What was the last TV show you watched?

[MisterCairo]

 

[MisterCairo]

Just started watching episode 12, season two of Luke Cage. Only one and a half episodes left.

Hopefully, Netflix will save this just cancelled series.

Oh, wait...

 

[Fading Fast]

Has anyone here watched The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel on Amazon Prime? Season 2 came out in December and I absolutely devoured it. This show does everything, and I do mean EVERYTHING, exactly right. Witty, sharp dialogue, gorgeous, impeccable costumes, terrific performances by every single cast member...it's just all a joy and a pleasure to watch. If you haven't watched it yet on Amazon Prime, I highly, highly encourage you to do so. You won't regret it.

We're about half way through S2 - currently watching the episodes where they are vacationing in the Catskills. It's a fun show for all the reasons you note. What also makes it special is that it's a smart, visually attractive show that isn't dour or apocalyptic as so many well-written and acted shows are today. It's refreshing to be entertained and not mentally assaulted.

 

[Doctor Strange]

Just started watching episode 12, season two of Luke Cage. Only one and a half episodes left.

Hopefully, Netflix will save this just cancelled series.

Oh, wait...

There is currently very little hope for any of the Netflix Marvel series. Disney is launching their own streaming service later this year, Disney+, and it will eventually be the main (and in some cases, only) outlet for content from all the Disney-owned producers. That includes Marvel Studios, Pixar, Jim Henson, Lucasfilm, etc., and of course, Disney. (This is very bad news for HBO, Netflix, Amazon, etc.!) If Luke Cage - and Daredevil, Iron Fist, and the undoubtedly-canceled-after-their-coming-seasons Jessica Jones and The Punisher - are ever revived, it will probably be on Disney+, not Netflix.

There have also been rumors that the street-level Marvel heroes from Netflix may be folded into the next phase of Marvel feature films (as some of the now-very-expensive lead actors are sure to "be retired" after this year's Avengers Endgame). I would be okay with that. Or perhaps there will be a revived Defenders series on Disney-owned ABC to replace Agents of SHIELD when it ends...

In any case, I am really sorry to see the Disney Netflix series ending. They found a way to make more "serious" superhero shows with excellent actors and production values, and with quite different approaches from the familiar. I have enjoyed all of them - yes, even Iron Fist and The Punisher - though I think Jessica Jones is the best one.

 

[MisterCairo]

Started to re-watch Coupling on DVD. It's been a while, and we just love it!

 

[Benzadmiral]

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Looking at the show now, it's clearly a product of three distinct threads of mid-sixties pop culture -- the WWII adventure craze, the super-spy craze, and the camp craze. No other era could have produced such a concept -- but I think it could be done, quite interestingly, as a straight espionage/adventure story. There is a great deal of HH fanfic online that goes in precisely that direction.

Hogan's Heroes fanfic? I guess I should have expected it. There is probably fanfic of the short-lived '90s sitcom Herman's Head, for all I know.

Klemperer was a very versatile actor. I've seen him on Perry Mason in dramatic roles, on Man from U.N.C.L.E. as a villain, and he played Adolf Eichmann in a feature film about the Israeli capture of the war criminal several years before his main TV work. And he plays an unrepentant Nazi in Judgment at Nuremberg, too. (I remember my mother commenting idly back then that WK was "a rather handsome man." Considering that her standard for "handsome" seemed to be David Janssen, "because he looks like the young Clark Gable," and [I suspect] Gable himself, WK was moving in some exalted company.)

 

[Benzadmiral]

A two-part Season Three episode of The Fugitive, "Landscape With Running Figures." "Kimble stumbles, signing his own name on a time-sheet, which sets off a manhunt, while residents battle a flood. Gerard (Barry Morse) drags his wife off of their vacation to join the hounds. With many roads out of the Midwest city under water, Marie Gerard (Barbara Rush) and Kimble (David Janssen) end up on the same eastbound bus."

Quite exciting. At the start of Part II, William Conrad's narration reminds us that -- since Mrs. Gerard didn't really see Kimble before she was temporarily blinded during the bus crash, and Kimble knows her only by the name she is traveling under, "Mrs. Lindsay" -- neither of them knows who the other is. Barbara Rush gives an energetic, febrile performance as the newly blind Mrs. Gerard, whom Kimble is trying to deliver to a hospital; but the town they fetch up in has been evacuated for fear of the bursting of the nearby dam. We learn during a lovely quiet moment that Kimble and his late wife Helen decided to get married when his reserve unit was called up for Korea. She came with him to San Diego, but a housing shortage forced her to stay at the YWCA. So every night, he says, he'd walk his new wife back to the YWCA and kiss her good night -- outside.

