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

Lucy Worsley Investigates, is only two seasons in, and I watched one episode ON Demand and the rest will record.

Miss Scarlet (PBS Masterpiece Theater), is five seasons in, so I can't get the first three and a half seasons. :sad:

I'm thinking of watching “On Call” on Prime Video.
 
msmofet said:
Miss Scarlet (PBS Masterpiece Theater), is five seasons in, so I can't get the first three and a half seasons. :sad:
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I know everyone has different tastes (my sis loves Miss Scarlet (and formerly The Duke), but both MrsT and I don’t care for (and yet…we’ve watched all the episodes so far 🤷🏻‍♂️ ).

It’s basically down to two things:

1. The sexual tension (in the first four seasons) between MS & TD didn’t feel very natural. They didn’t seem like two people who’d ever be attracted to one another, and it never went anywhere. Four seasons, and all it was was, “I know you’re hot for me, and I’m hot for you, but it just wouldn’t be proper, us being repressed Victorians and all, so we’ll just sit here, episode after episode, murder after murder, and not talk about the big horny elephant in the room.”

2. She has to be one of the most unlikable characters you’re supposed to love ever put on TV. Some characters, they’re meant to be unlikable, with a tough demeanor hiding a good heart - Miss Scarlet is conniving, dishonest, deceitful, smug, selfish, condescending, egotistical, manipulative, and without remorse. It’s hard for either MrsT or I to be on her side, and she never learns from her mistakes.

3. (Bonus) The whole show, the first four seasons, every episode just felt like the one before it - There’s a crime, the Duke tells her to leave it to his police department, she ignores him and goes out solo endangering loads of other people, he threatens her for obstructing his investigation, she promises she’s learned her lesson and won’t ever do it again, she does it again as soon as he’s turned his back, she solves the crime, everyone forgives her because she’s just so plucky and adorable, and…stay turned for the exact same scenario next week - different murder, same sequence.

Season 5 hasn’t started any better. Different police inspector, shaping up to be the same scenario.

Anyway, what did we watch tonight: started with Colbert Show, but just the opening bits, as the guests were crap.

Then we moved on to All Creatures Great and Small…I think most shows have a shelf life of 4-5 seasons, and this may prove true for this one as well. No fault of the show, it just gets so predictable.

After that, Shetland, ending the first round with Agatha Raisin…er, Ashley Jensen clomping through the windswept cliffs looking for clues - this was a rough transition from departing DI Jimmy to new DI Ruth, but we’ll see.

Finally, closed the night’s viewing with the second episode of the latest season of Inside No. 9 - the first two series were excellent, episode after episode, then the quality really petered out, and now it feels like they’re just cobbling things together for the money.
 
TastyReuben said:
I know everyone has different tastes (my sis loves Miss Scarlet (and formerly The Duke), but both MrsT and I don’t care for (and yet…we’ve watched all the episodes so far 🤷🏻‍♂️ ).

It’s basically down to two things:

1. The sexual tension (in the first four seasons) between MS & TD didn’t feel very natural. They didn’t seem like two people who’d ever be attracted to one another, and it never went anywhere. Four seasons, and all it was was, “I know you’re hot for me, and I’m hot for you, but it just wouldn’t be proper, us being repressed Victorians and all, so we’ll just sit here, episode after episode, murder after murder, and not talk about the big horny elephant in the room.”

2. She has to be one of the most unlikable characters you’re supposed to love ever put on TV. Some characters, they’re meant to be unlikable, with a tough demeanor hiding a good heart - Miss Scarlet is conniving, dishonest, deceitful, smug, selfish, condescending, egotistical, manipulative, and without remorse. It’s hard for either MrsT or I to be on her side, and she never learns from her mistakes.

3. (Bonus) The whole show, the first four seasons, every episode just felt like the one before it - There’s a crime, the Duke tells her to leave it to his police department, she ignores him and goes out solo endangering loads of other people, he threatens her for obstructing his investigation, she promises she’s learned her lesson and won’t ever do it again, she does it again as soon as he’s turned his back, she solves the crime, everyone forgives her because she’s just so plucky and adorable, and…stay turned for the exact same scenario next week - different murder, same sequence.

Season 5 hasn’t started any better. Different police inspector, shaping up to be the same scenario.

Anyway, what did we watch tonight: started with Colbert Show, but just the opening bits, as the guests were crap.

Then we moved on to All Creatures Great and Small…I think most shows have a shelf life of 4-5 seasons, and this may prove true for this one as well. No fault of the show, it just gets so predictable.

After that, Shetland, ending the first round with Agatha Raisin…er, Ashley Jensen clomping through the windswept cliffs looking for clues - this was a rough transition from departing DI Jimmy to new DI Ruth, but we’ll see.

Finally, closed the night’s viewing with the second episode of the latest season of Inside No. 9 - the first two series were excellent, episode after episode, then the quality really petered out, and now it feels like they’re just cobbling things together for the money.
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I only watched one episode. Not sure if I like it or not. Most times I'll give something 2-3 episodes before I deep six it. UNLESS it really doesn't appeal to me. BTW, I really like Alan Cumming. Is he the new Masterpiece host?
 
TastyReuben said:
I know everyone has different tastes (my sis loves Miss Scarlet (and formerly The Duke), but both MrsT and I don’t care for (and yet…we’ve watched all the episodes so far 🤷🏻‍♂️ ).

