what series is as good or better lately?

That's a bit weird, considering I thought seasons 2 & 3 were by far the best. It's only in season 5 I thought it started to run out of steam (haven't seen the last season yet).

I kinda get it (well, sort of, I never watch any sports), but really, is worth to watch hours and hours of a bad movies or shows just to fuel a conversation that will likely last 10 minutes before the topic changes? I mean, I love to talk about films and it's always fun for me when I have the opportunity, but in the end I decided if it's a choice between watching really good films for my own pleasure and forcing myself to watch crap in an effort to stay "current" with what others talk about, I'll take the former. Plus, it just annoys me how better, older stuff is overshadowed by crap that can only boast hype and number of tweets about it as its qualities, and I don't want to be part of that.

I agree with you there that season 2 and 3 were the best, it's just that there are too many side stories that didn't need to be explored (like that Mars special forces angle was quite boring), also the crew of the Rocinante wasn't able to capture me (some lame white knight, the boring girl with her brainless sociopath stalker and some other guy). Sidecharacters like that black spacewarf commander and his (hot) CO were far more interesting.

All in all had they condensed the good stuff, they would have gotten 2 seasons out of it, the rest is trying to stay awake for me.
The funniest thing was that I didn't expected to see Vagabond from Wing Commander in there.
I can't help you there, I hardly ever watch movies lately, let alone series.
The expanse was actually the last I saw and that was over a year ago.

Yeah apparently eternals is complete shite said every single one of my marvel/dc fan friends.
Like I believe one set of words from their mouth was the new spiderman shat all over it; I couldn't stand how they kept chop ping and changing characters with little to no backstory.

Since we are drifting from the topic of the Eternals movie:

Anyone else feel Boba Fett looks an awful lot like The Mandalorian? (minus lil green)

You still hope that there is something good, especially when people rave about certain shows.

No offense taken and yeah I do sit down and watch old stuff on Netflix. I guess a problem is I do not know old stuff that I missed (actually havent heard of the Sandbaggers so will check it out). One good one is Police Squad (need to pay attention to catch the jokes).

no no no no. celestials are not angels, far from it. yes, they are superhuman, but not angels. The clestials where created by Jack Kirby (all praise) in 1976. Kirby created a large lore and storyline around the celestials, which has since grown -
https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Celestials

Oh yes, Police Squad is great. I only recently learned about it - strangely enough the Naked Gun films are quite popular here, but the show never ever aired in Poland, so for the longest time I had no idea the movies were preceded by a short tv series.

So yes, finding out about the older stuff you might like is a bit of homework, though I actually greatly enjoy it. WIth a little patience you'll find tons of titles. I usually start with taking something I know and like, and then look through what else the director, writers etc. made. I've spent a lot of time on that, so if you ever feel like asking for a pointer to a particular kind of thing, like you're in the mood for a good classic show set in medieval times, or weird old-school sci-fi I'll gladly suggest some things.

Hell, I'll give you a free one - The Jericho Mile, a great, little known tv movie from 1979, the directorial debut of Michael Mann of The Heat fame. No idea if it will be of any interest for you, but I just love to share this kind of stuff :D

With good writing it could have been OK, but the first problem for me is that it had far too many characters, fighting for space/relevance. For someone like me who didn't grow up with US comics, it's far too many.

The writing was not good either, but I would say that about all Marvel and DC movies. It didn't make much sense. Superpowers sure, but there still has to be an element of logic in what is happening. Things just seemed copy-pasted, like some art project.
The Marvel movies were enteratining enough at first, when their "fornula" of humor+big action was new, but it was still just superficial fluff that I haven't watched more than once.

Squad-based movies do require clever writing to make all the characters fit, like The Magnificent Seven, The Professionals, Seven Samurai, The Dirty Dozen, Ocean’s Eleven, the Lord of the Rings, and others. So there is a way to making it work.

I knew this movie was going to suck. I won't bother seeing it even when it becomes free to watch.
When I saw the cast lineup it appeared to me that there was a conscious attempt to have an ethnically diverse cast as opposed to quality actors. That spells fail to me.
Also, Marvel has made an attempt to make recent superhero movies comical. That is a fail to me.
Their attempts at being funny contradict the essence of a superhero character who battles evil.
Not to mention how not funny and silly the attempts for comical relief are.

The new Spiderman movie also appears to be stupid. I realize Peter Parker is a young adult character but the attempts for comical relief, again fail terribly.

Just make a serious action superhero movie. Leave the comedy for comedies.

But have you watched Ghandi II? Whose trailer was featured in the acclaimed Weird Al Movie: UHF?

You clearly have never read a Spiderman or Deadpool comic in your life as both are always cracking jokes.

Meh. Even if you liked comics once upon a time, good Marvel productions are few and far between, nowadays it's just boring, subpar chatter and action or particularly shitty political statements. Only Into the Spider-Verse was more or less decent, if still not without flaws.

Just wanted to add into the spiderverse was Sony so separate from the MCU. Surprisingly decent movie.

I dont think superhero movies should be completely serious. That is where DC went wrong and the MCU was arguably successful because they were able to balance comedy and seriousness pretty well, keeping things light which allowed the serious moments to hit harder. The problem with the MCU is they reuse jokes when they arnt funny anymore and I think this is part of the MCU going on for too long.