This thread is turning into a House spoiler minefield!
Thanks for all the responses though. We will keep watching it, as we do enjoy it, was just curious how it does (or doesn’t) develop in terms of storyline sophistication and if there any longer arcs.
Someone above mentioned about Hugh Laurie and his limp coming on automatically. His fellow Blackadder actor Tim McInnerny apparently developed an actual eye twitch that lasted for months after inventing one for his character Captain Darling in Blackadder Goes Fourth. The guy could not get rid of it as it had become second nature.
I finally finished watching the Menendez Brothers show on Netflix. Took me a while, because, frankly, I got a bit bored. Episode 1 was great, but it went downhill from there, and I’m not sure exactly why. Too many flashbacks, maybe? I had a hard time following the storyline, even though I knew what happened.
Now there’s a documentary on Netflix in which the brothers are interviewed. I may or may not watch that.
We watched the finale of season 4 of Slow Horses last night. We’ve enjoyed all four seasons, but this last one confused us because it was far from clear how the bombing of the shopping center in Ep. 1 connected to the main plot. We ended up re-watching all five of the previous eps in the days before the finale dropped to try to figure it out. Many things became clearer, but there still seem to be unexplained loose ends. I’ll spoiler my questions.
How/why did the bomber go nuts? He was supposed to kill someone, and make it look like an accident, for the middle-eastern prince; who and why?
Were David Cartwright and Sam Chapman his primary targets (if so, why?), or did they only become targets of Harkness when the first cold body ID was blown?
How did Harkness escape the prince’s midnight deadline for completing the mission?
After watching the Frank Harkness character for an ep or two, I was wondering if he really was an American, or a Brit doing a pretty good accent. Imagine my surprise when I discovered he’s Hugo Weaving! Did not recognize Agent Smithat all!
Thanks for spoilers, as we just started season four. I’m also watching For All Mankind on Apple+, which is an alternative history series about the NASA space program. It’s got sciency problems, but isn’t bad.
One episode was about a Florida diver who discovered a jar in the ocean and opened it and got sick. Turns out the jar was from a Dutch ship in the 16th century, inside was a human tissue sample of Small Pox.
Bam! Love that topic. That needs to be explored more.
I watched because I like David Boreanaz from his Buffy/Angel days. (Bones got old to me for reasons and I dropped it but my wife kept watching.) I didn’t finish it but it was long enough ago that I don’t remember why. I can’t see how far I got. I also think I’m confusing it with SWAT. SWAT started having main character syndrome. Not sure if that’s what happened for me with Seal Team or not.
If it’s any consolation, the books are also hard to follow at times. It may require a second watching, but then I had to watch “The Matrix” three times before I understood it.
My only gripe with Slow Horses S4 is that Lamb is getting kinda soft on his “Joes”. The show works best when everybody at Slough House hates each other despite having to depend on each other.
FYI, season 5 has finished shooting and is in post. Previous seasons have debuted in September or December, but it’s possible S5 could drop well before Sept. 2025.
Watched the finale of Bad Monkey last night. I’m not a big fan of Vince Vaughn but he was good in this, as was the rest of the cast. I especially liked the self-aware introductions/narrator voiceovers and the soundtrack of Tom Petty covers. Hopefully there will be a second season based upon the book’s sequel “Razor Girl”.
Wife and I watched the pilot last night. Definitely a cheesy ‘turn your brain off and enjoy the ride’ type of show, and thanks to this thread I watched it based on exactly that expectation. Hulu sure isn’t doing much to promote it-- didn’t show up in ‘recommended’ or ‘new shows’ anywhere, and when I typed ‘Doctor’ into the search bar it didn’t even show up in the top results until I typed ‘Doctor O…’ (and based on the pilot, ‘Doctor O’ might be a better name, har har).
Yeah, the doc almost hooking up with his subordinate was pretty creepy, especially when he grabbed her and started suggestively dancing with her right after his other subordinate had professed his love for her. It was like a big middle finger in the face. And I also thought the search boat thing was stupid. Though even as a kid, I always thought it was stupid on Star Trek that the Captain, First Officer and Chief Medical Officer (along with a sacrificial doomed redshirt) always went on away missions to strange unknown planets. Uh, maybe not send all your top officers on a dangerous away mission?
I liked how the main characters all said goodbye to the passengers/patients of the week at the end. Very reminiscent of the Love Boat. I hope, Love Boat style, the future patients of the week are slightly has-been D-list actors, singers and comedians that make you go ‘I was wondering what happened to them’. Nice to see Rachel Dratch in the pilot. Not that she’s D-list, I’m sure she stays busy.
I’ve been bingeing the UK police show Holby Blue and I like it.
As in other shows in the UK, they offer tea to people all the time. Is that accurate? They tell someone that their spouse’s body has been found in the river, the person cries hysterically, the cop offers to make tea and everything calms down considerably.
I don’t think I’ve ever offered someone tea. I’ve offered to make a pot of coffee, offered a beer or glass of water, but that’s about it. And I love tea.
