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What TV Shows Are You Watching?
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At this point, ‘based on’ is pretty generous given the way the script writers have taken liberties and spun things in to whatever coke-fueled hallucinations are guiding them
I’m caught up in Slow Horses now so I started Boots. Gay dude joints the marine corps in the 90s. Intriguing enough to see where it goes, though so far it’s covering a lot of familiar ground
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I finished Hotel Costiera. After 6 one hour episodes Amanda Campana maybe had a half hour of on screen time. Mostly as the tied up damsel in distress.
I'm not buying the whole Jesse Williams is a gigolo vibe but the show uses it so women do things for him. All capers are solved at the end and everyone has a glass of prosecco. If it gets renewed we see his back story with his father.
Although this was an Amazon original it wasn't sponsored by anyone so I was peppered with advertisements. I'm not sure I am going to miss much when the service expires next year.
I'm not buying the whole Jesse Williams is a gigolo vibe but the show uses it so women do things for him. All capers are solved at the end and everyone has a glass of prosecco. If it gets renewed we see his back story with his father.
Although this was an Amazon original it wasn't sponsored by anyone so I was peppered with advertisements. I'm not sure I am going to miss much when the service expires next year.
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Boots was pretty good, though some details seemed implausible. Not exactly ‘woke’, as the Pentagon claimed.
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I'm watching Diplomat season 3. The witty fast paced banter is still happening. The show is growing up though. There might be a point where it's like House of Cards and goes straight to the top in DC and stalls there.
Already she doesn't even bother with the British foreign minister and often walks straight into the British PM.
There is more Rufus Sewell in this season. In my opinion it's a good thing.
Already she doesn't even bother with the British foreign minister and often walks straight into the British PM.
There is more Rufus Sewell in this season. In my opinion it's a good thing.
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I watched Griselda on Netflix. It's like a female version of Scarface with more Spanish. Not quite sure we needed that one episode at the end where she surrenders to the cops because it's more like an epilogue to what you knew was going to happen to her and her family.
Lots of Hispanic cast. Karol G is in it. Also Vanessa Ferlito whom I kept thinking who is she...right she's the trader woman from Wall Street 2.
Lots of Hispanic cast. Karol G is in it. Also Vanessa Ferlito whom I kept thinking who is she...right she's the trader woman from Wall Street 2.
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Slow Horses was ok, but also the weakest season so far. The main plot just felt silly and we had a repeat of the usual themes and sub plots. I enjoyed it, but they are going to have to do better next round
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I've been watching Love Life. Only because of Anna Kendrick. This was before she started getting crow's feet.
Besides some gratuitous sex scenes, I think it's a pretty neat rite of passage show of someone starting their life in New York in their early 20s.
2/3 of episodes in they reveal she's a narcissist which was screaming out to me (as someone with narcisstic traits) way earlier in the show.
Besides some gratuitous sex scenes, I think it's a pretty neat rite of passage show of someone starting their life in New York in their early 20s.
2/3 of episodes in they reveal she's a narcissist which was screaming out to me (as someone with narcisstic traits) way earlier in the show.
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Soulmates is a fun themed version of Black Mirror with an excellent cast and a solid variety of stories held together with the core element of a scientific test that tells you who your perfect match is. 8/10
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Pluribus is very very intriguing. Vince Gilligan really knows how to do a tv show soundtrack.
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I watched the first two eps. It’s a bit slow, but agree it’s intriguing.
Allegory of American self-righteousness individualism telling the happy socialists that they aren’t really happy?
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Nobody Wants This. Season 2.
The first season was kind of cute because Kristen Bell meets Adam Brody and has to learn the ins and outs of dating a Jewish man. Not just a Jewish man but a rabbi aspiring to take over as... I don't know what they call it.. But head rabbi at a temple.
It ended with Bell thinking whether to convert.
The entire season 2 is stuck at that impasse. When Bell gets evicted by her landlord, Brody won't even invite now his multi year girlfriend to live with him. He is over at her place so much I didn't even know he still had his own place. Brody thinks if she doesn't convert it is a deal breaker because he can't achieve his rabbi dreams without a Jewish wife. She is afraid to commit because as a late bloomer in the long term relationship game she is afraid she sacrificed too much of being her authentic self given her own parents divorced because her father was gay.
