What was the last TV show you watched?

[Edward]

Working on season four of Sons of Anarchy. Love how we know what will happen, but not exactly when or how, as it's been just long enough since the first run through.

So you're past the mangling of Northern Ireland - that was season three, I think? - fascinating show. I've enjoyed hat I've seen of the Mayans so far too (series 1), though what I'm really looking forward to is the planned prequel show featuring the First Nine and the formation of the SoA.

 

[MisterCairo]

Still on season 4 of SOA. Not a show to watch with the girls around so it is a later night thing when we can.

It is interesting knowing what will happen generally, but forgetting the details.

 

[Yahoody]

Interesting comments on Godless and Longmire. But no mention of Yellowstone.

 

[belfastboy]

NetFlix's...."Dirty John"....we will finish Season one tonight. At first I had doubts but the plot and characters grew on us. Leaves many many questions about the 'how' this happens...somewhat facile in that regards but for a little chilling escapist TV it ain't bad. If for nothing else....'thank god my life is not a screwed up as theirs'.

 

[Bushman]

A couple episodes of Hogan's Heroes on the local oldies channel last night.

 

[M Brown]

just finished season 5 of Outlander

 

[Fading Fast]

... If for nothing else....'thank god my life is not a screwed up as theirs'.

Not familiar with this ⇧ show, but quite often my girlfriend and I will come out of a TV show or movie with just that thought. One of us will often say, "I am exhausted just watching his/her life on TV, how in God's name does he/she actually live it."

 

[Fading Fast]

A couple episodes of Hogan's Heroes on the local oldies channel last night.

I believe @AmateisGal is a big fan. If I stumble on one, I'll usually stay and watch. What hurts is that the commercials on those shows usually go on forever resulting in the show itself being cut down to the point where, sometimes, it all but doesn't make sense.

 

[belfastboy]

Not familiar with this ⇧ show, but quite often my girlfriend and I will come out of a TV show or movie with just that thought. One of us will often say, "I am exhausted just watching his/her life on TV, how in God's name does he/she actually live it."

I was curious as to the accuracy of the TV show so I youtubed an interview with the woman and daughter. It would seem as though they did not embellish the story all that much....which makes her behaviour even more incredulous. Eric Bana does a good job as the villain....although I can't get it out of my head that he is a low rent Bill Murray impersonator.

 

[Touchofevil]

Other than a number of episodes of The Andy Griffith Show, not much. Too much schoolwork to correct and plan for to really watch anything.

 

[Worf]

Amazon Prime's "The Boy's" - The second season of this titular "anti superhero" series kinda picks up where it left off, but while entertaining, it doesn't fill me with shock and awe like the first season. We meet new "Heroes" like "Stormfront" who may be even more dangerous or evil than 'Homelander" and we also begin to see the results of deliberately pumping compound V into America hating terrorist from around the world. As I said it's "nice" to be back in this world but I'm no longer riveted to my seat.

Worf

 

[Bushman]

S2 of The Boys was likewise my last series. I was catching up with S2 last night when the fourth episode dropped, and I was like, "Well, who needs sleep anyway?" I'm personally loving this second second. I do agree it's not as "shocking" as the first season, but I still like the story being told.

 

[Edward]

just finished season 5 of Outlander

I'm looking forward to more of that. The Carribean series felt a bit silly - as if the author had run out of ideas once they left Scotland (I wish, tbh, we'd seen more of the Highland Clearances, but...), but the Frontier stuff has picked up a lot.

 

[Fading Fast]

Trinkets season two on Netflix

A modern version of a high school's not-cool-kids drama (think Freaks and Geeks), but since it's 2020, it's much darker and "woke." The titular trinkets refer to the things the three staring girls occasionally shoplift (one started it and it spread), but the shoplifting is presented as an outlet for the adult-sized challenges in their lives - severely troubled homes or not-understanding parents or a physically abusive boyfriend, etc.

On the plus side, the writing is reasonably good and the characters develop some nuance and dimension, but you have to be willing to take modern politics all tilted one way as you can almost always guess whom the bad guys will be based on our modern pieties and, naturally, several characters' sexuality is "fluid" which, of course, the same bad group of people don't like.

To be fair, some of the plots and challenges are regular high-school stuff, but in season two, not much time goes by before the show's "wokeness" bubbles over. As usual, I agree with some, not all, of the politics, but you still get exhausted from the full-force gale of political correctness the show throws at the viewer.



Hollywood on Netflix

If you enjoy seeing the politics of Trinkets, then check out Hollywood where the same "wokeness" is taken even further and back in time to 1950s Hollywood. [Note, you can't discuss this show without referencing the race, sex and orientation of the characters as that is basically what the show is about.]

In Hollywood, even though it's supposedly the 1950s, it only takes a few shows until people of color, gays and lesbians, and women take over studios and star in, produce and direct movies while also being no longer willing to downplay or closet any of their preferences or culture. And, of course, as in Trinkets, it's the straight white men who are almost always the bad, closed-minded, racists and, sometimes, physically abusive characters.

