We’re still pretty engaged with it. It requires one’s full attention, for sure. I read the book twice, which makes it a bit easier.
I just started watching Law & Order: SVU for the first time and I am super intrigued by it. As an attorney, I’m finding myself swirling back to my law school criminal law and criminal procedure classes and have had a lot of fun trying to deduce how accurate the show portrays the way they are interrogating witnesses, or the trails of evidence they are following, or the way the defense attorneys are arguing for their clients. I’m very early into season one and am excited for the journey ahead.
Only 24 and a half more seasons to go!
ETA: This is why I refuse to watch the anime version of One Piece. There are over ONE THOUSAND EPISODES so far.
I’m not aware of any such law. And even if some particular country was bouncing refugees back over their border, I’d expect that to be their national immigration police. Interpol isn’t concerned with that.
Pieces of Her(Netflix) I’d not heard of this but if Toni Collette is in something I usually give it a try. It’s a mystery / family drama Toni as a mother who has a somewhat strained relationship with her adult daughter that only gets more difficult as mom’s secret past comes to light. I’m four eps in and so far it’s not living up to the very interesting first one. I’ll watch a couple more but it seems to be veering into action / shoot 'em up territory, which isn’t my thing.
If you’re looking for a quick bit of fun, you could do worse that Vortex on Netflix. It’s a French limited series set in Brest (only six episodes.) It’s billed as Sci-fi, but it’s more of a love story slash whodunit. If you’re fussy about time travel paradoxes and logic in general, this isn’t for you. If you’re able to suspend disbelief, it’s a fun little story.
Be forewarned now: Elliot Stabler is going to drive you absolutely insane. I say that as someone who has watched the show off and on over the years and has generally enjoyed it.
Wait really??
I like Stabler so far…
You mentioned that you were early in season one; to track the time as you move through each season, keep a running score of all the times Stabler does something that would have immediately gotten him fired from the NYPD if a real person tried it.
There aspects to the character that I always liked, but the writers also frequently let him transform into a Dirty Harry knock-off a whole bunch too.
Yeah, it covers a bit and really distracts. Made me hate hate hate the show without even seeing it.
Yeah, I concur.
The first epi of the L&O redo was skewered by Legal Eagle. He could do pretty much every episode.
L&O Criminal Intent had two main sets of Detectives, one led by Jeff Goldblum which is excellent, and the other by Goren, played by Vincent D’Onofrio- which got really bad. Gorens methodology was picking out a suspect with almost no evidence, then tricking them into a confession- which is so damn stupid I cant watch those. No actual detective work, just Goren figuring out what triggers to use then getting a confession- all of which could be solved by a simple “I want to speak to my lawyer”. How is he be such a great detective if his one and only trick can be beat by a simple and common phrase.
Paraphrasing a line from a promo: “I’ve only seen this phenomenon in a supermassive black hole!” Yeah, right, sure.
Yea I gave up on this one a couple of years ago at about the same place you’re at.
I was looking at available series on Amazon Prime and came across one I’d never heard of, Code Black. It’s a stereotype big hospital medical drama, but I’m enjoying it. I binged the first season and will continue watching the next two seasons.
We tried Renegade Nell on Disney+ last night. Overall verdict: meh. I wanted to try it because I enjoyed the lead actress in Derry Girls, but I am not the intended audience for this. It’s a spin on the classic teenage fantasy “young person with special powers goes up against the bad guys” thing. There was nothing particularly terrible about it and there were a couple of fun fight sequences, but it’s too simplistic and Disney-ified for my taste. If you’ve got teen kids, I bet they would like it. I will not be returning.
Monroe is a British medical drama appearing on Amazon Prime. It was broadcast about 10 years ago on ITV, with 12 episodes airing before cancellation due to declining ratings. Monroe, well-played by James Nesbitt, is a neurosurgeon with a lightly caustic House-like personality and belief in his own infallibility but who is much better-humored, pleasant and witty. The supporting cast is also quite good. This is one of the few series that left us craving more episodes. We really enjoyed it.
We watched the first two episodes of Fallout on Amazon Prime. It’s a lot of fun and has a bit of a Judge Dredd humor to it. I know very little about the video game it’s based on but the premise of a post apocalypse that began in the 1950’s provides for some really cool design choices.
Well, that is over, thank Prime.
But Tim’s little escapade may have seemed to end as a win, but any good defense attorney can easily get all the evidence Tim got or even toughed thrown out.
The whole “and this time, it’s personal” is bad on so many levels.
thanks for letting us know … i haven’t watched anything zorro since disney quit airing theirs and I heard the 2nd banderas movie killed what could of been a franchise …
The best decision they made is that the show is just in the setting of the games, but it a new story. Note: I think I saw 2077 on a school chalkboard in the episode which indicates the bombs went off in some kind of alternate 2077(there was a mushroom cloud next to the year).
I’ve played all the games and honestly, I don’t know what actual year the bombs went off. I know robots already existed, which you do sort of see in the show’s opening as well. It was some kind of weird alternate 1950’s-future.
I watched E1 of this, but probably won’t continue. I will never be able to see Walton Goggins and anyone but Boyd Crowder, no matter what they dress him up in.