Morse's Lt. Gerard states at the end that Kimble is "stuck in my throat and I can't swallow him." He tells Marie that Kimble has touched everything in his, Gerard's, life, except her. "If that happened I couldn't go on." And Marie carefully keeps her own counsel about the Good Samaritan who helped her. . . .

 

[Fading Fast]

Hogan's Heroes fanfic? I guess I should have expected it. There is probably fanfic of the short-lived '90s sitcom Herman's Head, for all I know.

Klemperer was a very versatile actor. I've seen him on Perry Mason in dramatic roles, on Man from U.N.C.L.E. as a villain, and he played Adolf Eichmann in a feature film about the Israeli capture of the war criminal several years before his main TV work. And he plays an unrepentant Nazi in Judgment at Nuremberg, too. (I remember my mother commenting idly back then that WK was "a rather handsome man." Considering that her standard for "handsome" seemed to be David Janssen, "because he looks like the young Clark Gable," and [I suspect] Gable himself, WK was moving in some exalted company.)

Having grown up with Klemperer as the bumbling, almost affable, Klink, it was jarring, as an adult, to see him as a strident Nazi in "Judgement at Nuremberg -" a movie without a bad scene in it.

 

[Edward]

JUst this week discovered that Netflix finally have the first series of Ash v Evil Dead. Wonderful - really captures the 'look and feel' of the franchise, stands as a perfect alternative to the Evil Dead 4 I hoped for all those years. Clearly riffs off the cinema ending to The Mediaeval Dead rather than the director's cut version (where he wakes up in the future), though it would be cute if that got a reference in the TV show. Now really hoping Netflix get the follow-up seasons soon.

Otherwise, I'm back to Season 3 of Preacher, Season 2 of Outlander, and we'll see from there.

 

[MisterCairo]

I have finally finished Luke Cage, and am p'd off it is gone, unless, as Dr. S mentions above, Disney brings it back once they have their own service (but of course, that means getting their service!). It just got better and better. Great final scene though.

Have started another Netflix series, Sean Bean in The Frankenstein Chronicles. Saw the first two episodes, quite enjoyable. Brings to mind a less cool version of Penny Dreadful, will see how it plays out. So far I am interested in continuing, but does not speak to me quite like PD does!

 

[Doctor Strange]

Interesting that you liked the final sequence in Luke Cage... personally, I was surprised and quite WTF?!? about it. Also the final sequence in season 2 of Iron Fist, the same thing.

In both cases, it looked like the heroes had turned into nearly their precise antithetical opposites, leaving the direction for future seasons a damn big question mark. Of course, now that both shows are canceled, it's an even bigger question mark!

And I'm not sure I even want to bother with watching season 2 of The Punisher, which drops soon. No doubt it's gonna be canceled the day after it debuts too. (But I will definitely watch Jessica Jones season 3 when it arrives no matter what.)

 

[belfastboy]

Has anyone here watched The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel on Amazon Prime? Season 2 came out in December and I absolutely devoured it. This show does everything, and I do mean EVERYTHING, exactly right. Witty, sharp dialogue, gorgeous, impeccable costumes, terrific performances by every single cast member...it's just all a joy and a pleasure to watch. If you haven't watched it yet on Amazon Prime, I highly, highly encourage you to do so. You won't regret it.

I have been thinking of subscribing to Prime in order to watch The Man in the High Castle but procrastinating as I really don't need anymore TV to watch....BUT you have enticed my with this offering so perhaps it is time for me to make the leap.

 

[belfastboy]

Started to watch "Escape at Dannamora" last night. Can anyone explain to me why Patricia Arquette (in the lead role) and her husband (in the series) are the only ones using an overly broad (I assume upstate NY) accent where everyone else in the show speaks in a normal relatively unaccented voice? To me it is weird and off putting. I also do not understand all the kudos thrown her way as I find her performance annoying. Her character strays into caricature and I am not drawn in at all. I doubt we will continue past the first two episodes because as my wife says....."I have trouble watching a show where I care nothing for any of the characters".

 

[Fading Fast]

I have been thinking of subscribing to Prime in order to watch The Man in the High Castle but procrastinating as I really don't need anymore TV to watch....BUT you have enticed my with this offering so perhaps it is time for me to make the leap.

"The Man in the High Castle" plus "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" plus many other shows and movies plus some free Kindle books plus free shipping on all Amazon orders for $120/yr ($12/mos) is really good value.

