I recently finished streaming all of Stargate SG1, including the followup movies, and Stargate Atlantis.
I started on Stargate Universe but gave up after 3 or 4 episodes - it just wasn’t at all engaging.
I re-upped Paramount Plus so we could watch the final season of Star Trek Discovery - I’m rewatching it starting with season 1 as a general refresher.
Couldn’t get into The Decameron on Netflix. Short answer: (John Lovitz) Oew Rrribaldrry!”/(John Lovitz)
Long answer: Pre-modern explicitness i.e. Decameron/Canterbury, Gargantua, Simplicius Simplicissimus, Gulliver, Tom Jones, etc. have violence and bodily functions right out there in the service of realism, against a climate of repressing those realities. The current run of Bridgerton-meets-Monty Python splurtfests really aren’t countering anything worth countering.
Plus, like a lot of stuff that loses me early on, it’s clear that they were more interested in their own enjoyment making it than in ours watching it.
I’m not an anime fan, I don’t like BESM art style, but I liked the live action show. I was also sad they didn’t get a second season.
I just got to the verdict, Episode 8, and was stunned to find out that:
They changed who done it. With regards to the book…the characters are the same, the crime is the same, but they changed the murderer.
Can they do that??? Shoot, why not just do like Clue and film 4 versions with a different murderer in each.
Finally in the last season of our Sopranos re-watch. It’s clear that they were running out of ideas by then, and I really hate dream sequences.
Dream sequences are the worst, in both books and visual media.
Nm. Wrong thread
They did that with the film version of Blood Work, and having read the book, I was happily surprised that I didn’t know what was going to happen.
I can’t remember the original movie specifically (I’m sure I saw it) but I did remember that it was a punchline to a SNL skit about whodunit, so I thought that they would have to change that because that would be so obvious.
Kids in the Hall, maybe? That’s where I learned it.
Oh yeah, that was it! It had been so long, I had forgotten all but the punchline. Thanks!
I started watching the original Twlight Zone episodes last night.
I plan to watch the first three seasons. I’ve heard it went to an hour in Season 4 and wasn’t as good.
It was a difficult show for Rod Sterling to write. The stories were unusual and had gotcha endings. I expect that some episodes were very good and some won’t work.
I’ve seen a few episodes decades ago in reruns. I’ve never tried watching full seasons. Hoping that I can stay interested.
It’s on Paramount+.
Some don’t work because the gotcha has been copied and parodied endlessly over the last 60 years.
I think Bill Shatner’s airplane wing episode has been copied and parodied by the Simpsons.
The one I remember most vividly is The Bewitchin’ Pool. Kids visiting Aunt T at the bottom of the swimming pool. That still creeps me out. Pretty extreme for early 1960’s tv.
IIRC TBS aired the Twlight Zone regularly in the late 70’s and 80’s. I watched occasionally.
Yeah, I thought the hour long episodes in season 4 weren’t up to the quality of the other seasons. I’ve said it elsewhere in this thread that it’s like when Alfred Hitchcock Presents 30-minute episodes went to 60 minutes in The Alfred Hitchcock Hour and started to suck. The final seasons are much better (I just watched all of the episodes recently too).
Now I’m watching Jordan Peele’s version of The Twilight Zone. Too many cerebral plots; I wish the stories were simpler, like The Living Doll and It’s a Good Life. Peele’s remake of Nightmare at 20,000 Feet (now 30,000 feet) isn’t nearly as compelling, and the ending is unfortunate.
Of the recent similar series, I rather enjoyed Dimension 404 (originally on Hulu). Only six episodes (which was probably enough) but definitely not predictable storylines. The one with Patton Oswalt is particularly good IMO.
I just watched Season 1 of Snowpiercer and I’m partway through Season 2.
I had heard years ago that they made a TV series out of the movie (which I enjoyed), but I didn’t realise that they were up to Season 4 now. I gave it a try and I’m finding it quite watchable so far (at least as good as Counterpart, say). The science is kind of silly (shades of The Day After Tomorrow) but it’s meant to be a thriller, not a documentary.
Four episodes into Time Bandits (Apple TV). It’s rather shallow, but fun. Lisa Kudrow is basically playing Phoebe, but then, so is the rest of the cast. Actually, I just now realized a cast full of Phoebes is kinda Taika Waititi‘s thing.
Late to the game on this, I’m almost done with season 2. Really funny and well-written.
Resident Alien
Interesting idea. I’ve only just started watching season 1. I’m not sure how a character that committed a serious crime can ever be fully redeemed.
I keep getting Mork and Mindy vibes. Although this series is much much darker.
I’ll keep watching 
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