I finished watching Onimusha. It didn’t improve (in my opinion) and it ended up as a heap of weird anachronistic nonsense.
Continuing with What We Do in the Shadows.
The “Local News” episode is one of the funniest things I’ve seen in a long time.
Just finished the first two episodes of Monarch: Legacy of Monsters. Set in the universe of the 2014 Godzilla movie (which I don’t remember if I ever watched. So far the series is still just establishing itself (and jumping around in the timeline). Too soon to tell if it is going to be good, but it isn’t immediately bad.
Saw a couple of episodes of the UK version of Ghosts last night, and it was really good! I didn’t expect to like it more than the version I’m familiar with, but maybe I did.
I watched those before watching the second episode of the new season of For all Mankind (also Apple TV). Legacy of Monsters (which also plays with alternate history) is a far more engaging show. I’ve already printed up copies of this sign and put it up around work:
Us too (just saw the UK version of Ghosts). CBS started showing them to fill in slots in their schedule due to the strikes. It would have been ok with me if the UK version was the one and only one.
Eighteen years late I have finished Six Feet Under. The writers may have come up with the best finale of all time.
Very satisfying, as so many endings are lame.
WETA PBS is running a 'binge day River. I really liked the program but it is very intense. I need a break between intrusive thoughts.
I re-watched this about a year ago and have been trying to resist restarting it again but Netflix keeps telling me otherwise…
The second season of Julia, the series about Julia Child, premiered this week on MAX. They released the first three episodes on Thursday and subsequent episodes will be available weekly.
I really like Julia but I really wish they wouldn’t hit us over the head with the cultural time stamps. Yeah, we know Tim’s special coffee was laced with LSD; it didn’t need to be (literally) spelled out for us.
I don’t mind that as much as you seem to. For example, I was prompted to Google the name of the recipe featured in S2E1 (Loup en Croûte). An article I found said the recipe is an example of nouvelle cuisine, while Simca’s preferences were more traditional.
Going to drop Max at end of this year so u guess I need to watch a few series
I watched episode 1 of Beacon 23 , the first 5 minutes of the set up to the disaster had me in serious eyeball roll mode , but after that it was interesting, probably not enough to pony up to pay the subscription though , maybe when it’s all released and the he reviews are in and if there is anything else on MGM plus for a month.
That’s something from my “looks like I might like to watch someday” pile that I bumped up to now with this reminder. When it aired I didn’t have whatever cabke channel it was on. (I very recently watched Mad Men for the first time for the same reason. Probably will eventually watch The Supranos but will probably skip *Game of Theones.)
I’ve watched the first three episodes of Colin From Accounts on Paramount+. Two broken people are brought together by an odd circumstance.
It has its charms and there are some laugh-out-loud moments, but it can be uneven. The characters can feel very human and relatable one minute, then over-the-top inappropriate the next. And it has the old “I don’t want to tell you the one piece of information that would clear up this whole misunderstanding” trope. Not fatal flaws, yet. I’ll keep going.
Binged Troppo on Netflix. Set in Australia with interesting characters and a mystery plot that I really enjoyed. Eight episodes, one season. I just read that a season two may be released
Still watching:
Mr Queen, a dramedy about an arrogant (male) chef who through a complicated turn of events ends up in the body of an 18th-century Korean queen. Shin Hye-sun is highly entertaining in her “clueless jerk of a man in a woman’s body” act and really delivers. I’m more or less following the rather complicated farce of court politics going on (there’s a lot) but Shin is worth watching all on her own.
Miracle Workers (S4): Really struggling to get up the enthusiasm to keep watching. Same jokes as the last two seasons, in a new setting. Watch seasons 1 and 2 and that one episode of S3 where Daniel Radcliffe sings “She’ll Be Coming Round The Mountain” wearing a feather boa, chaps and mascara, and ignore the rest.
Anime! Watching:
The Saint’s Magic Power Is Omnipotent - A female protagonist dragged into a new world, is OP, saves the day, etc. No perving at all, largely because this is more leaning into the romance of it. As is usual, the protagonist and the guy she’s mooning over are clearly deeply into each other but have to waffle endlessly until you want to smack their heads together. Also, I spent a lot of time in S1 yelling “Kyle, you’re a dick!” at the screen, but it turned out Kyle was being a dick for a good reason, which surprised me.
A Playthrough of a Certain Dude’s VRMMO Life - As the tedious title suggests, for once the individual is actually just playing a game rather than living it. The gag is that he just wants a mindless diversion and keeps making choices that are supposed to be underpowered just for the heck of it, but naturally ends up as an OP hero anyway. Also his character is forcibly married to the Fairie Queen for reasons never quite explained. Some reference to offscreen perving but this is pretty chaste and mindless in itself.
Stopped watching:
Summoned to Another World For A Second Time - OP hero who had been sent to be reborn in our world is summoned back to his original world, where he solves everyone’s problems with ease. All the men want to be him, all the women want to be with him, and I want to punch him in his insufferably smug face.
Actually it was Amazon Prime through FreeVee.
One more thing about Six Feet Under, I didn’t actually binge it, instead watched it sporadically over several months because the various personal dramas were often wearing on me.
But there’s no doubt that the interpersonal relationships bound the viewer tightly to the characters, which contributed mightily to the emotional impact of the awesome finale.