What are you watching in (late 2025 and) 2026?

[EricNoah]

Oh, and I've been keeping up with Futurama. It has been so great having the show back. Some of the recent episodes have been a little weak, but even bad Futurama is still good television.

 

[jian]

Oh, and I've been keeping up with Futurama. It has been so great having the show back. Some of the recent episodes have been a little weak, but even bad Futurama is still good television.

Another relatively old animated series that is still excellent is King of the Hill. The two latest seasons (after a hiatus of 15 years) have been great fun and quite satisfying.

 

[EricNoah]

Lower Decks is pretty great - I’m rewatching the last two seasons now.

I'm already doing a rewatch and I watched the entire series about 2 weeks ago!

I have to say, the thing that led me to it was the crossover episode from Strange New Worlds. I thought that episode was the funniest Trek I've ever seen. Sometimes when Trek is trying to be funny, it is not very funny. But this was a delightful exception. And now that I've seen lower decks, that episode is even funnier.

 

[EricNoah]

Another relatively old animated series that is still excellent is King of the Hill. The two latest seasons (after a hiatus of 15 years) have been great fun and quite satisfying.

That was one of those shows that never really clicked with me. Maybe I should give it another try.

 

[jian]

I'm already doing a rewatch and I watched the entire series about 2 weeks ago!

I have to say, the thing that led me to it was the crossover episode from Strange New Worlds. I thought that episode was the funniest Trek I've ever seen. Sometimes when Trek is trying to be funny, it is not very funny. But this was a delightful exception. And now that I've seen lower decks, that episode is even funnier.

It does help that Quaid and Newsome do look a bit like their characters, I’m sadly not sure it would have worked so well with Cordero and Wells, though I’d be still happy to see them try,

 

[EricNoah]

It does help that Quaid and Newsome do look a bit like their characters,

Agreed, remarkably helpful. They kind of just walked off the cartoon screen and onto the live action screen pretty seamlessly.

I’m sadly not sure it would have worked so well with Cordero and Wells, though I’d be still happy to see them try,

Mrs. Noah and I were looking up the cast as we were watching the show. And we got very excited when we saw who was playing Rutherford. We had a good laugh about his performance as Pillboy from The Good Place. He was so funny. There's lines of his from that show that we still quote in our household.

 

[jian]

Agreed, remarkably helpful. They kind of just walked off the cartoon screen and onto the live action screen pretty seamlessly.

Mrs. Noah and I were looking up the cast as we were watching the show. And we got very excited when we saw who was playing Rutherford. We had a good laugh about his performance as Pillboy from The Good Place. He was so funny. There's lines of his from that show that we still quote in our household.

I think it would also work fine for Dawnn Lewis (Captain Freeman), Jerry O’Connell (Ransom), and probably Gabrielle Ruiz (T’lyn). A bit less so for Fred Tatasciore (Shaxs) and Paul Scheer (Billups) and obviously not brilliantly for Gillian Vigman (T’Ana) and Paul F Tompkins (Migleemo).

 

[EricNoah]

Dawnn Lewis (Captain Freeman)

I noted many Futurama voice actors in a variety of roles on LD, which was a fun and comforting surprise.

 

[jian]

Just finished Stock Struck, a Korean drama on Tubi, as noted in my thread here.

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Post in thread 'A general thread about Korean dramas'

Sep 28, 2026

Stock Struck (Tubi, 2022)

This is a slightly weird one, in that it feels quite educational and topical, to the point where I wonder whether it’s government-sponsored. Anyway, let’s move on.

(Translation note: The Korean title actually means “the ants are burning” which seems a little odd until you realise “ants” is common Korean slang for “small private investors”, so people who play the stock market with their tiny savings - there are a lot of these in Korea, especially now.)

The drama focuses on a small study group of day traders founded by an 11-year-old boy, Lee Joowon, who...

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[Vrindlevine]

Just finished Firefly (and Serenity) and Cardinal (A crime thriller set in the beautiful frozen north of Canada), currently watching Bubblegum Crisis.