They also have out a new Champion of Champions, Full Episode, Full (uncut) Prize Task, Outtakes.
Make sure to check out Maisie’s betrayal (and Sam’s reaction).
And this was an absolute hoot.
I hope Steven Merchant comes on the show some time. Alex Horne listed him as the top pick for someone they have not been able to get.
Just finished Percy Jackson season 2, which adapts the second Percy book.
It was really well done, though the first 2-3 episodes suffer the same problem as the first portion of the book. Not interesting enough. But the later episodes are terrific.
I see they are releasing season 3 this year, which is the speed they need to make these shows to keep up with the book character aging.
Fun show.
The new season of All Creatures Great & Small started a couple of weeks ago. How I love this show!
His & Hers (Netflix, 1 se. 6 ep, 2026) Just finished it. Fantastic. Highly recommended. What a great ending!
I almost gave up on it after realizing I’d read the book. I’m glad I stuck it out, because I’d completely forgotten whodunnit.
I’m rewatching Southland, which is now on NFLX. It was a really well done, gritty police procedural in 2009 that got cancelled by NBC after one season for no reason I could ever figure out. TNT bought the rights to it and it went for another four seasons.
We joined Nebula so now we’ve got more stuff to watch. We started watching Abolish Everything! It’s a Dropout-inspired comedy game show where people take turns presenting their case for abolishing something (examples: speakerphones, not taking the door when offered, varmints (lol), saying “not much” when asked “What’s up?”) Then a panel of Establishment people rebut their arguments and try to trip them up.
The pilot was pretty good, some genuinely hilarious moments, some less so. We’ll probably keep watching.
Thanks for that. I hadn’t realized it was back on.
Got around to seeing both season 2 of Peacemaker and Creature Commandos. I liked both of them quite a bit. Peacemaker was not as good as season 1 but still really good. Creature Commandos was over the top violent with surprisingly deep character development. How can you not feel for GI Robot? All he wants to do is what makes him happy, killing Nazis.
I’m a few episodes away from finishing Can This Love Be Translated?, a 12 episode Korean series on Netflix. A Korean actress and a Japanese actor are taking part in a travel reality show and the actress falls in love with the show’s interpreter.
I started watching because I saw it was filmed partially in Canada (Calgary/Canmore/Banff) and Italy. It started off like a pretty typical Korean series, but I was a bit annoyed when an unrealistic twist was introduced. I guess that’s a bit hypocritical of me when I don’t mind Korean shows with genies, time travel, reincarnation, etc. I’ve gotten used to the twist at this point, so it wasn’t a huge deal.
We’ve got one episode left. If the cliffhanger at the end of episode 5 isn’t some weird trick then I guessed the basic twist (including the motivation etc) after a couple of episodes and feel pretty smug about it. I’m pretty sure I’ve seen either a TV programme or a film with a very similar premise too, it just all seems rather familiar.
We watched ep1 OF H&H last night. It all seemed pretty familiar to me too-- murder in a smallish town; everybody knows and has some sort of relationship with everybody else; layers of soap opera style interactions will be unraveled until the twist is revealed. And since I now know there is a twist, I’ll be trying to figure it out, which I’m usually pretty good at.
We also started ep1 of a Peacock show called Ponies last night. Basic premise: two young women (played by Emilia Clarke and Haley Lu Richardson, best known as Jennifer Coolidges’ assistant on The White Lotus) are secretaries in the American Embassy in Moscow in the 70s. When (slight spoiler) their (secretly CIA) husbands are killed, they convince the CIA to let them do spy stuff, which the CIA reluctantly agrees to only because their male spies keep getting ID’ed by the KGB, and women in 70s Moscow would never be suspected of spying (hence the title: they’re considered PONIs - Persons Of No Interest). It’s kind of a thriller with elements of comedy. Seems like a promising watch so far.
Sweet Tooth
Highly recommended.
Netflix has this show and it is a complete show, finishing on its own terms in three seasons. I don’t hear this show discussed much, but I really liked it.
A pandemic ravages the earth, wiping out 98% of the Earth’s human population. At the same time, people began giving birth to hybrids, partially human and partially animal.
Good show, great performances, the story wrapped up really well.
I’m surprised it isn’t discussed more.
Sorry if I spoiled it at all, I thought I was on safe ground as twists late in the day are fairly standard for these sorts of stories. I think there are plenty for possibilities for twists in this show though so hopefully still keeps you guessing!
No, not you, you’re good-- I did make it sound like I learned of the twist from you, but I had heard there was a twist from some other source beforehand. Also, as you say, it’s that kind of ‘whodunit’ twisty type of show anyway.
Ha! I recently did this with Stardust. I got to almost the middle of the film before realizing I had read the novel years ago. The book is much better than the film, but I’m not sure that’s the film fault. It’s difficult to portray Gaiman style weirdness, it doesn’t translate like Tim Burton’s art.
Wife and I watched No Good Deed on Netflix over the weekend.
They could have marketed this better when it came out. I’d passed over it before because I thought it would be soapy and maudlin. But I was surprised to find a sharp dark comedy with a satisfying central mystery.
There is some sentimentality, but it is fully earned. The show is at times silly, and at times deadly serious, but somehow never feels incongruous. Fine performances from a great cast.
Recommend.
Two episodes left in Law and Order, UK. There will apparently not be a season nine. This series was generally well done, with some good acting and guest shots. Cast members disappearing was a bit jarring, but done fairly smoothly.
Well, we watched the final episode and…(spoiler)
There was indeed a ‘weird trick’, by that I mean a double twist. My smugness evaporated when the first twist was revealed to be a red herring and a way more outrageous twist took its place. Annoyingly my partner actually guessed it! Haha. But having finished the episode and reading a few critical user reviews on IMDB I do tend to agree that it was a little ridiculous. And left me feeling rather sorry for a character that did not deserve their fate!