Finished Ted Lasso season 3. Guess I’ll get back to reading.
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Thoughts?
It was the most amazing season/ series finale I’ve ever seen. But I can’t think of other series finales I’ve seen. It left me wanting more but ok if this is the end.
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Finished Mrs. Maisel. I loved the journey, even though it was predictable – every time she gets a break she gets fired – but the ending was a bit blah.
No explanation to how she got so rich, or even how the family was rich in the first place. I mean, a comedian will not get that rich the way she spends on clothes. Wasn’t thrilled with the flash-forwards, essentially giving away all of the endings.
Bergdorf paid for it after last episode. 
Yeah, it took away any suspense as to whether she would succeed. However given it was loosely based on Joan Rivers, there was an expectation of success.
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This reminds me:
Have any of you seen the series: Flashforward?
They killed it after one season but season one was really good. Great concept.
I really liked this show, thanks for the recommendation. It took a little while to get used to the limited color palette and the griminess of it (it reminded me of the asteroid world in The Expanse) but soon I was all in. I liked that the first season was a story in itself. There are still a lot of unknowns but the ending was very satisfying. Excellent writing and excellent characters.
Additionally, I don’t believe I’ve read so many “Ending Explained” websites prior to this. Not because it didn’t make sense; more because I’m sure there were Easter eggs I missed.
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Deadloch on Prime
The humour is great!
Glitch on Netflix. 3 seasons. Just started S3. What a strange and awkward show. It has so much unbelievable stuff you need to just suspend belief and forget science. At one point my wife goes. “Four years of research in a single notebook? I don’t believe it.” And I turn to her and say “that’s the line you won’t cross with this show?”
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Started season 1 a while back and watched maybe 5 episodes. Kind of lost interest.
Just finished it today.
Really liked the finale.
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Really enjoyed the series.
The book is very good, too.
Finished The Bear on Hulu.
I hope people don’t use this as a reference as to how restaurants really work, because no. Just no.
Huh. I haven’t watched it, but what I’ve read in multiple reviews is praise for just how accurately it portrays high-end kitchens:
For example:
My cousin has a degree in culinary arts and has worked at several high end restaurants… I’ll have to ask him if he’s seen it. He got out because he didn’t like the culture. Got a degree in a STEM field and now works a regular 9-5 job.
My only restaurant experience comes from a pizzeria that is a small step above Pizza Hut so I doubt that’s even slightly similar. The owners also ran a nicer restaurant that paid better and I inquired at one point about working at the nicer restaurant and they basically laughed in my face. That was a career job, not a make money while in high school & college job. I wasn’t cut out for it, they told me. And uh, that place wasn’t exactly Michelin rated.
That article was for the first season.
One thing in this season, in each restaurant, everyone calls everyone else chef. That doesn’t happen.
Huh?
That is exactly how all the restaurants I frequent refer to everyone in the kitchen (except dishwashers) and have since I moved to the area about decade ago.
I mean, maybe not at applebees and cheesecake factor.
But The Bear is not showing the world of chain restaurants.
We’re watching Hijack with Idris Elba on Apple Plus. It’s a real time thriller (ala 24) that has 7 hour long episodes (roughly) representing 7 hours of the plane’s flight. It would probably be best watched several weeks from now, when all the episodes have been released, but for now, they are only releasing one episode a week. So far it’s been excellent.
When I first read this I thought, “Each episode is 7 hours long? That’s insane!”
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A single episode of 7 hours would be pretty hardcore although I did watch 13 episodes of Breaking Bad in a row once.
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