Nice to see Emmanuelle Chriqui pop up as a pivotal character. Don’t know about the blonde wig(?) though.
Emmanuelle Chriqui was definitely fun as that character (and, at the risk of sounding like a sexist jerk, she pulled off that pink bikini better than a lot of women half her age).
The surprise appearance of Cobie Smulders in the last episode of the season was fun too. I do have to wonder where they are going to go in revealing that Mickey has a long lost sister. This is clearly a replacement for the plot point from the novels where Harry Bosch is Mickey’s half brother; they can’t feature Bosch here, of course, due to Amazon owning the rights to that character.
Finished Wonder Man and wondering what Simon’s going to do now. But whatever is next for the Simon and Trevor Show, I am definitely there for it.
Still pottering through S3 of Narcos (the Cali one). Matias Varela is definitely the star of this series (and is apparently Swedish 
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Just binged a weird little show called Small Prophets. I liked it. Only 6 episodes in the season.
I’ve got that on my list. Writer and star of Detectorists, a fellow Detectorists actor AND the legend that is Michael Palin, how can it go wrong?
On a tangent, I saw Pearce Quigley onstage at The Globe last summer as Malvolio in Twelfth Night . He was magnificent. Brought the house down.
I’m nearing the end of Black Rabbit on NFLX. Excellent acting by everyone, and a pretty tense plot.
Plus stop motion animation and a reference to the most harrowing cartoon ever produced. (Bright Eyes from Watership Down)
My only complaint is that the second series isn’t available yet!!
I found it just a little too tense. I bailed near the end and read spoilers after it ended. That sort of tragic failure on failure, bad decision on bad decision, miscommunication on miscommunication, bad timing on bad timing death spiral is just a tad too bleak for me these days.
The acting was excellent, but as a show just not my cup of tea.
Yeah, it’s pretty grim, and I usually don’t like series with no likeable characters. I slogged through Succession, but it was a hate watch. The wife wanted to finish it, but I hated the story line and the characters. The Black Rabbit characters make you want to go see them and slap some sense into them, but it’s an interesting death spiral, unlike the repetitive episodes in Succession.
It is only on BBC2?
It’s probably a bit niche for BBC1. I am sure I am going to enjoy it a lot.
I liked Succession for the humour. I watched the first episode (or two?) of Black Rabbit, but I didn’t find it particularly funny.
It’s a drama, so I’m not surprised.
The Pitt (season 1)
Highly, highly recommended.
Wow, I do not watch medical shows, but this one is simply amazing. I have yet to see any of the new season, but having watched all 15(!) episodes over the past week and a half, I think this is one of the best new shows I’ve seen in a long time.
Gripping. Probably pushing the edges of reality, but gripping. In one 15 hour shift of an E.R., just about everything happens. Kids drowning, mass shooting, anti-vaxer trying to avoid real medicine for their kid, and so much more.
Love it. Can’t wait for all of season 2 to drop so my wife and I can watch it back-to-back like we did this one.
Yeah, The Pitt is phenomenal. We’re enjoying Season 2 as it drops. Not quite as frenetically paced, but I’m far from bored.
We picked up Murderbot again. It’s the charming science fiction tale of an autistic-coded security unit as it gains autonomy and learns to care about people. Didn’t super grab us at first, especially not my husband, but I convinced him to try again and we are both really enjoying it now. It’s quite funny.
I did read the first book and thought it was pretty good, but it was light on character development so I didn’t know if I wanted to continue with the series.
The TV show is a bit sillier than the book was, I think. But now that it has found its groove, I think it’s really working. Part of what makes it work is that the humans are just as awkward and prone to absurd behavior as SecUnit.
The Pitt is one of the few shows I would resist binging all at once because it is just so intense. I need to watch a Bob’s Burgers after each episode just to decompress.
I was happy to see the appearance of an ALICE household on Season 2 of the show. (Asset Limited Income Constrained Employed.) They make too much money to qualify for benefits but not enough to cover living expenses. Lots and lots of people fall through those gaps. I love how deftly The Pitt raises consciousness about this stuff.
I’ve felt that way about some shows. Couldn’t watch more than one episode of Breaking Bad or The Penguin in a night, for instance.
But my wife and I got so sucked into The Pitt that we couldn’t stop. We’d do 3 or 4 episodes in a row and then get bummed that it was time to go to bed and we had to wait until tomorrow for more. Just completely engrossing.
Which is why we’re waiting for season two to be over before we start it.
I’m struggling with a weekly watch of The Pitt season 2, mainly because I can’t remember who was who and what was wrong with them. Watching in chunks was much better for that.