I just finally got around to it. I genuinely thought it was great! But then I think Zahn McClarnon can do no wrong as an actor. And he was (briefly) reunited with Angus Sampson (Bear Gerhardt) from the outstanding season 2 of Fargo, which I am very coincidentally in the process of rewatching!
All the horror movie callbacks, the allusions to the ultra-toney Bohemian Club with their owl fetish (and the Cremation of Care ceremony they hold in front of their creepy, giant owl statue) and the real emotion of being a good man haunted by his failure to save someone important to him really worked for me. I’ve enjoyed this season as much as the last.
The somewhat meandering story line (in the most recent episode of Reservation Dogs) paid off with the ending bit showing the core four kids watching the news while having a snack.
I adored Better Things, especially seeing the relationship between the daughters and how they matured and grew up. I especially liked episode 2.10 Graduation and the dance to the song Tilted and 4.6 New Orleans with the song Martha (maybe I just like the songs?)
One frustrating thing about the series is the the very brief episode titles, like Sick and the description “Sam is sick.” Thanks!
Hah! That one really bugged me, because anyone who’s ever listened to the lyrics of Martha wouldn’t dream of using it for a wedding! Maybe a funeral for a suicide victim. Far worse than “Always on my Mind” being used at weddings! The song is about losing a love all those long years ago and deep regrets. Still scratching my head over that choice. But the rest of the episode was great.
We just finished a Turkish show called The Gift. It ended up reminding us a bit of The Dark, with different timelines, and people living different lives in different universes. If that sort of thing is your jam, it’s worth a look.
Bad Sisters (Apple TV+) Five sisters, one of whom is married to a jerk (he’s generally known as The Prick) who, as the series opens, is dead. We flip between flashbacks that show how he got dead, and the present investigation.
Starring and produced by Sharon Horgan, most recently seen in Catastrophe.
We’re 3 episodes in and enjoying it very much. Blackly comic – it’s what I hoped Only Murders in the Building was going to be (but was disappointed).
I was happily surprised to learn that the paler insurance investigator is played by Brian Gleeson, brother of the patient in The Patient, Domhnall Gleeson (both sons of actor Brendan Gleeson).
Keep Breathing, on Netflix. A young woman survives a small plane crash in the wilderness, then has to survive. Way too many flashbacks to her childhood and her romantic relationship in order to stretch this thing out to six episodes. The only reason I started watching it was because the tease has her trying to hitch a plane ride to Inuvik, NWT. I’ve been there and wanted to see how accurate their portrayal was. Unfortunately, it all takes place in the woods.
This… love it. Everyone in it is great- especially Sharon Horgan, Eve Hewitt & loved Sarah Greene in Dublin Murders and she’s funny too. Even the actor who plays “The Prick” is hilarious when he doesn’t make you want to cry…
Two episodes into Kleo, a German show on Netflix about a former East German assassin who gets thrown into prison because her political masters need plausible deniability, then gets released when the Wall comes down and now is on a mission to find out who framed her and why. And also to hurt them a lot. A lot of familiar “betrayed female assassin seeks revenge” tropes but definitely not the usual stylized fight scenes (at least not yet, although there was a sumo gag they threw in).
Also there’s a West German cop investigating a murder he witnessed her committing that his own supervisors refused to follow up on, and the druggie raver who had moved into her flat from West Berlin while she was in prison, both adding some levity to the grit and violence.
Enjoying it so far, but it will depend on how plausibly it all plays out.
I watched The White Lotus all the way through despite not liking it, just in case I was missing something that the critics saw. I disliked it even more when it was done. I’m really surprised it won Emmys.
This season of Big Sky is much better than last, which is a low bar indeed.
I binged the series Blood. Some great acting and writing. In season 1 we thought we had it all figured out and the bad guy wasn’t so bad after all. Season 2 had a Hitchockian plot twist at the end that I didn’t see coming.
We just started The Imperfects. It’s a group of folks trying to track down the geneticist who did illegal experiments on them. Overall, it’s pretty good.
I just finished Alice in Borderland. Adapted from a manga. Basically a Japanese twist on Squid Game (they both came out on Netflix about the same time). Or perhaps SG was a Korean twist on this (or Battle Royale, probably). In any case, it was good. Doesn’t have the blatant overacting style that SG had, and there’s no subplot like the cop in SG. Also not a self-contained season; there’s no explanation given by the end of the first season. Second season coming in a few months.
I stopped watching Big Sky partway through the last season because I completely lost interest in the plot line.When I saw the trailer for the new season I decided to give it another try. This was partly because Reba McEntire had joined the cast, but also because the new story line looked interesting.
I did the same thing last season. I want to watch the current season, but am wondering if missing most of last season will make the new one confusing. I turned on E1 and there was so much in the “what happened last season” that I was unfamiliar with that I decided to not even start.