This is one of the elements of the show I like most. Oliver is the one who was so hot to move out to a farm and fulfill his lifelong dream, with all sorts of starry-eyed romantic notions about being a farmer, and he’s the one who’s constantly befuddled and frustrated by the various goings-on and the assortment of odd characters he has to deal with. Meanwhile, Lisa, the one who emphatically didn’t want to leave the glamorous world of New York City, is the one who understands how things work in Hooter(s)ville and fits in quite elegantly with the locals (in her own way).
Then there was another episode where Lisa is boiling a pot of water and Oliver groans “Not hot water soup again.” But no! It’s Dee-Dee’s Dehydrificated Mason-Dixon Chicken Dinner! Lisa dumps a bag of powder into the pot, then starts pulling out chicken pieces, corn on the cob, mashed potatoes… 
Further adventures in anime:
I’m Giving the Disgraced Noble Lady I Rescued a Crash Course in Naughtiness - The usual ridiculous naming aside, this is a rom com in a fantasy setting: he’s a misanthropic sorcerer, she’s a naïve Pollyanna on the run from false charges, he rescues her and hires her as a maid, hijinks ensue. It’s fine, although it is greatly enhanced by the inclusion of a comedy foil in the form of a fire-breathing capybara who can turn into a beautiful woman. Why are there not more shows and films featuring magical comedy capybaras? DISNEY/PIXAR - GET ON THIS RIGHT NOW.
The Saint’s Magic Power is Omnipotent - All rom, no com. Pretty much a Harlequin/Mills & Boon romance between a woman transported from our world to a fantasy world where she’s an OP magic user and a handsome nobleman who guards her. They’ve spent two series mooning over each other while not noticing the other mooning after them. Somebody needs to knock their heads together (note: I also say this about people in Jane Austen novels).
So I’m A Spider. So What? - Just started this one. An entire class is reincarnated (not yet sure what happened to them) in a new world as nobles and magical beings…except the class’s bullied loner who is reincarnated as a spider monster and has mostly spent her time running around caves trying not to get killed. Seems a bit cruel, although she’s levelling up quickly. Perhaps at some point she’ll meet up with her former bullies and bite their heads off.
The Slime Diaries - Basically a sandbox spinoff series for the other slime-based one I was watching. It’s just all the characters pottering around the town they built. There is no plot. It’s one step up from a screensaver, really.
I know what the point was. It was just distracting. To me. I did love how the Bisquick box seemed to put her into a trance.
There was an episode about how they met. He was a pilot shot down over Hungary, and she and her family protected him. I got the impression that she came from a surrealistic region, and so was comfortable in Hooterville.
I remember one where Oliver was going back to New York, I think, and everyone told him that it was great he could see the Eiffel Tower. He spent the show telling them they were nuts, then got to his hotel room, opened the curtain, and saw the Eiffel Tower.
Just finished watching Bodies on Netflix. Great premise: A naked body is found on a street in London in 2023, dead and shot in the eye. Then we find out that the same body was found in the same location in 1941. And that it was also found in 1890, and eventually in 2053.
Of course, time travel is involved, but the forces behind it and what they mean are slowly revealed. The show it intense and doesn’t resolve it easily.
I haven’t seen much hype about it, but it’s one of the best time travel series out there.
I’m embarrassed by how much I want to see this.
(I shouldn’t be. Romance lovers unite!)
Obituary (1 se., 2023, Hulu) Not much happens in the small English (Welsh?) village of Kilhaven so there is even less to write about for our young lady writer protagonist who has to make ends meet for her ailing father and herself. She lands a gig as an Obit writer but since being paid 200 quid per person there just aren’t enough deaths in Kilhaven to make ends meet. At least not yet.
My wife and I just started it and though it has moments of levity it is heavier than a sitcom and the run time of around 45 min which makes for a better evening ender than appetizer. Recommended for those looking for a lighter English style Dexter with more humor and less gore.
I’m just starting Wild Wild West.?. Obviously from a social aspect it’s pretty antiquated (IMHO) but the action and weird characters are very entertaining. And Loveless is a great villain from everything I’ve heard.
