My top shows of 2023
Reservation Dogs season 3. The Finale was a well done, emotional and deserving finish for this show
Deadloch. A hilarious murder mystery with fun female leads. I hope there's a season 2!
Foundation season 2. An example of how despite being so very different from the book series, the adaptation can still tell a very compelling story with intriguing characters and a well developed plot.
Slow Horses season 3. The most incompetent spies ever bumbling around political intrigue and MI 5 shenanigans.
Silo. An interesting mystery of what's outside the Silo. A bit dragging at certain points - can't be helped considering it's adapted from a novella - and yet, great characters and never losing the focus on the central plot made this a fun show. Loved it, can't wait for season 2
Bodies. I am a sucker for time travel shows and this one was right up my alley. The characters are amazing in each time period. Not a big fan of how it was all resolved at the end there.
Abbott Elementary season 2 and the final season of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Dark Winds season 2 and Black Snow - Murder mysteries in a complex and interesting setting.
1899. Sadly cancelled but the mystery was interesting and I wanted to know more.
The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart - Just for the cinematography and the beauty of the settings, though the story about abuse and the long term effects of growing up with abuse was also beautifully done.
26 notes
·
View notes
Yuletide Recs, Batch Five
16 recs for The Queen's Gambit, Red Eye, Sable, Severance, Sherlock Holmes, Silo, Singin' in the Rain, Some Like It Hot, SurrealEstate, Tenet, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Watchmen, and Worlds Beyond Number
something beautiful, Beth Harmon/Jolene
Jolene remembers the first time she looked at Beth and thought her best friend was pretty.
No, not pretty. Beautiful.
Sunk Cost Fallacy, Lisa Reisert/Jackson Rippner
The Keefe job gets cancelled. What's a guy to do?
No Straight Roads, Gen, Sable + Original Characters
Five paths taken, six masks cast.
Or: On a particularly windswept morning, a young girl comes a-knocking on Sable's door.
O, Lazarus!, Helena Eagan + Helly R.
Losing oxygen slowly as she hangs in the elevator up from the severed floor, Helly’s fractured mind confronts itself.
Double Tongued, Irving Bailiff/Burt Goodman + Burt Goodman/Burt Goodman's Husband + Irving Bailiff & Irving B.
Irving's falling asleep – he almost misses Burt leaving forever. Can his outie make it up to him by reuniting them, one last time?
Or, MDR decide to test the Overtime Contigency Protocol on Irving before the Waffle Party, and the code detectors are only equipped to handle certain types of ink.
Indispensable, Gen, Sherlock Holmes + John Watson + Mrs. Hudson
Holmes' gift attempts have fallen through, so he offers a letter instead
her dust was very pretty, Gen, Original Female Character(s)Juliette Nichols
Dore was six when she told Missus Park that she wanted to be her shadow.
“You want to work in recycling?”
“I don’t want to shadow garbage,” Dore said, nose wrinkling at the thought. “Your art. Art that stays.”
Missus Park repeated the words silently, then her mouth dropped open in understanding. “You mean tattoos.”
Working Honeymoon, Cosmo Brown/Don Lockwood/Kathy Selden
If you weren’t getting married, you didn’t get to go on the honeymoon. Wasn't that how it was supposed to go?
That Wondrous Thing, Cosmo Brown/Don Lockwood/Kathy Selden
2 + 2 + 2 = 3. This math works. Really it does.
Girl Talk, Gen, Jerry "Daphne" & Sugar Kane Kowalczyk + Jerry "Daphne" & Joe "Josephine" + Jerry "Daphne"/Osgood Fielding III + Joe "Josephine"/Sugar Kane Kowalczyk
Sugar wants to know if she should be saying "Jerry" or "Daphne" and, since Joe and Osgood don't seem to agree and can't be relied on to tell her which is right, she goes to get it right from the horse's mouth. The horse needs to think about this for a bit.
did we get there yet (somehow), Luke Roman/Susan Ireland
It shouldn’t be a surprise, is the thing.
Luke’s always been attracted to smart, competent women. It just hadn’t occurred to him to look at Susan that way until now.
Coffee Meeting: 11 o'clock, Gen, Susan Ireland & Zooey L'Enfant
Susan has a mysterious coffee meeting on her schedule.
pull up if i pull up, Neil/The Protagonist
A safe house in the sea of time.
(You’re trying to remember if Neil was smiling the last time your eyes met.)
and in the daylight, you're crossing all your wires, John Connor/Cameron Phillips + John Connor & Derek Reese & Kyle Reese + John Connor & Sarah Connor + John Connor & the Specter of His Future Self
No one’s ever died for him, here.
Across Vistas, Dan Dreiberg/Laurie Juspeczyk/Rorschach
Laurie and the boys take a roadtrip across the country to see her mom.
Charted, Gen, Ame & Suvirin "Suvi" Kedberiket & Eursulon Toma + Grandma Wren
All stories started somewhere, even if that somewhere is far from here.
9 notes
·
View notes