What show are you re-watching?
What show are you re-watching?
I'm re-watching The Magicians with my wife, since she's never seen it. It's been long enough since I watched it last that I don't remember a lot of things that happened, so there's a lot of "I forgot got that!" moments for me, which is fun.
Going through The Expanse again. Such a good show that unfortunately got soured towards the end by a bad egg in the cast. But I'm enjoying it regardless, the work everyone else put into that show deserves praise. They found such a good balance point on the hard vs. soft sci-fi spectrum. Just enough realism and scientific accuracy to make the setting feel authentic without getting in the way of the story.
And Dominique Tipper as Naomi effortlessly code switching as she interacts with Inners and Belters is astounding. Not just her, all the Belter actors do such a great job with their dialects, but because of her screen time and back story it's a lot more varied for her.
Babylon 5.
I rewatch it every few years, this time with the SO who finally caved and decided to watch it with me. Despite having seen the entire series half a dozen times I'm still finding things I never noticed before. And while it's always been rather timeless, a lot of its themes are so much more applicable now than ever before. Cannot recommend it highly enough.
Other recent rewatches shared with the SO and found to have stood the test of time: Gargoyles, Batman TAS, Brisco County Jr, Daredevil, Star Trek TNG.
Schitt's Creek. Only watched it (the series) one other time. Big fan.
Game of Thrones
I like watching it because it's like studying really manipulative jerks. I find it so interesting how they operate. Interestingly, I noticed that I paid lots of attention the first four seasons. However, starting on the fifth season, I was more distracted on my phone. Now that I'm on the sixth season, an entire episode and a half will go by while I'm surfing Lemmy on my laptop. It just gets way too corny, predictable, and the plot armor is blaring. I'm still gonna watch it until the end...or at least play it in the background until the end. I guess I need my fill of disappointment and some practice rolling my eyes. It's still crazy to me that a show that became a cultural phenomenon tanked itself so terribly to the point that it lost nearly all respect.
Edit: Give me the mic! I've got something to rant about.
The fact that the armies of Westeros went from warring each other to caring about the Army of the Dead is ridiculous! The only proof anyone had was based on John Snow's and the Wildlings word from their experience at Hardhome. While John Snow had the respect to be able to convince the men of the Night's Watch, he didn't really do it. He didn't go on a persuasive and descriptive campaign to explain the danger they were in. He did such a poor job, that he was assassinated by mutineers. Yet, he is revived by the Red Woman, and all of a sudden, the families of the North are rallying behind him to prepare against the Army of the Dead. He then goes to Daenerys, a girl that has every reason to mistrust him, with this wild claim about walking dead without giving any sort of convincing argument, hoping she will pledge her armies and dragons to this cause.
So then, the plan to convince everyone that this is real is to send a team of some of the most prominent characters and best fighters they have, including the fucking King in the North, beyond the Wall to catch a wight. WTF. Why would you send the leader of the Wildlings on a suicide mission‽ Even more, Why would you send the King on a a suicide mission‽ If they die, the whole thing is done.
Of course, they find themselves surrounded by the Army of the Dead, and their only hope was to send a kid from King's Landing that hasn't ever seen snow until this trip, to run a damn marathon while sleep deprived, malnourished, and dehydrated. By pure luck, those that stayed behind were able to just chill on the island while the ice was forming. The Night King had long range weapons he could have used to kill them, but he just hung out for 4 days instead. Meanwhile, Snow Team 6 is freezing their asses off and likely starving, dehydrated, sleep deprived as hell, yet have the energy to go full on battle with zombies once the ice hardens.
This is just so ridiculous. I can't even watch it without disbelief and frustration. Thank goodness for House of the Dragon. House of the Dragon still has its ridiculous moments/story lines (e.g. an entire battalion sneaking up on a beach in plain sight of the Crab King's archers), but it's nowhere near as bad as the last 4 seasons of Game of Thrones.
Stargate SG1
Arrested Development
Caprica. I rewatched BSG (the RDM one) last year so I’m continuing on. My gods, the technology used to seem so futuristic and now it’s basically a fun game of “pick out the parts we in the real world can do now but couldn’t really do in 2010 when the show aired”
Monk, 30 rock, community, avatar, DS9, TNG, Babylon 5.
Farscape! I haven't seen it since I was barely even a teenager. I loved the show and it meant a lot to me, but there are a lot of years between then and now so I've forgotten a lot. I've been shocked by how outrageously, flamingly queer it has been. Not like the unacknowledged, and often unintentional, homoeroticism of most genre shows of this era but gay sex only half way into the first season.
The show is just pretty great in general too, I love the Henson puppets and aliens so much. Ben Browder is a great lead with a ton of charisma. Just be warned if there are any topics you'd want to avoid, the show would have a fairly long list of content warnings. It can be very dark and not everything has aged perfectly.
Lost. It's one of those shows with new details I catch every time I rewatch it.
Scrubs. Just a comfort show for when I don't have much time or before going to bed.
Dexter, the first couple seasons are incredible! The others do fall off a bit but still a great rewatch!
