And if you didn’t like the first season, you’re not going to like the next two. Season 1 was by far the best.
Tend to agree. I only bothered with s1. Entertaining, but compared to its reputation a bit of a let down. Tonally all over the place. The end of s1 was hilariously ridiculous.
Finished Breaking Bad yesterday. Wow. The last four episodes may be the best four hours of television I’ve ever seen. An intense and very satisfying conclusion to a great series.
If I have one nitpick, it’s that the final season is too full of new characters. I would have liked to see the end of the Fring storyline correspond with the end of the series. The end of season 4 felt like a finale (even though we clearly weren’t done with all the character arcs), and season 5’s baddies are nowhere near as compelling as Fring was.
But that is indeed a nitpick, because the show is not about them, it’s about Walter and his family and Jesse. And in that regard, it was amazing.
I haven’t seen it since it first aired, but think about it every time I hear that Badfinger song. 
I get what you are saying there. It’s almost like it’s a sequel, isn’t it? My favourite episode of all of BB is indeed in s5 though, Dead Freight (the train robbery one). So tense and exciting, with the biggest gut punch ending I’ve ever seen in a TV episode.
My lone nitpick with the final season of BB:
When Walt is racing out to the desert to save his money, he’s on the phone with Jesse (and secretly Hank) and he basically confesses to every crime he ever committed. It was clumsy writing and took me out of the show for a few minutes. Also, the fake scenery flashing by the car windows was poorly done.
Did you watch El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie? I thought it was decent, like a double-sized extra episode (but not a top 10 episode, by any stretch). Aaron Paul looks noticeably older for a story that’s supposed to take place a day after the finale, though.
I’m watching Judge Dee’s Mystery on Netflix. It’s a Chinese production based on a series of novels. Dee is a magistrate in medieval China who is called upon to solve complicated murders. The settings are magnificent and the mysteries very good.
It’s subtitled but not dubbed.
I am amused by the CGI sailboat, though; the people involved have never sailed and they show it going directly into the wind. Impossible, and doubly so given that it’s a square rigger.
I am 6(of 8) episodes through Shogun and I think it is good, but not great.
I didn’t know it existed until Netflix popped up a promo after the last episode. I’ll check it out, but don’t feel any urgency to do so.
It seems wrong that Aaron Paul turns 45 in a few months.
Aaron Paul looks very much like my son, whose name is also Paul…it’s impossible for me to not love any character he plays.
Even worse was “Todd” (Jesse Plemons) who appeared to put on (or lose, since he’s in flashbacks) 40 lbs. in that same short span of time !
I finished re-watching Band of Brothers a couple weeks ago and I started up The Pacific. I admit that I found Band of Brothers a bit more relatable (I may be biased in that regard) but it’s a really good miniseries. Plus it has William Sadler as “Chesty” Puller and I love everything that he does.
I thought they both looked bloated and aged, but got past that pretty quickly and enjoyed it.
I watched this series twice too. I do not normally watch anything more than once but I wanted my husband to see it. I remembered characters and some plot lines, but it was pretty much all new to me (I watched it the first time 10 years ago.)
Dewey was one of our favorite characters. I think in S5 a Webelo shovel is in one of the episodes. We laughed at that and now we call one of our shovels “the damn Webelo shovel”. 
Better fed, too.
I just started watching Elsbeth last month and I have one more episode to watch to be current. I am thoroughly enjoying the show. It kind of strikes me as a cross between Columbo and Monk.
I don’t remember which episode it was in, but I recall seeing Captain Wagner wearing his “railroad tracks” captain’s bars on the jacket incorrectly. I’m wondering who the advisor for police issues on that show is. Or perhaps it was the continuity person’s mistake.
We watched the Netflix limited series Baby Reindeer which is based on writer/actor Richard Gadd’s experiences being stalked by an older woman. It was fairly gripping and it didn’t overstay its welcome. Sometimes I wanted to smack the main character for his self-destructive behavior, though.
As a longtime player of the games (everything but Fallout 76), I’ve loved it so far. Extremely true to the actual setting, and explained well enough that my wife, who’s never played a game or had anything to do with the Fallout universe is following along and enjoying it.
We’ve also been watching through Futurama and The Simpsons as my children have discovered those two, and really like them.
Never did get into Disenchantment though; we basically ground through the first season and stopped. I liked it more than she did, but I think I got a lot more of the fantasy novel and game callbacks and references.
We recently finished The Gentlemen, FUBAR, and Obliterated on Netflix, and liked all three, albeit for different reasons. The Gentlemen was effectively a Guy Ritchie TV show, and was better than we expected. FUBAR was interesting- it is an Arnold Schwarzenegger spy action series, but it’s one that is essentially a retirement-age version of one of his 80s characters and his interaction with his daughter and ex-wife. More aware than I’d have given it credit for. Obliterated was kind of a silly, brainless spy/special ops romp that was a surprising amount of fun in a “have a couple of beers and laugh” kind of way.
As far as standing shows go… we still watch NCIS- I actually feel like it’s better with Gary Cole instead of Mark Harmon, and we watch The Rookie and Will Trent. All three are more because we’re invested in the characters not because the actual storylines are any good.