What TV series are you currently watching?

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milk


Episode: "So Help Me God.

This was a lark for me. I'm not generally watching vintage TV - beyond the occasional Columbo. I'm surprised at how sharp this script was; I remember a lot of 70s detective shows being rather hacky. It's not genius or anything but it's good and entertaining.   

George

"It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously." –Oscar Wilde

Pohjolas Daughter

Quote from: milk on December 30, 2021, 05:22:04 AM

Episode: "So Help Me God.

This was a lark for me. I'm not generally watching vintage TV - beyond the occasional Columbo. I'm surprised at how sharp this script was; I remember a lot of 70s detective shows being rather hacky. It's not genius or anything but it's good and entertaining.
Loved watching those shows!

VonStupp

Doctor Who: Series 7 (2013)

I am a US n00b to Doctor Who, with the exception of occasionally catching the old series on a UHF channel ages ago.

My wife and I have been slowly working our way through the rebooted series. Should be finishing off the 7th season tonight.

VS

"All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff."

Karl Henning

Quote from: VonStupp on December 30, 2021, 10:07:43 AM
Doctor Who: Series 7 (2013)

I am a US n00b to Doctor Who, with the exception of occasionally catching the old series on a UHF channel ages ago.

VS

Thanks for the flashback, friend!
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

VonStupp

Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on December 30, 2021, 10:23:20 AM
Thanks for the flashback, friend!

A pleasure!  ;D

I often think back on the crazy things I could find on our local UHF channel. While I am sure I could scour YouTube for some of those things, the low-rez affability of some of those shows is forever lost, I think. Perhaps for the better...

VS
"All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff."

Karl Henning

Quote from: VonStupp on December 30, 2021, 10:27:34 AM
A pleasure!  ;D

I often think back on the crazy things I could find on our local UHF channel. While I am sure I could scour YouTube for some of those things, the low-rez affability of some of those shows is forever lost, I think. Perhaps for the better...

VS

Back during my misspent youth in New Jersey there was a peculiar local broadcast, The Uncle Floyd Show, commemorated in an I don't avoid, I watch Uncle Floyd T-shirt ....
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

SimonNZ

Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on December 30, 2021, 11:11:24 AM
Back during my misspent youth in New Jersey there was a peculiar local broadcast, The Uncle Floyd Show, commemorated in an I don't avoid, I watch Uncle Floyd T-shirt ....

And in David Bowie's song Uncle Floyd

(Feom the unreleased Toy album, re-recorded and retitled Slip Away on Heathen)

Karl Henning

Quote from: SimonNZ on December 30, 2021, 12:18:21 PM
And in David Bowie's song Uncle Floyd

(Feom the unreleased Toy album, re-recorded and retitled Slip Away on Heathen)

I never suspected.
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

SimonNZ

It'd a good song.

The Toy version has about a minutes worth of the show at the beginning.

milk

Quote from: Pohjolas Daughter on December 30, 2021, 09:54:32 AM
Loved watching those shows!
some of these episodes are pretty tightly scripted. I'd say Columbo is still much higher quality than the rest but Rockford Files gets a B to Colombo's A. What other shows get a B?

VonStupp

#2631
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on December 30, 2021, 11:11:24 AM
Back during my misspent youth in New Jersey there was a peculiar local broadcast, The Uncle Floyd Show, commemorated in an I don't avoid, I watch Uncle Floyd T-shirt ....

Wonderful! I hope you still have that shirt.

Apparently, assuming he is still alive and the same person you mentioned, you can receive a phone call from Uncle Floyd:

https://www.unclefloyd.net

https://www.youtube.com/v/_7qqIh6SyrE&ab_channel=BeTerrific
"All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff."

Karl Henning

Wound up Twin Peaks last night. While I have loved the series, I cannot stave off disappointment with the ending.
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

vandermolen

Currently Season 2 of Vienna Blood, in which a young Jewish Freudian doctor/psychoanalyst teams up with a grizzled detective in early 20th Century Vienna. It's a variation on Holmes and Watson but very enjoyable in all respects:
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

Karl Henning

Quote from: vandermolen on January 01, 2022, 11:32:13 AM
Currently Season 2 of Vienna Blood, in which a young Jewish Freudian doctor/psychoanalyst teams up with a grizzled detective in early 20th Century Vienna. It's a variation on Holmes and Watson but very enjoyable in all respects:


Nice musical pun, too.
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

Karl Henning

Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on January 01, 2022, 09:25:13 AM
Wound up Twin Peaks last night. While I have loved the series, I cannot stave off disappointment with the ending.

Angelo Badalamenti, the composer associated with the series, tells a funny story: he was in EMI's Abbey Road studio with Paul McCartney, who had asked his help with orchestration. Relating to Badalamenti an earlier event when McCartney was expecting to present a 35-minute musical production before Queen Elizabeth. Her Majesty brushed off Sir Paul because it was nearly 8 PM and time for Twin Peaks
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

Fëanor

Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on January 01, 2022, 09:25:13 AM
Wound up Twin Peaks last night. While I have loved the series, I cannot stave off disappointment with the ending.

I'm just in the middle of Season 1, viewing for the first time -- no spoilers, please  ;D

Karl Henning

#2637
Quote from: Fëanor on January 04, 2022, 03:59:47 AM
I'm just in the middle of Season 1, viewing for the first time -- no spoilers, please  ;D

Very good. Enjoy!
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

vandermolen

"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

Karl Henning

Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on January 01, 2022, 09:25:13 AM
Wound up Twin Peaks last night. While I have loved the series, I cannot stave off disappointment with the ending.

I rewatched the final two hours, and then out of curiosity watched the international pilot, and then (again) the original pilot for comparison.

That's all I'm saying at present.
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot