I don’t read those much, either.
Watched 2 more eps of Northern Exposure last night, and I’m about ready to give up on it. Shelly was addicted to TV - she is just too naive/stupid for words. And Joel is just getting more and more whiny.
Not sure I want to just keep watching weirdness like Chris having a black mindreading twin, and Adam Arkin living in the woods as a barefoot gourmet chef.
What to try next?
Make a list of all the stuff you want to watch on the platform. Subscribe for a month or two, and binge. Drop the subscription.
If something else comes up in a year or two, repeat (e.g. we just resubbed to Paramount Plus tp catch the new season of Star Trek Discovery).
I do have a list, and this is what I’m probably going to do. The trick is to find a month or two when I’ll have time to binge-watch the shows I’m interested in.
We’re on Season 6, binge-watching at high speed. What a fantastically-entertaining show, and yes, over the top (in the most delightful way).
Ah, I am now several episodes in, and it is just that the writers like to make the FBI look like doofuses with a LOT of foot chases. They recently went after a terrorist on a bus- there are only two doors on the bus, but both FBI agents went in the front, so of course he went out the back. 
Oh, and a FBI single mom was going into surgery so she named one of the stars as her emergency caregiver- and of course she died- and now the FBI has the girls- which is not how that works- for a day- maybe. Thats it.
Oh, and the Local FBI Boss ordered the arrest of a Russian agent who had diplomatic immunity- against the strict orders of the State dept. Okay, well that would be the end of her career. Mind you she only had consular immunity, so yes, in certain circumstances an arrest can happen- but not if the State dept say NO.
Thinking it wasn’t for me, I have eschewed Yellowjackets until now. But midway through Season 1, I’ve been pleasantly surprised.
Yeah, I started on Outer Range and have given up on it - mostly because I got the same thing I often got from Lost; it continually puts two characters face to face where one of them just really needs to tell one specific piece of information to the other, but they don’t, because not saying the thing drives the plot. It’s obviously OK to write like that, but not all of the damn time.
I’m watching John Adams on Max, enjoying it for the most part. Now I’m at the first Washington inauguration. It’s been interesting and having read McCullough’s book seems fairly true to form. One thing I can’t get past is the appearance of the lead actor. We’re all used to seeing portraits of Adams with a bald crown surrounded by frizzy white hair looking a bit like Ludwig von Drake. In the miniseries, he is shaven bald and wears wigs in public until returning to America where he abandons the wig and grows his hair out. Did men in general really do that and did Adams in particular?
We just finished Your Honor, which we liked a lot. Then we were on the hunt for a new series - or I should say I was on the hunt. My husband has made it my job. The problem is, he is hard to please when it comes to viewing. There have been many that we’ve started that I thought were good and he didn’t. I end up watching those on my own. I came across Hudson & Rex on Prime. It takes place on St. John’s Island in Newfoundland. Hudson is a detective and Rex is his German Shepherd partner. It’s been on since 2019 and was just renewed for 2025. It’s an easy watch. So far, the crimes are solved in one episode. I think my husband likes it because of the German Shepherd. He grew up with them and we have one now. It’s nothing that will keep you on the edge of your seat and it’s pretty tame when it comes to violence, etc. I just noticed that S1 leaves Prime in 14 days. We’d better get a move on!
I don’t know about Adams, but until the early 19th century, that is indeed what fashionable men did: shaved their heads to wear a powdered wig on top.
Thanks I didn’t know they generally shaved before wigging. That puts me more at ease with the show.
Shaved? I read they did a close “buzz cut”.
I think You Honor will be seen as an example of how shows were made as best as possible under Covid restrictions. The empty streets and vacant lots , minimal extras in the courtroom, scenes with two characters max, etc. will be seen as how production teams made a virtue of necessity
Some websites say “shaved” but a close cut would have much the same effect. Supposedly to make the wigs fit better.
Interestingly, when I was googling this, a big part of how the fashion started was rich people trying to hide baldness / sores caused by syphilis. Then, of course, it kept on because fashion. Dunno if this is one of those “someone said it, and it got repeated so often everyone believes it”, or an actual fact.
I thought ancient Egyptians also shaved their heads to wear wigs, but it was to avoid head lice and other creepy crawlies.
Also it’s hot in Egypt. I wouldn’t want to be wearing a wig on top of my own hair.
Tried to find Murphy’s Mysteries, but wasn’t available on Amazon. May see if we are willing to try it on FreeVee with ads…
Do you mean Murdoch Mysteries, or something else?
Before electric clippers, wouldn’t shaving with a razor be easier than a “buzz cut”? What would a buzz cut entail, the use of scissors?