I quit after just one episode- okay one & 1/2. Looks like I might be done with NCIS itself.
The Sydney version I saw recently had some stupid plot complications and bogus “facts.” It’s like they’re not even trying.
I’m trying not to take it personally, but when the flag ship show took 6 weeks off after Xmas, I wondered if they wanted me to watch their show anymore.
It doesn’t help that they decided to give the lead character zero personality. I find Sydney to be the least watchable version.
NCIS is a show I now only watch as a repeat. If I want something on while not engaging my brain like a new show I put it on. It’s always on somewhere.
I’ve got one more episode of How To Get To Heaven From Belfast left. I’m still really liking it, but still having trouble following all the various plot lines. I don’t remember if I mentioned it my last post but part of what makes it hard to follow is that we’re getting little bits and pieces of information as we go instead of dumped on us at the beginning. In the second to last episode, for example, Booker finally explains what they’re doing [no spoilers]. Don’t get me wrong, it would have taken a ton of tension out of the show to know this earlier on but on the other hand, is that tension really deserved or warranted?
Again, though, I still very much like it, but I have few gripes.
Anyways…speaking of Booker, here she is watching Vincent Vega give Mia Wallace the adrenaline shot.
I don’t have a current series except perhaps DTF St. Louis (I’m hoping Steven Conrad can re-find the magic that made Patriot so good.) I liked the first season of Paradise but now the show feels like it’s settling in for a seven year run. I’ll pass, unless I hear great things.
So here’s a few shows premiering this month that I’m looking forward to:
March 21st: Saturday Night Live UK. I’m not familiar with any of the performers. The format could really work with British comedy, but we’ll see.
March 26th: Jo Nesbo’s Detective Hole (Netflix.) I’ve read all the books and the character is a favorite. I’m not going to read any reviews, just give it a whirl. It should be interesting to see Joel Kinnaman acting in his near-native language (he’s Swedish and the series is Norwegian.)
March 27th: For all Mankind (Apple, season 5.) Season 4 was probably the weakest of the lot but I’m a sucker for sci-fi and alternate history stuff. A lot of new faces in the cast and a bunch of subtractions too.
FWIW, it looks like Tina Fey is hosting the first episode.
Currently watching S5 of Only Murders In The Building, which continues to lean into the “how many recognizable celebrities can we shoehorn into this season” thing, and S2 of One Piece which continues to be a delight. Iñaki Godoy really makes the latter work for me.
I’m 3 episodes into DTF St. Louis (HBO), with Jason Bateman, David Harbour, Richard Jenkins, and Linda Cardellini. I went in not knowing anything about it except for the actors. It’s odd, kind of slow, surprising, and I’m loving it!
Crime Scene Zero
Massively recommended.
Did I already promote this show to you? I can’t remember. My wife and I entered into this show hoping for a fun experience; we did not expect it to cause us to roll around laughing.
This is a “reality” show. Well, it features what I presume are minor celebs in Korea and mainly, I think it is like Whose Line in these sense that they are famous from this show.
They are basically playing a murder mystery game in a each set of episodes(each mystery is two eps.). They all portray different suspects who have a backstory and one of them each time is also a detective.
The best thing is: It is the same people each episode, so you get to watch them play wildly different often HILARIOUS roles in each episode. One guy(Cousing Jang in the first ep) plays a woman/sister in the second episode and an even funnier character in the third.
You gotta see it to understand. They actors laugh sometimes during the episodes because the situations and characters are so funny and bizarre. This is a show that is greater when they are giggling and cracking up during it.
Oh, we laughed. Best new funny show we’ve seen in a long time.
Apparently, it has previous season in Korea. I doubt any previous seasons are dubbed in English, but the one on Netflix is.
One of my favorite little finds on Netflix. I’m still laughing thinking about the second episode…which includes murder, incest, and so much more. They people make the whole thing hilarious.
Check it out!
Eps are 1 hr 15 min long. I’d suggest breaking it up if you need to.
HUGE rec from me.
What’s the premise?
i started unforgotten this weekend. got through series 1-5, tonight will be 6. very interesting how they start with seemingly random people then pull them altogether.
in series 3, tim finch was horrific. ugh. the actor has played prince charles in “the queen” and the duke of windsor in “the crown”. those roles kept flashing through while i was watching. made it even more odd.
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I’m 3 episodes into DTF St. Louis (HBO), with Jason Bateman
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I’m only two episodes in…it’s really weird how much his character reminds me of the role he played in The Outsider.
I’d watched the first two episodes of American Classic and decided to add it to my watch list. However, as I complained about in The BBQ Pit, there seems to be a conspiracy on the part of MGM+ to keep me from watching later episodes. Every time I tried setting my DVR to record episode 3 I would get a piece of some movie. The schedule would show the episode was supposed to air at a certain time, but apparently MGM+ would decide to change the schedule.
The capper was last night, when the first viewing of episode 4 was supposed to air at 10pm EDT. When I went to watch the recording, it obviously started recording partway into the episode. This is the only show where I have this problem.
Last night I watched the first episode of The Residence. My work closed early today (snow), and I knocked out 6 more in a row. Only one more left.
Unless something changes my mind in the final episode, I’m really liking it. Granted, it’s another ‘eccentric detective’ show, but that’s fine with me.
It’s a dark comedy. There’s a love triangle, a murder, sex, and a mystery.
This sounds good. I like all the actors. This may warrant us resubscribing to…Max? HBO Max? Just HBO? or… whatever they’re calling their streaming service these days.
I finished it last night and I completely agree with you. I have no idea of the real story of the group of ‘bad’ women, nor do I completely understand what happened when the girls were little.
It was entertaining, however. But it’s doubtful if I’ll watch the sequel.
I think:
The two girls, known now as Greta and Jodie, when they were young, were sent to some sort of a cult-adjacent religious school for kids.
They were mad that God never showed up so they burned down the church, killing the kids inside.
This traumatized them so they ended up in therapy. Greta did well, Jodie was a lost cause.
At some point after all that, they were evaporated because their parents were abusive. We also learn that Margo worked with the evaporation people, and raised Greta herself.
A journalist tracked down Jodie and Greta, they panicked and killed him. Jodie ran off, Greta and the three girls buried the body.
Now we’re at the first episode (WRT the timeline, we don’t get these details until later)
Jodie tracks down Greta and blackmails her, Greta pushes her down the stairs, killing her. Greta needs to leave so they claim it was Greta that died but it’s Jodie in the coffin.
Booker disappears Greta.
One of the things that made this hard to follow was that until almost the very end, they’re implying Booker (and that other girl) are villains. In reality, they’re the good guys but it’s sort of a ‘tough love’ situation.
Also, IMO, having a person, in the present and his father in flashbacks, being played by the same actor, is really confusing.
I’m still not clear on some of the finer details, but I think that’s a good rough outline.
Great explanation, but where did Booker come from? Where does she fit in?
I thought that the young and the old persons were casted brilliantly, they really looked like the had aged, I mean they were recognizable, but to find two people, the father and the son, with two different actors that looked exactly the same was pure genius.
Only the nun did not age at all. That was weak.