@finewine mentioned the site

www.finder.com/nz/amazon-prime-tv-shows

dazhann:

 

@finewine mentioned the site

 

www.finder.com/nz/amazon-prime-tv-shows

 

Cheers for that, not a bad selection might be worth a look for USD$2.99

Yeah with expanse coming on the 8 Feb all the better

TeaLeaf:

 

ilovemusic:

 

netflix punisher series 2, they finally got the pacing right ! tome is still all over the place and tv frank castle is a bit of a wimp  7/10

 

I agree all over the place, the plot is a little loose, but that might be a good thing as season 1 was  "The Punisher", much like Ryan Phillipe in the "Shooter" but I feel Shooter is a bit tighter.

I dont think though Frank is a wimp, hes a bad ass, who goes out single handed at night to take out 13 trained assasins when the cops are all shuddering in fear? :-)
...

 

still watered down compared to some of the later comics

;)

gehenna:

 

Following all that I saw the latest season of Only Connect has just finished so we started watched that - if you haven't seen it, it's the most complicated quiz show I've ever seen.  It's like a cryptic crossword in video form.  So cool to see the teams solve some of the puzzles, I sit there with a WTF look on my face most of the time.  Now we're also watching the latest season of University Challenge :)

 

My wife and I are long time fans of Only Connect - greatest TV quiz show ever.  Victoria Coren-Mitchell is great as the host, and her intros are some of the most sly in-jokes ever.  If I even get one question right in an episode, it's cause for fist-pumping, in a way that every other quiz show just doesn't induce.  Then there are the eye-rolling questions, where the connections are so damn obscure or specialist that it's bizarre to imagine that anyone could get it.  And then a team gets it on the second clue!  And then there's the cathartic missing vowels round at the end, where I get to feel superior for spotting it a fraction of a second ahead of the team on screen. :)

I just finished watching the final season (6) of The Americans.

This has to be one of the finest TV drama shows in decades.  I love it's slow burn, the nuance, the beauty of the cinematography, the taut action and the tense drama, the character development.  I remarked to my wife (who hasn't watched it but has picked up things peripherally) that I can't think of another TV show where they can have scenes running for nearly 10 minutes with no dialogue or significant music, and still captivate the viewer.  This definitely is not a show to watch in the background.

I also love how it didn't insult the viewer's intelligence, and endlessly recap things or go into deep exposition.  Often, characters appear without any kind of introduction, and it's up to the viewer to work things out.  I'm now itching to go back to season 1 and watch it all over again - there's bound to be heaps that comes across in a second or even third viewing.  In fact, I'd love a novelisation of the show, something that gives the reader a chance to draw out all the details at their own pace.

The core cast are absolutely fantastic.  Matthew Rhys and Keri Russell totally deserve awards for their performance, and while they've been nominated a few times they've never actually won, which I think it a crime.  Noah Emmerich also does an incredible job as FBI agent Stan Beeman.  He captures the stoic G-Man role perfectly, while still reflecting his fractured relationships with his wife and son, and the impact this has on his professional life.

The finale was also that rare thing - a fantastic episode of TV which resolved enough of the core storyline to be satisfying, without pandering to the need to answer every question.  I love that they were never cancelled, or under threat of cancellation, and had to wrap things up fast; or that they went on too long and went out on a low point; they captured a very tidy arc of story over six years (longer in story time) and sixty episodes.  It's also nice that it was done in the "medium" format of 10 episode seasons, rather than the frankly bloated 22 episode runs that most US shows run for.  

dazhann:

 

@finewine mentioned the site

 

www.finder.com/nz/amazon-prime-tv-shows

 

I just had a look, and it reckons there are 0 TV shows on Amazon Prime.  Seems like something's wrong with the website?

Lizard1977:

 

dazhann:

 

@finewine mentioned the site

 

www.finder.com/nz/amazon-prime-tv-shows

 

I just had a look, and it reckons there are 0 TV shows on Amazon Prime.  Seems like something's wrong with the website?

Still works for me. Try the following:

https://www.finder.com/nz/amazon-prime-video-best-tv-shows

https://www.finder.com/nz/internet-tv/amazon-prime-video-nz

Both those links work, and the "Best TV Shows" one does show me the top 10, but I was hoping for a complete catalogue.  The second link just describes the service generally.  There is a page which supposedly has the full catalogue, here.  But when I go to that page it just says "0 shows available" even when I search for something which is obviously there (e.g. The Grand Tour).

try https://www.justwatch.com/nz/provider/amazon-prime-video/tv-shows

Amazon have stopped there free Prime trials FYI.

Just watched Punisher Ep12, semi spoiler alert. The Ambulance scene is awesome. 8.5/10

Lizard1977:

 

Both those links work, and the "Best TV Shows" one does show me the top 10, but I was hoping for a complete catalogue.  The second link just describes the service generally.  There is a page which supposedly has the full catalogue, here.  But when I go to that page it just says "0 shows available" even when I search for something which is obviously there (e.g. The Grand Tour).

 

Sorry you are quite correct. Did not read the very small print. I did some feed back right at the bottom of each site.

I'll 3rd a couple of other posters here, DC Titans 8/10, enjoyable watch although violent in a lot of parts. 

Actually quite enjoyed the educational series on Netflix called "Explained" with short ~18-20 minute episodes about all sorts of things, from the world's water crisis, to what is crypto-currency, political correctness, extraterrestrial life, to the female orgasm :-) and many others. They're short little docos that pack a lot of punch into the short 20 odd minute time they run for.

A million little things. Wow, powerful stuff. If you like This is us, then this is in the same vein sort of I think. 

Orville Season 2, Eps 1-3. It's missing the keynotes for me already this season, the stuff that made it so good, hopefully, it gets better.