Finally! I thought perhaps they had given up on it, but it turns out that the strike plus Moss being pregnant pushed things out a ways. Looks like April 9th? It holds together pretty well through all seasons.
Connelly moved on to the character of Renee Ballard in the books, but kept Bosch around as a consultant. As long as they don’t try to make a series with that dead-eyed actor who plays his daughter. . .
I have a question, then. In the US version the husband is quite the chef and contributes a lot. In the first epis i saw of the UK version the husband was a useless waste of air. Does he get better?
No.
But from what little I’ve seen of the US version, I prefer the UK version anyway.
He’s just a good, supportive guy. They don’t get into his job in the UK version.
So, no, nothing changes. But he’s a good guy.
FWIW, in the German version of Ghosts the (not married) man does not seem to have any discernable skill, is a screw-up in all home repair efforts, and could uncharitably be called a “waste of air”.
I’m surprised none of the versions treat the husband as a “Derwood” where the ghosts only tolerate him because they need to stay on the wife’s good side.
I finished watching Six Feet Under, which went on a couple seasons too long, but as people here mentioned, the last episode was really good.
Then I watched the new Matlock. Kathy Bates is wonderful, but everything having to do with lawyering is moronic. Interestingly, many of the stars of the week were also on Six Feet Under, but now they’re 20+ years older (including Kathy Bates), so that’s sort of surreal.
I watched Long Bright River, starring Amanda Seyfried. Eight episodes long. Four episodes in, I realized I’d already read the book, but I finished it anyway. It reminded me of Mare of Easttown, but slower paced and no accents. It takes place in Philadelphia. It was very well done, but it was as long as 4 full-length movies with only enough material for maybe half that. I guess most mini-series shows nowadays are padded like this. I’d recommend it if you like atmospheric, gritty mysteries and have a lot of time to kill.
Now I’m in the middle of Dexter: Original Sin. I’m liking it, certainly more than the last 2 seasons of the original series. Seems to be taking a long time to tell the story, though, which we already knew from the first season of Dexter.
Red Dwarf (Youtube, 1988-2000) My son enjoys English humor so after Mr. Bean, Blackadder, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and Cabin Pressure on radio we dove into this classic. He’s been enjoying it, but it certainly looks dated since my youth.
I’ve started a re-watch of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I was kind of expecting it to be a bit cheesy, but so far, it’s still holding up.
Red Dwarf is great (or at least, up to the end of s6. After that it’s patchy, although s7 has its moments). There is also a noticeable change after Kryten comes on board as a regular at the start of s3. I quite like the first couple of series though; they seem a bit more thought-provoking, especially the ‘memory of the memory of Lisa Yates’ episode, but s3 - s6 are definitely funnier. Marooned, the virtual two-hander with Lister and Rimmer, is a mini-masterpiece.
20+ years later and, from memory, I can still sing songs from the musical episode.
It took a couple of seasons to get going, and three to five are absolute classics as good as any other classic british TV of that time. The creators had a split with the guy doing the jokes leaving, so it went downhill a lot after that, with better seasons being partly written by the cast. Still occasionally puts out a 4 episode season even nowadays, they did a feature length episode in 2020.
We discovered Red Dwarf about 30 years ago, late at night on a PBS station. The first episode we saw was “Marooned,” and we were hooked from then on. My wife and I liked Red Dwarf so much that we purchased VHS tapes and have re-watched them endlessly.
My favorite episode has to be “Back to Reality,” in which Starbug is destroyed by a “Despair Squid.” The crew wakes up to discover they have been playing a virtual reality game called “Red Dwarf” for four years, and they are not who they thought they were. It also has two great cameos from Lenny Van Dohlen and Timothy Spall.
Starting with Series VII it got pretty iffy. though there were some gems that season. We didn’t much care for the addition of Kochanski.
Ditto!
Geez, the TV writers are sure fond of creepy romances- On The Rookie, Chen is back with Tim, even tho their relationship is against the rules- and creepy. Doctor Odyssey- the dod started a relationship with his assistant- I guess it is still ongoing, but after two epis we quit, even tho Don Johnson is great as the captain.
Same for my wife and me.
In my state, it was on either before or after Doctor Who, so I watched it back then in late 80s, early 90s. It is almost surreal that they are making more.
Thanks for the discussion!
I loved both Goliath and Lincoln Lawyer. I highly recommend both.
Red Dwarf had one of the most interesting takes on who killed JFK, I have to admit.
We finished The Residence. It got way too talky at the end, but was entertaining for the most part.