Wonderfully funny show. A follow-on to the Hit & Run Series on Netflix. Really very good, with some twists to keep you guessing. American and Israeli actors with some good location shooting.
Googling, Hit & Run premiered earlier this month. How is The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, which premiered in 2017, a follow-on to that? Reading the plot descriptions, there doesn’t seem to be any connection.
Poor writing skills, I’m afraid. It was supposed to be two separate topics. I commented earlier in the thread that we were starting H&R, and the above comment was supposed to reference that. Should have been a new paragraph.
We just finished Mr. In-Between on Hulu/FX. It was excellent and the it is the first role by the lead who also wrote/directed it. It’s similar to Breaking Bad in that the lead is a criminal (though not formerly respectable like Walter White is) . The episodes are short and jump forward a little but the performances from the lead and his sidekick are really funny but also dark and shows his struggles with caring for the people in his life, handling his considerable anger management issues while being a hit man. We really enjoyed it and I thought the series finale was just right.
Trying hard to grind my way through “The Defeated” on Netflix. The performance by Taylor Kitsch as the American detective is grating as hell and is ruining the rest of the show for me.
I’ve just finished ‘Katla’, mentioned upthread. Great, bleak scenery, but I think they were too ambitious in the number of narrative threads they put in to one season. Given the weirdness of the premise, it seemed too crowded.
Also; I don’t mind implausible sci-fi/supernatural events in drama, but do mind characters reacting in an implausible manner, as some did here.
Ran through the entire series of The Chair in one sitting. The spouse, who is an academic, kept pointing out all the terrible things that were entirely accurate about academia. Sandra Oh is excellent in it, and it manages to skewer both conservative institutionalized sexism, racism and just plain bloodimindedness, and kneejerk liberal oversensitivity and overreaction.
Oh God, that accent. A police drama set in war-ruined Berlin is a great concept but you’re right that that character is JUST - SO - IRRITATING.
(Speaking of accents - a lot of the characters tend to say a hard “ick” for “ich”. I thought that was more a Bavarian thing?)
If Sandra Oh wasn’t enough reason to watch, one of the creators is Amanda Peet.
Adding it to the top of my list of shows to watch. Thanks!
Haven’t watched the series yet, but “ick” or “icke” is a Berlin thing.
Really liking Reservation Dogs. It’s low-key comedy…with a surprising amount of “Willow” references.
…2…but that is a surprising number for a show about res kids.
New episode tonight!
Ta muchly!
Pulled the cord on “The Defeated”, at least for now. Just couldn’t stand the lead. Watching “Hit & Run” instead. Pretty good so far except the car chase scene was laughably badly done with the dialoging of the action scene.
I’m wrapping up season 4 of Fargo. I don’t know if I’ll go to season 5 (if they make one). It’s not bad, but season 4 is the weakest of the series. Chris Rock’s acting ability surprised me, but Salvador Espinoza can only play psycho by opening his eyes wide and staring around the room, and it just pulls me out of the story. I can tolerate Jason Schwartzman more in this than anything else, but this season has really been lesser quality than the previous three.
I don’t think they had the chances to reshoot and tweak it after what they had, so I give it that excuse, they did what they could.
I fully agree with your assessment. The “crazy Italian” got old after about ten seconds, and compared to the other three seasons, this one was a lame duck.
We’ve started watching Fauda on Netflix. Filmed in Israel, and in Hebrew with subtitles. Pretty tight, so far.
Also, I learned a new word on Res Dogs: Skoden, which is newspeak for “Let’s go, then”.
You have to love Jessie Buckley as the nurse though- wasn’t my favorite season but she made it worth it.
We have started watching on Netflix Midnight Diner : Tokyo Stories. ( there is also a Midnight diner series from 2015 it appears, so this is a continuation I haven’t seen the earlier show)
They are 20 minute short stories with the common factor being a chef who owns a small 10 seat, hole in the wall restaurant that only opens from midnight to 7 am.
Each story is standalone and is about the intersection of the lives of the random people who come into the restaurant. There are a few regular customers but they are not the point of the stories. Obviously all in Japanese with sub titles .
Funny quirky and all around nice stories and not much brain power needed to watch and enjoy, we watch a couple a night prior to going to bed.
I gave Supernatural a try, too, and decided it probably wasn’t really my cup of tea. Although I’ve still only watched the first few episodes, so maybe I’ll give it another go.
Right now, I’m watching the Avengers movies. Not technically a series, but… kind of a series. Just finished Ant-Man. They’re fun enough to keep me coming back to see the next one. I bet they’re great in theaters.
Also, 30 Rock. I binged it ages ago (like… 2011 or so) and loved it enough to be sad when it ended. I’m less enamored this time around, but eh… the episodes are short and it’s amusing enough.
Finished the season and it was interesting enough to watch because of the unlikely and convoluted plot twists. The acting is quite average and of course the cliff hanger ending is predictably annoying. It’s unlikely I’ll watch the next season if it comes out.