What are you watching now?

[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?

[jon-nyc]

Mayla likes Emily in Paris

[George K]

@Mik said in What are you watching now?:

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

You might enjoy Kaos (referenced above).

[Mik]

OK, on my list. Heard it's pretty funny.

[George K]

@Mik said in What are you watching now?:

OK, on my list. Heard it's pretty funny.

Very enjoyable. Goldblum carries the show, but the rest of the cast is great as well.

The scene with Prometheus (Stephen Dillane) getting his liver eaten by the eagle is actually funny.

The Greek Gods' family tree explained - as in Kaos.

Link to video

[Tom-K]

I liked Kaos a lot. As you said, Jeff Goldblum makes the show work: old school, real actor. Janet McTeer, is elegantly regal, and the guy who plays Posiden is Mediterraneanly oily. The younger people are randomly interchangable but a good plot line that keeps it fast and funny.

[Mik]

Kaos is the most original thing in years. Love it.

[George K]

@Mik said in What are you watching now?:

Kaos is the most original thing in years. Love it.

Yeah, I really enjoyed it, and it's worth a second watch.

What I liked is that it completes the story, and yet is open-ended enough for another season.

Goldblum....of course.

Speaking of which, years ago, this was taped to the inside of the door to a bathroom stall at work.

(sorry for the derail)

[89th]

This is totally random, but I really enjoyed watching Turn (AMC, from 2014-217, I think). Terrific acting by all, great sets, great drama... it's about the Washington spy ring during the revolutionary war.