What are you watching now?
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Perry Mason — Noir prequel in stylish 1920s LA where Perry (Matthew Rhys - The Americans) tries to work through political corruption and judicial favoritism and opportunism. Della Street (Juliet Rylance) is cast not as a girl Friday but comes out…. Not great, but watchable.
Succession - enjoyable glimpse into a highly dysfunctional uberwealthy family as the paterfamilias is trying to decide who will take over his global corporation. Story is well developed and the acting is good where the viewer begins to actually about the family and their trajectory. Completely bingeable.
Industry - a bunch of unlikable young banksters in a London trading house screwing each other in every configuration and doing drugs without any discernible plot other than to keep their careers by being as necessarily vicious as needed. Not even good Machiavellian intrigue. I don’t care what happens to anyone.
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@Ivorythumper said in What are you watching now?:
Perry Mason — Noir prequel in stylish 1920s LA where Perry (Matthew Rhys - The Americans) tries to work through political corruption and judicial favoritism and opportunism. Della Street (Juliet Rylance) is cast not as a girl Friday but comes out…. Not great, but watchable.
Agreed. I watched the 1st season, but it struck me as being style over substance. There was a lot of style, to be sure. Rhys was good as Mason, but there just wasn't much there there in the 1st season.
Succession - enjoyable glimpse into a highly dysfunctional uberwealthy family as the paterfamilias is trying to decide who will take over his global corporation. Story is well developed and the acting is good where the viewer begins to actually about the family and their trajectory. Completely bingeable.
Agreed. Like I said about Yellowstone - it's like Dallas, but the people aren't as nice. This is popcorn TV and the extreme dysfunction of the family is fun to watch. I even enjoy Cameron (Bueller? Bueller?).
Industry - a bunch of unlikable young banksters in a London trading house screwing each other in every configuration and doing drugs without any discernible plot other than to keep their careers by being as necessarily vicious as needed. Not even good Machiavellian intrigue. I don’t care what happens to anyone.
Thanks for the recommendation. I'll not waste my time.
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@Ivorythumper said in What are you watching now?:
Succession - enjoyable glimpse into a highly dysfunctional uberwealthy family as the paterfamilias is trying to decide who will take over his global corporation. Story is well developed and the acting is good where the viewer begins to actually about the family and their trajectory. Completely bingeable.
We watched the first episode, at the end of which I detested each and every character so much I hoped for the helicopters to all crash. World's shortest series.
"My pronouns are FA/FO." - Mik, 2024
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@Mik said in What are you watching now?:
We watched the first episode, at the end of which I detested each and every character so much I hoped for the helicopters to all crash. World's shortest series.
Be patient. As it progresses you get to hate them, all of them, even more. It's delicious.
Except for Logan Roy. He's the only one who is not evil AND crazy. He's just evil.
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"The Watcher"
Link to video"The series follows a married couple who, after moving into their dream home in a fictionalized version of Westfield, New Jersey, are harassed by creepy letters signed by a stalker who goes by the pseudonym "The Watcher".
As they say, "Based on a true story..."
The series is based on a 2018 article for New York's "The Cut" by Reeves Wiedeman, which chronicled the experience of Derek and Maria Broaddus after they received threatening letters upon moving into their home at 657 Boulevard in Westfield, New Jersey in 2014,[5] which continued until they sold the home in 2019.[8] The character John Graff was based on John List, a mass murderer and longtime fugitive who murdered his family in his Westfield home in 1971.
As usual, Bobby Carnavale is over the top, Mia Farrow is weird (!), Naomi Wolf is hapless, and the kids are annoying.
Giving up after 2 episodes.
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"The series chronicles the inner workings of a jury trial in the US through the eyes of juror Ronald Gladden, a solar contractor from San Diego, who is unaware that his jury duty summons was not official, and that everyone in the courtroom aside from him is an actor. Everything that happens, inside and outside the courtroom, is planned."
"On September 15, 2022, it was reported that a semi-improvised docu-style comedy series starring James Marsden and a group of up-and-coming actors with improv backgrounds had secretly been filmed for Amazon Studios.[2][4] The 17-day shoot was filmed in a real courtroom south of Los Angeles.[4][5] According to executive producer Todd Schulman, Jury Duty began as an attempt to make a sitcom like The Office about a trial, with a real person at the center of the show who doesn't know that he’s surrounded by actors.[1] Creators Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky both previously worked as writer-producers on The Office."
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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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"My pronouns are FA/FO." - Mik, 2024
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@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…
