Decided to give Welcome to Wrexham a try. I think it will be a good watch. It’s the real story of how two Americans (including Ryan Renolds) took over a down and out Welsh soccer team.
I saw that and enjoyed it. It did a nice job of covering how the team matters to everyone in town.
This Fool (Hulu, 2022, 1 se, 8 ep, 30 min) - My wife and I stumbled on this new gem last night. and watched 4 episodes in one sitting. The blurb:
The series centers on Julio Lopez, a punk-ass bitch with a heart of gold who goes out of his way to help everyone but himself. Inspired by the life and stand-up comedy of star, co-creator and real-life punk ass bitch Estrada, the cinematic half-hour comedy explores Julio’s attempts to better his community, overcome his codependency issues with his family and navigate working class life in South Central.
We are loving it. It’s hilarious and cleverly written. Similar in writing style to Reservation Dogs but is essentially a lighter look at a minority in an inner city akin to Kim’s Convenience. It’s also perfect for that other thread on SD looking for ‘nice little shows’. My wife thinks it’s close to Super Store, I don’t but take that for what it’s worth.
Solid show. Completely recommended to anyone who likes the above comedies.
I haven’t seen anyone who doesn’t like that he’s Hispanic. The complaints I’ve seen have all been that he’s not sexy, like Raul Julia was in the movies.
Or like Astin was.
My current shows:
Wednesday – only one episode in – love it so far, but I did find the Gomez casting very odd
Willow – also one episode in – this is some good family-friendly fantasy fun, so far. Feels like a straight sequel to the movie, with younger characters introduced. Loving this one too.
White Lotus s2 – much better than season 1 so far (I think I’m about 4 episodes in). They took out a lot of the grossness and have more sympathetic characters this time around, along with the usual collection of scoundrels. Stiffler’s mom is particularly clueless and cruel.
Picard – I’m nearing end of S1 and enjoying it a lot. A nice blend of a new Star Trek adventure and TNG nostalgia.
Andor – only 2 episodes in, can’t quite decide on this one yet. All these star wars series are kinda blending together and I’m not sure what makes this stand out yet.
Interview with a Vampire – Loved the first episode, then it just descended into mediocrity. This one’s on the backburner until I can knock off the above.
The peripheral – Had really high hopes for this one, first and second episodes were quite thrilling. But eps 3 and 4 muddied the waters quite a bit and I’m not sure what story it’s trying to tell now. Also on the backburner.
The Patient – wow this one is a trip. I like it a lot, but also get frustrated with the protagonist’s choices. Or lack of choices at times. Still sticking with it though, but proceeding slowly.
I thought it was worthy of Emmys for both the leads. Stick with it.
Don’t judge Andor by the first couple of episodes.
I’ll have add Willow to my queue…
Brian
I’m also really enjoying season 2 much more than the first season. Aubrey Plaza is great, I like all the scenes with those two couples. In fact, all the little different stories are far more interesting except Tanya, who is still shallow and selfish and doesn’t really grow as a character … I can deal with her parts though because I like her assistant.
Jack Ryan on Amazon Prime
Season 1 was very, very good. The terrorist was fairly complex and interesting.
I’m watching season 2. It’s ok. So far I don’t find Ryan as interesting. He’s not the quiet, analyst from season 1. His superior intelligence made him interesting. I will contine watching. Maybe it’ll improve later in the season.
Andor is absolutely unlike any of the other Star Wars shows. It’s made up of 3-episode mini-arcs, so it might be worth watching through episode 4, so you can start to see where it’s going, bigger picture.
It was the casting of Astin and Julia that was odd. Guzman is as close to the original character as any Gomez has gotten.
Here’s the family as drawn by Mr. Addams:
I just finished working my way through all 11 seasons of Cheers.
It holds up. One of the most consistently funny sitcoms ever. It did go a couple seasons too long, I thought; they ran out of stories to tell, and the whole “Sam and Rebecca trying to have a baby” storyline was terrible. But even if the plots were running on fumes, the dialogue stayed sharp and the cast never phoned it in.
And Woody’s wedding (the season 10 finale) is one of the flat-out funniest episodes of any show.
Also, I admit to getting a little choked up at the end of the final episode, even after all these years. Totally worth revisiting.
He was, wasn’t he? I tell people he was my first pre-pubescent crush and they look at me as tho’ I was insane, but he had…something…
And hes Much better now… who gets that reference?
I absolutely agree! I remember his pre-Addams Family show – Somebody and Fenster – about a couple of plumbers or something? With Marty Engels? I loved John Astin.
I’m Dickens, He’s Fenster
I’m Dickens, He’s Fenster.
His eyes, I guess, his voice…
Currently watching Fleischmann Is In Trouble. I’m not sure what I was expecting, but this is definitely something different. I do like the fact that the main character (Jesse Eisenberg) is not the prototypical unambitious loser that stories like this tend to make the husband. He’s a doctor and rather successful, if not at the pinnacle of his profession. His worst fault is that he is not as ambitious as the wife (Claire Danes, now in her forties) but she’s a cold-hearted bee-yotch who doesn’t seem to give a crap about the kids. I kept expecting to find out that he actually killed her, stashed the body and then had a psychotic break where he lost all memory of it. Doesn’t seem to be the case here.