Spoilers What's on TV?

[Huntn]

I’ve mentioned it before, but caught a couple episodes of Ken Burn’s The Civil War. It’s so historic, deadly, and watchable. The early war was so dismal for the North. General McClellan could have basically ended the war by taking Richmond... which he didn’t, instead with a superior force decided to run away.

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A documentary on Amazon about their working practices and things sold online on channel 4.

I take it’s a bad report.

 

[Apple fanboy]

I’ve mentioned it before, but caught a couple episodes of Ken Burn’s The Civil War. It’s so historic, deadly, and watchable. The early war was so dismal for the North. General McClellan could have basically ended the war by taking Richmond... which he didn’t, instead with a superior force decided to run away.

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I take it’s a bad report.

To be honest it was pretty poor, but nothing I hadn’t heard before. It wasn’t a great piece of journalism Tbh.

 

[RootBeerMan]

Watched the first episode of "The Mandalorian" on Disney+ last night. Very well done! I am looking forward to the rest of the series. Excellent cinematography and a good script. A worthy addition to the Star Wars universe!

 

[D.T.]

Watchmen is ridiculously fantastic, and, FWIW, it's not headed into Legion territory, even with it being comic source and starring Jean Smart (per a previous comment). It's smart, funny, subversive, and pays extreme respect to the Alan Moore source material - and I say this as a HUGE fan of Moore, the original comic, i.e., someone who bought the series as it was released (still have my mint 1st editions), own a trade copy, a hardback special limited edition, and even a set of posters (that includes the 12 covers, the original pre-release promo posters and the French edition covers).

Lindelof is doing something that's both The Watchmen, and something unique, it's pretty brilliant, a bit unpredictable, it's on par with his work on The Leftovers (that also used original source as a springboard to do something a bit different).

 

[Apple fanboy]

Watched the first episode of "The Mandalorian" on Disney+ last night. Very well done! I am looking forward to the rest of the series. Excellent cinematography and a good script. A worthy addition to the Star Wars universe!

Grrrrr. I’d rather hear it was rubbish as I’d rather not subscribe to another platform right now.

 

[kazmac]

Grrrrr. I’d rather hear it was rubbish as I’d rather not subscribe to another platform right now.

I agree with @RootBeerMan - Felt like Star Wars with a bit of spaghetti western goodness thrown in. Won't say anything else.

 

[Huntn]

Watched the first episode of "The Mandalorian" on Disney+ last night. Very well done! I am looking forward to the rest of the series. Excellent cinematography and a good script. A worthy addition to the Star Wars universe!

If I keep hearing things like this, I might have to binge subscribe it after the season is complete.

 

[RootBeerMan]

Grrrrr. I’d rather hear it was rubbish as I’d rather not subscribe to another platform right now.

I agree with @RootBeerMan - Felt like Star Wars with a bit of spaghetti western goodness thrown in. Won't say anything else.

Well, it certainly isn't "rubbish". Far from it! Like kazmac says, it has a very western vibe to the whole thing and that really makes it pop!

 

[Huntn]

WWII In Color- (Netflix) Season1. WWII documentary using original colorized footage.

Kominsky Method- (Netflix) Season 2. Enjoyable Michael Douglass, Alan Arkin vehicle about the life of an aging acting coach.

I would never have recognized
Kathleen Turner.


...but I did recognize Paul Rieser.

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[JamesMike]

Started watching the final season of The Man In The High Castle. I have enjoyed the other seasons.

 

[Huntn]

Started watching the final season of The Man In The High Castle. I have enjoyed the other seasons.

Thanks for the reminder!

 

[Huntn]

Excellent. Sharp Objects is fantastic, and it's 8 and done, so very focused, dark, brilliant performances. We're working on S1 of Ozarks which is very good so far, and we have Castle Rock on deck

Based on these choices, I'd also recommend [for you], Channel Zero, it's 3 seasons, with each season self-contained, based on "creepy pastas", really fun, scary, totally different vibe vs. other shows in the same genre.

Side note: glad you got your Ebay purchase / refund sorted out!

How far did you get with Ozark? We just tried it out and did not make it to the end of the first episode. Stories like this can be really good, example Bloodlines, but this did not do it for us, they don’t slowly get in over their heads, they start already under water, and the wife knows the husband is involved with a drug cartel.

 

[RootBeerMan]

Watched the 1st episode of "Watchmen" last night. I really liked it! Good cinematography and good acting! Can't wait to see the others!

 

[SandboxGeneral]

Earlier I was watching some episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation.