The only interesting thing that happens in this season is when the constantly drinking and self centred Justine Lupe appears with on screen sister Bell. She is hooking up with her therapist. But she is so interested in herself she doesn't notice she doesn't know a thing about her therapist boyfriend. Lupe keeps the whole show alive.
The show even has to resort to using Seth Rogen playing... Seth Rogen in a side story where Brody runs his hippy temple.
There is already a season 3. It will start off at the exact same spot because even though season 2 ends with I love you no matter what. No decision was made on conversion. Or the guy giving up his rabbi dreams that prevents his non Jew girlfriend from moving in.
Kristin Bell has more work on her face and less wrinkles. Justine Lupe is younger and has a persistent wrinkle in between her eyebrows and now has to choose if she wants to do injections to be a statue like Bell.
The first season was kind of cute because Kristen Bell meets Adam Brody and has to learn the ins and outs of dating a Jewish man. Not just a Jewish man but a rabbi aspiring to take over as... I don't know what they call it.. But head rabbi at a temple.
It ended with Bell thinking whether to convert.
The entire season 2 is stuck at that impasse. When Bell gets evicted by her landlord, Brody won't even invite now his multi year girlfriend to live with him. He is over at her place so much I didn't even know he still had his own place. Brody thinks if she doesn't convert it is a deal breaker because he can't achieve his rabbi dreams without a Jewish wife. She is afraid to commit because as a late bloomer in the long term relationship game she is afraid she sacrificed too much of being her authentic self given her own parents divorced because her father was gay.
The only interesting thing that happens in this season is when the constantly drinking and self centred Justine Lupe appears with on screen sister Bell. She is hooking up with her therapist. But she is so interested in herself she doesn't notice she doesn't know a thing about her therapist boyfriend. Lupe keeps the whole show alive.
The show even has to resort to using Seth Rogen playing... Seth Rogen in a side story where Brody runs his hippy temple.
There is already a season 3. It will start off at the exact same spot because even though season 2 ends with I love you no matter what. No decision was made on conversion. Or the guy giving up his rabbi dreams that prevents his non Jew girlfriend from moving in.
Kristin Bell has more work on her face and less wrinkles. Justine Lupe is younger and has a persistent wrinkle in between her eyebrows and now has to choose if she wants to do injections to be a statue like Bell.
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I half saw some of this, but my wife was watching it at the same time as the one about the older women pretending to be younger so I get them mixed up.
I’m luckily that I can relate to Fwiffs cultural references: he likes the same chick shows as my wife and the same pre-teen pop as my daughter
I half saw some of this, but my wife was watching it at the same time as the one about the older women pretending to be younger so I get them mixed up.
I’m luckily that I can relate to Fwiffs cultural references: he likes the same chick shows as my wife and the same pre-teen pop as my daughter
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I just watched The Monster of Florence on Netflix. Not a chick show.
Super moody with lots of camera filters about a (just learning this now) unsolved serial killer murder. Every episode goes through the same chain of events but with a different conjecture on who the killer could have been and what their motive was.
But Emily in Paris Season 5 is on its way! Soooo happy.
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Hostages on Netflix. If The Diplomat was a quasi political alt-reality drama, Hostages is a fictional account of how I hope the British and French governments don't operate.
The premise is the British PM's husband is kidnapped in French Guiana doing his doctors without frontiers. The British PM is hosting the French president who is also a woman. Liz Truss vs. Marine Le Pen? Anyway, the French president uses rescuing the husband as a bargaining chip and the PM is trying to solve the whole hostage situation without disclosing it to the rest of the cabinet and the government.
Even after the British PM goes public that her husband was kidnapped, the French president continues loitering around London without any pressure to leave. After the French chief of staff is arrested for treason, she's still hanging out in London. Wouldn't the French evacuate their president back to Paris if there was any hint or sniff of danger?
Parts of The Diplomat was talking about how the spouses of public political figures need safe ornamental roles where security knows where they are all 24/7. It's incredulous the British PM's spouse goes abroad with zero protection. The British rely on the French special forces because it would take at least 48 hours to mount an British military operation in French Guiana. Don't the British still have a presence in their former colony Guyana!?I
The British PM has a daughter. Somehow she wanders down to the situation room and an aide opens the door just when her father is staring at the video camera after a hostage is executed.
Later the PM fires her chief of staff. Then she recruits him again. She's hiding in a bunker that the chief of staff's fingerprint still works to open.
