Larger sample size won't help with a self selecting poll. It's just bogus data all the way down unless clearly weighted to match the population, which it won't be because that doesn't fit the desired narrative.
This isn't a prompt engineering problem though, it's a fundamental limitation that it can't view the video clip and transcribe it. It might be able to find an existing transcript and pretend that's its own work, but I suspect from the hallucinations it's not even looked at the tweet in question.
Roman Mercer (Avan Jogia) looks pensively back over his right shoulder at a treeline and some fog and a lot of ghostly figures. He's walking towards camera as if he doesn't really care about the ghosts and would rather get off this show and do something better. Across the bottom is the text "From the producers of Hell On Wheels and Fargo", probably two far better shows that you should watch instead (but I've not seen the first and only the first season of the second), and the title "Ghost Wars".
Ghost Wars (2017) is another dud. So an earthquake and a nuclear accelerator test somehow do something to invade a town with angry ghosts who try to kill everyone still alive and only the shunned town psychic can stop them. Except there's about 6 other ghost/horror plots stuffed in here.
Poster art for "Here And Now" (2018). The cast members are arrayed in a circle all lookup up at the camera with soap bubbles floating between us and them. The title of the show takes up the space in the middle between them. I'd describe each of the people at this point but the show's such a snore-fest you really won't care. Sure, Holly Hunter and Tim Robbins are in it but that doesn't make it good.
Here And Now (2018) does have a really good cast. And that's about the best I can say for it. The rest is a really slow building family drama with a hook "mystery" that's never resolved (and the last scene makes a kind of sense that is non).
A face on shot on Greg Kinnear as Keegan Deane. He's got a black eye on his right and he may well have one on his left but he's holding a whole steak over that side of his face. He's in a suit and tie but his collar's unbuttoned. At the top left is the text "Don't Judge" and at the bottom over his tie are the lines "Greg Kinnear", "Rake" and "January FOX"
"Rake" (the 2014 US version) follows dodgy lawyer Keegan Deane (Greg Kinnear) through 13 cases-of-the-week and an ongoing "who killed the mayor" plot. It's roundly "fine"; Deane's about what you'd expect with the womanising and gambling. Maybe skip ep 12 though (cw: bestiality, at least alluded to).
Poster art for "The Company You Keep" (2023). The poster has three layers. The bottom is a red city skyline at about a 30-degree angle rising from bottom left to mid-right, with white text (also angled) saying "The Company You Keep" (with the bottom of the P blending into the top of the K), "Series Premiere Sun Feb 19", the circular ABC logo and "Stream On hulu". The middle section, also a red city skyline at a similar angle, has the two show leads on it. Charlie Nicoletti (Milo Ventimiglia) is on the left in a dark suit jacket over a black shirt, open at the collar. His hair's neat but he hasn't shaved in a day or so. On his right, turned away from the camera but looking back over her left shoulder, is Emma (Catherine Haema Kim) in a dark top or dress that bares her shoulders, her hair in a ponytail and small pearl drop earrings. They're cut off a the waist by the lower skyline. Above the two skylines in the top left corner is a small triangle of darker red with more skewed text saying "All Is Fair In Love And Lies".
The Company You Keep (2023) starts well, with the CIA officer and the con-man falling in love, and then it all gets complicated with irish mobsters and gun running and a not-quite-love-triangle. The cast is great and it's mostly fun but I struggled with a mid-season "eh" so can't fully recommend.
Poster art for Cupid (2009). On a red background, you have big white text saying "Get a love life". Then there's a guy (Bobby Cannavale) reclining across the poster. He's in black trousers and a red top and has a quiver of arrows over his shoulder. He's holding a single arrow. Below him is the show title with a stylised winged archer emerging from the top of the P. Under that is the text "takes aim tuesdays 10/9c", "series premiere march 31st" and the ABC logo.
Cupid (2009) was a rewatch, and I really didn't feel it this time. There's just no chemistry between the two leads like there is between the 1998 cast. That might be the shorter episode count but the spark's missing somehow. Even the remake episode (My Fair Masseuse vs The Linguist) is weaker.
