I kinda like how naive all of the characters are, even the heavies. The historical characters are written like normal people solely interested in their day to day life. The “little” sister is a great addition to the bandits.
A secretly great time travel show was Future Man. Not Breaking Bad or The Wire great, and very raunchy, but very much worth your time.
I watched that show when it was on “regular” TV. It was one of my can’t miss shows. Yea, they are all miracle workers but then most TV doctors are. I like Matt Czuchry and Bruce Greenwood so that’s why I started watching it.
Dr Conrad Hawkins
Dr Randolph Bell
Heh, had no idea who they were, so I searched. Yes, two of the stars.
Wyatt Earp and the Cowboy War on NFLX. A narrated bio-drama starring a bunch of people I’ve never heard of. It deals mainly with the aftermath of the OK Corral shootout and the underlying history of how it played out. Interesting facts about what really happened. My only real quarrel is that they have Earp carrying that ridiculous Buntline Special around on his hip, when in fact he likely never owned one.
I’ve been watching Newhart (the Vermont inn) when I go to bed. I watched it back in the day (1982-1990!!) but I only remembered Peter Scolari & Julia Duffy (Michael & Stephanie) as the “other” actors. The early episodes have characters named Kirk (Steven Kampman) and Leslie (Jennifer Holmes). I don’t remember them at all. Kirk is very odd, both the character and the actor.
They were both rather bland. They needed to beef up the quirkiness and brought in Michael and Stephanie. Leslie was just too nice and Kirk was a jerk. There’s not much you can do with characters like that.
George was always quirky and later they introduced Larry and “the Darryls,” then Harley and those two goofy guys on the town council. They all succeeded in making “Dick” the normal person surrounded by eccentrics, a trope used by many sitcoms.
Judge you? Hell, you’re my new hero!
When I was around 5 years old I wore a cowboy hat everyday for close to a year…all because of Chuck Connors.
**Monsieur Spade **. Sam Spade retires to France. Havoc ensues.
I think I’ve told this here before but once while watching The Rifleman I commented to my dad, “Isn’t Lucas a great guy?”.
To which he responded, “He kills someone every day”.
In his defense, they always needed killing.
I was always told/read it was done so one could reduce the vermin in ones hair …its always been debatable on the effectiveness of it tho
I’ve been watching a historical drama on YouTube. It’s The Magnificent Century, from Turkey, a somewhat fictionalized account of 16th century Ottoman history, with soap opera in the harem thrown in. Quite a lavish production.
How is it? It showed up in my feed and I’m curious. But I’ve got a bunch of other things I’m in the middle of.
Orphan Black: Echoes
Recommended.
- not as good as the original Orphan Black
- one of the charms of the original was watching Tatiana Maslany act different characters; this strangely has zero of that
- still fun and engaging and I hope it gets a second season
How did Orphan Black, the show, end? Was cloning somehow permanently stopped? I won’t get into the new show and what it does, but it avoided cloning in the traditional, normally understood sense.
Cowboy Bebop - live action
Recommended
Not amazing, but would have watched another season. I’m surprised it was poorly received. I have seen the original cartoon and don’t hold it in that high a regard. This was fine and some pretty solid TV.
It grows on you. Clive Owen seems somewhat too laconic at first. I was expecting more wiseguy remarks a la Bogart. But the plot eventually grabs you and there are enough other characters to hold the interest.
Just re-watched a little while back and yes, it was. Though within the framework of the show it is plausible though not likely the know-how was retained by someone.
I had no idea this new show existed.
The print people with 3D printers, basically. Using medical records. It’s a new method of cloning for sure.