I’ve just finished a short-lived series from over ten years ago - Limitless. I remember I liked it, and it was very popular here too, but it was a victim of the ratings downturn during the rise of streaming, and got cancelled after only one season. Rewatching it now, I still like it, and even though it’s a familiar formula*, it had a whimsy to it that stood out.
*After a glut in the 2010s, they don’t do this kind of show anymore, but I think there’s still room for them
Watched S1E1 of HBO’s new series Penguin. Colin Farrell is unrecognizable, and this is a much darker show than the usual stuff in the genre.
Someday they might even make a Batman show that actually has Batman in it.
Re: Nobody Wants This
I read the plot summary on IMdB and decided it probably wasn’t the sort of thing I’d be interested in.
Then I got home from a work trip, and my wife told me she
So it looks like I’ll be checking it out at some point as well. I’ll let you all know what I think.
Watched the first episode of The Franchise. A comedy about the making of a superhero franchise movie. Think something like Reboot or Mythic Quest. It isn’t bad so far.
Finished season one of Average Joe. It was worth watching I guess but I don’t see how they can have a season two.
I’ve been watching English Teacher, a comedy on FX about a teacher at an Austin, TX high school. It’s pretty good.
I’m doing a lot of rewatches right now for some reason. About to finish season one of The Wire, and I know it makes me a walking cliché, but I’m with the critics who say it’s the best show of all time. Seasons 1-4 were perfect 10/10 as I remember them (season 5 plunged to 7.4/10 for me). I think this is the first time I’ve watched any of it since Black Panther made Michael B. Jordan a star, and it blows my mind seeing him as a scrawny kid.
Restarted Letterkenny as I rejoined crave, and it’s still amazing in fits and spurts. I watched it as it aired originally, so there was always a six month gap between seasons, and chunks of it had naturally faded. Watching a couple of eps a night, straight through, reminded me of the origins of the great running gags. Loving Tannis (Kahnetiio Horn) even more this time, as she’s the only person who gives to Wayne as good as she gets, linguistically. I never loved season 3: the hockey players Greek Chorus never struck me as a winner, and the shock of the frigid winter weather reminds me why I still resent my ancesters for hopping the boat pointed at the cold bit, as they say. And I’m so burned out on Glen: he’s a character that’s so OTT in terms of gay sterotype, I can only assume that Jacob Tierny is making him a comment on that, but I just want to fast forward whenever he comes onscreen.
I didn’t watch much of his adult career, but I saw him on the Graham Norton show, and as he walked out I said “he looks like a grown up version of Wallace!” My sister just stared at me for like a minute. Oh.
Wallace broke my heart.
My wife and I just finished Nobody Wants This, which we both enjoyed quite a bit. Not top-echelon, but solidly and consistently entertaining.
Right?
“Where Wallace at, String? Where Wallace at?” Yeah, that’s rough.
Everybody Still Hates Chris–picks up at the moment Everybody Hates Chris ended. Not bad, pretty much like the original series except they can get a little more “out there” in scenarios in animation.
I’ve finished Season 1 of Bones. Best Episode is the Christmas episode. It’s the strongest in character development.
Season 2 brings in a direct supervisor for Bones. It’s strange seeing Bones second guessed and challenged on testing procedures.
There was a boss in Season 1, but he was an administrator at the museum. He never went to crime scenes or worked in the forensic lab.
I’m not entirely sure that Bones needed a direct supervisor. It certainly introduces more conflict in the stories. Writers love conflict and how it enriches the narrative.
Overall the show is entertaining and I’m enjoying it. I’ll watch season 2 and see what develops.
My partner and I have just started House, very late to the party. It’s enjoyable, but it is extremely formulaic. Brief setup where patient has accident/medical incident, House probably uninterested then decides the case is intriguing enough for his superior intellect, he and his fellow doctors bat around a few ideas before settling on a diagnosis. This diagnosis is then always, and I repeat always, wrong. House finally has a revelation, usually from an at-the-time-seemingly-throwaway-detail, and the patient is saved at the last minute. Throughout, House is a total d**k to each and everyone.
Do the plots get expanded upon once it hits s2? We are halfway through s1 and wondering if this is the entire scope of the whole programme.
I have a love/hate with House. When he is telling it like it is in the Clinic, he is kinda funny. When he is sexually harassing his boss- he is a disgusting pig.
on the medical not really although they do go into the patients personal lives but a lot of the drama is the teams lives especially when most of the original team leaves/is fired etc and he auditions new ones
funny thing is it took them so long to get together that by the time they did the actress got her own series on another network and screwed up the last 3 seasons
This is a slight tangent, but one thing I find annoying in many British murder mystery series is that they love to create drama by having a mean/crazy boss constantly applying pressure to our detective, beginning inevitably in the first three or four chapters. I also hate that in TV shows, it’s so damned lazy.
This is a slight tangent, but one thing I find annoying in many British murder mystery series is that the ratio of drama/plot slowly increases over time, and smart plotting disappears in favor of us reading more about our beloved characters. House also follows that arc, and sometimes the plot (which never really changes from what you outlined) feels squeezed in against all the personal drama. It gets worse when they introduce a batshit-obsessive character (but not a boss!) in season 3 whose main job is to harass House nonstop.
But I really liked the series through season 2.
Netflix just released the seventh season of SWAT, and I’m halfway through it. Once again it’s the same story each episode.
Tonight is the season 4 finale of Slow Horses. Very excited.