Over the past few months I rewatched Psych—all 8 seasons and 3 (so far) movies. One of my favorite shows.
ETA: I don’t really see the misogyny. but Lassiter as a “shoot first, ask questions never” cop hasn’t aged well.
Watched the season 6 opener of Billions. It’ll be interesting to see Corey Stoll’s character’s efforts to be the ethical opposite of Axle’s, yet still interesting. Michael McKean promises to be a hissable villain billionaire, and we know what he can do with a character from Better Call Saul. Paul Giamatti still looks bad (COVID or just a diet? Either way we miss the chubby weasel Paul).
Nitpick, but Damien Lewis’s character wasn’t called Axle, but Axe, which was short for Bobby Axelrod.
I am deeply, DEEPLY ashamed of myself.
I got HBOPlus to watch a movie. Figured it would just be one month, $15, I can handle it. Watched the movie, liked it.
Saw this series, Euphoria, starring Zendaya from Spiderman.
I’ve never seen a series more cram-packed with horrible storylines, tons of female and male nudity, and unreal situations. Yet the story is just too damn involving, and the characters too likeable and relatable. I watched Every. Damn. Episode, and can’t wait for more.
I feel unclean.
Torn on this. I love the writing for characters on Billions but am seeing a certain amount of shark jumpage here. The failure to deliver on Taylor’s plan at the end of Season 4 to work to set Chuck and Axe against each other to both their downfalls should have been the launch of the final act of the series. Instead, they introduced Prince, Taylor “forgot” about their intent and at one point openly saved Axe Cap when everyone else drugged themselves, and now Chuck’s inexplicably gone off to be a farmer despite being the goddamn AG for New York. It’s all downhill from here.
For most of the first few seasons, every episode had an attractive young woman whose two-dimensional character was pretty much just there for Shaun and Gus to ogle/make clumsy passes at/squabble over. Even Maggie, who is occasionally mentioned in passing to be a good cop, struggles to be more than the woman who’s there so we can have some ongoing romantic tension. At least Lassiter gets a lot of good lines - hell, even the big goofy officer whose name I have forgotten gets comedy material. The women? Just there for the scenery.
I powered my way through The Silent Sea, but towards the end I was just watching it to see the show end. I still can’t really tell you what it was about except “weird water on the moon”. I think the show would’ve actually benefited from being set on Mars, rather than Luna.
I’m currently watching Deadly Class on Netflix. I like to pretend it’s set in the John Wick universe.
I’m not yet willing to pronounce the shark jumped, but the season 6 opener felt like an entirely different show with Damian Lewis gone.
The Rhoades/Axelrod dynamic was the driving force of the series, and now Chuck is reduced to feuding with his neighbor over a noise complaint. I get that that’s part of his character - he needs the fight - and that they’re likely building to something bigger with Revere, so I’m willing to see where it goes.
But the whole episode felt relatively low-stakes. Prince is an interesting character, but he’s no Bobby Axelrod. An important spark is gone. I hope they surprise us and find a way to bring Axe back at some point.
Note that the reason Damian Lewis left is because his wife died and he decided to spend more time at home in the UK with his children, so I really don’t see the character returning.
Been watching CSI: New York and at some point during the first 100 episodes I realized that it was very obviously filmed in Los Angeles. The only thing “New York” about it is the exterior shots of NYC landmarks they plaster across the screen literally every 30 seconds to try and convince you you’re looking at NYC, but all of the shots with actual actors being outside, they are very clearly in Los Angeles. Even at night New York doesn’t look anything like what is shown on that show. I like the show but that is extremely distracting to me, and I can’t not see it anymore.
My wife and I have got into the Great British Menu (having gone cold turkey on Great British Bake Off), its on Amazon Prime.
Its not quite as entertaining as GBBO (I think because its all elite professional chefs, rather than random members of the public) but regularly has us googling ingredients mumbling “what the actual f*ck is that?” which is fun:
Did you miss that the base has artificial gravity?
Yes, I know…
I think we’re done with Orphan Black after one season. We watched the first episode of The Gilded Age (the new period piece by the Downton guy on HBO) and were less than impressed. I even dozed off a few times. We may give it one more shot. We’re still watching the weekly episode of Around the World in 80 Days with David Tennant. It’s surprisingly not that well acted (or written), but I guess we’ll stick with it. We’re also doing the weekly episodes of All Creatures Great and Small, which is pretty harmless British fare, and the weekly soap opera that is This Is Us.
I disagree. I completely fell in love with it. Everything about it was exactly what I want from TV.
I’m with @Chefguy. I watched the first episode, and wasn’t left with any particular desire to watch any more. I usually really like David Tennant, but I don’t like his Phileas Fogg. Or really the other characters. I can’t quite figure out what they were trying to do with Passepartout. And in the first episode, they’ve already abandoned the whole point of the journey, and jumped in a convenient experimental hot air balloon instead of using the trains and steamships and other new-fangled-but-established modes of travel that were mentioned in the inspirational article as enabling the circumnavigation of the globe in a mere 80 days.
Your mileage, of course, may vary.
The steamships and trains are in every single subsequent episode.
shrug I never claimed otherwise. As I very specifically stated, I only watched the first episode, and was left with no desire to watch any more. The hot air balloon bit was only one, minor, reason for that. If I had actually enjoyed the characters and the dialogue, it probably wouldn’t even have bothered me. I’m far from a Vernean purist, and I’d have no problem with a fun, steampunk adventure romp that was only loosely based on the book. The first episode simply wasn’t fun for me - or dramatically engaging, which seemed to be what they were trying for.
You said they abandoned the premise, but I am pointing out they did no such thing. It’s an adventure story. The balloon is a standard part of every version of the story outside of the book. And indeed the series is nearly nothing like the book, it takes huge liberties. But I don’t care, it was a fun time.
Whatever, I’m not insisting everyone should like what I like. But I do wish the arguments against liking something actually made sense.
And I’m not insisting you shouldn’t like it. If you thought it was fun, I have no problem with that. At all. I’m not making an “argument against liking something.” Frankly, I think that would be idiotic. I’m just telling you why I, personally, didn’t like it.
And, again, the balloon bit was a relatively minor point, that, again, probably wouldn’t even have bothered me if I had enjoyed the rest of the episode, which I didn’t.
Do you know what I wish? I wish I could just say whether I personally enjoyed a piece of entertainment without someone informing me that my personal taste is somehow objectively wrong.
Welcome to the club.
Okay, boys. This is MY fucking thread, so enough with the derailment.