The Small Screen: TV

[britbox]

Not sure if it was mentioned here. This Australian show is great. Just finished S01.

I'm just starting a second visit to Mr InBetween which I binge watched first time around. Well worth a watch.

 

[DarthFed]

Fauda has always been a pretty intense show but this most recent season, unsurprisingly, is way beyond the rest. It’s set two years after the 10/7 attacks and has a lot of flashbacks. And I don’t think it’s a spoiler but they have 2 full episodes on the attack as it follows the main characters and what they encountered that day. It is a pretty tough watch, especially when you consider the reality was far worse than what even a show like this could depict.

 

[Kieran]

Fauda has always been a pretty intense show but this most recent season, unsurprisingly, is way beyond the rest. It’s set two years after the 10/7 attacks and has a lot of flashbacks. And I don’t think it’s a spoiler but they have 2 full episodes on the attack as it follows the main characters and what they encountered that day. It is a pretty tough watch, especially when you consider the reality was far worse than what even a show like this could depict.

I plan to watch that, I heard only good things.

 

[DarthFed]

I plan to watch that, I heard only good things.

I think it’s worth watching for anyone that can handle it. But not everyone will be able to handle it even before this season.

It obviously follows the Israeli side of things with the characters being part of a counter-terrorism unit but the show was lauded for quite awhile for being balanced and humanizing the Israeli’s targets each season.

That perception not surprisingly has changed in the past few years, even though the most recent Fauda season prior to this one aired before the terrorist attack. Given the content of the 5th season it is a bit more difficult to do that anyways.

 

[DarthFed]

I got through the last two episodes of the season last night. All around excellent, very powerful stuff.

And I do take back a little of what I said before that didnt humanize the Hamas terrorists as much this season. They couldn’t do it during the actual attack because what is there to humanize there, but the rest of the season I think they still did well in that regard.

 

[DarthFed]

Recently watched the new season of Reacher and it was good. I definitely prefer the first 2 seasons but it’s still a very entertaining show.

Now watching the spinoff Neagley and I actually really like it. Nowhere near the same amount of action, and not as fast paced as Reacher but still a good watch. I usually have limited expectations for spinoffs too.

 

[britbox]

Has anybody watched any of the Yellowstone spin-offs?

 

[DarthFed]

Has anybody watched any of the Yellowstone spin-offs?

I’ve only seen a couple episodes of each of the prequels. They both got good reviews and I did like the little bit I saw but for whatever reason we started watching other stuff.

I also do want to see the sequel, Dutton Ranch, which I hear is very good as well.

 

[DarthFed]

I binge-watched The Greatest this week; the Amazon Prime show based on the life of Muhammad Ali.



SLIGHT SPOILERS BELOW:




The season is 8 episodes and starts with him winning the gold medal and ends with him beating Liston to become champion.

The writer is hoping to do up to 3 seasons which would make a lot of sense to me; I feel like season 2 could pick up from the end of season 1 and then go up through his first fight with Frazier, and then the last season could cover getting the title back and the remainder of his career. It’s tough not to rush everything but I thought they did a good job in season 1. With all that being said, Amazon has yet to order an additional season.