Just finished rewatching Invincible inspired by the new season being out, now just started on The Good Place.
Monk.
King of the Hill
3rd Rock From the Sun.
Malcolm in the Middle.
I am perpetually rewatching Seinfeld, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Reno 911, Trailer Park Boys, King of the Hill, Letterkenny, MADtv.
Just finished rewatching The Magicians recently! The last season is so bad and cheesy lol. But I love it still. I’ll never not love Josh. I don’t know if you are at his introduction yet, but it’s so good, I always laugh so hard.
Currently I’m rewatching The Expanse. I’m having the same reaction, from the first season. Like I don’t remember anything basically, it’s great hahah
Doctor Who from Eccleston on. We missed much of it (including all of the Capaldi and Whitaker years) so it’s still new to us, and we’re catching up just in time for the new guy. I used to roll my eyes at folks who insisted Who was worth watching, but I was clearly wrong: It’s such a fun (and sometimes devastating) show. Loving it.
Leverage. First the original, then onto Redemption.
Twin Peaks Season 3, although I've gotten distracted by the new show Ripley, which is excellent so far.
I loved Max Headroom (the American drama series) as a kid, and am now rewatching it and while there's the odd bit of 1980s cringe, it still holds way up in a "how the hell did something this hip ever get greenlit on a major network?" sort of way.
My wife is not into cyberpunk dystopia stuff, but she's watching for the first time with me and doesn't hate it.
The 4400.
I originally watched it some 15 years ago, and I needed something to watch during long plane trips recently, so I downloaded the entire series and stuck it onto this USB drive that works well with my phone.
Once done I will start rewatching New York Undercover
House.
As well as some anime I enjoyed in my youth.
And JJK because.... I love it.
Star Trek TNG anf DS9, for the nth
degreetime.I'll never stop watching that.
Parks and Rec. Still tons of hilarious moments but I find many of the characters less likable the second time. Still great though.
Just started rewatching Sakura Quest.
An Anime about a city girl who can't find a job, gets a call about a gig way out in the sticks, but only realizes after signing the contract that it's a one-year commitment.
The show is about her initially wanting to run back home to Tokyo then slowly falling in love with the tiny country town that might die out if she doesn't figure out how to restart their tourism industry.
Excellent characters, great music, low stakes, funny, might make you cry at the end. Highly recommended even if you're not an Anime fan.
Wolf Hall, because the books were brilliant and this, although not as good as the book is also very good and has Mark Rylance in it, who is always fantastic.
Money Heist (but in Spanish, the english dub is awful)
Third time. Such a great show
Buffy, torchwood, firefly
All three seasons of The Magicians were brilliant. Shame they didn't make any more. *clears throat*
Currently rewatching X-Men The Animated Series since X-Men '97 dropped. Even with all the production problems and janky animation, it remains a classic.
Watched Smallville for the first time recently! What a rollercoaster ride. Quality varies from "this is the best thing I've ever seen" to "this is literally a telenovela". 😆
Whenever I am cooking dinner or doing chores during the week after work I have a sitcom on in the background. New Girl, Friends, The Office, TBBT, etc. I've seen them dozens of times, but there is something about having them on the TV in the evening that reminds me of childhood. Simpler times maybe, I dunno. But I find it extremely relaxing.
Then every other year or so I'll go through Stargate SG-1 and Atlantis, because they are probably my favorite shows.
X-Files. Its a superb remaster and great show.
Also Farscape but I'm soon done with last season. :/
hardly any jizz at all
Edit: how funny, you're talking about a completely different thing. This comment must seem deranged.
Curb Your Enthusiasm. Added bonus of knowing there’s new episodes coming that I haven’t see yet.
Just finished the fourth complete rewatch of Faracape for the family. For me personally it was my 8th rewatch. By far my favorite sci Fi series of all time.
After that we watched Firefly.
Just started Stargate SG-1. Second time for the family, 3rd time for me.
I’m rewatching Star vs The Forces of Evil. Awesome show. :)
Criminal Minds
I haven't watched or re-watched almosy any tv shows since GoT but the one I've rewatched like 4 times is Prison Break.
Watching Beastars again to refresh myself on what's going on before the next season drops.
Starblazers.
Tremors, because worms.
A bit exhausted after my Buffy rewatch
Beast Wars. My wife and I both remember loving it when we were younger and wondered if that was just nostalgia and being a kid. It was not, the show is legitimately good.
Once I'm done watching Conspiracy Catz on YouTube I'm going to watch Xmen animated series. Battlestar Galactica maybe after that. Tried watching Arrow but got bored during season 2.
King of Queens
Martin
Gradually going through Home Improvement on Disney+.
I haven't seen it since I was a kid, but it's still funny now and is such an easy watch.
Avatar: The Last Airbender
Theoretically it was in preparation to watch the new Netflix series.
After finishing the first season; before starting season two I put on the Netflix series. I made it about 5 minutes into Ep1 before deciding I’d just finish my rewatch of the original series instead.
Man, that Netflix show is bad…