I like the scenes in the writer’s room better than the ones with cast.
Reboot started slow for me, but the cast has such a good track record I decided to give it a couple more chances. I just finished Episode 3 and I think it’s getting much better.
The bit where the old writers and the young writers find common ground about what’s funny was the best scene in the episodes I’ve seen so far.
We didn’t watch the first season of Van der Valk, so we decided to pick it up with the second season.
Not impressed. It was one of those show where we kept yelling at the screen at how dumb they all were acting. The characters were a bit too artificial.
Plus I’ll never get Marc Warren’s evil fairy from Doctor Strange and Mister Norrell out of my head.
S3 of Derry Girls just dropped on Netflix! That’ll be included in my binging this weekend.
We just finished the first season of Bosch: Legacy on Amazon Freevee. He’s a private investigator now and his daughter is a rookie cop. Pretty much the same sorts of plots with a little less of the boring LAPD and city politics in the previous series - Lance Riddick’s annoying character is thankfully gone. Only drawback is the commercials. I think this is the first entire season of a show I’ve watched with ads in five years. My wife likes the characters and I like the LA locations so we endured the ads.
So, when we watched the last episode of the new Bosch, our Amazon app started auto playing a show called Sprung. It’s a comedy with the leads from Raising Hope. The first episode was funny, but is it worth the ads you have to watch on Freevee? Has anybody seen the whole season? Is it worth suffering through the commercials to stick with it?
Slowly giving up on the Disney Marvel properties. Ms. Marvel was well-cast, but a mess in terms of storytelling, and by the end I was so disinterested, I didn’t even watch the final episode. On to She-Hulk. First episode had promise. That’s about the best I can say about it. Quit after Episode 4. It’s neither a clever legal procedural, which would be cool, or an action story, which would be cool. It’s not anything. Snapshots in the Mundane Life of Jennifer Walters.
We watched a good bit of Hacks, which is not bad, but not quite as compelling as I’d hoped.
So we started Cobra Kai which is better than it has any right to be. It’s the first time we’ve legit binge-watched anything since Wee Weasel was born.
And of course we are continuing with Lower Decks’ new season. I love that show. I think Mariner is one of my favorite Star Trek characters (second only to Jadzia Dax.)
I’ve been watching a Korean Netflix series called, “Inspector Koo”, and I’ve really enjoyed it. I have one episode left, and I’ll watch that tomorrow.
This was my least favorite season of Bosch. The daughter story is boring, mainly because she’s such a one-dimensional actor. I agree about Riddick; he plays the same character in everything he’s in, it seems. Sort of like Dean Norris.
Bosch: Legacy was one of the biggest letdowns of my TV-watching life. I cannot bear his daughter. I’ve seen better writing on Mannix. Not enough Crate nor Barrel.
(I am a fan of the original Bosch)
Also, I just hate-watched all 8 episodes of Devil in Ohio, which was ten times worse than Bosch: Legacy. Stay very far away from this one unless you like formulaic writing and puddle-deep acting.
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I’ve watched about 6 episodes maybe. They’re all very similar to the first - some better, some the same. I’m not getting the commercials, somehow. Give it a try and see if you can tolerate them.
Big thumbs up from me and my wife for The White Lotus. Definitely one of the handful of best shows from the past year.
And I’m really liking She-Hulk. Yes, it’s just a low-key sitcom. But it’s a fun an entertaining and very-very-watchable low-key sitcom.
I’ll give a moderate thumb up to A League of Their Own. Certainly watchable. But don’t go in expecting a show about baseball with a lot of gender-sexuality-and-race plotlines. Rather, it’s a show about gender, sexuality and race with some baseball plotlines. (And in fact I think my single biggest complaint is that it doesn’t really take the baseball seriously. Like, it wouldn’t have taken much effort to make it look like the actresses were really playing; or give any context to their standing in the league, etc., and they just didn’t bother.)
Finally, I’m enjoying Welcome to Wrexham, a documentary about two hollywood actors buying a struggling Welsh football club and trying to turn it around. It’s low key but charming and watchable. One thing I find particularly interesting is that it has all the beats of fictionalized storytelling… I mean, it’s basically Ted Lasso, right? But… it’s real. So when you get to the point where obviously NOW they’re going to win the big game because the plotline demands it, well… the might, or they might not. It was a real game determined by real athletes, not scriptwriters.
Season 2 of The White Lotus is coming. 
I figured I’d give CSI:Vegas a watch. Figured I used to live there. Maybe I’ll see stuff I recognize. Oh, My God! What a Hot Mess! Just nonsense. Ridiculous crime, victim, investigation and solution. 40 minutes of utter crap, then, “Hey, I bet its this guy!” and they have him custody in about 5 minutes. Not a single thing made a lick of sense.
This is a BAD show. I can’t see watching any more of them.
I just finished the first season of Better Things. I’m enjoying it, yet I can’t point to one specific stand-out element. Maybe it’s just slice-of-life that any parent raising kids can relate to.
Not sure yet what to make of the reboot of Quantum Leap. I liked the concept in the original but for some reason in the reboot it doesn’t seem to click. Perhaps the problem is the girlfriend being the hologram, there isn’t a lot of chemistry between her and the lead.
It is written like an 80s show, and is super bland in today’s world.
I agree. I deleted it from my Tivo list.
We’ve been watching The Visitors on Netflix. It’s a French series that’s a semi-comedic take on an alien invasion and a small town. It’s fairly entertaining if you like quirky shows.
We also started the recent Time Traveler’s Wife series. I think we’ve given up. It was just too creepy. Too much appearance of grooming. The protagonists, especially the female, are horrible to each other. It’s supposed to be a great romance and I sat there watching and wondered why they were together at all. Then again, see “grooming” above.
I watched The Time Traveler’s Wife, mostly because it was the big new series on HBO but at least one of the reviews prior to the premiere episode mentioned the creepy aspects of the plot. And it did poorly enough that it was not renewed past that first season.
I watched the first episode of “Alaska Daily” mostly because I went there for vacation this past summer, and I wanted to see what parts they filmed there, vs. somewhere in Los Angeles. It wasn’t a terrible first episode, but I’m not sure I’m going to stick with it or not. Or for that matter, whether it’ll make it through the whole season or not.
They’re going to have to lean in pretty hard into what makes Alaska unique- the distances involved, the native Alaskans & their situation(which they did start into), the brutal winters, the transportation challenges, as well as the seasonality of the place- the summer is overwhelmed by tourists from what I gather. And IMO, they’re going to have to make it into something of an Alaska travelogue. Otherwise it’s just a bog-standard fish out of water story combined with a pretty standard newspaper reporter type format.