The thing is, is that one of those guys (the nice guy) is making an extremely successful TV show and the other (the jerk) is still acting like a real antique dealer watching the pennies.
Do we agree that it’s the tall guy who’s the jerk?
I thought you were talking about the short guy (Frank). Tall guy, Mike is the owner of the show and often pays more than asking price.
Ah. Frank seems like he badmouths the receptionist they have working for them pretty often. Didn’t even think about the prices.
Yesterday I binged Three Pines on Amazon Prime. I liked it. It’s a police show set in Canada in a town with a large indigenous community.
Season one is 8 hour long episodes, set up as four part one/part two stories. No word yet on season two, but I’ll watch it if it happens.
Alfred Molina is so good in it. He’s empathic and kind without being soft.
I hate it when they’re dickering over an old sign or something they had to excavate from a pile of crap, and the hoarder can’t decide if he’d rather keep it or have THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS. 
And I think both the pickers are jerks.
I recently got back into Curb Your Enthusiasm. I started watching it way back when I was getting it on DVDs from Netflix. Then when Netflix got rid of DVDs, it wasn’t available. It’s on HBO Max now. It took me a while to figure out at what point I stopped watching all those years ago. I’m on S9. I laugh out loud during every episode.
Thought I’d give The Last of Us (HBO) a try. Another apocalyptical future scenario with a fungus killing off the population and the brave resistance fighting against the military regime. Don’t know if I can do this.
Another board I frequent is composed mostly of Gen Xers who spent the normal amount of time playing video games and they think The Last of Us is the shiz.
But The Walking Dead gave us plenty of people turning bad in the apocalypse and Z Nation even gave us the trope of having to shepherd the one person carrying the potential cure. So I was pretty meh after watching the first episode.
Kudos for casting the likeable Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey, though.
So instead I turned to the new season of Vikings Valhalla, a sort of prequel to the original Vikings. It’s not nearly as good as its forerunner but I’m an easy sale with schlocky Vikings shows.
I binged the latest season of Jack Ryan. It was enjoyable. No spoilers, but I thought it was all pretty much wrapped up at the end of episode six (of eight). But then they turned it up to eleven for the final two episodes,
Finished 1883. Overall, it was very good. Tim McGraw and Faith Hill, for being singers, were surprisingly good in this, and the supporting cast was excellent. The daughter traipsing around in that ridiculous outfit was jarring, however. Looking at the cast, I see that Billy Bob Thornton had a role, but I sure didn’t recognize him.
Toward the end of episode six I double-checked to make sure it wasn’t the finale. Overall, I think this was the best of the three seasons.
One quibble though: In the last episode, Luka’s entire plan hinges on talking the first officer into relieving the Captain of his command? Really? Seems like that had only the slimmest chance of success - and how could he know that that’s who would be guarding him?
I did the exact same thing!
We have a whole thread about that series. I liked it too, but some fans of the books were not entirely happy with the Amazon series.
Most of those shows are fake now, with great items either salted or found in advance.
I skimmed it, but the books seemed like a big part of it and I haven’t read them.
I refer you to the generally awesome Kingdom, a Korean historical series with zombies.
For some reason I watched a few episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, a series that ran between 1955 and 1961-62. Which got me in the mood for more late 50s/early 60s nostalgia. Now working my way through the entire Season 2 of Hitchcock and Season 1 of The Twilight Zone (that series ran from 1959 to 1964). I switch my binge-watching between the two as the mood suits. I tend to think that the first season of Twilight Zone (1959-1960) was the best, but at any rate it has quite a few of the best episodes.
It’s amazing how many episodes those old series produced every season. Hitchcock’s first three seasons each had 39 episodes, the remaining seasons only slightly less. Twilight Zone produced 36 episodes in its first season.
Not Dead Yet, about an obituary writer who can communicate with the dead, looks like it might be good.