What TV Shows are you watching? ζ: The seventh-season itch

[Takhisis]

I have begun re-watching Daria; this time around the show's in English and I have access to the films (I think I've never ever watched them except piecemeal on YouTube). However, the DVD box set edition was made without the original ending songs because of licensing issues similar to those that crippled the re-releases of Beavis and Butt-Head.
So it's either the slightly sterilised version in English or the dub (at Comedy Central's pleasure). *sigh*

I suppose this means that at a future time I shall rewatch it yet again in its full glorious glory.

I've decided that the future is now and found a copy of the fan-made Daria Restoration Project. It's also noteworthy that the DVD release from ten years ago is now HD.

 

[Kyriakos]

The Mentalist is ok, btw. Watching s1

 

[The_J]

Welcome To Eden, came recently on Netflix, starts a bit like a Spanish squid game. The first episode was....really not great, and Wiki tells me that the story is nonsense, which you can kinda expect already. Didn't bother to watch any further.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Heche on Netflix; Spanish Crime drama set in 1960s Barcelona heroin trade. I'm liking it.

 

[EgonSpengler]

Ms. Marvel ep. 3

Spoiler :

Brown Jovi.

 

[EgonSpengler]

I saw the first two seasons, and am holding off on the third season for now because of how many other shows are currently happening.

I'm having series overload, too. For All Mankind s3, The Boys s3, Ms. Marvel and The Old Man are all among my favorite shows of this year so far, and I'm not even watching Strange New Worlds (99% Rotten Tomatoes score), Evil s.3 (100% Rotten Tomatoes score), Irma Vep (100% Rotten Tomatoes score), or Dark Winds (100% Rotten Tomatoes score; renewed for season 2 after only 2 episodes) yet.

The Mentalist is ok, btw. Watching s1

*drops dead*

 

[Grendeldef]

A decade old Person of Interest - not bad after few episodes so I'll continue with it. The Mentalist seems ok as a side show.

Moon Knight was meh but watchable. Good stuff messed up but it's only half a dozen episode.
Sherwood, episodes 1-3, good as expected. I very much prefer British take on crime dramas over the US ones. 4th episode is out & 5 & 6 will be next week.
That Dirty Black Bag. Excellent start with pilot though I admit that I liked it more than it was worth but hey, it happens. Expecting/hoping alot more.

 

[lymond]

Person of Interest = Very good / What happened to Jim Caviezel = Insane

 

[Kyriakos]

*drops dead*

What can one do? It is known that in tv it helps a lot if your cast looks very good (and most of it does in this show). Creates a sense of positivity. I suppose the mentalist himself is now older and looks a bit different, but at the start of the series he should have played Gabriel Knight in an adaptation of Sierra's classic horror games ^_^

The plots aren't that good, though, imo. Red John (or what he is called) is ok, but usually the individual episode plots are on the simple side of things. That person with the Moby Dick book didn't make any sense, irl he would have been caught far sooner.

 

[Kyriakos]

I hope the Mentalist gets darker in the following seasons, because in s1 it has devolved to a show with poor plots and hot women, and that's not really interesting...

Neither does it help that the mentalist goes around hypnotizing people in seconds. Diagnosis: poor writing and overuse of pretty females as if this is a magical trick with built-in diversion.

 

[EgonSpengler]

The Old Man ep. 3

Spoiler :

Angela is Emily: Saw that coming.
Abbey was Hamzad's wife: Didn't see that coming.

 

[lymond]

After enjoying another episode of "The Old Man" on HULU last night (a must watch imo), I stumbled on a little show that normally I mighta just passed on by. However, for some reason, I clicked on it and ended up watching several epis. The show's called "The Bear" (2022) HULU. I'm not sure what the title references but I think it is a nick of the main character. Show is listed as a comedy with about 30 min per epi. However, I'd say it's more of a drama with some funny elements. It's not sit-comi at all and has more of an indy-movie feel to it. I thought initially it was set in the '70s or '80s - cause of feel and music I guess - until one of the characters starts going off on Q-anon. It's about a young Michelin level chef coming back home to run his dead brother's beef sandwich shop in Chicago. It's pretty good.

ah just saw egon's post:

The Old Man ep. 3

Spoiler :

Angela is Emily: Saw that coming.
Abbey was Hamzad's wife: Didn't see that coming.

