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The shows you watched in 2020

The shows you watched in 2020

So the other topic about Dark reminded me i used to have topic on shows i watched in 2015/16/17

here -> https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/474547/page/1/#replies

and i watched quite a lot of stuff in 2020, especially, given pandemic and whatnot, i thought i could continue where i left off and make new 2020 related topic. So here we go, in 2020 i watched:

 

Star Trek Discovery S3: utter garbage

Picard S1: unfortunately as bad as Disco, wanted to like it so much, but it was terrible

Star Trek Lower Decks S1: only acceptable NewTrek show, fairly OK, even if more of a sitcom set in Trek universe, than proper Trek show. Still the only decent of the lot.

Messiah S1: modern day drama/thriller about guy claiming to be new Jesus

LaMante: french criminal series, about female serial killer, quite decent

Outsider: Stephen King stuff, very good, especially the initial few episodes

Stranger: british crimi/thriller

Sinner S1,2,3: US crimi/thriller with Bill Pullman, the first season very good IMO, the later 2 not as much, but still watchable

Lost in Space S2: might have watched it in 2019 though, not sure now

Paranoid: british crimi/thriller

Ozark S1,2,3: US crimi/thriller/drama, sort of Breaking Bad, very good, recommended

Broadchurch S1,2,3: british crimi/drama, very good, recommended

Curon: italian mystery, not that great

Snowpiercer S1: scifi, based on the same name movie, great, recommended

Perry Mason: modern remake of classic crimi, decent

What we do in shadows: sitcom about vampires, really good, recommended

Peaky Blinders S1-5: british historical crimi/drama about 1920 gangsters, really good, recommended

Alienist S2: US crimi, quite good, but first season was better

Glitch S1-3: Australian mystery about dead people coming back, decent

Umbrella Academy S1,2: comic based action/scifi, not into comics, but really liked this one, recommended

SpaceForce: US sitcom about space program, fun at times, but saw better sitcoms

Haunting of Bly Manor: mystery/ghosts stuff, fairly OK, not too scary, different compared to first season, Haunting of the Hill House

Threshold: older scifi classic from cca 2005, rewatched after maybe 10 years

Outlander S1: historic with scifi elements, did not quite like it to watch more, but might return to it

Into the Night: post-apocalyptic scifi

I am not okay with this: comic-like, sit-com

Requiem: british mystery/crimi, decent

The Investigator: British Crime Story S1: documentary

100: US/canadian post-apocalyptic scifi, currently watching S6, surprisingly very good

Mandalorian S2: was okay, probably better than Treks, but bit too simplistic. Not a match compared to likes of Expanse.

Ash vs Evid Dead S1-3: horror sitcom, over the top gory and fun

Lovecraft´s Country: rather disappointing

Raised by the Wolves: scifi, bit of a mix bag

Bored to Death S1-3: great sitcom

To the lake: Russian show about deadly viral pandemic, fairly actual. Surprisingly good.

Liberator: WW2 military show, similar to Band of Brothers, in weird stylized visuals. I generally dont like these kind of shows, as they are mostly all about relaying the atmosphere, but light on story, but this one was okay i guess.

Dark S3: final season of german time-travelling show. Went over the top with it and became overly complex and super-difficult to follow, so it was disappointing, especially after flawless first season, but overall, its worth to watch.

Dirk Gently´s Holistic Detective Agency S1: loosely based on Douglas Adams novels. Not bad, but could be better.

Aside of these, i watched few episodes of Narcos: Mexico, Blacklist, Paranormal, Toast of London and Tin Star, but have not finished watching yet, for various reasons.

 

So, thats it. Anyone saw any of these and cares to comment? Or suggest something else you watched and thought it was good/worth a watch? I am all ears :-)

 

EDIT: Forgot one more show, so added it.

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Reply #26 Top

American Gods and The Man In The High Castle

Reply #27 Top

Currently watching Longmire [again].  Always interesting how so many US shows have an Aussie actor - often as lead...;)

 

Reply #28 Top

Some more shows I have been watching in 2021 and rate as pretty good:  Some have been around a while, but 'Clarice', based on the FBI agent in 'Silence of the Lambs, is new and pretty darned good and stars an Aussie actress in the lead role.

  • Manifest
  • The Outpost
  • Debris
  • The Nevers
  • Van Helsing
  • Wynonna Earp
  • Clarice
Reply #29 Top

Some of the better series I've watched in 2021:

Black Sails

The Mandalorian

Violet Evergarden (anime, but a good one. Plus it's hardcore tearjerker).

Reply #30 Top

It's not new but I've been re-watching Continuum on 7Plus, one of our free streaming channels here in Oz.  It's a Canadian produced show about a cop from the future who was accidentally transported back to our time with a group of criminals who were to have been executed in the future for terrorist acts.  Yup, definitely worth a watch.

Reply #31 Top

I am watching Yellowstone right now, and frankly speaking, current season is much weaker than I'd expected, for five episodes not a single important event happened, it cannot even be compared with the previous season.In general, the fact that the entire Dutton family was able to survive without casualties after the end of the third season makes the subject very unrealistic, it is a quite difficult to worry about the lives of characters who have a such solid plot armor from the authors .