What will you be watching on TV tonight (2025)?

JAS_OH1 said:
We found Dexter: Original Sin on our On Demand cable and just started episode 1.
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And we watched 2 and 1/2 episodes and it's just okay. It's somewhat interesting but more predictable than the original Dexter, which isn't surprising because it follows his development at a much younger age after he gets out of school and starts working for Miami forensics, whereas the original started out with him as an adult and established as a serial killer and blood spatter specialist.
 
I attempted to watch the latest Midwich Cuckoos (aka Village of the Damned) remake, but I could get through about 30 minutes of the first episode and had to shut it off.

That’s saying something, as I’m a stubborn watcher (and reader), and once I start something, I feel strongly compelled to finish it, whether I like it or not.

I think the reason I was ok with stopping it is that it stars the lovely Keeley Hawes, and I was suffering seeing someone I like so much trudging through such obvious crap.
 
‘Dope Girls’ (BBC) won out and I finished it yesterday - only 6 episodes so not a huge feat.
I enjoyed it and would watch another series, I suspect there will be one.

I nearly bailed on it a few times because the lead characters accent is incredibly irritating, it doesn’t stay in one place and that place is impossible to pin down.

Is she Dutch? Is she Irish? Is she just posh? A good actor though so it was a shame as it kept breaking the immersion so badly.
 
The last few nights have been spent trying to wrap up a few things before MrsT is gone for a week, so we got All Creatures etc etc done (Christmas episode…seriously, do they not even try to break from “the formula” at all any more?), and we’ve got one more episode each of Spirited (Australian show, a rarity for us) and Kaos (frankly glad that one was cancelled after eight episodes, it’s just ridiculous), and we may be able to finish Grotesquerie, but that’d be pushing it, as we have three episodes of that left, and it’s hard to binge, because it’s sort of like the original Twin Peaks - it makes no sense, but you can’t help but watch it. Lesley Manville is sheer delight in it, though.
 
TastyReuben said:
The last few nights have been spent trying to wrap up a few things before MrsT is gone for a week, so we got All Creatures etc etc done (Christmas episode…seriously, do they not even try to break from “the formula” at all any more?), and we’ve got one more episode each of Spirited (Australian show, a rarity for us) and Kaos (frankly glad that one was cancelled after eight episodes, it’s just ridiculous), and we may be able to finish Grotesquerie, but that’d be pushing it, as we have three episodes of that left, and it’s hard to binge, because it’s sort of like the original Twin Peaks - it makes no sense, but you can’t help but watch it. Lesley Manville is sheer delight in it, though.
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I’ve seen two Aussie progs I really liked not too long ago.
‘Colin From Accounts’ and ‘Boy Swallows Universe’ very different style programs but still worth a watch.
 
I watched one of the best movies I’ve seen in a long, long time - All Things Fair (Lust och fägring stor), a 1995 Swedish film (and Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Film) about an illicit relationship between a 15yo student and his 30-something teacher during WW2.

That subject has been treated here in movies as something of a romantic teen comedy, with very strong indications of “Oh, that lucky boy!” but that’s not this film…it’s all drama, with some bits bordering on harrowing.

I’ll admit, I’m not that up on my Swedish actors, but the three main characters (the teacher, her husband, and the student) all give excellent performances, with Marika Lagercrantz as the teacher particularly mesmerizing.
 
Right now, I’m watching a documentary on Sly and The Family Stone, but earlier, I watched 1969 British movie Baby Love.

Very interesting, about a troubled teen girl who moves into an upscale family’s home after the suicide of her mother, who was an old friend of the deceased from their youth.

The girl essentially uses sex (mainly the hint of, though…) to manipulate those around her to get what she wants. It could have been quite a consequential film, but it does seem to push the salacious aspect of having a 15yo playing the part of the teen girl, appearing nude in several scenes, and as sexually calculating - it doesn’t quite tip over into being seedy, but you get the feeling watching it, that it wouldn’t have taken much to convince the producers to go that route.

Either way, fairly good story, and Diana Dors, one of my all-time favorites, plays the small-but-significant role of the dead mother, and I was pleased to read that it led to something of a career resurgence for her. Linda Hayden is remarkable playing the role of the girl, 15 years old, star of the film, some very emotional/traumatic scenes, and she did well…and it was her first-ever part.
 
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