Still talked too much so this is only part 2/3, so sorry!
"Chernobyl" was indeed incredibly well done. The actors were all wonderful, but also the way the story was told. I was afraid of long scenes with scientific boring explanations or people telling each other the obvious, but none of that happened. It was all very natural, a great friendship developed between the Russian general and the scientist even though they were at opposite sides in the beginning, and at the end we all felt like atomic experts, as we really understood what had happened. They stayed mostly closely to the facts, only took very few liberties. I also learnt a lot that I had not known yet. They didn't tell us much at the time either.
I guess "The Boys" would be too dark for you either then. I only watched it for Karl Urban and after the first episode I was hooked and wanted to know what happens next. It is about superheroes, but with a twist. They are not good. They are run by an agency, which protects their public persona and tells them what to do and say, and they have some not so nice characteristics. A new girl is brought in, eager to do good stuff for the world, and then slowly gets desillusioned. One can't really explain it, it needs to be seen. In a way, it feels very realistic, how people with superpowers would act in the real world, abusing their powers and getting away with it as nobody dares to call them out.
What I love about such series - also with "The Americans" - that they are not black and white. There are lots of shades of grey and in the end you cannot tell who are the good and who are the bad guys as the good guys do bad stuff and the bad guys turn out not to be so bad at all. Your perspective gets switched around a lot. One of the characters in "The Boys" who you thought was a macho in the beginning and to be hated as he really was not nice to the new girl, turned out to be rather lonely and pathethic and made fun of even by his own kind. And somehow he became my favorite, oops ;) I just have a thing for guys with sad eyes.
"The Americans" is partly a spy show but also partly about Philip's and Elizabeth's struggle to keep up a family life, with all the pressure they are under. I love their relationship, the two main actors are really a couple now. It's a show that some people call a "slow burn", there is not always action, there is a lot of mood and suspense and long looks and the kind, and I love it. It really draws you in. They go undercover a lot, with different wigs, to get information, and develop relationships with those guys. I have low expectations, I want to be entertained and not bored. If I have to force myself to watch something, I'm out. So no "Doctor Who" for me at the moment, and I stopped watching "Arrow" and "The Flash" long time ago, even though I liked it in the beginning. But with the last two shows I just talked about, I sit on my sofa, forgetting to breath. Same for "Black Mirror". So I don't mind dark when it is well done.
There is no visual blood-spluttering like they did in "Spartacus". I did not like that either.
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"Chernobyl" was indeed incredibly well done. The actors were all wonderful, but also the way the story was told. I was afraid of long scenes with scientific boring explanations or people telling each other the obvious, but none of that happened. It was all very natural, a great friendship developed between the Russian general and the scientist even though they were at opposite sides in the beginning, and at the end we all felt like atomic experts, as we really understood what had happened. They stayed mostly closely to the facts, only took very few liberties. I also learnt a lot that I had not known yet. They didn't tell us much at the time either.
I guess "The Boys" would be too dark for you either then. I only watched it for Karl Urban and after the first episode I was hooked and wanted to know what happens next. It is about superheroes, but with a twist. They are not good. They are run by an agency, which protects their public persona and tells them what to do and say, and they have some not so nice characteristics. A new girl is brought in, eager to do good stuff for the world, and then slowly gets desillusioned. One can't really explain it, it needs to be seen. In a way, it feels very realistic, how people with superpowers would act in the real world, abusing their powers and getting away with it as nobody dares to call them out.
What I love about such series - also with "The Americans" - that they are not black and white. There are lots of shades of grey and in the end you cannot tell who are the good and who are the bad guys as the good guys do bad stuff and the bad guys turn out not to be so bad at all. Your perspective gets switched around a lot. One of the characters in "The Boys" who you thought was a macho in the beginning and to be hated as he really was not nice to the new girl, turned out to be rather lonely and pathethic and made fun of even by his own kind. And somehow he became my favorite, oops ;) I just have a thing for guys with sad eyes.
"The Americans" is partly a spy show but also partly about Philip's and Elizabeth's struggle to keep up a family life, with all the pressure they are under. I love their relationship, the two main actors are really a couple now. It's a show that some people call a "slow burn", there is not always action, there is a lot of mood and suspense and long looks and the kind, and I love it. It really draws you in. They go undercover a lot, with different wigs, to get information, and develop relationships with those guys. I have low expectations, I want to be entertained and not bored. If I have to force myself to watch something, I'm out. So no "Doctor Who" for me at the moment, and I stopped watching "Arrow" and "The Flash" long time ago, even though I liked it in the beginning. But with the last two shows I just talked about, I sit on my sofa, forgetting to breath. Same for "Black Mirror". So I don't mind dark when it is well done.
There is no visual blood-spluttering like they did in "Spartacus". I did not like that either.