Effectively, intentionally or not, Hollywood is an alternative-universe show where the civil rights advances of the 1960s and the ensuing cultural, social and economic advances of people of color, women and gays and lesbians all, somewhat, happened in the 1950s. I wish it were so; and if the intent is to create an alternative reality, then that's okay. However, if they were trying to present some version of the actual period, then it's a big miss and is just one more example of Hollywood's obsession with virtue signaling it oh-so-correct views.

Away from all that - but to be fair, there isn't much "away from all that" as "that" is the show - the writing is inconsistent and many of the characters are two-dimensional stereotypes. There is one neat subplot about a Los Angeles gas station that is, effectively, a high-end prostitution business serving the elite of Hollywood, gay or straight. I don't remember all the details, but this is based on a real gas station from that era.

Also, and this works a little bit, the show, like The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel does with its period, presents a beautiful-looking 1950s Hollywood in a stylized way that reflects more of a romantic notion than a realistic presentation of Hollywood back then.

 

[Woodtroll]

Interesting comments on Godless and Longmire. But no mention of Yellowstone.

The wife and I watch Yellowstone, but I struggle with it sometimes because the land-grab storyline, with the big business, big money, and political wrangling hit way too close to home to be very enjoyable for me. A lot of folks in my part of the country are struggling to hold onto the family farm land, or at least the homeplaces where generations of their family have grown up, and are finding it increasingly expensive to do.

My favorite character is Beth - you know right up front (mostly) who she is and what she stands for. And Rip, although he literally is "loyal to a fault", he truly rides for the brand. I admire both of those characters, along with Lloyd, of course!

 

[Yahoody]

Yes, I too find it easy to relate to the ongoing development problems. I've watched it from the beginning. Last week my wife and I sat down and did a binge session and watched all three seasons that she had missed. Interesting just how much I missed of the nuances from one episode to another. I like the writer Taylor Sheridan and a couple of his other projects. But I sure am tired of his S. Texas horsemanship cameos on the show.

Ranching community out here is pretty fluid going from North to South several times a year for work, shows or events. But that just seems like fluff if you know much about it. Sheridan knows better or should.

"Now you're the Indian" pretty much covers it for most folks living on old family land. New favorite line here is "WWBS" "What would Beth do?"

Gotten to be way too violent IMO. Won't watch another episode on Boys just for that reason. Sometimes I wonder when we started "needing" shock TV to be entertained.

 

[Ernest P Shackleton]

Anyone watched Raised by Wolves. I see HBO Max is offering the first episode for free on youtube. I normally am not interested in this type of Star Trekian/sci-fi, but I have liked a couple of AI series, like Humans, which are out of my wheelhouse. Maybe I should stop thinking/saying that at this point? It's a subject that will only be more common, and studios are going to dump more and more energy and money into them.

 

[AmateisGal]

I believe @AmateisGal is a big fan. If I stumble on one, I'll usually stay and watch. What hurts is that the commercials on those shows usually go on forever resulting in the show itself being cut down to the point where, sometimes, it all but doesn't make sense.

...I am a huge fan of Hogan's Heroes, and you're spot on about the commercials going on forever...which is why you need to own the complete series on DVD like me!

 

[AmateisGal]

I introduced my boyfriend to BritComs and I am so very pleased that he enjoys them just as much as I do. We're a big fan of Graham Lineman's work like The I.T. Crowd and Black Books. Oh how I LOVE Black Books. Bernard Black is such a delightfully dark, angry, drunken curmudgeon. You can't help but love him. We tried the first episode of Father Ted, but didn't see quite the same "sparkle" as The I.T. Crowd, but we may give it another go.

We also started Mrs. Brown's Boys and it is HILARIOUS. We absolutely love it. Yes, it's got some low-brow humor, but there's also some really sweet stuff in it, too, about family and all that.

I'm also watching Season 2 of The Boys on Amazon Prime. I'm almost glad they made it so new episodes are on Fridays because binging the whole thing at once is exhausting and leaves me slightly depressed. It's not for the faint of heart. It's gritty and dirty and gory and violent. And you want to just absolutely pummel the villains for being so damn villainous, but yet, the writers manage to make you have moments of sympathy for them, as well.

 

[AmateisGal]

Amazon Prime's "The Boy's" - The second season of this titular "anti superhero" series kinda picks up where it left off, but while entertaining, it doesn't fill me with shock and awe like the first season. We meet new "Heroes" like "Stormfront" who may be even more dangerous or evil than 'Homelander" and we also begin to see the results of deliberately pumping compound V into America hating terrorist from around the world. As I said it's "nice" to be back in this world but I'm no longer riveted to my seat.

Worf

What? You mean the boat driving straight through the massive whale didn't leave you in shock and awe?