Taskmaster has been about the only regular series I've been watching lately. The lineup of contestants feels very well balanced in their types of humor, so that's been fun. The Greek theme of the house looks really good as well.

Checked out ep 1 of the new Simpsons season. I kinda told myself I wasn't going to, and to just be done with it, but I was bored and gave in. I was not any less bored when it was over.

Also watching this month's Grand Sumo tournament. I forgot it was this month, so I missed it as it was coming out, but I saw a post in /All, so now I've been trying to avoid spoilers. c/Sumo got me interested earlier this year, and as someone not a sports person, it's been a ton of fun and rather easy to start following. I didn't think I could get my wife into it, but halfway through the second tournament I watched, she started to get into it as well, and she cheers for her favorite rikishi now too. It's fun to watch because NHK puts the highlights on Youtube, so each day you can watch in just under a half hour, it's got English commentary, and matches don't often last more than a couple seconds, so it's easy to stop and go do other things if you can't sit and watch it all at once. Their power and agility is really something else! It's something I never thought I'd be into, but it sucked me in fast once I gave it a fair go.

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

After being a fan of Game Changer I tried to watch Taskmaster because the shows are really close conceptually. But the format of "interview and pre recorded clips" bored me. The section were they play "live" against each other was way more funny.

[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I hadn't heard of Game Changer, but it looks like a lot of people I like have been on it, so I'll have to take a look at that.

The things I like about the segments being pre-recorded is that sometimes the contestants will have forgotten certain things they did, they can add some post production to challenges where they create a video short or song, or they can play a joke on a contestant and then we see how it plays out over the season. I think it was the previous season they had a guy carry an egg in a necklace around, and whenever Alex blew the whistle, he'd have to stop whatever he was doing and present the egg. At first he thinks everyone has to do it, but as the season plays back, he learns it's just him, and as a viewer, after a while I'd forget it too, and the when randomly hearing the whistle, it's "ohhh, he better grab that egg fast!"

Also, when they present the clips and make it look like one person has won an event, and then they pull a "but wait!" and show them cheating or accidentally breaking a rule and they get disqualified is funny.

Nothing wrong with not liking it of course!

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 3 points 6 days ago

Try to watch it from the beginning (knowing the players and being para social with them is half the fun) but skip season 3 (covid season) except s03e01. That one is good.

[–] Pronell@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Seconding Taskmaster.

Every show is on YouTube and I think it's on Hulu now as well. It's probably on an actual channel in the UK too.

[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

It's such a fun show. We tried to get tickets to the North American tour, but bots bought all the tickets in about 3 seconds. Boo.

I loved seeing Kumail Manjiani on the last season and Jason Mantzoukas before that. All the UK comedians I end up loving, but it was fun having some people that I was already familiar with.