DH and I started season one of The Diplomat tonight. Got through three episodes and are hooked.
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My advice would be to go straight through episode 3 season 3 - these are fantastic and hard not to binge.
Then skip episodes 4&5 in season 3 and resume at episode 6.
(Iām in the middle of episode 7 and kind of rolling my eyes at some contrived shenanigans involving the housekeeper having to go to the greenhouse and 2 characters not even putting up chairs in front of doors but thatās common in Tv fiction. Also, not buying that Kate would trust a lobbyist that much.)
Those of you with iPlayer:
Shetland returns next week! 
Tosh and Calder have to go to a little island where a social worker has been found dead.
Also for those of you with iPlayer: is The Ridge any good ?
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OOH, I wonder when the new season of Shetland hits Britbox?
Those with the āpremierā version of Britbox get the newest season of Shakespeare & Hathaway in late November, 10 episodes released weekly. We the hoi polloi must wait.
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Nothing announced, but my guess is the first episode (Shetland releases weekly) will be 12/10 on Britbox
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Blue Lights Season 3 November 16 on Britbox!
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We finished The Diplomat tonight and loved it. Really hit the sweet spot between saccharine West Wing and dark House of Cards.
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My husband has been out of town. Hoping to watch The Diplomat when he returns. Or first finish Slow Horses. Decisions, Decisions.
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We started watching Down Cemetery Road last night, on Apple TV. I think it was written by the guy who did Slow Horses. After 2 episodes we like it.
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Quite enjoyed Mr. Scorsese, which is a documentary television series on AppleTV.
Finished Nobody Wants This. Iām Back on the ālikeā train. 
. While I know that 10 episodes is pretty typical for streaming, when they are short episodes it WAY too short to make much plot movement.
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Itād be better if they filmed 2 seasons back-to-back: itād be short but weād get the second half within 6 months and itād feel more completre, more satisfying.
Theyād have time to assess success for Season 1 before they shoot Seasons 3&4.
I donāt like short seasons even for longer episodes/dramas because thereās not enough time for character development, for background, etc., all the depth you can find inherent to the form and the length of a TV show vs.a film.
I miss the 20-22 episode seasons, even if thatās probably too long. Perhaps 13-18 episodes, every year, with a pause of a few months between seasons.
And of course 
you have this season of The Diplomat, which really stretched for its 8 episodes and could have done without episodes 4&5.
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weāve only finished 4 episodes of Nobody Like This and itās gotten better. There were a couple of scenes that tickled our funny bones and we both couldnāt stop laughing. I rarely laugh at TV, I find things humorous but never typically LOL funny. Looking forward now to the rest of it.
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Any reviews of The Lazarus Effect? DH just added it to our list.
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We bought a new 75 inch TV for the basement a few years back. I never watch it, nor does DH who had to have it. Our DVD isnāt working in the FR and there are a few things Iāve wanted to watch, so the past week Iāve gone downstairs.
I hate the high definition. It seems like Iām watching a play. I went to Chatgpt and it said itās great for sports, but a lot of people donāt like what Iām seeing. It called the āsoap opera effectā (which is exactly it!) and that it looks like a cheap camera is filming, unlike the cinematic effect we are all used to, which I like much better! There were instructions on how to manipulate in settings, which I havenāt tried yet. Have any of you experienced this, too?
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My sister has a huge HD TV and I have the same reaction to it. No advice on how to adjust settings but imho āhigh def flatnessā doesnāt really improve the experience for me.
I donāt watch sports, just shows, documentaries, news.
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Wow! THANK YOU. 
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Maybe needs another thread, but 2nd TV question: Has anyone noticed so many shows having a āblue tintā? DH doesnāt want to manipulate settings, and says that the blue tint effect is very common. It is starting to bother me when teeth are blue!
We are soap opera effects hater too! After we got our TV several years back, it drove H absolutely crazy until I dug into the settings and switched it. Itās better now. I wish they would make that the default and then people who want the soap opera effect could figure out.
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