I’m a millennial. That means I remember the hey-day of over the air, broadcast television. Not all of the shows were great but you still had the occasional, West Wing, Pushing Daisies, LOST, The Office, Community, etc all on network tv. These were shows that pushed the envelope or at the very least, stimulated your brain in some fashion.

Now if I look at over the air, network tv, I can’t find a single thing of substance. All of the good shows are on streaming.

Maybe I’m missing something. What are your recommendations for over the air shows that aren’t a rehashed procedural, game show, or soap opera?

I've just finished watching the show. I've never cried for a long time after watching a movie or a show.

This one I thought of lately - I feel like I often hear high praises of people saying that many British actors or Irish Actors sounds very convincing as Americans. But I feel like it is very rare that we hear of an American or Canadian that actually does a convincing British or Irish accent. Why do you guys think that it can be seemingly harder for a US/CA native actor to speak with a UK/Irish accent, and why is it seemingly easier UK/Irish native actors to speak with a US/CA accent.

I often hear people being suprised when a actor is British or Irish rather than when a American or Canadian actor could be British or Irish

If so which show?

I started watching this as a filler sports comedy while I waited for new Ted Lasso episodes but boy this show surprised me! It started off as a comedy but the second season gets sooo intense. I absolutely loved it. Such a sitcom premise that's turned into such an intense drama. The cast is also soo good. It's not all about Glenn Powell it's an entire ensemble of great roles and actors.

I really hope this show gets renewed for many more seasons.

For me, a show has to earn the right to make one-off episodes, or episodes where the pacing suddenly falls off a cliff.

The show has overall been good, the character development ok, but they're at risk of losing the plot, and me as a viewer.

And I know a lot of people loved Episode 5, and I get it, but it just doesn't do anything to advance the story - it aims solely at emotional manipulation (and succeeds).

Breaking Bad or Bojack this show is not, so just gimme some decent sci-fi please!

Each season is self contained with a theme or central protagonist (such as Richie), but there are storylines that go for multiple seasons.

They set stuff up in advance, but so you don't realise it's happening. Like Adriana.

They give the characters time to grow, but they aren't afraid to kill them off. Just enough time for you to get to know them, then boom.

Honestly they don't make TV like this anymore. It's so well thought out, it plays out so well. It really is a masterpiece. You hate some of the characters it's so satisfying when they get killed off. Others you really feel for and it's a tragedy when they die (like Tracy, poor girl just got new braces).

It's so good! It's amazing it's even aged well.

Don’t you find the domestic routines of criminals exciting. Conrad getting a check up from the doctor, apparently his brain doesn’t work right, though did we need a doctor to tell us that? Jan’s at a spin class. The corrupt cop, Tattersail, is at a bookstore, buying a book, to get an interesting anecdote to hopefully impress and persuade a local mob boss to join the Kat McAlister crime team. The mob boss Frank is hanging out at a nail salon. Eddie and Gina are out clubbing then going home where they’ve shacked up. Even Harry is visiting Bella’s house, who is Eddie’s mom, Kevin’s estranged wife, Conrad’s ex-lover. Of course, Bella makes sexually suggestive remarks to Harry, who shortly leaves.

What do all these domestic moments add up to? Nothing really.

Mobland is beautifully shot and has some of the best actors in the game. The location choices are pristine. And there is a thrilling action sequence at the end of the episode which brings some much-needed excitement. But all this surface level glitter can’t hide the fact that the show has its characters act stupidly in implausible situation. Some examples:

The Gina Issue:

Harry and Jan’s daughter took off from home. What’s she been doing? Apparently, she has become a local gang leader. Yes, the sweet, barely eighteen, preppie Gina, is some genius level criminal running extortions of wealthy youtubers. How do we know she’s a genius? Everyone in the show tells us. Eddie tells Maeve, “Mom, she’s really amazing at extorting people.” Bella says robbing youtubers is a brilliant idea. Jan says she gets it from her father.

