gigabit posted:I just finished watching Seasons 1-5 of Bosch over the course of the last two months. Loved it!
Yes. I give art and architecture tours of LA. Think I might add a Bosch tour.
The Old Man posted:gigabit posted:I just finished watching Seasons 1-5 of Bosch over the course of the last two months. Loved it!
Yes. I give art and architecture tours of LA. Think I might add a Bosch tour.
That's a great idea.
I started Good Omens - fun show. David Tennant is obviously having a ball
jcocktosten posted:I started Good Omens - fun show. David Tennant is obviously having a ball
Glad you’re liking it!
“The Boys”
Fun. Subversive.
winetarelli posted:jcocktosten posted:I started Good Omens - fun show. David Tennant is obviously having a ball
Glad you’re liking it!
I enjoyed this very much. Set up nicely for a 2nd run, but apparently Gaiman is dead set against it.
PH
Sad that Netflix cancelled The OA. You will never find a more audacious TV season ending than what occurred in its second season.
The Old Man posted:Sad that Netflix cancelled The OA. You will never find a more audacious TV season ending than what occurred in its second season.
No tears here. OK the ending was a surprise, but not worth the cringing done during the scenes with the "movements". The concept was OK and it started out well. One season would have been enough.
steve8 posted:The Old Man posted:Sad that Netflix cancelled The OA. You will never find a more audacious TV season ending than what occurred in its second season.
No tears here. OK the ending was a surprise, but not worth the cringing done during the scenes with the "movements". The concept was OK and it started out well. One season would have been enough.
I do recommend Brit Marling's movies, particularly The Sound of My Voice. Like the TV show none of them are perfect, but they are always interesting. Also no matter what you think of the movements--SPOILER ALERT--the weirdness certainly might stop a gunman for a moment or two which could be just enough time for someone to take action.
Also read her bio about a good looking blond who discovered that "Hollywood" was going to type-cast her as arm candy for the male leads. She instead decided to write and star in her unique science fiction tinged movies. Very brave.
Chernobyl. Holy smokes.
Powerful, depressing and uplifting at the same time and well worth a watch.
I avoided this for months, just because it seemed like a morbid subject. It is.
Recommended, but not for the squeamish or faint of heart.
PH
purplehaze posted:Chernobyl. Holy smokes.
Powerful, depressing and uplifting at the same time and well worth a watch.
I avoided this for months, just because it seemed like a morbid subject. It is.
Recommended, but not for the squeamish or faint of heart.
PH
The bio-robot sequence, in the 4th episode, is some of the most riveting television I've ever seen. It's amazing how they took a clip of the real event, and instead of simply replicating it, they place you in it.
Screwball in Netflix. It's about the Biogenisys, steroids, A-rod, Manny, Ryan Braun. Entertaining.
The Old Man posted:The bio-robot sequence, in the 4th episode, is some of the most riveting television I've ever seen. It's amazing how they took a clip of the real event, and instead of simply replicating it, they place you in it.
It was very intense. Glad to see Jared Harris and Stellan Skarsgård get Emmy nominations. I thought they were both very good. Skarsgård's transition from ignorant apparatchik to something resembling a human being was fun to watch.
PH
purplehaze posted:The Old Man posted:The bio-robot sequence, in the 4th episode, is some of the most riveting television I've ever seen. It's amazing how they took a clip of the real event, and instead of simply replicating it, they place you in it.
It was very intense. Glad to see Jared Harris and Stellan Skarsgård get Emmy nominations. I thought they were both very good. Skarsgård's transition from ignorant apparatchik to something resembling a human being was fun to watch.
PH
Always liked Harris since the great, pretty unknown, I Shot Andy Warhol.
The naked director on netflix is whimsical, fun, albeit in that weird japanese raunchy kind of way.
A bit of a no brainer, and a time killer, not necessarily something you'd spend time thinking over or rewatch after the first time.
Finished "The Loudest Voice". I thought it was well done with a solid performance by Crowe, but any story about Roger Ailes is also a story about the rise of Fox News... and seven hour of that story is really effing depressing.
sunnylea57 posted:Finished "The Loudest Voice". I thought it was well done with a solid performance by Crowe, but any story about Roger Ailes is also a story about the rise of Fox News... and seven hour of that story is really effing depressing.
Just couldn't bring myself to watch it in the same way I didn't watch the movie about the great satan, Vice.
Succession is the best show on TV right now (especially since GOT is over). It makes you feel good about your own family.
I am enjoying City on a Hill (Showtime) and Yellowstone (Paramount), which is similar to Succession but in a different setting.
Just finished the first 2 episodes of After Life on Netflix. Haven't laughed that hard in a long time. Gervais mixing hilarious moments with sensitive ones. Looking forward to the rest.
glennk posted:Just finished the first 2 episodes of After Life on Netflix. Haven't laughed that hard in a long time. Gervais mixing hilarious moments with sensitive ones. Looking forward to the rest.
Good series. Finished well. Looking forward to S2.
