I think I’m there now too. I have a few episodes saved on my DVR. I started one episode, probably 3 or 4, and still haven’t finished it 2 weeks later. I wanted to like it, but it’s just ok.
I do love the new sitcom, St. Denis Medical.
Another vote for “A Man on the Inside”. Really well done, definitely hits home for those of us who are getting older and/or have had to deal with aging parents.
I just found out last night that Homicide: Life on the Streets is finally streaming in Canada, on our Crave service. I’d always heard about it, but it aired at a time I didn’t watch much TV, because I was finishing grad school at the time.
So this will be my first watch. I watched about the first half of Episode 1 before I had to go to bed, but I can definitely see the early prototypes for The Wire in this show.
i have finished the original run of frasier. manscaping happened in the last few seasons.
i also rewatched the new frasier series. it is a bit funnier after watching the old one.
i’ll look on brit box or acorn for my next series.
Man on the Inside (Netflix) Heartfelt and sincere rather than funny, at a 30 min run time it is a perfect palate cleanser for the evening. My wife and I are bummed there isn’t more, but we’ll catch the next season when it airs. Recommended for anyone with a heart.
The Madness (Netflix) Limited series thriller, we caught the first episode and it’s alright so far. A bit paint by numbers, but it’s the first episode so tropes get pulled out to get us into the action fast. I hope they explore the themes they’re introducing otherwise it’s cheap drama tricks for bad writers.
The Utopia Experiment (or Utopia) (Prime) A unique one of a kind graphic novel produced by a crazed psychopath is sought after in discrete comic book circles. Two men are looking for it as well and deliver incredible violence on anyone they suspect that has seen it. Why? This show is dark. Recommended for those who liked Stranger Things and can handle the next level of graphic violence beyond even that show. I’ll keep going, but my wife tapped out. She said it was too stressful for our evening chill sesh.
I was bored. So I had never watched the three Chicago series- but Chicago PD looked interesting.
Ok so this blond cop is assigned to a new unit for mental issues. Some dude (Cam) is banging on a glass door and screaming insane sounding things. The Medical professional starts calming him down, but Blondie noticies blood on him, so goes to tackle him, so - of course- they crash thru the plate glass window. They are both unharmed- She runs upstairs- ALONE (There is plenty of back up, no reason to go alone)- and finds two bodies bashed with a bat- one barely alive and a fire. So she smashes out a window- letting more air into the fire, pushes out the wounded woman, and jumps out herself propelled by the explosion. Blondie is unharmed. (how?).
She decides Cam is guilty, and starts screaming at him in the interrogation room, badgering the poor crazed guy- trying to get a confession (which would have been thrown out - and she isnt a detective anyway, line cops dont normally do interrogations). The Medical pro shows up with a lawyer, and Blondie freaks out about how unfair the law is and she knows he dun it.
So they find a vid showing the male victim beating the hell out of Cam. They also find out that all the blood on Cam is his own. But Blondie gets a warrant to search Cams house. And after the teams finds more blood in the house- she wanders out to the garage- ALONE- and gets attacked by Cams brother (who turns out to tbe the real killer). Cam & Brother have a very dependent relationship, but Brother has a record of being violent. Brother escapes, but fires random shots at cops, one of which kills an innocent bystander. (This is Blondies fault, IMHO)
So Cam is released after been medicated and checked out, so Blondie talks Cam into helping them trap Brother- Cam will be bait. So- OF COURSE- once Cam spots Brother, he yells out a warning. Cops give chase but Blondie goes after Brother-ALONE- into abandoned building.
At that point I gave up. Blondie is perhaps the stupidest cop i have seen on a serious TV show, and should be cashiered at once.
I’m in the mood for light, funny entertainment in these sad days, so I’ve been re-watching the delightful 3-DVD set of *Mr. Bean", created by Rowan Atkinson and Richard Curtis, and co-written by Atkinson, Robin Driscoll, and about half of them also by Richard Curtis. I have fond memories of watching this with my young son when one of the channels ran all the episodes back-to-back on New Year’s Eve.
Those who’ve seen it may recall that most episodes open with Mr. Bean falling from the sky in a beam of light, as if from a flying saucer, to the accompaniment of the beautiful sounds of a church choir presumably singing a classical hymn. It pays to dig a bit more deeply into the actual Latin words being sung! The lyrical line “Ecce homo qui est faba” translates to “Behold the man who is a bean”, and the final credits include the line “Vale homo qui est faba” – “Farewell, man who is a bean”! 
I just finished this-some of it was so sad that I almost cried, but all in all a great series. Curious if/how they’ll do a second season.
Started watching Presumed Innocent on Apple+. Jake Gyllenhaal as a lawyer accused of murder. Well acted and written.
I loved the novel by Scott Turow, and I thought the movie starring Harrison Ford did a credible job of following the book. I don’t have Apple+, but I will be interested in knowing if the series also follows the plot of the book.
We started Mosaic on HBO Max*. It’s not great. It is painfully slow and dull, just people talking most of the time.
We might continue to the end. Not sure.
*$18 got us 6 months with ads. Not bad.
Psst: see posts #4487 and #4491.
I watched a few episodes of St. Denis Medical and that was all I could take. I suspected this would be the case when I saw the ads saying that it was by the same people who did Superstore, which I had also not liked. I guess it’s just not my kind of humor.
Thanks. I’ll not put this series on my watch list.
I stumbled upon O’Hanlon’s Heroes, the Dutch public broadcasting travel series on youtube. The program follows Redmond O’Hanlon as he travels in the footsteps of the great explorers of the 1800s. If you enjoyed his books “Congo Journey”, “Into the Heart of Borneo” or “In Trouble Again: A Journey Between the Orinoco and the Amazon” this series is for you.
Three episodes into Interior Chinatown now and I’m enjoying it. To me it’s got echoes of Life On Mars/Ashes to Ashes crossed with Free Guy (the Ryan Reynolds film) with a bit of Walter Mitty thrown in. Not sure which of these avenues it’s going down, but as it is based on a novel I’m assuming it has at least a semi satisfying wrap up, although it does seem a little too arch at times.
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re: St. Denis.
I DVRed the debut (two episodes). Watched the first one. I guess I’m going to delete the other one.
I got fed up with the “talk to the camera documentary” style comedies years ago. Enough already.
Exactly. Not to mention “comedies” which derive most of their “humor” by giving all of the characters weird personality quirks or by having them act like idiots.
Yeah, and that wasn’t even the most annoying things when we tried it last night.
There was not just one, but two, characters that I strongly disliked. There’s no way the floor nurse (even if she’s the “head” nurse) is just going up to an employee and firing them on the spot. The young boy RN was annoying everytime he was on my screen. I was glad the patient chewed him a new one at the end. The whole candy bar thing? Not funny. Very, very stupid. And really going to all that much trouble? I guess they all have a lot of time on their hands because I’ve never seen an ER so empty and underoccupied.
It will not going on our dvr.
I’ve been watching The Madness on NFLX. A CNN reporter witnesses a murder and rich bad guys set out to ruin his reputation by blaming the killing on him. It’s okay.