By the second episode my mind was already blowing up. Maybe the yanks have it right with succession planning, securing the VP & the house speaker on home soil and putting the President in the air whenever there is danger.
The premise is the British PM's husband is kidnapped in French Guiana doing his doctors without frontiers. The British PM is hosting the French president who is also a woman. Liz Truss vs. Marine Le Pen? Anyway, the French president uses rescuing the husband as a bargaining chip and the PM is trying to solve the whole hostage situation without disclosing it to the rest of the cabinet and the government.
Even after the British PM goes public that her husband was kidnapped, the French president continues loitering around London without any pressure to leave. After the French chief of staff is arrested for treason, she's still hanging out in London. Wouldn't the French evacuate their president back to Paris if there was any hint or sniff of danger?
Parts of The Diplomat was talking about how the spouses of public political figures need safe ornamental roles where security knows where they are all 24/7. It's incredulous the British PM's spouse goes abroad with zero protection. The British rely on the French special forces because it would take at least 48 hours to mount an British military operation in French Guiana. Don't the British still have a presence in their former colony Guyana!?I
The British PM has a daughter. Somehow she wanders down to the situation room and an aide opens the door just when her father is staring at the video camera after a hostage is executed.
Later the PM fires her chief of staff. Then she recruits him again. She's hiding in a bunker that the chief of staff's fingerprint still works to open.
By the second episode my mind was already blowing up. Maybe the yanks have it right with succession planning, securing the VP & the house speaker on home soil and putting the President in the air whenever there is danger.
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Wow, a new Spartacus spin-off on Stars. It’s been over ten years since the series ended and it was all a bit tawdry soft porn and extended fight scenes
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Gigolo per caso on Amazon.
I like Christian De Sica and he plays a senior citizen gigolo who is hospitalised with a heart attack. Pietro Sermonti plays his son who pieces together all of his babysitting at the neighbours and the women who come calling his father are actually his clients. Sermonti gets robbed after taking his father home and has to work off his debts or risk getting whacked by the mob so with his father's coaching he becomes the male prostitute for his senior...well, mature women clientele.
There's a side story where his wife becomes lesbian and sleeps with their lesbian marriage therapist.
I like Christian De Sica and he plays a senior citizen gigolo who is hospitalised with a heart attack. Pietro Sermonti plays his son who pieces together all of his babysitting at the neighbours and the women who come calling his father are actually his clients. Sermonti gets robbed after taking his father home and has to work off his debts or risk getting whacked by the mob so with his father's coaching he becomes the male prostitute for his senior...well, mature women clientele.
There's a side story where his wife becomes lesbian and sleeps with their lesbian marriage therapist.
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Emily in Paris season 5!!!!!!
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Finished Emily in Paris.
Lily Collins looked really old last season but this season is slightly improved. The new hair style suits her a bit better than the bangs and I see less of the crow's feet around her eyes. Her Italian wardrobe is stylish.
I'm very surprised Lucas Bravo is still around. I thought he would make a cameo and then just disappear. He did say last sesaon he wasn't happy with the way his character was written. He basically became a rebound safety net for Lily Collins whenever she had work or male issues. Anyway I've been rooting for them to stop the on again/off again thing but it seems I might finally get the chance if Bravo doesn't quit the show outright next season.
The problem is the show has been going on for awhile and her ex boyfriends continue lingering around. In fact, Lucien Laviscount, aka the British finance guy with the muscles, sleeps with Ashley Park too. (He shows off the same physique in Kiefer Sutherland's Amazon Christmas movie). The ex's just never go away. There was a whole tangent with a new American embassy guy in this season too which seemed to go nowhere - because between Lily Collins and Ashley Park there aren't enough cafes or bars for the ex's to disappear into the backdrop of Paris to make room for a new man. At one point both girls had broken up with their boyfriends and then unite with their ex's again on a double date. It's lazy writing.
Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu spends the first half of the season sleeping around (like Lily Collins' character) in Rome then getting herself into creative work problems because she's promiscuous. She's supposed to be the mentor not the mentee but somehow takes the mentee story path. In the second half she's barely into her marketing business because she meets an old friend, joins Instagram and starts sleeping with a new guy. I thought the whole point of her character was to show you can be a successful business woman, groom your American protege, not have kids, have an open marriage, and nab the young man. She's supposed to be aspirational no?
