Have you thrown your dog an invisible bone?
Now finished. It was…nice. Not hilarious, not earthshattering, but surprisingly nice. Make sure you hang on for the final post-credits scene in the last episode (the one featuring an old clip of Mike Myers, which adds sudden personal context to the whole series).
A bit disappointed in the new Barry season. Some good bits to be sure but the balance is way to the dark of dark humor. More serious and sad. It had previously been so amazing is the thing.
Hacks S1 was okay, not great, but S2 has fallen off from there.
They’ll both stay on my mental list but not rushing to catch up with dropped eps.
I know what you mean. It’s still good, but doesn’t clear the high bar they set for themselves previously.
They might have to change the title to “Hank,” as this season seems to be more about him than Barry. (I’m still an episode or two behind though, so no spoilers please!) Henry Winkler has outdone himself this season, though.
I liked S1 more than you and S2 a LOT more than you.
I think the main two characters and their relationship are fantastic. Some of the side characters aren’t nearly as entertaining as the show seems to think they are.
I agree, especially about “Hacks”, although I’ve only seen a couple of episodes. I think Jean Smart is a brilliant actor, but it seems the writing got lazy.
Never saw Suicide Squad so that doesn’t help! I don’t mind dark and violent.
Yep to both you and @DSeid . It’s worth watching, but not as good as the first two seasons. We are enjoying Noho Hank and Henry Winkler has been outstanding. The storyline just isn’t as good.
I’ve enjoyed Monk on Peacock. Missed it on its USA Network run. The plots are silly but the characters are a lot of fun. Generally Monk knows the killer early in the show but the fun is in how he proves the case with the most obscure details. The show is kinda like Felix Unger as the Batman.
I was hoping Big Sky would get cancelled. The first season was great but after then it just got too complicated and hard to follow.
I gave up on The Queen’s Gambit. I know it’s gotten all kinds of praise and all that but just could not get involved. Ditto for Stranger Things.
Starting We Own This City on HBOmax, kind of a The Wire precursor, executive produced by David Simon himself.
Just finished Damnation on Netflix. We liked it.
I liked the first season, but stopped watching partway through the second season for exactly that reason. According to Wikipedia it’s been renewed for a third season.
I didn’t find it too hard to follow, but it’s true they keep introducing new characters and story lines before wrapping up previous ones, and it’s become kind of a big sprawling mess.
The season 2 finale was disappointingly anticlimactic. I may or may not continue with season 3.
I agree! I loved the first season, but got lost somewhere in the second.
Well I’ve kept with *Barry *and ep5 has turned the corner for me. The acting has always been amazing. Not sure what exactly made ep5 hit more the balance of tragedy with dark absurdist comic notes. But it does. Some maybe small things that changed my perception of the characters to more fully fleshed entities that I am interested in again.
We recently binged Inventing Anna, The Dropout, and Dopesick.
They were all entertaining, but I got very frustrated with Dopesick. It had the potential to be the most engaging of the three, but the ridiculous time-shifting storyline was a serious impediment to creating anything resembling a cohesive narrative. I can sorta-kinda see why they took that approach, but the execution was off-putting in the extreme. We quickly gave up trying to understand what year we were in, and just figured out a rough approximation based on what was happening to the characters.
I hate it when a compelling story gets sidetracked for completely avoidable reasons.
Finishing up the series Good Girls. Wife and I like to watch a show during dinner that is not thinky. This one requires more deliberate not thinking to enjoy. I don’t recommend it to anyone who is interested in plot, realism, or good acting.
Also been watching Young Rock. If you’re not a wrestling fan or Rock fan this show is not for you. I don’t know if the show is for anybody really. Just another non-thinky show if you’re into that.
Hacks has started a new season. Most shows are better than I expected. Jean Smart is really working the part, I don’t think she had many good roles but this one is worth the watch. Her co-star Hannah Einbinder is doing a great job also. She happens to be the daughter of Larraine Newman from the original SNL cast. This is a show about a love/hate relationship between an aging comic and a millennia writer.
I haven’t seen Hacks but Jean Smart has been fucking nailing it lately - see Watchmen and Legion for recent standout roles.
And Mare of Easttown
I hope so! We typically watch one series episode each night, and #5 of Barry is tonight. 