What are you watching now?

[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.

[George K]

@89th said in What are you watching now?:

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.

Yes. Interesting series, and a lot of interesting actors - Burn Gorman comes to mind.

The guy who played Simcoe did an interview in which he talks about how he purposefully raised the timbre of his voice to make it more annoying. Simcoe was not the monster portrayed:

John Graves Simcoe (25 February 1752 – 26 October 1806) was a British Army general and the first lieutenant governor of Upper Canada from 1791 until 1796 in southern Ontario and the watersheds of Georgian Bay and Lake Superior. He founded York, which is now known as Toronto, and was instrumental in introducing institutions such as courts of law, trial by jury, English common law, freehold land tenure, and also in the abolition of slavery in Upper Canada.

His long-term goal was the development of Upper Canada (Ontario) as a model community built on aristocratic and conservative principles, designed to demonstrate the superiority of those principles to the republicanism of the United States. His energetic efforts were only partially successful in establishing a local gentry, a thriving Church of England, and an anti-American coalition with select indigenous nations. He is seen by many Canadians as a founding figure in Canadian history, especially by those in Southern Ontario.[1] He is commemorated in Toronto with Simcoe Day.

I've read a couple of books about the Culper Spy ring, and though much of the series is based on fact, they do take some liberties.

Nevertheless a fun watch.

Rose's book is better than Kilmeade's (or whoever wrote it for him).