I liked Raised by Wolves too but it was pretty weird. If you like Sci-Fi you might want to give Altered Carbon on Netflix a shot.

I enjoyed the Altered Carbon books but the TV adaptation did not do anything for me and I see that Neflix appear to have cancelled after two seasons.

For me the TV sci-fi bar was set very high by Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles which I see is on Amazon Prime (but probably cheaper to buy on DVD if you still have a player)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po9BJCjjxIo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0fXTDI1egY

Space Quest, son recommended Altered Carbon too, but told me he thought I'd enjoy it more if I binged it.

I started watching Barbarians today for my "lunch" watch. I tend to only watch while I eat lunch so it can take me a bit to get through a series.

I agree Lex, SCC was rather good. I have it on dvd somewhere. I also liked the Tv version of Battlestar Galactica, although it probably went on a bit too long.

Just started watching the new series of Endeavour, now set in the 70s and continuing at the previous high standard, also a documentary about Alexei Novalny https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2021...view-surprisingly-jaunty-account-alexei/

Meanwhile Help awaits... https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2021/09/16/help-review-horror-let-covid-ravage-care-homes/

I, too, thought that the Altered Carbon series of books was excellent and didn't particularly care for the TV production.

Flotsam, I loved Battlestar Galactica. It was filmed around Vancouver and parts of BC. The house at the very beginning of the series is one many people here recognize, and SFU features prominently in the beginning, too.

Any Supernatural fans here? I've watched the entire series and would definitely watch it again someday. It, too, was filmed around Vancouver and BC and it's fun to ID places while watching.

I'm also happily waiting for Season 2 of Witcher.

I might have to try The Witcher now that we have Netflix.

Currently enjoying Martin Clunes in a couple of docudramas about big cases solved by the excellent Colin Sutton (who also features in his own fine series on Sky Crime The Real Manhunter).

I've been watching Frontier (Jason Mamoa)..only a couple episodes left.

I like Supernatural. Watched it while it was current.

Lex, I love The Witcher.

I honestly wasn't sure about Henry Cavill taking on the role of Geralt, but he's just perfect for the part.

I think so too

I couldn't really get into The Witcher, but I might have to give it another try.
Juat finished a new Netflix series by Mike Flanagan (Haunting of Hill House etc) called Midnight Mass. Most of his stuff has a horror bent so factor that into whether it might be for you, but it has that Stephen King world building feel about it and some wonderful exploration of the nature of spirituality. It was let down a bit by the denoument but its not Robinson Crusoe in that regard.

I had enjoyed a couple of the Witcher games which led me to read a book of short stories/episodes, hence my possible interest in the TV series, although it does not look like my usual fare.

Hubby and I just started watching Westworld. Intriguing!

West world's first season was wonderful, the second a bit garbled, I thought, and then we stopped watching, mostly because there's so many other things on our list and also because my spouse has a tendency to fall asleep and lose the plot. But I'll eventually get back to it because the premise and acting are great and I like it enough to want to know what happens next.

Ditto hagatha. I never got to the third but thought the first was excellent.
Watchmen is well worth it if you haven't seen it. Way better than the movie from a while back. Knowledge of what came before adds something as it's a kind of sequel but not necessary.

Another show that we loved is The Expanse. We've watched the first 4 seasons, and the fifth was in our queue, but again, the Spousal Unit tends to fall asleep and lose the plot and I get tired of explaining what happened in the previous episode.

Same here, hagatha! We started watching the final season of Goliath Saturday night about 7:30... didn't take 15 minutes and he was asleep. I was already into it, so just watched the rest of it.

"The Spousal Unit" - great terminology!

In our household, both Spousal Units seem to doze off in front of the same things, so neither of us can tell the other what happened at crucial missed moments...

Shows with complex plotting, like Mr. Robot and Dark and most recently The Wire, became incomprehensible to the Unit once he'd slept through a couple of episodes, and explaining it all was a real stretch.

The Unit is an intellectual, so when he watches TV it's for a break from all that thinking and it tends to lead us to shows that have a lot of things going, "Boom" without much story complexity. Superhero movies are good for that. You can generally sleep through half of it and still understand what's happening.

Hi Lex, I agree with you that Endeavour is a great series and I watched it, I am just disappointed that it has Only 3 Episodes, one waits this long for the series only to have 3 episodes and then to wait for another year. I wonder why they only produce 3 episodes?

Starcom, I suspect that the reasons will be partly restrictions imposed by lockdowns/social distancing during the pandemic and partly an excessively woke (in my view) focus in programme making generally: there is a limit to how much currently acceptable ethnic and other minority content can be injected into a period series such as Endeavour!

Just started watching Police Paris 1900 (on BBC Four, although I think also available on Netflix) with no great expectations, but it is actually rather good!

I just finished a Harry Potter marathon! We saw them all as they were released but I don't think I've watched them since.

I loved those films but I now find that about an hour and a half is my maximum watching time, so we do most films in at least two bites and have so far resisted the boxed set binge approach, but I admire your stamina!

There is a great BBC Scotland series Guilt which we missed first time round but are now watching to link into the second series which has just started https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9644058/

I must see if it is available down here Lex.
There's a new series featuring Nicola Walker that started here last night called Anika. WE will probably wait for a few of the episodes to be available and then give that a try.
Anyone seen it?