What are you watching now?

[George K]

@horace said in What are you watching now?:

Asian women are so beautiful.

Selection bias Yes!

[taiwan_girl]

@george-k @Horace

[George K]

@horace said in What are you watching now?:

Asian women are so beautiful.

After my ex and I separated, I dated around a lot. C'mon, I was an intern, and there was this huge hospital full of pretty young nurses.

There was one, in particular, who really struck my face. Turns out that her family was from Korea, I think, and her dad was a radiologist.

Her name was Jennifer. I still fantasize about her, now and then.

[George K]

@mik said in What are you watching now?:

Rewatching Yellowstone. They had a marathon yesterday bumping up interest for season 3. Kostner's best work.

Watched the 1st two episodes of Season 1.

It's...OK. I'm not enthralled so far. Seems to set up too much stuff for later resolution, and the 90 minute first episode was little more than "Let me introduce you to the characters and set up the crisis for the rest of the season."

Costner is good. Much of the supporting cast seems to be caricatured:

• The slick lawyer son
• The daughter with a drug/alcohol problem who's a bitch
• The (not really a son) guy who's treated like a son
• Reservation characters - Didn't "Longmire" do that, and so far, better (Lou Diamond Phillips)?
• Corporate greed - yeah, Longmire did that too.

I'll give it another few chances, but...

[George K]

@george-k said in What are you watching now?:

Watched the 1st two episodes of Season 1.
It's...OK. I'm not enthralled so far. Seems to set up too much stuff for later resolution, and the 90 minute first episode was little more than "Let me introduce you to the characters and set up the crisis for the rest of the season."

Finished Season 1.

It's like "Dallas" for the 2000s. Usual dysfunctional family. Usual fabulously wealthy head of the family. Usual nefarious people trying to get his money/land. Random characters introduced midway through the season (Walker) because, well, they needed to do something.

Not impressed.

If there were nothing else I wanted to watch, I'd plunge in, but there's so much more in my queue that I'll put this on a far back burner for now.

Wonderful scenery, though.

[LuFins Dad]

We’re into the 2nd season of Cobra Kai. It’s growing on me.

[taiwan_girl]

Watching another Korean Drama, "Something in the Rain"

"When a single career woman reunites with her best friend's younger brother after he returns from three years of working abroad, their efforts to reconnect grow into romance."

Another 16 episode series, each episode about 100 minutes. Two main stories in the series

The first is about an older (maybe 35 year old) lady who starts to date her friends younger brother, who is maybe 25-30. I know alot of people on this forum board are probably saying, "so what", but in Korea, this is a big and unusual situation. Jin-Ah is still living at home and has a lot of "pushback" from her mother on dating a younger guy who is not from an "approved" family.

The second story line is about the ladies working environment. Jin-Ah works in the head office for a "Starbucks" type company, and it is interesting (and I think pretty accurate) on the office situation, especially how female workers are treated. I saw it happen more than once when I was there in Korea.

Link to video

SUMMARY: If you want an insight into Korean culture (and a bit into North Asia culture), this is a good show to watch. Culturally, it shows a part of Korea that Westerners probably do not are aware of and may have trouble in understanding why people think the way that they do.

The series was probably a bit too long by a couple of episodes, as some parts take a while to move the plot forward.

However, I enjoyed it. Some of the things and characters shown are a bit exaggerated, but overall, pretty true to life.

(PS It does have sub titles, so no need to be good in Korean language).

[Copper]

The Dig on Netflix

A good story, well acted, nice cinema

Worth the 2 hours

https://www.netflix.com/browse?jbv=81167887


[Loki]

Hanging in there with Fringe. It improved a bit. Will pause after Season 1

[Axtremus]

Recently finished an 11-episode series titled “(the) Daughter of Lupin.” It is worth putting up with subtitles (the dialogue audio is in Japanese only) as it’s a fun series to watch.

“The Map of Tiny Perfect Things” is also a nice “time loop” movie to watch. Sufficiently different from “Groundhog Day” and “The Edge of Tomorrow”, it introduces something different into the genre.

[George K]

Started "Peaky Blinders" the other day. Watched 3 episodes.

Interesting, but I'm not hopeful that it'll turn out to be warmed-over Sopranos in the 1920s. Sets, costumes, acting are all first-rate (and I love Sam Neill), but the storyline seems pretty recycled.

[Horace]

I watched Netflix's Murder Among the Mormons and really enjoyed it. Especially since I wasn't familiar with the story going in.

I am trying to get into The Expanse but having no success. I watched the first season twice because the first time through didn't do much for me and I wanted to make sure I was understanding what was going on. But I still can't get excited about season 2, a couple episodes in.

[Loki]

Promising Young Woman was really good. Loved the script, directing and editing. Very disturbing theme. I thought there was a very different message than what is most written/discussed.

[MainerMikeBrown]

I'm not watching anything on TV right now.

This morning though, I watched a little bit of an episode of Seinfeld. But I didn't watch the whole episode, as I had already seen it before more than once.

I haven't watched hardly any TV yet today.

[Aqua Letifer]

@george-k said in What are you watching now?:

but the storyline seems pretty recycled.

Exactly my feeling about it.

[Mik]

Been watching Emily in Paris with MFR.. Great writing, very funny fish out of water with great scenery. And Paris looks good too. Also The Expanse. Still in S1.

[George K]

@aqua-letifer said in What are you watching now?:

@george-k said in What are you watching now?:

but the storyline seems pretty recycled.

Exactly my feeling about it.

I gave up. The first series season was 6 episodes long, and it was entertaining, though predictable in parts. Basically, it did everything that The Sopranos did, which Sons of Anarchy recycled. Same setting, different era.

Did 3 episodes of the 2nd season and walked away, thinking "I've seen this before. Different people, different city, but, I've seen it."

Great production values and sets. Acting is pretty good too. Too much stuff that's just too predictable or hackneyed. This show struck me as hitting its peak in the third episode, and then wondering where it's going to go after that.

Meh.

ETA: Oh and another thing. The directors seem to be obsessed with the "we're going to shoot this scene from behind something so it looks like you're eavesdropping" idea. It's a catchy technique the first half-dozen times you see it. Then it just becomes hackneyed and a gimmick.

[Mik]

Just started Zerozerozero, that follows 5k kilos of cocaine purchased by Italian mafioso from the fields to the processors to the shippers.

Amazon original. Pretty good so far, intelligently written.

[Doctor Phibes]

Still watching The Expanse for the second time. I'm in the middle of Season 3.

It's actually better the second time, but that could be the VR goggles.

[taiwan_girl]

Finished another Korean drama - "It's Okay to Not Be Okay"

Link to video

Sounded like an interesting story. A young man has been taking care of his autistic older brother since their mother was killed with they were quite young, Due to the older brothers emotional problems and fears, they end up moving almost every year to a new place.

At the latest new place, they meet a children's book author, who has her own emotional problems from childhood.

The problems I had with this show

• Many of the characters are not really likable. They have many emotional problems so that they lash out and do things which are not really nice. It is not until about the last 30 minutes of a 25 hour series that you start to like them. (and yes, I watched the whole thing!! 555)
• they have these weird comedy moments that dont really seem to have much to do with the plot, and seem kind of forced. I guess they were trying to "lighten up" a pretty dark, depressing subject.

For a summary, I would not recommend it. The other two recent K-dramas I watched I would recommend above this one.