letterkenny, MADtv.
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.
I just finished Babylon 5 and now I’m re-watching it’s copy, Star Trek Deep Space 9.