Ten episodes was not enough to go into significant side stories for the work sidekicks. Gorgeous cinematography and on site shoots. Paris and Rome should pay Netflix for the amount of tourist dollars the show will help generate.
Lily Collins looked really old last season but this season is slightly improved. The new hair style suits her a bit better than the bangs and I see less of the crow's feet around her eyes. Her Italian wardrobe is stylish.
I'm very surprised Lucas Bravo is still around. I thought he would make a cameo and then just disappear. He did say last sesaon he wasn't happy with the way his character was written. He basically became a rebound safety net for Lily Collins whenever she had work or male issues. Anyway I've been rooting for them to stop the on again/off again thing but it seems I might finally get the chance if Bravo doesn't quit the show outright next season.
The problem is the show has been going on for awhile and her ex boyfriends continue lingering around. In fact, Lucien Laviscount, aka the British finance guy with the muscles, sleeps with Ashley Park too. (He shows off the same physique in Kiefer Sutherland's Amazon Christmas movie). The ex's just never go away. There was a whole tangent with a new American embassy guy in this season too which seemed to go nowhere - because between Lily Collins and Ashley Park there aren't enough cafes or bars for the ex's to disappear into the backdrop of Paris to make room for a new man. At one point both girls had broken up with their boyfriends and then unite with their ex's again on a double date. It's lazy writing.
Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu spends the first half of the season sleeping around (like Lily Collins' character) in Rome then getting herself into creative work problems because she's promiscuous. She's supposed to be the mentor not the mentee but somehow takes the mentee story path. In the second half she's barely into her marketing business because she meets an old friend, joins Instagram and starts sleeping with a new guy. I thought the whole point of her character was to show you can be a successful business woman, groom your American protege, not have kids, have an open marriage, and nab the young man. She's supposed to be aspirational no?
Ten episodes was not enough to go into significant side stories for the work sidekicks. Gorgeous cinematography and on site shoots. Paris and Rome should pay Netflix for the amount of tourist dollars the show will help generate.
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Fallout Season 2.
I think my Prime membership will run out before I catch the rest of the second season. I reckon there could be a good series if they did a separate show of the pre-apocalypse scenes together. Right now it continues to bounce back and forth like Battlestar Galactica. Just pace it better than Caprica.
Some of the Brotherhood of Steel, airships and Area 51 are pretty cool in the dystopia. But I don't know how many times I need to see the 'distressed innocents' sidequest where checking it out or saving them leads you to A. a bunch of bandits/cannibals/cultists/survivalists or B. radioactive monsters. Then somehow Walter Goggins and Ella Purnell survives the encounter (with some scratches) and you get back on to the main plot.
I think my Prime membership will run out before I catch the rest of the second season. I reckon there could be a good series if they did a separate show of the pre-apocalypse scenes together. Right now it continues to bounce back and forth like Battlestar Galactica. Just pace it better than Caprica.
Some of the Brotherhood of Steel, airships and Area 51 are pretty cool in the dystopia. But I don't know how many times I need to see the 'distressed innocents' sidequest where checking it out or saving them leads you to A. a bunch of bandits/cannibals/cultists/survivalists or B. radioactive monsters. Then somehow Walter Goggins and Ella Purnell survives the encounter (with some scratches) and you get back on to the main plot.
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Finished Owning Manhattan season 2. There were more actual properties shown albeit at fast forward speeds.
I don't know if I really need a few episodes of this new Genesis broker. She looks nice but attracts a lot of drama.
Ryan Serhant is basically going through growing pains with his company as the founder who needs to elevate to be executive and not revert back to selling properties himself whenever his team fails to do it.
There were also some side plots with Jade Shenker who wants to do the big commercial deal herself to prove she can live up to her father's legacy. Serhant does commercial? Didn't even know that.
And Chloe Tucker who is back from mat leave and somehow turns real estate advertising into an audition for her hidden Broadway dreams.
I don't know if I really need a few episodes of this new Genesis broker. She looks nice but attracts a lot of drama.
Ryan Serhant is basically going through growing pains with his company as the founder who needs to elevate to be executive and not revert back to selling properties himself whenever his team fails to do it.
There were also some side plots with Jade Shenker who wants to do the big commercial deal herself to prove she can live up to her father's legacy. Serhant does commercial? Didn't even know that.
And Chloe Tucker who is back from mat leave and somehow turns real estate advertising into an audition for her hidden Broadway dreams.
