What TV series are you currently watching?

[Karl Henning]

Well, it's like taking the WABAC machine to mine own childhood: Dark Shadows.

And as the episodes only run 20 minutes, I find it easy to just let 'em run.

[JBS]

Starring Peter Davison, who may be Dr. Who to some, but will always be Tristan Farnon to me.

Both to me.
He also played the lead in the short lived Campion, so The Last Detective was not his first detective role.
I did, in double checking the name of the series, discover his daughter is married to David Tennant. So in a sense he's his own father-in-law.

[George]

[SimonNZ]

Started a second viewing of this excellent 14-hour series,  first seen on a big set of vhs tapes from the university library when I was an undergraduate.

[Iota]

Hard not to like Jagger. He's been an icon and continuously in the glare of the public spotlight since the age of seventeen, rumbled through all sorts of controversies, yet his head seems perfectly screwed on. A straight-talking, affable guy with something of a mania for control of Stones business/promotional matters that has no doubt kept them together for sixty years. And in impressive nick for a seventy-six year old.

All four surviving members have their own episode, available on the iPlayer.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0018zwp

[drogulus]

     I'm in the middle of Under The Banner Of Heaven, which came from the book by Jon Krakauer about a murder case involving Mormons. Andrew Garfield plays a detective who is a Mormon, as are the victims and possibly the perps. To my surprise, Garfield is very good, which makes me think Scorsese had a trick up his sleeve when in Silence he cast an actor who could so easily portray a pious numbskull.

[SimonNZ]

Was his character meant to be a numbskull in that?. I just thought Garfield was acting badly (and haven't read the book).

[George]

Mad Men S2

[Biffo]

Murdoch Mysteries - earlier in the week I re-watched the last 3 episodes of Series 14 to refresh my memory. Now started on Series 15 (on DVD).

[André]

Murdoch Mysteries - earlier in the week I re-watched the last 3 episodes of Series 14 to refresh my memory. Now started on Series 15 (on DVD).

I didn't know season 15 was in the can ! It's not yet on Netflix, hopefully they'll pick it up soon.

[Biffo]

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I didn't know season 15 was in the can ! It's not yet on Netflix, hopefully they'll pick it up soon.
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It has been shown on tv here in the UK but I can't remember which channel. Murdoch has hopped between channels so many times (or seems to have) that I gave up trying to follow it on tv, now I just buy the DVD when it comes out. I pre-ordered the DVD from Amazon UK several weeks ago and it arrived last week.

[drogulus]

Was his character meant to be a numbskull in that?. I just thought Garfield was acting badly (and haven't read the book).

     Yes, the character was vain and ignorant. Some of my negative reaction got attributed to the actor.

     

[milk]

Rewatched The Wire w/my wife. Now rewatching Deawood, two of the very best TV shows ever made. Extraordinary entertainment.

[Karl Henning]

Rod Serling's Night Gallery. Watching afresh, as seasons 1 & 2 have now been upgraded to blu-ray.

[SimonNZ]

From 1975 in 13 episodes.

[drogulus]

From 1975 in 13 episodes.

     That's a good one, with a great cast. I've watched it several times over the decades.

[Todd]

The Terminal List.  A new bang bang shoot 'em up starring Chris Pratt based on the renowned literature of Jack Carr.  Part Commando, part Wizard of Oz, part Wozzeck, and part video game with a new, challenging boss pretty much every episode, Pratt's character, beset by family tragedy and PTSD and real bad memory loss, hunts down baddies, dispatching them neatly and professionally.  Kinda.  But he's a dutiful soldier, so he knows when not to kill, too.  That's very important.  He's a good guy, despite any acts of terrorism he may commit.  Antoine Fuqua was brought in to direct the opening episode and to produce the series (along with Pratt, and others), so the series has a big budget action flick look and feel.  A slick mediocrity. 

[drogulus]

     Now I'm watching Dopesick, which stars Michael Keaton as a doctor in Appalachia caught up in the opioid crisis in the early days when oxycontin was marketed as a less addictive narcotic. That claim was fraudulent from the get go. In reality oxy was just as addictive as the opioid alternatives, and because of how it was marketed doctors were encouraged to prescribe it more freely than they otherwise would, and to double the dose when the patients developed a tolerance.

     This is all handled in a way that doesn't disguise the horror of addiction. When the plague spreads to the doctors themselves it gets downright nightmarish.

     

[George]

     Now I'm watching Dopesick, which stars Michael Keaton as a doctor in Appalachia caught up in the opioid crisis in the early days when oxycontin was marketed as a less addictive narcotic. That claim was fraudulent from the get go. In reality oxy was just as addictive as the opioid alternatives, and because of how it was marketed doctors were encouraged to prescribe it more freely than they otherwise would, and to double the dose when the patients developed a tolerance.

     This is all handled in a way that doesn't disguise the horror of addiction. When the plague spreads to the doctors themselves it gets downright nightmarish.

   

A powerful, moving show!

[Fëanor]

The Terminal List.  A new bang bang shoot 'em up starring Chris Pratt based on the renowned literature of Jack Carr.  Part Commando, part Wizard of Oz, part Wozzeck, and part video game with a new, challenging boss pretty much every episode, Pratt's character, beset by family tragedy and PTSD and real bad memory loss, hunts down baddies, dispatching them neatly and professionally.  Kinda.  But he's a dutiful soldier, so he knows when not to kill, too.  That's very important.  He's a good guy, despite any acts of terrorism he may commit.  Antoine Fuqua was brought in to direct the opening episode and to produce the series (along with Pratt, and others), so the series has a big budget action flick look and feel.  A slick mediocrity.

I watched this too.  There is certainly lots of action and is as well done in that respect as most.  However ultimately it's a formulaic revenge flick, the more vicious on account of our hero's willingness and drive to torture as well as just kill people, albeit all of them guilty.

Formulaic too are the villains:  a cabal of corporate, government, and military profit seekers.  There are the usual twists & turns in our hero's quest to exterminate them.