What are you watching now?

[George K]

Jury Duty

"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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[Mik]

Ted Lasso and Mrs. Maizel.

[George K]

Is Mrs. Maizel good?

I love Lasso, but I'm waiting to binge it. Lasso is a good example how comedy can be done without being insulting, sophomoric, scatological or just plain stupid.

[Mik]

Maizel is very good. Excellent characters, dialogue and stories.

[Horace]

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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[Doctor Phibes]

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.

[Mik]

The Old Man
The Diplomat
Mrs. Maisel
Shrinking

[Jon]

@Mik said in What are you watching now?:

Ted Lasso and Mrs. Maizel.

I watched the first episode of Lasso on an AA flight last week and it was ok but didn’t draw me in.

[Horace]

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.

[George K]

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.

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Getting great reviews, but I'm not as excited as some. A solid 3 stars, perhaps 3.5.

[Mik]

George, have you seen The Old Man? Really good spy story. Great cast, very well done.

[George K]

@Mik yes I have. Hoping for a 2nd season.

[Mik]

VERY disappointed in the last episode of the season. Cheap trick to get you to watch S2. Grrr.

[Catseye3]

I'm playing catchup with The Dead Zone, the remake made for TV way back when. Coming to the end. It started out good, but is ending kinda lame -- tired writing and plotting. Sean Patrick Flanery outstanding as the villainous Greg Stillson.

[LuFins Dad]

@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.

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Season two is "Schmicago," with much of the cast returning.

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The opening credits sound just like....

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I’ll give this a try. Last night I introduced Fin to Little Shop of Horrors…

[Mik]

We watched 3 or 4, but it’s a one gag show, and that gag wears thin. Very creative idea, though.

[Mik]

Watched ST Strange new worlds S2E1. Pretty good. Nothing particularly new except exploring Emo-Spock. Still better than Discovery.

[89th]

I've been watching all the Marvel movies recently. Of all of them (how many are there, like 30+?) I had only seen the 2008 Iron Man. So I'm watching them in release order. In the last 2-3 weeks I've seen these in bold:

Iron Man (2008)
The Incredible Hulk (2008)
Iron Man 2 (2010)
Thor (2011)
Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)
Marvel’s The Avengers (2012)
Iron Man 3 (2013) <-- Currently on this on
Thor: The Dark World (2013)
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
Ant-Man (2015)
Captain America: Civil War (2016)
Doctor Strange (2016)
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)
Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
Thor: Ragnarok (2017)
Black Panther (2018)
Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)
Captain Marvel (2019)
Avengers: Endgame (2019)
Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019)
Black Widow (2021)
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021)
Eternals (2021)
Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)
Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022)
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023)
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023)

[Mik]

This is the legacy of remote workers.

[George K]

I've seen Iron Man and....

Yeah, I've seen Iron Man.

Looking forward to Hijack with Idris Elba. 6-part limited series.