Cassandra (Netflix, 2024, Limited 1 se. 6 ep.) Finished it. Did not conclude perhaps as strong as I would have liked but it was decent enough. My wife and I both were glad we saw it all but were almost compelled too, they sure knew know to create a cliff hanger that would make you stay up late watching into irresponsible hours.
We’d give it 4 stars, recommended for Black Mirror fans.
Anyone watching The Hunting Party on NBC?
I watched because it’s after The Voice and I didn’t change the channel.
Catching the escaped Serial killer of the week just isn’t working for me. Catching even one serial killer could be the focus of an entire movie. But on tv it’s neatly done in 45 minutes? Every episode?
I’ll watch tonight after The Voice. But my interest is diminishing.
This idea might have worked if the entire season was spent tracking two or three escapees by the FBI team of profilers. They struggle with stress and guilt as the abductions and killings add up.
It could be very interesting if someone was abducted and the viewers see them in trouble over the arc of several episodes. Maybe a victim escapes in the mountains and is tracked by the serial killer while the FBI closes in.
I agree with you on this one. As is my custom, I’ll give it another episode or two before giving up on it. Besides the “serial killer of the week” storylines, they keep hinting that the Superprison was conducting some sort of experiments on the prisoners, possibly trying to determine what turned them into serial killers. There’s also the question of how the “mass escape” was arranged, and who might have been behind it. Normally, an overall background arc like this might keep me watching a show, but I’m having trouble even getting interested in it.
This is one of the shows where I wish there was some sort of website where I could find out what’s happening on the show without having to actually watch it.
I commented on A.P. Bio a little while back after only a few episodes with a qualified and not overly enthusiastic recommendation. Just started season three, and (in my opinion) it’s been gaining traction since season one ended. I’m warming up to it much more.
A binge of The Good Place. Previously watched this when it was new. Now, watching it again after a bit of time has passed, it takes on a different tone now that I know the major story beats all the way through. But not having retained a lot of the numerous delightful details that make the show what it is, it still feels fresh in that regard.
And I’ll add that in my view, any work that relies on the idea of the afterlife as functioning as a beaurocracy or business or whatever kind of formal organization starts out (in my view) with two strikes against it. I’m not completely closed off to it, but I start out doubtful. This one won me over fairly quickly.
Yes, I feel that Sandy’s being kind of wasted/underutilized at present. I agree with ftg that the comparatively narrow focus on the one main crime this season is sucking some of the air out of the rest of the team, who mostly have very subsidiary roles.
I’d like to see a bit more emphasis on detecting, rather than just talky confrontations with or between suspects, and I’d like to see more interweaving plot lines involving other crimes, especially more minor ones. (And what the hell happened with that first crime in the opening scene? After Episode 2 nobody seems to remember a thing about it.)
Did you hear the girl who plays Daniels’s daughter and the guy who plays Johnny’s neighbor kid are engaged to be married?
Nope. I did finish the series, though.
i have started “yes, minister” last night. so far so good!
I just watched a fairly early L&O. Some jerk just randomly fired a half dozen rounds into a car “to scare them” hitting the wife in the head with one, and destroying her brain.
They caught the guy, no problem.
Okay, but McCoy found that that it looked like the transplant doctors jumped the gun and did the organ harvest before she was “officially” declared dead-. So, McCoy decides to go after the doctor for murder also. Ruining a good doctors life and profession, due to a technicality- every doctor involved said there was no way to wife could recover.
There’s a tonne of newer stuff on Netflix I keep meaning to get around to, but then I end up going back over old stuff like The Shield or Justified on Prime.
Well, I wouldn’t have started the series if I’d known it just drops off in the middle with no resolution.
I’m trying to stay interested in Severance, but each episode just gets weirder and doesn’t seem to further any plot line.
To quote myself from another thread:
I try to take “big mystery” shows with a grain of salt, since I’ve seen from experience how hard it is to take a show that is 70% intriguing mysteries and 30% decent plot in the first season and then mess with those percentages in the second and following seasons.
Jack McCoy is a fascist. It’s the only way he makes sense.
Harvest, season 8.
I wouldn’t say he was a “good” doctor. He was skilled, sure, but he didn’t do it for the Greater Good, he did it to advance his career. It wasn’t his place to decide who lived and who died.
I wouldn’t want him working on any of my family!
There was a Closer episode with sort of the same premise: the doctor decided to let a patient die because “he makes the decisions on who lives and who dies”. Well, the dead patient’s mother also made that decision for the doctor, with a bit of the old familiar “L&O courthouse steps assassination” ending.
The patient could not recover. The definition of when death occurs is not a fine line. And his transplants saved lives.
We’re watching a police procedural on Acorn called Winter. A lot of the usual tropes, but the lead detective is both female and smart, and it’s been good enough the first few episodes.
Well, I’ve completed Season 1 of The Good Place and its awesome plot twist at the end. Looking forward to starting Season 2 tonight, in my warm bed watching on my tablet!
We watched the first episode of Zero Day (Netflix). A cyberattack (presumably) disables all electronics and communications in the US, briefly; and a former president (Robert DeNiro) is brought out of retirement to head the investigation. But things get weird.
Definitely sucked in deeply enough that we’re looking forward to episode 2 although I’m always skeptical that big concept mystery shows can maintain a high level of plot quality through to the end. (aka, Disappointed by Lost Syndrome)
The most recent season of Resident Alien ended with a jolt. The plot was moving along and then suddenly we’ve gone fast forward to a different scene altogether. It’s like they took the editing knife and cut out about 15 minutes of program.
We’re also in S9 of Shetland. It’s moving along okay, but the same memes keep cropping up. I really wish Billy would just say “get off your fat ass and do it yourself”, and then quit.
I started S3 of Reacher. Can’t say I’m too impressed so far, but perhaps it gets better.