The Traitors UK
(Peacock)

Twenty-two strangers compete in a series of missions for a chance to win £120k. However, amongst the players lie the 'Traitors', who meet in secret and decide who to eliminate from their fellow players known as 'Faithfuls'.

(January 5, 2026 at 10:08 pm)Paraselene Wrote: Stranger Things did a really great job with the final season, especially the last episode.

I considered checking that out, but I'd feel compelled to re-watch all the earlier seasons. I'm not that invested.

Boru

(January 5, 2026 at 11:35 am)Paraselene Wrote: The fifth and final season of Stranger Things.

After more than two years, the recap was helpful.

I've just started watching, been meaning to for years.

Finished Six Feet Under. Not sure what to watch next and may just go back to listening to a book or two unless something really catches my attention.

Season two of The Traitors UK.

I typically don't watch reality telly. Except for Drag Race and now this game series.

(January 6, 2026 at 9:57 pm)awty Wrote: Finished Six Feet Under.  Not sure what to watch next and may just go back to listening to a book or two unless something really catches my attention.

Best ending to a series ever?

I finished The Doctors. It was a bit slow in the middle, but it finished strong. Glad I stuck it out.

I tried watching Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, and it was like watching cut scenes from a lame video game.

It's a caricature of a TV show. Everything is overhyped: the overacting; the story is over dramatic and makes no sense; the dialogues are as if every actor is in a movie of their own; the setting of every scene is overemphasized—like Holly Hunter goes to meet some convict in what I guess is a bar, and it's all full of shadows (because he's shadowy) while the camera is going up and down his ripped badass body, while in the previous scene she ate two ice creams in a sunny park with playful kids.

And then Holly Hunter. She's way, way too old for the part. She's playing a sexy woman although she's 67 and can barely open her eyes or her mouth, so she mumbles. It's like she'll fall apart at any moment, but they Scotch-taped her together so that she doesn't.

(January 22, 2026 at 1:01 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: I tried watching Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, and it was like watching cut scenes from a lame video game.

It's a caricature of a TV show. Everything is overhyped: the overacting; the story is over dramatic and makes no sense; the dialogues are as if every actor is in a movie of their own; the setting of every scene is overemphasized—like Holly Hunter goes to meet some convict in what I guess is a bar, and it's all full of shadows (because he's shadowy) while the camera is going up and down his ripped badass body, while in the previous scene she ate two ice creams in a sunny park with playful kids.

And then Holly Hunter. She's way, way too old for the part. She's playing a sexy woman although she's 67 and can barely open her eyes or her mouth, so she mumbles. It's like she'll fall apart at any moment, but they Scotch-taped her together so that she doesn't.

But did you like it?

Boru