Stars on Mars! I think it’s fun. And I get to watch Crime Scene Kitchen after that. I adore it.
Just watched the finale of Derry Girls. What a gem of a show that was, and the ending was so well done. It’s one of the funniest TV shows I’ve seen since What We Do in the Shadows.
I looked up The Troubles on Wikipedia to educate myself a bit. These girls would have been in high school at the time I was, so this was happening to my contemporaries. Kind of sobering.
I think I mentioned that after watching all 268 of the 30-minute Alfred Hitchcock Presents series (an excellent classic!) I moved on to Get Smart just for a change of pace. I got some grief in another thread about the complete silliness of it (from @LSLGuy, IIRC 
). In fact, even though I put myself in a silly state of mind and mostly enjoyed the first three seasons, the writers ran out of steam by the fourth one. At that point the episodes were being written by committee – the same four writers – and I’m guessing no further involvement from co-creator Mel Brooks. After watching about 8 episodes of the fourth season, I’m dropping out. The show won 7 Emmys (and was nominated for 14) but those were from the early seasons. Even NBC gave up after the fourth season, but CBS inexplicably picked it up for one more, and then canceled it.
Moral: Go ahead and watch it if you feel silly enough, but stick with the first three seasons. Fun fact: only the first two seasons feature the lovable and incompetent spy dog Fang (a huggably hairy Labrador-Poodle mix) and mostly just the earlier episodes. Apparently Fang wasn’t too bright in real life, either, and the crew found it too difficult to work with him.
Same rule goes for Get Smart as I Dream of Jeannie. Once the two leads are married; stop watching.
No, NO, you absolutely must go back and watch “The Elysian Kingdom”; there’s a major plot point resolved at the end.
I’ve been going through “Designated Survivor” on Netflix, which is an intense and sometimes funny series about a former HUD Secretary (Keifer Sutherland) forced to become POTUS after a terrorist attack on the State of the Union address. I like it. I’m halfway through Season 2 of 3.
I’m about halfway through the first and so far only season of the new Disney+ show “Hailey’s On It!”, an animated show starring a girl of Hawaiian origin who’s trying to complete her List of Things She Wants to Do In Her Life. Failure to do so will have disastrous consequences. It’s a cute show.
We just started season 2 of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. The first episode was pretty good.
On your recommendation, I did just that. It wasn’t as “fun” an episode as it started out to be. In fact, it brought a tear or three to my eyes. Thanks!
Watching S6 of Black Mirror. I may have missed S5, not sure. This one is pretty good so far (E1, E2). Aaron Paul did a good job of not being Jesse Pinkman, but it’s a very strong association.
HA, My wife and I are exactly here. Saw this episode last night (Ep 3, the first two where outstanding). I don’t think John Hartnett has much of a range, but it was cool to see him play a different type of character. I think Aaron Paul tried his best as well, but there just isn’t enough ‘Josh Hartnett’ to act out. It’s not like the movie Face Off where everyone can do Nike Cage or Travolta. Hell, everyone can do Christopher Walken and even if it’s bad anyone would still know what you were doing.
Impressions of John Hartnett, no matter the acting chops, are going to be acting out lame generic heart throb. Which sucks for Josh, but perhaps that’s all he can do. Aaron Paul did what he could with that range. He can expect get another callback, I think.
Started Nobody’s Looking, a short Brazilian Netflix series about a brand new guardian angel (sorry - “angelus”) wreaking havoc on pretty much everything. It’s not “laugh out loud” comedy but the relentless low-key absurdity works in the short and snappy episode format. Halfway through the 8-episode season and so far, so good.
The last season of Endeavour started last night on PBS. Well done, as always.
The latest episode of Black Mirror, about some devil making someone kill three people is lame.
Tried watching a Brit series called Loch Ness, which takes place in the town near said lake. Typical British murder mystery show, but not very well done. No character development, so you don’t know who’s with who or who does what, typical family drama (but done poorly), and the actors really don’t seem to give a shit about what they’re doing. Hard pass.
Over the weekend, I binge-watched The Full Monty, a new series featuring the cast of the 1997 movie and by the same writer/director. It’s eight episodes of about fifty minutes each and in the US at least, is available on Hulu. Like the movie, it’s set in Sheffield and shows us the original cast in the present day, along with a bunch of new characters. I enjoyed it.
I spent many hours catching up on series one and the Spock related discovery episodes.
Godless on Netflix. No idea why it took me so long to get round to watching this. It is very good. For anyone not familiar, a western set in post-civil war New Mexico, in 7 parts. Westerns are not something I have seen much of in terms of TV series, although this felt more like 7 mini-films, since they all clock in at at least an hour except for one or two exceptions.
The acting is great, (although I did hear a bit of accent-slipping by one or two of the British cast members at times), the setting is simply stunning, but this is not something that is all-action and 100 miles an hour. Rewards patient viewers though. Highly recommended.
Saw the first two episodes of the new series so far. Great chemistry. Enjoyed the dog story. The daughter really grows on you .
Secret Invasion has started. Angry black man traumatised by The Blip fights a secret army of ridiculously strong refugees engaged in a bombing campaign in reaction to broken promises over giving them a place to live while also trying to prevent a violent overreaction by the government, and…wait a minute, wasn’t this the exact plot of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier?
Started watching Foyle’s War on Acorn last night. One of those British murder mystery series that’s done well. Each episode is basically a two-hour movie. Takes place in wartime England and has an excellent cast. I don’t think I realized that Rosamund Pike is British.
Watched the British series Safe on Netflix with Michael C. Hall (Dexter), who was also an executive producer. Created by Harlen Coben. It’s about a surgeon whose teen daughter goes missing. 8 episodes. It was pretty interesting. The only problem was Dexter’s poor British accent. It was distracting every time he spoke. It was better than Kevin Costner’s Robin Hood accent, but not a lot. They’d have been better off saying his character was raised in the U.S.
Two new series I’ve watched a couple of episodes of:
Count Abdulla: Comedy about a Pakistani-British Muslim doctor vampire. Nothing spectacular, but a good enough time killer.
I’m a Virgo: Dark comedy about a 13-foot tall 19-year-old who has been sheltered at home his entire life. This one is a little weirder than the other one. Has some sporadic weird visual effects that I’m not sure how to interpret yet.