We’re still working our way through the final season of Hacks. It may just be me, but I don’t find Megan Stalter the least bit funny. Actually, everyone this season seems to be tired and ready for it all to be over. I’ve always loved Jean Smart and she’s carrying most of the load this season.
We’re about to start the fourth series of Dix Pour Cent, AKA Call My Agent, a French series on Netflix about a Paris talent agency in which all the clients are played by real, well-known French actors, like Isabelle Huppert, Monica Bellucci, and others not as familiar to most Americans. It’s very enjoyable, but since we aren’t familiar with most of the real-life actors, I’m sure we’re missing a lot of the fun. We don’t know if they’re portraying exaggerated versions of themselves, or playing the opposite of their public personas, or what.
There’s a 10-episode British version, Ten Percent (free on Hoopla) that we haven’t watched yet, and an American version is supposedly in the works at HBO, but it will be set in a sports agency, so we aren’t as interested.
The funniest character is the woman Ava pitches her shows to.
I loved that show. I think I binged it three times during Covid. The British version was okay…not anywhere near as good as the original but still enjoyable.
And now I see that Dix Pour Cent: Le Film is coming out on Netflix in September. It looks as though the entire cast is returning, even Liliane Rovère.
I’m so glad to have a sitcom that produces 22 epioses per year and isn’t crap.
Ghosts (US)
I’ve fallen in love with the US version of Ghosts even though I really liked the UK original. I"m on about episode 19 of 22 of this 5th season. It’s not quite as funny as it was a couple years ago, but I find the characters quite endearing.
I think it is time for Jay to be able to see the ghosts, though. It’s been almost 100 episodes and I think him being able to see ghosts would be a fun direction to go.
But Jay wouldn’t be able to make the , “The ghosts are here, aren’t they?” joke every episode.
I think she is awful and incapable of playing any role that isn’t annoying. By far the worst part of the show.
It would be a huge improvement if Jimmy was just with Randi. I’m a few episodes in to the new season and I’m enjoying it but it does feel like this is a good time to wrap it up.
Legends (Netflix)
Based on a true story (though the show admits right off the bat that they’ve taken liberties with that) about British customs investigators infiltrating two interconnected drug organizations in the early 90s. Steve Coogan is a former undercover agent who recruits the team and trains them up in just a few short weeks. Tom Burke really stands out as one of the agents who goes from bored customs agent to an undercover operator who gets caught up infiltrating a Turkish smuggling gang in London and who has difficulty turning it off to be with his family, straining that. The other actors are really good as well, imo, though I didn’t quite see Tom Hughes as the drug kingpin. He seemed more like the singer in a new wave band as opposed to a ruthless criminal. Your milage may vary. The storyline is complex and engaging and its interesting to watch all the pieces come together and the point-counterpoint of the investigations and the smuggling. Definitely recommended.
Well, they kinda jump the shark about midway through, IMO.
I’ve got one episode to go. I confess that I’ve rewatched some scenes to make sure that I am keeping everyone in their proper places.
I would also recommend.
I just finished it last night… Might be the best show I’ve seen in awhile.
One of the funniest, sexiest, awkward, tensest and weirdest shows.
Binged the entirety of season 2 of The Four Seasons last night. It barely took four hours I think. Steve Corel is only in one episode, so Will Forte really ups his cringe factor for this one. The rest of the cast are great and really funny. Kerri Kenney-Silver is brilliant.
I just started Deli Boys and so far it seems pretty good. The two leads remind me of Tom and Jean Ralphio from Parks and Rec. In fact, the character of Mir reminds me enough of Tom that it wouldn’t have surprised me if they had cast Aziz, but I’m glad they didn’t, I think he would’ve made the character too goofy. I’m not sure how good he’d be in a dark/serious comedy.
I finished it and I quite liked it; it got more interesting once they started figuring out how to use their powers.
I also watched Season 2 over the weekend. With the loss of Steve Carell, we were subjected to far too much Will Forte for my tastes. Not sure if there will be a season 3, but I think that I am done with these characters.
Got to Get Out
Skip it. Boring.
A bunch of players, half of which are “celebs”, are locked up in some house. Every so often, a window or door unlocks and they can make a break for it. Money is constantly increasing and there is a button to press to close the gate on people.
It could not be less interesting in practice, though. Very dull. So dull. Simu Liu is the host and get this, he isn’t even there. It’s just his narration. He shows up physically on camera three times, but it is so obvious it was recorded entirely separate from the rest of the show.
One of the flimsiest and lamest reality competitions.
Finished season 3 of Euphoria. The show wasn’t great for the first two seasons, but the third managed to be awful.
I finished the final season of The Boys last night. Best TV show in years, with a pretty spectacular ending.
I’m on the fence after episode one. Still not sure if it’s a show I am “now watching” or something I have “given up on.” To me, it seems like more of the same shortcomings that made the predecessor dull and uninteresting in its final seasons. Too much plot armor (Aunt Lydia, for example) and Gilead is once more far too easy to infiltrate for me to take it seriously given how much control it is supposed to exercise over its people.