Lamborghini is a legit tractor company. I suspect that he bought an oversized overcomplicated used tractor just to have the Lambo name, rather than investing in a tractor appropriate for his small farm.
You are 100% correct. Too big, too heavy, and too complicated for him to figure out how to use a lot of features.
Unlike some other shows I would say if you don’t like it from season 1 you won’t like it. I’m currently on season 4 and I still like it but I would say my enjoyment has decreased as it goes along. Production quality remains excellent throughout.
For All Mankind was great…until this recent season, where it is just OK.
Mostly about how evil the commies are. I’ve been watching new episodes each week. I wouldn’t go so far as to say it’s a slog (though I could sympathize with anyone who disagrees), but it certainly is joyless. For reference, I’d say the HBO miniseries Chernobyl is a kinder, less depressing, and more life-affirming view of the Soviet Union. And that’s based on a real world nuclear disaster that is now well-understood to have been as much a product of the politicized and appearance-oriented Soviet bureaucracy as anything.
Well then I definitely made the right call, because I thought the first episode was already ridiculous.
I think it’s 90% genuine, and the only scripted parts are when he has a “brainwave”, buys a crazy new machine, or starts farming another new animal. He deliberately puts himself in extreme situations to both highlight how hard farming is, and to make the show more entertaining. I suspect most farmers are not as enterprising as he pretends to be. I also assume there are way more employees at the farm than just him and Kaleb.
The end of Season 2 is a perfect stopping point in my opinion.
Correct, but it can be watched for a couple more seasons if there’s nothing better to do.
Yeah, I think I get what you’re saying because I’m not the target audience for a show about Emily Dickinson either. But I wound up loving it, so that’s why whenever someone asks for Apple TV recommendations I makes sure to mention it because it definitely gets lost amongst the Severances, Ted Lassos, For All Mankinds, etc.
I’m liking Star City. It has its bureaucrats watching everyone while trying to cover their own behinds. I like the amount of surveillance that’s shown, which is one of my beefs about 1984: who’s actually listening to all these microphones? But it also has some heroic cosmonauts and scientists being placed in frustrating situations. The latest episode gives me hope that everything works for the good, but being set in Russia, I should know better.
Personally, I was impressed that it seemed like they were going to “go there” in episode six, and then they walked it back at the end of episode seven. If you’re going to stare into the abyss, you might as well dive in. No walk backs.
My wife found an online deal for a year of HBO Max, so we bit on that. Some new stuff, some older shows with new seasons to catch up on since the last time we had HBO Max.
The new to us:
The Pitt: Whew, hectic first episode. I liked, but if every episode is like that, I certainly wouldn’t want to binge it-- I’d be exhausted. Shame that Noah Wyle’s character is not actually a grizzled veteran version of his ER character though. I think I heard that that was considered in the early days of the show’s development, but it fell through or was decided against for some reason. I’m going to just pretend he’s grown up Dr. Jack Carter going forward.
DTF St. Louis: Interesting, kind of a slow-burn, oddball sensibility to this show. Sort of a subtle black comedy, I guess. Two episodes in, I think I have a pretty good idea how the central mystery is going to unfold. Question on my mind: Why hasn’t Clark Forrest lawyered up yet? He’s being threatened with the death penalty! Even if he’s innocent, he’s got to realize he needs a lawyer, and toot suite.
Life, Larry, and the Pursuit of Unhappiness: A Larry David series with comedy sketches based on vignettes of American history. We started watching this the day of the 4th of July, which seemed apropos. Only 2 eps so far, both of which we watched. Lots of comedian cameos. If you like ‘Curb your Enthusiasm’ and Larry David’s comedy style in general, you’ll like this. If you don’t, you won’t.
The catching up:
The Righteous Gemstones: Two eps into the 4th season. First ep was a stand-alone ‘origin’ episode that took place during the Civil War that was a bit of an odd departure for the show, but interesting. Then ep.2 got right back into the Gemstone family modern-day hijinks. Wow, I forgot how epically annoying the 3 Gemstone children of Eli are.
The White Lotus: Got it on the list to watch the latest season; haven’t got to it yet.
There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork.
I really like Larry David and loved CYE but this is unwatchable.
One episode of that was enough for me. Very one-note comedy.
Huh. I figured anybody who was a fan of CYE would like LLatPoU; it seems like classic Larry David-style humor to me: maybe not great, but pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty good.
I made it through the Declaration of Independence and the telephone, but that was all I could take. Larry David is funny when he’s relatable. Nothing in this is relatable. ETA: It seems like he’s relying on cameos to make it interesting.
I hope whatever house poor Robert Sherman’s ghost is haunting doesn’t have HBO.
I have a very low Larry David threshold. Five minutes, tops.
Started watching Margo’s Got Money Troubles last night and like it so far.
I meant to mention that I didn’t recognize Michelle Pfeiffer. I’m assuming it’s the garish makeup.
Note: I have not watched it, but I think you need to take it with a pinch of salt and definitely don’t take it as anything representative of a real farm, which are typically much smaller, and sometimes rented from larger landlords. Also he has business ventures attached, which generate income, such as farm shop, and cafe as well as the income from the show.
I think that’s the main reason I won’t touch it. It makes out it really is a farm, when it’s a celebrity pissing around pretending to be a farmer, on something he bought to avoid tax, and has managed to get to make a show about. Like him, it’s misrepresentative.
Some of my friends visited his pub, (I think it was, perhaps it was the cafe), and he doesn’t sell anything which is not from farmed in the UK. So you can’t even get a cup of tea there. Which is sort of “appealing to a certain type”. Which further is a mark against him. And I am absolutely sure no real farmer would do that if they could afford to run such a thing.