 Ever since I did that last TV review episode called six thumbs down I've been keeping my eyes open for six more TV shows that I really hate But what has ended up happening is I've found six shows that I really liked so Six thumbs up. I'm gonna start with since eight which has been out quite some time ago now But I never did talk about it, so I'm gonna take the opportunity to do so All I can tell you about this show is that I've never seen anything like it I've never seen anything even remotely like it. It's created by the Wachowskis along with J. Michael Strasinski I am not a fan of the Wachowskis. I don't like their work. I think they do terrible work It's hard to know whose influence is Where in the show I have to think that J. Michael Strasinski whose work I'm really not familiar with I know he created Babylon 5 a Show which I was never a fan of by the way, but I have to think that his Input tempered the Wachowskis to some extent to rein in their their scattershot craziness To to bring it to a level that was just right. Anyway, whatever the case the show is about eight people from a variety of nations all over the world who were born with a kind of psychic rapport with one another and Here they are as young adults, and they're only just starting to Sense each other and they're doing more than just communicating with each other They're actually experiencing each other's lives and in a lot of cases. They're becoming confused as to whose life is actually whose The show takes this situation as an opportunity to explore Every kind of physical relationship if you're uncomfortable with How should I put it fluid? sexuality Then the show might not be for you because it's all in there I've seen people who have been very critical About the cliches in the show and yeah, there are a lot of them I would admit the the characters are very quick to start punching and to pull out pistols and start gunfire But there's so much else in the show that I've never seen before and If you've been watching my book reviews at all, you know, I value innovation Probably more than anything else If you do something that I've never seen before and something that surprises me then you've got my attention The last 10 minutes or so of episode 10 are completely unlike anything. I've ever seen before I'm not even gonna try to describe it Okay, moving on Okay, the last man on earth Which just finished its second season this show stars will forte as The last man on earth if you can't stand will forte. I would say Don't even try to watch this show I have to tell you the I was rarely able to watch at least in the first season I was rarely able to watch an episode all the way through I would have to stop and come back to it later because This character that will forte plays is so He is just so offensive and infuriating and so self-absorbed He's not a sympathetic Character or a nice guy and it's kind of brave to make a show called the last man on earth About this one guy who you hate just watching him But I stuck through it. I watched the entire first season because I kept After all was said and done. There was always something about each episode that I liked And the final scene of the the last episode of season one I'm talking about the last scene between will forte and Christian shawl Made the entire first season worth it for me. And then the second season was much better easier to watch He's still a jerk But he's changing and then The last episode of season two. I was thinking Are they are they actually gonna do this? Are they gonna do what they're implying they're gonna do and they did Again, here's a show that surprising me in doing what I was thinking they would never do So yeah last man on earth with will forte. I recommend it Okay, now Jessica Jones. I'm sure you've seen Plenty of talk about Jessica Jones. Well, I Told you before in one of my other review shows that I liked the daredevil TV show Well, Jessica Jones as their follow-up series Was really really interesting again. It's a show that's doing things. I've never seen done before now I Grew up reading Marvel Comics, but I'm not at all familiar with the character of Jessica Jones She came along well after I had stopped following comics So I don't know who she is. She seems to be very tightly woven into the modern Marvel Comics universe, but the villain here is a character named kill grave Played by David Tennant and I was afraid that David Tennant Would be too funny that there would be too much doctor who in there and it would be distracting But no he was very frightening When I was a kid kill grave was an established villain He was a minor villain, but he was there. We all knew him We didn't call him kill grave. We called him the purple man They never called him the purple man in this show. His power if you don't know is That he can tell people what to do and they'll do it. It doesn't matter what it is He just says it and people do it He was never all that well explored in the comics at least when I was a kid this show Really explores how dangerous and How messy and how ruinous that simple power could be that they've used this to explore abusive relationships and The the abuse and and manipulation of women and rape and they actually use the word rape You never see even today. You don't see television shows using the even the word rape They'll use some kind of metaphor or or something this one. They just come out and say it For people who are sensitive to that kind of thing. Yeah, you're gonna have some problems The other thing I want to say is that Carrie Ann Moss who plays the powerful wicked lesbian lawyer is absolutely terrifying Every moment she's on screen you can't take her eyes off her because you're afraid of her So, okay moving on The Expanse which is a new show that's only recently started on the sci-fi network This is based on the novel series by James S a Corey One of my earliest book reviews was the first book in the series called Leviathan wakes Which I gave a positive review and I have been very pleasantly surprised at how good this show is this show is actually very good You see people saying online Comparing