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I think it's a lot closer to The Day of the Jackal (1973) in spirit. Far far superior to The Jackal (1997 film).

I'm halfway through but still not feeling the romance story of the Jackal and his wife though. Think the show could have done better without it.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/22823557

First two episodes have dropped and it pretty much slaps.

Following the continuity of The Suicide Squad and Peacemaker, the Creature Commandos are Amanda Waller's replacement Suicide Squad.

She's told she can't recuit people anymore, so she recruits monsters instead.

Based on the characters from Weird War Tales #93 in 1980:

Frankenstein's Monster, a vampire, and the Wolf Man killing Nazis in WWII. They were later joined by a gorgon.

The animated series updates the lineup... Frankenstein's Monster, Bride of Frankenstein, Weasel (from The Suicide Squad), Doctor Phosphorus (1st appearance Detective Comics #469), G.I. Robot (1st appearance Star Spangled War Stories #101), and mermaid, Dr. Nina Mazursky (1st appearance Flashpoint: Frankenstein and the Creatures of the Unknown #1).

Documentary about multi-billion-dollar spyware industry

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So far I’m kind of disappointed that they are showing what’s going on in the first Silo. Makes it feel like we are going in circles.

I wish they had edited it so we see Juliet’s adventure until she finally leaves to return to the original silo. Then do an episode of catch up as to what has been happening there. Then her arrival.

Honestly I was far more interested in what’s happening outside the Silo and the mystery, and not rehashing the characters from the first season other than Juliet.

If you’ve read the books — are they following the story pretty closely?

Since the streaming wars began, each service took on their own flavour.

HBO - generally decent, prestige television, but has less "content" than other services

Netflix - Quantity over Quality, you get gems sometimes, but also a lot of junk to sort through

Disney+ - A lot of good legacy content and very hit and miss with marvel/disney IPs, fans are willing to complain/ hate watch

So here's the thing with Apple TV, I didn't subscribe to it, I bought an apple product and got 3 months free, and the discourse is either love it or just silence. No one seems to 'hate' the shows.

The Good - Ted Lasso, Severance were the ones I really enjoyed, Ted Lasso felt genuine, especially with the British sensibilities and I will compare this to Shrinking later, Severance was good and hopefully doesn't have the mystery box problems

The Mid - Shrinking is from Bill Lawrence who created one of my favourite shows Scrubs, but it's just super boring, I finished Netflix's Man on the Inside in a single sitting but couldnt continue Shrinking, compared to Ted Lasso, it also feels fake nice, fake chill.

The Ugly - Foundation is probably one of the worst written sci fi on television now. People hated on ST: Picard very vocally and for Foundation I only found a couple of youtube videos on how bad S1 is.

It's bad in a way that is not really related to the books, but having the name makes it slightly worse. The writing is basically equivalent to one of the bad Doctor Who episodes but with 10x the budget. You get occasional bursts of brilliance which basically comes out of Asimov's ideas. However, its extremely hard to point this out and TV fans will defend this, this is not the case with SW shows on Disney plus where people understand the difference between fan service and bad writing. It's pretty hard to find an opinion on Apple TV shows that says "It's OK, I didn't like it" which happens so frequently on Netflix.

I'm not sure why thats the reason, just my observation and wondering if you guys have any opinions on this phenomenon

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/48116464

I just finished season 2 now. Without much spoilers, it was a real mixed bag. Some parts were amazing, some parts were very mediocre, all parts felt very rushed and poorly paced. I still liked it, but I would give it a 7/10 rather than the 10/10 starting season...

That said, episode 7 was fantastic. The only episode where the writers let characters actually talk for more than 30 seconds.

Pantheon season 1 is being added to Netflix tomorrow, but season 2 is not (and might never be). Both seasons are on Prime Video but it is region-locked, though I'm not sure which regions it is available in.

Pantheon is a fantastic sci-fi show with really smart themes that has been completely screwed over by streaming services. The writing is incredible and contains some very intelligent satire and critiques of big tech corporations, and even dips its toes into geopolitics (not even kidding, the Israel-Palestine conflict becomes a plot point in season 2, and this was written prior to Oct. 7).

If you want to watch the series in its entirety then piracy is a must for the vast majority. Needless to say, I highly recommend watching.

There is an island in the North Atlantic...

I've been following this story since I was a kid, so are the two brothers out digging for treasure.

Story goes, in 1795, some kids saw a mysterious light on a nearby island in Nova Scotia. They took a boat out and found a pulley hanging from a tree branch over an odd depression in the ground.

Like any ingenous kids, they went "Yay! Pirate treasure!" and started digging.

10 feet down, they hit a floor of oak logs. They pulled those out and kept digging. They found another floor every 10 feet until they hit 90 feet, which had a mysterious carved stone on it.

After that, their hole flooded and people have been digging for treasure ever since. To a point where the island has been so thoroughly dug up, the location of the original "money pit" has been lost for decades.

The History Channel show has been trying for 12 seasons now. Lots of myths and legends about it.

The mysterious "90 foot stone" has been lost, no rubbings or photographs were made. A transcription and translation popped up, but it doesn't seem to be older than the 1940s.

In the 1960s, several people died during the excavation, the show is fond of repeating the "curse" that 6 people have died, and a 7th must die before the treasure can be recovered. There is no reference to that curse prior to the 1960s or 1970s.

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/47059398

I just finished act 1 and was wondering what the community thinks of it. I thought it was good, but a step down from season 1.

The animation is as gorgeous as ever, maybe even better than season 1. The writing and pacing was kind of messy, though. The music was just overzealous too. They have a random music video with cheesy lyrics in each episode now. Just ruined the mood for me a couple of times.

Could've just been an image post but alright