I just finished watching the 2022 sitcom Reboot (not the cartoon) and I thought it was pretty funny. It never got a second season and the story kind of ended in limbo, though.
I agree, the workplace scenes were much funnier than the scenes revolving around the cast’s personal lives.
Outer Range (Prime, 2 se, 2022) Can’t say much about this without potentially ruining it. Only 3 episodes in and my wife and I will probably throw in the towel. It’s alright, the cast is fine, it’s just Counterpart, Black Mirror and Fargo have done it all much better.
Started watching ‘Anthracite’ on Netflix. 2 eps in. It’s a ‘mystery box’ foreign-language show originally in French; we are watching dubbed in English (we keep subtitles on to get the more accurate translations as well as the lip reading-friendly dubbed English). Seems watchable so far, but they are introducing a lot of plot threads and it gets a bit confusing at times.
Plot synopsis: in a small town in the French Alps in 1994, a cult poisoned themselves, ‘Heaven’s Gate’ style. The leader, despite puking blood, was the only survivor and is in prison. 30 years later, present day, it seems like the cult has returned somehow- people are dying and mysterious robed figures wearing goat skull masks are being spotted. A plucky girl with l33t IT skills is trying to find out what happened to her father, who disappeared while researching the cult. There are echoes of the plot from the latest Alaska season of ‘True Detective’: it’s a coal mining town, and people are protesting, claiming the mining company is poisoning the town with runoff, causing birth defects, miscarriages and other bad stuff. Possible supernatural overtones, but that may be a red herring.
I’m halfway through A Man In Full, a 6-episode Netflix series based on a book by Tom Wolfe. It’s primarily about a rich guy who’s over-extended and is having his loans called by a banker who doesn’t like him. There are about a dozen sub-plots, and I’m not sure how they’re all going to be resolved in the remaining three episodes.
It’s highly entertaining, thus far.
Season 2 of “Wednesday” has FINALLY entered production in Ireland! I’ve been waiting and waiting and waiting! I absolutely adored season 1 and, judging from the 400 million viewing hours Netflix recorded when it first came out, so did many others.
If you haven’t given it a try, I strongly suggest that you do. Jenna Ortega does a wonderful job as Wednesday Addams. She plays a far more 3-dimensional version of Wednesday without losing the gloom she had in the original TV series.
Dead Ringers a three part remake of the 1988 film, this time staring Rachel Weisz in the dual role. RW is absolutely fantastic and it almost wouldn’t matter what the story is (twin gynecologists, one slightly wackier than the other). I could have lived without the extreme closeup birth scenes but that’s really just in the begining.
I watched Shardlake on Disney+*, a murder mystery set in mediaeval Britain. It’s much more authentic than Cadfael, but it’s along the same lines. Has heavy political themes from the Henry VIII anti-Catholic palaver, which because I am unfamiliar, and other character ambiguities, kind of made me unsure who I was supposed to be rooting for. Also I guessed who the culprit was very early. But the real entertainment comes from the performances, which are top notch.
*Actually it’s on Star, which I suppose is the equivalent of Hulu(?)… I dunno
X-men '97
Highly recommended.
I have never watched the X-men 1992 show, so don’t worry about that. This was a 10 episode shot, but felt like one of the best X-men movies. I kind of loved it.
If you like comic book movies, the X-men, or just great and fun storytelling, check this short show out. It’s well done all the way through.
Big surprise for me.
Hoarder House Flippers on Hulu. While I could never go into some of the places they buy ( I can’t imagine how a person can live in that clutter) it is satisfying to see it cleaned out and the work put in to fix it up.
We watched it, too, with the same expectations as you. We freaking loved it. I think I cried when the city of Memphis tore down the STAX building. It made me so angry, but the music and people helped to cool the burn. Excellent series. Highly highly recommended.
Agree, it’s a solid show. I think it may be more darkly themed than the old show, a hard look at Magneto and his painful motivations, the deeply disturbing views of humans vis a vis mutants. I have a couple of minor criticisms, but it was a good watch.
