My Random TV Thread

Ooh-Rah said:
Just started The Old Man (Hulu/FX) with Jeff Bridges and John Lithgow. I’d describe as “what happens after Jason Bourne retires”


“Do you recognize me now?”
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Season2, 4 episodes in and I can’t get past seeing the Taliban decked out in primo US Humvees and gear. 😡 Hope they at least sent a thank you card.
 
Monsters by Ryan Murphy of American Horror Story fame. He's done A LOT of series so his name is out there. This particular season is about the Menendez brothers, a couple of lads who used shotguns to settle their father's will back about 91 or something.

The first 2-3 episodes are kind of wild and really pull you in, pure entertainment. The next 2 or 3 fall flat, the highlight being the "rape" episode. Seriously, they devoted an entire episode on the alleged rape of Kyle and Erik Menendez by their father. The viewer is subjected to what essentially amounts to a loop describing some heinous shit between a father (to a lesser extent the mother) and their children. Over and over. A loop. I'm not kidding. A loop of sordid details as they prepared for trial. The people changed but the words did not... it was the same story.

Kiddie rape and incest is uncomfortable to me, but if it advances the narrative, I'm onboard. The series advanced the narrative in 5-10 minutes and then promptly repeated the same story over and over. I fell asleep because it was horrific, but repetitive.

The final 2-3 were good or very good, but not enough to salvage my perception of the story's middle chapter.

Great opening, garbage middle, very good ending. Ima give this one 2.5 out of 5 servings of cinnamon because the middle section is just that bad.

Our next stop is the Vince McMahon tale on Netflix.

ETA: Fixing English or whatever.
 
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Ooh-Rah said:
This makes me very very happy.

'Homicide: Life on the Street' Is About to Find New Life on the Streamers

HOMICIDE: LIFE ON the Street may be on the verge of abdicating the title of the Best TV Show You Can’t Stream.

On Monday night, David Simon — whose nonfiction book, Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets, inspired the Emmy-winning NBC cop drama, and eventually launched Simon’s own acclaimed career in television with shows like The Wire and The Deuce — revealed that the biggest hurdle had been cleared to put the series on a streaming platform:
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An episode a day on the treadmill has been fantastically enjoyable!

Because the series never went into indication, I’ve seeing most of these episodes for maybe the second and in some cases the first time.

The writing, the dialogue, everything holds up.

Interesting watching them perform work on regular typewriter, stopping payphones to answer pages, and in a recent episode watching a detective argue that the most information a piece of “hair“ an offer is maybe the race of the person, but that’s about it. (Have to wonder how much sooner after these episodes DNA technology came into being)

Anyway, if you were on the fence as to whether to begin this series for the first time or revisit for a second, the noncommercial subscription to Peacock has been absolutely worth it. I’ll likely cancel after I’m done with this series.
 
AWP said:
Dark Winds on AMC, 2 seasons with a third due next year. Navajo cops on a Navajo Reservation set in the early 70's.

Who's it for? You.
Who's it not for? People who don't like the Indig or El Caminos.

4 out of 5 medicine pouches.
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I grew up out west, so I read most of Tony Hillerman's books on Leaphorn and Chee. I wasn't tracking this series, so I must go find ASAP...Thanks! :thumbsup:

Gunz said:
Are there any guns in it? Because I’m against gun violence.
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Yeah...The Old Man has lots of guns and fighting. The Dude's character gets beat up every episode but he shoots his way out or does some type of old man BJJ and ends up right where he needs to be for the next episode!
:ROFLMAO:
 
SpongeBob*24 said:
I grew up out west, so I read most of Tony Hillerman's books on Leaphorn and Chee. I wasn't tracking this series, so I must go find ASAP...Thanks! :thumbsup:
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The casting is solid. The series works in the plight of the reservation system without being preachy. The episodes are neither fast nor slow, so the pacing allows you to take in what's going on. I think the series is underrated.
 
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