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osprey_archer) wrote2016-03-27 10:25 pm
osprey_archer) wrote2016-03-27 10:25 pm
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What should I watch next?
I finished season 7 of Castle, and in between some things I've heard about season 8 and the fact that season 7 has one of the most perfect endings ever, I think I'm going to stop here. (...Unless sometime down the road someone tells me that season 9 is amazeballs, but when was the last time anyone said season 9 of anything was amazeballs?)
So! Now I am in the position of needing a new show, and I have decided to lay out the pros and cons of the various shows I have in my Netflix queue. (This doesn't include shows available on Netflix instant: those don't require pre-planning to check out.)
1. Orphan Black
Pros: Multiple friends have recommended this to me as being basically the most amazing thing ever
Also, it's starting a new season soon, so theoretically I could catch up and watch it on TV! And although there are three previous seasons, they're only ten episodes long, so I might actually catch up rather than trailing disconsolately behind for the entire run of the show like I have done with basically everything else I've ever watched.
Cons: I am so terrible with faces, you guys. I am so terrible with faces that I spent the first two episodes of Cambridge Spies desperately confused about which white British dudes with a posh accent was which, never mind there are are only four of them and they don't even look that similar! Whereas Orphan Black has fifteen different characters played by the same actress!
Actually I think fifteen is an exaggeration. But nonetheless there are a lot of them.
2. Dark Angel
Pros: You had me at "genetically enhanced soldier Max Guevara on the run from the government." It's like they designed a show just for me! Right down to the fact that it's only two seasons long, bless you, Dark Angel, you are made to cater to my television commitment issues.
Cons: I don't think this one has any cons, but that's partly because I know very little about it. Is the reason I haven't heard more about it because it's secretly terrible and that's why it got only two seasons?
3. Golden Girls
Pros: I have heard many good things about this show about older women hanging out and being buddies and cracking wise together, and it sounds like it would be a hilarious and relaxing show.
Also, while it does have a million episodes, it's also complete, so it's not going to have a million more.
Cons: It has a million episodes. I am very intimidated by shows that have more than three seasons, and Golden Girls has seven and also - I just noticed this - Netflix doesn't have one of them! WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT, NETFLIX, WHY.
Probably tabling this one until Netflix has the complete damn series.
4. The Good Wife
Pros: My friends have also sung the praises of this show to the sky, as have the critics, especially for the varied and complex relationships between the female characters.
Cons: It also has a million episodes, and it's still running so who knows how many more it will accrue.
5. Brideshead Revisited
Pros: A miniseries! So it's very short and there will never be more. Also I like book adaptations. (I should see if there are any Austen miniseries I haven't watched yet...)
Cons: I just watched Cambridge Spies, so I'm not feeling another miniseries about the upper classes in interwar Britain just at this moment. Plus I get my fix for that from Poirot. I could even catch up on all those seasons of Downton Abbey I missed, if I really wanted to make myself miserable, why would I want that, this is a terrible idea, self, stop it.
Anyway, I'll probably watch this one eventually (that's the nice thing about miniseries), but not right at this moment.
6. Justified
Pros: I do love crime dramas. And this one is set in Appalachia, and I'm not sure why that appeals to me but it does.
I've also heard a lot of compliments about the use of language in this series, the poetry of the dialogue, which is not something one hears about many series and therefore made me perk up and take notice.
Cons: The female characters apparently get short shrift. Also, while the show is complete, it's also six seasons long, which is a lot of seasons.
I may just go ahead and try Orphan Black first, because it's the only one that has any kind of time component: the others are either complete, or so long that there's no way I'll catch up to the currently airing episodes (The Good Wife). Are there any other shows I should take under consideration? Perhaps particularly miniseries or series that were tragically canceled before their time.
So! Now I am in the position of needing a new show, and I have decided to lay out the pros and cons of the various shows I have in my Netflix queue. (This doesn't include shows available on Netflix instant: those don't require pre-planning to check out.)
1. Orphan Black
Pros: Multiple friends have recommended this to me as being basically the most amazing thing ever
Also, it's starting a new season soon, so theoretically I could catch up and watch it on TV! And although there are three previous seasons, they're only ten episodes long, so I might actually catch up rather than trailing disconsolately behind for the entire run of the show like I have done with basically everything else I've ever watched.
Cons: I am so terrible with faces, you guys. I am so terrible with faces that I spent the first two episodes of Cambridge Spies desperately confused about which white British dudes with a posh accent was which, never mind there are are only four of them and they don't even look that similar! Whereas Orphan Black has fifteen different characters played by the same actress!
Actually I think fifteen is an exaggeration. But nonetheless there are a lot of them.
2. Dark Angel
Pros: You had me at "genetically enhanced soldier Max Guevara on the run from the government." It's like they designed a show just for me! Right down to the fact that it's only two seasons long, bless you, Dark Angel, you are made to cater to my television commitment issues.
Cons: I don't think this one has any cons, but that's partly because I know very little about it. Is the reason I haven't heard more about it because it's secretly terrible and that's why it got only two seasons?
3. Golden Girls
Pros: I have heard many good things about this show about older women hanging out and being buddies and cracking wise together, and it sounds like it would be a hilarious and relaxing show.
Also, while it does have a million episodes, it's also complete, so it's not going to have a million more.
Cons: It has a million episodes. I am very intimidated by shows that have more than three seasons, and Golden Girls has seven and also - I just noticed this - Netflix doesn't have one of them! WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT, NETFLIX, WHY.
Probably tabling this one until Netflix has the complete damn series.
4. The Good Wife
Pros: My friends have also sung the praises of this show to the sky, as have the critics, especially for the varied and complex relationships between the female characters.
Cons: It also has a million episodes, and it's still running so who knows how many more it will accrue.
5. Brideshead Revisited
Pros: A miniseries! So it's very short and there will never be more. Also I like book adaptations. (I should see if there are any Austen miniseries I haven't watched yet...)
Cons: I just watched Cambridge Spies, so I'm not feeling another miniseries about the upper classes in interwar Britain just at this moment. Plus I get my fix for that from Poirot. I could even catch up on all those seasons of Downton Abbey I missed, if I really wanted to make myself miserable, why would I want that, this is a terrible idea, self, stop it.
Anyway, I'll probably watch this one eventually (that's the nice thing about miniseries), but not right at this moment.
6. Justified
Pros: I do love crime dramas. And this one is set in Appalachia, and I'm not sure why that appeals to me but it does.
I've also heard a lot of compliments about the use of language in this series, the poetry of the dialogue, which is not something one hears about many series and therefore made me perk up and take notice.
Cons: The female characters apparently get short shrift. Also, while the show is complete, it's also six seasons long, which is a lot of seasons.
I may just go ahead and try Orphan Black first, because it's the only one that has any kind of time component: the others are either complete, or so long that there's no way I'll catch up to the currently airing episodes (The Good Wife). Are there any other shows I should take under consideration? Perhaps particularly miniseries or series that were tragically canceled before their time.
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I think you might like the Darkangel Trilogy, although it's a very strange set of books and not really like anything else, and I wouldn't recommend it to everybody. But as a Sutcliff fan at least you'll be prepared to deal with archaicizing prose and formal-tending-towards-stilted dialogue.
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