I watched that when it was on originally. Steampunk before steampunk!
Plus my mother went to college with Ross Martin - real name Marty Ross. Great show, you’ll enjoy it. Much better than the movie.
Along with Disney’s 20000 leagues Under the Sea.
Over Thanksgiving my brother in law’s husband got my wife watching this and we’ve gotten hooked on it.
The nudity really comes off very not sexual or titillating. More a mix between clinical and goofy.
It is not at all choosing based entirely on the look of the genitals. Lower half, including the genitals, is the first reveal with then middle, face, and then voice, until last selection made after the final two react to the chooser naked.
The least useful reveal for overall attractiveness is the lower half. Probably why it’s the first reveal. Apparently this group of Brits like “tidy” female sections though.
Yes nice to have examples of not perfect bodies, to see people comfortable displaying these variety of forms, and to see some selecting against the more conventionally perfect for a variety of reasons.
Of course the tattoos and piercings and … grooming … choices are as much social signaling as any clothing is.
As the episodes go on there are very interesting selections of contestants.
FWIW we’ve been finding it a fascinating watch.
Watched the first episode of Obliterated, which I thought was a parody on spy action dramas. Kept waiting for the parody, but it seemed to be playing the sheer awfulness straight. Looking at the Rotten Tomatoes reviews, it appears to achieve epic terribleness.
Ah, that must be the thing that came up on a preview when I opened up Netflix yesterday. Something going on in a hotel pool party in Vegas? It. Looked. AWFUL.
Great movie, but Verne was writing when steampunk was supposed to be happening.
I finished up two series recently. We got MGM+ recently to watch The Winter King (disappointing, did finish it but not worth discussing tbh, definitely not up to par with The Last Kingdom). We did also catch Perpetual Grace Ltd, which I think originally was a Epix show. It started strong and about the 4 episode we said, I can’t believe we still have 6 more episodes but then the last 4 episodes were some of the best TV I’ve seen in a very long time. Original, dark humor and every character (except maybe Glenn and his drunk dad) were unpredictable and surprising. Before I recommend it though, it is only one season, I think it died at the hands of Covid and it won’t be wrapped up neatly but it is still worth watching.
I also finished All the Light we Cannot See- it was ok, I only made it through because of Werner/Jonas (Dark) and of course, Hugh Laurie. I really thought the blind girl was fine but had to suspend belief a lot and that made me not love her scenes, I just wanted to get back to what Werner was doing. Makes me want to re-watch Dark, that kid is just a really interesting actor.
Yep. This reviewer says pretty much the same thing I said in my above post:
It is so avowedly dumb that you spend the first episode thinking that the writers are spoofing 1980s action movies and any minute now they’ll cleverly up-end it. Nope.
i’m currently trying to binge gossip girl (the 2021 version) on BBC iplayer, so far the only thing that’s acheived is a fucked up sleep sched and several missed days of school. never doing that again
Press is a British drama about the sometimes cutthroat competition between two daily newspapers, one a scandal sheet and the other more traditional. It’s an interesting series, well-played by all, about a subject we don’t often see portrayed from the inside. Unfortunately, there were only six episodes produced before the BBC cancelled it, so the ending is unsatisfying, leaving several plotlines unresolved. Too bad. We enjoyed it and felt it had potential. On Amazon Prime.
We’re two episodes into Silk, another British drama, this one centering on the rivalries in a high-powered law firm. Pretty good so far. On Amazon Prime.
Fisk, an Australian situation comedy about a talented but eccentric lawyer, has come back with a second series. We loved the first series with its dry, deadpan humor, and are glad to see it back. On Netflix.
We’re still hanging on with Silent Witness, but it’s taken a real turn to the dark (season 16) and also has the pathologists doing things that any competent police officer would either arrest them for doing or at least report them to their superiors. I’m guessing that after this many seasons they were having problems coming up with plot lines, but since it goes for another ten (!) seasons, perhaps they find their way.