What are you watching now?

[Horace]

I had trouble getting through the first episode with the Vicar's unbelievable decisions. But it's only four episodes. We'll see where it goes. I need something to watch on the treadmill.

[George K]

@Horace said in What are you watching now?:

the Vicar's unbelievable decisions

Yup.

[Mik]

Willing suspension of disbelief. Just finished E2 while pedaling. If you thought E1 was dark..

So layered.

[George K]

@Mik I had nothing to do today, so I binged. Of course at 1.25 speed.

Waste of an afternoon, IMO. The only thing I really enjoyed was Tucci's performance.

ETA: And...it gets darker, and less funny. I'm OK with dark (Ozark, anyone?). But at least make it plausible. I never, for a second, bought the vicar's motivation, and that's what drives the entire plot.

[Mik]

I was ok with the vicar for the most part. But the story got overly drawn out. Not really interested in a second season.

[jodi]

Peripheral on Amazon Prime. I get confused, though - new episode out every friday and sometimes I have to rewatch parts of the one before to figure out what is going on. (Would be better to binge it, I think.)

[jodi]

Is anybody watching 1899? I’ve been binging it - you have to go in and change the settings to original English - there are several languages they speak (and do subtitles for) - for some reason the dubbed English version is the default (and it doesn’t make sense when it’s all in English). It’s by the makers of “Dark”.

[Copper]

I finally got around to watching my You Tube TV recording of Better Call Saul Season 6

I'm now up to the end of Episode 7

OMG

[George K]

@jodi said in What are you watching now?:

I s anybody watching 1899?

It's gotten good press, I gather. I tried to watch "Dark," but lost interest. Not that it was bad, just not my cuppa.

[jodi]

@George-K If you didn’t like Dark, you probably won’t like this one either!

[Mik]

Yellowstone, Tulsa King, 1923 when it comes out (we get to look for Jodi!).

Lufin says I should watch Spirited.

[jodi]

@Mik I have yet to watch a single episode of Yellowstone! I will probably start paying for Paramount + on December 18th…

[George K]

@jodi said in What are you watching now?:

@Mik I have yet to watch a single episode of Yellowstone! I will probably start paying for Paramount + on December 18th…

Is it great television?

Nope.

Is it a fancy soap opera?

Yup.

Is it full of cowboy/horse porn?

Yup.

Is it fun?

Oh yeah.

As I've said, it's a guilty pleasure, like "Dallas" was in the early 1980s - but the people in Dallas were nicer.

[Mik]

@jodi said in What are you watching now?:

@Mik I have yet to watch a single episode of Yellowstone! I will probably start paying for Paramount + on December 18th…

It’s not on Paramount+, just the cable Paramount Network and also on CMT. Not sure where you can watch the first four seasons.

[jodi]

@Mik I made it into the official trailer! For about a half second.

Link to video

[Horace]

That's awesome. Heads were buried in newspapers back then just like heads are buried in phones these days, huh?

[Mik]

You can watch Seasons 1-4 on Peacock. I think they are offering 2 bucks a month subscription now.

[taiwan_girl]

@jodi.

(I didn't know you were an actress!!)

[Mik]

Of course...she's extra special!

[jodi]

@taiwan_girl Nope, just an “extra” - which means background, no speaking. Though we did get to speak in this - we were protesting - we were temperance women - about the evils of alcohol - we got to SHOUT at the top of our lungs (after the first couple of takes, on the way out of the building, Harrison Ford looked at us and suggested we save our voices a little for later!). He, (or his double) rode in, dismounted, pushed through our little group - as we berated, yelled, shook our fingers - it was hilarious. We were LOUD. They filmed the whole scene from multiple angles, starting from the top of the building and slowly moving closer throughout the day - to the point that it was close up, and Harrison Ford and the one actress amount the rest of the 13 extras had lines - we had to go from shouting to mouthing silently what we had been shouting as soon as his foot hit the curb (so you could hear the lines) - that was way harder than it seems - to make it believable - and they had to do a couple of retakes because a few of the ladies messed up and kept yelling! Apparently if you have actual lines, you have to join the union, or something. But yelling in a crowd doesn’t count.