What’s on TV?

[Huntn]

Started “Dark Matter” on Apple+. It is, indeed, dark. If you like science fiction and alternate realities, this is for you.

Is it confusing or relatively easy to follow?

 

[Alli]

Is it confusing or relatively easy to follow?

Very easy to follow. The lead character has it all figured out very quickly.

 

[Huntn]

The final season, Evil Season 4 has started on Paramount +, one episode per week ugh. Yet I love this show and I’ll wait until I can watch 2 episodes at a time! However, today we rewatched the Season 3 final and Season 4 Episode 1. Things are churning.

For anyone not familiar, there is a team of 3, a priest, a sceptic, and a technician also a sceptic, working for the Catholic Church investigating supernatural phenomena, this and a long running sub-plot to bring the anti-Christ to Earth. Some evil characters in this show, including Michael Emerson’s.

 

[Alli]

The final season, Evil Season 4 has started on Paramount +, one episode per week ugh. Yet I love this show and I’ll wait until I can watch 2 episodes at a time! However, today we rewatched the Season 3 final and Season 4 Episode 1. Things are churning.

I must admit I never made it through to the end. The scene with the mother talking down to Emerson’s character “do you really think you’re the first minor demon I’ve slept with?!” Was the start of the end to me. Last episode I watched was Emerson’s character in therapy with the devil. It just got silly.

 

[shadow puppet]

Started “Dark Matter” on Apple+. It is, indeed, dark. If you like science fiction and alternate realities, this is for you.

The jury is still out for me but I'm up to episode 4 so trying to give it a fair shot since I enjoy sci fi shows. Problem is, I've fallen asleep a few times. But that's what a memory foam pillow & being just 3 months past open heart surgery will do to you.

 

[Huntn]

I must admit I never made it through to the end. The scene with the mother talking down to Emerson’s character “do you really think you’re the first minor demon I’ve slept with?!” Was the start of the end to me. Last episode I watched was Emerson’s character in therapy with the devil. It just got silly.

I found the end of season 3 to be riveting. At this point the start of Season 4. I like the dynamics of the evil mother betraying her daughter, the manipulated husband, the conflict between Kristen and Leland, and the anti-Christ at least as far as seeing how it is all resolved.

 

[Huntn]

Watching Manhunt on Apple TV (2024), a limited series about the assassination of Lincoln and the hunt for Booth. While historical interesting especially the politics, Southern sympathies, and while the general gist of what happened is accurate, there’s a whole lot of stuff inserted into the show which represents things that may have happened, or suspected but not proven (like an assassination attempt on Jeff Davis), but also involved other people than the characters in the show. It bothers me a bit because you can almost slip into thinking you are watching accurate history.

One example is a search for a decrypter, a shipment of small pox infected clothing, the manifest which is revealed showing the Confederate Secret service highway from New York to Virginia, the path Booth is presumed to be taking. In actuality, reading historical accounts it’s more like common sense, there are only so many ways to cross from Maryland to Virginia, and at some point, they jumped over to the Virginia side and found Booth. His broken leg slowed him down quite a bit.

Another Example:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/m...t-true-story-changes-inaccuracies/ar-BB1kOHrI

 

[Huntn]

Rome (HBO 2005-07) Third watch. I rank this among the best TV series ever made (I have seen ). Two seasons. The Season 1 Final, Kalends of February is a killer. It’s a shame it was cancelled prematurely and Ray Stevenson died prematurely, recently. HBO said way back when, it cost too much to produce in Italy, my understanding in the studio where Cleopatra (1963) was filmed.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0384766/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

 

[Huntn]

3 Body Problem (2024-) Netflix
Science fiction. The 4th disclaimer made me chuckle: Gore. Language, nudity, smoking, suicide, violence

Two episodes in and I am grabbed.Not sure yet if this is a multi-verse setting. There is contact from somewhere else, people seeing counters that count down, they alone see that compel them to stop important work they are doing, one way or the other. Strange things are happening, including a headset that appears with an invite to play that whisk people away to a highly advanced virtual reality game.

Note, I tried to get into Dark Matter Recently, dark visually, but I failed.

 

[Nycturne]

3 Body Problem (2024-) Netflix
Science fiction. The 4th disclaimer made me chuckle: Gore. Language, nudity, smoking, suicide, violence

Is this a multi-verse setting?

Spoiler

No.

More spoiler thoughts from someone who read the books a bit before the show:

Spoiler

I'm not a huge fan of some of the changes, but I understand them. I'm mostly sad that they sucked some of the fun of the three body game puzzles out to make it fit in the time, and went with a giant exposition dump towards the end of the season. Also a bit sad that we didn't get to see Benedict Wong act out the book version of his character, as it was a more fun character than the muted version we got. It also took a while to understand the change they made to the conversation between Wenjie and Durand, although I'm not sure why they wanted to make that conversation even harder to understand prior to the events it sets up.