it to the the more recent Battlestar Galactica or to a firefly I don't see those comparisons All I can tell you is that it's really quite good. I only read the first book in the series so everything after episode 2 is Subplot stuff that I don't recognize as being from book one. Maybe it's from the later books. I don't know Maybe they're making the stuff up Whatever the case they're doing a pretty good job of it When you watch the show and again you should you can see the episodes on the sci-fi channels Website they actually make them available for you to see on the website The most important thing that you need to see is the very first scene that happens After the credits roll in the first episode what this girl does and know what she sees That's what this series is ultimately about if you miss that first minute or two You should go back and and look at it Thomas Jane is Quite good. He plays the down-and-out police detective on the asteroid series. I Feel like he's too attractive and too thin for this role in the book He's described as being an itty valiant type a dumpy middle-aged guy But he's doing a good job and I'm gonna keep watching Okay, moving on to the man in a high castle Wow All I can say is wow You need to watch this even if you're not a fan of sci-fi if you're a fan of just good drama you should watch this This is based on the Philip K. Dick novel by the same title It's a novel that I've not read but if it's anything like other Hollywood Adaptations of Philip K. Dick it probably has very little to do with the novel In fact Ridley Scott is one of the executive producers of this show and he like the rest of Hollywood seems to have a fetish for adapting Philip K. Dick novels and completely disregarding What Philip K. Dick wrote Ridley Scott started the the process with Blade Runner which is actually based on Duand or his dream of electric sheep. Not only did he change The story he actually reversed its entire meaning And then a total recall came along which was an adaptation of we can remember it for you wholesale It's not even an adaptation. They completely disregarded the story And then the the Tom Cruise movie the adaptation of Minority Report They actually literally reversed the meaning of the story So not being familiar with this particular novel I'm quite sure that it's not particularly faithful and it might simply be using the book as an Idea of a starting point whatever the case. It's excellent. It's about an alternate history It's set in 1962 in which The Axis powers conquered the United States the Nazis control the East Coast and the Japanese control the West Coast and there is the Rocky Mountain areas are a kind of no man's land and Everybody is concerned with chasing down and collecting these bizarre mysterious 16 millimeter films that contain newsreels of what appear to be our world the real world where the US and the Allies defeated the Axis powers and Hitler is obsessed with collecting these and of course the resistance is equally obsessed with collecting them People don't know where they come from or what they're actually showing But most of the action of the series is not concerned with what's in the films. It's concerned with people who are resisting Nazi rule and With the the the looming threat of war between the Germans and the Japanese It's very tense and very suspenseful and it's very slow paced very slow paced almost glacial The emphasis seems to be on atmosphere Which usually I find infuriating because I want the action to get on with it But this is well done. It's so well done that I enjoyed the hell out of it. Another standout is Rufus Sewell He's playing Obergruppenfuhrer John Smith. I Think his name is John Smith. He is tremendous. There. There are a few moments during the course of this first season Where his acting ability is just devastating is so rare to see someone do real acting Anymore I've said this before I've said this in reviews before that when you do see it. You're just astonished. I Knew that this guy's name was familiar and I knew he looked familiar, but I couldn't place him until I went online and looked him up and he's this guy from Dark City Anyway, in case you haven't figured it out yet strong recommendation for man in the high castle and finally Do I even need to tell you to go see this do I even need to recommend it? Of course, it's a comedy It's also an extremely violent Horror show extremely bloody. It's all very very fake all the makeup in the blood is obviously very fake But it's still disgusting Of course, the reason you watch it is to watch Bruce Campbell act like a total pig Lucy Lawless is in the show and Having just seen all ten episodes of the first season. I Still don't know Who she actually is? The earliest episodes are more funny than anything else, but as the show goes along it becomes more violent and In the later episodes I started to have the same problem that I had with the first two movies It's just scene after scene after scene of a man Bruce Campbell beating women to death just beating them to death with with sticks machetes axes Chain saws shotguns whatever is at hand until there's nothing left of them, but blood and organs flying everywhere. I Know they're supposed to be possessed by demons. They're supposed to be The living dead and it's all it's all makeup and the blood is very fake and everything But it goes on and on and on just beating women to death I've never heard anyone make that complaint about these movies before but the first time I saw the first two evil dead Movies, that's what I was thinking all the way through it was These men are just beating women to death the whole movie I still recommend the show and I will be looking for season two That's it for six thumbs up I didn't think I would have six thumbs up, but there they are and Before too long. I should have another six thumbs down to show you see then You can support 30 second sci-fi and my other projects by becoming a patron There is a link in the description below and visit the 30 second sci-fi tumbler That's my headquarters in addition to my videos. I publish links and updates there every day