All three are made by the same people, and arguably in the same universe.
https://www.reddit.com/r/TheOwlHouse/comments/v2fc6l/so_amphibia_gravity_falls_and_owl_house_same/
I like to have something on in the background while working from home. Usually it’s CNN on mute but a few months ago, I watched How It’s Made on MAX and starting the other day, it’s been the old 1960s Mission Impossible series on Paramount+ starting with the pilot episode.
My every-six-months check-in to this thread.
My Supernatural rewatch (one episode a night) is now up to season 13. I remember that I never particularly liked Jack, and now I’m heading into three seasons with him fourth on the call sheet. Sigh.
Decided to give the Chucky series a try, partly because it’s shot locally, partly because I think Jennifer Tilly can be a lot of fun. It’s remarkably well-shot. For a spinoff of a horror series that was just kind of generic for its first half then got bizarre for the back nine, it’s a really slick show. Which is kind of the problem, all the young actors, talented though they are, come across as really well scrubbed and more wholesome than really serves the story.
Rogers had a promotion for two free months of Crave so I signed up, and dropped back in time to check out Gossip Girl for the first time. Possibly because Blake Lively has become such a big pop culture figure of late. Two episodes in, and I’m generally liking it, though I predict I’ll wind up hating most of the characters. I know it’s not their fault they’re stupidly rich, but teenage millionaires living consequence-free lives can get under my skin.
Not a series as such, but a two part documentary on Netflix: Into the Fire: The Lost Daughter.
Found this to be compulsive, if horrifying, viewing. Following the story of a woman who decides to find out what happened to the daughter she gave up for adoption in the 1970s, after she is contacted by police around 2010 to say her daughter went missing in 1989. Very well edited and my partner and I were equal parts revolted and angered by the story.
Chucky is an absolute hoot and honestly, it’s one of my favorite shows. Every episode is fun.
I also think that Chucky, the show, might actually have a few of the most violent scenes ever shown in a television program.
I believe…it’s not coming back for a season 4?
New series Nobody Wants This starring Kristen Bell. Thought it might be good because Kristen Bell but it was so awful I gave up halfway through the first episode.
So you’re saying they nailed the title?
I just binged Joe Pickett on Netflix. Two seasons and I pray there will never be a third.
Joe Pickett is a game warden with a family living and working in Wyoming. Everyone hates Joe and tries to kill him. Somehow he survives. The end.
Thanks for the non-recommendation. I have read, and for the most part enjoyed, all of the 20+ books in the C.J. Box series. Although the plots are becoming more and more outlandish.
The plots were outlandish and Joe’s psych situation became more and more outlandish. The lead (Michael Dorman) was also kinda weird. I enjoyed the scenery, but Dorman ruined it for me. I could see it being an interesting book series, though.
They are fairly easy reads, and the books are in (fictional) chronological order. Joe is introduced as a young man with small children. The kids grow up throughout the series.
Is this two seasons, each of which involves a person/group trying to kill him, or is there a long series of different people/groups wanting to kill him? If the latter, it seems like he might deserve it.
Two seasons. Each season had a primary evil person. It felt like each season was based on one book and then padded out to fill 10 episodes.
I agree. I only watched it because I enjoyed some of the novels. But the lead actor in this is terrible, and they took serious liberties with the character.
The novels by CJ Box are now on my list to read, once I finish the Navajo novels by Tony Hillerman.
I’ll recommend the Longmire novels if you haven’t read them, although the most recent ones aren’t worth the time. Too bad the series hired the wrong actors for some of the parts, although if you’d never read the novels it probably wouldn’t matter.
Really? MIchael Dorman? That’s disappointing. I thought he was brilliant in Patriot.
It was a Spectrum series to start. Day one, episode 1, they started with “and this time, it’s personal”, so I gave up.
The novels are better than the series, altho the series was interesting until they apparently fired their technical consultant. The overreaching many many episode lawsuit? Longmire has Qualified Immunity- he cant be sued. Next- the long drawn out criminal case? The Chief of Police wants cases closed. Letting a detective spend months and months and lots of funds chasing after someone who might have killed a scum drug dealer? Aint gonna happen.
My biggest quarrels were using shrimpy Lou Diamond Phillips in the role of 6’5 Henry Standing Bear, and the totally miscast (or perhaps just poorly directed) Katee Sackhoff as Moretti.
At least Phillips is part Native American, but yeah. Not quite as bad as Tom cruise playing Reacher, however.