My favorite example of this in Midsomer is when the Rainbirds from the very first episode came back later as the sister and cousin of the original two. Nice call back.
We finished Dark Winds S4 last night. This season was barely watchable for me. The plot was trite and seemed all over the place. The closing scene hinted at another season, but I’m not sure I’d want to watch any more of this.
We looked at “Rooster” for a change of pace, and were amused enough to binge three eps.
We started watching ‘Unchosen’ on Netflix. It’s about a very strict, sheltered religious community in Great Britain. A little girl in the community runs away and falls into a pond. A mysterious stranger (an ‘unchosen’-- they think that they are chosen by God to go to Heaven when the Rapture arrives, and everybody else is an ‘unchosen’, destined for hell) dives into the pond and rescues her. The grateful mom starts to help out the stranger, who is on the run from the law, and begins having very unchosen thoughts and fantasies about him. Two episodes, in, it seems watchable enough. Will probably continue.
The latest round of simulcast anime on Crunchyroll doesn’t contain anything particularly worth mentioning, although it’s all keeping me diverted.
That said, the one possible exception is My Ribdiculous Reincarnation about a total chaos agent who keeps getting reincarnated as a series of weird things (one of the hero’s ribs, the lefthand door to the demon king’s throne room, the second hand on a town clock, the voice in the hero’s head who tells him when he’s “levelled up”). It just leans into the wackiness hard, plus each story is told in a different art style, and it’s made me laugh a fair bit.
Favorite bit: when he’s being the “Level Up” guy and gets annoyed at the hero so he starts just constantly shouting death metal lyrics at him from inside his head.
Also, I rewatched all of Solo Levelling over the weekend, which remains excellent.
I thought it was better than season three. But I think the whole series would be better without the fantasy elements.
I dunno. I’m still trying to wrap my head around seeing the little girl from The Piano (which she won an Oscar for, no less) all grown up and showing her boobies on the TeeVee.
(Not to say that they aren’t really nice boobies, but still)
Word. The Movie was a perfect gem. It didn’t need any follow-up.
I propose that in future, we should refer to all diminutives of Alexander, Allen, Allan, Alan, Albert, Algernon, etc. as AL (all caps), so people don’t mistake it for a reference to artificial intelligence.
While I never connected that role (and haven’t watched that movie since 1993), seeing her in the excellent cult movie Fly away home was incredibly strange, because seen that three times in the last couple of years (showing people it). She was 14 in that, but seemed younger. Probably was because 14 when the film released, so probably about 12 when filmed.
I’m currently watching the final episode of Scarpetta. My wife liked it so I had to slog through it. I can’t articulate how much I hate every aspect of this show. It’s truly awful.
Finally got around to finishing this. Took awhile since we found it to be kind of a slog. Spoiler alert for the ending:
Something very bad happened.
Newest NCIS had a very improbable idea as the McGuffin- Kasie had developed a program that looked at a fingerprint (not in the database) and it profiled that person- like with "male, Caucasian, etc). Not very precise, would fit a million or so Americans- but it only fit one guy they were looking at . But the kicker was that the Bad Guys who had stolen the program had reverse it, plugged in Kasies stats- and it came out with her fingerprint. Impossible. The profile was not exact enough.
Finished watching Silo season 2. It held my interest and I’m enjoying the mystery. Season 3 should be coming in July.
That description made my brain hurt.
Vikings and all the additional spin offs. Valhalla and Last Kingdom.
Getting a bit over saturated - like the historical basis, dislike the hard to follow names.
Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen - we watched this over 2 or 3 evenings and I did rather enjoy it, although (spoilered) it certainly went in a direction I wasn’t expecting, but I think the subversion of expectations was a good thing. The end was completely mad though!
I watched “Should I Marry A Murderer” last night. 3 one hour(ish) episodes that I watched back to back with no problem. It’s a documentary about woman engaged to a man who reveals that several years earlier he was drunk driving, killed a cyclist and was never caught. There’s no crazy twists or turns, this is a Howcatchem not a Whodunit. And it’s not really about the crime, but the witness. We watch as her world, and her mental state, collapse around her as we follow what happened between the time she learns about this until the time she’s on the witness stand.
Was the answer after 3 hours revealed to be “no”? 
That title sounds like it could be a Lifetime movie.
I have some trepidation about season 2 of Ludwig. I really enjoyed the first season, but I’m afraid this might turn out to be a show where the resolution wasn’t planned out in advance and it ends up falling flat (or being drawn out too long/never resolved). Hope that doesn’t happen.