What was the last TV show you watched?

[Fading Fast]

Nope. I'm way behind in my viewing - I've got long-term houseguests and I'm not sole master of TV decisions. Not that either of those series looks something that I'd rush to check out. Too much media!

"In the Dark" was a girlfriend pick that I was unenthusiastic about, but by the second episode, I was fully sucked in. It surprised me how much I enjoyed it. "Dead to Me" feels like an updated version of the old Hitchcock TV shows - modern, day-to-day life gone horribly wrong.

 

[Touchofevil]

The same as my last post: Yellowstone, The Andy Griffith Show, and Schitts Creek.

 

[belfastboy]

"In the Dark" was a girlfriend pick that I was unenthusiastic about, but by the second episode, I was fully sucked in. It surprised me how much I enjoyed it. "Dead to Me" feels like an updated version of the old Hitchcock TV shows - modern, day-to-day life gone horribly wrong.

Read your short blurb so started to watch "Dead to Me". Two episodes in and I am hooked. A show worth watching.

 

[Fading Fast]

Read your short blurb so started to watch "Dead to Me". Two episodes in and I am hooked. A show worth watching.

Glad you're enjoying it - I look forward to your updates as you move through the season.

My other recommendation for a new show is "In the Dark" (the one staring Perry Mattfeld from 2019, there are a few out there with the same title) - I was hooked by the second episode.

 

[Zombie_61]

I could have sworn I saw this show mentioned in this thread (which was my incentive for watching it), but I can't find anything so I'll just start over. Happy!, starring Christopher Meloni as Nick Sax, a former police officer who is now a hit man who goes searching for his young daughter when he learns she's gone missing. Yep, sounds like a familiar story. Except that Sax is injured in the first episode, and he awakes to find his new best friend is a little blue flying unicorn named Happy (voiced by Patton Oswalt) that only he can see and hear, and who also happens to be his daughter's imaginary friend. Yeah. It sounded just odd enough for me to give it a look-see, so I watched the first four episodes after She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed went to bed last night 'cause it's not her kind of show. The thing is, I'm not sure who the audience for this show is because it's too violent for children, not serious enough for crime drama fans, not humorous enough for comedy fans, and not "out there" enough for those who usually like odd shows like this. I'm still watching because I find Christopher Meloni's performance fun to watch, but even that will eventually grow old unless they find another way to keep me on the hook.

 

[Doctor Strange]

I started watching the new Amazon series The Boys. (What a terrible title!)

A very dark take on superheroes with echoes of aspects of Watchmen, Kingdom Come, The Dark Knight Returns, The Incredibles, etc. Set in an alternate present, in a world loaded with superheroes, most of whom are co-opted by a multinational corporation that manages their media appearances, product licensing... and blackmails communities/governments for the services of their local heroes. And most of the heroes, including the Superman equivalent, are not the choirboys that they appear to be, but scummy sociopaths. Members of an anti-superhero underground determined to check their power seem no better. The point seems to be that "hero" and "villain" are pretty much just labels affixed by careful media manipulation.

A very cynical and violent show, this makes the dearly departed "adult" Netflix Marvel series look downright cheery in comparison. But so far it's definitely holding my interest.

 

[belfastboy]

Read your short blurb so started to watch "Dead to Me". Two episodes in and I am hooked. A show worth watching.

Finished 'Dead to Me' last night. Loved it. Thought both writing and performances were stellar. Christina Applegate really surprised me....did not know she had such good acting chops. Plus now she has a 'lived in' face that really suited the role. I am still digesting the ending, not completely happy with it but have no better alternative to offer so I guess I am stuck with it.

 

[MisterCairo]

Watching season three of Silicon Valley. This show is a hoot!

 

[Fading Fast]

Finished 'Dead to Me' last night. Loved it. Thought both writing and performances were stellar. Christina Applegate really surprised me....did not know she had such good acting chops. Plus now she has a 'lived in' face that really suited the role. I am still digesting the ending, not completely happy with it but have no better alternative to offer so I guess I am stuck with it.

Agree with both points on Applegate - she is the right age (and I'm glad they chose her instead of going with some plastic surgery frozen-face actress) and she killed it in the roll.

As to the ending, let's see where they go with it next season, and how great was the expression on Judy's face when she saw what was in the pool?

I'm glad you enjoyed the show.

 

[belfastboy]

Agree with both points on Applegate - she is the right age (and I'm glad they chose her instead of going with some plastic surgery frozen-face actress) and she killed it in the roll.

As to the ending, let's see where they go with it next season, and how great was the expression on Judy's face when she saw what was in the pool?

I'm glad you enjoyed the show.

I thought the actress playing Judy did a great job as well.......in spite of her Skooby Doo credits
Has a second season been confirmed? I really hoped not so I could just walk away in the perfection of it and not risk a disappointment.

 

[Fading Fast]

I thought the actress playing Judy did a great job as well.......in spite of her Skooby Doo credits
Has a second season been confirmed? I really hoped not so I could just walk away in the perfection of it and not risk a disappointment.

Agreed on Judy - outstanding job and held her own with Applegate. I know Judy - Linda Cardellini - from "Mad Men," so I had a good opinion of her going in.

From what I've read, Netflix is making a season 2. As you note, I hope they don't screw it up.

