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Several Apple TV+ Shows Score Golden Globe Nominations

Agreed about Dark Matter. By far the best show of 2024 on Apple TV. Love Slow Horses and Silo. Ted Lasso was great and can't wait for the new season. The Morning Show was good but it is getting annoying. For All Mankind is a great show and next season is promising new twists. I love Palm Royale and Acapulco.
 
CarAnalogy said:
Just read the books. I haven't seen the show but I can tell you the books are fantastic.
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Slow Horses and Silo (the two nominees) have that in common, both are based on series of novels (very different genres, obviously). I find that reassuring, I’ll stick with a show because I know there’s an ongoing story there. Even if some of the source novels are stronger than others, so some seasons are stronger than others, I’m not worried.

That’s especially true of Slow Horses seasons three and four, where long story arcs with twists and turns that run across multiple books tend to mess with the production’s coherence, but it all comes together in the end (trying to avoid spoilers here). The next season will be a fresh start, a new book. The crime/spy/mystery genre is like that.

I’m not familiar with the Silo source material, but based on comments above from people who are, it sounds like they’re doing okay. The world-building sci-fi/post-apocalypse genre is not easy, but it’s good to know people like the books.
 
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tenthousandthings said:
Slow Horses and Silo (the two nominees) have that in common, both are based on series of novels (very different genres, obviously). I find that reassuring, I’ll stick with a show because I know there’s an ongoing story there. Even if some of the source novels are stronger than others, so some seasons are stronger than others, I’m not worried.

That’s especially true of Slow Horses seasons three and four, where long story arcs with twists and turns that run across multiple books tend to mess with the production’s coherence, but it all comes together in the end (trying to avoid spoilers here). The next season will be a fresh start, a new book. The crime/spy/mystery genre is like that.

I’m not familiar with the Silo source material, but based on comments above from people who are, it sounds like they’re doing okay. The world-building sci-fi/post-apocalypse genre is not easy, but it’s good to know people like the books.
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And in the case of Silo anyway at least it’s not a Game of Thrones type situation since the books were finished long ago. But from what I’ve heard, the show has already diverged from the book substantially.

Dang it now I’m gonna have to re read the books then watch the show. Their plan is working.
 
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Gary Oldman could boil potatoes and I would still watch intensely.
 
oldwatery said:
Absolutely hated Disclaimer. Horrible story line. Horrible characters. And the sex scenes were so yuck we stopped watching. I guess I’m just getting old! Loved the first few seasons of Horses but the last one was a huge disappointment. Same with Silo. First season was great but this one not so much. I find about 50% of the shows to be OK but the others pretty poor or not to my taste.
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I encourage you to watch Disclaimer to the end.
 
LV426 said:
Slow Horses is a very good show, despite being set in a complete fantasy world. Gary Oldman is standout. But I do think the quality began to suffer after the first couple of seasons. Some of the characters became a little cartoonish for my liking. I hope the next season picks up the quality again.

As for Silo, it’s really starting to annoy me now, as it’s deathly slow and you have to wait ages for anything remotely interesting to happen. I’m looking forward to the day when someone creates a humorous animated summary that takes 60 seconds.
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Agreed on Slow Horses, the last season for me left me wanting more.
Second season was fantastic from beginning to end… felt quite the espionage battle, east vs west, in full force. Loved it.

SILO happens to be my ring in look and sci-fi themes (Fallout style, but serious tone)… second season is indeed slower but still digging it due to said show type preference, expecting to be blown away by the end.
 
Womp womp. Completely swept out, not a single Globe. Gary Oldman was up against Colin Farrell, tough year.
 
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