Currently, “Better Call Saul” s05, “Inventing Anna” on Netflix and “Moon Knight”. Kinda every two weeks I start a new show or two.
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I call it BBBWW. It means Blue Bloods Binge Watch Wednesday. It’s on ION for like 15 hours straight🙂
Binging the new Kids in the Hall on Amazon - as a teen in the late 80’s and 90s, they were my Canadian boyfriends and I still to this day have a little crush on Bruce McCulloch. I’m loving the new show, too. The familiar characters have aged right along with the troupe but still as subversive and hilariously dark as ever.
I also think Brain Candy is a genius film with one of the best mid-90’s alternative soundtracks in existence. I mean, Guided by Voices, TMBG, Stereolab, Pizzicato 5, Cibo Mato, Liz Phair, Matthew Sweet…
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Now I’ve just finished the new season of “Somebody Feed Phil” (I highly recommend that on Netflix), finishing “Peacemaker”, starting “Succession” s03 and about to start the last season of “This is us”.
I have recently watched Hacks, which was very good, and highly recommended. Ted Lasso for people who don’t like sports. (Not quite as good as Ted Lasso, though…)
Also watched the Lincoln Lawyer (TV series) which I liked, though I’m not sure I’d describe it as “quality TV”. As a Party of 5 fan, I was utterly confused by how Neve Campbell could look exactly as she did then, and 25 years older, AT THE SAME TIME!
We had an Internet outage last week, which saw us trawling through our expansive, and disturbingly underused, DVD connection. The upshot of which is that we’re currently re-watching The Wire. Still great.
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While this wasn’t bad by any stretch it also wasn’t quite what I was expecting or hoping for. For one, it seems most of the music was of the generic, royalty-free variety. I can only guess that has something to do with the exorbitant cost of music licensing fees these days. However, even without it, the visceral effect music has on each of us was more than adequately conveyed. One of the more touching moments was when one of the interviewees was asked to ponder what would become of her vinyl collection after she dies. It’s currently streaming on several different platforms on the Vinyl Nation website.
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Are you a genealogist or just like the stories? (My mom does genealogy; I just like the stories 
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Do you also watch Who Do You Think You Are (which just came back a couple of weeks ago, after being off the air for years)?
I’ve just finished the last season of This Is Us (god, what a shitfest) and started the new season of The Umbrella Academy, a show I truly loved in seasons 1 and 2. Succession s03 is underway as well, with the last seasons of Better Things and Legends of Tomorrow to start later this week.
I haven’t watched Who Do You Think You Are since it first aired.
What I like about Finding Your Roots is that it not only explores a person’s family and background, but that history is used to explain and understand the complexity of our own history as a nation—good and bad.
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This past week there was a run of monster films on Tv. I watched Godzilla (2014) & King Kong (2005).
Also, an ABC News In-depth report on Liz Cheney.
I just binged The Newsreader. It’s an Australian drama series about the television industry down under in the 60’s. Loved it. Loved the capture of time and place. Also, the main characters played by Anna Torv and Sam Reid do a superb job. It’s a great series all round and I hope the rumors about another to come are true.
Also, Succession. Stellar.
essai7point0, Thanks for the pictures of the Kubrick cafe. My son went to a specialist high school for broadcast and digital communication, and carried on into one of only 2 U.K. Unis that’s a launchpad for the industry. He now lives in Australia with his gf and baby and still works in media. Not long ago, I came across a paper he did in college. Everyone had to pick a film director and write about their catalogue.
Andy picked Kubrick, so we still have the box set of his films. The only one I didn’t see was Full Metal Jacket, under advisement. My kid knows I’m easily traumatised. Kubrick, interestingly, came from NY City. The Bronx. Where I grew up. I believe he passed away, but I always liked his work. His style is difficult to characterise. The only consistent thread running through his films is the use of shock value. I love that cafe. Where is it?
I can’t look at Tom Cruise without an overwhelming urge to vomit.
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I liked Top Gun: A New Hope…oops, I meant Top Gun: Maverick…a lot, but mostly because of the emphasis on practical effects. It will not be in my top five at year’s end, but it’s more fun than I would have expected.
I really enjoyed the John McAfee documentary on Netflix.
As a wise school teacher once said “Drugs are baaaad, mmmkay”
Dream Brother, one to avoid fresh off the BBC. Titled “Marriage”, it has magnificent Nicola Walker in it and Sean Bean and I just wanted to throw the channel gizmo at the screen. Uncomfortable silences. Uncomfortable everything. It’s not the actors, it’s the script. About a middle aged couple who married young. It’s torture. I’m pretty sure you’d hate it. The long silences, mumbling and bumbling take up at least 1/4 of screen time. It’s a deliberate device and there’s a hellish song performed by a group called Room Of Teeth they throw in at random points just to further fuck it up. Avoid at all costs.
For anyone looking for a really interesting, wholesome, fascinating show on Netflix, I can’t recommend the game show Blown Away highly enough. It’s a competition among glass blowers about creating glass sculptures, concepts and various items. Ten eps per season, each ep one participant goes home. It’s nothing like a reality show. It’s all about beautiful, fascinating ART! and camaraderie and really good values, good professionals and aesthetic enjoyment. I’ve just finished the latest season, s03. Just as great as the first two.
I’ve also just finished Queer Eye Brazil. Always a lovely, feel-good concept. I dare everyone to watch ep2 (the widower dad) with a dry eye. I cried buckets over that one.
On Tv this week I watched The Mule , I’ve seen a few of Clint Eastwood’s earlier films but none of his later ones. Good movie. Also, War Of the Worlds (2005) seen it a couple of times already, probably my fav of the few Steven Spielberg movies I’ve seen.
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