Speak Up Saturday

[feurioo]

Welcome to the weekly roundup post! What are you watching this week? What are you excited about?

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[jo]

I watched all of Plur1bus. I had previously watched the first two episodes, but then was waiting for the rest to be available, so I restarted from the beginning. Really great show -- looking forward to season two. There's a nice interview with the show's star, Rhea Seehorn in the Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/dec/26/rhea-seehorn-interview-making-pluribus) -- it might contain spoilers for some (I never know what people will consider spoilers), so read at your own risk.

I made another attempt at starting another show, The Iris Affair, but fared no better this time. The first time, I dozed off during episode one and woke up partway through ep 2. And this time, I dozed off again during ep 1, so maybe that's just the universe's way of telling me not to bother with this one? Or else to start watching it earlier in the day? Anyway, I may give it a pass and try something else, like The Copenhagen Test, which just dropped (on Netflix I think?). Other than that, I've watched a few xmas specials e.g. the All Creatures Great and Small xmas special, the Would I Lie to You xmas episode, etc.

What I am looking forward to is a new series of The Traitors UK, which starts on New Year's Day, as does a new series of The Night Manager, which you may or may not recall as the first series aired 10 years ago. The first series starred Tom Hiddleston and Hugh Laurie. Hiddleston is back, Laurie is not.

[8hyenas]

The War Between the Land and the Sea I tend to watch and enjoy most of Russell T. Davies' work and this was almost the exception. I'd really liked Years and Years and I'd read a review that said the new show was comparable. It was. Comparable in depressingness. I'd hoped for some of the magic (goofy situations, deep emotions) of the Syfy channel good old days. I can't say I recommend it, and I won't be rewatching.

Heated Rivalry Me and the rest of the internet. I'm an avid reader of gay romance books and was excited to watch a show based on a book I'd read. The show was great! Really hit the emotional highs and plot of the book. I hadn't realized how much I skipped the sex scenes in the books and I closed my asexual eyes quite frequently. I will absolutely be watching S2. Recommended!

[china_shop]

We finished Pluribus last night, which wow, two super stubborn, prickly, suspicious, paranoid people pushing all of each other's buttons! Also finished Jeongnyeon: The Star Is Born which was excellent; loved it (and there's a great fic for it in Yuletide). And I finished Knight Flower, also delightful and with tons of female characters being awesome in different ways.

And we finished season 3 of Dark Winds. (Clearly a week for finishing All The Things, lol.)

What we've started: the new episodes of Stranger Things. (It isn't quite holding my interest, but I'm happy to doodle in front of it.) A rewatch (for me) of Korean horror drama The Guest (though I don't know if I can actually stand the horror on a rewatch; the first time through, the mystery kind of mitigated the suffering).

We're definitely in the market for a fun, good-natured scifi show or dramedy we can sink our teeth into. Something along the lines of Farscape or The Peripheral or the first few seasons of Resident Alien -- or a light detective show like Republic of Doyle or Deadloch. (As a datapoint, we gave up on Killjoys because of all the torture.)

On my own, I'm watching While You Were Sleeping (Kdrama, rewatch).