Autumn Watching Preview
It's Autumn Watch season here at Phillips Head, your go-to source for all the hottest new television, movies, music, games and other things. This means I have watched television shows fall like rust coloured leaves from the tree of my interest in watching them.
1. UNBREAKABLE KIMMY SCHMIDT
Premise: Kimmy Schmidt has to make a new life for herself after being trapped underground for years in a cult.
Reality: Pretty average, a few laughs but an overtly positive American comedy is a hard sell to this bitter and disappointed viewer.
2. INDIAN SUMMER
Premise: It's the last days of the Raj, which allows this Indian Summer to be hotter than all the rest. And by hotter, we are talking hot with intrigue, sex, political developments that threaten the jewel of the Empire and a weird pseudo-sexual relationship between a brother and a sister.
Reality: It could be okay, after one episode watched it is still too hard to tell.
3. OUTER SPACE
Premise: A Yahoo! Original! Set in Space! A ship filled with misfits on a madcap journey through space!
Reality: Very patchy so far, three episodes down. The show is not without merit, and is only one short season so it's not as much as an investment as with Indian Summer.
4. POLDARK
Premise: Good enough for Prime Television on Thursday nights.
Reality: A costume drama with a sexy Cornish man trying to get by during the great Cornish recession. Not in the pantheon of Costume Dramas.
5. VEEP
Premise: Have you watched Season 1 or 2 of Veep? I sort of did and I think the latest season is a winning ticket.
Reality: It's good.
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I havent seen any of these.
ReplyDeleteI have seen Veep and its good. Very good. Making my way through the young doctors notebook as well, enjoying it, not really sure what it is trying to achieve, but even though it doesn't appear to be up to that much its still amazing.
ReplyDeleteAnother one for some bizarre reason I've continued watching after being pretty much the most vacuous show on TV outside reality TV - IZombie, kinda good for its textbook adherence to conventions, rule of three, explain after add break everything that has come before, endless explanations, "comic book" intro vibe, other than the brain eating, apparently no real disadvantage to being a zombie, basically a superpower, yet everyone treating it like some kind of disease, zombies being everywhere and no one noticing, I mean, I just can't even begin picking holes in it, because it doesn't try to plug holes, it tries to be something very generic, comic procedural, see "Bones", "Castle", the list is endless, and its "unique" factor is the zombie angle. So yeah, in summary, don't do it.