PH
Finished Good Omens last night - great series, I thoroughly enjoyed it. Comedy, religion, fantasy - a hell hound that looks remarkably like my 12 pound younger dog - all in all great fun and David Tennant looked like he really enjoyed himself
David and Olivia - Naked in Scotland. Amazon Prime. Very entertaining for me. The bonus is the scenery as the two main characters drive from Loch Lomond to Edinburgh Airport.
Looking forward to watching the final episode of Baskets tonight (I'm a night behind). Zack Galifianakis was excellent in this, as was the entire cast. But Louie Anderson as Zack's mother was beyond brilliant.
“Sticks and Stones”
Dave Chappelle’s new Netflix special; premiered yesterday.
Oh. My. G-d.
Only one person alive could tell those jokes and not need to go into the witness relocation program. I may have cringed once or thrice, but most of it was so, so funny. And even if I cringed a couple of times, the irreverence was a much needed huge breath of fresh air.
Let the credits run to 00:00 and then there is a 20+ minute epilogue.
(You should probably skip this whole thing if you are easily offended. Duh.)
A big +1 on the new Chappelle. If you don't wince, the comedian isn't pushing the edge. Dave pushes the edge like no one else in modern comedy. Brilliant.
One of my favorite lines:
No matter what they say or how they make you feel, remember, this is your country, too, It is incumbent upon us to save our country. And you know what we have to do. Every able-bodied African-American must register,,, for a legal firearm. That’s the only way they’ll change the law.
PH
Thanks for the heads up about Chapelle. Started watching it last night and will finish tonight. Wow.
purplehaze posted:A big +1 on the new Chappelle. If you don't wince, the comedian isn't pushing the edge. Dave pushes the edge like no one else in modern comedy. Brilliant.
PH
+1 on the +1.
Spy, on Netflix. I enjoyed it. Sacha Baron Cohen is surprisingly good in this.
PH
Finished Escape at Dannemora (yes, we're kinda slow). All four principal actors gave fantastic performances (Patricia Arquette, Paul Dano, Benicio Del Toro and David Morse), the story was compelling, and Ben Stiller's direction was solid and cinematic.
Arquette deserves whatever awards she wins (and has already won).
I see the necessity for the penultimate episode ("if you were rooting for these guys, here's why you shouldn't") and I understand the reason for inserting where they did, but it did disrupt the flow of the story.
Power - I like this quite a bit.
Mandalorian looks great, I might even subscribe to disney plus for that.
A show I'd like to watch but can't is The First about go people to Mars. It's has Natascha McElhone, who was so great in Californication but for me I go straight to the 2002 remake of Solaris. The problem is the lead is Sean Penn and I just can't stand the guy. I don't think I feel that way about any other actor.
On other other hand I started watching Killing Eve and all I can say is--wow. Also it's obvious, after only three episodes, why Jody Comer won an Emmy award in an unfortunate match up with the great Sandra Oh. It's so over the top, yet Comer's psycho killer can cause a chill with just the look in her eyes.
The Old Man posted:The problem is the lead is Sean Penn and I just can't stand the guy. I don't think I feel that way about any other actor.
Well, that’s a bit odd.
I’ve never known him to say even one negative word about you ever.
Californication was almost certainly loosely based on the life of my college best friend and roomate. He became friends with an actress who ended up dating David Duchovny. She told him all about our friend and that he should do a show about him. Years later she bumped into DD and when she asked him his response was, stop talking to me, I cant talk to you about that, you'll sue me. If you knew my friend the parallels are uncanny outside of the drug/alcohol addictions which he did not have
El Camino. Netflix. You will probably have problems accessing it. A wee bit of high demand. Do not be deterred. A must watch, if you're a Breaking Bad fan. If not... never mind.
PH
Just started in on Season 3 of Goliath. I'm three episodes and and frankly don't know what to think. It's definitely a lot weirder and whimsical than previous seasons.
PH
purplehaze posted:Just started in on Season 3 of Goliath. I'm three episodes and and frankly don't know what to think. It's definitely a lot weirder and whimsical than previous seasons.
PH
I haven't started it yet. But I loved much of the first two seasons, but it sounds like it's problem of over the top bad guys (last season the bad guy was worse than the Joker) it continuing. It would be much better if it took the Bosch approach with more realism.
The Old Man posted:It would be much better if it took the Bosch approach with more realism.
Heh. I'm halfway through E5, and "realism" isn't a word I'd consider using for most of the season so far.
PH
purplehaze posted:The Old Man posted:It would be much better if it took the Bosch approach with more realism.Heh. I'm halfway through E5, and "realism" isn't a word I'd consider using for most of the season so far.
PH
Man I keep hesitating to press play on this one.
purplehaze posted:El Camino. Netflix. You will probably have problems accessing it. A wee bit of high demand. Do not be deterred. A must watch, if you're a Breaking Bad fan. If not... never mind.
PH
Just watched it. I agree. I do miss Bryan Cranston’s character though.
doubled posted:purplehaze posted:El Camino. Netflix. You will probably have problems accessing it. A wee bit of high demand. Do not be deterred. A must watch, if you're a Breaking Bad fan. If not... never mind.
PH
Just watched it. I agree. I do miss Bryan Cranston’s character though.
Agree... but he's dead! I appreciated Aaron Paul's characterization of Jesse Pinkman even more after watching this.
PH