Ah, I forgot that - it’s been many years since I saw that episode. Well, she was at least the least annoying Soprano for me (a low bar to clear).
I watched Justified years ago when it was on Amazon. It’s one of my all-time favorites. I wanted my husband to watch it but it isn’t on Amazon anymore, it’s on on Hulu which we didn’t have. On Black Friday, Hulu had a great deal - 99 cents/month for a year. I snapped it up. Besides introducing my husband to Arlo, the Crowders, and the the Crowes (he knew Raylan from City Primeval), I wanted to watch The Bear and Only Murders. We’re on S2 of Justified and he loves it. We also started watching The Bear, which he gave up on but I’m still watching on my own. I really like it but, geez Louise, the yelling and hollering! That’s what turned my husband off of it. It grates on me a bit too but I like the story. The Christmas episode! Yikes, the yelling and talking over each other was over the top. I haven’t even finished that episode. My husband strolled through, sat and watched for a minute and asked me to turn it off. He couldn’t take it. I kind of agreed.
I hope you stick with The Bear. Yes, the Christmas episode was a lot to take but some of the later ones are really worth it. In particular, Forks, the very next episode, was one of the best.
Oh I will - I’ll just watch it in another room or when my husband isn’t home.
It’s unfortunate that your husband’s first exposure to The Bear was the Christmas episode, since that’s really not characteristic of the show as a whole.
I tried to watch Deadloch, and it was all good until the new detective arrived. Rude, uncouth and incompetent all at once? Nope.
Season 7 and 8 of Shetland was/is good (I have not seen the last epi on S8 yet).
Deadloch got better and better as the weird new detective was gradually humanized. I nearly stopped watching after the first few minutes, then again on her arrival. I’m glad I persevered.
Quirky usually isn’t my cuppa, but I enjoyed it. I paused every few minutes to look up Tasmanian slang.
Yeah, Deadloch. The show’s first season is 8 episodes. I have no idea what happened but the show changed direction HARD after the first episode. For those who didn’t care for the Pilot you need to finish episode 3 to really get a feel for what the show became.
Compare this to early episodes of Shits Creek, for the jokes to work you have to show the rich family as obnoxious and man was that tough to get through in the beginning.
Course I heard this about season 1 and 2 of Buffy The Vampire Slayer and so plugged on to season 3 and, nope, I was correct in the beginning the show is not for me.
Just found a free streaming service that has all of Samurai Jack on it. As I missed the first few seasons I’m now watching from the beginning.
No he watched the first couple of episodes with me, and the screaming and yelling bothered him then. He just kind of wandered away. While I was watching the Christmas episode he strolled by and stopped, maybe thinking he’d see what was going on. That was too much! 
We just started a weird, and I mean weird-ass American anime series on Max called Scavenger’s Reign.
It’s about a space crew separated and marooned on an alien planet. The show goes to great lengths to incorporate bizarre biological organisms and phenomenon. Everything about the environment feels unsettling, with elements of body horror. Some of it is the stuff of nightmares and some of it is just wicked cool. It’s like if Miyazaki gave birth to an alien movie. The characters are learning to use their strange environment to survive, but the ecosystem itself is so inexplicable.
We have only watched the first episode so far, but I’ve definitely never seen anything like it.
Alright, I guess I’ll subscribe to Max for a month. This could not be more up my alley.
Cheers!
The Sopranos turns 25 in a few days and David Chase answers, about as directly as he ever has, the question of whether Tony died at the end:
The earlier episodes were the best, IMHO.
While you’re there, consider Station Eleven and Mare of Easttown. Both superb.
New series The Brothers Sun. An action drama comedy series about two brothers who reunite after significantly different lives. Also stars Michelle Yeoh. I’ve only watched the first episode so far but I’m enjoying it and expect to continue doing so.
You Are What You Eat: A Twin Experiment (Netflix) A 4-episode docuseries, which we binged in one sitting.
A Stanford nutritionist takes 21 pairs of identical twins, and feeds one a healthy but omnivorous diet for 8 weeks, and the other twin gets a vegan diet. The first episode sets up the experiment parameters (and is actually almost as interesting as a study in twin behavior).
But: sucker, you’ve been bait-and-switched. The next 3 episodes are really about: MEAT IS EVIL. If you eat meat, you’re contributing to the destruction of the planet and torturing animals. If you prepare raw chicken, your kitchen is coated in e.coli. (Let’s check in on our twins for a second…ok, done). Every time you eat a burger a tree falls in the Amazon. But here’s a Michelin-starred restaurant that’s converted to a vegan menu. And here’s someone who makes vegan cheese that you can put on pizza and it’s actually tasty.
Oh, experiment over. Results: mixed.
I feel like I was promised a weekend vacation but had to sit through a timeshare sales pitch.
We watched this too- it was terribly biased and ham-handed. I agree there are things we need to do better but lets not only show the worst case scenarios. I would have been far more interested in the struggles of the twins to adjust to their diets.
Watched the first episode of Delicious in Dungeon on Netflix. In order to save money, a group of adventurers decide to eat the monsters they encounter, and yes, you get cooking segments. I found it more than watchable. (I like monster lore dumps)
Unlike may things on Netflix, the episodes will drop one per week.
Brian
Thanks for the reminder of this (I mentioned it in this thread). I watched the first episode tonight and thought it was well done. (Pun only retroactively intended.)