What was the last TV show you watched?

[Worf]

Going to finish up Messiah tonight. I fear that it will not be wrapped up in the final two episodes and I will have to wait for a season 2 for closure.....damn I hate that.

IF and that's a big IF you get a season 2. I've not heard one way or the other if it'll be back. We loved the show and the season ender needs resolution or it'll be nagging at my innards for years!

Worf

 

[Touchofevil]

We are once again watching all of Peaky Blinders. On deck are the latest seasons of Better Call Saul and Narcos Mexico Season 2.

 

[Touchofevil]

Oh yeah, at the moment, The Andy Griffith Show.

 

[Ernest P Shackleton]

Country Music: A Film by Ken Burns. PBS. I was finally able to finish this with the recent re-airing. They raced through the 80s, 80s, and 2000s, but that's fine. I appreciated they spent some time on the Johnny Cash/Rick Rubin situation. Cash seemed to have a great sense for what to do and not to do. Nobody wanted him to do that, but he went with his gut. Thank goodness. Those Def Jam recordings are brilliant. Also, Dwight Yoakam. I like that guy. Not crazy about his music, but I like him in an interview and as an actor. They quickly mentioned he was involved in theater as a young person, and that is handy information. He's a good actor, and it isn't just by chance.

 

[MisterCairo]

Forged in Fire and American Pickers. Because I am on temporary duty in a remote area, and I ran out of DVDs to watch.

 

[Julian Shellhammer]

Last week sometime we semi-binged Howards End, the BBC four-parter.
Also, a couple One Step Beyond episodes.

 

[Worf]

"Outlander" - I'm not "watching" this per se so much as enduring it. Puddin', who LOVES all things "period" (if it's got a bustle or a gown she's a watchin' it!) started watching it. I'm VERY familiar with the ins and outs of the failed Jacobite rebellion of Bonny Prince Charlie so I gave it a pass and stayed upstairs on my computer and did other things (not that... get your minds outta the gutter you cretins!). Little did I know that for days on end my tender virgin ears would be assaulted by the melodious sound of murder, rape, combat, torture and more rape, rape rape! Ye gods I had to close the door and put in ear plugs. But to make matters worse, when I did emerge shell shocked and jittery from my man cave I then had to answer innumerable questions about the "real" history behind this celluloid Harlequin Romance of a TV show...

I'm dyin here

Da Worfster

 

[Touchofevil]

"Outlander" - I'm not "watching" this per se so much as enduring it. Puddin', who LOVES all things "period" (if it's got a bustle or a gown she's a watchin' it!) started watching it. I'm VERY familiar with the ins and outs of the failed Jacobite rebellion of Bonny Prince Charlie so I gave it a pass and stayed upstairs on my computer and did other things (not that... get your minds outta the gutter you cretins!). Little did I know that for days on end my tender virgin ears would be assaulted by the melodious sound of murder, rape, combat, torture and more rape, rape rape! Ye gods I had to close the door and put in ear plugs. But to make matters worse, when I did emerge shell shocked and jittery from my man cave I then had to answer innumerable questions about the "real" history behind this celluloid Harlequin Romance of a TV show...

I'm dyin here

Da Worfster

I know and feel your pain.

 

[Héctor Fernández]

I'm constantly watching the original Mission Impossible, the Men from UNCLE, and Star Trek TOS.

 

[MisterCairo]

I binge-watched the entire Horatio Hornblower series, and am now re-binge-watching the entire Sharpe series (less the final two episodes, I have the commemorative wooden box set).

 

[MisterCairo]

my tender virgin ears would be assaulted by the melodious sound of murder, rape, combat, torture

Precisely the things that grabbed my attention! My wife and I love the series, and, full confession, I've read the first two books...

Curious - which part of the time travel interests you most about the '45?

[smiley face emoji if this computer would let me see them....]

 

[belfastboy]

Finished The Crown season 3 and now dove back into Vikings season 3. Getting a bit tired of Ragnar, conspiracies and blood/guts. Two seasons pretty good but after #3 I think I am done with it.

