What’s on TV?

[Huntn]

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Loki (2021)- Disney+ Does anyone like this? I’m 3 episodes in and confused.

• The idea of a varient- how do you know you are doing something wrong (to create a branch in the time line)? How can you be punished for this?
• How can Loki taking the Tesseract in 2012, be any worse than the Avengers traveling through time to grab Infinity Stones? And what about Thanos, why was the TVA not all over him?

 

[Huntn]

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Watching Absentia (2017-2020 AXN, watching on Prime Video) 3 Seasons total, about an FBI agent who goes missing during an investigation for 6 years, presumed dead, and then resurfaces with a call to her husband and they find her in a tank of water* on the verge of drowning. Obviously she is a victim of some fiendish plot, suffering from PTSD, but there is more to the story. Her husband also an FBI agent has remarried, and her son is being raised by him and his new wife, awkward…

*No, she has not been in a tank of water for 6 years.

My critique of this story is that in a situation like this the husband, first and second wife should have some serious discussions about what is next for the 3 of them, and it seems like that is glossed over. Maybe other viewers feel different, but what a tough situation from a personal relationship standpoint.

The series is watchable, not as good as Bosch. I’ll say that the mystery of her dissapearence Is resolved in Season 1 and Season 2:

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with her back at the FBI and continues with new cases and her continued adjustment, she is a bit screwed up.

 

[lizkat]

So I haven't caught up with Apple's offerings in quite awhile. Lots of people seem to rave about Ted Lasso. My free sub is expiring and I'm wondering if it's worth signing up for awhile just to catch the beginning of that and the new season...

Mind you my rationale for taking a sub to HBO Max went like this: "well it's 15 bucks but the apple thing is free for now so really it's only ten bucks".

So there's that issue as well. As soon as Apple bills me 5 bucks for streaming its stuff, my HBO Max sub will REALLY feel like it's costing me the $15 that it was always really costing me, even if my twisted little mind is going to start thinking that Apple is costing me ten bucks a month.

This is your really free no free lunch lesson for the day.

 

[Huntn]

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Watching Absentia (2017-2020 AXN, watching on Prime Video) 3 Seasons total, about an FBI agent who goes missing during an investigation for 6 years, presumed dead, and then resurfaces with a call to her husband and they find her in a tank of water* on the verge of drowning. Obviously she is a victim of some fiendish plot, suffering from PTSD, but there is more to the story. Her husband also an FBI agent has remarried, and her son is being raised by him and his new wife, awkward…

*No, she has not been in a tank of water for 6 years.

My critique of this story is that in a situation like this the husband, first and second wife should have some serious discussions about what is next for the 3 of them, and it seems like that is glossed over. Maybe other viewers feel different, but what a tough situation from a personal relationship standpoint.

The series is watchable, not as good as Bosch. I’ll say that the mystery of her dissapearence Is resolved in Season 1 and Season 2:

Spoiler

with her back at the FBI and continues with new cases and her continued adjustment, she is a bit screwed up.

Imo, this series falls apart in the last part of Season 2 when they (the FBI) head off to Moldova to chase a bad guy, and the show becomes more like a spy story,

 

[Huntn]

So I haven't caught up with Apple's offerings in quite awhile. Lots of people seem to rave about Ted Lasso. My free sub is expiring and I'm wondering if it's worth signing up for awhile just to catch the beginning of that and the new season...

Mind you my rationale for taking a sub to HBO Max went like this: "well it's 15 bucks but the apple thing is free for now so really it's only ten bucks".

So there's that issue as well. As soon as Apple bills me 5 bucks for streaming its stuff, my HBO Max sub will REALLY feel like it's costing me the $15 that it was always really costing me, even if my twisted little mind is going to start thinking that Apple is costing me ten bucks a month.

This is your really free no free lunch lesson for the day.

Something like Netflix has enough content to stay subscribed, but Apple imo does not, so my choice for both Apple and HBO is to do hit and run subscriptions. For the last season of Game of Thrones, I waited 6 episodes so I could watch the entire season in one month.

 

[SuperMatt]

Something like Netflix has enough content to stay subscribed, but Apple imo does not, so my choice for both Apple and HBO is to do hit and run subscriptions. For the last season of Game of Thrones, I waited 6 episodes so I could watch the entire season in one month.

I have to say, I never would have subscribed to Netflix… but when it was offered free on account of having T-mobile for cell service, I took it. I have to say I really enjoy it. Even when the “free” Netflix became $2 a month, I kept it. If I had to pay full price, I might even do so. T-mobile also offers the free MLB.tv for watching every baseball game except the one in your current locality. That’s one that I probably would NOT pay full price for. I watch it occasionally, but not enough to warrant the cost.

 

[Huntn]

I have to say, I never would have subscribed to Netflix… but when it was offered free on account of having T-mobile for cell service, I took it. I have to say I really enjoy it. Even when the “free” Netflix became $2 a month, I kept it. If I had to pay full price, I might even do so. T-mobile also offers the free MLB.tv for watching every baseball game except the one in your current locality. That’s one that I probably would NOT pay full price for. I watch it occasionally, but not enough to warrant the cost.

You currently get Netflix for $2 a month through T-Mobile, watchable on a TV? Can I ask how much do you pay for your T-Mobile account? I have a 2 for $55 plan.

 

[SuperMatt]

You currently get Netflix for $2 a month through T-Mobile, watchable on a TV?

It’s called “Netflix on us” and different plans are eligible for different amounts… I just checked it and I think I’m actually paying $3 instead of $2….

