I rewatched Task on Max. Watching the seven episodes over two nights is very entertaining. I understood many small details better.
I strongly disagree with Tom’s decision to support Ethan. The adopted child that killed his mom. Ethan had already brought many years of anguish and turmoil into the family. Then Ethan shoved his adopted mom down the stairs.
Tom should be able to explain he continues to love Emily. His relationship with Emily is entirely separate from her troubled brother Ethan.
Tom and Emily need to attend counseling together. Find out why she feels and carries so much responsibility for what her brother did. The adoption makes the situation even more complicated. Emily needs a lot of support from Tom.
If Ethan gets a light sentence and comes home it would destroy that family.
It is eerie how strongly the fictional story in Task echoes the real Nick Reiner case
Resident Alien is one that we made it through.. two and a half seasons because we’d run out of our usual shows, and went digging around in the streaming services’ back catalogues for stuff we might like. Alan Tudyk is fantastic as usual, but I feel like it lost something when his secret was out, and we left off not long after that.
We kind of ran into the same situation with the first episode of Dispatches from Elsewhere. Mostly weird, interesting, and we tend to enjoy Jason Segel. But not really engaging like most shows. At first it had a sort of Russian Doll kind of feel, but I’m not sure it really had that later on in the episode.
Yeah it got weaker, but we watched all the way to the end, which was pretty good. Tudyk was great, of course. Getting some more or less real native Americans to play those parts was also nice.
After watching the 1st episode of season 2 of True Detective, I decided it was too gritty for me, but I went ahead and watched season 3 instead and really liked it. Sharp writing. Great acting.
I’ve been watching Mo on NFLX. Slyly funny series about a Palestinian immigrant and his family/friends, trying to gain citizenship and working odd jobs to stay below the migre radar.
I am bingeing The Art Detectives. Pretty damn good, except they brought in a “And this time, its personal” episode already in Season 1, which bodes ill. Generally when the writers have to dip into “and this time, it’s Personal” it means they are out of good ideas.
We’ve watched 2 episodes of His and Hers on Netflix. It’s only 6 episodes total, I’m enjoying it. I’m not sure what’s going to happen next so it’s holding my interest and promoting discussion in the house about our theories, and questions.
Just watched Season 48 of Survivor and there is a truly inspiring autistic finalist on there that had Jeff in tears for the first time in nearly fifty seasons.
Her story is fantastic as were the reactions of her fellow finalists as to what her actual accomplishments were …just insanely talented but what she overcame is incredibly inspiring.
There’s been a whole spate of Harlan Coben mystery novel adaptations lately. We also watched His & Hers, and we’re now are on Run Away. They are a bit contrived, much like the novels they’re based on, but in the end everything gets solved, sometimes in the last twenty minutes. There’s also a new series on ABC that he’s hosting, based on true crime stories, sort of like Dateline.
Duh, His & Hers isn’t one of his, but quite similar in tone (and yes, we watched it). The other one of his we’re on is Fool Me Once. So many of these titles are interchangeable, like the titles of 1990s TV family comedies.
