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Back home, we caught up on this week's Gotham (getting better all the time!) and Supernatural - I KNEW IT!
More episodes of Millennium, season two. One episode was "Jose Cheung's Doomsday Defence". In addition to being an evisceration of Scientology, it is a) hilarious, and b) guest stars Charles Nelson Reilly!
The second season of Stranger Things didn't quite have the charm of the first one. The plot feels a bit derivative of season one and awfully slow. It was o.k. but I found myself distracted throughout.
We started watching Mindhunter on Netflix and I am enjoying it. The writing is smart, storytelling is engaging, and the two leads work well off each other.
"Stranger Things" Season 2 episodes 1 and 2. I'm a bit long in the tooth to feel nostalgic for VHS tapes, Radio Shack and video game arcades... still it's a fun ride.
Worf
The second season of Stranger Things didn't quite have the charm of the first one. The plot feels a bit derivative of season one and awfully slow. It was o.k. but I found myself distracted throughout.
I was fourteen in 1984 and lived through the era. The references to 80s cinema were well done but there wasn't enough material to keep me interested in season 2. With the success of S1 they had to do something..anything to satiate the fans.It's interesting how well the eighties nostaliga has sold the show. (Ironically, having lived through that era - I turned ten in 1984 - it's a side of it to which I don't relate even as I enjoy the show. I had a very pleasant childhood indeed, but I have absolutely zero desire to relive the eighties again. I actually appreciate the period references much mored as references to a particular period of horror cinema, which I do enjoy, than any love for the time-setting.
We've yet to watch any of it. I enjoyed the first series, though I lean to the view that it has, all thed same, been overhyped since, to an extent whichcan only be detrimental to the return.
I loved season 3 of Fargo! I thought it was the best of the series so far. The casting is great and the stories are consistently entertaining.Last night's The Walking Dead (keep it coming!), and I am now finally watching Fargo, season one (we watched season three together, but my wife is passing on this one after the first episode, more a question of time - teaching schedule this semester is brutal).
I had the same problem with the first season of Stranger Things. I struggled to get through the first few episodes, wondering the whole time what everyone else saw in the show and trying to figure out why people were raving about it. In the fourth or fifth episode the adult characters finally began acting like adults and it got more interesting so I stuck with it, but by the end of the final episode of the season I still felt it was only mildly interesting. I think the fact that I'm still on the fence about whether or not to watch the second season says it all; I'm not looking forward to sitting through nine episodes that I'll find mostly boring for so little reward.Didn't much like Stranger Things the first - and it wasn't just Ryder's monotonously shrill performance, I just found it contrived and could only manage 4 eps...
I was fourteen in 1984 and lived through the era. The references to 80s cinema were well done but there wasn't enough material to keep me interested in season 2. With the success of S1 they had to do something..anything to satiate the fans.
I was fourteen in 1984 and lived through the era. The references to 80s cinema were well done but there wasn't enough material to keep me interested in season 2. With the success of S1 they had to do something..anything to satiate the fans.