She works for a shadowy government organisation that polices people with superpowers, but everyone she works with is suspicious, and her past self's cryptic clues are mostly useless - she doesn't even tell her she's sleeping with colleagues! Messy and leaves a lot unresolved but I enjoyed it. (2/2)
Poster art for "The Rook" (2019) shows Myfanwy Thomas (Emma Greenwell) in blue on a paler blue background. She's facing to the left and there's clearly a strong wind blowling as her hair's swept forwards around her chin. There's a turquoise glow around her with lightning coming off it. She's on a plain background and in a plain coat, but everything's covered in a blue filter so no clue what colour they are. Text on the middle left says "Awaken The Power Within". The title "THE ROOK" runs across her upper arm and has a slight blur effect. At the bottom is the text "6/30 STARZ"
"The Rook" (2019) was quite fun although its "amnesia" plot driver means there's a fair amount of meandering around. Myfanwy (rhymes with "Tiffany") wakes up surrounded by bodies and with no memory of her own personal past, and has left herself messages to try and piece things together. (1/2)
Poster art for "Supertrain" (1979). The poster's divided in half by a banner with the lowercase "supertrain" text. In both halves are pictures of the titular train, the top half shot from below looking up and the lower half is shot downwards. The train is going from right to left in both shots. The train itself is a low wide silver vehicle, wider than a normal train, with a sloped front, and taller double-decker carriages after the first car. The first car has two large windows at the front and smaller windows along the first half. At the top right of the power is a round "supertrain" logo in brown, with stylised tracks rising up from the bottom and then right along the bottom of the text, and down from the top and then right along the top of the text. Along the bottom of the poster is the text "1HR", "COMEDY, DRAMA" AND "TV SERIES (1979)"
Supertrain (1979) is a classic failure. Hugely expensive show, doesn't seem to have any clue what it's supposed to be. Is it comedy? Is it thriller? There's at least one episode with an inappropriate laugh track, which is tonally bizarre. Never having seen Love Boat, I'm not sure if this is similar?
Poster art for Marvel Studios "Echo". There's a big silhouette of Kingpin's head and upper body with a big glowing white blob where he was shot at the end of 2021's Hawkeye. The silhouette of his body has been filled with a woman (Alaqua Cox - Echo) sitting on a motorcycle on a highway with a lovely red and yellow sunset behind her. The block letter "ECHO" and the Marvel Studios logo cover the back wheel of the bike and her legs.
Echo (2024) is yet another MCU show, this time completely changing the character's powers to be some sort of alien native american genetic memory that she takes 5 episodes to discover. Kingpin's somehow survived being shot in the head and hilarity ensues. No, I wasn't sold either.
Poster art for Netflix's "Maniac". A 3x5 grid of small pastel coloured squares show various close-up images of the two lead's faces - Emma Stone and Jonah Hill. Below the screens is the text "A Netflix Limited Series", the show's title, a date of Sept 21, and the Netflix logo.
First up was Maniac (2018), which, considering it took me 2.5 years from starting to actually finish the 10 episodes is something of a tough one to recommend! Weird, meanders a lot, doesn't really go anywhere, lots of broken people in weird VR simulations and not a lot of sense made.
I've done a poor job of posting these, so lets do a thread of single-season shows I've watched (or at least finished watching) in 2026...
What have I been working on since Evil Genius 2? I wonder...
So busy! Glad this is finally out there so we can talk about it!
Time And The Rani clearly, but I'm struggling with the other two. Greatest Show and the aforementioned Survival?
Give Tawny Newsome what she wants... a Lower Decks movie!
Oh FFS. And with SNW also ending and no sign of the Seven and Raffi show they're really struggling to thread the needle in live action Trek. Are they too online and listening to the "too woke" morons, or are their expectations for a hit just waaaay too high for any Trek to hit?
A) Pay for a better wig.
B) Pay a vfx artist to crunch many hours to fix it in post.
C) Ask AI to replace it.
...this is Sonic's teeth again with a worse potential option.
What they passed is arguably worse. Now the minister can ban them by SI and parliament are barely going to get any scrutiny. They should have rejected both the Lords amendment and the government's proposal.
I didn't think the Divine Comedy song was biographical!
Sorry, shouldn't have trusted the Google summary. Ian Murray then. Thanks.
With no cabinet minister at DCMS, do we know who's running the consultation for the government? I'm assuming Chris Bryant as most senior appointee?
I won't stand for this Jamie Kennedy erasure!
Who am I kidding? Bloodlines was terrible and that casting was abominable. I suspect Cold Day In Hell would work fine without him and he's not in Shrieked Island so maybe 6.5?
RIP Chris Rea. Hard to sum up my feelings on this one. His music's always been a huge comfort. Suspect the tributes will be full of Driving Home... references, but I'd rather go with a slightly indulgent To The Memory Of A Good Friend - www.youtube.com/watch?v=iI0k...
Fucking HELL
Can Lord Sewell tell the rest of us how to get yhe mirror universe TV feed he's watching?
So that should be 50. If anyone wants to quibble over "not indie", go play Balatro, or Endless Space, or Evil Genius 2: World Domination (hey, we're an independent studio, even if I wouldn't exactly call us "indie"!).
And finally, Anchorhead (store.steampowered.com/app/726870/A...). It's a text adventure at heart, but the world is well-built, the story is exceptionally well told, and the gameplay is plenty forgiving. I've clearly missed the Steam release so I might have to revisit. 51/52