NCIS would occasionally have flashbacks to Gibbs early days. His early day partnership with senior Agent Franks.
There was one episode during a power blackout. The younger agents were lost.
Gibbs pulled out a typewriter, Fax, paper maps etc. Showing how it was done when he started.
The NCIS backstory is a gold mine for a prequel series. I’m curious if a young Gibbs will be played similiar to Tony. Wise-cracking, lots of dating, and a little irresponsible.
I have now watched a 2nd epi, and - no more. Gibbs boss is a complete jerk and asshole. Lots of smoking. and they mention over and over that Gibbs “failed his psych exam”. If you fail that, you do NOT get a Law enforcement job, period.
Not to mention the acting is wooden and the plots are bad.
A few followup comments on this. I discovered that my avoidance of Seasons 1 and 2 could be mitigated by the fact that Season 2 is actually pretty good, as Julia Duffy comes on board right in Episode 1 as the self-absorbed Stephanie. I still hate the Kirk Devane character but have managed to tolerate him. Peter Scolari as the ebullient Michael Harris finally appears in Season 3.
As an aside, watching Season 2 I’m struck by how different and younger both Bob Newhart and Mary Frann look in those early episodes than in the later ones. Some of those great actors were lost to us too soon – Peter Scolari (Michael Harris) of leukemia at the age of 66, and Mary Fran of a totally out-of-the-blue heart attack in her sleep at just 55. Bob Newhart himself lived on to a ripe old age of 94. They all brightened our lives with comedic joy.
Yeah, that one was too stupid for me, especially with Larry, his brother Darryl, and his other brother Darryl.
I finished watching Wednesday (I’m a bit late to the party) and I thought it was fairly entertaining, if a bit silly. Jenna Ortega definitely did most of the heavy lifting in order to make it something more than just a weak parody of Twilight-meets-Harry-Pottter-meets-Nancy-Drew.
If it was just one of those, fair enough, but when you combine all three that’s a new idea.
Nancy Drew was Twilight meets Harry Potter meets Nancy Drew.
Just watched the first episode of Matlock and I love it. First of all Kathy Bates, but second it is just a well done show. It’s not just a rehash of the original show but something different which I thought Hollywood often tries to avoid. I really hope the following episodes/seasons can keep this up.
I would have been happy if the new Matlock show was just an episodic legal drama but they included this underlying storyline that’s going to span the entire season if not the entire series run.
I’m watching Disclaimer on Apple TV because my wife has developed a sudden taste for horrible shows. I made it as far as episode 3 because there is an intriguing mystery that somehow overcame by hatred of every single one of the characters. The power dynamics in the scenes of an older woman seducing a teenage boy were so disturbing, I suspect my wife will have to finish this show on her own.
I assume you don’t like Monty Python, either. Sometimes absurdity can be funny. There’s actually some pretty good writing on Newhart. It was nominated for two Emmys for outstanding writing, and about 23 others in various categories including outstanding comedy series and in the acting category, particularly Julia Duffy and Newhart himself.
I’m glad I decided to watch Season 2. I had been avoiding it believing that Julia Duffy (Stephanie) and Peter Scolari (Michael Harris) didn’t appear until Season 3. So I was seeing many of the episodes for the first time. Not only is Stephanie present throughout, but Michael Harris appears around halfway through the season as a producer for the local TV station, and from there it settles into the familiar format of the next six years.
Among other things, we see in Season 2 how Michael persuades Dick Loudon to agree to host Vermont Today by promising him intellectual guests to establish the caliber of show that Dick wants, kicking off the premiere episode with the president of the University of Vermont. Michael, however, has his own ideas about what constitutes “quality” entertainment, as he will for the rest of the series, and bumps the university president in favour of some yokel showing off the world’s smallest horse. 
There is absurdity and then there is stupidity.
My point in mentioning various TV series is just to say that I’ve enjoyed them, not to get into a silly argument about it. You’re entitled to your opinion and this sort of bickering is pointless, but I’ll just say that the majority of critics and the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences disagrees with you.
Sex Education. Last time I had watched the penultimate season was 3 years ago… So I found it sillier than I would when younger, jokes weren’t as funny to me, maybe not because of getting older even, maybe mood as well. But it still managed to catch me on until the end.
I started to watch The Crown but gave up. Dunno, I felt a little unsettling when watching it.
I hope I could watch Breaking Bad with no knowledge of it… So good. True Detective Season I as well.
Ppl always talk about Better Caul Saul… I dunno exactly why I haven’t watched it yet, but I think I associate it with too many hit man jobs, too much action with pursuing and pursuers, while BB had always a drama that distanced from action-packed things in heavy reflective moments a lot. But I think that’s just a perception I have of BCS with no basis… So am I wrong?
Yes, I think your perception is wrong. Give it a try.
There is more character driven stuff in BCS than in BB and less action (at least, for the first few years if memory serves). I think your perception is more or less back to front to how I would describe them. Both are absolutely brilliant though.
Nice! Thanks for the insight, now I’m gonna watch it. I’d have asked it someone years ago tbh, but ever since college it’s not been easy at all to keep up with hobbies (or even have the motivation to lol)
I agree that the Saul/Jimmy parts of Better Call Saul have basically no violence or action in them (for the first few seasons anyway). But I’m in the minority of people who think that Better Call Saul is much less interesting, although still not bad. I guess I didn’t find the Jimmy vs. Chuck conflict very compelling.
I finished it. I liked it and it did indeed remind me of The Detour.
One thing I found a bit awkward was that the teenage daughter was dealing drugs like benzodiazepine to her classmates and they played that for laughs. I also thought it was kind of lame that they didn’t resolve anything by the time they reached the final episode.
Started watching the aforementioned Nobody Wants This. The first episode was sort of funnyish. But the second episode was definitely quite good. Will watch more.
The big cloud hovering over it are the obvious comparisons to Sex and the City. Columnists now do podcasts.