Jeevan was easily my favorite character in a cast full of great characters. That was a great line. I didn’t catch until the re-watch how annoying Kirsten was being about reading the comic all of the time while he was doing most of the heavy lifting.
I’ve started season 2 of Raising Dion. I went in remembering almost nothing about season 1 of Raising Dion, but fortunately the first episode has an extensive “last season on…” recap to remind you.
We’re halfway through the first season and we’re enjoying it so far.
Euphoria on HBO Max. It reminds me of Kids from 1995. I guess it’s good if that’s your taste, but it depresses the hell out of me to see kids depicted with that kind of absolute nihilism, cruelty, and amorality. I have no idea if that’s really what kids are like nowadays, but it makes me extremely anxious for my tweens.
I watch this show on and off but I have to say, it makes me feel really gross to watch it. It’s very voyeuristic? , not sure that is the word but it just feels very sleazy sometimes to me. I still watch it sometimes , I started the 2nd season but can only take a little at a time.
I would think if you have young kids, Euphoria would be terrifying; all of them seem to be doing drugs or having sex or whatever. The first episode of the second season showed a New Year’s Eve party with completely unsupervised teenagers with too much alcohol and drugs.
Skins, on the other hand, showed kids who did drink or do drugs but (particularly in the first generation) always emphasized the friendships among the group. It was a really well-done show.
We stumbled on something called Life in Pieces on Amazon Prime. Apparently this was broadcast on CBS circa 2015 for 4 seasons. I have absolutely zero recollection of this even though I was alive and watching TV then.
Family sitcom. The conceit of the show is that each episode is presented as 3 (or so) sequential independent short stories. It occurred to me that this is merely a trick of editing – every sitcom has 2 or 3 story lines (A, B, C) and they’re usually edited to go A, B, C, A, B, C. Life in Pieces has just sorted them as A, A, A (commercial break) B, B, B…
But the most important thing: it’s funny. I literally laugh out loud on multiple occasions.
Starring Tom Hanks’ kid, that guy from Veep, and Walter White’s sister-in-law.
That’s how we were with “Episodes”. Laugh out loud in every single episode.
I agree about Life in Pieces; it was a good, funny show. Too bad it got cancelled, even after four seasons.
I just stumbled upon Murderville on Netflix. Will Arnett as a homicide detective who is partnered with a new celebrity partner for every case. The gimmick is, though, is that the celebrity doesn’t have a script and has to improvise the whole time.
I’m only watching the first episode (guest detective: Conan O’Brien), and it’s interesting. Not sure that it’ll hold up, but it’s not bad so far.
We finished Imposters. The first season stayed pretty good, throughout. The second season felt like they’d only had the idea for the one season and didn’t quite know what to do, given the opportunity to go for a second round, so the series sort of meanders for the first 2/3rds before finally figuring out what they want to do and then wraps things up a little too quickly.
It was still pretty good, though, I mostly say it in case they get an opportunity to do a third season and someone here is involved with the production. Hopefully, they’ll pace it better.
I’d forgotten to say before that we watched the entirety of The Witcher. We both enjoyed it. Never amazing but it does a decent job of not getting too overly complicated with subplots within subplots, not going too grim-dark, not doing too much action-all-the-time, etc. They’ve got a good solid balance and it’s completely sufficiently entertaining. We’ll continue watching when the next season comes out.
We’ve started What We Do in the Shadows and quickly gotten through to season 3. At first, the show seemed like they might run out of ideas on things to parody about vampires but they’ve turned their focus more onto Guillermo and started introducing an ongoing storyline, so they’re less reliant on “silly misunderstanding of the week”. We’re continuously enjoying it. No giant laughs but lots of chuckles.
My main criticism of the show would be that they include some sort of sex/private body part joke in every episode. If you’re comfortable with human sexuality then it doesn’t really land as a joke and if you’re uncomfortable then you’re probably not going to watch the show because there’s so much of it. Either way, it’s not doing them any good.
On the plus side, if you’re uncomfortable with gore, no problem. They’re a lot cleaner here than the movie was.
We quit watching in the latest season because of this. It seemed like a bunch of frat boys took over the writing and it was nothing but dick jokes. Tiresome.
Just watched Season 4 of Ozark and I think I’m done.
I’ve been enjoying Vera on Britbox. Cozy mysteries and good character development. Love the way the main character talks, calling people “pet” and sometimes getting pissed off and yelling at her staff.
I find that surprising, I mean Lazlo’s “bushes” were right there from season 1. The very first episode was about Nadja’s reincarnating lover.
My impression is that it was shot through with sex references from the off. I mean, they are vampires who treat sex as a constant in their lives so why wouldn’t it be constantly referenced?
And I lost interest by episode 6 and skimmed the rest of it. It got really campy and the technobabble gobbledygook got especially gobbly even for a superhero show. (The powered people have a third strand to their DNA, making it a triple helix!)
Apologies if missed any mention by others but we are on episode 3 of The AfterParty. ( apple tv original)
It’s a Whodunnit where every episode is the detective interviewing each person on what they did that night and seeing their fantastical view on what they did and who they are.
Fun and entertaining,
Life in Pieces was one of the few shows my husband and I both enjoyed. We really miss it.
Right now on Netflix I’m watching season 3 of “Hanna” and season 1 of “In from the Cold”. I’m enjoying both.