He was tired of being pushed around

English isn't my native language (not even my second language).But I do love to watch british series in english and if available with subtitles(not often the case somehow). Imagine my confusion when a unrelated looking 30 year old calls the older women character Mom. Because it didn't happen to often on my viewings (maybe Ma'am isn't that common) I was confused but I put it always aside as me being not attentive enough. Only with the magic of subtitles was I able to understand how much of an moron I was.

Implied here is … no episodic series (eg Law And Order)

We enjoy Drama Crime, Nordic Noir, etc.

No SciFi or Fantasy Dramas

Subtitles are perfectly fine

Thanks

Episodes 1-5 had me totally stoked. I was really excited that my favorite fantasy series was getting a decent adaptation. And then what the !@#$ happened those last three episodes? The series took a serious turn from decent adaptation to train-wreck. My main gripe was this whole "we'll take you all to the Eye to fight the Dark One and whoever isn't the Dragon is gonna die" with all the main characters being like, yeah alright that sounds fine to me. What justifies this? They had one Trolloc encounter and were all willing to throw their lives away for a Dragon that had zero prep/channeling experience? What the ever loving... Not to mention the travesty of whatever they did to Lord Agelmar/Loial/Moiraine stilling... come on. The sa'angreal ISN'T EVEN FAT.

Anyways. I might read EotW again just to reset my brain... So annoying because the justification for going to the Eye in the books, Rand's encounter at the Gap and everything else would have made so much more sense for the show to simply implement. :(

So my brother tonight is sitting down to watch Star Wars IV with his son for the first time and we were talking about shows that we wish we could see again for the first time.

So I ask you, what is the one TV series you wish you could rewatch but with fresh eyes for the first time?

Something similar to Peaky Blinders, Hannibal or Breaking Bad would be ideal.

Edit: Thanks for the responses. After much careful consideration I have decided to go with The Wire

A TV adaptation cannot be 100% true to canon. They're different art forms. I see a lot of people getting really hung up on this, and I challenge you to really examine Harry Potter's success. Personally as an HP book fan, I'm stoked that there's more books, more movies, a freaking theme park, and people who love HP everywhere I go. And the adaptation did that. They adapted a beloved series for a wider audience, and Harry Potter grew as a result.

Now I understand many people's gripes are because we've already seen Master Chief's story. We've played the games, beat the Covenant, and read the backstory books. They want to see stuff we haven't seen. And I do too. But think about it from Hollywood's perspective:

Why would viewers want to see Some Random Halo Spinoff (That's Technically Canon) when they could see John Halo Himself (Slightly Changed from Canon)? They wouldn't want to see some side story (we might, but there's not even 100k members on this subreddit). The average viewer would way rather see Master Chief take on the Covenant! The Battle of Reach! The flippin' flood, man! That's the stuff that's gonna make more Halo fans. That's the stuff that's gonna make a show (if done well) get enough success to earn spinoffs.

And that's my big point. Why would the first studio to invest, let's not forget, hundreds of millions of dollars go for anything but the best Halo stories? If we're going to get more Halo, it's got to prove itself on TV first. And adaptation requires change. But if the adaptation is good, it can appeal to a wider audience, and Halo will grow as a result.

tldr: Announcing a cinematic adaptation of novels as not canon is a wild thing to get upset about, and while the show's story will retread old ground, it might pave the way for a future (we all want) with way more Halo stories out there.

I don't know if this question has been asked before but I will ask it anyway. What movie do you think would have been better suited as a TV Series?

Some films try to cram wayyyyy too much into too little and feel overstuffed as a result, personally, I think the recent Matt Damon film Stillwater would have been better as a crime miniseries since there was just too much put into the film it felt overstuffed and questions were left unanswered

What films would you say?

[US] This or that? As of 2021, which TV series has had fewer than eight seasons? [01-27-2022]

📷Quiz and Answers📷

Earn five points per question - up to 50 points total - when you answer correctly.

This or That

1. The Sopranos

2. Battle star Galactica

3. Arrested Development

4. Friday Night Lights

5. In Living Color

6. Twin Peaks

7. The Golden girls

8. Stranger things

9. The wire

10. Lost

11. stranger things

12. in living color

13. downton abbey

14. the twilight zone

15. the muppet show

16. the golden girls

17. arrested Development

18. The wire

19. Twin peaks

20. Lost

21. The Sopranos

22. Arrested Development

23. Lost

24. Downton Abbey

25. In Living Color

26. Battlestar Galactica

27. The Golden Girls

28. Twin Peaks

29. Breaking Bad

30. Friday Night Lights

I need a new tv as my current one doesn’t have 4K. Should I look at getting a tv with the 2.1 hdmi? Or with 120hz? I don’t know too much about TVs. Will a 4K 60fps tv do?

Feel free to tell me I’m wrong, this theory is really farfetched and even I think it sounds dumb!

Regardless this theory is about the TV man seen in Intruder Alert. My main question is: is there any proof he’s actually malevolent?

Let’s start with what we know for definite:

• He’s NOT an alternate, meaning he’s the original version of whatever he is

• He travels inter-dimensionally using TV screens to enter people’s homes

• His main goal is to kidnap infants and young children and has kidnapped 3,426 kids across the USA in the series so far

• He can fade in and out of reality, as shown during the snapshots taken at the victims house (we can see him take a physical body during Image 26 but also see what MAY BE him handling the mother’s body whilst invisible on Image 30)

• IF the invisible force is indeed him, then we know he is able to manipulate physical objects

What we don’t know about him:

• What his motive is

• Who does he answer to, if anyone

• Why he takes only children and not adults/teenagers

• Whether the invisible force handling the mother’s corpse IS actually him or another entity entirely

When you think about it, there’s no proof the children are actually being harmed. All we are told is that they’re missing and, presumably, taken through the TV to another spectrum of reality. Sure there’s the image of a coffin during the mother’s s**cide scene but is that truly the case? Or is it just what she believes to have happened to her child in her grief?

The great thing about our minds is that, when faced with something we don’t understand/don’t know the answer to, our brains try to fill in the gap for us - even if what it is providing for us is false. So it’s possible the grief stricken parents are merely convincing themselves that their children are dead and that the man on the TV is the evil and malevolent force responsible.

Besides, why just kidnap them? Surely it would cause more grief for parents to see their children butchered than leave them with a small sense of hope that, maybe, their missing children could come home. Hope is a very powerful emotion as it makes way for a more optimistic mindset. If this man truly wanted humanity to despair over losing their children, it would make more sense for him to m**der the children and leave them for the parents to find as that leaves absolutely no room for doubt and denial.

(unless he is physically unable to k*ll them - this is also a possibility)

My idea for this theory (and ye