 

[Alli]

Orphan Black: Echoes. If you watched the original series, I have a feeling you’ll want to watch this. It takes place in 2052 with a new cast, but some familiar names. One episode in…I’m hooked.

Orphan Black: Echoes (TV Series 2023– ) ⭐ 6.4 | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Orphan Black: Echoes: Created by Anna Fishko. With Krysten Ritter, Keeley Hawes, Amanda Fix, Avan Jogia. Follows a group of women as they weave their way into each other's lives and embark on a thrilling journey, unravelling the mystery of their identity.

www.imdb.com

 

[Edd]

Special Ops: Lioness (2023, Paramount+)- 2 episodes in, this is good with a hard edge.

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I’m 5 episodes in. I had low expectations so pleasantly surprised at how engaging this is.

 

[Edd]

Colin from Accounts on Paramount+. Really funny, I was unfamiliar with the entire Australian cast.

I picked up this and the Lioness show mentioned above on the same plane ride home from Europe. I’m going to try to pick up new shows on planes from now on, it gets my full attention that way.

 

[Huntn]

Love Death + Robots- Vol3, Episode 3 Jibaro (Netflix) - Amazing, but disturbing animated short, that illustrates just how realistic today’s animation can look.

Was Jibaro Animated Or Live Action? How Love, Death & Robots Made It

It looks so real!

screenrant.com

 

[Edd]

Homicide: Life on the Street is finally coming to streaming (Peacock)!

This was another long delayed great show, due to music rights similar to Northern Exposure and Moonlighting.

‘Homicide: Life on the Street’ Finally Gets Streaming Home at Peacock

The drama starring Andre Braugher, Richard Belzer and Kyle Secor is also remastered for HD and 4K viewing.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

 

[Huntn]

How a Jewish family saved Thomas Jefferson’s home, excellent documentary. I visited Monticello several times as a child and a young adult and never had a clue the Levis owned Monticello for much longer than Jefferson, and saved the estate. Antisemitism is a blight that illustrates how religious belief can be/is a wedge that separates us from one another.


https://forward.com/culture/526470/...n-documentary-jewish-family-thomas-jefferson/

 

[rdrr]

The Commandant's Shadow (MAX)

Auschwitz camp commandant Rudolf Höss's son Hans Jürgen Höss, and grandson Kai Höss, face his legacy of being the history's biggest mass murderer and how it has impacted their lives. Meanwhile Anita Lasker-Wallfisch an Auschwitz survivor and her daughter Maya Lasker-Wallfisch deal with the life long impact of the horror Anita face at Auschwitz.

I thought the premise of the documentary was great, and some of it was very interesting. The execution of the premise and some of the storylines was below average in my opinion.

Spoiler: Opinion of a person depicted in the show

The daugher Maya Lasker-Wallfisch was especially insufferable with her whoa-is-me perception of growing up as a child of an Auschwitz survivor. The mother's less than empathetic reaction (because you know... having to survive Auschwitz and all) to her daughter's self perceived troubles was spot on.

I stayed with the show until the end, and as you can gather from the synopsis the two groups meet up, without going into any detail the conversation between Hans Jürgen Höss and Anita Lasker-Wallfisch was very healthy and good to hear the prospectives now and then.

Overall rating 3/5, and in my opinion worth watching if you can devote the time to get through some of the lowlights to the end.

 

[Huntn]

My wife has been watching Frasier (93-04) reruns. I loved this show as an ensemble, but I caught one episode recently and was reminded of how much of a train wreck Frasier’s love life was, those parts of the show were more painful than funny. I’ve not caught the reboot on Paramount + (I think).

 

[Eric]

Company I contract for on America's Got Talent, pointing this out because they found me on Instagram and have subsequently hired me to film several of their shows in the Bay Area. Really good people to work for and they do great work. They got the golden buzzer on their first show and this was from yesterday's broadcast.

And here is one of the shows I filmed of them, with my drone.

 

[rdrr]

Sky Elements drone show on America's Got Talent, pointing this out because they found me on Instagram and have subsequently hired me to film several of their shows in the Bay Area. Really good people to work for and they do great work. They got the golden buzzer on their first show and this was from yesterday's broadcast.

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And here is one of the shows I filmed of them, with my drone.

By filming the drone show do you get credits on the show?

Edit: Never mind, I re-read what you wrote. I quickly read something else.