Annoying, isn’t it? Also the jerky zoom-in and out. It pretty much goes away as the series progresses.
Is that s3? I am guessing you’ve not reached the Herogasm episode yet, because that is tremendous.
“Herogasm” certainly has one of the best disclaimers ever at the beginning:
We started to watch A Small Light a miniseries dramatization about Miep Gies, a Dutch woman who risked her life to shelter Anne Frank’s family from the Nazis for more than two years during World War II. Very good, so far.
Jury Duty (Freevee). The setup: it looks like a documentary on jury duty (and one of the jurors is James Marsden), but actually everyone is an actor except for one guy who’s not in on the joke. All the dialog is improvised. Marsden plays an exaggerated, jerk-ish version of himself.
We watched the first 2 episodes last night, and it was pretty much hilarious.
Marsden was on Fresh Air and Colbert this week. I imagine that viewership of the Freevee service has jumped dramatically, especially since its other content seems to be reruns of Perry Mason and The Twilight Zone.
That kind of reminds me of The Joe Schmo Show, a “Big Brother” type reality show with one guy who didn’t know it was all fake. It featured a pre-SNL Kristin Wiig.
In the case of Jury Duty, I can’t envision how they could fake the whole jury summons and voir dire process to get someone to believe they’re on an actual jury. Perhaps that’s covered in the show?
One of the things Marsden said on Colbert was that the guy playing the judge was a lawyer in real life, so he knew all the lingo and procedures and was very believable. He is also the father of one of the creator’s of the show, and he wanted to be an actor before he went into law.
We watched the first ep of The White House Plumbers on HBO. Very uneven. Justin Theroux is doing a very good Liddy, but Woody Harrelson looked liked he watched endless footage of Howard Hunt and was trying to do an impersonation rather than act a role. Very unnatural. Judy Greer and Lena Headey play their respective wives and were both very good. Domnall Gleeson (of all people) is playing John Dean. Not good casting. Physically he’s all wrong, and the way he’s playing it seems off somehow.
We’ll stick with it, hoping it gels. It’s one of those stories behind the story that deserves a good telling.
Can you explain what you mean by this? I have watched lots of anime that is similar to Spy x Family so I do not see how it is different, other than by the (elegant!) story, from other series I have watched. An interesting thing about this particular series is that it is actually being made by two different animation studios with episodes made by each sometimes alternating from one week to another although you can hardly tell the difference.
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This was a fun surprise and having finished the series, they do go into detail about how they did it and it was just fantastic how they picked probably the only guy in the world that would be an earnest juror and never figure out it was fake. Hilarious, Marsden was especially good but all the of the bit characters were hilarious as well.
I only meant that despite the spy/assassin stuff, the story revolves around the adorable small child. And there’s an entire episode basically set in a spy theme park.
Maybe it’s just because the other stuff we’re watching is Demon Slayer and One Punch Man and other far gorier fare.
There’s a sitcom on Disney+ called Not Dead Yet, about an obituary writer who can see dead people. It’s going for a New Girl tone with its ensemble (including one of the actors from it) but it’s really not very good. It has a decent supernatural premise that isn’t being explored in a fantasy way, and is instead treated as an afterthought for the episode’s heavy-handed moral (that never seems to follow through with anything concrete). It only had one episode that was firing on all cylinders, the rest were limp. Avoid.
It’s also on one of the regular network channels too - just can’t remember which one. I was excited to watch this when I first started seeing the trailers. I watched the first 2 or 3 episodes but it didn’t suck me in. I don’t like character played by Lauren Ash who I really liked in Superstore.
I quit watching it and don’t feel bad about it.
It’s on the ABC broadcast network. Believe it or not those still exist.
I probably watch more tv shows on ABC, NBC, & CBS than on anything else.
Me too. I think it’s because that’s what I started out watching.
Started on Love & Death (HBO), which has Jesse Plemons sporting a bad haircut, and Krysten Ritter (Jane, from Breaking Bad), among others. Based on a true story about an affair gone wrong. Good performances all around.
I am now, with sadness, reaching the end of my marathon viewing of the 268 episodes of the venerable Alfred Hitchcock Presents (the original half-hour series) which ran 7 seasons with an average of 38 or 39 episodes per season. It’s become a great bedtime and late-night tradition over the last few months, and I’m sorry to see it end. Not all the stories are winners, but it was excellent TV for its day and many of the stories are indeed very good.
It’s also been a nostalgic throwback to its era, which spanned 1955 to 1962. A particular icon of the era that I always enjoy seeing is the ridiculously massive cars, which you can see rocking on their over-soft suspensions whenever they come to a stop.
If I may ask, were you able to watch these on a streaming platform? I’ve been watching a few series, like Seinfeld and classic Star Trek, but I’m at the end of those episodes. I’ve seen many of the Hitchcock episodes and I’d love to watch them all.
No, not streaming. The Hitchcock series was from a friend of nerdish inclinations who ripped massive amounts of DVDs to disk. He once gave me the ripped files of his Hitchcock collection. I’ve mostly been watching them in bed on my tablet as a sort of pleasant nightcap, although sometimes I keep watching until dawn! 
There was one where a woman killed her (abusive spouse?) with a frozen leg of lamb, then served it to the investigating cop. I remember it being a great episode for some reason.