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Awix (3310 KP) rated Survivors in TV

Mar 9, 2018

Survivors

2008 | Drama, Sci-Fi

7.3

(23 Ratings)

TV Show Rating

21st century remake of the cult post-apocalyptic drama is supposedly based on the novelisation of the 70s show, not the show itself, but one gets the impression this claim is just there as a legal requirement: in the early episodes, at least, this is recognisably the same story.

That said, New Survivors is notably more suburban and less concerned with the realities of post-apocalyptic survival than with making grand statements about family and love through the medium of slightly soapy and soft-centred drama. It's a BBC genre drama from the late 2000s, so the characters are more diverse, everything is rather sentimental, and supplies of subtlety do not appear to have made it through the catastrophe. Still, it's kind of watchable, especially if you can put the original show out of your mind, and in the second series in particular one can discern an interesting subtext suggesting the programme is partly motivated by anger aimed at the culprits of the financial disaster of 2008. Second series concludes on a cliffhanger of sorts, so you can have fun making up your own ending for the story.

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B (62 KP) rated Loot Time Podcast in Podcasts

Oct 19, 2018

Loot Time Podcast

Games & Hobbies, TV & Film

7.9

(17 Ratings)

Podcast Rating

I listened to Episode 11 on Spotify. This is just a side note that is separate from the content of the podcast but the audio wasn't synced up right between the speakers. I don't know if it had to do with my device or the medium but it made it very difficult to follow at first. The creators of this podcast certainly seem to know a lot and are very enthusiastic about lots of different fandoms. I know that they just go by the theme of the crate, but fandoms are so big they really could each use their own episode. I kind of skipped over the Rick and Morty part of this episode because I'm not a follower of the show but I really enjoyed listened to their commentary on early Westworld, having seen almost all the way through season 2. I also thought Robert's (I think that is his name) theory on Muggle-borns and the recessive gene was really interesting. Overall, it seems like a good podcastn especially if you're at the edge of the world of fandoms and want to dive in deeper.