Skipping the adult timeline just makes the show more boring imo. Need to stop lying to myself and saying that I hate shows when I don’t. I was just in a funk when I said that I didn’t like YJ and I need to stop saying crap that I don’t mean. I like Yellowjackets and I like watching BOTH of the timelines. I just think they should pace themselves and not have both the teen and adult timelines in every episode.
A show that I think has not been mentioned here so far is Blue Eye Samurai on Netflix. It’s an anime-ish show with lots of sword fighting and so forth set at vaguely the same time as Shogun, mostly-closed-off Feudal Japan. The protagonist is the now-grown child of a Japanese woman and a western man whose blue eyes and western features lead to lots of prejudice and so forth.
Fun and watchable and exciting. Not super deep, but not trying to be super deep.
What do people think of Agatha All Along? Worth watching?
I’m still bingeing Fargo. I’m almost done with season 3. There are some very clever bits, such as making one episode to follow Peter and the Wolf, both musically and plot-wise.
Ewan McGregor plays non-identical brothers. He gained a lot of weight to play some of the body-reveling scenes with one brother, and then lost it to film the rest. I was sad to read that he left his wife for his Fargo fiancée, but they’re still together 7 years later.
IMHO Season 4 is the weakest.
I thought Blue Eye Samurai was pretty good, but I don’t think too much about it since I saw it.
Agatha All Along was fun.
Agreed.
Well, thanks for giving me something to look forward to…
For what it’s worth, I liked season 4 at least as well as season 3 (which I thought was a bit self-indulgent in places, like the animated story of the lonely robot that didn’t really go anywhere).
Great, very happy to hear that. This is the final season for me (I watched season 5 first) and I’m hoping it holds up.
Yes, that was disappointing. The whole storyline about the stepfather’s author history, and the animated robot story, seemed to have been wasted. And the Ray Wise character (the omniscient man at the bowling alley) was bizarre. Still, the season was very watchable.
S4 of Fargo is the weakest IMO but it is still very watchable. I actually didn’t see it until after s5 as I’d heard it was a let down, but the criticism is massively OTT if you ask me. The highlight is the bonkers nurse.
That being said, I wasn’t exactly convinced by Chris Rock as a gangster kingpin, and I’ve still not worked out if Jason Schwartzman was hamming it up as his camp-as-Christmas rival gang boss deliberately or not.
“I can help!” is a favorite in our house.
Every season has some supernatural element dropped in.
I like to watch something easy when I go to bed. Something where it won’t matter if I fall asleep while watching. So I usually look for old sitcoms that I’ve never watched before or I watched so long ago that I don’t remember anything. I came across Eight is Enough which started in 1977. Prime year for me! I was 15/16 that year. I love the clothes, the colors, hairstyles, etc. It all brings me back. A lot of the dialogue is dated and wouldn’t fly today, but I’m enjoying it. I was surprised to see that in the first episode, Mark Hamill played David. From episode 2 on David is played by Grant Goodeve. Hamill was able to get out of the 5 year contract to play Luke Skywalker! I guess he made a good decision.
The Wire Max
I finished season 1. Throughly enjoyed it.
Produced by HBO in 2002-08.
The Baltimore police run a large drug investigation. The dealers are using pagers and designated pay phones to talk. It’s acknowledged that it’s old Tech. But inexpensive and very effective for the dealers. It’s hard to link a busy public pay phone to a specific person
I had trouble at first learning the large cast. There are at least six detectives on the Task Force and probably eight dealers and their leaders.
The Task Force is constantly at risk of being shut down. The Top Cops want to arrest a few low level dealers and move on. Ignoring the gang’s murders and other violent crimes. That creates a lot of conflict throughout the 13 episodes.
I found the Task force characters very interesting. Many were considered screw-ups or burned out. Theye eventually form a close group and each character begins to contribute in unique ways.
I highly recommend Season 1. The series holds up well and doesn’t feel dated. The pay phones and pagers didn’t bother me because it was explained why the dealers used them.
Next up is Season 2 with a new story arc.
They’re the slow horses.
I’d advise that if you have not watched The Leftovers by one of the Showrunners, Damon Lindelof, then watch this 100% over Lost. It’s much more what Lost seemed to be promising, and delivering a much better experince (also Watchmen and Mrs Davis by him are very good too).
Lost was good at a point. Then it became a success. So they stuck a bunch more episodes in (which was why Season 2 dragged), and then it got better on Season 3, and pretty much peaked at the end of then. And three more seasons added NOTHING.
It is bizarre now that a lot of the appeal of Lost was the huge speculation about the theories and explanations and where it was going, on Forums. Perhaps the first mass market version of this, and man, they were much more interesting than the show ended up being.
There was a second season of the The Terror, with some japanese people being haunted by something during WW2 and included the Internment camps for the Japanese in the US.
If anything it was more disturbing than the first season.
Yeah, I’ll check it out. Can’t seem to find a good way to watch Lost with my current setup anyway.
For some reason, Netflix only has the first season. I wasn’t aware that there was a second. And apparently a third season is in the works for release next year.
Yeah, I’d never heard of a second season, either. Huh.