I actually think this is a fair take and I see where you’re coming from. There is definitely a certain type for “streaming service sci-fi” shows and Silo falls into it. I had the same reaction to “Man in the High Castle” and I decided to skip The Rings of Power and Foundation because of this.

I am a huge fan of FO1/FO2 (and New Vegas), but I’ve given up on the franchise otherwise (there are better modern alternatives).

I guess with Silo it helped that I never read the novels. I can’t watch shows that butcher the core concept of my favourite novels. I am also curious about the lore. On the bright side, I did start reading the Silo books.

The US series COPS.

I also enjoy watching 90s era cartoons; TaleSpin or Darkwing Duck (specifically those two).

In both cases, I watch them on the second monitor while doing something else.

Great news. I really enjoyed Season 1. Season 2 seems to have a bit more problems with pacing, but I still like it.

Even started reading the first book.

It’s a solid found footage movie that does iterate on the genre formula.

I enjoyed it as well.

Some B-movie are actually pretty good have interesting concepts. Even the bad ones can have redeeming quality (80s aesthetic).

The clips in the article are about as generic as you can get.

Agreed, this was was actually a good trailer.

Just most trailers are terrible and I generally find it’s better to go in to movie with as few expectations as possible.

I don’t watch trailers, but this is good news.

The original 28 days later was an excellent zombie movie. Sequel wasn’t bad as well.

Recently saw this french indie horror movie and I was thought it was good. The budget was definitely modest, but the concept worked well and was somewhat original.

I don’t remember a recent horror movie with trapped miners.

Very cool. I like the style, all of these are new to me.

I am not categorical about this issue. This is just a personal approach, one that I find works well with people who dislike anime.

This is just my own pragmatic “solution” of sorts. It allows me to recommend Perfect Blue, Jin-Roh, The Sky Crawlers, Memories (to people who I think would enjoy them of course) by saying that “these pieces are animated, but they are more like a movie that happens to use animation, not an anime.” And it works.

No idea regarding automation, but you can get (some) 4K TV series off rutracker (a public tracker).

https://rutracker.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=119

The site itself is in russian, but search queries in English work perfectly.

Content from English speaking countries almost always (literally around ~99.9% of the time) includes the original English audio track. You will have to manually set language priority in your video client as russian audio is set as the default track, but this should be easy to do.

Keep in mind that non-English movies/series will include the original audio and a russian dub/VO, English dub/VO will not be included. English subs are typically provided for non-English content.

Even never heard about it?

While this is technically an anime, I would argue the style and topic makes it more of an animated series that uses Japanese animation styling.

Honestly, I would even recommend Dallos if you don’t like anime.

Thinking of re-starting Attack on the Titan.

I’ve only seen the first season back when it was released. The fact that there seem to be ~100 episodes is a little bit daunting (I honestly prefer shorter self-contained series).

They are making an Alien series?

I have no issues with them even bring fans of Apple products and giving glowing reviews that may not appeal to my sensibilities.

Just he intellectually independent and honest. Don’t be suckers.

All the journalists at Ars exclusively use Apple products outside of work assignments. The notion of not wanting vendor lock-in, needing flexibility and wanting intense price competition is not part of their MO.

Long-time Ars reader/subscriber here. They’re a pretty source for English language tech news. I am particularly fond of their reporting on tech adjacent public policy issues (US centrism notwithstanding).

One area where they are weak is taking a critical look at Apple. They keep promoting the notion that Apple is somehow different.

They did report on Apple’s censorship of steaming content on AI (due to the upcoming release of Apple intelligence) and critiques of the CCP, but beyond the initial reporting it’s like nothing happened.

They all use Apple products, nothing wrong with that they have excellent products, but you would think that a tech news site would have at least one or two journalists who use Windows/Android/Linux full time.

It’s almost as if they need a “hero company” in their lives and can’t deal with the notion that all these tech megacorps are the same; sketchy, dishonest and corrupt.

For some reason, this one didn’t really connect with me.

And I usually don’t mind more creative remixes.

Slate.com is not a good place for reviews for this kind of series, but things are not looking good.

Kalki 2898 AD sounds fun. Have not heard of it. Will have to check it out. Cheers!