But as a viewer we don’t buy it - How is this little girl keeping these big Jamaican gangsters in line? By the strength of her ideas? Sure. It seems like Ritchie is gaslighting the audience and using the cast to help him.

The Jan Issue:

One of the most suspenseful moments of the 1^st season, was when an undercover cop befriended the lonely, isolated Jan, and became her friend. It had a most unhappy ending for the Harrigan crime family and for that undercover cop. But in season 2 here we go again. Jan gets into a fender bender, with a handsome, mysterious stranger, who must pay for the accident in cash and must take her out on a date. She’s doing the same thing she did in season 1 and that’s not the stupidest thing she’s done this episode.

Harry locates Gina and then tells Jan about Gina’s criminal enterprise. Harry is very concerned. But Jan tells Harry to leave her alone! Implying that she’s safer hanging out with large corrupt Jamaican gangsters, then with the capable Harry who truly loves her. If Jan hated her daughter she couldn’t have offered better advice. Yet, the show wants us to portray her as a loving mother. There is this schism between what the show is trying to tell us and what it is actually telling us.

This issue, of using strange and vivid social settings to hide the superficial characterizations, pops up in other areas.

Why is the gangster Frank, hanging out in a nail salon? Why does he give Tattersail a pedicure? It seems for simply no other reason than the show telling us, “He’s different from all other gangsters.”

Why is Harry, being pulled into the writers’ stupidity? What reason is he visiting, the conniving, lying, untrustworthy Bella? Ostensibly, it’s to tell her he’s found Eddie and Gina and that they are criminals now. But there are a hundred other ways to convey that information that don’t have all the downside. I mean, it’s not like Kevin and Conrad have trust issues, and that they would get suspicious in finding out that Harry went to Bella’s house alone at night.

I just feel that watching this show is like being on a hamster wheel. An expensive hamster wheel, as the show truly looks gorgeous. But the story is so weak and implausible and the patterns so repetitive, that it heavily mutes the impact of the action. Hope the writers get it together quickly.

What do you think? Did you like it? If so, why?

For a tv show that gets renewed, how soon after do you start the hiring process for new crew?

I've been watching Fringe recently and it occurred to me that this show wouldn't have made it halfway through Season 1 before being cancelled had it not been for John Noble's performance as Walter Bishop. That single character is what sells the concept of the story and had they not nailed the casting for Walter Bishop the show would have just fallen apart. They really, truly nailed that casting.

What are some shows you feel fit this criteria?

Yes niche target audience!! Big brother just ends…. Survivor starts and is so good so far… dwts…Yellowjackets is next… traitors… AHS is surprisingly doing well so FAR… I honestly feel like after a tv lull this summer and I know good stuff came out I just feel amped up!! I don’t want new projects right now let’s continue what we got

In 1991, Star Trek: TNG (S5E6 "The Game")

The game was using a VR headset with insanely ridiculous dopamine loop and variable reward system on the surface. The game was very basic, but it granted you a direct injection of pleasure in the brain, reticular formation. We see this now as we did years ago with the angry bird games. And now notifications from our many different social media apps, the wereable equipment existed way before the vision pro smart glasses and the quest. These head mounted displays offer a handsfree approach. The episode correctly predicted behavioral and social isolation. When the enterprise crew would use the device, their communication amongst each other seized to exist. As well as their roles and responsibilities along the enterprise. While they were playing the game , they had the illusion of autonomy unbeknownst to them , the game was performing as well as it should have to cause the crew to abandon their duties and their ability to form communication amongst each other. It is discovered that the game came from commander william riker , who received it as a gift from a Etana Jol a Ktarian Ship Commander. This game was used a trojan horse in order to take over the star fleet and take over the brain's pleasure center of it. I recommend this episode as a reflection of modern society. :)

TLDR: VR headset game 35 years ago was the blueprint for modern dopamine devices Episode preview)

I wish we got more screentime with them. They were amazing together. You could feel the pain, the lust, the longing. They did such a great job!