 

[Huntn]

It’s called “Netflix on us” and different plans are eligible for different amounts… I just checked it and I think I’m actually paying $3 instead of $2….

I looked it up and there are certain plans that offer different levels of Netflix for free. I'm assuming that because I have a T-Mobile 2for $55 (senior) plan, that I am still better off than a plan that offers free Netflix, but don't really know.

 

[tobefirst]

I somehow missed Modern Family when it was on and just recently discovered it. I've been having fun watching that.

I've also been re-watching Brooklyn Nine-nice to get ready for the final season. I've rewatched that show more than I can count. I'm quite sure I'm into the double digits. Let's call it a lot of times and just leave it at that.

Since it's summer, it's Lego Masters time. That was entertaining last year and I've been enjoying it this year as well.

I've been working my way through Nailed It on Netflix and am almost done with that.

Then I came across my old Homicide: Life on the Street and Kung-Fu DVDs, so I've been having fun there. I also need to finish the last season of Spartacus. I put it aside and never returned, but I've seen it before, so I know it's good.

Modern Family is currently my "on my way to sleep" show. I'll disagree with @Huntn a bit – I don't enjoy much of the later seasons – but the show is laugh-out-loud funny early on.

And as a Lego enthusiast (is that obvious enough?), I enjoy LM. I do kind of wish they would get past the "everything must have a story" aspect, but I understand that's probably what brings in the casual viewer. I'd just like to see them build sweet looking buildings, not ones that barely resemble a cake.

 

[tobefirst]

So I haven't caught up with Apple's offerings in quite awhile. Lots of people seem to rave about Ted Lasso. My free sub is expiring and I'm wondering if it's worth signing up for awhile just to catch the beginning of that and the new season...

Ted Lasso is 400% worth it. At least. It'll take you about 2 days to get through the first season, both because it is only 10 episodes, and because it is that good.

 

[lizkat]

Ted Lasso is 400% worth it. At least. It'll take you about 2 days to get through the first season, both because it is only 10 episodes, and because it is that good.

Thanks. I think I'll keep the Apple sub for awhile, catch Lasso first season, hang on for the new one and meanwhile catch up on some other things there that I had not looked into meanwhile.

HBO Max might actually slide away to become my hit and run option for awhile going forward, since I've worked my way through a good piece of the watch list I put together over there, mostly some older things. I'll keep their newsletter and just pay more attention to it to figure out when I might want to tune in there again for awhile.

 

[Huntn]

Ted Lasso is 400% worth it. At least. It'll take you about 2 days to get through the first season, both because it is only 10 episodes, and because it is that good.

Did the second season drop or too soon?

 

[tobefirst]

Did the second season drop or too soon?

Later this month.

 

[Huntn]

Later this month.

This might be a candidate for me to subscribe to Apple + for a month.

 

[Thomas Veil]

Every once in a while it's fun to scan the lower channels to see what old TV series show up there.

I haven't seen F Troop (Circle) in...forever. It's yet another 60s era variation on Sgt. Bilko and McHale's Navy.

It's not without its charms, like a pacifist Native American tribe that just pretends to be warriors and who say things like, "Oy vey!", a "lookout" who's blind as a bat, and running gags like the cannon salute that always seems to take out their own watchtower. And the theme song was catchy.

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But yeah, nowadays it comes across as kinda dumb. Still amusing for nostalgia's sake, though.

 

[Alli]

I haven't seen F Troop (Circle) in...forever. It's yet another 60s era variation on Sgt. Bilko and McHale's Navy.

But as soon as I saw this I started singing its theme song. I never missed the show. How is it I can still remember the words to the show’s theme song after all these years?!

 

[Thomas Veil]

You can't help wondering if parts of "Blazing Saddles" were inspired by this show...gags like Yiddish-sounding Indians and deliberate historical anachronisms.

I recently read up on F Troop a little and learned something I never knew before: where the Hekawi tribe got its name.

According to Chief Wild Eagle:

"Many moons ago, tribe leave Massachusetts because Pilgrims ruin neighborhood! Tribe travel west, over stream, over river, over mountain, over mountain, over river, over stream! Then come big day... tribe fall over cliff. That when Hekawi get name. Medicine man say to my ancestor, "I think we lost. Where the heck are we?"

Ba-da-bum!

 

[DT]

Who remembers this? It also starred Forrest Tucker and Larry Storch, back when here was "Saturday morning cartoons" and quite a few shows were actually love action (like all the Sid and Marty Krofft productions).




Funny history, it came out in 1975, then Universal bought the rights to use the same, and right after the movie came out in '84, Filmation did an animated sequel to the live action show to capitalize on the name (which is why the animated show that followed the '84 movie was renamed The Real Ghostbusters )

 

[Edd]

I watch a lot of YouTube, which is where I consume any late night talk show clips. At some point during COVID, I became more and more drawn to Seth Meyers‘s show. I’ve always liked him but his stuff has gotten sharper and weirder to me for me in recent times. This morning, watching a recent clip, I realized he’s the only host who still doesn’t have a live audience. That seemed weird, then I did a search and see why.

Seth Meyers Is Hosting The ‘Late Night’ He Wants, But Will He Keep It?

By both innovation and chance, ‘Late Night with Seth Meyers’ has found its groove, and they know it -- but will Meyers keep it this way?

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I think he should keep it like it is. Also, does anyone remember when John Mulaney joined his writing staff last year for a minute before he went to rehab? He made some hilarious appearances on the show during the pandemic.