The new season of Project Runway is complete trash. I’ve seen all previous 20 seasons but I am not sure I can actually finish this one. They fucked with the format so you have to wait for the following episode to know who goes home (seriously on what planet would that ever be a good idea for a competition show!?) and they’ve turned the show into Project Drag Race instead of Project Runway. It’s barely even about clothing anymore, it’s just bitchy OTT characters who can cause the most drama.
Agreed. Couldn’t get through the first episode because my eyes hurt from rolling so much.
I haven’t watched American Idol in probably 10 years (and I’ve never watched Project Runway or Drag Race), but didn’t they do the same thing? Everyone sings, the viewers vote, we find out the results on the next episode?
I’m not sure why that would be a bad idea, at least WRT keeping their viewership up. It gives each episode a built-in cliffhanger. I’m sure they lose a few viewers each time someone gets sent home, so you might as well make them watch at least one more episode first.
It’s been years since I watched American Idol, but wasn’t it live? The viewers have to vote so of course the results have to be separate. There’s no drama and continuing stories there, it’s just people voting. There is nothing to remember from one episode to the next.
This is as if on Survivor they get to the Tribal Council and then you have to wait til next week to actually see who leaves. By the time the loser is actually revealed, the viewer doesn’t even remember all the details from the previous week. This has never been the way on this type of reality show. Top Chef, same thing. You don’t wait a week to see who made the worst food.
Every thing I am reading about the new season online is people hating it. No one likes how they fucked it up.
In a word, no. My sister can tolerate it, so we sometimes watch it (there’s over 20 seasons, so there’s a lot). I hate Tom Barnaby. He only gets snider towards the rest of his sergeants, and there was a running joke with his last one (before John Barnaby, his cousin, took over) that had Jones the sergeant always falling or slipping in mud. Lame. Stupid.
And the way he treated his wife was awful. The remarks about her lack of cooking skill were about on a par with a lame 50s sitcom. I only hate-watch it now, though a few of the episodes are o.k. And, hey, Orlando Bloom gets stabbed in the chest with a pitchfork in one (this was just as he was cast in Pirates of the Caribbean).
Thanks, we probably won’t go back to it, then.
Meanwhile, the bloom is off the rose WRT McDonald and Dodds, sadly. Only four episodes in, and the plots have become absurdly intricate and implausible. And the characters are becoming less interesting, too. DS Houseman has been annoying from day one, and is getting no better, even if the revelation that he’s in a same-sex marriage was intended to make him more likeable.
We may watch a few more eps, but it’s not looking good.
However, the city of Bath comes off very well in the show. The aerial shots in particular make it look gorgeous and fascinating.
Based on many recommendations in this thread, I started watching Fisk last night. Two episodes in, and I like it thus far.
Peacemaker Season 2 is pretty good so far, though the mild retconning threw me a bit. I give this show points for all the curveballs it throws. I have no clue what’s next.
I’m two episodes into Season 3 of Strange New Worlds and I can’t say it’s off to a great start. I had trouble jumping right into part 2 of the Gorn drama. But the thing that really strains credulity for me is that anyone would pass up the chance to be with Sexy Spock.
Yeah, we’re several episodes in to McDonald and Dodds and the mystery/plot points are really irritating me. That, and outright sloppiness in either the writing or editing. One example: the boss declared emphatically that Dodds was suspended; but he kept investigating and they never addressed his suspension or reinstatement again.
The most recent season isn’t as good, IMO.
McCloud 1970 Dennis Weaver
It’s on Prime. I was just a young kid when McCloud aired with Columbo, and McMillan & Wife, Quincy etc. They called it the NBC Mystery Movie. Each week aired something different.
I don’t remember which episodes of McCloud I saw. It’s been fun rewatching the series as an adult.
Imdb lists six episodes for season 1. Prime only has three available. I guess some are lost after 55 years. We’re lucky any old tv episodes are still available.
In theory only producing six episodes a season should have delivered great writing. But shows like this were just good enough to get ratings.
Btw, the McCloud episode titles on Prime are different from imdb. But the plot descriptions makes it easy to match up with imdb. The guest cast credits are correct.
I found the same problem with Kojak.
Well, after slamming the show after the first two seasons, we went on to season three, and enjoyed S3E1 a lot more than the previous two. They’ve dumped DS Houseman, and the storyline wasn’t quite as implausible as the previous couple. So we’ll keep going for a while.
Just wanted to add that the latest episode of DAN DA DAN, in which two demon-enhanced protagonists battle Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, was proper legendary and the writer needs a goddamn medal. Lots of classical music deep cuts dropped into the swirling insanity of it. Could not stop laughing.
Interesting. That’s the exact arc that made me abandon the manga years ago, thought it was terrible. (But, as I’ve mentioned, I’ve thought about giving it another try.) That was around chapter 60, the manga is up close to 210 chapters now.
Without the actual music it would just be dumb. With the music it’s brilliant.
Also, there was this exchange from the various composer ghosts:
Dvorak: “Choo choo! Train entering platform six!”
Mozart: “Poop! Poop!”
Schubert: “Father. Father. Father!”
Bach: “Don’t just talk about dads! I’m amazing too!”
Which is only funny if you know Dvorak was obsessed with trains, Mozart had a serious potty mouth, (I’m not sure about Schubert unless it’s either an Erlkönig reference or about him having to teach at his father’s school) and Bach was one in a huge multi-generational family of composers. Deep cuts indeed.
That is, obviously, how it was in the manga. Here’s the page for the moment you described.
Thanks for that regarding McDonald & Dodds. We were watching via Prime, which only has the first season free, but other seasons are on BritBox. We are currently on Acorn, but we do bounce around, so maybe we’ll jump to S3 in the future. I like the sound of those changes.
the mysteries were backseat to the lovely shots of bath. soooo pretty.
Thin Blue Line (Amazon, 2 se. 1995-1996) My tween son loves British comedy and we’ve gone through all of Blackadder, Mr. Bean and Jeeves & Wooster. He liked Monty Python’s The Search for the Holy Grail, but not Life of Brian, Flying Circus or Fawlty Towers. So we’re on to this instead.
It’s still funny and holds up after all these years.