I’m rewatching Resident Alien so that I can remember what’s taken place when season 4 comes out. I’m only up to S1E3 so far.
Star Trek: Lower Decks (Paramount+, 2020 4 se.) Late to the party on this and knew I would like it but it was only available on a service I would not pay for, until now. Almost finished the first season and it is even better than I was anticipating. It’s difficult for me to get into a new comedy sitcom, especially animated, but this was written with care and shows almost a Galaxy Quest like attention to it’s source material and fans.
Solid satire that almost works as science fiction on it’s own.
I’m rewatching one of my all-time favorites Justified because my husband had never watched it. He loves it and I still love it but S5 was kind of a convoluted mess. There was way too much going on. We couldn’t keep track of it. Canadians, Mexicans, Kentuckians, Floridians, Chicagoans…whew! We just finished S5 last night. The last two episodes were pretty good but I’m glad we’re done with that season. Just like all series the last couple seasons always seem to kind of lack in something or other. I first watched this series about 10 years ago. This time around, I was surprised that while remembering the characters and their personalities/traits, it was like I was watching it for the first time. I’ve really enjoyed it again!
Haven’t there only been two seasons?
Yep, you’re right.
I mentioned upthread a ways that my wife and I had started watching “Death in Paradise” on Britbox. We got about halfway through the first season then for some reason started getting an error message from Prime every time we tried to continue. What’s weird is that I can pull up other seasons, I just can’t get back into S1 for some reason. So last night we just jumped ahead to the beginning of S2.
We also started watching Doctor Who from the very beginning. Good cheesy fun.
In my opinion you can drop the “almost” by the time you get to seasons 3 and 4. It keeps getting better.
Andor might be my favorite piece of modern Star Wars media. Very slow burn (I think the first two episodes were a little too slow) but the whole series is phenomenal. There’s not one side character that I wouldn’t mind getting a spotlight episode.
I just started Profilage, or Paris Murders as it’s called in English, on Prime. The stories are apparently pulled from French headlines, and thankfully the “quirky” profiler isn’t too much. Though why she wears heels everywhere she goes…
The new Mr.& Mrs. Smith series is too slow and weird for me. Gave it two episodes and dropped it, though I’m willing to give it another shot if folks convince me.
First Episode of the critically liked Mr. & Mrs. Smith on amazon-prime was really slow and boring. The pacing was poor and the extra dialogue wasn’t really additive to the story and I was left with no interest in watching an additional episode. Sad as I like Donald Glover, but this one is not for me.
It is interesting the critics are at 88% like and Audience is only 69%.
The second episode got weird. I was hoping for a lot more action.
Been watching True Detective season 4 and my enjoyment has been declining since episode two. Will watch it until the end (just two more episodes), but it’s turning from a police procedural to American Horror Story: Ennis Alaska, which is not what I’m interested in a show called True Detective.
On HBO/Max.
Yeah, it was pointed out earlier on in a TD4-specific thread that most of the overtly supernatural stuff was witnessed by Navarro, who may or may not be sharing the family mental condition causing her to hallucinate, so a non-supernatural cause for the killings may yet be revealed.
But more and more it’s looking like they can’t really wriggle out of the plot line without at least some sort of supernatural or science-fictiony explanation, or something natural but really dumb, like the mine causing pollutants in the water causng everybody to hallucinate and / or act weird.
That’s more or less how the whole season went. As I described it up-thread,
I’d never heard of The Tourist so I took your ‘promising’ as a recommendation and ran with it. It’s a bit uneven and full of plot holes, but a fun ride nevertheless. One thing I got a kick out of, which I’ll spoiler even though it’s probably unnecessary:
The methhead from Breakiing Bad (Tucker! TUCKER!!!) in the lead detective role. At one point he’s forced to take a shovel and dig a hole in the ground. Pointlessly, as it turns out. That can’t be a coincidence.
The finale required quite a bit of suspension of disbelief, but at six episodes a pop, I’m willing to give season 2 a go.
I wanted to enjoy the AMC series Monsieur Spade, with Clive Owen as a retired Sam Spade living in France, but as I like to put these kinds of shows on in the background while I bumble about with other stuff, and it’s over 50% in French language with subtitles, I found it impossible to know what was going on. That’s entirely on me; it otherwise looked to be my kind of thing, but I just find subtitles to be a chore.
I’m also trying to watch Death and Other Details, a quirky stylish murder mystery, clearly inspired by the Knives Out, Only Murders, Branagh’s Poirot, etc, phase we’re going through. It has Mandy Patinkin putting on some kind of accent, and a whole heap of actors I have never heard of. However it is very complicated and I’ve already lost track of what’s going on. This is a two episode concept being stretched to ten, and it’s padding things out like crazy.
Dewey Crowe! I couldn’t figure out where I’d seen him before!
I never saw Justified, but he was also Charles Manson in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (although I didn’t recognize him when I saw it.) I’m assuming Crowe was a baddie? The guy has a face for evil.
Didn’t Dewey Crowe also play Manson in “Mindhunter”?
He plays the dumbest of the Crowe tribe of criminals. It was a great role and he carried it off very convincingly. I always looked forward to seeing his character.