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Gigolò per caso season 2. Sabrina Ferilli comes to Rome to promote her book that teaches women to find sexual pleasure without being dependent on men. This means war for the father son gigolo Christian De Sica and Pietro Simonti who rely on needy women as their clientele.
This season sees more of De Sica because he isn't home bound from a stroke. But the comic situations feel a bit tired and less funny. How many times can you have an old lady client die after you service them.
This season sees more of De Sica because he isn't home bound from a stroke. But the comic situations feel a bit tired and less funny. How many times can you have an old lady client die after you service them.
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Public Disorder.
It's an Italian cop drama centering around a riot police unit in Rome. Their platoon captain goes down. They retaliate and beat the protestors including a kid that ends up in a coma. With that backdrop and an internal investigation there are various riot police deployments with back stories of a few police officers and the friction of a new captain being assigned.
I would say Marco Giallini had a good story as the grizzled veteran. Valentina Belle and Adriano Grannini had the best stories and would have bonded more because they had issues with their kids but there was an extra story with another officer who was romancing with a fake virtual girlfriend. That got in the way of the character development.
Very dark and most scenes are shot at night. Even the daytime scenes are gloomy.
It's supposed to be all cops are bastards or their proud motto that they sing because protestors mock them - children of prostitutes or bitches.
It's an Italian cop drama centering around a riot police unit in Rome. Their platoon captain goes down. They retaliate and beat the protestors including a kid that ends up in a coma. With that backdrop and an internal investigation there are various riot police deployments with back stories of a few police officers and the friction of a new captain being assigned.
I would say Marco Giallini had a good story as the grizzled veteran. Valentina Belle and Adriano Grannini had the best stories and would have bonded more because they had issues with their kids but there was an extra story with another officer who was romancing with a fake virtual girlfriend. That got in the way of the character development.
Very dark and most scenes are shot at night. Even the daytime scenes are gloomy.
It's supposed to be all cops are bastards or their proud motto that they sing because protestors mock them - children of prostitutes or bitches.
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Netflix says there is another Suburra.
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The Night Manager got off to a slow start but hit the mark. It was never going to be LaCarre good, but it was very enjoyable and I hope they go for S3.
I wasn’t a huge fave of Fallout S1 but the second season has been a lot of fun.
I wasn’t a huge fave of Fallout S1 but the second season has been a lot of fun.
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My prime membership expired and I am missing at least three episodes. I assume she eventually meets the father and there is yet another cliffhanger
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Watching the latest season of Formula 1 Drive to Survive on Netflix. The show needs more Flavio Briatore.
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Starting Night Agent season 3
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Night Agent Season 3. I must be in the minority to think this season was worse than the previous one. Once you got behind the scenes of the broker character it was actually pretty dull. I don't know if we needed so many flashback episodes nor the episode about the assassin character and his kid. It felt like filler. Genesis Rodriguez is the new female lead actress and plays another daughter of a rich father who goes into journalism almost to spite him. Hey that's the same backstory as her Lioness role where she is in the US army but the daughter of a Mexican drug cartel father.
I recall the whole Iranian plot from season 2 was more linear.
There was the whole spy and counterspy thing and Gabriel Basso, making a name for himself as Netflix'a go to guy for federal agent roles, continues his I am a boy scout and holier than thou values.
I recall the whole Iranian plot from season 2 was more linear.
There was the whole spy and counterspy thing and Gabriel Basso, making a name for himself as Netflix'a go to guy for federal agent roles, continues his I am a boy scout and holier than thou values.
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Finished season 8 of Formula 1: Drive to Survive just for the new F1 season.
In the final race Yuki Tsunoda is defending his teammate Verstappen in front and McLaren says it's "That was classic Red Bull shithousing" - what was Tsunoda supposed to do? Just let Norris get 3rd and take the driver's championship away from Verstappen (who needed 1st and Norris to finish off the podium).
In the final race Yuki Tsunoda is defending his teammate Verstappen in front and McLaren says it's "That was classic Red Bull shithousing" - what was Tsunoda supposed to do? Just let Norris get 3rd and take the driver's championship away from Verstappen (who needed 1st and Norris to finish off the podium).
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Vladimir was boring af.
I just started DTF St Louis. I don’t know. It’s so self consciously quirky, but I hope the plot thickens soon
I just started DTF St Louis. I don’t know. It’s so self consciously quirky, but I hope the plot thickens soon