As with so many TV series, you have to wade through the first few episodes until the characters gel and the storylines tighten up. It's fluff, but fun fluff. Once Netflix took over things got really interesting.

The latest BBC series to interest us is Chloe - not sure where it is heading, but two episodes in it is an intriguing take on building false personalities both online and in the flesh.

I finished Lucifer last night. I'd rate it a 7/10, with some parts of it hitting 8/10. A fun romp.

Here's something weird, though. Last night as I was watching the penultimate episode, a clock in the show chimed at midnight -- just as OUR clock chimed midnight. Weird, eh?

Bu tthen it gets weirder. I'd paused the game to get a cup of tea, and a song popped into my head -- Peter Gabriel's My Body is a Cage. I turned the on the last episode, and that very song played in it later on in the episode.

Coincidence? Two such instances? In a show about celestial beings? I think not! I think not!

I love the goings on in the hagatha household narrated on the various GB threads and am still laughing at a gaming comment you made about being able to explore your macho side!

Weird indeed hagatha
I was like Lex but will have another go on the strength of your posts, plus I can't wait for my version of the weird.
Chloe I have never heard of and on a quick search can't find it streaming here but perhaps its on ftv so keen to hear how it goes.
The most recent season of The Sinner didn't do it for me; too much the same throughout and way to much Bill Pullman scrunchy face. But Archive 81 was a surprisingly enjoyable watch.

Lex the macho side comment is probably has something to with Gothic or one of the other games from Pirhana Bytes.


I've started 12 Monkeys again -- we were watching it about a year ago,, but the Spousal Unit kept falling asleep, so this time I'm watching it on my own so I can get through it.

The SU also kept falling asleep during Schitt's Creek, so I'll finish it at some point, too. We got about half way through and I was enjoying it. At least it'll be a fast watch.

I also have to catch up on Star Trek: Discovery, and there are a few other shows on the list, Ozark being chief among them.

I'm really looking foward to season 4 of Killing Eve which starts in a week here in the states.

We gave up on Killing Eve after the second season, but may give this final season a look. Meanwhile we are currently hooked on the adrenaline fuelled Fear Index, as well as continuing to enjoy Chloe (mentioned above).

Killing Eve is on the agenda although I did give up in Season 3.
Falling asleep in 12 Monkeys is not an option hagatha. It isn't Dark, but holding the various threads in your head is necessary. Binging helps (or at least it did for me; there wasn't that gradual weekly diminution of what happened last time!)
BTW, did anyone watch Fringe? Its been a while but I did see it through and enjoyed that quite a bit.
Fear INdex I will need to look up.

I absolutely LOVED Fringe. I have the DVD's because it hasn't been streaming anywhere here for several years.

Of course Kirk Acevedo was in both Fringe and 12 Monkeys.

I do not recall Fringe on British TV but it looks like my kind of stuff and I can pay extra to get in on Amazon Prime in UK, so will give it a try.

Meanwhile, Chloe turned into a disappointing damp squib in the final episode, spoiling the rather good effect created in the earlier 5 episodes which had kept us watching...!

He was indeed hagatha. I had forgotten that.
And on the strength of that Lex I will cross Chloe off the list. That final taste can be hard to overcome.

Fringe is Sci Fi, and very well done. John Noble, who played Denethor, Steward of Gondor in LOTR, is absolutely over-the-top wonderful in Fringe. Worth the price of admission.

EDIT: And how on Earth did I forget about Leonard Nimoy?

I can get Fringe on HBO Max.

I wonder if our Canadian streaming service, Crave, has it on HBO? I should check that. I'd love to watch it again, without the hassle of DVDs.

EDIT: No, it's not there, either.



I am enjoying 12 Monkeys. But yes, you need to pay attention.

I found Fringe on Sky without extra charge and have lined up episode 1 of season 1...

The first few episodes are monster-of-the-week to set the stage, and after that the focus turns to long-form story-telling. Just a heads-up.

SyFy is the channel where we found it (as part of our Sky package): we quite enjoyed the first episode but were not as fully grabbed as by some other things we have watched, although probably enough to try at least another episode or two.

Grimm remains our current addiction, and I see that there could be a spin-off at some point https://www.looper.com/360561/the-real-reason-grimm-was-canceled/

Afterthought: as this somewhat hijacked thread still seems to have legs, perhaps SQF should retitle it "Mare of Easton and Beyond..."

I justt finished 12 Monkeys. I really enjoyed it. Now I'm perusing my lists on Prime, Netflix and Crave to see what's next. I'd like to get back to Season 3 of Star Trek: Discovery, but Crave in on a Roku on a switcher, and the switcher doesn't always work, which gets frustrating.

I wasn't that enamoured of Season 3 of ST:D to the extent that I am not watching Season 4. I will be interested on your take hagatha. And I have started watching 12 Monkeys again. Glad you enjoyed it. Tangentially, it was the first time I can recall seeing "Stevie" from Schitts Creek, although according to IMDB she has been doing stuff forever.
I binged the Vikings spin-off on Netflix recently which was superficially Viking fun, and am continuing with the new season of Raised By Wolves. Some freaky good ideas, but do they hold together? I am still not sure.

Fltsam, I loved Star Trek: Discovery's first season, absolutely loved it, The Klingons were finally what they should always have been, and the Klingon mythology was superbly handled. I also very much liked the second season, though not quite as much. I got part way through the third season until the mid-season break, and although the pundits were all proclaiming that the series was now free to explore its own universe, it seems to me that it had become more like the original Star Trek. Maybe that's why I haven't gone back to it? We'll see. I'm a Trekkie, having watched the original with my father way back in the day, so I'll also grab the second season of Picard.

I agree with your take on Season 1 hagatha.
I was never a trekkie but watched it on and off, and especially liked The Borg so tended to seek out those episodes. My interest got a bit of a kick along with the movie reboots, and then Discovery came along.
I watched the first season of Picard (drawn by The Borg in the first instance) and enjoyed it enough to do the next, but will probably wait until it's all available. My brain can only hold a couple of episode a week shows at any one time

I watched all of the Treks until Enterprise (and the animated series, because yuk), which I started and then somehow stopped watching, back when it first came out. My favourite has always been DS9, which I've watched three times, skipping the really awful stand-alone episodes in the first three seasons.

I'm just finishing up the last few epsodes of Schitt's Creek, which we abandoned earlier this year due to excessive somnolence on the part of the S.U. It's pretty funny.

Afterthought: as this somewhat hijacked thread still seems to have legs, perhaps SQF should retitle it "Mare of Easton and Beyond..." lol

I agree Lex. This is just a great place to talk about shows we are enjoying. Last week the final season of Killing Eve just started here in the US and today a new season of Outlander kicks off.

SQF, how is Outlander? I watched the first season and then we moved, and I haven't gone back to it. I read the books way back in the day but haven't kept up with the series. I thought the casting was wonderful. The books were historical bodice-rippers with, but well written.