schitt’s creek is a rare show that got better each season, can’t remember when it clicked for me and cant find the posts when i binged it
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Once Patrick enters the show it really becomes wonderful for me, but I fell in love with it when Stevie and David hooked up and they started discussing David’s wine preferences.
If you don’t love it already, you might not ever, sadly. For me it’s about the character growth/family dynamics and David’s facial expressions.
For me it’s also a bit about nostalgia as I loved watching Eugene Levy and Catherine O’Hara live at the Old Firehall Theatre in Toronto in the 1970s. May be why I am also enjoying the Only Murders current season as it reunites Levy and Martin Short from that same comedy troupe.
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Any other comedians from that 1970s Toronto troupe that we might recognize?
Rick Moranis and Andrea Martin might be known to some Americans but my favourite member of the 1970s Toronto Second City troupe was John Candy.
Candy reminded me very much of my younger brother both physically and humour-wise. They sadly died much too young, within a few months of each other.
There were a lot of other Canadian comedians in the 1970s troupe but they had limited US success. I think Dan Ackroyd and Harold Ramis did cameo appearances and, of course, Mike Meyers later on.
Nothing beats the intimacy of a comedy club for enjoying comedy!
david is great. imo, the best part. his relationship w Stevie and the discussion that followed night 1 was excellent. the family women exhaust me. the town women i enjoy.
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If you like David, then I think season three will get better for you.
Powered through “The Perfect Couple” (Netflix).
A who-done-it with no relevant clues at all, but a shitload of false flags, cuz 8 episodes.
Flashbacks with little ability to discern one time frame from the other. Dissolve frame (a la Wayne’s World) once in a while, sheesh.
Nicole made it bearable, though no one bared it. C’mon Netflix, I pay big money for some skin!!
State Detective character was only bright spot in a cast of “too rich to care about” characters. Shit, even the head maid is a snob.
The Fugitive - we own the DVD set, just watched the final episode. Makes the rest anticlimactic. 
Rewatched Derry Girls. Still really enjoy it.
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This could be rebooted into a limited series, say, 10 episodes.
Though, “Poker Face,” adding TV Detective minus TV Doctor, does a pretty good job.
i only heard of the show because the cast was on a holiday British Baking Show
It’s set on Derry Ireland during the troubles. 4 teenage girls and one British guy (cousin of one of the girls) as they navigate life amidst political stuff. There are news clips from that time and pretty good music. It’s a comedy with political overtones.
Uncle Colm is the best. He does boring like no other. Critics say “he puts the dead back into deadpan”.
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Great scene with him and Liam Neeson.
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Still slogging through the final seasons of MAS*H.
Even though at one point they had their own Olympic games (1952 in real time) in season 6, a lot of this season is set in 1951. One whole episode went through the whole year, NYD to NYE.
Each season seems to have a Winter episode or two. I don’t think they thought too far ahead about how this would be perceived 45-50 years hence.
Legend was that the winter episodes were passive-aggressive retaliatory stunts by the writers when the actors were overstepping their bounds.
When the actors got too pushy by suggesting story telling to the writing room, the writers would retaliate with a winter episode, as in “Oh yeah, see how you like spending a week in parkas pretending to be freezing cold in Korea while we are filming here in 90* sunny southern California”
started the newest season of The Bear while waiting for more to drop for OMITB. short episodes. emphatically NOT a comedy (still don’t get how they got that categorization). i like it still