And the Mayor is breathing down the Commissioner’s neck!
It’s neckbreathers all the way down!
We’ve been watching Younger, about a 40-year-old woman who, after a divorce, can’t get a job in the publishing business she left years earlier to raise a family. So she pretends to be a 26-year-old (she’s that young looking) and gets a job as assistant to a 40-something marketing manager at a publishing company. It ran seven seasons on TV Land, starting in 2015, and now it’s on Netflix.
It’s fun and light, and the 20-minute episodes are nice to watch after an evening of somewhat more serious fare. We’re up to the third season.
(Interestingly, my wife went to high school with the creator and showrunner, Darren Star, who has a fairly decent track record in Hollywood: Sex and the City, Beverly Hills 90210, etc.)
watching annika now. so far, so good, i like the way annika speaks to us.
The new season of Resident Alien has dropped on NFLX. At first blush, they seem to be trying too hard. I laughed out loud at S1, and S2 had some laughs, though fewer. This one seems to be straining in E1. Hopefully it will get better.
Thanks for the heads-up! Sounds like a good way to spend a snowed-in evening here.
Yeah, that’s why I glommed onto it.
To be clear, the mid-2024 season of Resident Alien has dropped on Netflix. The new season hasn’t started yet.
I mentioned upthread I was watching Deep Space Nine as it had started over on a cable channel that shows the first five Star Trek shows; Now The Next Generation has ended and restarted and I am reminded of how I almost stopped watching it when it first aired. I persevered to the beginning of the second season and to me it started getting good. It was the second season episode “Loud as a Whisper” that convinced me to keep watching.
Also, the final episodes of Cobra Kai have dropped.
Ummm. . .well, it says it’s S3, but there are only eight eps.
Alan Tudyk’s “alien trying to pass as a human” schtick is starting to wear a little thin, but the rest of the show is still enjoyable. Thanks for the heads-up, we’ve been waiting for the next season to show up on Netflix.
Yes, season 3 aired between February 14, 2024 and April 3, 2024. Season 4 will be the “new” season, when it comes out.
But why number these 1-8 if it’s a continuation? I’m confused.
It’s not a continuation of s3, it is the entirety of s3. They originally aired on Syfy, now they are on Netflix, the show’s new permanent home.
Ah, okay.
Netflix is just restreaming the SyFy episodes. According to Wikipedia, the series is moving from SyFy to USA for S4.
Another Shetland viewer. Finished S9. The 2nd one without JP.
It’s got so much good stuff going for it. I like the main actors. Great setting. Etc.
They even did a neat trick at the start of this episode. You had a scene that seemed to be a setup for a “2 days earlier” card but it wasn’t. It was the end of a thing, not a flash forward. And it allowed Ruth to recap things. Better than the usual “Previously” filler for the first episode of a season.
But, sheesh. Taking 6 episodes to solve one crime. This is not a good idea. You know right away that anybody who is the prime suspect in eps. 1-5 did not do it! I counted 6 primary suspects in the last two episodes. And almost of all these folk quickly disappeared from the show once their innocence was established. Which also tends to mean that the actual perp is not someone you could realistically suspect up until almost halfway thru the last episode. This is not good.
Imagine what House would have been like if they took 6 episodes to solve one medical mystery. It was bad enough that any diagnosis before the last 15 minutes would be wrong. Multiply that by 6.
I liked the DCI Banks model. Two episodes per crime.
PS Donnie’s a luser.
I mentioned above watching Homicide:Life on the Street. I liked their take on it: some crimes solved in one episode, some over several episodes, some never solved, and some coming back to haunt them even years later.
School Spirts
I thought my days watching a teen show ended with Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
I’m throughly enjoying School Spirts. Maddie wakes up in the after life. Which for her, is the high school. It’s inhabited by a group of ghosts that try to help Maddie adjust. I find the other ghosts annoying. I think they may become more important later in the season.
Any attempt to leave the school results in Maddie returning to where she died.
Maddie can hear her old school friends and teachers conversations. She begins learning about their true personalities and secrets. The characters and intrigue gets more interesting with each episode.
What happened to Maddie? She’s determined to find out.
There’s 8 episodes in Season 1. It’s not a big commitment to watch.
It’s airing on Paramount+.