TV Round Up
Jul. 7th, 2024 09:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tiggymalvern
I haven't done one of these posts for a while, and it's because we've watched a fair bit of stuff that was... fine? Not amazingly good, not bad either, just stuff we watched and moved on without making much of an impression. But we've found a couple over the last month that were interesting enough to talk about, so here I go!
Scavenger's Reign. I hadn't heard of this until a month or two ago, and apparently nobody else had much either. HBO certainly didn't promote it to me when they released it and I am very much the target market for this! So the first I heard was when it made its way onto Netflix.
An animated sci-fi series in which the crew of a damaged space freighter are forced to abandon ship and find themselves stranded on an alien planet, with a very alien ecology. The story is interesting and freaky, the animation is beautiful. What's particularly interesting is that you can see where the creators have taken inspiration from some of the oddest parts of biology from earth and then run with it, written it large scale, and created an incredibly unnerving and dangerous world where almost nothing is what it seems. Very cool stuff.
True Detective: Night Country The best True Detective was the first season, and one of the fun things in Night Country is that you can see the parallels. Take everything that was successful about the first series and do it again! Two cops who used to be partners, who now dislike each other, pulled back together by a new case that becomes tangled up with an old case. Corruption among the rich and powerful. Some potentially mystical goings on surrounding murders in a weird, otherworldly landscape (the Alaskan winter instead of Louisiana swamps). But this time the two cops are both women instead of men.
And guess what - it works! Because a good formula is a good formula, and when you have a good script and great actors, how can it go wrong? Also, older people should be allowed to have sex on TV more often - I'm all for Jodie Foster and Christopher Eccleston getting it on.
Scavenger's Reign. I hadn't heard of this until a month or two ago, and apparently nobody else had much either. HBO certainly didn't promote it to me when they released it and I am very much the target market for this! So the first I heard was when it made its way onto Netflix.
An animated sci-fi series in which the crew of a damaged space freighter are forced to abandon ship and find themselves stranded on an alien planet, with a very alien ecology. The story is interesting and freaky, the animation is beautiful. What's particularly interesting is that you can see where the creators have taken inspiration from some of the oddest parts of biology from earth and then run with it, written it large scale, and created an incredibly unnerving and dangerous world where almost nothing is what it seems. Very cool stuff.
True Detective: Night Country The best True Detective was the first season, and one of the fun things in Night Country is that you can see the parallels. Take everything that was successful about the first series and do it again! Two cops who used to be partners, who now dislike each other, pulled back together by a new case that becomes tangled up with an old case. Corruption among the rich and powerful. Some potentially mystical goings on surrounding murders in a weird, otherworldly landscape (the Alaskan winter instead of Louisiana swamps). But this time the two cops are both women instead of men.
And guess what - it works! Because a good formula is a good formula, and when you have a good script and great actors, how can it go wrong? Also, older people should be allowed to have sex on TV more often - I'm all for Jodie Foster and Christopher Eccleston getting it on.
