My current watches are/have been:
X-Men '97 - obviously, it's a cartoon specifically designed to evoke my personal sense of nostalgia, but overall it's been a mostly fun set of comic adaptations that moves mostly too fast. However, it still has the bangin' theme song, so does it really matter what comes after? If you liked the original 90s X-Men tv series, this one is that, but done far better.
Fallout - I was very much concerned going into the series that the showrunners wouldn't understand the show. But I was really wrong to have that concern. Frankly, the showrunners nailed it, and I'm thrilled with the show. A hell of a ride, start to finish, that slots mostly neatly within the game canon, answers some outstanding questions, and drives the story forward. Atop that, it's confusing conservatives who thought that it'd be a standard dystopian action show but have found it to be so explicitly anti-capitalist that even they can't ignore the message.
Shogun - possibly the best tv show of the year so far. Incredible acting, beautiful, filled with hard historical work that sets a perfect stage and tells the tale of medieval Japan at the end of the Sengoku period, although with fictionalized characters. You have to read a lot in this, unless you speak Japanese, but it's worth it. Even my roommate, who is not at all into this stuff, has thoroughly enjoyed the show.
X-Men '97 - obviously, it's a cartoon specifically designed to evoke my personal sense of nostalgia, but overall it's been a mostly fun set of comic adaptations that moves mostly too fast. However, it still has the bangin' theme song, so does it really matter what comes after? If you liked the original 90s X-Men tv series, this one is that, but done far better.
Fallout - I was very much concerned going into the series that the showrunners wouldn't understand the show. But I was really wrong to have that concern. Frankly, the showrunners nailed it, and I'm thrilled with the show. A hell of a ride, start to finish, that slots mostly neatly within the game canon, answers some outstanding questions, and drives the story forward. Atop that, it's confusing conservatives who thought that it'd be a standard dystopian action show but have found it to be so explicitly anti-capitalist that even they can't ignore the message.
Shogun - possibly the best tv show of the year so far. Incredible acting, beautiful, filled with hard historical work that sets a perfect stage and tells the tale of medieval Japan at the end of the Sengoku period, although with fictionalized characters. You have to read a lot in this, unless you speak Japanese, but it's worth it. Even my roommate, who is not at all into this stuff, has thoroughly enjoyed the show.
