Netflix/Prime/Apple etc TV Streaming - The General Thread

I’ve been reliably informed that this can’t happen in UK, different rules for old people’s care, but o my was it scary, eh? 

Anyone else really tired of the streaming sites moving to a more traditional tv style of dropping content? I thought steaming was about binging?

I signed up for Disney+ Star and the new content is all only dropping weekly.

I think the record button serves that section of society well. 

Many people have time to watch a series over a week or weekend. I don’t watch terrestrial tv so three 40 minutes episodes or 2 hours a night means I can watch a series like Your Honour over a weekend like I did this weekend. 

I watched 20 minutes of Bridgerton I think the struggle is the show and not the time. 

There are other ways and means to see Apple TV shows that have worked for me to date.

Great cast with proper musical theatre backgrounds - Kristin Chenoweth, Jane Krakowski, Ariana DeBose... I saw an interview with the latter recently and she said it is basically a love letter to the golden age of musicals, while still making fun of their tropes, and her character is rather like Maria in the Sound of Music.

And from the trailer, Jane Krakowski appears to be parodying the Baroness from the same show!

Very much looking forward to it.

Central Park, also on Apple TV, is another one to try if you fancy a musical show sung by actors with musical theatre experience (Josh Gad plus seemingly half the original cast of Hamilton).

That does look like a very fun show, a bit crazy but definitely my kind of thing.

In case anyone missed - new Lupin on Netflix and Bosch on amazon.

The Invisible Man is on Netflix now. Very enjoyable and tense, highly recommended 👍🏻

Groan. I’m on episode four but this has made my heart sink. I don’t see how they have spin this out for five seasons, no matter how brilliant the young person/old person casting is.

I really enjoyed it and think it's worth sticking with for now, but I don't see how it can go on for as long as they plan it to without the flashback stuff either extending well beyond the point of their rescue, or the parallel timelines simply being dropped at that point and continuing the modern day storyline alone. Where this season ends I can understand there being maybe 1 or 2 more seasons of story left to tell at the pace they've been telling it, but 5 seems ridiculous and I can't see how it wouldn't be stretching the story incredibly thin, which would be a shame because I found the pacing pretty flawless so far. Apparently Showtime are known for extending their hit series well past their prime though...

Ah, how did that happen?

oh no, you definitely won’t spoil my enjoyment. I find that TV shoes often go on for far too long and it annoys me. Be more lkke Fawlty Towers!

Came across E01 of Season 1 of “Julia” on YouTube. It’s an HBO Max show about Julia Child and her tv show The French Chef which is considered to be the birth of tv cooking shows.

David Hyde Pierce, Bebe Neuwith and as Julia Childs our very own Sarah Lancashire! She’s doing the voice and everything.

I don’t know if we can even have HBO Max in the U.K. but it will presumably land on one of our platforms. I just thought it was incongruous seeing our lovely Sarah with real Hollywood actors. Very mixed reviews on IMDb though.