I’ll make note, he says he has watched a few episodes of that show.
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I’m finally starting season 3 of Silo and not enjoying it at all. I think it pales in comparison to the tension build up of season two and I feel like I just forgot too much of the nitty gritty of the other season with the long break in between If the next episode (4) doesn’t pick up, it might be a DNF for me unless someone convinces me to keep going.
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I have been watching a little of Silo lately but it’s so dark on my TV it’s hard to see. Just makes it hard to sustain much interest if you’re straining to see what’s going on. Maybe it’s just my TV?
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Don’t give up on Silo. It gets a lot better, and the finale is really something - I could never have predicted where they were going with the plot. I personally can’t wait for the next season.
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Oh, I’m glad to hear you mention how hard it is to see on the screen. It’s annoying to me.
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It really is and I have pretty good vision. No sign of cataracts or anything. Maybe my TV is not up to the job. This is the only show I have this issue with, though.
I read the books when they first came out. I like the show, but I think some things are easier to understand in the books. There are a lot of long quiet sequences in the show.
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H and I finished season 3 of Silo. We enjoyed it, but we binged all 3 seasons so we didn’t have any breaks from it.
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I watched the first few episodes of Mad Men, but found the characters so unpleasant we didn’t continue. Maybe I should give it another go. The finale of the Americans was perfect.
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Same here. I watched Mad Men in the beginning and just could not get into it, so gave up. Maybe it’s time to revisit.
And I loved The Americans
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I echo the last two posts…abandoned Mad Men midway thru the first season, love the Americans. I’m not much of a Jon Hamm fan, so I don’t think I’ll revisit Mad Men. The Americans and West Wing are probably my two all-time favorite shows.
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What I told my daughter who watched a couple of episodes of Mad Men and didn’t want to continue….
Welcome to that era - this is what business life looked like - men in suits, little respect for working woman beyond doing the dirty work for men, bar cart in the office and curtains on the windows for…well you know. Mad Men gets very deep into the roles of business men, business women, and every member of the family at home - including the hired help - and their roles in this era. And how each of those people tried/succeeded/failed to make strides or to just “put up”.
It’s funny because Jon Hamm has a similar-ish role in his current show - Friends and Neighbor’s - trying to balance an act between being a successful business man, making lots of $ but also trying in some way to keep his family afloat - sometimes I’m not the honest way!
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I was born in 1967, my mom was a SAHM, but very involved in the community, I remember stuffing envelopes in the formal dining room. So many clubs and boards. When my dad came home from work (took the bus to manhattan), it was time for cocktail hour, with snacks. I never once saw my dad in a pair of jeans, sweatpants, and rarely a collarless shirt. We had babysitters several nights a week. Madmen brought so many childhood memories.
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My dad ALWAYS wore a suit and tie to campus, even when I had him as a professor in the early '80s. I was shocked the first time I saw him in “business casual” on a work day! Knotting his tie was difficult for him because as a kid he fell off a horse and broke his arm, and he couldn’t bend it very far.
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Yes Mad Men is full of characters who are unpleasant. Succession was also. It took a bit to get past that and appreciate the writing and acting to portray unlikable characters but keep people watching. I really enjoyed both shows.
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It wasn’t that I didn’t “get” the era, I just found the show boring. Maybe I need to try again.
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I didn’t find it boring, but all the good writing and filming couldn’t get me past that they were all such awful people. I don’t need characters to be “likeable,” but I need to care about someone. That period might be like that, but that doesn’t mean people didn’t exist who weren’t awful. They exist in every time period. But after one season I couldn’t find myself pulling for, or caring about, anyone.
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The first few episodes are essential to understand where they’re going and what’s happening once they’re there. I agree the first 4 in particular felt odd but once you have the rest and especially the end it all makes sense (and you may want to rewatch with the end in mind).
Do remember why you dislike Juliet or what you’re seeing - because it matters.
(Iow, how you’re feeling is not a flaw in the execution but a clue.)
My DW is laid up from a surgery. Plus we also watch a show as we fall asleep. Lately we have moved on to Bones. She is also watching Mentalist some as well.
I myself find myself watching Elementary. I identify with that show in a lot of ways.
I couldn’t watch Succession either. And I don’t read books about unpleasant people either. I can appreciate writing and acting, but I want at least a few likable characters. I loved The West Wing and Newsroom as well.
I get the era. My mother had to get permission to work when my father was a diplomat in Thailand in 1957. She was allowed to teach English classes, but only if she didn’t miss any of the Ambassador’s Wife’s teas! She worked all through my childhood, but was able to work mostly during our school hours, including a couple of years where she ran a one room school house with six of us mostly in different grades.
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finished s3 
. much better than last season