What are you watching now?
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Always a treat when Chris Porter releases a new special. I love all of them he's done. This recent one is good.
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I've been watching FUBAR at Mrs. Phibes suggestion on Netflix. It's both a title and an assessment.
Don't bother under any circumstances.
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Broke in the new TV with a 4k viewing of FastX. Somewhere along the line that series became a self aware parody, with cringy moments of sort of taking itself seriously. I suppose I’m getting old. I don’t think the action sequences in the older installments were so ridiculously cartoonish. Maybe they’re going for a video game aesthetic.
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Silo
Based on the books by Hugh (?) Honey.
I'm about ⅔ of the way through the 1st book, and there are some significant differences.
Link to videoGetting great reviews, but I'm not as excited as some. A solid 3 stars, perhaps 3.5.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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I'm a sucker for musicals. Schmigadoon (on Apple TV+) is a take-off on the classic Hollywood musicals. Lots of nods to the musical hits of before, Great dancing, and just tongue-in-cheek enough.
Premise is two people, who're deeply in love, they think, find themselves in Schmigadoon. The songs sound like Oklahoma, the characters look like Carousel, Oklahoma and others.
Not everyone's cup of tea, of course, but I'm enjoying it. I'm 3 thirty-minute episodes in.
Link to videoSeason two is "Schmicago," with much of the cast returning.
Link to videoThe opening credits sound just like....
Link to video@George-K said in What are you watching now?:
I'm a sucker for musicals. Schmigadoon (on Apple TV+) is a take-off on the classic Hollywood musicals. Lots of nods to the musical hits of before, Great dancing, and just tongue-in-cheek enough.
Premise is two people, who're deeply in love, they think, find themselves in Schmigadoon. The songs sound like Oklahoma, the characters look like Carousel, Oklahoma and others.
Not everyone's cup of tea, of course, but I'm enjoying it. I'm 3 thirty-minute episodes in.
Link to videoSeason two is "Schmicago," with much of the cast returning.
Link to videoThe opening credits sound just like....
Link to videoI’ll give this a try. Last night I introduced Fin to Little Shop of Horrors…
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I've been watching all the Marvel movies recently. Of all of them (how many are there, like 30+?) I had only seen the 2008 Iron Man. So I'm watching them in release order. In the last 2-3 weeks I've seen these in bold:
Iron Man (2008)
The Incredible Hulk (2008)
Iron Man 2 (2010)
Thor (2011)
Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)
Marvel’s The Avengers (2012)
Iron Man 3 (2013) <-- Currently on this on
Thor: The Dark World (2013)
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
Ant-Man (2015)
Captain America: Civil War (2016)
Doctor Strange (2016)
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)
Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
Thor: Ragnarok (2017)
Black Panther (2018)
Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)
Captain Marvel (2019)
Avengers: Endgame (2019)
Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019)
Black Widow (2021)
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021)
Eternals (2021)
Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)
Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022)
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023)
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023) -
I've seen Iron Man and....
Yeah, I've seen Iron Man.
Looking forward to Hijack with Idris Elba. 6-part limited series.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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Silo
Based on the books by Hugh (?) Honey.
I'm about ⅔ of the way through the 1st book, and there are some significant differences.
Link to videoGetting great reviews, but I'm not as excited as some. A solid 3 stars, perhaps 3.5.
@George-K said in What are you watching now?:
Silo
Based on the books by Hugh (?) Honey.
Season finished today.
Though I enjoyed it, the last episode was nothing like a "season finale." It had a moderately-big reveal at the end, and the whole episode was a set up for the next season. It felt like a tale half-told.
But I guess that's what television is like these days: Start with a great premise, spend 10-12 episodes expanding the premise, and then....nothing.
I'm deeper into the book, so I know where it's going, but it would have been nice to have some kind of denouement at the end of the first season.
Well done, however, with interesting characters. Yeah 3 stars.
