Have started watching Ripley. The Talented Mr. Ripley movie was good but this series is much better. So noir.
My wife watched it and loved it. Enjoy.
Season 3 of Love on the Spectrum (Netflix). Only a few new people. Still cute AF!
I finished Season 2 of Shrinking and recommended it to my therapist this morning lol.
Watched a couple episodes of White Lotus S3. Itās getting off to a pretty slow start but interesting enough that Iāll stick with it.
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Finished Ripley. Would rank it as one of the best series I have ever watched.
My wife refused to watch Ripley: too dark for her. She opted for Man on the Inside which was pretty bland.
Finished The White Lotus, S3.
I have thoughts, spoilered:
Summary
- Ratliffe Family. Too much teasing here. Fantasy killings, almost deaths, etc. Meh to the incest under heavy drug use. Piper turned out to be shallow and materialistic, while younger bro wanted to stay? No, they all go back home to destitution. yawn.
- Chelsea and dirt bag: Are those her real teeth? Anyway, his backstory was too vague. āRuined his lifeā? Dude can stay at an extremely expensive hotel in Thailand AND get there. Need more explanation about this. Nice ātwistā that is actually a trope. And, throw in that they both die. great /s
- Chloe and dirt bag: This kink seems a bit weird and possibly made up. Heāll be mad, no, he wants to watch. Pick a lane.
- Three old chicks: Can see from the start where this should have headed. Oh, all is great but secretly they just want to live their own lives away from their toxic threesome. I think theyāll just go back to where they were, each alone.
- Thai couple: eh. grow a spine. Either be happy living a Buddhist life without sexy girlfriend or do the right thing: your job. Though, shooting someone in the back doesnāt seem all that Buddhisty.
- The robbery: Never got closure on this, even though the one old chick appears to have seen the stolen good while she was fleeing one of the Russianās place. Never brought it up.
- The manager. Nothing there, unlike the first season.
- Belinda and son. Got what they wanted, I guess, now have to hide forever in fear of Greg. And no update on whether he actually had Coolidge character killed (I think I need to go back to Season 2 ending). Poor Pornchai, giving up the goodies and not getting the happy ending that he wanted.
I finished S3 as well. Agree that a lot of the things didnāt make sense. In addition to your thoughts, these were what I was thinking:
Summary
- To the incest under heavy drug use: never in a million years would that happen
- Those 3 chicks had no chemistry as best friends, even in the distant past
- Rickās (dirt bag #1) buddy casually telling him that he wanted to be an asian chick? Rickās reaction was hilarious tho
- Why would dirt bag #2 actually give them $5m? Seems like they would have been happy with way less.
- Why wouldnāt dirt bag #1ās dad just tell him about it? Instead he tells his wife and threatens him with a gun? Characters just acting in nonsensical ways to set up twists
With all that said, I thought the acting was great, especially from the parents, the couple, the friend from NY and Arnoldās son. I kept thinking I knew the british girl from somewhere but was actually confusing her with Gilly from GOT.
Iām a few episodes deep into Silo (apple tv), which is entertaining so far.
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Noted.
Started watching Severance season 2 finally. The promo at grand central looks pretty cool. -
Silo season 1 finale was good but I donāt like the show enough to stick with it for S2. Iāve been told to try Slow Horses next.
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Honestly, this is the right call. I enjoyed Silo season one and thought it ended on a good cliffhanger, but I was very underwhelmed by season two. Still enjoyed it, but it was a take it or leave it situation.
Finished Ludwig on BritBox. Only 6 episodes and stars David Mitchell. Started and ended strong, lagged in the middle. Good cliff hanger ending.
I am surprised thereās no love herein for 1923 (Yellowstone spinoff)
I though it was great, especially the love story between Alex and Spencer, played by Julia Schlaepfer and Brandon Sklenar.
People have called Brandon Sklenar a āpoor manās Glen Powellā but I contend Glen Powell is a poor manās Brandon Sklenar.
Thereās a scene near the end with Harrison Ford, Timothy Dalton, and Brandon Sklenar - a revenge scene the likes of which I havnāt seen since Arya Stark was holding a Valyrian steel dagger. In that scene, Spencer/Sklenar is the coolest guy in the room, even though heās sharing space with with Indiana Jones, Han Solo, and James freakinā Bond.
Eh. Soap Opera IMO.
Itās a western. Lots of fights, gun fights, schemers, heroes, redemption, evil priests and nuns, and a few good doses of sado-masochism
And it had Indiana Jones, Double-O- Seven, and Ser Bron of the Blackwater.
You lost me at western.
Your name is āOldTimerā and you donāt like westerns?
Is OldTimer a reference to an antique hourglass?
The ratings were good, with 14million viewers. I guess not too many actuaries in that group, though
Just finished 1883 and need a break before jumping to 1923.
No, I don not care for westerns. Not an antique hour glass either. I donāt always follow the crowd for what I watch. Other times I do.