What TV To Watch

Show Genre: Sci-Fi

WandaVision

The first of the Avengers, post-Endgame shows. Each episode is a send up of television history, moving from the 1950s through the decades – a sitcom starring Wanda Maximoff and Vision as a perfect TV couple in a perfect suburban town, with a nosy neighbor and wacky hijinks.  But of course there is something else …

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The Falcon and the Winter Soldier

Post-Endgame, Sam (The Falcon) and Bucky (The Winter Soldier) work to find their place in a world and together without Steve Rogers.  Bucky is still struggling with the fallout from being a bad guy for nearly a hundred years, while Sam deals with pervasive racism. Complex, interesting storytelling that explores the legacy of Captain America …

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Loki

Post-Endgame, Loki finds himself an involuntary “guest” of the Time Variance Authority, a mysterious organization that monitors the timeline and removes unwanted variations. Well made, with excellent acting, but the action dragged and the plot could be difficult to follow.

Hawkeye

Post-Endgame, Clint Barton (Hawkeye) tries to live life as a private family man and forget the more troubling parts of his past. The past catches up to him during a family vacation to New York, and he partners with a young woman who has always idolized him to solve a mystery and kick some butt.  …

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The Mandalorian

The first live-action Star Wars television show.  Set in the time after the original trilogy (the first Death Star has been destroyed), this show follows a Mandalorian bounty hunter. Fiercely devoted to the Mandalorian way, the character is at first something of a cipher—always wearing a mask, doing the task, recovering the bounty. He is …

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Legion

This show is great, but really, really confusing (hence the high emo score).  It must be binged.  The Interwebz tells me that this is an X-Men spinoff.  It tells the story of David Haller (yes, that’s Dan Stevens).  David is insane, or maybe he isn’t.  He might or might not have special powers.  He sees …

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Doctor Who

One of the longest running shows on television, start with the 2005 reboot with Christopher Eccelston as the Doctor.  Riding around time and space in the TARDIS, usually with a companion or two in tow, the Doctor fights monsters, solves conundrums and saves the day over and over again.  With frequent changes in Doctors and …

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Humans

Set in a world very much like this one, but there are lifelike robots called Synths owned by most households and businesses. Unbeknownst to most, some synths attain consciousness.  This series explores what it means to be an individual and whether the robots are people or property.

Runaways

Another Marvel property, this series follows a group of teenagers who have grown up together because their parents run a charity.  The kids soon learn that the “charity” involves killing people, and the kids unite against their parents – some of them developing powers or special skills along the way.  This show was good in …

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Agents of Shield

This Marvel show starts right after the first Avengers movie, and thereafter ties in to the Marvel Cinematic Universe.  Season 1 started slow and boring, but as events catch up with Captain America- Winter Soldier, it became great.  Later seasons have been hit or miss – when it’s great, it’s great, but there is definitely …

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