What TV series are you currently watching?

[drogulus]

Sorry to hear it. Hope it turns up within grabbing distance sometime soon, it's well worth anybody's time I'd say.

     It was in grabbing distance almost immediately, hence Ican'tfinditanywhereohokhereitis. I got outvoted is all.

[drogulus]

     I'm watching 3 Body Problem. I agree with the critics about the unrealistic depiction of the young scientists as a version of the teenagers in a slasher film. Nevertheless, the story is intriguing enough to keep me watching one more episode late at night than I intended.

[Karl Henning]

Just starting on this. Very different (not surprisingly) to the A&E series 30 years later.
Very interesting note: Only seven of the 14 episodes are credited as being based upon Stout stories. All episodes were set in contemporary New York City.

[Karl Henning]

Just starting on this. Very different (not surprisingly) to the A&E series 30 years later.
Very interesting note: Only seven of the 14 episodes are credited as being based upon Stout stories. All episodes were set in contemporary New York City.

It so falls out that the first two items are also stories presented by the Timothy Hutton/Maury Chaykin series: "The Doorbell Rang" and "The Golden Spiders." I'm keen not to fall into any disappointment that Wm Conrad and Lee Horsley are not the duo I am accustomed to, and I'm allowing myself an acculturation curve to appreciate the virtues of the latter pairing. That said, I do miss Archie being a clothes hound, as Hutton creates him. I'm enjoying the distinct emphases and alternate "screenplay solutions" in the 1981 show. At this point, I think there is only one remaining Stout story which both series adapted: "Before I Die." I do like the music from the later series much better. In the 1981 show, the music has an overpowering "Murder, She Wrote" vibe, which is not helping me in my quest to look past the Mannix-level production values. I'm enjoying the trip overall.

[drogulus]

     I'm watching Shogun. There's lots of money on the screen, though some is wasted on prestige drabness IMV. The story after 4 episodes is very close to the 1980 series. The original bombed in Japan while this one is a hit. It's definitely absorbing.

[George]

I've been "hate" watching Suits. I feel so icky watching it, yet, I find it so hard to look away.

I'm rubbernecking.

It took me a little while to realize how good is, but I love it now. Especially the Luis character. 

[George]

Oh, I acknowledge that. All of them are great at what they do, but the show just crawls on my skin, but I cannot avert my eyes.

Mike is my favorite.

What is it you don't like about it?

Along with Luis, I dig Harvey, but Donna I like even more.

[Cato]

What is it you don't like about it?

Along with Luis, I dig Harvey, but Donna I like even more.

As a Religion teacher of mine once said: "Nothing wrong with admiring God's handiwork!" 😇

[Pohjolas Daughter]

I watched an episode plus...not my cup of tea..too sick/gross/characters lying and/or being blackmailed and/or blackmailing someone else (!).

Perhaps time to rethink how to spend ones (at least my) time?  Just a thought.

[Cato]

Well, we know your teacher wasn't Odo of Cluny...

No, he was indeed a layman.

He was an excellent man: his family was extremely wealthy, and he taught Religion for $1.00 per year.

Unmarried, he lived with his unmarried sister in the family estate, and was a member of the Knights of Saint John of Jerusalem/Knights Hospitaller.  Not long after I graduated, he was killed in a traffic accident.

[Fëanor]

I'm watching 3 Body Problem. I agree with the critics about the unrealistic depiction of the young scientists as a version of the teenagers in a slasher film. Nevertheless, the story is intriguing enough to keep me watching one more episode late at night than I intended.

I agree, 3 Body Problem is engaging.  Of course, there a various implausibilities, technical and dramatic, but, hey, it's a Sci-Fi show.

Alien invasion is a standard sci-fi cliché but in 3 Body Problem there are so many original twists that it's interesting ... this is no standard GI Joe versus monsters scenario.

Regards the young scientists, I've seen comments about laboured "DEI", (diversity, equity, inclusion), but personally I have no problem with it in this context.

[George]

[LKB]

I'm watching Shogun. There's lots of money on the screen, though some is wasted on prestige drabness IMV. The story after 4 episodes is very close to the 1980 series. The original bombed in Japan while this one is a hit. It's definitely absorbing.

For now l have to content myself with reaction videos and the excerpts which wind up on YouTube. But I'm determined to see it properly, one way or another, as the Edo period fascinates me.

[Florestan]

I'm watching Shogun. There's lots of money on the screen, though some is wasted on prestige drabness IMV. The story after 4 episodes is very close to the 1980 series. The original bombed in Japan while this one is a hit. It's definitely absorbing.

For now l have to content myself with reaction videos and the excerpts which wind up on YouTube. But I'm determined to see it properly, one way or another, as the Edo period fascinates me.

Just finished watching the first two episodes. Not very convinced/convincing. The Black Legend is still in full force (Catholics, especially Jesuits, bad or good  only out of hypocrisy; non-Christian Japanese warlords more Christian in spirit than European Christians). Plus, consider: you are being taken prisoner by people armed to their teeth, who obviously don't understand your language and are obviously hostile, and what you do is, what --- clearly showing them by signs that you piss on them? Plus, plus, plus....

I commented loudly all the way through, until my wife told me something to the effect of, just relax, man, it's a fiction series! And I replied, yes, you're right, and I don't even dislike it but I am not supposed to overlook its flaws, am I? She agreed.

That being said, |I look forward to watching --- and loudly commenting upon --- the whole thing. 

[Cato]

For fans of The Addams Family T.V. comedy from the 1960's:


John Astin is 94 today!





John Astin was manically perfect as Gomez!

[LKB]

For fans of The Addams Family T.V. comedy from the 1960's:


John Astin is 94 today!





John Astin was manically perfect as Gomez!

I agree, and  remember watching the series sporadically as a boy.

The two films with Julia, Huston et. al. are a kick as well. Huston is Morticia Addams...

( Edited to correct an unfortunate misspelling, with apologies to Morticia. )

[Karl Henning]

For fans of The Addams Family T.V. comedy from the 1960's:


John Astin is 94 today!





John Astin was manically perfect as Gomez!

That  he was! He was also a periodic collaborator in Rod Serling's Night Gallery. 

[Daverz]

I'm watching 3 Body Problem. I agree with the critics about the unrealistic depiction of the young scientists as a version of the teenagers in a slasher film. Nevertheless, the story is intriguing enough to keep me watching one more episode late at night than I intended.

I gather there's a Chinese production and that this is a new production?  I enjoyed the books, though the plot does drag in the middle books (did it really need to be padded out to a cycle?)

[Karl Henning]

One of the few to have a functional, wholesome family,

Indeed, it was groundbreaking in the relaxed flirtatiousness between Morticia and Gomez. "Mon bubbeleh!"

[Karl Henning]

Only seven of the 14 episodes are credited as being based upon Stout stories.

I saw my first of the "fan fiction" episodes last night: "Death on the Doorstep." Quite good, really, while noting that it is set in 1981 New York, so the show is extrapolating the presence of Wolfe in the slightly later era.