I honestly canāt think of any shows coming out this year that interests me. Maybe something will come out of left field and be surprisingly great 
Same here, Stranger Things ending left a weird gap. I will probably stick with slower shows in 2026, stuff like The Bear, Severance, and whatever HBO does next. After a long running series ends, it always takes a while before something fills that space.
Just āfinishedā the last episode of American Primeval yesterday. Had to get Netflix to watch the Christmas Day football games, so I have it around for another couple weeks.
What a mess. First 3 episodes were good enough to binge. I didnāt look at the cast so didnāt recognize Taylor Kitsch in e1 - obviously Kitsch planned it that way. When I did check the cast to confirm it was Kitsch, I saw that Kim Coates would portray Brigham Young. While I think Kitsch probably agreed to scruff up his image to regain leading man status in Hollywoo, I donāt think Coates has any plans to become anything more than a character actor, so Brigham Young was going to be psychotic.
Second half got a little too soap opera-y for me. Key to good melodrama is never make the audience feel stupid for buying in. The nearly scalped Mormon guy, also got weird. The last episode could only go one way, I thought, so checked wiki - didnāt see everybody dying - but it was enough. Exited about halfway in. Started rewatching Peaky Blinders.
The Agency
S01E01 starts out great.
I carried this over from the Costco 2026 thread because it belongs here, too.
Fallout the tv show is crack. I donāt play the game, so I didnāt know about the popularity of Big Iron among fans, but in jumping up laughing I almost kicked the ottoman into the tv when it came on during S2E1. A perfect place for Marty Robbinsā Big Iron. Finally, after all these years, somebody gets it.
Best part is that Prime has given the Fallout soundtrack the The Expanse treatment and it is glorious.
Going to 0:55 gets you straight to Goggins and Big Iron. ~NSFW~
I usually hate medical dramas, but The Pitt is pretty good. Very dark and gritty, and Noah Wyle (ER), is excellent in the lead role.
I heard that because heās been in medical dramas for three decades heās actually knowledgeable in basic medicine, such as how to make a suture or how to intubate someone.
And here I was thinking it was his acting skills. 
Imagine youāre on an airplane and you have a medical emergency. They make a call for a doctor. Nothing. Then Wyle hesitantly comes forward āuhā¦ Iām not a doctor, but I played one for thirty years on TV. I picked up some stuff, I guess.ā
And thatās the story of how I got an arm for a leg, and a leg for an arm!
I donāt like him, but he was pretty successful in the 80s. Also, letās keep politics out of this thread before it turns into all the other threads 
I enjoy watching this. It shows Japanese culture and variation in their social norms (70ās-80ās).
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I just binged through Seasons 1-3 of Yellowjackets.
Iām a tad frustrated that thereās another damn season to come. Just get it over with.
Misty is my favorite though. Just completely wacko. 
āA Knight of the Seven Kingdomsā was indeed āgreat.ā And Iām not even a huge GoT fan (or at least not post-season 3).
Iām behind, so forgive me. Anyway I started Mindhunter on Netflix a few nights ago.
Never been able to get through the first episode before. The first 40 minutes or so are excruciating and I have to wonder if they will actually use the character dev that (I assume) happens there. The last twenty minutes or so are much better (of the first episode).
Also, Iām not a fan of Finscherās fetish with yellow filters (of sunlight) as proxy for the 1970s. If youāre shooting a scene on the US East coast itās fine. Sunlight on the coast can be yellow like that. If youāre shooting in the midwest, though, please donāt do that. Sunlight in the 70s was just like sunlight now.
Thatās me being picky, though. I could easily binge the rest of season 1 this weekend. Iām 4 episodes in and things are definitely picking up. Feels a little like Iām at the top of a rollercoaster and about to plunge.
Tehran season 3ābrill.
I think Mindhunter gets hyped a bit too much. The first season is interesting especially the interrogation scenes of various famous/historical killers. The second season got too soapy and melodramatic iirc. I wonāt spoil it but thereās a dumb twist with the older detectiveās kid.
This made me laugh. Itās like people who were not alive in the 70s think it actually looked like the faded Polaroids in their family album. Mexico is another setting that always appears yellow for some reason, especially movies/shows revolving around drug cartels.
One Piece
Season 2 just released on Netflix.
Donāt know why I like it so much but itās fun.