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I subscribed just to watch "Invasion" but I realized too late it's a bad show. Not paying another month. Not been impressed with Apple TV at all. Foundation is

I subscribed just to watch "Invasion" but I realized too late it's a bad show. Not paying another month. Not been impressed with Apple TV at all. Foundation is alright, but probably just because it's based on books by Isaac Asimov.

cflewis 3y ago
Severance is excellent. As is For All Mankind.
- pizzalife 3y ago
  I found Severance to be pretty meandering and I didn't like the acting. I'll give it another try.
  - darknavi 3y ago
    The lore building in it is really enjoyable to me. It almost reminds of me Tales from the Loop, which is extremely slow but all about world building.
  - Hyzer 3y ago
    I almost stopped watching because the middle episodes (of the first season) were just wheel spinning. But the last 3 episodes surprised me, they really redeemed the season in a big way.
    - sbierwagen 3y ago
      A victim of the medium. Prestige TV almost always has too little writing to cover too many episodes. At least with episodic TV you could skip the filler episodes, but when long-form linear TV drips out plot revelations every ten minutes you have to sit through the whole thing.
  - entropicdrifter 3y ago
    It's a slow burn but a solid mystery/drama. The end of the season has some edge-of-your-seat moments that wouldn't hit nearly as hard without all of the smaller moments from the middle of the season
- kemayo 3y ago
  As someone who's into more light-hearted fare... The After Party is fun. It's a murder-mystery, with each episode retelling the same night of the murder in the style of a different film genre. Rashomon-y, but more about playing with genre than with strictly what was seen. Mythic Quest is pretty well targeted for the HN crowd, insofar as it's a comedy set in a video game studio, and does a lot about software-dev culture.
  - a2tech 3y ago
    The Big Door Prize is also excellent and light hearted but asks big questions
- salad-tycoon 3y ago
  Severance, extremely slow burning but turns into a great show.
- chrisdhal 3y ago
  As were Ted Lasso, See, and Servant (all done now).
- SirensOfTitan 3y ago
  Don’t forget Drops of God
- jerrycruncher 3y ago
  Severance had stronger Philip K Dick vibes than other shows that were actually based on his work.
- kiririn 3y ago
  Also Bad Sisters
inanepenguin 3y ago
Ted Lasso, For All Mankind, Hijack, The Morning Show, Mythic Quest, The Problem with Jon Stewart, Shrinking, Silo. All good shows worth checking out!
- criddell 3y ago
  I also really enjoyed Slow Horses.
- sbierwagen 3y ago
  >For All Mankind I’m halfway through the first season, and it’s got a lot more Ted Lasso-type scenes of people talking about their feelings than I was expecting. Does it refocus more on the actual premise of the show later, or is it like this all the way through?
  - entropicdrifter 3y ago
    It's both a high quality drama about the characters' lives and a detailed, well researched alternate history story with interesting differences in politics and technology as it goes on. Let's just say it doesn't shy away from torturing its characters, whereas Ted Lasso is a lot more even-handed in that regard, with equal measures of torture and wholesome moments. For All Mankind definitely leans harder towards "outer space makes life difficult and dangerous" in its balance between joy and pain.
  - jsnell 3y ago
    If you're thinking that the original premise was basically an alternative history space program procedural, it'll become less focused on that over time. The space flight parts will become less and less plausible, and the plot will mainly be driven by totally artificial drama and disasters caused by these characters with huge and obvious flaws being given increasing amounts of responsibility. I think it's still worth watching to a point, but the quality is monotonically decreasing. Once you're annoyed more often than enjoying the show, stop watching. It won't recover. (For me, season 3 was honestly purely a hate-watch of wanting to see just how far down the show would sink.)
MikusR 3y ago
Foundation has less common with Asimov books than the "I, Robot" movie

cflewis 3y ago

Severance is excellent. As is For All Mankind.

pizzalife 3y ago
I found Severance to be pretty meandering and I didn't like the acting. I'll give it another try.
- darknavi 3y ago
  The lore building in it is really enjoyable to me. It almost reminds of me Tales from the Loop, which is extremely slow but all about world building.
- Hyzer 3y ago
  I almost stopped watching because the middle episodes (of the first season) were just wheel spinning. But the last 3 episodes surprised me, they really redeemed the season in a big way.
  - sbierwagen 3y ago
    A victim of the medium. Prestige TV almost always has too little writing to cover too many episodes. At least with episodic TV you could skip the filler episodes, but when long-form linear TV drips out plot revelations every ten minutes you have to sit through the whole thing.
- entropicdrifter 3y ago
  It's a slow burn but a solid mystery/drama. The end of the season has some edge-of-your-seat moments that wouldn't hit nearly as hard without all of the smaller moments from the middle of the season
kemayo 3y ago
As someone who's into more light-hearted fare... The After Party is fun. It's a murder-mystery, with each episode retelling the same night of the murder in the style of a different film genre. Rashomon-y, but more about playing with genre than with strictly what was seen. Mythic Quest is pretty well targeted for the HN crowd, insofar as it's a comedy set in a video game studio, and does a lot about software-dev culture.
- a2tech 3y ago
  The Big Door Prize is also excellent and light hearted but asks big questions
salad-tycoon 3y ago
Severance, extremely slow burning but turns into a great show.
chrisdhal 3y ago
As were Ted Lasso, See, and Servant (all done now).
SirensOfTitan 3y ago
Don’t forget Drops of God
jerrycruncher 3y ago
Severance had stronger Philip K Dick vibes than other shows that were actually based on his work.
kiririn 3y ago
Also Bad Sisters

inanepenguin 3y ago

Ted Lasso, For All Mankind, Hijack, The Morning Show, Mythic Quest, The Problem with Jon Stewart, Shrinking, Silo. All good shows worth checking out!

criddell 3y ago
I also really enjoyed Slow Horses.
sbierwagen 3y ago
>For All Mankind I’m halfway through the first season, and it’s got a lot more Ted Lasso-type scenes of people talking about their feelings than I was expecting. Does it refocus more on the actual premise of the show later, or is it like this all the way through?
- entropicdrifter 3y ago
  It's both a high quality drama about the characters' lives and a detailed, well researched alternate history story with interesting differences in politics and technology as it goes on. Let's just say it doesn't shy away from torturing its characters, whereas Ted Lasso is a lot more even-handed in that regard, with equal measures of torture and wholesome moments. For All Mankind definitely leans harder towards "outer space makes life difficult and dangerous" in its balance between joy and pain.
- jsnell 3y ago
  If you're thinking that the original premise was basically an alternative history space program procedural, it'll become less focused on that over time. The space flight parts will become less and less plausible, and the plot will mainly be driven by totally artificial drama and disasters caused by these characters with huge and obvious flaws being given increasing amounts of responsibility. I think it's still worth watching to a point, but the quality is monotonically decreasing. Once you're annoyed more often than enjoying the show, stop watching. It won't recover. (For me, season 3 was honestly purely a hate-watch of wanting to see just how far down the show would sink.)

MikusR 3y ago

Foundation has less common with Asimov books than the "I, Robot" movie