Sigh...too many tv shows too little time..
Sep. 4th, 2017 09:16 pmThere's not exactly a derth of television series at the moment. Although there's also a lot of the same thing. So I'm hunting things that are different.
Started streaming Mozart in the Jungle S1 which is uneven and at its best when it's focusing on the music. It's about the lives, relationships, and struggles of the members of the New York Philarmonic Orchestra...the fictional members. It's about thirty minutes per episode. So you go through them quickly.
Flirting with IZombie (which I tried several years back but didn't hold my interest at the time - too many zombie shows and films at the time, I'd grown weary of the genre), Ozarks, Fortitude, and Borsch.
I don't know though. Still have 12 episodes of The 100 and 8 episodes of The Expanse to watch. (I gave up on and deleted Will, Still Star Crossed, Younger, Claws, Salvation and Midnight Texas.)
New shows that are premiering this fall that look interesting, mainly because they are a bit different:
1. The Orville (which appears to be on Thursdays for some reason)
2. Star Trek: Discovery (which will jump to CBS All Access...and uhm, probably won't)
3. The Inhumans (has received horrid reviews, but I'm curious - because it's basically I Claudius with Superheroes)
4. The Gifted (a X-men series with a twist...it's focusing on a father and mother, with no powers, who had been studying mutants and imprisoning them who find themselves with mutant kids they'd do anything to protect.) [Airs right after Lucifer...]
5. Young Sheldon -- takes place in the 1990s or 80s, and focuses on Sheldon Cooper as a kid.
6. Alias Grace - Netflix series based on Margaret Atwood Book
7. The Collection - PBS - about a French Fashion House
8. Dynasty reboot, which is interesting in that Jeff Colby is black and bisexual (the love triangle is between Fallon and her male driver), also Sammy Jo is not Crytal's niece, but her nephew and he sleeps with Steven Carrington. In short it has a diverse cast, and mainly homosexual cast. The original Dynasty was notable for being among the first time series with a male leading character who was gay on prime time television.
9. Kevin PRobably Saves the World -- A guy who has lost everything is visited by woman (who only he can see and tells him she's a Warrior of God, and informs him that he's one of 36 righteous souls responsible for keeping hope alive and he has to find the others.
10. Ten Days in the Valley a television producer/show-runner who produces a crime drama/thriller, one night while she's writing her final script...her daughter is kidnapped. Stars Kyra Sedwick.
There's also a new doctor series by the creators of House, starring the star of The Bates Motel, entitled "The Good Doctor" -- the lead is an autistic surgeon. (Which apparently makes him a typical surgeon.) And a bunch of wonky sitcoms...Me, Myself and I (about a man at three stages in his life),
The Mayor (about a rapper who is elected Mayor) - executive produced by Daveed Diggs from Hamilton.
And a lot of military shows...SEALS, SWAT, VALOR, THE BRAVE...Yawn. I'm willing to bet half of them are gone by mid-season.
Started streaming Mozart in the Jungle S1 which is uneven and at its best when it's focusing on the music. It's about the lives, relationships, and struggles of the members of the New York Philarmonic Orchestra...the fictional members. It's about thirty minutes per episode. So you go through them quickly.
Flirting with IZombie (which I tried several years back but didn't hold my interest at the time - too many zombie shows and films at the time, I'd grown weary of the genre), Ozarks, Fortitude, and Borsch.
I don't know though. Still have 12 episodes of The 100 and 8 episodes of The Expanse to watch. (I gave up on and deleted Will, Still Star Crossed, Younger, Claws, Salvation and Midnight Texas.)
New shows that are premiering this fall that look interesting, mainly because they are a bit different:
1. The Orville (which appears to be on Thursdays for some reason)
2. Star Trek: Discovery (which will jump to CBS All Access...and uhm, probably won't)
3. The Inhumans (has received horrid reviews, but I'm curious - because it's basically I Claudius with Superheroes)
4. The Gifted (a X-men series with a twist...it's focusing on a father and mother, with no powers, who had been studying mutants and imprisoning them who find themselves with mutant kids they'd do anything to protect.) [Airs right after Lucifer...]
5. Young Sheldon -- takes place in the 1990s or 80s, and focuses on Sheldon Cooper as a kid.
6. Alias Grace - Netflix series based on Margaret Atwood Book
7. The Collection - PBS - about a French Fashion House
8. Dynasty reboot, which is interesting in that Jeff Colby is black and bisexual (the love triangle is between Fallon and her male driver), also Sammy Jo is not Crytal's niece, but her nephew and he sleeps with Steven Carrington. In short it has a diverse cast, and mainly homosexual cast. The original Dynasty was notable for being among the first time series with a male leading character who was gay on prime time television.
9. Kevin PRobably Saves the World -- A guy who has lost everything is visited by woman (who only he can see and tells him she's a Warrior of God, and informs him that he's one of 36 righteous souls responsible for keeping hope alive and he has to find the others.
10. Ten Days in the Valley a television producer/show-runner who produces a crime drama/thriller, one night while she's writing her final script...her daughter is kidnapped. Stars Kyra Sedwick.
There's also a new doctor series by the creators of House, starring the star of The Bates Motel, entitled "The Good Doctor" -- the lead is an autistic surgeon. (Which apparently makes him a typical surgeon.) And a bunch of wonky sitcoms...Me, Myself and I (about a man at three stages in his life),
The Mayor (about a rapper who is elected Mayor) - executive produced by Daveed Diggs from Hamilton.
And a lot of military shows...SEALS, SWAT, VALOR, THE BRAVE...Yawn. I'm willing to bet half of them are gone by mid-season.