I completely whiffed on both, but I wasn't really "thinking" much when watching the first two episodes. I like:

Spoiler :

Angela/Emily's character I shoulda saw that coming

 

[Takhisis]

I hope the Mentalist gets darker in the following seasons

Stop fishing for spoilers and watch it.

btw, if you want to watch something that's dark from the start, Death Note is an obvious choice.

 

[Birdjaguar]

The Old Man is so good!

Spoiler :

Angela is Emily: Saw that coming. I missed this until it was obvious.
Abbey was Hamzad's wife: Didn't see that coming. I knew this immediately when Hamzad said "persuade my wife"

Thoughts inside spoiler

 

[EgonSpengler]

The Old Man speculation after 3 episodes:

Spoiler :

Harper: "'Firaz Hamzad is getting anything he wants.' You're the second person to tell me that this week. Why would anyone from Langley choose you - an unqualified busy-body with no friends, no network - to lead an operation this important? I could never make any sense of it until right now. No one at Langley chose you. Firaz Hamzad did. He asked for you himself, or someone just like you. Someone who would beat the bushes, ask questions, dig things out of the dirt."

"I figured this was a revenge story, figured Hamzad wanted Chase alive so he could kill him himself. But maybe Firaz Hamzad wanted Chase delivered alive. He wanted the nosiest mother[lover] in the history of the CIA to do the delivering, because Firaz Hamzad has questions that he wants answered. There's something he wants to know. Tell me I'm wrong. Don't bother. I'm not wrong. But what the [heck] kind of questions does he have? I know what started all this. It's ugly, it's dangerous, but there's no mystery to it."

"Thirty years ago, Dan Chase stole Firaz Hamzad's wife, and I helped him do it. That's it, that's the story, that's why we're here. Thirty years ago, a woman living in the Hindu Kush met an American, started [screwing] him, saw a chance for a better life and easier access to a Walmart. So she left her warlord husband and followed the American back home. And here we are."

Now the camera drifts over Harper's shoulder, to Angela/Emily, while Harper is still talking, showing us her reaction, not Waters', to whom Harper is talking. Up to now, Angela has just been standing in the back of this scene. We know Harper is talking about her mother, and so does she.

"But what is Hamzad hoping for? That after all this time he'll find her, spirit her away? She's been dead for years. Either he's got some serious smelling salts, or..."

I think Emily/Angela might be Hamzad's daughter, not Chase's.

Also, good score. Written by T Bone Burnett and Patrick Warren.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Spoiler :

I think Emily/Angela might be Hamzad's daughter, not Chase's. Are freckles more an American genetic trait or are they common in Afghanistan too?

 

[Synobun]

Apparently the way to make bad shows more tolerable to watch is to put it on 1.5x playback. Just burned through the last season of Homeland in record time. Still awful, but more palatable. Yeesh.

Time to focus on the new shows I've been neglecting.

 

[Kyriakos]

Stop fishing for spoilers and watch it.

btw, if you want to watch something that's dark from the start, Death Note is an obvious choice.

Death Note? Surely you don't mean the live action that has been ridiculed to death?

 

[lymond]

The Old Man ep. 3

Spoiler :

Angela is Emily: Saw that coming.
Abbey was Hamzad's wife: Didn't see that coming.

Interesting theory but:

Spoiler genetics :

The actress playing Emily is half Irish/Norse/Italian (other half Iraqi), so I think the character was meant to be Chase's real daughter. Also, I think it would change the dynamic too much.

 

[The_J]

Apparently the way to make bad shows more tolerable to watch is to put it on 1.5x playback. Just burned through the last season of Homeland in record time. Still awful, but more palatable. Yeesh.

Why waste your time like that?
I've done that when I got bored with the last 20 minutes of a movie or so, but never with a whole season.