The action-packed first 5 minutes was almost entirely all CGI and lacked any actual excitement because of it. The Winter Soldier story aspects seem interesting. He was never a character i liked and thought he should have been perma-deathed in the films. But the actor does well here and the story seems like it has interesting places to go. The Falcon, who I like in the films, is lumbered with a mundane, crappy soap opera plot of his sister's failing fishing business, where she just comes across as pig-headed and entitled in her various refusals of help and search for money. A better start than WandaVision, which was abysmally dull for nearly 3 full episodes before becoming entertaining. But it's still got problems.
Resident Alien
This has been enjoyable from the start and is consistently funny with some good laugh out loud moments. Alan Tudyk is perfect in the role of an alien pretending to be human in a small town. His physcial comedy is great.
The Strain season 1-3
This has been great fun and the start of season 4 goes places you could never have predicted. Really enjoyed it.
I really enjoy Resident Alien too. I never liked comedy with Sci-fi but this is funny and touching. Very tough to pull off. Love the sheriff. Adult humor like when in his fantasy job as a tattoo artist he gives the woman a tattoo of Jerry Orbach. I liked The Strain too but I thought it went off the tracks at the end. But it is tough to maintain a good idea for too many seasons. I read the first book and it mirrors the first season.
I really enjoy Resident Alien too. I never liked comedy with Sci-fi but this is funny and touching. Very tough to pull off. Love the sheriff. Adult humor like when in his fantasy job as a tattoo artist he gives the woman a tattoo of Jerry Orbach. I liked The Strain too but I thought it went off the tracks at the end. But it is tough to maintain a good idea for too many seasons. I read the first book and it mirrors the first season.
I wondered how closely it followed the comic or if it just used the basic premise and did its own thing.
It's a genuinely suspenseful true story about a serial-killer and accomplices murdering people in Bangkok (and elsewhere) in the '70s. It's very well acted and the story is perfectly structured, at least n the first 4 episodes, as different threads of the plot and points of view are revealed. Just very well done, but i'm on edge for the next 4 episodes.
The Serpent was an excellent series all the way through. The music was pretty decent throughout. It worked at generating lots of tension and there were hints of Philip Glass in a just couple of instances, that i liked at the time.
The Wire season 5 is good but for me it is definitely the weakest so far because of a daft McNulty storyline.
This Is A Robbery: The World's Biggest Art Heist is a 4-part documentary about a 1990 (i think) robbery of an art gallery in Boston. $200million in paintings taken, lots of suspects, zero arrests (they tell you this early). It has some nice underscore. One track sounds a lot like the Bank Heist track from Escape From New York. I'd probably listen to it all if it was released as a score. The doco itself was interesting enough over the four episodes.
Just finished Deadwood (at long last), it was rather a low key ending & not the bloodbath I was hoping for, but then they didn't know that S3 would be the last. Just watched the first episode of Mad Men season 4.
The Serpent was an excellent series all the way through. The music was pretty decent throughout. It worked at generating lots of tension and there were hints of Philip Glass in a just couple of instances, that i liked at the time.
I was on the fence about this but since you've given it high marks I may give it a go.
It's a very interesting historical tour of various castles, with lots of interesting information.
Gangs of London
Very violent but very well done series about a power vaccum left when one gangster dies. The action is spectacular and just the right side of stylized. I usually get bored by fight scenes, as they're often stupidly shot and over-exaggeratedly stylized. But this hits the right balance (for me). It's by the director who directed the action film The Raid. The story is interesting enough, too.
Treme
Finishing the very short 4 episode season 4. It's been a unique and interesting series.
