I’ve enjoyed
the bear
handmaids tale
schitts creek
only murders
Line of duty
terrier
scamanda
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i liked shogun as well. not new, but I was a huge fan of Freaks and Geeks
There is a new Sly Stone documentary coming out soon.
Also if you hadn’t caught the documentary “Summer of Soul” you should.
I recently finished several shows I REALLY enjoyed:
Severance (season 1) on Apple
Utopia (British version) on Amazon
True Detective (season 4) on Max
Money Heist (part 2) on Netflix
Finished slow horses season 1 last night. Watched episode 2-6 all last night. My, what a show! I had heard that it gets better with each season but the first season was brilliant. Good to hear that they’ve already commissioned a season 6.
My favorite character is Roddy Ho (of course it is - the actor’s Australian).
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I watched Season 1 of True Detective and really liked it. Skipped season 2 because I had heard bad things (and I don’t set aside much time for TV). Should I come back for season 4? Skip straight to it? Watch previous seasons?
Spent 3.5 hours binging on the SNL 50th Anniversary Special last night. It was hit and miss on the skits but that is typical SNL.
The first 10 or so years of SNL was my favourite time to watch as they had so many iconic comedians in the cast.
On the music side, it was sad for me to see how two of my favourite Pauls, Simon and McCartney, have aged. But good that their music has survived and they are still performing in their 80s.
I was looking through the list of performers since it started and 3 of my favorite 6 (Bill Murray, John Belushi, Eddie Murphy, Chris Farley, Mike Myers and Will Ferrell) were in the early years. Some of the younger ones may come through - I think Kate McKinnon, Bill Hader and Jason Sudeikis are excellent but I haven’t seen enough of them yet.
is this only bc it reminds you of your own aging? that they can still perform AT ALL is amazing aging for someone in their 80s IMO.
we get reminded of our aging all the time, right? sports stars go from older, to peer age, to younger, to the children of prior sports stars, to…
saw Paul Simon during the 2020 Democratic convention and felt his voice was gone
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Season 2 definitely not as good - I actually remember very little of it:
Partially. Reminds me that in only 10 years I will be their current age. There is a big difference between being in your 70s versus your 80s.
But also because their voices have deteriorated, Simon more so than McCartney.
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Show was pretty bad, not enough of the old stuff and too much of a reminder as to why I stopped watching.
2nd half was better, more old stuff, but still not enough of the classic stuff I wanted.
If it wasn’t recorded with me having fast forward I would have given up before that
I think I didn’t get last 15 minutes - was that McCartney?
I thought it was alright. It wasn’t meant to be a clip show.
I really enjoyed Eddie Murphy’s impersonation of Tracy Morgan while standing next to Tracy Morgan.
My YouTubeTV “library” recording cut off the final 15 minutes or so, so we went to Peacock to watch the rest. (No, not watching the whole thing on Peacock cuz mandatory commercials.)
We also watched the first “NBC’s SN” (original name), which was shown at 11:30PM last Saturday night. Wow, what a difference from the current formula. I think there were only three or four live sketches, four musical performances (two by Billy Preston, two by Janis Ian), four George Carlin interludes, two other comedians (Andy Kaufman being one, the other my ears could barely understand), the rest pre-recorded (mostly “commercials,” A Film by Albert Brooks, and “Show us Your Guns!”)
That write-up is a LOT better than the season!
Season 3 was pretty good, what I remember of it.
John Adams miniseries (2008)
Yes, McCartney was the final act.
Squid Game SII
Started up “Resident Alien” from the start. Not a rewatch, but I had forgotten to add to my TiVo long time ago, and just didn’t start it up.
Was watching on Peacock, but found it on Netflix (no commercials).
Comedy is pretty dark (attempting to murder a child, instead torturing kid while stitching him up).
Overall arc is somewhat predictable. I’m on Ep 2 or 3, can tell that he will become more human, he will entrust some with his secret, he won’t want to destroy the human race, he’ll have to defend the planet against his own aliens, etc.
“Coneheads” meets “Starman” meets “My Favorite Martian” meets “Mork and Mindy.”
I expect the little plots to be unexpected.
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Alan Tudyk is amazing in that show. Definitely need a macabre sense of humor for some of it, but it’s a great mix of slapsticky humor and serious sci-fi imo.
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