• Season 5, Episode 5: Disaster
• Season 5, Episode 7: Unification Part I
• Season 5, Episode 8: Unification Part II

In S5E5, I was laughing pretty good at watching Worf attempt to assist Keiko O'Brien during labor. He was following some written guidelines on how a baby is born and timelines for each step. When the next step came along he was confused as to why it wasn't happening right away and kept prodding and questioning Keiko as to why the process of labor wasn't going according to plan. LOL

The Unification episodes are duly excellent with Lenord Nimoy reprising his role as Spock and going undercover on Romulus in order to try to bring peace between them and the Vulcans. It also has the added perk of the mind meld at the end with Picard who helps bring closure between Spock and his dead father Sarak by letting him read his katra.

 

[ucfgrad93]

Started watching the final season of The Man In The High Castle. I have enjoyed the other seasons.

My wife and I are watching this as well. So far it is off to a good start, after watching the first two episodes.

 

[Huntn]

Several new seasons of shows we watch, including Man in The High Castle, but tonight we are starting Season 3 of The Crown which begins in 1964.

 

[mscriv]

How far did you get with Ozark? We just tried it out and did not make it to the end of the first episode. Stories like this can be really good, example Bloodlines, but this did not do it for us, they don’t slowly get in over their heads, they start already under water, and the wife knows the husband is involved with a drug cartel.

My wife wanted me to watch Ozark for a long time and I just got around to it this year. It's not the slow burn that Bloodline is, but it is extremely well done and a good story. I'd suggest give it a few more episodes. Like Bloodline, it's all about the family drama and how that plays out.

 

[D.T.]

Watched the 1st episode of "Watchmen" last night. I really liked it! Good cinematography and good acting! Can't wait to see the others!

The episode this past Sunday was just ridiculously fantastic, so many things revealed, and yes, as fans of the comic have wanted ... well, that would be spoiling things

Can't say enough good things about it, five As in row on AVC, 96% on RT (ignore the idiotic user reviews).

 

[gkarris]

Happy Life Day!

 

[D.T.]

Happy Life Day!

Holy smokes, it's so terribly bad, even when I've seen it semi-recently, I still can't believe it

That aside, Carrie Fisher was/always/is a goddess ?

 

[gkarris]

Holy smokes, it's so terribly bad, even when I've seen it semi-recently, I still can't believe it

That aside, Carrie Fisher was/always/is a goddess ?

Glad this person posted a "clean copy" - I'm used to watching a 3rd generation original VHS recording (complete with tape distortions) a buddy of mine transferred to DVD...

Looks like this person recorded it off the air in SP a bit later in years as I thought I saw a symbol for Star Wars Trilogy in the right hand corner - perhaps the station was doing a Star Wars Marathon? How they were still able to broadcast this is beyond me...

 

[D.T.]

Glad this person posted a "clean copy" - I'm used to watching a 3rd generation original VHS recording (complete with tape distortions) a buddy of mine transferred to DVD...

Looks like this person recorded it off the air in SP a bit later in years as I thought I saw a symbol for Star Wars Trilogy in the right hand corner - perhaps the station was doing a Star Wars Marathon? How they were still able to broadcast this is beyond me...

It does look good! A buddy of mine had a Nth generation VHS copy, that eventually put onto a DVD, but wow, it was horrible, the top 1/4 of the screen was curled, hahaha, audio drop out!

 

[gkarris]

It does look good! A buddy of mine had a Nth generation VHS copy, that eventually put onto a DVD, but wow, it was horrible, the top 1/4 of the screen was curled, hahaha, audio drop out!

LOL - I'm used to seeing the original commercials with it - it was sponsored by GM... showed the cars and factory workers. The "premier" commercial a the end was for Kenner's new line of Star Wars toys for the holidays!!!

 

[D.T.]

My wife wanted me to watch Ozark for a long time and I just got around to it this year. It's not the slow burn that Bloodline is, but it is extremely well done and a good story. I'd suggest give it a few more episodes. Like Bloodline, it's all about the family drama and how that plays out.

Yeah, it's pretty solid, fits into what I guess I'd call, modern family crime drama, with little moments of dark humor, the leads are terrific, there's enough depth to where it's pretty engaging, but that first EP barely establishes where it's going, I'd give a few more - especially let it get into the some of the town intrigue and characters, some really good stuff.

 

[jeyf]

Mr Robot season 4
i guess they are up to episode 7
expecting 13 episodes total so will have to wait a bit