It’s basically down to two things:

1. The sexual tension (in the first four seasons) between MS & TD didn’t feel very natural. They didn’t seem like two people who’d ever be attracted to one another, and it never went anywhere. Four seasons, and all it was was, “I know you’re hot for me, and I’m hot for you, but it just wouldn’t be proper, us being repressed Victorians and all, so we’ll just sit here, episode after episode, murder after murder, and not talk about the big horny elephant in the room.”

2. She has to be one of the most unlikable characters you’re supposed to love ever put on TV. Some characters, they’re meant to be unlikable, with a tough demeanor hiding a good heart - Miss Scarlet is conniving, dishonest, deceitful, smug, selfish, condescending, egotistical, manipulative, and without remorse. It’s hard for either MrsT or I to be on her side, and she never learns from her mistakes.

3. (Bonus) The whole show, the first four seasons, every episode just felt like the one before it - There’s a crime, the Duke tells her to leave it to his police department, she ignores him and goes out solo endangering loads of other people, he threatens her for obstructing his investigation, she promises she’s learned her lesson and won’t ever do it again, she does it again as soon as he’s turned his back, she solves the crime, everyone forgives her because she’s just so plucky and adorable, and…stay turned for the exact same scenario next week - different murder, same sequence.

Season 5 hasn’t started any better. Different police inspector, shaping up to be the same scenario.

Anyway, what did we watch tonight: started with Colbert Show, but just the opening bits, as the guests were crap.

Then we moved on to All Creatures Great and Small…I think most shows have a shelf life of 4-5 seasons, and this may prove true for this one as well. No fault of the show, it just gets so predictable.

After that, Shetland, ending the first round with Agatha Raisin…er, Ashley Jensen clomping through the windswept cliffs looking for clues - this was a rough transition from departing DI Jimmy to new DI Ruth, but we’ll see.

Finally, closed the night’s viewing with the second episode of the latest season of Inside No. 9 - the first two series were excellent, episode after episode, then the quality really petered out, and now it feels like they’re just cobbling things together for the money.
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Looks like another one of those awful British/American collaborations where the writers and production team try and have one foot in each culture so they can sell to both countries but end up pleasing no-one.

Well I say no-one but they’ve made enough of them so it obviously works for someone.

Netflix is a shocker for them. Generally they start off in a promising fashion and you’re not sure but give the second episode a go then by half way through you are wincing because they’re painfully skewed from the way things really work socially here or skewed historically from the way things really went down.

I watched one the other day (can’t remember what it was called, didn’t get past the first episode) that had a really good cast and a promising plot line but I couldn’t watch it. The language was deliberately Americanised and even the van had ‘Crime Scene Investigators’ plastered on it. It’s jarring, you’re no longer immersed, instead you’re thinking why is that British person speaking like that or there’s something off here, what is it? The incongruity is a deal breaker.

Period dramas or anything involving the upper classes are the worse offenders. If it’s on Netflix and there’s a Manor House in the trailer I definitely avoid it 😂
 
Watching "On Call" (Prime Video - Amazon) . Got through 5 episodes. It's ok. Along the lines of “The Rookie”, and other cop shows on broadcast channels. Only more language, nudity, etc - Rated TV-MA
 
SandwichShortOfAPicnic said:
Looks like another one of those awful British/American collaborations where the writers and production team try and have one foot in each culture so they can sell to both countries but end up pleasing no-one.
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The funny thing is, we’re watching Space: 1999 right now, and completed U.F.O. a little while ago, and those definitely display the transatlantic cooperation, with a mix of American and British actors, but that sort of incongruity doesn’t seem so noticeable.

I don’t even mind it if the stories and the characters make sense, but as I get older, I find I have less tolerance for convenient last-minute epiphanies that solve the mystery, or some other sudden contrivance that swoops in and saves the day, or with period pieces, something that’s so obviously not of that time - and I’m not talking about Bridgerton, that’s intentionally wildly out of its time - but everyone at every turn falling to Miss Scarlet’s charms, even as they want to strangle her, is just ridiculous - someone would have knocked her off by now…hell, there’d be a load of people queued up to do it IRL!

I know, I know…story beats accuracy every time, but her whole character rings so false. I think I’m to the point of hate-watching it now, just to make myself furious. :laugh:

Last night was Weekly Worsley Watch, though…she’s gets me excited in whole other ways that make me forget Miss Wotsit altogether… :whistling:
 
TastyReuben said:
The funny thing is, we’re watching Space: 1999 right now, and completed U.F.O. a little while ago, and those definitely display the transatlantic cooperation, with a mix of American and British actors, but that sort of incongruity doesn’t seem so noticeable.

I don’t even mind it if the stories and the characters make sense, but as I get older, I find I have less tolerance for convenient last-minute epiphanies that solve the mystery, or some other sudden contrivance that swoops in and saves the day, or with period pieces, something that’s so obviously not of that time - and I’m not talking about Bridgerton, that’s intentionally wildly out of its time - but everyone at every turn falling to Miss Scarlet’s charms, even as they want to strangle her, is just ridiculous - someone would have knocked her off by now…hell, there’d be a load of people queued up to do it IRL!

I know, I know…story beats accuracy every time, but her whole character rings so false. I think I’m to the point of hate-watching it now, just to make myself furious. :laugh:

Last night was Weekly Worsley Watch, though…she’s gets me excited in whole other ways that make me forget Miss Wotsit altogether… :whistling:
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As usual your take on things makes me smile a lot 😆
 
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