We finished up Masters of the Air last night. It was okay (my wife liked it better than I did). Not nearly as good as “Band of Brothers”, IMO. The insertion of the Tuskegee group seemed a bit gratuitous to me. They certainly deserved the recognition, but it seemed patched in somehow.
I’d didn’t mind that, and I’m usually skeptical of diversity casting when it’s obviously performative virtue signaling (whereas I don’t care if Disney Princesses aren’t European in traditional European fairy tales because…, they’re fairy tales, duh; and can wrap my head around the possibility that a Black actors can outperform a white actor at a Shakespeare audition). But in this case, more WWII, more better! How about a side plot about the women pilots who ferried the aircraft into the theater of war, or the little people who worked inside the wings at the Boeing plant? Fine by me.
When I watched Masters of the Air when it came out, I do remember thinking that I thought it would be great to have a spin-off focusing on the Sandra Wesgate character. A lady superspy helping to take down the Nazis? Yes please!
I’m currently binging The Midwich Cuckoos on Amazon Prime and I’m really enjoying it. It is Science Fiction, I guess. If you know anything acout the bird’s behavior you know what the series is about, I think. No spoilers, but I recommend it highly.
There was a YA novel partly about these women – Code Name Verity. And although it’s classified as YA, it’s not juvenile. At. All. I loved it.
Have you seen the movie or read the book? I was wondering if the series is more accurate.
Yes, incredible book!
I will be reading the book now, just out of curiosity about how it is done. The kids were done well, I think. They freaked me out.
Yeah. I hate “creepy kids” movies.
Heh, even “normal” kids can look creepy.
Yeah, and there’s the 1960s UK movie The Damned (NOT The Village of the Damned or The Children of the Damned), where I felt deep sorrow for the kids. The ending was haunting.
Out partying now. Looking forward to going home and watching watching the final hour….,
I finished watching Tokyo Override, a six-episode Japanese animated series on Netflix. It’s about a group of good-hearted smugglers in a futuristic Tokyo where there are tracking devices on everything: streets, vehicles, phones, etc.
The animation was quite striking, CGI with a hand-painted Disneyesque esthetic and lovingly detailed motorbikes (apparently Honda and Yamaha were involved in the pre-production phase). The story was not bad, but there were a few threads left hanging at the end.
I listened to the English dubbed version and Talon Warburton really sounds like his father!
I watched a little of Only Murders In The Building awhile ago to see what all the fuss was about, and I made it through one season and dropped it. The other night I tried it again and I just don’t get it. Steve Martin is kinda charming, but Martin Short’s character is just annoying, and Selena Gomez’s voice is so monotonous and I don’t think she can act. I don’t get it.
Same here. As is common with this kind of show, I forced myself (almost a gunpoint) to watch the entire first season because I wanted to see who the killer was and how it would be resolved. Then the last episode ended with a blatant and, to my mind, ridiculous setup for a second season i said, “Not on my TV”.
I finally was able to watch Matlock (I had been recording it on my DVR and saving it for a friend to watch with me) and I must say that we both liked it Some of the scenes where she had to think back to her daughter’s death were hard to watch (we’re both weepers) but were very well handled.
NCIS: Origins, on the other hand, after four episodes got a hard pass from my friend. All of the flashbacks with Gibbs dealing with the death of his wife and daughter were too much. Also, she didn’t care much for the way Gibbs and Franks were portrayed. I may give it another episode or two, but I have a feeling it’s going to be dropped from my recording schedule.
Watched the first (of two) season of Not Dead Yet. Gina Rodriguez plays a woman who returns to her old smallish newspaper only to get the lowest level job: writing the obits. (Yeah, not exactly a “real world” premise right there.) She starts seeing the ghosts of the dead people she’s writing about. (I find that part of the premise more realistic. 
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She and her cohorts are kinda okay. But the real fun are the dead people. Lots of good guest stars. I was very pleased to see Martin Mull. Julia Sweeney just kills (!) as a Shari Lewis type puppeteer.
Not the best TV show out there, but if you have the time, why not?
I had started watching that when it first aired, but lost interest after a few episodes. Don’t remember exactly why.
Watching Dark Matter on Apple+. I can’t tell if I like it or not, even after quite a few eps. It’s been filler while I wait for the next ep of Silo to drop.
We just finished it. We like the back half of the show more than the first half. I actually rather liked a few of the concepts they introduced.
I’m hoping it is just a standalone. It ends completely as far as I’m concerned.
Do you recommend Silo?
I think what you’re seeing is Selena Gomez play a character with that voice.
She’s very much the straight woman of the trio.