 

[Fading Fast]

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel season 3 - Its best thing continues to be its incredible '50s/'60s period sets, which are prettier and more period perfect than the actual '50s and '60s ever were, but that is clearly by design and it works. The stories, overall, are good to very good when they focus on Mrs. Maisel, okay when on her husband, straying into not great when on her parents and are all but awful when they focus on her in-laws. The episode in (mainly) Florida where Midge and Shy get close as friends could be the best one in the series as it dropped a bit of its style-over-substance approach without becoming mawkish or after-school-TV-special like. Oh, and the speed dialogue continues to be a joy.

The Man in the High Castle season 4 - I no longer can follow each plot twist as it's either become too confusing or my brain is aggressively shrinking, but the broad story outline is still enjoyable and many of the characters engaging. Rufus Sewell stands out as the American turned nazi commander in one world and road-warrior salesman in the other. Watching him switch from world to world while trying to control his emotions as his dead son reappears, but also his daughters are never born, is seeing an actor at the top of his craft. Like The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, the visuals - period details, sets, clothes, architecture - are easily half the joy in TMITHC. I'll miss it when it's gone, but also think it's probably played out its "alternate universe" theme in its construct here. Oh, I miss the Japanese trade ministers's character this season.

 

[belfastboy]

Will finish Season 3 of 'Vikings' tonight. Enjoyed the first two season immensely but alas this third season has jumped the shark. Not sure if it is the writing that has slipped badly or just that they have run out of ideas and it is the same folks doing the same shit again, and again. Time to shift over to the other side and watch The Last Kingdom and see what Uhtred is up to these days.

 

[Julian Shellhammer]

The other day finished the second and final season of Crime Story. The first season was a good, solid show, with the proper balance of a long story arc and undergirding back stories. Sort of hard-boiled tv, with cops tougher than nails battling criminals as tough or tougher.
The second season, alas, shifted locales to a Las Vegas setting, ostensibly to have the cops take down the relocated crime lords, and with that shift came a gradual corresponding drop in the writing. (This is solely my opinion: others may disagree.) From the dark, rough-edged setting of Chicago the tone became sometimes over the top, with stories about defecting Russian aviators and their scrambled English, goofy henchmen, et cetera. It started out much like the first season, but lost its noir-ish flavor along the way.

 

[Héctor Fernández]

The Time Tunnel.

 

[Woodtroll]

The other day finished the second and final season of Crime Story. The first season was a good, solid show, with the proper balance of a long story arc and undergirding back stories. Sort of hard-boiled tv, with cops tougher than nails battling criminals as tough or tougher.
The second season, alas, shifted locales to a Las Vegas setting, ostensibly to have the cops take down the relocated crime lords, and with that shift came a gradual corresponding drop in the writing. (This is solely my opinion: others may disagree.) From the dark, rough-edged setting of Chicago the tone became sometimes over the top, with stories about defecting Russian aviators and their scrambled English, goofy henchmen, et cetera. It started out much like the first season, but lost its noir-ish flavor along the way.

Like you, I really enjoyed the first season of Crime Story when it aired, but lost interest in the second season. I recently received a boxed set of the show, and after watching it through I realized why I lost interest. I also missed the music tracks from the original show - something about music rights and syndication that I read a while back comes to mind, but one of the things I really enjoyed about the original show was the older music. Unfortunately, they did the same thing with reruns of Tour of Duty, as well.

 

[MisterCairo]

Walking Dead, both catch up with the girls as we have them up to season 4 (prison setting and The Governor), and the latest two current season episodes with my wife (Whisperers).

 

[Worf]

Precisely the things that grabbed my attention! My wife and I love the series, and, full confession, I've read the first two books...

Curious - which part of the time travel interests you most about the '45?

[smiley face emoji if this computer would let me see them....]

I'm not sure of your question but I assume you're talking about the revolution... well mostly I was intrigued by the dispora that occured after it failed. How many Scots were shipped to the colonies and elsewhere the hatred they harbored against the clans that "stayed loyal to the crown". Also how many couldn't wait for a second crack at the brits during the American Revolution. That' kinda stuff.

Worf

 

[MisterCairo]

I have started to slowly binge, again, my favourite series, Millennium. Season one came out on DVD in 2004 and it was the first Christmas gift my then fiancee gave me that year. We were engaged Christmas Eve, so I have an odd romantic attachment to one of the creepiest shows ever!

Season one, episodes six and seven tonight...