A big ‘thank you’ to all the people who’ve mentioned The Detectorists. It popped up on our Acorn last week (at least that’s when I noticed it), and we’re pacing ourselves. We’re near the end of season two and loving it. Adoring it. I also appreciate that it was planned to have only three seasons, and they stuck to that. So many good shows don’t know that.
It’s also cool that Diana Rigg plays the mother of her actual daughter.
Did anyone else think Richard Thompson was singing the theme song the first time you heard it?
What gets me is that the folks following him KNOW he has um… issues, but they keep deferring to his judgment, which is highly suspect. And you’re going to really hate the ending.
You won’t be disappointed. I’d say season 2 even improves on season 1 and when we get to know all the character better, even the aunties. Even Big. Thisisthe best show on TV in my opinion.
I923 didn’t offer much this week. The bond between Spencer and Alex was tested and strengthened. I wonder if there will be a time jump? They are many months away from Montana.
I did shut off my questions and finished Terminal List. Its basically a carnival ride of violence. The ending is a major disappointment. But that’s what the writer intended.
Rewatching Poirot ABC Murders on Prime. Excellent version of a older and weary man. There’s a new Chief Inspector that considers Poirot a fraud. The killer is taunting Poirot with letters. Its one of the truest and gritty versions of Poirot I’ve seen.
I have to admit, when I watched that originally broadcast on the BBC, I thought it was poor. Malkovich totally miscast, unnecessary backstory added and all in all just a bit dull.
I was re-watching Party Down on Hulu, sort of in preparation for the third season, premiering later this month. And then I started to watch Deadbeat, a Hulu sitcom from about eight or nine years ago about a guy who can see and talk to ghosts, and how he helps them ascend.
Watching The Watchful Eye. Pretty “meh” about it. Not good enough to look forward to, not bad enough to dump.
I first gave it a try because I noticed Amy Acker’s name attached to it. I haven’t watched anything she was in post-Angel and she was literally unrecognizable to me, as in I stared at the character and wondered if it might be her but couldn’t recognize the face or voice and only Google told me it was. (Contrast that to Sarah Michelle Gellar, who was very much like Sarah Michelle Gellar when she unexpected to me showed up in the first episode of the awful new teen paranormal drama, Wolf Pack.)
Ghosts - A quirky sit com with Rose McIver, and we love iZombie.
SEAL Team - This is the one I came to talk about. I wanted something to watch with action, like Boreanaz, and thought this would work. I figured, like most shows, it will start out with the action, then go to drama with the characters. However. Spoilers. In an episode after they are deployed to Afghanistan, they invade someone’s house based on intel. While the intel proves true, the whole episode was me thinking what if that happened in the US? They terrorize a family, threaten them, and seem to be looking for reasons to hurt them to get the information. I get that being over there is probably tense and they want to show it but this jolted me out of the enjoyment I had. Then, in a later episode, a decision made by one of the characters kills a child and no one bats an eye at the civilian casualty. Agan, I could only think of that happening here and it certainly didn’t make me feel good about the US involvement over there. I finished the season for a few plot threads but then stopped. To be clear, I support our troops and anyone in the field. I do not support the idiots who sent them there.
National Treasure - I tried one episode of this and couldn’t get past the main character’s age. Even five years older would have made it better for me.
Meh. Pretty standard office place sitcom with a gimmick - our heroine writes newspaper obituaries, and whenever she’s assigned one the ghost of the departed appears to her and follows her around for a while.
It sounds like “Ghosts” (either BBC or CBS) but not really. These ghosts aren’t particularly interesting from a supernatural standpoint; they’re just a plot device to get our heroine to work on something in her personal life.
The stars and co-stars were previously seen in Jane the Virgin, New Girl, and Superstore.
Not Dead Yet is a concept that needs a Michael Schur or a Bill Lawrence or even a Dan Harmon to add that extra poignant layer and give every scene genuine meaning, and with jokes that are well written and don’t require a mugging facial expression in lieu of a punchline.
