The Last Frontier could have ended with a satisfactorily twist with episode 7 but the damned series is ten episodes long because…that’s how long a season apparently needs to be. Episode 8 is all boring and unnecessary back story. 9 & 10 can’t possibly be as bad as I expect, so I can only be pleasantly surprised.
I’ve decided to avoid watching that series entirely pretty much totally due to 50 Cent’s involvement. His enmity towards Diddy has me thinking that the series is going to be overly salacious and not a studious look at what Combs did or did not actually do.
Aside from that, I have long considered 50 Cent to be an absolute creep. The guy has done a whole lot of stuff that makes me wary of consuming anything he puts out.
I was listening to a podcast (CBC’s “Commotion”, a pop culture panel discussion) and their host had the same misgivings. He ended up eating his words: it wasn’t a simple smear job, it was a carefully crafted and researched smear job.
The Pitt continues (episodes 4, 5, 6) to be great except one ridiculously contrived moment.
It just finished up.
Review - it was worth hanging in. Really. Found its footing. Got quite good and finished satisfactorily.
Earlier this fall, a series called “DMV” piqued my interest, enough that I started a thread about it. About 4 episodes in, I gave up on it because there was one particular character who was completely unlikable, enough that I didn’t want to watch the show, period.
I was blown away by The Pitt.
I was blown away by the Pitt, and I said to my husband, “This is the kind of show that can change lives.” And I was correct. Surveys have indicated people who watch the show have changed their views on some very important issues, such as end of life care and organ donation.
I’m curious what that moment was. It’s been months since I’ve seen it and nothing is standing out to me.
I’m watching Dexter Resurrection and really liking it, much more so than the other sequel/prequels. I do miss the opening sequence from the original series, though. I guess they didn’t even try to compete with that.
Yeah, the cases it builds are circumstantial but they bring a lot of evidence to back up the conjectures. It definitely counts as more studious than salacious.
The crazed real mother arriving seconds before the young girl took her pill.
Several years ago, I watched Life on Mars and really enjoyed it. I also liked the US version and thought they wrapped up its one season very well. After that I have every so often, when I thought about it checked to see if the follow up series Ashes to Ashes was available. I checked today and it is on Amazon Prime. Just finished the first episode and am liking it.
Re: Ashes to Ashes. We loved both the original British (and later Americanized version) of “Life on Mars.” For years I’ve thought about subscribing to Brit Box just to watch “A2A” but never have. I was delighted to find it airing on Prime.
We were very disappointed. We watched the first few episodes and they were just not that interesting. However, it’s lasted for I think 5 seasons on British TV. It must have something going for it. So I read a lot of comments and reviews and the consensus seems to be that the first season is rather MEH but it picks up substantially after that and is well worth seeing it through. Some people said it had the best final episode they’d ever seen, and that’s saying a lot.
So we’re going to stick with it for a while.
Finished watching The Beast in Me on NetFlix. Recommended.
Although I figured out the murderer early on, and the ending was, I thought, a bit contrived. Still, an enjoyable eight episodes.
The problem is that Keeley Hawes did not at first seem a good enough replacement for John Simm. But as it went on, and the story arc became more embedded in the plots, rather than as a background secondary feature, it improved a lot. Also watch for Daniel Mays.
All three of those things are why I’ve enjoyed Emergency! that was from NBC in the 70s, on DVD and Blu; reasons why in address to what you said:
–None of the doctors at Rampart (Brackett, Early or Morton) were addicted to any drugs, let alone on them;
–There was much more medical drama than personal stuff;
–And, so far as I recall, the only story that involved a relative as a patient was when Dr. Brackett’s father (played by James Gregory) was a patient at Rampart, in the fourth-season episode “Prestidigitation” (OAD Saturday, January 25, 1975 on NBC).
I’m rewatching the “Slow Horses” series. I think it’s even better the second time around.
We watched Man Vs. Baby, a new four-part “series” by and starring Rowan Atkinson. It follows the 2022 series Man Vs. Bee, which I haven’t seen, but which gets better ratings.
The story is that professional house-sitter Trevor ends up taking care of an abandoned baby that he must hide in order to complete a lucrative sitting job in a billionaire’s penthouse. “Hilarity” ensues.
We’ve all loved Rowan ever since Mr Bean, and I was hoping this might have some of the charm and humor of that great series. It kind of does, but it never really approaches the heights of Rowan’s best work.
I put “series” in scare quotes above because it’s really a movie cut into four 30-minute pieces. The episodes don’t stand on their own, and the whole would have been much better (IMHO) if they had trimmed a few scenes and released it as a 90-minute movie.
It is essentially a bunch of small comic sketches tied together with a lightweight plot, and is extraordinarily predictable. Its not really bad. We kept watching and never got to the point of just giving up on it. It’s just not as good as we might have expected from the creator of Mr. Bean, Blackadder, and Johnny English. Children might like it.
The Pitt continues to entertain, especially the “walk of heroes” or whatever they called it, when everyone lines up to give honor to a organ donor. That made me sniffle a little.
I hope that new hot shot female doctor that took the law into her own hands gets fired over that.
I was disappointed to find, when trying to start watching this acclaimed series on a recent international flight, that the quintessentially-British satirical wallowing in workplace spite and mortification had completely sapped my will to watch by about one-third into the first episode.
I have read that Slow Horses is “The Office meets Le Carre”, and I found The Office likewise drearily malevolent to the point of unwatchability. Is there a tipping point coming up soon where *Slow Horses" shifts more into Le Carre mode, or should I just resign myself to the fact that this series is not for me?