 

[belfastboy]

"The Man in the High Castle" plus "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" plus many other shows and movies plus some free Kindle books plus free shipping on all Amazon orders for $120/yr ($12/mos) is really good value.

Sorely tempted but hesitant as Netflix enables me too much already. But I will succumb at some point soon.

 

[Doctor Strange]

Started to watch "Escape at Dannamora" last night. Can anyone explain to me why Patricia Arquette (in the lead role) and her husband (in the series) are the only ones using an overly broad (I assume upstate NY) accent where everyone else in the show speaks in a normal relatively unaccented voice? To me it is weird and off putting. I also do not understand all the kudos thrown her way as I find her performance annoying. Her character strays into caricature and I am not drawn in at all. I doubt we will continue past the first two episodes because as my wife says....."I have trouble watching a show where I care nothing for any of the characters".

Hmm, I didn't find their accents especially objectionable. But I have to agree that the show's characterizations aren't exactly, um, subtle. In my experience, the intensity of the inland NYS twang varies a lot depending on what part of the state you're from: maybe they were supposed to be the only ones from an area where it's especially strong?

My own problem with that series is its e-x-t-r-e-m-e-l-y drawn out pacing and runtime. I felt it was much longer than it needed to be. I mean: just because you can do a single-take shot going through thousands of feet of tunnel and basement for nine minutes doesn't mean that you should. It would have worked better in maybe four parts instead of seven.

And I also agree that it's a bit hard to relate to a show where your principal characters are convicted killers and soon-to-be-accessories-to-a-crime. But I managed to stick it out just out of curiosity, if not sympathy for the characters.

 

[belfastboy]

Hmm, I didn't find their accents especially objectionable. But I have to agree that the show's characterizations aren't exactly, um, subtle. In my experience, the intensity of the inland NYS twang varies a lot depending on what part of the state you're from: maybe they were supposed to be the only ones from an area where it's especially strong?

My own problem with that series is its e-x-t-r-e-m-e-l-y drawn out pacing and runtime. I felt it was much longer than it needed to be. I mean: just because you can do a single-take shot going through thousands of feet of tunnel and basement for nine minutes doesn't mean that you should. It would have worked better in maybe four parts instead of seven.

And I also agree that it's a bit hard to relate to a show where your principal characters are convicted killers and soon-to-be-accessories-to-a-crime. But I managed to stick it out just out of curiosity, if not sympathy for the characters.

Yes, if I continue it will be out of curiosity around the escape itself....how do they do it? I agree about the pacing....it seems they have stretched it out too far when it could have been a taut suspenceful 4 or 5 episode.
Regarding the accents, I found it curious that they were the only ones affecting the accent...perhaps a ripoff of Frances McDormand from Fargo....if it worked for her why not me? But at least in that series Frances was not the only one affecting the accent. In this one the two characters are the only ones and if the regional accent is that strong, that broad, surely there would be others speaking the same???

 

[Touchofevil]

Have you tried "The Last Kingdom"? On Netflix....kind of GoT like without the dragons!!! We loved it. My wife has a huge crush on the lead character.... Utred

We watched the first season a while back and started season two before giving up on Utred, Son of Putrid. We were never much of a fan, but gave it a go. We couldn’t get over our dislike for the pretty boy character Utred. His pigheaded jerkiness was too annoying to continue. We have discussed giving it another shot, but instead watched Vikings.

 

[belfastboy]

We watched the first season a while back and started season two before giving up on Utred, Son of Putrid. We were never much of a fan, but gave it a go. We couldn’t get over our dislike for the pretty boy character Utred. His pigheaded jerkiness was too annoying to continue. We have discussed giving it another shot, but instead watched Vikings.

These would be fighting words if my wife got involved. She has a big crush on Utred. We both liked it better than GofThrones

 

[Touchofevil]

I have finally finished Luke Cage, and am p'd off it is gone, unless, as Dr. S mentions above, Disney brings it back once they have their own service (but of course, that means getting their service!). It just got better and better. Great final scene though.

Have started another Netflix series, Sean Bean in The Frankenstein Chronicles. Saw the first two episodes, quite enjoyable. Brings to mind a less cool version of Penny Dreadful, will see how it plays out. So far I am interested in continuing, but does not speak to me quite like PD does!

We found The Frankenstein Chronicles to be pretty entertaining. It isn’t PennyDreadful entertaining, but not much is. It has some interesting twists on the whole Frankenstein thing as well as some nice acting and visuals.

I have yet to finish the Marvel series on Netflix. Luke Cage was my favorite out of the (Cage, Jessica Jones, and Daredevil) three series I had given a shot.