Task (HBO)

Episode three was released this week and wow this show is just firing on all cylinders. The overall storyline/investigation is getting really good and the various side plots are also getting really good.

True to form with all Ingelsby products I have seen, his veteran actors and his rookie actors all give top tier performances.

Andor (Disney)

I will watch the final episode of S2 tonight and what is there to say. The show is just incredible and I will be sorry to see it end.

Sirens (Netflix)

I just started this last night and on the surface it doesn’t look like my type of show, but holy hell on the cast, Milly Alcock, Juliane Moore, Kevin Bacon, Felix Solis and Bill Camp. Alcock is something else. Moore and Bacon and Hollywood royalty at this point and Alcock just shined in the first episode.

I am not sure if I can continue with a show about the rich and over indulged, but who knows.

I watched more star trek voyager season 1. It’s good classic trek exploring the unknown and developing characters. I thought the episode with the tiny worm hole and Romulon scientist was interesting. Feels more like a continuation of tng while ds9 went in a different direction around the same time.

My recommendations are more star trek and the sam and max cartoon.

I’ll have to check out Task for sure. Thanks for the tip

Haunted House is a new animated series in Netflix that seems pretty interesting so far

I’m halfway through a new Australian drama called The Family Next Door, which is quite good so far. It’s a slow burn mystery about a stranger who moves into a small cul-de-sac and begins investigating her neighbours, who all appear to be friends on the surface yet seemingly hide quite a few secrets from one another. Her background and reasons for being there are slowly being revealed over the course of the series, but at this stage it’s unclear what her true motive is or what else her neighbours are hiding from one another. I went into it completely blind, so I have no idea where it’s going at this stage.

It’s well-acted and the cinematography is very pleasant to the eye. I don’t watch much Australian TV because producers often don’t do a great job of hiding their relatively low budgets, but in this case it doesn’t feel cheap at all (though I noticed all the food props are from ALDI lol). It has been really nice to watch something set in a place I kind of recognise with accents and cultural traits that are very familiar. I guess I forget how much of the media I consume is American or British, and if this was an American production it would almost certainly be melodramatic and silly but this has a very laid-back, low-key Australian style which I’m realising I appreciate a lot. You learn a lot about the characters from what they don’t say, rather than what they do. It reminds me a bit of Fake, another Australian drama released last year (which was also good).

I’m rewatching The Wire, its an amazing crime series

Both of my kids and a dog.

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