I never get the remote unless it's baseball season, but for some reason a few days ago I was surfing around the Apple TV and started this show. I definitely don't binge watch anything but I am done with Season 1 including the last four episodes last night. I really can't understand why no one wants to watch it with me because the cast is strong, it's not ultra-violent (some needless gore though, that makes Justine clock out), and the premise is pretty cool. The only time the show clunks is when they try to work the phrase, "Slow Horses," into the dialog. Which isn't often, so hey.
When the second season came out I was happy/bummed because I am NOT one to wait patiently for weekly
episodes.
I also always watch Acorn and Britbox for the british (and scottish and welsh and northern irish and irish)
detective series. Many made from books and also based on true events. You see the same cast of characters
over and over in various roles, recycling from show to show. It's very different than the plastic, formulaic
american shows. Although Echo 3 was quite good for a yank production. (Subtitles on is a must when
watching britbox and acorn, though. ) Looking forward to Pale Blue Eye because of the plot and cast. Anything
with Toby Jones is generally really good/funny.
I never get the remote unless it's baseball season, but for some reason a few days ago I was surfing around the Apple TV and started this show. I definitely don't binge watch anything but I am done with Season 1 including the last four episodes last night. I really can't understand why no one wants to watch it with me because the cast is strong, it's not ultra-violent (some needless gore though, that makes Justine clock out), and the premise is pretty cool. The only time the show clunks is when they try to work the phrase, "Slow Horses," into the dialog. Which isn't often, so hey.
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Westworld Season 4 premieres Sunday at 9 pm ET.
Bummed and surprised to read recently that Westworld got cancelled.
I watched the first episode of "Peripheral", apparently produced by the creators of Westworld. Based on a novel by William Gibson and available on Amazon Prime. Quite good sci-fi in which virtual reality becomes immersive and dangerous.
Also on Amazon Prime—"The English" with Emily Blunt. Slow burn with great acting and period details. A twisted and cynical Western, good so far as the 1990's "Lonesome Dove", my gold standard for TV Westerns.
"Manhattan" on AMC+ (you can get a subscription to the channel with Amazon Prime). About the Manhattan Project and the struggle to find a workable bomb design. Great stuff although it's frustratingly light on explaining the technical matters.
"Sprung" on Freeverse via Amazon Prime. A bunch of misfits with a healthy disrespect for the law try to make some get-rich-quick scores during the Covid lockdown. I never saw "Raising Hope" but two of "Sprung's main actors were on that previous series and I suspect the type of humor was similar.
"The Outfit" on Amazon Prime with Christopher Walken and a number of great British comedians. A group of people from all walks of life in Bristol perform community service as part of punishment for minor offenses but quickly get caught up in the financial rewards of a successful drug ring. Quite funny. Walken as always is a hoot to watch for being so shifty and weird.
Ozark is well worth it. I thought the end was good, but not mind blowing like MASH or Newhart. Some shows feel like a waste, but the talent in Ozark is undeniable. And they play a Rundgren tune on the radio! (Wrong one for the scene though)
catching up or attempting to with ozark finished season three
seems like there is a lot of good content out there
Ozark is well worth it. I thought the end was good, but not mind blowing like MASH or Newhart. Some shows feel like a waste, but the talent in Ozark is undeniable. And they play a Rundgren tune on the radio! (Wrong one for the scene though)
So DownHomeGirl goaded me into starting Severance, on AppleTV. I'd post a trailer/video but all the ones I just looked at are FULL of spoilers so don't even google it, just (if you have Apple TV) go start it. It's very quiet and weird, the first few episodes are kind of like Lost where you're just trying to figure stuff out, but once you get the premise the story moves on and gets really tense. I haven't gotten into a TV show in a long time... watched an episode here and there but since there was no Giants baseball yesterday, I started episode 4 or 5 and wound up binging the whole rest of the season. Since I had zero idea of who's in it or what it's about, I think I got the full effect, so really just go watch without reading about it.
We started watching Severance (wife and me) together. She lasted 1 episode.
I went back probably a month later on my own early one Sunday morning. Hmmm...that's interesting (ep 2)... so I watched another. Caught up to the release schedule pretty quickly (1 every Friday)... and eventually watched the last one early on a Friday before working. I really enjoyed it. A lot of subtlety, and the acting/casting was really good. Ben Stiller's directing has been getting better and better over the years (Dannemora was pretty good too). He did the first and last 3...with Irish director Aoife McArdle (known for music videos) directing the middle three (not sure why the 3-3-3 mix...maybe schedules).
It's definitely one of the most enjoyable things I've watched in the past year or two.
So DownHomeGirl goaded me into starting Severance, on AppleTV. I'd post a trailer/video but all the ones I just looked at are FULL of spoilers so don't even google it, just (if you have Apple TV) go start it. It's very quiet and weird, the first few episodes are kind of like Lost where you're just trying to figure stuff out, but once you get the premise the story moves on and gets really tense. I haven't gotten into a TV show in a long time... watched an episode here and there but since there was no Giants baseball yesterday, I started episode 4 or 5 and wound up binging the whole rest of the season. Since I had zero idea of who's in it or what it's about, I think I got the full effect, so really just go watch without reading about it.
