Perhaps that’s why @carrps said “obviously didn’t mention him at all”?
I wouldn’t quite go that far, but we’re four episodes in and I’m really questioning going any further with it. The first episode or two were OK as set-up episodes go, but episode three stunk up the room (too much family stuff getting in the way) and number four wasn’t much better. They’re trying to be light but most of the humor just falls flat. I’ve always liked ol’ Arnie (despite his politics) and may see it through, but this might have made an amusing action/comedy movie at a couple of hours, or a better mini-series with more plot, fewer episodes and a lot less talk about peoples feeeeelings.
Yes, I didn’t think I needed to explain, but I guess I did.
Congrats on getting that far. I got through about ten minutes of the 1st ep before tanking it. It was painfully obvious that he had stunt doubles doing the heavy lifting, and heavy editing to take out the more embarrassing moves.
I think we’ve reached our limit on “The Great”, the Hulu tongue-in-cheek series about Catherine the Great. Made it through the first season okay, but at about episode three of S2, it became apparent that the show runners had hired a group of horny teenagers to write the dialog. I’m no prude, but the constant stream of profanity, along with a plot that is going nowhere, had my mind wandering. Done.
That’s about where I stopped too. What seemed irreverent and fun can so easily devolve into juvenile and stupid. Maybe old people like me were not their target audience.
The profanity never slows, but as for the plot going nowhere, mid-season Peter III falls in an icy lake and dies, so that’s a plot twist
In real life Peter was murdered eight days after Catherine took over, so that’s not a big surprise.
I just saw an ad saying Miracle Workers would be back July 10! I hope they mean it this time.
Re-watching Happy Valley to refresh our memories. It really is a stellar production. Nasty bad guys, cops who aren’t macho he-men.
I saw the first episode (it got “out there” before the season was cancelled) and I thought it was awful.
It usually takes me some time to warm up to each new iteration. I’m excited anyhow.
We’ve started a new show called “The Night Agent” It reminds me a bit of “Three Days of the Condor”. A low-level FBI agent working the night phones gets a call from some agents under threat, and story ensues. We are only one episode in, but so far, so good.
I didn’t watch it originally, but hearing what a good series it was, when I heard the final season was about to air, I binged the previous seasons. I was not steered wrong. Amazing series in a genre with a lot of mediocre choices.
I can’t see the title of that show without thinking of an episode of Andy Griffith.
Heh, Happy Valley and Mayberry are very different places!
Happy Valley is indeed stunningly good. S1 reminded me an awful lot of Broadchurch, which (for whatever reason) seems much better-known.
(And I was going to say its name reminded me of The Happy Valley of Oz, one of the original “Famous Forty” Oz books, but some googling points out that I was thinking of The Hidden Valley of Oz.)
I just saw an Acorn interview with the leads in three of their mystery series. Neil Dudgeon was talking about the big names they got to appear on Midsome Murders, and the interviewer mentioned Olivia Colman. Dudgeon said that she appeared with the previous Barnaby, but he’d heard she was begging to come back and do another guest spot.
He was kidding (although she was one of the more memorable guest performances in that series…I still sing that little song she did in the episode to myself sometimes).
WandaVision. I liked the first sit-com oriented episodes, but found the superhero antics unnecessary. So of course as the Magical Effect-Heavy Skills took over the show it got really stupid. I am not interested in aerial battles, throwing fireballs, etc. Esp. when they just drag on and on and on. The actual story pretty much just got lost in CGI. Marvel overdoes it again.
I’ve been watching Help! We bought a village on PBS, similar to Escape the Chateau where (mostly) British folks buy run down villages in France (or Spain and maybe Italy) and try to fix them up for destination weddings and such. Main issue is they preview the next segment, and then they show the segment so lots of repetition. Interesting (to me at least) to see the renovation work.
Brian