It was a little fuzzy to me, as well. Poetic license, I’m guessing.
I didn’t think so, but obviously you, and perhaps others, feel differently.
I’ll be sure to spoil my comments next time.
Why doesn’t 9-1-1 just get Henry Winkler to jump a motorcycle over a shark tank? It would be a more believable plot line than the season opener this year. Last year was bad enough, ripping off the Poseidon Adventure, but this year might even be worse. First, a billionaire gets swallowed by a whale. Yeah, right. Then, the whale spits him out, and the brave firemen rescue and revive him. Then, in gratitude, the billionaire gives Hen a pair of free passes to a space tourist shot. Supposedly two low earth orbits. But the teaser for next week is that two firefighters wind up on the ISS and a meteor storm hits. Of course. And in the teaser, as the meteors come raining down, Chimney orders the men into a fire truck. Yeah, for rocks travelling thousands of miles per hour that’s totally gonna be strong enough. Might as well have them open parasols a la Wile E. Coyote.
Your general point stands, but I looked up the trailer and it looks like that may be satellite debris.
You may be right, though for either case I don’t think being inside a vehicle offers much protection.
Yes, 9-1-1 is ridiculous in the variety of disasters they respond to, hardly any of which are ordinary house fires. (And the show avoids ever actually showing fire victims though I expect they will be quite gruesome.) They ended 9-1-1: Lone Star, the spinoff set in Austin but added one set in Nashville. I tried to watch that but it’s apparently going to feature country music prominently and I can’t stand that stuff.
Thought I’d give Season 28 of Silent Witness a last chance and so my wife and I watched the first episode last night. It was much, much worse than I remembered.
Let’s get the most obvious out of the way first: David Caves has a small head. There, I’ve said it. It’s not his fault, but it would help if he could act and was sort of a likable character. And SOMEBODY needs to speak to Emilia Fox about her hair.
The plot is simultaneously stupid, trite, and incomprehensibly presented. Whoever shot and/or edited the episode needs to forget everything they think they learned on YT. (The camera work is almost nauseating.) We get a useless, irritating, stereotypical new character, which is probably because they can’t afford anyone else. The viewer feels like we’re watching a bottle episode, since there are apparently only two people now working for the Institute and they just float around in some sets built ten years ago.
Finally, I have to say that even Sean Pertwee, who I like immensely, cannot save this series.
Back in the dumpster for this series.
Well, we slogged through the previous 27 seasons, so we’ll likely slog through this one.
I just watched the first epi of DMV- CBS..
Too cringeworthy. i will give it a second chance. Maybe
Halfway through DMV I started debating with myself about violating my standard policy about giving any new show a two-episode viewing before removing it from my watch list.
Well, I bailed on The Ranch in the middle of the first scene of the first episode.
Good grief - I just assumed that 911 had ended after last season - what with killing Bobby off, Hen and her wife adopting their child, Maddy/Chimney’s second child, etc. - looked like they were doing a mostly-happy-ending for everyone, like they did with 911 Lone Star.
Is that the one with Ashton Kutcher and Sam Elliot? I may have made it a few minutes further than you did, but God that was bad.
Yes, that’s the one. I just remember reacting to the writing as being clumsy and heavy handed, but I can’t remember anything specific about why. Just those two guys and Danny Masterson in a room blabbing at each other.
I mean, I was willing to give a show with Sam Elliot a chance, and I did, to the extent that I was able to.
I just started reading ‘em, because of the credit at the top of each episode that credited the characters of these books as the basis of the show.
My personal record for going from “let’s give this show a look” to “holy shit, this show sucks” is two minutes of watching Call Me Kat. Worst acting I’ve ever seen, like watching understudy night for a middle school play.
I’ve enjoyed Murdoch Mysteries on Acorn so far (up to season 3 now), even though it violates some of my television preferences. I’m not generally a fan of period shows, but I give this one a pass. I don’t like mystery programs where the detective has a romantic subplot going on, but I like the William and Juia stuff- even when it seems like Ross and Rachel. Some of the inclusion of famous characters (Buffalo Bill, Annie Oakley, Houdini, Tesla, and Arthur Conan Doyle so far) is a bit contrived but I don’t mind. I just enjoy Murdoch’s scientific mind and calm demeanor, Crabtree’s comic relief, the long-suffering inspector, and Julia’s ability to discuss things with a smile while being elbows deep in a corpse. The mysteries themselves have nice little twists and it’s rewarding when you spot the killer early on.
I’ve watched Murdoch Mysteries through the eighteenth season. What’s eye-rolling is how William Murdoch invents all sorts of anachronistic technology in the process of solving crimes; sonar, security cameras, metal detectors, GPS, etc. Pretty much everything invented in the following hundred years was first invented by this Toronto detective.
Lately Brokenwood (NZ?) and Miss Fisher (AUS I think) have been our go-to shows of the type, now that we’ve watched all three seasons of Chelsea.
Brokenwood is awesome, love the dynamic between Mike and Gina particularly as well as the ever-helpful Frodo. The mysteries in that show are clever and I rarely figure them out until well after Mike does. Miss Fisher is okay but not my favorite. Mr and Mrs Murder, another AUS show, is a lot of fun.
I’ll have to look for that. Do you recall offhand on what services it is available?
On Brokenwood Mysteries, I can’t look at Gina and not be reminded of one of the hosts on America’s Test Kitchen/Cooks Country.