Finally watched Dexter: New Blood. I really enjoyed it and found the ending far better than the original series end. I’m really surprised so many disliked it. It wasn’t perfect but but IMHO was an excellent follow-up.
I’m currently watching Abbott Elementary and I feel that is one of the best shows currently running.
First three episodes of season two are out.
Finished watching Hit and Run, a pretty good Israeli series by the same guy who did Fauda. Unfortunately, the series ends in a cliffhanger and Netflix didn’t renew for a second season. 
We are just finishing season 3 of Yellowstone. We’re still liking it a lot, but it’s more soap opera than I thought it would be.
We also watched season 1 of Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosity. It has a stellar cast, and is based on some great stories such as HP. Lovecraft’s “Pickman’s Model”. But still, I found it underwhelming. A couple of the episodes were great, but the rest were just ‘meh’.
We are also watching The Last of Us. So far, it’s great.
Anyone watching Mayor of Kingstown?
I’m starting season 1. Its a bit sad because of Jeremy Renner’s accident. I doubt he’ll work again.
Taylor Sheridan certainly has created some great shows.
Pretty obscure series but I watched it and would have watched an ensuing season had there been one.
I finished The English, a 6-part miniseries starring Emily Blunt and Chaske Spencer, with smaller roles for Stephen Rea, Ciaran Hinds, and Toby Jones (among many others). I liked it a lot. Per Wikipedia,
An Englishwoman, Lady Cornelia Locke, comes to the West in 1890 looking for revenge on the man she sees as responsible for the death of her son, and meets Eli Whipp, ex-cavalry scout and member of the Pawnee Nation by birth, on his way to Nebraska to claim the land he is owed for his service in the US army, despite having been told that the white men will not honour their debt. They discover a possible shared history.
I’m not a fan of Westerns. This was more than that. It started getting a little slow in the middle, and I had some trouble keeping all the machinations straight, but by the last 2 episodes all the pieces had fallen into place. I recommend it.
1923 finale aired today. It’s frustrating that none of the story lines were resolved. It feels more like a mid season pause.
They’ve certainly created some major problems for the Duttons. I can’t see how the returning son can make much of a difference. We have to wait for season 2 to find out.
I’ve enjoyed the series. I’m not sure they needed three entirely different stories. Mistreatment of the Indians could have been shown throughout the Dutton story. Prejudice by the townspeople could have easily been included. The Indian schoolgirl’s story is interesting and I would prefer seeing it in a separate movie.
I guess eventually the schoolgirl will play a part in the Dutton family history.
It seemed a bit overly ambitious in regards to plotlines, and the ocean voyage just dragged on and on. That said, those stories did keep the series alive, as Harrison Ford seems nearly somnambulant much of the time. I also thought the finale’s scene with the prostitutes was entirely gratuitous and unnecessary. We get it; he’s ruthless.
I felt the same way. The scene with the prostitutes was very uncomfortable to watch.
Timothy Dalton is doing a fine job as the villain Whitfield. He’s quite a adversary. Whitfield has lawyers and political connections. He’s also dangerously cruel and sadistic.
Season 2 should be quite interesting. Spencer will need to out smart Dalton. Guns alone won’t be enough.
Yes, I hated the multiple torture porn scenes, completely unnecessary - we get the dude is evil. This finale was pretty lame and all over the place . I’ll still watch Season 2 though but if its not Clara & Jacob or Spencer & Alex or the Indian storyline, I feel like fast forwarding. Also- a DUEL? in 1920s? IDK…
Yeah, and they just happened to have swords on an ocean liner.
Also, the scene with the hired hand and his wife in the shower was also gratuitous. This series has been very good about how life was in that era without having anachronistic problems. But the guy is living with his wife in a Chinese labor encampment, so I think a prolonged shower (let alone hot) or even running water would be unlikely.
We started The Fourth Estate, a documentary series about the NYT coverage of the Trump presidency. The inner workings of a major newspaper are very interesting.
Finished the first half of season five Yellowstone. It’s a well-done series, but I could sure do without the “frontier wisdom” and the crappy country songs about booze and loose women.
Still watching season two of Your Honor, although they seem to have run out of ideas, as they keep rehashing the dialog with Rosie Perez, who is tiresome all on her own.
Just binged The Consultant on Amazon Prime. I liked it, but wouldn’t necessarily call it a dark comedy.
In their heyday, even small newspapers were really interesting and fun places at which to work. But even then, there are probably substantial differences between the home town dailies and the national biggies with thousands of employees.
I gave up halfway through the 2nd episode- we found it unwatchable and we are both fans of Christopher Waltz, so it was very disappointing.
I’m sure they were. I have a good friend who just retired as a copy editor for the New York Times, and who has been a journalist his entire adult life. He said the business has gone to hell. When I talked to a neighbor in Portland who quit his job as a reporter for The Oregonian, he said job security is all about clicks, not content.
I left the industry after seven years to pursue a career in my chosen field and can attest to the major differences between a convention of newspaper people and one where accountants gather. The activity around the bar was but one of them.
I got hooked on a series on Acorn called Black Widows. Apparently, it’s a remake of a Finnish series, but this one is set in both Norway and Sweden, and the three widows are Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish. It has a lot of black humor, plus Peter Stormare. The latter is great, because he plays a Swedish cop (supervisory, but not top boss), and the Norwegian cop who comes to investigate a triple killing in Norway looks a LOT like Steve Buscemi.
But my Acorn only has season one which ends with, like three cliff hangers, and they DONT HAVE SEASON TWO.
So I already watched Station Eleven a while ago, but I’m now reading the book upon which the series is based (about 80% of the way through) and while I think the book is exceptional for its own reasons, it’s curious that the series is based on the book but that they are about two completely different things. Or, rather, it seems like the TV series is about more things than the book is about. The TV series is about the weird goings on with a post-apocalyptic traveling theater troupe and a cult leader who does mysterious things with children, it’s about the relationship between Jeevan and Kirsten and their experiences together in the early days after the pandemic, and really that almost parental relationship is at the core of the storytelling in the TV series, it is what the series is about, in that those two characters show how people process loss and reconcile trauma and find a new place to be in the new world.
This relationship that is core to the TV series exists hardly at all in the book. I had hoped to get some answers that the TV series didn’t get around to explaining (the cult kids were never really explained) and I’ve still got nothing. The book focuses on other relationships. But reading the book makes me want to go back and watch the series again. It’s like maybe these two disparate but similar things can be processed together to complete a fuller picture of each. I respect the series more for deviating the way it did and coming out with something truly special.
Station Eleven, book or TV series or both, is an extraordinary, difficult to explain thing. My first reaction when I watched the TV series was “How did this get made?” Because it’s so weird. It’s so contemplative and navel- gazing but also a thriller, and you have to be patient with it to understand what it’s about. But it is a truly rewarding experience. So if you’re looking for something off the beaten path and you don’t mind your science fiction extremely literary, consider watching and/or reading it. I’ve never really encountered anything quite like it.