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The Kominsky Method is a pleasant enough "background" show. Bonus points because (1) Alan Arkin, (2) you can do other things at the same time and not have to stare at the screen like a lemur.
Which television shows are you watching? Part III
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Carnival Row (2019) 
As mentioned earlier, I was wary of Orlando Bloom and Cara Delevigne, but they were both pretty decent. Good supporting cast, a few I recognized, many I didn't. I thought I hadn't seen Tamzin Merchant (Imogen) before, but it turned out I had, in a few episodes of Supergirl. I really liked David Gyasi's (Agreus) enunciation, something odd about it that I couldn't put my finger on. He's from Hammersmith, and I don't know what a Hammersmith accent sounds like, but I imagine he was working something for the character. It worked, whatever it was.
Outstanding set design and costuming. There were moments that I was kind of tuning out the action or dialogue onscreen and looking at the background. I kept wondering how much of it was a constructed set, how much was filmed on-location somewhere (and if so, where?), and how much was greenscreen CGI. I liked the setting, a "D&D-style" fantasy world, but one that's in its industrial revolution instead of its Middle Ages, a la Arkane Studios' Dishonored or China Mieville's Perdido Street Station. The lands named are clearly analogues of Earth - Tir na Noc, the Phaoronic Coast. Is "The Burgue" a nickname, or something out of English history, kind of like how Gotham is an old nickname for New York City? It's a strange name for a city-state. At first I thought maybe it was just a nickname (e.g. "The Big Apple"), but if so, we never learned what the real name was, and the humans were always referred to as Burguishmen.
The attention to detail was very good. Just one example: The city's main religion is centered on The Martyr, a Christ figure. Nothing is said about The Martyr, but in one scene there's a decorative statue up on the wall of a church orphanage, a man hanging from a rope. Nobody points to it or draws the viewer's attention to it. It's just part of the set. But we can clearly see that The Martyr was hanged, rather than crucified. Two or three episodes later, a couple of characters are having a dialogue at a funeral, and one of the extras walking through the scene stops at the casket to offer a prayer, and makes a gesture like a Catholic crossing himself: He taps his forehead, taps his chest, then sketches a circle with his fingers - The Sign of the Martyr is a noose, rather than a cross. Again, it's not remarked upon or highlighted in any way, it's just some rando stopping to pay his respects.
As mentioned earlier, I was wary of Orlando Bloom and Cara Delevigne, but they were both pretty decent. Good supporting cast, a few I recognized, many I didn't. I thought I hadn't seen Tamzin Merchant (Imogen) before, but it turned out I had, in a few episodes of Supergirl. I really liked David Gyasi's (Agreus) enunciation, something odd about it that I couldn't put my finger on. He's from Hammersmith, and I don't know what a Hammersmith accent sounds like, but I imagine he was working something for the character. It worked, whatever it was.
Outstanding set design and costuming. There were moments that I was kind of tuning out the action or dialogue onscreen and looking at the background. I kept wondering how much of it was a constructed set, how much was filmed on-location somewhere (and if so, where?), and how much was greenscreen CGI. I liked the setting, a "D&D-style" fantasy world, but one that's in its industrial revolution instead of its Middle Ages, a la Arkane Studios' Dishonored or China Mieville's Perdido Street Station. The lands named are clearly analogues of Earth - Tir na Noc, the Phaoronic Coast. Is "The Burgue" a nickname, or something out of English history, kind of like how Gotham is an old nickname for New York City? It's a strange name for a city-state. At first I thought maybe it was just a nickname (e.g. "The Big Apple"), but if so, we never learned what the real name was, and the humans were always referred to as Burguishmen.
The attention to detail was very good. Just one example: The city's main religion is centered on The Martyr, a Christ figure. Nothing is said about The Martyr, but in one scene there's a decorative statue up on the wall of a church orphanage, a man hanging from a rope. Nobody points to it or draws the viewer's attention to it. It's just part of the set. But we can clearly see that The Martyr was hanged, rather than crucified. Two or three episodes later, a couple of characters are having a dialogue at a funeral, and one of the extras walking through the scene stops at the casket to offer a prayer, and makes a gesture like a Catholic crossing himself: He taps his forehead, taps his chest, then sketches a circle with his fingers - The Sign of the Martyr is a noose, rather than a cross. Again, it's not remarked upon or highlighted in any way, it's just some rando stopping to pay his respects.
