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

[Zaukrie]

Monarch is the Godzilla one, right? I heard the writing is poor enough to make Anna Sawai look like a bad actress; any truth to that? (Or did Shogun just make her look amazing?)

As said below, it is silly nonsense. If you like that, great! If you want great writing and plots that make 1% sense, you won't like this.

 

[jian]

Finished watching A Man on the Inside season 2, which is notably better than the first, though the mystery was even easier. But this series isn’t about the mystery, it’s about the characters and their interactions. If The Good Place was about ethics and the hereafter, A Man on the Inside is about gen X and our elderly parents.

 

[Zaukrie]

Finished watching A Man on the Inside season 2, which is notably better than the first, though the mystery was even easier. But this series isn’t about the mystery, it’s about the characters and their interactions. If The Good Place was about ethics and the hereafter, A Man on the Inside is about gen X and our elderly parents.

Great show.

 

[Pale Violet Light]

Taking a look at Fallout S2 at the moment; rather enjoying it, though I’ve forgotten most of what happened in the first season. I love how terrible the Ghoul is, and the contrast with Lucy’s idealism. I do hope Maximus gets a little more to do later in the season; being sidelined while the Brotherhood fart about being idiots isn’t that entertaining. I love the way the show looks: they’ve mastered the post-apocalyptic retrofurturistic look very well.

My only complaint is they occasionally dump too much background info: one episode introduces the Legion, the Commonwealth, and the NCR all at once, which is a little much if you haven’t played the games. Oh, and I hate the fact that it’s running more-or-less concurrently with Silo - I keep getting my subterranean post-apocalyptic shows confused.