I just finished Beforeigners on HBO. Norwegian series about time travelers in Oslo. I laughed all the time. Highly recommend it. There’s only 1 season so far.
I loved this one- I hope they do another season. Great twist too!
Watched one season of Outer Banks on Netflix. Good story with engaging young actors. Watched one episode of the second season and said “I’m just not interested in these dopey kids anymore.”
Good Omens on Amazon+ is extremely well made, sometimes funny and features a lot of well-knowns in peripheral roles, but the “Angel” character is prissy, irritating in a nervous twitchy kind of way, and gets too much air time versus his “Demon” counterpart, a far more interesting character played by David Tennant. And though I keep falling asleep in the middle of every episode, I’d recommend giving it a look.
On Netflix there’s an Icelandic horror/thriller/mystery series called Katla. Basically, a lot of dead people, and some not so dead, come out of the ashes and back to life during the leisurely eruption of a volcano. Slow-moving (like the volcano) but gripping.
No, it’s definitely not Miller’s fault. It just doesn’t seem very imaginative.
He used to be part of a duo with Alexander Armstrong and had a sketch show - I’m sure there’s various Armstrong and Miller clips out there.
Good Omens 2 is currently filming in Scotland, FYI. Script by Neil Gaiman and John Finnemore.
That was fun! Not too sure it made a lot of sense plot wise, but the scene where she sees the pallet of sod, screams for the detective to stop, and…well, what she does when she reaches the sod will be indelibly imprinted on my mind forever. 
I hadn’t heard that but good! Neil Gaiman is great and and John Finnemore is slightly better! (IMHO)
The constant cultural clashes are what made me laugh the most. Try explaining carpal tunnel to a viking shield maiden! 
Currently watching Nine Perfect Strangers on Hulu. Based on the book by Liane Moriarty (she also wrote Big Little Lies which was turned into another excellent series) about a group of people who go to a wellness spa run by a mysterious guru, played by Nicole Kidman. I read a review that complained about the wavering between thriller and comedy, but that’s part of it’s charm, IMO. I wonder if the reviewer has read any of Moriarty’s books, as that is her style. I’m really enjoying it and have to resist binging it all at once.
We have Nine Perfect Strangers queued up…but I hated Big Little Lies (especially season 2). Oh well. Happy wife, happy life.
I hope you enjoy this one more if you do get roped into watching it. Did you find BLL too chick flickish? I’ve heard several people say that.
We’re finishing up the third season of The Durrells on Amazon Prime, based on a trilogy of (semi)autobiographical books about a British single mother of 4 who brings her family to the Greek island of Corfu to reset her life after her husband dies. (The author of the books is the youngest child on the show). It’s set in the late 30s and has some lovely island scenery. It’s quirky and relaxing and not entirely believable, but the performances are largely very good and the characters really grow on you.
That was a fun show. I watched The Durrells on Masterpiece when it aired here.
I would never use the phrase “chick-flickish” 
. At least season 1 had a bit of murder mystery going for it; season 2 was just people whining and arguing about relationships, with a little bit of custody battle going on that I just really didn’t give a good godddam about.
This is where my wife and I differ on our entertainment choices. I like a drama to have a story – beginning, middle and end, that I care about how it progresses. She likes people whining about their feelings for 9 hours. I also couldn’t stand Little Fires Everywhere, or Normal People.
Just finished watching all 3 seasons and I have to say that while there are a few implausible plot points, overall the show is well written and the character development is excellent. I find myself cheering and booing the three main characters as they struggle to succeed to be decent people and then fail miserably by falling back to type. I think the main message of the show is that people don’t change - they just struggle to be better and will fail again and again under stress. 4.5 starts out of 5.
We enjoyed season one very much, but the writing seemed to take a dramatic downturn in season two and we stopped watching.
Speaking of writing, it seems like “The Good Fight” has opted for zany and cartoonish and is now firmly in “jump the shark” territory. We may be done with this one as well.
I agree that Season Two was not as good as Season One, but IMO Season Three came roaring back and was the best of the bunch. (At least through the first 6 episodes; we still have two more to go).
While I watched The Durrells, I looked up the real family members in Wikipedia to see what happened to them. The oldest son (the would-be novelist) and the youngest son (the budding animal expert) were the most prominent of course.
Then you missed all the crazy. Finding $400 million in gold? Not enough. In this season we have a multiple clue treasure hunt peading eventually to a diamond-encrusted 9 foot tall gold cross that contains a swatch of Jesus’s robe that is supposed to heal anyone who touches it. But nobody needs anything like that because 1.) blonde girl gets shot in the gut and nearly dies on a back-alley operating table only to shake it off and be running around and climbing trees almost immediately 2.) blonde girl’s boyfriend gets deep puncture wounds in his leg when he is dragged under water and rolled about by an alligator only to shake it off almost immediately and be running around again 3.) the Black guy very nearly dies from a reaction to wasp stings but after a shot of adrenaline shakes it off almost immediately to be running around again. There are more enemies, more deaths, fewer deaths, and a setup for season three.
Four episodes in and I’m pulling the ripcord on this one. Nicole Kidman looks like an alien and whatever accent it is she’s doing isn’t working. The cast is fantastic but the writing is barely adequate and the goat was probably relieved to not have to continue to watch Kidman swan around like woman on the edge of a cocaine fueled psychotic episode.
- The Prisoner
- Babylon 5
- Bunheads, with Sutton Foster as a Vegas showgirl who suddenly inherits a ballet school.
- The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. A Jewish housewife in New York, circa 1960, seeing her perfect life falling apart, starts a new career as a stand-up comedienne.
- Just Add Magic (and Just Add Magic: Mystery City), a kids’ show with about three times the brains you expect from a kids’ show.
- Castle, a combined rom-com and police procedural. A magnificent cast makes it work.
- Absentia. Stana Katic dials PTSD up to 11 as a kidnapped FBI agent who can’t remember the last six years, and has come back to a world in which her husband has remarried and her child cannot remember her. Nasty and violent, and not for the kiddies, but a stunning performance from a first-rate actress.