Quite agree with these, recommend to everyone really, and will check out the others you liked too.Tigro wrote: ↑4 Jun 2021, 11:40The Queen's Gambit (2020) - 9/10
Very good chess setting short series.
Chernobyl (2019) - 10/10
Probably the best short series I have watched to date.
t. I know that this is kinda like the "origins" of Tomb Rider, there was action and all that, but wasn't anything special. If they make another TR movie with Alicia, I'll probably watch, but I'll probably give it another 5.
Dark (2017-2020) - 9/10
Very entertaining German TV series, with closed plot, so it's not going anywhere else. It started kinda ominously, and very quickly became so tangled and complicated, but somehow the director/screenwriter still managed, the viewer is able to keep track of what is actually happening, yet they know there is so much they still don't know and are stoked to see how it all turns out. I really recommend if you want some different take on time travel, alternate realities etc.
Queen's Gambit was unexpected, I thought it was going a very different direction initially, which was fun. Very pleasantly surprised that a good show also had a decent representation of chess. I get that they had to appeal to a broader audience, but I would still have liked even more of the focus to be on the chess board and not on their faces.
8/10
Chernobyl I think is the only truly harrowing TV/film I've ever seen. Some strange artistic license taken where historic facts are concerned.
9/10
Dark – as with all time travel gaks – is total cocaine for me so I don't think I can give a terribly unbiased review. Due to its complicated nature it had a lot of exposition to get through, and it felt a little bogged down in S3.
8/10
Has Jennifer Aniston ever been in anything that wasn't dreadful besides Friends?Tigro wrote: ↑4 Jun 2021, 11:40
Murder Mystery (2020) - 2/10
Pure puke. I couldn't handle more than 12 minutes, I don't think.
I also want to add:
Star Trek TOS: 6/10
Episodes vary from straight up 1/10 to 10/10 across all seasons, although S3 being the worst offender with a slew of cheap scripts and sometimes visibly rushed production. Still, if you like camp 60's scifi this is the show for you. All the characters are top, and with better treatment could have been great. Too bad JJ treated them even worse.
Star Trek TNG: 8/10
The first season has its moments, but it's really poor in general. It takes a few seasons for everyone to find their footing, but when it's good it's really, really good. Possibly some of the best TV I've ever seen. A lot of TV and film pretend to be deep, TNG is so effortlessly. But let's face it, there's not a season without a few genuine howlers.
Star Trek DS9: 9/10
I really didn't like it initialy, but somehow it's grown on me over the course of watching, and now I absolutely adore it. It's really just a soap opera with lots of facial prostethics, and it has no right to be as good as it is. It's no longer episodic, opting in stead for much longer arcs going across seasons, and as such it has very few standalone episodes that work in isolation. This way it also largely avoids truly terrible episodes, though there are a couple.
Where TNG tested the validity and sustainability of Roddenberry's ideals on a galactic level, DS9 took them to the breaking point. Earth may be a utopia in Star Trek, but at what cost?
