When it was first released, I would have four or more episodes of Orphan Black recorded on the DVR, but I always found a reason not to watch them. However, when I would watch one, I never regretted it, thinking that this is a really good show. I also should try to rewatch a few episodes to see if I might enjoy it more now.
I justy stumbled upon the first season and it’s crazy when TM plays Sarah playing Allison, and vice versa 
I just binge watched Girls5eva now that it’s on Netflix. It’s a sitcom about a Spice Girls/Destiny’s Child-style girl group that reunites after 20 years. I thought it was funny and I would compare it favourably to Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (Tina Fey is a producer, and the creator was one of the writers on that show).
Oh, man, I’ve been waiting for that show to be added to Netflix ever since it was announced they had picked it up for a third season. I’ll add it to my queue.
Edit: My Netflix isn’t showing the show as available, so it must be available outside the U.S. for right now.
Personally, I loved all of Orphan Black (except for the Casper season…3, I think). Maslany was just too much fun to watch. I could completely believe all the characters as individuals.
We finished Balthazar (on Accorn) last night. I thoroughly enjoyed it. All the horrific, baroque murders in Paris in so few years was a bit straining on the disbelief, but I loved all the characters. Great humor which I think a show with such serious themes need, and I was completely satisfied with the conclusion.
Dark Winds with Joe Leaphorn of the navajo Police.
Okay, we’re in the only second season, yet they have already fallen back onto the old & very bad “and this time, it’s personal”.
That needs to be saved until the writers are totally out of ideas. If that is season 2, then the show is in deep shit.
(Note that IRL becoming involved in a case where it is personal will often get the evidence tossed.)
Oh, and in one of the last The Blacklist, they have the young girl at a ballet recital, doing 'en point". That has been banned in places for kids and needs to be banned for anyone under 18. What it does to the feet is criminal.
You realize those are adaptations of a series of novels, right?
Yeah, but there have been a lot of changes. Also, George R. R. Whatshisname is a contributor, and I feel has skewed the mood of the books. There’s been a lot more violence and sadism and a lot less Navajo lore than I remember from the books.
A series of novels written in the 1970s, no less – I wonder if “and this time, it’s personal” didn’t feel like as big of a cliche back then. That’s assuming the show is being faithful to the novels in that respect; I’ve neither read the books nor seen the show.
Yes, but there are over 2 dozen, and they arent sticking closely
I have read a couple, and the show is different. Better, in fact that everyone isnt lighting up every second page.
How do you know that they aren’t smoking off-page?
Just as well, as the novels are thick with cultural and geographical references that can bog you down if you don’t know wtf the author is talking about. I just started the series of books. The first one was pretty incomprehensible to this white man until about halfway through. I like the series, as mentioned above. It’s gripping and tense, with both excellent protagonists and antagonist.
I highly recommend the three-part documentary on MAX called Telemarketer$ about the massive fraud perpetrated by an unholy coalition of police unions and telemarketers. There’s also a very sweet dynamic between the novice documentarian and his co-investigator; both veterans of the telemarketing boiler room.
Police? Does it talk about those Policeman’s Ball scams?
Finished The Outlaws, which was. . .certainly odd. Not sure what’s next, other than to wrap up Justified and Dark Winds. Don’t much care about the former.
“Who Is Erin Carter?” - Netflix
It is a limited series consisting of 7 episodes. I give it 3.5 out of 5 stars.
Fraternal Order of Police (FOP). There are a zillion local chapters and they authorize telemarketers to solicit donations posing as officers themselves with the not so subtle insinuation that you should donate if you want to stay on the good side of the local cops (ie: a protection racket). They are basically selling those stickers people put in their back windows thinking they won’t get speeding tickets. The FOPs take 10% and the telemarketers keep the rest.
Part of the 10% is supposed to go to injured or killed officers and their families but it never does. I doubt any of it goes to a ball, either although it might help keep the cop bar well stocked with booze or help a cop dodge a brutality rap.
That’s right. I forgot about the sticker racket. I’d never gotten one of those calls (don’t answer spam), but in the old days I got a few calls asking me to buy tickets to the Policeman’s Ball or whatever.
I’m rebingeing The Good Wife now, and I’ve got an odd reaction to it. I loved the first 6 seasons, but I’m finding the 7th (and final) season unbearable. The characters went flat, the plots became ludicrous, the dialogue unspeakable, the conflicts cartoonish. Is it me, or was this a common perception?
I need a cite about this . Sure the telemarketers are evil, but the FOP itself is not a scam.