The Official Television Thread

[Silver]

Checking out Uncoupled

Michael's life seemed to be perfect, until his long time partner blindsided him after 17 years of being in long time relationship. He has to confront the nightmares of losing his soulmate and suddenly finding himself as a single gay man in his mid-40s.

[Silver]

Season six of Riverdale.

[Silver]

Decided to give His Dark Materials another chance.

A young girl is destined to liberate her world from the grip of the Magisterium which represses people's ties to magic and their animal spirits known as daemons.

[Silver]

Just have to wait for the third and final season of His Dark Materials. (2022, still no set date)

But now to give Westworld another chance.

At the intersection of the near future and the reimagined past, waits a world in which every human appetite can be indulged without consequence.

[Fake Messiah]

I watched Mad Men to the end. So I guess Don got back to work and made that hippie Coke commercial. I kind of expected he would throw himself from a building like in the cartoon intro for the show.

[Silver]

Doing the 30-day free trial of Showtime.

Well, thank goodness it's a free trial, because the service has nothing worth watching. Except for Dexter: New Blood

What I wanted to see, which I thought was on Showtime, was the remake of Queer as Folk (since the original is on Showtime). But looks like I'll have to do Peacock for that.

*sigh*

[Angrboda]

Watched the first episode of The Old Man on Hulu last night. It was okay. I like Jeff Bridges, but they didn't give him much to work with.

[Silver]

Got three months free trial of Peacock.

So now I'm watching the remake of Queer as Folk

It centers on a group of club-going friends who find support in the gay community following a tragedy.

[Silver]

If there's a season two of the new Queer as Folk, I won't be watching it.

Let's do a little character breakdown to give you an idea of why I am disappointed. I'm going to base it off the 1999 US version instead of the 1999 UK version.

First, I didn't have an issue with the modernization, until the very end when they completely butchered the main character.

The main character is Brodie (2022) / Brian (1999), and the end happens to involve the butchering of another character who is Ruthie (2022) / Lindsay (1999). With the modernization, the Brodie character is a man of color while Ruthie is a male to female trans woman. Instead of there being a Michael character that Brodie had a friendship with growing up, it's as though the newer version combined both Michael and Lindsay into Ruthie. I can overlook that, somewhat. What upsets me the most is the very end, the very last scene, that makes it seem as though a gay man would profess his sexual love for a woman, and I am evolved enough to consider Ruthie a woman. I do not consider it a form of evolution or even realistic that a gay man would seek a sexual relationship with a woman, however. Certainly, sexuality is fluid, but this ending is just ridiculous because it simply doesn't represent the gay community in general.

[Silver]

Checking out the Chucky series.

After a vintage Chucky doll turns up at a suburban yard sale, an idyllic American town is thrown into chaos as a series of horrifying murders begin to expose the town's hypocrisies and secrets.