Thirded.
My husband is a little bit obsessed with X-Men so I get a little X-Mened out sometimes. But this I actively wanted to watch. I’d even go so far as to say this is one of my favorite X-Men things.
The only caveat is that the series whips through the stories at a breakneck pace. I think there were some lost opportunities to include some of the best moments in the comics.
This comment had to make me contribute here…
I’d sort of get that when it was showing, well, maybe greatest scifi show, up to season 3. I was so excited to get to season 4, I think it was (perhaps it was end of season 2). Onto spoilers.
Oh they fucked it. They fucked it bad.
The huge interesting part was the seven set of cylons, and the mystery of the other set, the other fives, who we didn’t know. With the seven set, they’d die and rez on a rez ship, and there was tens to hundreds of each model.
So, assuming that also applied to the fives, when one dies, they would rez, and there would be more than one copy of each. So it would be hard to hide those inside the fleet.
But nope, they just ignored any of that crap, and not only did they make them unique, and also hid them on the ship in situations which really didn’t make a fucking bit of sense. Wouldn’t Adama notice his lifelong friend Saul Tigh hadn’t aged in the 50 odd years he knew him???
It was if they’d fired the original writers and got the rejects from Lost in, to change it into some sort of biblical story, with none of the mystery except some absolute nonsense about Starbuck which never got explained very well either (or the explanation was rot).
Yeah, so they’d get to earth and be us. Or something (I frankly can’t remember the ending, having long since hate watched it). It was same as Season 6 onwards of Game of thrones, increasingly ludicrous plotlines.
(I personally thought the story would have five group were in alternative ships also trailing the human fleet, but on the human side and helping them. Perhaps even dead seven group cylons out of range of rez ships might rez them in the five group ships, and perhaps join the fives as agents inside the sevens. It had so much potential for intrigue and suited the complex plotting up until then. But nope)
So I’d get what you were saying if we were hanging about in about 2006, waiting for the new season. But it took such a lad turn, I find it interesting that someone not only suffered the show going off a cliff, but still holds it in such high esteem.
I disagree with almost all of your thoughts, but I have heard your views elsewhere. Loved all of it.
I finished watching A Man In Full on Netflix, six episodes. Highly entertaining and fast-moving, with a totally unexpected (and, quite frankly, not very satisfying) ending.
Finished the series Veil on Hulu last night. We watched it because of the cast (Elizabeth Moss, Josh Charles) and without reading any reviews. It’s basically a spy story involving the agencies of several countries and those damn dirty Ay-rabs trying to blow us all up. Sort of a female Bourne, if you will. Moss is a good actor, but she didn’t quite carry off this sort of role. She’s not really muscular enough for the fight scenes and doesn’t seem comfortable handling firearms. The story was also kind of a muddled mess. But if you’re looking for something that’s only six episodes to kill time, it’s okay.
I binged the three seasons of The Fall with Gillian Anderson playing a thoughtfully sexy police detective. Actually an ok procedural with some interesting details. I still don’t understand where the title came from
Regarding Hacks: What did you think? I was disappointed in the 3rd season; it had its moments but didn’t stand up to the quality of the first two. As for the finale: Strange and unwelcome characterization of both leads regarding the Head Writer plot point. One had hoped for better from Deborah, after her character’s arc towards becoming a slightly better human being (see also: what happened with her sister). Ava’s turn towards straight-up manipulation and blackmail was badly out of character for her, no way around it. Hated the ending.
Watched the first episode of Fantasmas, created by and starring one of the guys from Los Espookys. It is weird, man. Weird weird weird weird weird. Weird. Also, Melf loves cookies and spaghetti.
Don’t forget to mention it’s weird. 15 minutes I had absolutely no idea what was going on or what universe we were in. I largely got the things they were parodying (I think), but couldn’t find a laugh.
I’m probably not the target audience.