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Originally Posted by mlewis78

I've been watching Manhattan (fictionalized with some truth about the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos 1943-45) on FreeVee. Have to put up with commercials. If it's on AMC+, I don't have that.

After I watched the first 6 episodes of S1, I had some technical problems getting the next one to come on and then after watching 4 episodes in 1 night, it was all over. I'd watched E7-10 of Season 2. I was going to give it up, but the next night I continued S1. I'm hooked on it. S2 ends with the test explosion. It wasn't picked up for a 3rd season. Originally on WGN America in 2014 and 2015. Guess it was on cable, but I'd never heard of it.

Yes, we rather liked that when it was on. I was bummed when it wasn't renewed!

GREAT cast, solid acting, and decent plotting. Don't get that very often these days.

I finally watched S6 of Longmire, on Netflix. I'd stopped watching it some years back, I think when it left A&E and moved to NFLX. Seasons 4 and 5 were okay, if not fantastic, but Season 6 was abysmally bad. I mean, it veered from sappy to stupid back to sappy. Not to mention, the endless stupidity of the underarmed, undermanned Sheriff's department, with help from the Rez cops, taking on unknown numbers of killer assailants...for the love of heaven.

The entire idea of the daughter (Longmire's)...

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...running for sheriff was ludicrous. She could barely make up her mind, to tie her own shoes, for six damn years and now she's gonna be the sheriff? Be the Ferg's and her BF and Philly's BOSS? What a joke. Hell, if I were one of them, I'd be campaigning for whoever ran against her. She was whiny, self-centered, utterly indecisive...yeah, right, THAT'S who you want for Sheriff, you betcha. It's hard to believe that we're meant to think that character made it through Law School. She'd probably break down in tears in Moot Court.

AND WHEN oh WHEN will Hollyweird writers ever ever ever get it into their heads that Sheriffs are NOT fired by Mayors? NOT possible.It's infuriating and so easy for them to get right.

OH, they tried to stick their oars in by saying that the mayor had reached out to the Governor, to "remove" Walt from office, but even that is beyond far-fetched. A sheriff is elected at a county level--which is over (above) a city level (how the Mayor is elected).

In some states, a County Coroner--if one exists like this--can arrest a Sheriff--but not remove him/her from office. Generally, only the voters can remove a Sheriff from office, period. For a Governor to remove that Sheriff, there has to be PROOF of incompetence or corruption. Not "the mayor doesn't LIKE him and he's not playing ball so that I can get resorts built in my town." Pah.

It's gotten to the point where all I have to do is hear that plot point, that sentence, and I turn whatever it is, off. Writers that lazy, that inept, shouldn't be rewarded by you watching their drivel.

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