I've never watched Dr. Who, but knew he had played him from when he stepped down. I was looking more forward to Michael Sheen's character, but have to admit, David is just divine in this, pun intended.
What are you watching via streaming?
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mcad64
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I will have to turn in my man card for admitting this but I enjoyed "Always be my Maybe". My wife watched it independent of me and said it was "meh". Maybe I just have a predilection for Asian women!!??
For about two weeks now I have guiltily watch the "true crime" show "A Crime to Remember" via Hulu. I guess it airs ond discovery Investigation a channel I never watched.
Each episode is a one crime from 50-80 years ago "dramitized" with a running narration. I cannot vouch for the accuracy but one of the episodes was on the Sam Shepard case which I am very familiar with and it was a fair representation. It is interesting to see how investigations played out before all the evidentiary technology we have today.
Each episode is a one crime from 50-80 years ago "dramitized" with a running narration. I cannot vouch for the accuracy but one of the episodes was on the Sam Shepard case which I am very familiar with and it was a fair representation. It is interesting to see how investigations played out before all the evidentiary technology we have today.
Ali Wong is a pretty lady, no doubt about that. And while it was a rom com, it wasn't so mushy that us men couldn't watch it as well.I will have to turn in my man card for admitting this but I enjoyed "Always be my Maybe". My wife watched it independent of me and said it was "meh". Maybe I just have a predilection for Asian women!!??
"The Boys" a new series on Prime. Watched the frirst episode this morning (perk of retirement).
A world where super heroes have been franchised and monetized and the heroes themselves have all the foibles and moral short givings of nirmal folks. Collateral damage to citizens happens frequently and major coverups take place. Some civvies are fed up and start to get even.
More info would be a spoiler but loks like a good one. Production vales are excellent.
A world where super heroes have been franchised and monetized and the heroes themselves have all the foibles and moral short givings of nirmal folks. Collateral damage to citizens happens frequently and major coverups take place. Some civvies are fed up and start to get even.
More info would be a spoiler but loks like a good one. Production vales are excellent.
I started watching the Sci-Fi series, "Another Life," on Netflix yesterday. I am halfway through the second episode and while the premise, concept, and general sense of situational stress is interesting and compelling, some of the actors are clearly amateurs next to the real pros on the show. Likewise, about a third of the dialog is bizarre and very poorly written. Why a crew of highly trained "best of the best" astronauts immediately start behaving like 12 year old girls who just found out the cute boy is interested in someone they don't like is confusing to me. They leap from incredibly logical and responsible language and actions to stupid and moronically rash behavior in seconds. Its like half the writers have never read a book or seen a good movie.
Because the writing is too often idiotic, the scientific facts I need to accept even though physics demands them impossible are becoming distracting.
I am still on the fence as to whether I truly love this show or absolutely hate it. I struggle to find a middle position because the potential is great.
Because the writing is too often idiotic, the scientific facts I need to accept even though physics demands them impossible are becoming distracting.
I am still on the fence as to whether I truly love this show or absolutely hate it. I struggle to find a middle position because the potential is great.
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Now I am feeling old. The characters are behaving like stereotypical charactatures of dumb, mindless, uneducated millenials. They are pointlessly sexual, overreact to damn near everything, lack empathy, and there is far too much intersectional propaganda thrown in to demonstrate how "woke" the show is.
I am hanging on, deep into ep. 6, but I may lose interest soon.
Now I am just angry. This series showed promise. The concept was interesting, having stolen the best ideas from dozens of other sci-fi stories. But the characters where comically stupid and unrealistically cartoonish. I couldn't understand any of the reactions they had to any situation. The technology was moronic (something I tend to forgive in these shows because if they cannot travel faster than light or talk to an AI powered ship, the story kinda falls flat), but to think that every system on their interstellar ship would fail on a regular basis was idiotic. The fact that these scientists would approach new worlds like idiotic children making every single bad choice they could possibly make was stupid, stupid, stupid. The hours wasted on the lead character's emotional baggage from years ago - completely unprompted - was pointless and just created a false pathos which did very little to advance the plot. The need to have intersectional characters which were silly comical affectations of reality was annoying. And all the unjustified emotional outbursts was insane!!!! What's the point???
Ugh....
So, to settle my brain, I invented a theory as to why it was like this. I created a back story that the path we are on today, creating fragile baby-adults who cannot handle contrary viewpoints and true free speech - a society of whiners, victims and entitled idiots - changed human society as a whole into a bunch of morons who somehow managed to survive and continue to invent technology. So, the human who went to another world to understand the strange thing that came to Earth were basically the worst of modern culture made the norm.
Great show.
mcad64
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I am slowly churning through all of Michael Connelly's books. When I am done...I MAY watch the tv series!!
