Television TV Show Thread

[GearSolidMetal]

Haven't paid attention to any new shows in many months, since Squid Game concluded... and I found this, which I'm surprised there's practically been no promotion for or any discussion anywhere.

In fact when I saw the file name it just said 'Robin Hood 2025,' and it's a TV series and not a movie.

Did a quick search, and only one name in one role sold me on watching the pilot -

"Sean Bean - Sheriff of Nottingham."

Downloaded the first episode, watched it without interruption, and it's definitely worth checking out. It doesn't have HBO production values but it looks far better than if a basic cable network produced it.
I'd say "It's if Showtime made Robin Hood series."

Also it's TV-MA.

Here's the teaser. There's a 3 minute trailer available but I think it gives too much away. Watch this instead.



Also it seems like every new movie or TV show set in the distant past loves to make the cast 'diverse' when the area of the world during the stated time period... wasn't diverse. There's none of that here.

Only issue I have - They're very heavy-handed with the antagonists of the series are Catholics and the protagonists are of a pagan religion.
Fine. If that's as deep as they're going that's tolerable.

Based off the first episode alone - 8.5/10.
Will be watching a new episode every few days.

 

[HenryFlower]

Also it seems like every new movie or TV show set in the distant past loves to make the cast 'diverse' when the area of the world during the stated time period... wasn't diverse. There's none of that here.

Only issue I have - They're very heavy-handed with the antagonists of the series are Catholics and the protagonists are of a pagan religion.
Fine. If that's as deep as they're going that's tolerable.

we all know you’ve got your tiki torch ready to go for when black Little John shows up

 

[Nizam al-Mulk]

we all know you’ve got your tiki torch ready to go for when black Little John shows up

This nonsense will indeed be torched.

 

[GearSolidMetal]

we all know you’ve got your tiki torch ready to go for when black Little John shows up

The show takes place during the middle-ages, so more like...

And no one has a problem with Lil Jon being black.

 

[Cole train]

Im not sure if this was posted but james ransone (ray from generation kill or ziggy from wire )just died via suicide

 

[My Spot]

Amazon needs to get off their asses and finally make that Event Horizon show now that the prequel comic is out.
Nice little Warhammer easter egg referring to "Hell" as the Chaos Realm.

 

[My Spot]

Im not sure if this was posted but james ransone (ray from generation kill or ziggy from wire )just died via suicide

RIP Corporal Joshua Ray Person.

 

[Phisher]

Im not sure if this was posted but james ransone (ray from generation kill or ziggy from wire )just died via suicide

Just saw it on Twitter. RIP

https://nypost.com/2025/12/21/entertainment/the-wire-actor-james-ransone-dies-by-suicide-at-46/

 

[SmilinDesperado]

Is the new Kurt Sutter on Netflix show bad or critics are just hating on it?

It was pretty shit, especially considering the amount of acting talent they had in it.
The dialogue is incredibly cringe throughout, silly story, and just had all of the worst elements of Sutter's work condensed into one short season.
There were also a few characters that were doing some sort of awful accent that was not working and didn't match up with the modern music they would play in different scenes.

 

[FyrFytr998]

Anyone watching Pluribus? I love it so far

Just finished. What a pleasant surprise of a show.

 

[Wrath of Foamy]

Sweet Home on Netflix.

Turns out that Netflix has a lot of Korean zombie series, and Korea does them rather well.

I watched Alive on Netflix as well. Another excellent show in the same category.

Alive is about a young man trying to survive in his flat in a zombie apocalypse, and Sweet Home is about a bunch of people trying to survive a monster apocalypse in a locked down apartment block.

 

[Limbo Pete]

Sweet Home on Netflix.

Turns out that Netflix has a lot of Korean zombie series, and Korea does them rather well.

I watched Alive on Netflix as well. Another excellent show in the same category.

Alive is about a young man trying to survive in his flat in a zombie apocalypse, and Sweet Home is about a bunch of people trying to survive a monster apocalypse in a locked down apartment block.

Netflix has always had a lot of great Korean movies/TV. In terms of the zombie genre as a whole, Alive is definitely one of the better ones.

 

[HenryFlower]

Anyone watching Pluribus? I love it so far

i’ve watched three eps so far

 

[PRIDEWASBETTER]

Not much longer! I hope Elizabeth Debicki makes an appearance. She was so hot in the first season.

 

[Wrath of Foamy]

Sweet Home.

Started out great, then they bought in a load of random characters at once and pushed the main characters to the back.

20th Century Boys did this as well. It's really jarring and kind of sucks the soul out of the drama.

 

[GearSolidMetal]

I watched the entire 1st season of Robin Hood in a week, the 10th episode premiered last night, and while there's many great aspects of the show....

*The sets.
*The score.
*The Drama (Romance-Conspiracy-Esponage)

...there's also many flaws in the writing related to convenient incompetence of the antagonists and the luck of the protagonists... Its hard to rate the overall show above 'meh.'

In other words Robin & many of the protagonists clearly have 'plot armor.'

The show wants the audience's respect as a serious piece of historical fiction, but also wants the benefit of the doubt of kids/teens adventure films the 'Robin Hood' name is closely related to.

I have a few other criticisms but I don't know if there's enough interest in the series amongst those who view this thread to post them.
Let me know if you'd like to know more.