Are there any science fiction TV series you are currently in the middle of watching? I’m sure there are plenty of people watching Silo. What else are you guys watching?

Personally I’ve been on a bit of a Star Trek Next Generation binge. I’ve also recently completed the Chinese version of Three Body Problem as well as the animated Three Body Problem which is actually just The Dark Forest.

The animated Three Body Problem was kind of a let down as they strayed from the source material in a weird way and made some aspects of it a comedy as well as a love story. Hopefully if it is renewed for a season 2 they get back on course and get to some of the good stuff. There are some scenes I would love to see animated. The trailer for it was so cool too. It seemed like they knew what they were doing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfHXmLXmwz0

  • Spyral@lemmy.world
    7·
    3 years ago

    Been watching Silo, loved the books and really like the show. The author had a lot of input into his season. He wrote the first but as a short story and he was glad to be able to revisit the early parts and flesh it out more. Good to hear there’s a second season. I’m eagerly awaiting Foundation season 2 which starts next month! I’ve been watching Black Mirror in small doses. I do want to check out the New Trek sometime soon, too.

    • Izzy@lemmy.worldBannedOP
      2·
      3 years ago

      I recently watched the first 3 episodes of the new season of Black Mirror. That 2nd episode though… it seemed like it had nothing to do with Black Mirror and was basically just a horror film.

      • Vupperware@lemmy.world
        1·
        3 years ago

        Black Mirror lost me when I saw Miley Cyrus in a fighting game.

        The robo dog episode, shut up and dance, that’s some good shit.

    • Aux@lemmy.worldBanned
      1·
      3 years ago

      Foundation was the biggest let down. It has no connection to books, except for its name.

      • amoulsolo@lemmy.world
        1·
        3 years ago

        I felt that despite the distance from the source material it was still worth a watch. Maybe I’m just starved for any sci-fi shows, but I too am looking forward to season two.

  • CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world
    2·
    3 years ago

    Only loosely related to sci-fi, but I just finished Station 11 (twice) and think it might be the best TV show I’ve ever seen. I nitpick details and plot holes in stuff I watch all the time, and Station 11 just… didn’t have any. It’s the most well thought, cohesive story I’ve seen in ages. Watch it a second time and your mind will be blown at all the little details that crisscross perfectly across the entire arc.

    The characters behave like real people. The acting is incredible. The score is perfection. It’s a masterpiece.

  • derioderi0@lemmy.world
    2·
    3 years ago

    I’ve been slowly working my way through Stargate, midway through season 3 right now. It’s almost refreshing how shamelessly they reuse old Star Trek plots and tropes, but it kind of works because the show doesn’t seem to take itself as seriously as Star Trek does either.

  • obesity52@lemmy.world
    2·
    3 years ago

    As far as newish stuff goes, I’ve been watching Silo, which is pretty entertaining. Better than I expected from AppleTV.

    Also just watched S2 of Raised By Wolves. S2 got off to a really rocky start. Honestly I flat-out hated ep1; feels like they needed a mulligan. But it got me hooked a few episodes in.

    Strange New Worlds has pretty entertaining though the pace of the courtroom episode seemed a little off (almost like they thought I was too dumb to get it so they had to eliminate any subtlety), and I watched some TNG in the gap between Picard and SNW.

    Only made it a couple episodes into Hello Tomorrow before I couldn’t stand it anymore.

    I remember liking Severance but I think it’s been quite a while. I think there might be a new season soon?

  • Sean@lemmy.world
    1·
    3 years ago

    Silo, Strange New Worlds, Secret Invasion, and Foundation.

    Really liking Foundation so far, I wish we’d watched it sooner.

  • Thorndike@lemmy.world
    1·
    3 years ago

    I know it’s not sci-fi, but I’m rewatching SOAP. This and WKRP are the near pinnacle of comedy tv.

  • Smooth_Riker@lemmy.world
    1·
    3 years ago

    I’ve been watching through Babylon 5 for the first time and it’s so good. I was aware of it when it was running in the 90s but I wasn’t big into scifi TV shows at that point. I’ve watched through Star Trek TNG like 3 times (until they took it off Netflix) and The Orville twice (until I cancelled Hulu).

    After I get through Babylon 5 I will choose between X-Files and Stargate SG-1, two other 90s shows I slept on. Overall I’m loving this. Because it’s all new to me, and yet it’s nostalgic at the same time. I remember the ads for all these shows, I recognize a lot of the actors from other things.

    • RBWells@lemmy.world
      1·
      3 years ago

      My youngest offspring has been making their way through X Files and loves it but they are such a fan of horror. I love it too but it’s pretty scary, more than just sci-fi. Though I did always find the filming annoying, so many minutes of black screens with flashlights! So many shows are dark now (and I hate it) but back when this series came out it was novel.

  • IonAddis@lemmy.world
    1·
    3 years ago

    I’ve been working my way through The Expanse again. I couldn’t get into the books for some reason, despite being an avid SFF reader, but I love the show. (It happens to me for some reason–most of Gaiman’s works I’m meh about in book form but like on the big screen. Same deal with Game of Thrones–never got through the books in HS, even though I was reading other big fat fantasy at the time, but found the series…until the last few seasons…good.

    Anyway. The Expanse probably the only SFF show I’ve encountered that actually feels like lit SF.

    And for me, given most movie/TV SFF is a deacde or more behind lit SFF in ideas, it’s nice to actually see the types of stories made into a show.