Yes. I know that she was the big bad, but it wasn’t explicit how. It’s a tiny point, and I don’t care that much really. I had to come up with some quibble, eh?
You lasted longer than we did. Didn’t like the actors or the plots and gave up after the end of season two.
I thought I’d take a look at Neighbors on HBO. People bickering over stupid shit. Nope.
Watched the first four episodes of DTF St. Louis yesterday. It’s very quirky and atmospheric, almost artsy. I was expecting more of a comedy. Still, it sucked me right in.
They’re clearly leading us in a certain direction that is likely not going to be the outcome. I have a guess or two on what the inevitable twist will be, but I could be way off.
I probably wouldn’t have started watching if I’d realized all the episodes are not available yet. It will be a frustrating wait.
We tried The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkens.
Nope. It was mildly amusing. But not funny enough.
The wife and I have been working through Suburgatory this weekend. It’s fun and I really like the father-daughter dynamic between Jeremy Sisto and Jane Levy. Alan Tudyk is great in his supporting role and Cheryl Hines is pretty good as a rich suburbanite, but she seems rather one-note at this point.
There’s a lot of “look at how wacky the rich suburbs are,” which is funny, I think, but it’s also overdone a bit.
Oh, yeah - I vaguely remember sorta liking that one but only watched through the first season. I had come to it out of curiosity because Jane Levy had been in season 1 of Shameless and the producers had dropped the ball on signing her in a timely fashion for season 2, freeing her up to sign on for the lead in Suburgatory instead. Which I thought was a shame back when I still liked Shameless. Though Levy undoubtedly made the right decision for her career - lead on a network sitcom I’m sure easily trumped a small supporting role in an ensemble show. But no shade on Emma Greenwell (who I liked just fine in that one season of The Rook), but Levy was the better Mandy Milkovich.
I’ve been bingeing on a lot of TV series lately. A LOT. The only recent series I would rank quite high – and neither is very recent – are Succession and Big Little Lies. (The 1st season of Big Little Lies was much better than the 2nd.)
But it is a different series – Homeland – that I want to ask about. I watched the first season or two of Homeland many years ago, thought it OK but not great, stopped watching and had completely forgotten the story and characters. Looking for a “new” series, I took another stab at Homeland, arbitrarily starting at Season 6. (By coincidence, Iran’s nuclear program was key to the story of this nine-year-ago season!)
I didn’t like it much, thought of abandoning it, but ended up watching all 12 episodes of S6. The final episode ended on a cliff-hanger which annoys me, especially since the first 11½ episodes seemed slow-paced and boring. But with the cliff-hanger, I decided to watch Season 7 Episode 1.
But here’s what’s weird: I’m really enjoying Season 7, which I’m now halfway through. The plot seems much more interesting, intricate and fast-paced than S6. WHY? Are the S7 writers or directors different from the S6 writers or directors? Or is it me? Has my mood changed for whatever reason? Do Carrie’s antics seem more interesting to me after S6 familiarized me with her?
Any Homeland fans care to comment?
I was going to give my two cents, but according to Wikipedia I stopped at season 5. There were 3 more seasons after that??
EDIT: It’s possible I watched some of season 6 but have almost completely forgotten it.
Was either season written during the pandemic maybe?
We’ll be starting S29 of “Silent Witness” tonight. It’s not even close to being the longest running British TV show.
I finished a couple nights ago. Beautiful (you just have to kind of slog through season 3).
Anyway, I have moved on to Hacks. Took about halfway through the first episode, but it finally clicked and I am optimistic for the series.
Husband is literally losing the plot with The Good Place. Right at the beginning of season two, he fell asleep and then didn’t recall what had happened at the end of season one. We may not get much further.
However, he’s interested in a new show called The Madison. It’s a drama about a New York family that moves to Montana after the father dies while vacationing out there with his brother. The New York family has never encountered any wilderness before, and they’re also rich and spoiled, but not in a fun Schitt’s Creek kinda way. Stars Michelle Pfeiffer and Kurt Russell. I can see why husband is drawn to the show. It’s his dream to live in such a place, and all the talk about finding meaning in life and connection with nature is interesting to him. As for me, I hate all of the characters. Plus, every Montana man they’ve met so far could have a lucrative secondary career as a model. Last night, one of the daughters was kissing a dreamy cowboy she’d just met, and I’m screaming at the screen, “You don’t even know who he voted for!” Ugh.
We watched the first episode. Kurt Russell was top notch, but the rest of the characters got on my nerves from the git-go and life’s too short to tolerate them. I’m done.
Love Story John F. Kennedy Jr & Carolyn Bessette. (FX/Hulu) There’s one episode left, and we know what happens (assuming you were alive then). Not sure if it’s a “love story” – it’s mostly a whining & kvetching story. It fails to answer the question: what did he see in her? She resisted dating him; resisted marrying him; hated being a Kennedy. The penultimate episode was literally 45 minutes of a marital spat.
I recently watched Justified: City Primeval. I thought it was pretty good. Not at the level of the original series, which I am a big fan of, but pretty good.
In a kind of neat twist, Raylen Given’s daughter is played by Timothy Olyphant’s real-life daughter.
The villain, played by Boyd Holbrook is very creepy and it is quite satisfying to see him get what’s coming to him.
In the final episode, Raylen retires from the Marshall’s service, which makes most everyone happy, although it is not clear how he intends to make a living.
And at the end of the final episode, they seem to be setting up another sequel, in which Raylen would be pulled out of retirement to track down a recently escaped Boyd Crowder.
I also watched The Village, a British series from the ‘70’s. It features a very old man recalling the events of his life, starting as a young boy in 1914. I gave that up after 2 episodes.
The main character is OK, although a bit of a smart-ass who is unable to get out of his own way when dealing with his alcoholic and physically abusive father, the physically and mentally abusive schoolmaster and the school-yard bullies he encounters daily. There are just too many unlikable characters to make for fun watching.
Tomorrow And I A 4 episode limited series. Thai Black Mirror. It’s alright and brings a fresh Thai favor to our collective modern insecurities and fears. All four are alright, but the second episode is the strongest.
Dead Loch Seasons 2 just dropped and in the beginning it’s just as over the top as it’s critics hated in Season 1, but I think it works better here because we see the back story of the crazy behavior of the Darwin detective and the entire thing makes more sense. I enjoy the ‘Fargo-esque’ nature of small insular communities living their lives and Australia is a large continent filled with different locales. “Welcome to another beautiful day in Darwin. It’s hot but the beaches are lovely. Or at least they would be without the Sharks, Crocs and unexploded WWII Japanese ordinance.” HAH!
I commented upstream that my wife is watching which means I’m exposed against my will. Horrible writing. Horrible acting. Most of the plot hinges on conversations that no one witnessed and are just totally made up. I can’t articulate how much I hate it.
My wife and I are looking for a new Britbox series to watch. We’ve watched New Tricks, a few seasons of Father Brown, most of Death In Paradise, we’ve watched Vera, Happy Valley, Ludwig, Wallander… maybe something else I’m forgetting. Preference would be a police procedural or murder mystery, but a comedy would be OK too. (Note, my wife only made it through about ten minutes of “Peep Show” before saying “I can’t watch this anymore.”) Britbox suggestions only please!
Is “Small Prophets” on Britbox? very much worth a look if you can.