A bunch of new shows came out recently but below are currently my favorite three I’m watching right now. They’re still all new and ongoing with only a few episodes released so you can jump into them fairly easily.
Star Trek: Picard
I grew up in the 80s watching Star Trek: The Next Generation. It was one of my favorite shows ever and was really the only Star Trek series I ever got into. This new series continues off from the movie Star Trek: Nemesis which I’ve watched but don’t really remember which means if you haven’t watched it you’re fine. You also don’t need to be a Star Trek fan or to have watched a Star Trek series to enjoy it. Personally, while watching the show I kept wishing this was somewhat like the movie The Expendables where all the aging characters from the original The Next Generation show would back to form an aging crew that sail off into the galaxy to kick ass. It hasn’t happened so far but I’ll keep wishing! This show is available on Amazon Prime but you need a CBS All Access membership to watch it.
Avenue 5
Another sci-fi show but unlike Star Trek this one doesn’t take itself to seriously. Avenue 5 is a comedy by the creator of the show Veep that takes place in the future aboard a luxury space cruise ship. The show stars a bunch of comedians including Hugh Laurie from House and the always super annoying Zach Woods from The Office. Only three episodes are out so far and you don’t need to be a sci-fi fan or a geek to get into it. The show is available to watch on HBO.
The Outsider
I started watching this show thinking it was based off the 1967 novel The Outsiders which I read as a kid and the 1983 movie which I also watched as a kid and was directed by Francis Ford Coppola and featured an all-star cast which included Rob Lowe, Emilio Estevez, Matt Dillon, Tom Cruise, Patrick Swayze and Diane Lane. Turns out this show was actually based off the 2018 Stephen King novel and thats when I realized it was called The Outsider not Outsiders. But even after I found out about the mistake I couldn’t stop watching the show. The Outsider stars Jason Bateman and revolves around the murder of a young boy. A really well put together show with a filming style that reminded me a bit of Mindhunter and The Killing. Five episodes are out so far and the show is available to watch on HBO.
There are some other new shows that have come out recently but I haven’t started watching them yet. If you have one I should start watching right away let me know!
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avenue 5 is pretty good, it’s not super funny but hugh laurie is still great and the show is something different. i’m hoping it will get better as the season goes on.
you should watch the witcher if you haven’t already.
I started the Witcher but turned it off after 5 minutes because the style kind of threw me off. But I’ve heard so many good things about it so should really give it a try again
the episodes are inconsistent so you will find 2-3 of them not particularly great. however, 3 of them are absolutely fantastic and channel everything that is great about the games. i have put in over a hundred hours into the witcher 3 video game, so i wouldn’t have stopped unless i found it complete trash.
i don’t particularly like fantasy/medieval tv shows, but i thought the witcher was outstanding because it really captured the essence of the video games. that in itself is extremely rare.
The New Pope
yes! i have that on my to do list for after and also the new Dracula on Netflix https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-b2HXpbg7U
Dracula and witcher were fabulous, must watch.
I binge watched all 8 episodes of The Stranger on Netflix. It’s typical Harlan Coben if you’re familiar with his twisty crime novels
You must be the cutest Trekkie ever.
Mark, forgive me but I think you’re Picard comments is slightly misleading. You don’t need a CBS All Access subscription to access it. If you watch it from America on a Thursday then you do, but you can access Prime from anywhere else and watch it on Friday with just a Prime subscription.
And it’s great.
I have prime though and only the first episode is free to watch with prime the remaining need CBS all access.
Amazon Prime has the rights to Picard outside the US. I’ve seen both episodes on it. Switch off your vpn or dns so that Prime knows you’re outside the states.
wow i didn’t know i could use Amazon Prime with a Kuwait address, I’ve changed it now but can’t figure out how to change it back to the US lol. Is there anything in the US Prime thats not in the Kuwait one?
Mark it was an old post of yours that taught me how to do it!
Use the smart dns control panel to tell prime which country you want to show as coming from. You can customise it in there.
no what happned now is i went to primevideo.com from my browser and it told me i had set my country as US but I could change it to Kuwait. So I changed it to Kuwait to try out Picard and now don;’t know how to change it back to US.
I think your stuck now 🤣
Update: So after spending days changing dns proxy companies, block ip addresses, logging in with a VPN + DNS Proxy etc.. I couldn’t change the region. I searched everywhere in my amazon account and changed everything to USA wherever I could find but it still wouldn’t change back to USA. Finally gave up and decided to ask amazon customer support. i contacted them via chat and in less than a minute they changed my video region back to USA. thank god!
Zack Woods is comedy gold, you take back your “always annoying” comment!
lol I was talking about his characters!