Why is there never anything good to watch?

If you have Paramount, try [italic]Mobland[/italic], starring Tom Hardy, Pierce Brosan, Paddy Considine and Helen Mirren. It's about London mobs dealing with lose cannons in their midst.

OP types like a helpless, complaining nag. Just kill yourself OP.

I look at metacritic to find new shows.

You sound like me just before I canceled cable in 2007.

I have all the premium channels plus Prime, Shudder, Hulu, Tubi, and Netflix. I usually end up watching movies on YouTube or rent new releases on Prime.

I spend all that money and there's nothing to watch. I feel your pain, OP.

If you have Paramount, watch The Offer, a one-series dramatization (with comedy) of the making of The Godfather. It's a few years old now but it's a little gem.

The problem with Netflix is that they release a constant gush of new shows, nearly all of which are comfort viewing at best, so it's like being at the beach and being constantly flattened by new waves. But there are a great many good shows on there, it's just that many are older and you have to know what you're looking for. Have you seen Jonathon Groff and Anna Torv in Mindhunter, for example? Phoebe Waller Bridge's earlier show Crashing?

I watch YouTube 90% of the time for this reason.

This has also had the unintended side effect of reducing my attention span to an average of 10 minutes.

[Quote] If you have Paramount, try Mobland, starring Tom Hardy, Pierce Brosan, Paddy Considine and Helen Mirren. It's about London mobs dealing with lose cannons in their midst.

No. It's not even good-bad. Helen Mirren is a horrible actress, Pierce seems like he has dementia or is acting like he doesn't know where he is, and Tom Hardy has morphed into Stephen Graham. Plus they end every sentence with "ya?" (Upward inflection) because that's how everyone talks in the UK apparently.

I think it doesn't help to recommend your favorite titles to another person without knowing what kind of entertainment they enjoy.

OP, you didn't say what you have enjoyed in the past. Maybe that could give us a clue of what your tastes are and we could do a better job of helping you.

[quote]Helen Mirren is a horrible actress, Pierce seems like he has dementia or is acting like he doesn't know where he is

Yoiks. Not a good rec for the upcoming movie "The Thursday Murder Club", in which they both star.

All you need is Pluto TV. It's free. It's AMAZING! There is always something to watch.

It's called the paradox of choice. The more options one has, the greater is the anxiety to make a decision which is followed by a greater chance of regret and/or dissatisfaction.

The free streaming services have some great stuff but the ads are repellent.

And now Prime is loading just about every movie with ads. Ugh.

I enjoy watching episodes of First Dates UK- usually on YouTube but today on Tubi.

OP, it's because no one under 50 has a creative bone in their body.

The only new shows I've enjoyed have been Severance and Paradise.

Whenever I watch Paramount I feel like they think I’m a straight white MAGA male.

Dig deeper, OP.

I live on PBS passport.

The old stuff I run the whole film in my head in a nano second and so never click. The new stuff in the first 15 min I've figured out the charcters and plot line.. Click off. Been there seen that.

Have you watched the Pitt? It's pretty good if you like medical dramas.

Oh yeah, I forgot -- I watched The Pitt too. But it was only OK.

OP what do you like to watch? What type of characters do you gravitate to?

OP, I enjoy intelligent thrillers but can't find enough of them.

I recently binged the last season of YOU.

Glad the saga finally came to an end. It was becoming more & more ridiculous as it dragged on, season after season.

I rewatched SATC last month. I still love that show, & the younger gals I work with are now watching it for the first time. I’m so grateful I had the opportunity to live in NYC as a teen & young adult. That stated, life in NYC is the same as life in any other place: you’ve gotta work to make a living, & the rent /mortgage ALWAYS take precedence over Manolo Blahniks, and Mr. Big.

I’m also the only gal in the office who has a real life Chris Noth story, but I keep that to myself, because my time with “Mr. Big” is none of their fucking business. 😂

I spend too much as well but we watch something almost every night from after dinner until I either go read or go to bed. It's a big big of our entertainment - we enjoy the time together.

The Criterion Channel has a huge collection of films from all over the world, OP. It's well worth the subscription fee.

Try The Diplomat on Netflix. But start with Season One.

Do I spot a frau parody post...?

I could barely get through Season 1 of the Diplomat; I haven't been able to get myself to watch Season 2.

And I actually like Keri Russell!

^frau

I loved the Pitt. No melodramatic music just dialogue and action. I thought it was great.

I recommend Slow Horses on Apple TV and an old series The Good Wife. Christine Baranski is sublime.

Have you watched My Brilliant Friend on Max?

Four seasons and totally absorbing. (You’ll need closed captions.)

It's not them, OP, it's you.

[quote]It's about London mobs dealing with lose cannons in their midst.

Oh, dear.

On one of these TV threads somebody recommended a new and slightly strange spy series, and it was on Tubi or Pluto. Can anyone tell me what it is?

Mobland is not good. I'm sitting through it as my partner watches it. It's a lot of hammy acting and unnecessary bad accents (Pierce Bronsan).

I loved The Pitt so much I re-watched it. I finally caught up on Hacks. I stopped watching The Last of Us when Pedro was killed off but I started watching again and it’s surprisingly good.

Probably makes no sense but one thing good about watching broadcast TV in the old days was that even if you were watching it alone, you knew a lot of other people were watching the same thing at the same time, and that somehow made it more of a communal experience. You also knew your friends or other people you knew were watching it--sometimes you'd cqall each other and tell the other person to put some show on because it was amazing or funny.

[quote] Have you watched My Brilliant Friend on Max?

An amazing show.

I also tried watching Mobland and was shocked by Helen Mirren's shitty Irish accent. You'd think an actor of her caliber would be able to do that accent.

R24, these are all TV series. The only one which is current is Slow Horses. The others are varying degrees of Older, so your algorithm is unlikely to throw them up. If you haven't already seen them, they all qualify as intelligent thrillers.

Chernobyl; True Detective (but only Season 1); The Flight Attendant for its deliberate Hitchcock overtones; Vigil; Traces; Slow Horses (spy thriller); Spooks (likewise); The Killing and The Bridge (both in the original Scandi versions, with subtitles).