I just finished the last season of The Last Kingdom. All in all, it was a good run with solid acting and a satisfying outcome. Historically based, if not historically written, but good nonetheless.
The wife wanted to watch Abbott Elementary, an ABC sitcom on Hulu. She seemed to like it, but I found it to be typical network fodder, both predictable and repetitive in plot. Sort of a black version of “The Office” with all the fourth wall mugging, but not done as well. After six episodes I was thoroughly bored with it.
We started "WeCrashed"last night, about the rise and fall of WeWork , with Jared Leto and Anna Hathaway.
Enjoyed the first two episodes. Well produced, Leto gives a real dose of manic energy to the Adam Neumann character,.
I found The Great a bit tough to get into. It would suit a shorter format like a movie better, I think. That much hedonism from people that unpleasant just gets exhausting after a while.
I just keep thinking of the Mitchell and Webb (radio) sketch where people have their minds uploaded to a virtual heaven after death, only due to a programming error their virtual selves just get stuffed into a giant pig instead for the rest of their existence. Which is extremely unpleasant.
I’m still watching the latest season of Disenchantment. On the one hand it’s a show that meanders like a motherfuck and still has that “not funny enough for comedy, too funny for drama” thing happening. On the other hand, this means that it’s completely unpredictable. And it does pay attention to everything that has happened before, so there is continuity even so.
I watched the first episode last night. I like it. I love the 70s fashions and colors. Yes, there is quite a bit of FFMN. As a female, I’m not complaining!
I made the mistake of telling the Ms that “Sanditon” is back on the air, so now we’re watching it. I’m pretty heartily sick of British period pieces with the same tired plotlines. Poor plucky young woman has to make her way in the world, meets a wealthy, brooding asshole who she hates on sight but eventually falls madly in love with. How many ways can someone make “Wuthering Heights”? At least BCS is coming back next month. I saw the trailer; does anybody else thing they’re doing some CGI tricks with ol’ Bob to make him look younger?
I think you mean Pride & Prejudice. Wuthering Heights is about two people who hate everyone and themselves and each other and generally ruin their own lives and everyone they know.
Possibly. Another thing that might have happened is, if you recall, Bob Odenkirk had a health scare in the middle of shooting and was hospitalized. If he lost a significant amount of weight which shows in the character’s face, they may use CGI to make things look a little more ‘similar’.
This is speculation, of course, as we don’t know which scenes were shot when and in relation to the health scare.
We’ve been watching “All of Us Are Dead” on Netflix - or - Teenage zombies from South Korea. We’re halfway through the 12 episodes and it’s beginning to feel awfully padded. (They spent a goodly amount of one episode discussing how people trapped in one room at a high school and a detention facility were going to relieve themselves.) I don’t know if we’re going to make it through to the end if the story does kick up.
"Stay Close" is a pretty good Netflix British murder mystery that takes a lot of twists and turns. And it has a beginning, middle and close in its 8 episodes. There’s a twist at the end that doesn’t quite wrap-up the entire story as far as most of the characters are concerned, but you, the viewer, are not left in the dark.
We had to read it in high school. Or we were supposed to. After one chapter I was ready to use it for skeet practice and never finished it. My test scores reflected that. I did watch the TV series, however, and managed to slog through it.
Speaking of “Wuthering Heights,” we went to a repertory movie theater years ago to see the “classic” film starring Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon. We had never seen it and love old movies, but it was just soooo stiff and hammy. We were seated in a steeply raked balcony, where a person behind you was almost literally over your head. When “Cathy” shuffled off her mortal coil, a woman behind us began weeping, bellowing “Wooooo hooo hooo hooo hooo” loud enough to wake the dead. Wifey and I reacted by laughing uncontrollably, and finally had to get up and leave. That’s my experience with “WH” and I have avoided all performances of it ever since. I do, however, enjoy Monty Python’s “semaphore” version. That one really nails it.
Been watching Downton Abbey and enjoy it immensely. However, I find Bates’s character to be so dreary that I’m fast forwarding through much of his S3 story line. Everyone else is top-notch , however.
Just started Peacemaker. I really liked The Suicide Squad and this follow-up series is quite promising so far. Violent, sweary and graphic, but promising.
Also, I am never going to click “Skip Intro” because this is fucking epic.
I’m working my way thru The Silent Sea, a Korean sci-fi drama. On one hand, it’s a slog and they don’t seem to understand how the moon works - there are numerous scenes that are supposed to be perilous or taxing, but wouldn’t be in 1/6 gravity. Like the X-Files, people routinely ignore light switches to use flash lights in hazardous situations. And apparently there’s no Korean term for “buddy system.”
On the other hand, it’s only 8 eps and they’re less than an hour, so I think why not finish?
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