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I've been binge watching Season 1 of Burn Notice, a wondrous show indeed.
Thanks @EgonSpengler for the detailed review of Carnival Row!
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And with all that, I hardly reviewed it at all.Thanks @EgonSpengler for the detailed review of Carnival Row!
In other news, Sam Esmail (Mr. Robot; Homecoming) is going to make a Battlestar Galactica spinoff. He says this will not be a reboot, but another series set in Ron Moore's BSG universe. It's going to be on the NBC-Universal streaming service, so I may not watch it, but I'm intrigued. I wonder if Esmail can get Grace Park, Tricia Helfer, Lucy Lawless, Callum Keith Rennie, or Rick Worthy to reprise their roles? Of course, all of those actors are 10 years older now, and their characters wouldn't be, but a little makeup and SFX could take care of that.
Season 2 of Fleabag is up on Amazon Prime! The half hour shows are so good; they are funny and British, just delightful.
Well, it was better than some responses I got on another forum and in my fb groups. Basically, one line liked/disliked comments!And with all that, I hardly reviewed it at all.
Unless it's a follow-up for Caprica or Blood & Chrome I give this a
. The re-imagined series stands well on its own for that time period and doesn't need to be revisited.
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Wifey 'insisted' on starting us on Big Bang Theory S11 the other day. We'd kind of tired of the show after running though all 10 seasons over the course of a year or so, so didn't rush to watch this one when it first showed up on Netflix. But it seems funnier than we remembered the last couple of seasons being, so maybe the long break helped.
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I've recently finished watching through the first season of Highlander: The Series.
I just finished the Netflix Woodstock 50th anniversary documentary. It was the best of them. It was not just a rerun of the music, but the whole story of how it happened and what went on that most people never saw or knew about. It was really well done and worth a look if you are interested in such things. Lots of vintage footage that tells the story all around the music.
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Did you see your tent again? 
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Yesterday started watching the new Netflix series The I-Land (aka The I-SwearItsNotA'Lost'RehashHonestGuv).
The premise: a bunch of assorted-but-coincidentally-all-English-speaking-American strangers wake up on a deserted tropical island (or do they?) with their personalities intact, but collective amnesia (or have they?) regarding how they arrived, where they are, who they are, and why they were 'chosen'. Mayhem predictably ensues (or does it?).
Also finished 3Below, and continued watching Daredevil S1, which I picked up again a week or so back.
The premise: a bunch of assorted-but-coincidentally-all-English-speaking-American strangers wake up on a deserted tropical island (or do they?) with their personalities intact, but collective amnesia (or have they?) regarding how they arrived, where they are, who they are, and why they were 'chosen'. Mayhem predictably ensues (or does it?).
Also finished 3Below, and continued watching Daredevil S1, which I picked up again a week or so back.
I gave the new Titans season two episodes, and it let me down both times. Looks like DC was eager to screw up the one genuinely good show they had left.
I also doubt the claim that the first episode was already filmed in time for season 1 and was only cut to create a cliffhanger. It's got nothing in common with anything that came before (most obviously, its middle finger to Dick Grayson's entire character arc).
I also doubt the claim that the first episode was already filmed in time for season 1 and was only cut to create a cliffhanger. It's got nothing in common with anything that came before (most obviously, its middle finger to Dick Grayson's entire character arc).
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No, but I did look; so did my wife. I did see where we were and they did show the second stage set up by the Hog Farm.Did you see your tent again?
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I've never seen Lost, because I can't seem to find it anywhere and I'm not willing to don thy pirate's garb or outright buy it independently to give it a go. Will I like I-Land more or less without that comparison in play?
Yar, ye hath remember'd that today be talk like a pirate day.
Ye be able to watch Lost here, it be in two channels.
YARR!
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More, I'll wager.
Lost were birthed by that scurvy dog Cap'n Abrams, an' poxed for evermore by his barnacled booty-boxes wi' no plunder in 'em, arrr...
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It went downhill after the second half of season 2, had some ups and downs later and never reached the quality of season 1 again. Don't really need more BSG. It's done.
Where's the love for Babylon 5 ? That show needs a reboot with modern CGI.
Currently watching The Deuce. It's the last season and set in 1984/84. I hope they don't start killing off characters en masse now that AIDS is becoming a thing. The gay culture sub-plots almost have a psychological horror vibe to them.
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