What was the last TV show you watched?

[Bushman]

Several episodes of Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives.

 

[Touchofevil]

Law & Order

 

[Worf]

We watched the first season. The lead actor is so bad we couldn't keep with it.

Started on Iron Fist last night, though. Two episodes in, so no real opinion, but I'm enjoying it thus far.

Welp his acting got "better" over the years but the whole, fall in love, lie to someone, they find out and leave thing has gotten stale as yesterdays French fries....

Worf

 

[Julian Shellhammer]

Last night, caught up on The Blacklist spin-off. Then, sometime this week, the musical episode of the Flash. Youngest Shellhammer thought the character that sent all the others into Musicland was supposed to be Mr. Mxyzptlk.

 

[Ernest P Shackleton]

The Knick. they finally officially canceled the series. no season 3. disappointing.

Billions. pilot episode. I really don't care for the lead actor from Homeland. I consistently walk away from Showtime series with the reaffirmation that they are second class to HBO and even FX and AMC. The storytelling and characters are more akin to major networks than the ones with the greatest attention to details. I'll keep watching for a few more hours, but I have to admit I'm not enthusiastic about this one. Makes perfect sense now that I haven't seen anyone talking about it.

 

[Zombie_61]

M*A*S*H. Between MeTV, AMC, TV Land, and the current marathon on the Sundance Channel, my wife and I have seen more of this series in the last few weeks than we have since it ended in 1983. We're enjoying it, but I'm beginning to feel like I've been stationed at the 4077.

 

[Touchofevil]

Into the Badlands.
An okay episode.
I worry that this show will become too CWish.
It has some nice characters/actors and yet it is
at times missing something.

 

[Touchofevil]

M*A*S*H. Between MeTV, AMC, TV Land, and the current marathon on the Sundance Channel, my wife and I have seen more of this series in the last few weeks than we have since it ended in 1983. We're enjoying it, but I'm beginning to feel like I've been stationed at the 4077.

I really enjoy those channels for all of the shows they play from my childhood.

 

[Ernest P Shackleton]

Into the Badlands.
An okay episode.
I worry that this show will become too CWish.

I don't know what CWish is, but I do think it is too much like Mad Max Fury Roadish.

 

[Zombie_61]

I really enjoy those channels for all of the shows they play from my childhood.

Most of what they air are shows I never watched or rarely watched, so a lot of them are new to me even though they're 40-50 years old. Of the shows I did watch way back when, it's my opinion that most of them haven't held up well over the years. I'm still trying to figure out how something like MacGyver ever became so popular, because it's complete rubbish.

 

[Touchofevil]

Most of what they air are shows I never watched or rarely watched, so a lot of them are new to me even though they're 40-50 years old. Of the shows I did watch way back when, it's my opinion that most of them haven't held up well over the years. I'm still trying to figure out how something like MacGyver ever became so popular, because it's complete rubbish.

Yeah, many are very dated, but programs like The Andy Griffith Show, The Dick Van Dyke Show, and on occasion, Barney Miller are just as entertaining as they ever were.

I never understood the appeal of MacGyver.

 

[Touchofevil]

I don't know what CWish is, but I do think it is too much like Mad Max Fury Roadish.

Too much like something seen on the CW Network.
It obviously doesn't translate as well in writing as it does verbally.

 

[Touchofevil]

A couple of episodes in on Luke Cage and I am liking it.
Nice cast.
Good story so far.

 

[Zombie_61]

Yeah, many are very dated, but programs like The Andy Griffith Show, The Dick Van Dyke Show, and on occasion, Barney Miller are just as entertaining as they ever were.

I still find The Dick Van Dyke Show and Barney Miller entertaining, but I've never seen the attraction to The Andy Griffith Show myself. We watch because my wife enjoys it, and Don Knotts is always entertaining as Barney Fife, but the episodes I prefer are the rarer ones featuring Hal Smith as Otis Campbell, Howard Morris as Ernest T. Bass, and Denver Pyle as the head of the Darling clan.

 

[Stearmen]

Another episode of Sun Records.

 

[Benzadmiral]

A Season Two Have Gun - Will Travel, "A Snare for Murder," featuring Harry Morgan in one of his rare unsympathetic roles. We tend to remember him as Col. Potter on M*A*S*H, of course, or as Joe Friday's partner on the later Dragnet series. But he could turn in a performance as a cold character as well. He plays one of two gold miners, each paranoid that strangers, or his own partner, is planning to kill him for the ownership of their gold mine. And maybe they're not so crazy: Someone has been shooting at them with a Sharps buffalo gun. There are suspects in the form of an older man, his son, and his daughter-in-law.

Leave it to Paladin to find the answer -- and ensure the would-be killer acts as his own executioner.

 

[Benzadmiral]

"All Our Yesterdays," the famous Season Three entry in the original Star Trek, with Kirk thrust back into a 17th-century-style past of a planet about to die in a nova explosion, and Spock and McCoy thrown into the planet's Ice Age. This is the one where Spock for some illogical reason takes on the barbaric characteristics of his Vulcan forebears of 5000 years before, and (it's implied) falls in love with an exiled political prisoner, Mariette Hartley. I say illogical . . . but it does provide a strong conflict between Spock and McCoy, and between Spock's rationality and his (still present, but always denied) animal nature. Otherwise there wouldn't have been much of a story.

 

[Fading Fast]

"All Our Yesterdays," the famous Season Three entry in the original Star Trek, with Kirk thrust back into a 17th-century-style past of a planet about to die in a nova explosion, and Spock and McCoy thrown into the planet's Ice Age. This is the one where Spock for some illogical reason takes on the barbaric characteristics of his Vulcan forebears of 5000 years before, and (it's implied) falls in love with an exiled political prisoner, Mariette Hartley. I say illogical . . . but it does provide a strong conflict between Spock and McCoy, and between Spock's rationality and his (still present, but always denied) animal nature. Otherwise there wouldn't have been much of a story.

And heck, if anyone is going to break through to Spock's inner animal, Marietta Hartley is up for the job.

I just recently watched "A Piece of the Action," the one where the Enterprise arrives at a planet whose society has - owing to a much earlier "Infestation," a book on Chicago Mobs of the 1920s was left behind - basically, recreated the Chicago Mob World. Since, this is a pretty famous one that I've seen several times, I'll just note that I was struck this time by how much humor there was between Kirk and Spock in it. The one-liners and raised eyebrows between the two just keep coming.

 

[Benzadmiral]

Fading Fast, if you liked APotA on Star Trek, go find its print inspiration: the "Hoka" SF comedies by Gordon Dickson and Poul Anderson. These are a 1950s series of laugh-out-loud SF adventures, where star-traveling earthmen visit a planet like that in the Trek episode with very bright and imitative natives. Said natives adopt human cultures like cowboys and Indians, Sherlock Holmes, and others very quickly, with comic results. A group of short stories were collected into Earthman's Burden (1957).

The difference? The Hoka are 3 feet tall, furry -- and look like cute teddy bears. . . .

 

[Doctor Strange]

I read those Hoka books years ago. They're good stuff.

Of course, A Piece of the Action and The Trouble With Tribbles are the only premeditated comedy episodes of Trek. As distinct from all those awful third season episodes (Spock's Brain, The Way To Eden, etc.) that are unintentionally hilarious.