What Are You Watching

[DiapDealer]

I've been watching Manifest now that I know it's been wrapped up. It's quite cheesy (and utterly predictable), but still fun for me. I've always been a sucker for grand conspiracy stories. Only fictional ones though. I have zero tolerance for "real" world ones, strangely enough.

[mlewis78]

I watched the final episode of Happy Valley a little while ago. Sunday I watched episode 2 of Endeavor. There is only one episode left.

I watched the first two episodes of season 2 of And Just Like That (Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon, Kristin Davis from Sex and the City). There is a lot that I don't like about this show, especially the new characters that have all taken on their own tiresome plots. To offset this, I started re-watching Sex and the City and am in season 2. All on Max (formerly HBO Max).

[neil_swann80]

Re-watching "Justified"

[Hitch]

Originally Posted by neil_swann80

Re-watching "Justified"

Yeah, that's a good one. I'm hoping that the new one will be even half as good.

Hitch

[DiapDealer]

Originally Posted by Hitch

Yeah, that's a good one. I'm hoping that the new one will be even half as good.

Hitch

There's a new one already?!

I'm always amazed by how quickly people are ready to dip back into the well these days. I'm not certain I'm even willing to try a Justified sans Walt Goggins, Margo Martindale, Nick Searcy and Jere Burns. And those are just the ones off the top of my head!

[Hitch]

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

There's a new one already?!

I'm always amazed by how quickly people are ready to dip back into the well these days. I'm not certain I'm even willing to try a Justified sans Walt Goggins, Margo Martindale, Nick Searcy and Jere Burns. And those are just the ones off the top of my head!

There's a "new" one with Timothy Olyphant and his now-teenaged daughter (blergh...oh, joy, more snarky female teenage characters, sigh, bossing around their single hapless dads, amirite?) set in....either Miami or Detroit. In fact, I think it's both--starts out in FLA and goes to the Motor City.

It's a limited series, so...y'know, probably 6 epis or the like. IDK if this helps:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14263564/

Y'know, the whole "how quickly people dip back into the well" shows a complete and utter lack of creativity in Hollyweird, for one thing; that the accountants are in charge of decisions, rather than some of the creatives; and that people like what they like.

It's why episodic story-arc TV exists, anyway--I mean, whether it's Miami Vice or whatever, people want "new stories" each episode or week--but they also want to know what to expect. To be fair to the writers, I guess it's a bit of a high-wire act for them, to be new yet familiar at the same time.

I'm just hoping that the daughter character won't do to this what the Maddie character did (IMHO) to that last season or two of (real) Bosch. When I want crooks and baddies, that's what I want--not the emo ramblings of some tweedy girl. But then again, I'm not the person making the showrunning choices for all these things at these various and sundry networks, stations and so forth.

Hitch

[DiapDealer]

Limited Series does help a bit, yes. There was never much of Elmore Leonard's Raylan Givens in the original show to begin with (in my opinion), so I'll not worry about "canon," but I never like to see these "revisits" after shows were wrapped up so neat and tidily.

[Hitch]

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

Limited Series does help a bit, yes. There was never much of Elmore Leonard's Raylan Givens in the original show to begin with (in my opinion), so I'll not worry about "canon," but I never like to see these "revisits" after shows were wrapped up so neat and tidily.

Yeah and hell, the Raylan that we all came to know and love in the TV series has almost no relationship to the Raylan in Pronto, IMHO, anyway. But...nonetheless...compared to most of the drivelliciousness of what's on the telly today, it was good viewing.

IMHO, natch. YMMV.

Hitch

[poohbear_nc]

Just finished a binge watch of Lie To Me - somehow Tim Roth's incessant snarkiness didn't bother me too much. Totally implausible story lines - but some interesting plot twists.

*@Hitch - annoying teen-age daughter of single dad trope in place*

[Hitch]

Originally Posted by poohbear_nc

Just finished a binge watch of Lie To Me - somehow Tim Roth's incessant snarkiness didn't bother me too much. Totally implausible story lines - but some interesting plot twists.

*@Hitch - annoying teen-age daughter of single dad trope in place*

OMG, yes. We stopped a binge of LTM, for that very reason. If I had to see her face one more time, my head was gonna explode.

This is the flipside, of the "streaming" thing. Storylines, plotlines, characters, etc. that didn't bother you, once every 7 days or so, make you insane when you watch 3 epis in a row or the like.

I just experienced this with the new Fr. Brown. I think it gets to pretty much all of us.

Hitch

[Hitch]

BTW, dunno if I'm the only idiot that missed that there was a new season, etc. but if anybody here watched the Game Warden show on Paramount Plus, it's back with a new season. Kit Something or other.

Now...that's the good news. The bad news is that I started fast-forwarding through it, about 30 minutes in, to the beginning of Episode 2 (this season). I then just sorta shrugged, and moved on to a rewatch of Warrior, Season 2, (MAX, f/k/a HBO and/or HBO Max) preparatory to their new season (3) this week. IMHO, it's hard to watch a character be that d*mned repetitively stupid.

(Can't recall if that show name is Warrior, singular, or Warriors, plural, but it's the Barbary Coast-era show, set in SF, Asian community, etc. The Kwai Chang Caine, "Kung Fu" [David Carridine] the 21st Century show. I was ruminating last night that it's kind of a shame that Bruce Lee isn't alive--nor his son!--to see it, given it was his pitch, his idea, in the first place.)

Hitch

[DiapDealer]

Originally Posted by Hitch

BTW, dunno if I'm the only idiot that missed that there was a new season, etc. but if anybody here watched the Game Warden show on Paramount Plus, it's back with a new season. Kit Something or other.

You mean Joe Pickett (based on the CJ Box book series)?

[cc_in_oh]

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

There's a new one already?!

I'm always amazed by how quickly people are ready to dip back into the well these days. I'm not certain I'm even willing to try a Justified sans Walt Goggins, Margo Martindale, Nick Searcy and Jere Burns. And those are just the ones off the top of my head!

Joelle Carter amazed me - I thought Goggins would completely overshadow her but she stayed right with him that last season.

[Hitch]

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

You mean Joe Pickett (based on the CJ Box book series)?

Yes, yes, that's it, thanks. Kit...Joe...close, amirite? I was bummed.

Sorry, i was running around like a fruit loop today.

Hitch

[DiapDealer]

Originally Posted by Hitch

Yes, yes, that's it, thanks. Kit...Joe...close, amirite? I was bummed.

Sorry, i was running around like a fruit loop today.

Hitch

Well it sort of ends in a 'kit' sound.

I've not watched, or read it. Though I have many people clamoring for me to do so.