Bummer! I loved the book and thought the show might be fun.
Working my way through Night Agent on Netflix. Pretty entertaining so far, about 3 or 4 episodes in.
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I enjoyed it while watching it, but it is already getting combined with all the similar type CIA/FBI shows in my mind.
I can see that. Still need to finish The Recruit and the latest season of Jack Ryan.
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Exactly
I donât know where else to put this post, but itâs about a TV show so Iâll put it here.
Thereâs a show on A&E called Neighborhood Wars. Has anyone else seen it?
Itâs a video clip show, but itâs about people doing rude, dumb, dangerous, often criminal things to other people, mostly happening in residential areas.
Itâs often a figurative âtrain wreckâ scenario that is playing out, and you just cannot help but watch each video to see how itâs going to end.
If you want to lose faith that there is any âgoodnessâ that is innately inherent in humans, this is a good show to watch.
Starts with the producers and creators of shows like this.
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And if no one watched them they wouldnât make shows like this. So one tiny thing each of us can do to help is NOT watch such shows.
The Mandalorian
Been re-watching seasons 1 & 2 with the new season 3.
Great series.
Also Picard, but series is pretty meh.
I find it far too predictable. The âyears laterâ interviews â certainly not now, as that would make them all 70+ years old, but probably a 90âs âwhatever happened toâ type of reminisce â donât add anything. Songs made for this show are quite boring as well.
Supposedly loosely based on Fleetwood Mac. You know what would be a much more interesting story? Fleetwood Mac!
Also, itâs hard to tell when they are. Show seems to be screaming through the 70âs.
One thing that I like about it: they show skylines of L.A. in the background, and two newer and taller buildings are absent.
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Ted Lasso finally was not crappy this week.
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Iâve enjoyed this season of Ted Lasso so far.
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I seemed to like it better than most, maybe lack of expectations.
I am ok with the mythology they set up for the island, assumed something more biblical, but then you really have to match expectations.
I donât understand how either Jacob, or the smoke allowed Dharma to ever get established in the first place. The modern technology added to the mythology is what feel kept people too off balance.
I donât understand the last seasonâs âparallel livesâ Kate, Charlie & Clair essentially continued as they would have. Hugo, was the same person, just without the mental history and anxiety. Ben was who he might have been if he was never on the island. James & Miles (the two con-men) were basically reinvented. Everyone else was essentially the same, but with a completely different back story and prior life. If they all lived their best life, or a continuation of prior to the flight, I could get it, no idea what this was.
I also donât fully understand the woman form the mental institution, was she on the flight that crashed, but not the one that landed? Was she readmitted after that?
And I get that the very end was meeting in the afterlife, whenever that time came.
Same, I donât understand the criticism I see of it.
Although I WILL say that the whole âwomen are just one heavy situation away from throwing themselves at each otherâ trope is tiring. Colin being gay was something where the groundwork was laid for a while, for Keeley I just donât see the character development. Yes, she makes comments about Rebeccaâs hotness, but has never had any lesbian or bisexual or pansexual or whatever vibes before this, IMO. And to be clear, I love non-hetero storylines, itâs this particular theme that I feel is so lazy and overdone.
Also the actress who plays Jack also plays a lesbian astronaut on For All Mankind, also on Apple TV.
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Moonlighting.
did you watch it when it was on?
how does it hold up?
Iâd only seen bits and pieces when it was on - never a whole episode. My sister watched it. I donât know why I didnât watch it because Cybill Shepherd.
Bruce Willis is a bit more politically incorrect than youâd probably see today, but I suppose that was also true back then.
The talking over each other is still amazingly fresh. For how great it was in His Girl Friday and I"m drawing a blank on the other old movie, it seems strange that I can only think of it being used in this series.
Cybillâs hair seems to be a continuity issue.
MASH, and other Robert Altman films had a lot of talking over
âMeet John Doeâ ?
Frank Capra or Howard Hawkes films, mainly. Thing is, youâll watch those movies and it will seem more natural. but âMoonlightingâ painstakingly forces it. I think that choice was on purpose, as an homage to those films.
Dahmer - Netflix