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Have you heard of the hit television show Succession? It's pretty good. Everyone on the show is a rich asshole with daddy issues who is terrible at their job. (Their job is stressing out about paperwork at lavish locations.)
Severance is the only one that really made an impact on me recently that I emphatically recommend to just about anyone.
Atlanta is fucking hilarious and I also consider essential, but I'm a sucker for deadpan comedy and magical realism so of course I would. Also it's just finished for good so there ain't no better time to watch it.
Have you seen The Rehearsal yet? Because holy shit (that's all I have to say about it)
Oh and Frieren of course which I've talked about previously 
For All Mankind is fun if you like alt-history. I'm only working my way through S1 but it feels like a bunch of Apollo 13s with no Tom Hankses (complimentary) or Eds Harris/Kevins Bacon (derogatory). I'm kind of curious how different they're going to make it since its alt-history - i feel like things lose the plot when they get Too Different but also why do it if it's going to be Pretty Much The Same; so far it seems to walk that tightrope well.
I'd second Severance. I really hope the strike(s) last year didn't kill that show. If you struggle with work-life balance, or if you dislike your job, you should 100% watch that show.
Good news it looks like Severance season 2 filming just wrapped up recently after being delayed by the strikes. No news on expected release timeline yet though.
We caught up with for all and we're sort of shocked they were able to maintain it at such a high level through almost the whole thing. In short, it keeps staying good (mostly)
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There's something about For All Mankind I've not been able to put my finger on. For all its prestige TV-y trappings, it develops a sort of cheap soap opera element. That said I've watched the whole run so far.
did you binge or pace yourself? I've been keeping to one ep per night and that seems to work pretty well, but also the premise of the show - "the space race keeps going" - is almost certainly going to lend itself to soap opera-y-ness since you can't have the resolution of it ending or resolving
Television? [long drag on cigarette] That's a name I haven't heard in a long time
I think the Curse is an incredible work of... something. If you've ever liked Emma Stone in anything, she's an absolute demon here, just an incredible performance. One of the most surprising, raw things I've seen in a while.
Ugh, I've been keeping my powder dry for a rewatch of Andor. I've been wanted to rewatch it right before season 2 comes out, but I don't know if I can make it until 2025.
Tokyo Vice just finished up its second season.
My quick and clumsy synopsis:
In 1999 a midwestern guy moves to Tokyo to become a newspaper reporter, he gets assigned to the crime beat, and by luck and circumstance finds himself entangled in the minutiae of the Yakuza and Tokyo Police Department. If you like anything else Michael Mann has done (Thief, Heat, The Insider, Collateral, etc.) then it's for you.
Scavenger's Reign: a spaceship emergency crash-lands on an unknown world, and a bunch of different people have to make their way through gorgeous, horrifying alien wilderness. The prettiest animated show in recent memory, half a sci-fi adventure story and half a nature documentary for invented flora/fauna.
Station Eleven: A plague hits, wipes out a bunch of the world. It follows multiple different groups and how they dealt with the crisis, all while focusing on the value of art and community in the face of hardship. I love it because unlike a lot of media about tragedy and apocalypse, it believes that people will rebuild new forms of community and artwork after the worst has passed.
i watched bad sisters, which is an irish remake of a flemish show about four sisters plotting to kill their fifth sister’s abusive husband and failing over and over. it’s very funny and very compelling, though you do gotta be willing to put up with seeing a terribly awful guy just be the worst human alive for episode after episode. it’s very well sold that this is a dude who needs to die
If you're willing to wait until (probably) early july and use a VPN to Spain, TVE announced 10 days ago that they're renewing Grand Prix. (you can watch last year's revival in the meantime)
Also requiring a VPN to Spain and if you're also willing to learn catalan and you're into true crime, you can watch Crims. This one got so popular that it got the police to re-open a murder case they had canned in 2005.
Scavenger's Reign is a really cool animated show in the vein of Fantastic Planet. Also got super hooked into The Bear and watched it all in like a week.