What was the last TV show you watched?

[3fingers]

An episode of Doc Martin on PBS the other night. It’s more entertaining than a lot of shows out there.

We watched a lot of Doc Martin a couple years ago but drifted on to other things. We both enjoyed it and need to put it back in the rotation.

 

[Touchofevil]

If the Hallmark Channel did things better, it would make shows like "Doc Martin." And I mean that as a compliment, as I like DM for a respite the harshness of the world and most TV today, but as opposed to Hallmark, it isn't cloying or overly simplistic.

It is a nice escape from the harshness of the real world. The humor and picturesque settings of the make for an enjoyable evening.

 

[Touchofevil]

Law & Order and some Live PD.

 

[Ernest P Shackleton]

Looks like Counterpart has been canceled, but it also seems they were given enough notice to properly close up the series. Final episode airs tonight. This is premature, but it isn't making a lot of sense right now because the showrunners are saying they will shop the series to other networks. There is a lot there with which to play, but I'm still scratching my head a bit. But this also means that there are only two seasons for anyone who was curious and hasn't seen it yet. It's worth it.

 

[MisterCairo]

Back from TD, caught up on the "mid-season premier" of The Walking Dead.

Remember when shows simply broke for a bit before and after Christmas? Now we have "mid-season finales" and the like.

Any hoo, started off slow, but sped up in time for some interesting developments.

 

[Touchofevil]

UFC Fight Night: Ngannou vs. Velasquez

 

[Bushman]

Currently watching the second to last episode of season 3 of True Detective.

 

[Touchofevil]

Currently watching the second to last episode of season 3 of True Detective.

At some point ( probably when the season is over) I will start season three of True Detective. Despite the negative reviews, I look forward to watching it.

 

[Julian Shellhammer]

Starting last week, the Missus has been binging on The Good Witch, and I will catch some shows now and then. The Hallmark Channel programs seem to be strongly formulaic, with pristine, perfectly coiffed characters living in pristine, perfectly coiffed small towns working at lovely antiques stores, cozy catering companies, or at a house remodeling company where at the end of the day the owner and workers are as pristine and perfectly coiffed as at the start of their shift.
Which is not to say I sneer at elegant sets, excellent lighting, and nice-looking characters delivering romantic comedy: I sit down and watch these stories with my sweetie for the sheer light-as-a-bubble entertainment.

 

[Worf]

An episode and a half of "The Umbrella Academy" - Interesting, quirky and gory. Imagine if Professor X of the "X-men" was an out an out madman who got his hands on 7 kids with special powers. Don't know if I'll stay with it. Saw a Youtube vid about the comic upon which it is based. Not sure if they can really translate all that craziness to the screen but they're trying.

Worf

 

[3fingers]

Starting last week, the Missus has been binging on The Good Witch, and I will catch some shows now and then. The Hallmark Channel programs seem to be strongly formulaic, with pristine, perfectly coiffed characters living in pristine, perfectly coiffed small towns working at lovely antiques stores, cozy catering companies, or at a house remodeling company where at the end of the day the owner and workers are as pristine and perfectly coiffed as at the start of their shift.
Which is not to say I sneer at elegant sets, excellent lighting, and nice-looking characters delivering romantic comedy: I sit down and watch these stories with my sweetie for the sheer light-as-a-bubble entertainment.

My wife started watching the show shortly after it was put on. I agree with your assessment, but I have had a crush on Catherine Bell since Jag days so it was an easy watch for me in spite of the syrup the entire show is covered in.

 

[Touchofevil]

The commercial interrupted, I Am the Night and PBS’ Wolf Hall.

 

[Touchofevil]

Another episode of I Am the Night and a couple of episodes of Modern Family.

 

[MisterCairo]

Some more Ripper Street series one (been just long enough I do not recall how episodes end up!), and my wife and I are finally starting the third series of True Detective, episode one so far.

 

[Touchofevil]

An episode of Doc Martin, an episode of Wolf Hall, and UFC Fight Night: Blachowicz vs. Santos.

 

[Fading Fast]

Sex Eduction, the first season from Netflix

• Like most TV shows about high school, everything is exaggerated and amped up, but oddly it all works in a crazy way
  • Be aware, the show is not shy in talking about and showing all types of sex / I assume kids are much more active today than in the '70s (when I was in high school), but holy cow, this show argues it's a brave - and very sexually active - new high school world

• The premise - a kid with a sex therapist for a mom teams up with a pretty, anti-social girl to offer sex ed advice for pay to the other kids - is, of course, ridiculous, but it's just a ploy to do what good shows do - build three-dimensional characters that have real-life interactions amidst the TV scripts' excesses

• All the modern political pieties are bowed to and, even though I agree with most of them, the agenda pushing and virtue signaling is obnoxious. Hollywood just can't seem to help itself

• But as noted, if you let the extreme moments go by and aren't jarred by the graphic sex show-and-tell, then you can enjoy the interesting high school characters facing real life problems that - while in a modern context - are still pretty timeless

 

[Julian Shellhammer]

A tv show on youtube, the Kevin Brownlow series Hollywood. Watched it the first time years ago on PBS (unless I'm misremembering). According to someone somewhere, the lack of a dvd release is due to rights and licensing issues: they cover a lot of films from a lot of studios in the episodes.

 

[MisterCairo]

Sex Eduction, the first season from Netflix

• Like most TV shows about high school, everything is exaggerated and amped up, but oddly it all works in a crazy way
  • Be aware, the show is not shy in talking about and showing all types of sex / I assume kids are much more active today than in the '70s (when I was in high school), but holy cow, this show argues it's a brave - and very sexually active - new high school world

• The premise - a kid with a sex therapist for a mom teams up with a pretty, anti-social girl to offer sex ed advice for pay to the other kids - is, of course, ridiculous, but it's just a ploy to do what good shows do - build three-dimensional characters that have real-life interactions amidst the TV scripts' excesses

• All the modern political pieties are bowed to and, even though I agree with most of them, the agenda pushing and virtue signaling is obnoxious. Hollywood just can't seem to help itself

• But as noted, if you let the extreme moments go by and aren't jarred by the graphic sex show-and-tell, then you can enjoy the interesting high school characters facing real life problems that - while in a modern context - are still pretty timeless

So, hard pass on that one.

 

[MisterCairo]

This past week's Gotham. I know several of you have gone off the show, but we will miss it. Seems like yesterday we practically fell over it one night and got hooked.

 

[MisterCairo]

Wife fell asleep early, so a night of red wine and Ripper Street...