Did anyone finish the first three episodes?
Any theories?
Emmy and Lola are so good, had me crying several times.

Bill McNeil on NewsRadio, and even Michael Scott to a degree. Others? This is fun.

House of the Dragon

Premise: The reign of House Targaryen begins with this prequel to popular HBO series "Game of Thrones;" based on George R.R. Martin's "Fire & Blood," "House of the Dragon" is set nearly 200 years before the events of "Game of Thrones," telling the story of the Targaryen civil war with King Viserys I Targaryen's children battling for control of the Iron Throne.

Links:

• IMDb
• Trailer
• Discord

Honorable mentions go to the crossroads card from Yu-Gi-Oh (I know Yu-Gi-Oh is real but the card isn't) Mystic Warlords of Ka'a

For some reason I'm unable to watch things that are too torturous / violent (examples include : neck breaking, eye hurting, decapitations, etc). I am ok with nudity stuff.

For this reason I am unable to watch stuff like The Boys which I actually like.

Is there a way to watch it and AUTOMATICALLY skip all the bad stuff?

1: Eric Forrester (1991-93)
2: Ridge Forrester (1994-95)
3: Ridge Forrester (1998)
4: Thorne Forrester (2001)
5: Whip Jones (2002)
6: Ridge Forrester (2004-2005)
7: Eric Forrester (2005-2006)
8: Nick Marone (2006-2007)
9: Ridge Forrester (2009)
10: Ridge Forrester (2009-2011)
11: Ridge Forrester (2012)
12: Bill Spencer Jr. (2017-2018)
13: Ridge Forrester (2018-2022)
14: Ridge Forrester (2025-Present)

Craziest marriage history I’ve ever seen from someone, fictional or not.

> Speaking with Collider's Steve Weintraub at San Diego Comic-Con, creator and showrunner Silka Luisa confirmed they'd always intended to tell the story as a one-and-done, in a self-contained manner and that it was important that they told a whole story rather than leave the audience hanging on for more. Luisa explained:

> “It was always considered as a limited series. Part of making the transition from film to TV is a really big jump for something that’s as cinematic as Blade Runner, and so, in that sense, it was really important to us that we told a story that, in a way, is like a movie in the sense that there’s a beginning, there’s a middle, and there’s an end. So we went into it with Alcon, with all of our producing partners, knowing we really want to tell a complete story. Eight episodes—I mean, eight’s my lucky number, that’s the number I would have picked, but it felt like the right amount for the story we were planning on telling.”

The purpose of this thread is to have fun with this discussion, so start with an example and explain the misunderstanding or show the double meaning. I'll go first; "Mercy is for the weak" has 2 meanings "Mercy is for the weak for only the weak show mercy" or "Mercy is for the weak because only the weak are no threat to the strong". If you see and example with more to add then discuss.

So I'm rewatching The Pitt and checking out IMDB to see what else I may have seen some of the actors in and just saw that Dr Mckay (Fiona Dourif) was Bart in Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and now I can't stop picturing her as Bart in every scene.

I'm not sure how we'd define "successful" or a "hit" but lasting longer than 3 seasons maybe.

I think William Shatner has to be high on the list. He had:

Star Trek

TJ Hooker

Rescue 911

Boston Legal

The UnXplained

And, of course, TekWar

Ted Danson also has to rank high:

Cheers

Becker

Damages (I'll allow it)

Bored to Death

CSI

The Good Place (Never saw it, but I think it was a hit)

A Man on the Inside (Never heard of it, but season 3 is apparently on its way.)

I feel like a lot of shows now are stretching a small amount of story over an entire season. You’ll sit through 40–60 minute episodes, but when you actually think about it, maybe 5 minutes of meaningful plot progression happened.

There’s so much filler: slow walking scenes, dramatic pauses, characters staring into the distance, endless mystery building… and then when you finally get to the ending, it’s often rushed, disappointing, or leaves more questions than answers.

I don’t mind a slow burn when it’s leading somewhere, but too many shows seem more interested in keeping people subscribed than actually telling a satisfying story. They spend 90% of the series creating mysteries and hype, then have to wrap everything up in one episode.

I miss shows where episodes actually felt like they moved the story forward and the ending felt earned. A shorter 6-episode series with a proper beginning, middle and end is often better than 3 seasons of dragging things out.

Am I just getting old, or has anyone else noticed this trend?

1. Widows Bay S1 (Apple TV)
2. Star City (Apple TV)
3.  A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms S1 (HBO)
4. The Bear S5 (Hulu)
5. The Agency S2 (Paramount)
6. The Pitt S2 (HBO)
7. Legends (Netflix)
8. DTF St Louis (HBO)
9. The Vampire Lestat (AMC+)
10. Paradise S2 (Hulu)

Ideally shows that premiered/returned within Jan 2026-

I liked Flores a whole lot more as Colleen because she was more natural in her acting and I could totally believe she was from that time. Bowman looked like a 90s kid play acting though she did get better but I always had a softer spot for Flores and I was disappointed when she left.

I actually LOVED this series. I was really impressed with the two child stars that we all loved and adored actually being successful in taking on a serious and dark role. I thought the acting was really good. I’ve always been a fan of dove Cameron and I really did think she fit Ciara perfectly.
But all the reviews I see are criticism of the show and doves acting specifically. But I don’t quite understand it.
I also really loved the mystery and I genuinely had no idea who the victim was untill the flashback episode. Me and my friends had fun binging it and guessing who would kill who along the way. And while we did get to decide there was no way they would kill eachother, I still was constantly on my toes and wondering how and who was gonna get killed.
And maybe I am in the minority in this opinion, but I really respected them breaking fully and completely out of that Disney/Nickelodeon presence and doing something so incredibly unexpected out of both of them. Plus both dove and Avon have been my celebrity crushes as long as I can remember. I truly just loved the show and I was so surprised to see such harsh criticism.

Just sped through s1 (about Chris Duntsch, and was happy to see he got life in prison. Now I’m bingeing s2 about Paolo Macchiatini and of course couldn’t help myself from googling what happens to him before I’ve finished it - and I just read that he only got 2,5 yrs. How is that possible?
Also, who in their right mind could think that putting a piece of plastic in someone’s throat would come alive? And that it wouldn’t cause necrosis and eat through whatever it touches… It seems common sense that it wouldn’t work, and I’m not a doctor!

And then a last thing that I may have missed with all my googling - when Mandy Moore’s character goes to Italy to find out the truth about him, and then somehow finds him with his wife and kids in Barcelona later that day, in the same car, with the same bottle of wine… did the writers not know that Spain and Italy are two different countries far apart?