 

[Ernest P Shackleton]

The Terror: Infamy. AMC. This is nothing like the first season. The first season was technically lush and a well-told, ominous, relatively engaging story. This second season feels like it was on a discount store budget, and the story is every bit as poorly executed. I haven't seen such a cheaply produced show since the spray paint blobs for blood Sons of Anarchy. And there is zero attempt at accuracy in this, considering it is a period piece that I'm sure is exhaustively documented. At least bother to get the military elements right. Those are mostly rigid, aren't they? If there were thirty Marines in this latest episode, I bet you could have counted fifteen different uniforms. I don't think anyone wore the clothes the same way, even if they happened to be wearing the same clothes. The special effects are like something you'd see in the 1980s. Ridley Scott has his name as an EP, but he must have pulled out his financial backing. It's too bad this setting and situation isn't getting better treatment.

 

[Touchofevil]

Shakespeare and Hathaway and The Miner Wars on PBS.

 

[MisterCairo]

The Mayans, season two, with my wife, and The Terror: Infamy on my own.

The Mayans is great, a really gripping plot twist in the making, can't wait for next episodes!

The new Terror is growing on me, but oddly enough it is the Japanese internment story line that has my interest, the supernatural tie in, not so much.

 

[Formeruser012523]

Clawing my way through a re-watch of Person of Interest on Netflix. Really wish the Samaritan subplot had never started. Feeling the show died after the midpoint of season 3. Forgot how much I really despise Root. And they may as well have just written Mr. Reese off the show completely after introducing her. I'm not one to diss "Strong Female Characters" but I'm trying to find a redeeming quality about her and can't. It's weird, because I like Amy Acker in everything else I've ever seen her in. And it was like they wrote the character of Shaw and cast a woman in the role, because she's basically a guy, the way she acts and talks. Ugh. I can't get through this fast enough.

Don't get me wrong, this is a well thought out and developed show with deep laid plots and characters. It has story arcs that make you actually use your brain and never insults the audience. Very timely in retrospect. But, I gotta say, I miss Carter.

 

[Ernest P Shackleton]

Preacher. AMC. This season has picked up (slightly). The actor doing Humperdoo is good. I lose my breath laughing so hard. I feel he's playing it very much in the vein of how Tim Conway would play idiots.

Lodge 49. AMC. I still have no idea what this show is about, and they keep introducing new situations. Still, I like it.

Mayans MC. FX. Why I'm watching another Kurt Sutter series is beyond me. He's not much of a story writer, nor is he much for situations, characters, or dialog. I feel the success of his shows is purely because of demographics. Motorcycle people want a motorcycle show, and here it is. Game of Thrones is popular, so let's make a knight series. I honestly can't believe this guy is a working writer. Like Sons of Anarchy, this series started so-so and with some potential. It's never going to realize even that modicum of potential, though. It's not that anything is outlandish or unrealistic. I can deal with both. But why is that character doing this or that? No reason. Are we skipping scenes in the script? Do the directors just suck? Wait...why? Huh?

 

[Julian Shellhammer]

Finished the last season of the George Gently series, courtesy Acorn streaming. Will be missed.
Started up with The Brokenwood Mysteries from 2014. A New Zealand tv series about a quirky detective from an urban police department who settles in the country town of Brokenwood, it has clever writing and likable characters. Again, on Acorn.
Still making Crime Story season 2 last as long as we can.

 

[Ernest P Shackleton]

Ken Burns: Country Music. PBS. episode 1 of 8; 14+ hours total. If you like Burns' documentaries, then you'll enjoy this. I did. I do wish it was made a little more clear why Jimmie Rodgers and The Carters stood out from everyone else. I love old Appalachian folk, earliest blues, work songs, etc. Also have a fascination for the ghostly recordings of such music because of the crude electronics used in recording. I've listened to an awful lot of that early folk music in my time. An awful lot. So these sounds and voices aren't new to me. I say all that because I can't honestly understand why Rodgers and The Carters became the stars of the time. The Carters weren't especially ambitious. They didn't win the lottery because of hard, always on the road and pushing their wares work like Rodgers. I don't listen to either of them and think, "These voices are far and away better than the others." Maybelle was ahead of her time insofar as her guitar playing. I wanted more explanation for why they succeeded and why others didn't. Maybe that isn't possible. It was merely the magical process of art and being at the right place at the right time, which they did talk about, in short, in this first episode. I kept thinking there has to be more to the context of all this. That's all. Maybe I'm being dense.

One big complaint though. I said the same thing for Burns' massive Vietnam documentary. I don't understand why PBS insists on running these episodes day after day, for eight days straight. Why not, like normal stations, run a new episode every Sunday night? It's crap programming to think people can spend two hours a night, for eight nights in a row, watching your shows. What's the rush? Pick a night, and air a new episode once a week on that night. It's unreasonable and ridiculous they way they do these things.

 

[MisterCairo]

Preacher. AMC. This season has picked up (slightly). The actor doing Humperdoo is good. I lose my breath laughing so hard. I feel he's playing it very much in the vein of how Tim Conway would play idiots.

I am up to date now as of last night.

My wife watched the opening few minutes, and asked, well, essentially WTH? I had no words to describe why Herr Starr was in the "condition" he was in.

She acknowledged, and left...

"To the mooooooooooooooooon....."

 

[Ernest P Shackleton]

"To the mooooooooooooooooon....."

I turned on CC, and he was saying "moom". Humperdoo can't even say moon. Cracked me up.