Any good TV shows?

[_MeDotOrg]

Just saw the first two episodes of The Young Pope with Jude Law on HBO, and it hooked me. Without giving the show away, the premise is that a relatively young American Cardinal is elected pope, with the backing of cardinals who believe they will be able to influence and control him.

Imagine what it is like to stand on the balcony at St. Peter's Square for the first time as a leader of the largest religion in the world. One billion believe believe God's mouth to your ear.

Wonder what will happen? Stay tuned...

by the way, if you're wondering if the papacy is the right job for you, here's a handy quiz that will help you decide from Fran Lebowitz.

[_SteelHead]

Westworld

[_Jersey Girl]

No clue! I don't watch television. I've seen Fixer Upper and loved it, but I don't know how the television works for finding it without help.

That is so true I can't believe I admitted it in public!

[_MissTish]

I recently watched the first season of Top of the Lake. I enjoyed it.

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/top-of-the-lake/

[_EAllusion]

It's the golden era of television. There's more good TV shows than you have hours in the day to watch.

[_subgenius]

Westworld - HBO
The Fall - Netflix
Penny Dreadful - Netflix / Showtime
Mozart in the Jungle - Amazon prime
Sherlock - PBS Masterpiece (BBC)

[_MeDotOrg]

Westworld - HBO
The Fall - Netflix
Penny Dreadful - Netflix / Showtime
Mozart in the Jungle - Amazon prime
Sherlock - PBS Masterpiece (BBC)

Started to watch the The Fall, didn't pull me in. I'll give it another shot, a lot of people say it's a great show. Mozart in the Jungle I love. Westworld is very good and very disturbing. Sherlock...absolutely loved the first 2 years. The last few years I feel have gone a little to far from the path. I love translating all of Sherlock skills into the modern internet world, but I feel they've been trying to create too much backstory with Mary's relationship with John Watson. It feels like the creators are trying to make Sherlock Holmes a little too touchy-feely. That's not his bailiwick. Go back to solving crimes. The game's afoot!

[_Analytics]

I like the show "Mom."

In a lot of ways it's a typical sit-com--it's about a small family going through normal family stuff and the funny, canned lines characters in such shows say. What's fresh about it is the realism of the characters and their situations. The two main characters are a mother-daughter pair, perhaps 50 and 35 years old, who are both recovering alcoholics who have spent most of their lives in a hazy cloud of drugged out drunkenness and are now getting cleaned up. They have a long road in front of them but seem to be on the right path. A lot of the show takes place at AA meetings and sitting around a diner with the AA friends after the meeting. It's 80% funny and 20% shockingly realistic.

[_subgenius]

Westworld - HBO
The Fall - Netflix
Penny Dreadful - Netflix / Showtime
Mozart in the Jungle - Amazon prime
Sherlock - PBS Masterpiece (BBC)

Started to watch the The Fall, didn't pull me in. I'll give it another shot, a lot of people say it's a great show. Mozart in the Jungle I love. Westworld is very good and very disturbing. Sherlock...absolutely loved the first 2 years. The last few years I feel have gone a little to far from the path. I love translating all of Sherlock skills into the modern internet world, but I feel they've been trying to create too much backstory with Mary's relationship with John Watson. It feels like the creators are trying to make Sherlock Holmes a little too touchy-feely. That's not his bailiwick. Go back to solving crimes. The game's afoot!

Good points, then you may want shy away from this year's Sherlock. ..the 1st 2 episodes are good, but the 3rd was a bit of a diversion

[_Gunnar]

For those who get Netflix, I highly recommend the series Last Chance to See. It is a very interesting and informative series about animals that are very close to extinction because of human activities such as destroying their habitat and illegal poaching, and what is being done to change people's awareness of what is happening and what can and should be done to slow the process. Extinctions will, of course, happen naturally due to normal evolutionary processes, but the earth is now experiencing one of the greatest mass extinction events in history, and it is overwhelmingly due to human activities and folly. We can't stop all extinctions from happening, of course, but we certainly ought not to be massively accelerating extinction rates and reducing bio diversity like we are doing now.