What are you watching now?

[George K]

@bachophile said in What are you watching now?:

Binging west world which I’ve never seen

It's oddly great for the first couple of seasons. Then, it gets just odd with a sort-of unsatisfying finale. It was "good enough" as an ending, but the series was cancelled before they could wrap it up properly.

[Mik]

Dark Winds S2. First episode very good at setting the season.

[George K]

@George-K said in What are you watching now?:

6 part Netflix Docudrama

Wyatt Earp and the Cowboy War

Not bad. Not great, but not bad. An interesting look into the rival between Earp and the Clanton gang. Reading about Earp’s history in Wikipedia, however, reveals this was a very superficial telling of the story which is much more complicated than you think. It portrays her as a kind of antihero, whose reputation is saved in his later life. However, his early life was rather shady And the period after tombstone was equally shady.

It’s not a bad overview of the events complete 1881 and 1882, but it’s very very incomplete.

Watch it at 1.5 speed.

[George K]

Started this, this PM.

@LuFins-Dad , we have no kids, no chores, and not a thing to do today...

Link to video

Sasha Baron Cohen is great in this (mostly) true story.

Two episodes in - I'm hooked.

[Mik]

Starting this. Looks great.

https://www.tomsguide.com/entertainment/netflix/netflix-just-added-my-favorite-detective-show-of-the-year-stream-the-entire-first-season-now

[Mik]

First episode very good. Already complex, good characters.

[taiwan_girl]

Actually rewatched "Downfall" about the last few days of Hitler. It was a good as I remember, but I had also forgotten quite a few parts of the movie, so it was good to watch it again.

Link to video

[Mik]

Dark Winds Season 2 was good. S3 they say will drop this week. There was an occult plot line they wove through and just kind of dropped toward the end but that’s ok.

[Mik]

Covid’s really good for bingeing.

[George K]

Speaking of things coming up.

Severance

Slow Horses

Rumors of a Ted Lasso 4th season.

[George K]

Started this yesterday AM. 3/6 episodes in.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tourist_(TV_series)

The Tourist is a 2022 drama-thriller black comedy television series. It stars Jamie Dornan as the victim of a car crash who wakes up in a hospital in the Australian outback with amnesia.

Not really a comedy - at all.

Link to video

Good, but not great. 3 stars.

[Mik]

Bad Monkey is about up.

https://www.novelsuspects.com/film/movies-tv/bad-monkey-finally-gives-carl-hiaasens-work-the-adaptation-it-deserves/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0BMAABHfVLHNUIFdxu-BsP43MZCS3qtHZGDBPTc19U3wduQLzh1DY8C_3iUCaR2Q_aem_flHdttVPFvKfY2mTAcdW0g&utm_medium=paid&utm_source=fb&utm_id=6610944872068&utm_content=6610944872868&utm_term=6610944872468&utm_campaign=6610944872068

[jon-nyc]

Finished Suits. Sort of hate-watched it by the end.

[George K]

@jon-nyc said in What are you watching now?:

Finished Suits. Sort hate-watched it by the end.

Well put. It went long, long, past its sell-by date.

And I found Meghan Markle annoying even back then.

[George K]

@Mik said in What are you watching now?:

Bad Monkey is about up.

I love Hiassen's books.

"Tourist Season" was hysterical, and "Striptease" was a much better book than movie. In fact, the book was pretty good.

Thanks for the heads up.

[George K]

Fun stuff.

Link to video

[Mik]

Just watched E1 of 3 Body Problem. So far so good.

Monsieur Spade very good too.

[George K]

@Mik said in What are you watching now?:

Just watched E1 of 3 Body Problem. So far so good.

It's quite good. However, you have to understand that the 1st season incorporates storylines from the 2nd and 3rd books. Also some characters are composites of book characters.

2nd book is the best, by the way.

I think @Axtremus commented on the Chinese version. I watched about 12 episodes of the 36 episode series, which is only the 1st book. Moved kind of slow, so I gave up. It is much more faithful to the book(s).

[George K]

@Mik said in What are you watching now?:

Bad Monkey is about up.

https://www.novelsuspects.com/film/movies-tv/bad-monkey-finally-gives-carl-hiaasens-work-the-adaptation-it-deserves/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0BMAABHfVLHNUIFdxu-BsP43MZCS3qtHZGDBPTc19U3wduQLzh1DY8C_3iUCaR2Q_aem_flHdttVPFvKfY2mTAcdW0g&utm_medium=paid&utm_source=fb&utm_id=6610944872068&utm_content=6610944872868&utm_term=6610944872468&utm_campaign=6610944872068

Two episodes in - Vaughn is great. The setting's great. The narration's great.

The plot? Pure Hiassen.

Oh, the monkey, and the arm, are pretty good too.

[Mik]

We are looking for series that are a bit uplifting, not dark, dar, dark and tense. Any suggestions?