Has anyone watched The Bear on Disney+?  I watched one episode but it just seems to be people shouting at each other, wobbly camera and stress. The reviews say it's amazing but maybe it's just not for me.

Posted by: @shanec

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Has anyone watched The Bear on Disney+

I'm halfway through S2 and I think it's the best thing I've seen in some time - well, in 4 weeks, which is roughly how long ago I watched Barry (Bill Hader as a hitman who wants to give it all up to be an actor, and which at the time I thought was the best thing I'd seen in some time).

Yes, The Bear is often stressful and shouty, but I think that's par for the course for anything set in a kitchen. But I've seen Uncut Gems twice and that's probably the shoutiest and most stressful thing I've seen, and I love that too. The Bear got its claws in me from the start and it won't be long before I finish. It helps that the eps are half an hour (as with Barry) but I'm loving most minutes of it. All the (main) cast are new to me, and they're all great, and I've even had to swallow a throaty lump a couple of times (at unexpected moments, that's definitely not any kind of spoiler).

Just started season 1 of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds and I've had to watch the last episode of season 2 of Star Trek: Discovery to get a bit of the back story. Better than Picard already (and that was watchable enough).

Looking forward to the new series of Only Murders in the Building, but will wait until all episodes are broadcast first.

Strange New Worlds is definitely the best of the nu trek that wasn't S3 of Picard. Which arguably might not be saying much, but I do think it's decent enough.

Posted by: @shanec

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Has anyone watched The Bear on Disney+?  I watched one episode but it just seems to be people shouting at each other, wobbly camera and stress. The reviews say it's amazing but maybe it's just not for me.

on episode 3 of season 1. It’s definitely shouty and stressful but does get better. In Episode 1 I just wanted someone to hit the cousin with a saucepan, but now it’s down to a wooden spoon. Going to stick with it as I’ve heard lots of good things. 

Posted by: @bravoman

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I just wanted someone to hit the cousin with a saucepan

I loved him by the end. He's my favourite character.

We've been watching Silo which is an Apple TV show IIRC. Very well put together, well acted, and just the right level of intrigue. There's already a S2 in the making (already made?) and apparently the source material is a trilogy of books. It's about a future society living in a giant underground tube, most technology is banned as is anything from the before times, and nobody is allowed to go outside, except to clean the "window". Reminds me very much of S1 of Westworld.

Posted by: @wowbagger

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I loved him by the end. He's my favourite character.

 Just at end of S1 he’s getting better.

Mrs Davis. It shows how far we've progressed that a show can have a nun shagging Jesus Christ without the world imploding (deluded idiots in the bible belt excluded of course). Or without at least 20 people whining about it on social media, which is today's equivalent, and enough to generate a desperate BBC news article - but that may have happened and I just missed it. But already I'm digressing and will start again.

Betty Gilpin plays a nun in a battle against an ubiquitous AI app in a story that... well, in a story that you just need to let wash over you as it hurtles along. And hurtle it does. If you don't know who Betty Gilpin is, she played Liberty Belle in the sadly and prematurely-cancelled Glow, and kicked all sorts of arse in recent enjoyable battle-royale action film The Hunt. So she's reasonably well known. Mrs Davis should make a proper star out of her, because she's terrific. I won't tell you any of the plot, except that it involves things like Knights Templar, a whale, aforementoned AI, magicians, a pope and Schrodinger's cat. Religion figures prominently but not, as I said, in a way likely to offend many, if any. But you never know. It's funny, and the humour is played straight. And another great thing about it is, it's all contained in eight episodes and has an ending.

(Full disclosure - it screened on Peacock, and I don't know if it's currently available to stream in the UK. It's 'available' of course, which is (cough) how I watched it.)

Haha ... that sounds great, @wowbagger! ?

Had not previously heard of Mrs Davis, or had Betty Gilpin on my radar, so looking forward this.