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I can't watch shows about restaurants. The technical mistakes drive me bonkers. I imagine it's like cops watching cop shows. Black Rabbit was an exception, though every time they tried to say something clever it was a face palm. There was a bit about either soup or bone prep where the chef said she needed it in like 30 mins. I was like, okay, that takes 36 hours to prepare so unless you have a time machine....
But bro, The Bear isn't even about restaurants, bro. It's about, like, the personal cost of obsession and excellence, bro. It's about finding family in the midst of urban disenfranchisement, bro.
All right, I'm talking fully out of my ass, now. For funsies. Far be it from a Norwegian yokel to talk about life in big-city America. Worlds apart, mate. That being said, I don't see all that food stuff as anything more than backdrop and context. Buuut I fully understand if it messes too much with an industry professional's suspension of disbelief.
100%. I'm sure I'm missing a great show. I just can't over it. I want to climb through the screen and start fixing stuff.
House of Guinness is pretty good. It's no Peaky Blinders but that's okay. The music and stylization is very anarchronistic, but the show doesn't ask you to buy into an accurate representing of 1869 Ireland.
Finished season 3 of Foundation. And wow, what a show! I can't wait for season 4 now. So many exciting things happened in the last few episodes.
First time in a long while I could actually sit through three episodes of a show at once, that says something about how magnificent it was.
First time in a long while I could actually sit through three episodes of a show at once, that says something about how magnificent it was.
I had many friends telling me to watch "Ludwig" from BBC. They said it was the best thing since "Ted Lasso," even better than that show, and far better than anything American television has produced in the last twenty years.
So I watched it. They were not wrong.
There are six episodes, available on Britbox, and possibly some other venues as well. If PBS had any brains, they would buy it and schedule it for Mystery.
A brief synopsis that does little credit to the show: John Taylor is a reclusive "puzzle setter"... a creator of puzzles, who publishes his work under the pseudonym "Ludwig." He finds from his sister-in-law that his twin brother, a detective on the Cambridge police force, has disappeared. To find out why, he must impersonate his brother. The trouble arises when the force sends him out to investigate murders, which he solves by seeing them as puzzles to be logically examined.
David Mitchell is brilliantly cast as Taylor, and Anna Maxwell Martin as his sister-in-law Lucy. The rest of the cast support them excellently, with just the right touch of humor and conviction. As for the writing, I can't tell whether it's a mystery written by a comedy writer or a comedy written by a mystery writer; at any rate, it's a perfect showcase for broad talents of Mitchell and Martin.
There is another series of shows currently in production. I can't wait.
So I watched it. They were not wrong.
There are six episodes, available on Britbox, and possibly some other venues as well. If PBS had any brains, they would buy it and schedule it for Mystery.
A brief synopsis that does little credit to the show: John Taylor is a reclusive "puzzle setter"... a creator of puzzles, who publishes his work under the pseudonym "Ludwig." He finds from his sister-in-law that his twin brother, a detective on the Cambridge police force, has disappeared. To find out why, he must impersonate his brother. The trouble arises when the force sends him out to investigate murders, which he solves by seeing them as puzzles to be logically examined.
David Mitchell is brilliantly cast as Taylor, and Anna Maxwell Martin as his sister-in-law Lucy. The rest of the cast support them excellently, with just the right touch of humor and conviction. As for the writing, I can't tell whether it's a mystery written by a comedy writer or a comedy written by a mystery writer; at any rate, it's a perfect showcase for broad talents of Mitchell and Martin.
There is another series of shows currently in production. I can't wait.
Was in the mood for space stuff. Rewatched the whole of Firefly in the span of a couple days (excluding Serenity the motion picture, might throw that on too). It had been too long since I revisited this absolute gem, by which I mean it had been exactly long enough that it felt almost new and I had forgotten some glorious bits. I laughed, I cried, might have gasped once or twice. It brought up memories of experiencing it for the first time with my best friend, back when we practically lived together, some fifteen years ago or possibly more. Happy days. Firefly is still one of my favorite things, it turns out. Just a shame it's so short.
Still in the mood for space stuff. Thinking about checking out The Orville next.
Still in the mood for space stuff. Thinking about checking out The Orville next.
Have you watched "The Expanse" on Amazon that's based on the book series? It had a more realistic feel to it concerning the effects of weightlessness and space travel than most sci-fi productions.
Yeah! Well, I watched until some point in season 4 or 5. I didn't drop it because I got bored, but various life things happened that pulled me away, and then I got it in mind to read the books first, which I never got started on... But yeah, I loved what I saw of it. It felt like the next best thing to a televised Hyperion Cantos in a lot of ways. I still think about that show quite a lot, at random times for no apparent reason. Just the other day I toyed with the idea of getting a Belter tattoo of some kind. As with Firefly, I got to share bits of The Expanse with someone special, so some of the love comes from there, but even in isolation it's a great show. I plan on finishing it some day, but I limit myself to one streaming service at a time these days, but there's a bunch I still want to finish on the one I currently have, and I'm not sure when Prime might come up in the rotation.
Speaking of Prime, isn't that where they've got Farscape? I absolutely need to finish that too some day.
The Orville is cool. For the first season, they're still working out the tone of the show. It's more of a workplace comedy, whereas seasons 2 and 3 are more focused on exploration and philosophy, much like Star Trek: TNG. It's very much like a tribute to TNG, with just a sprinkle of comedy compared to that first season. Oh and for the third season it's clear that they have a very high budget, looks amazing. I still hold out hope for a fourth, but it feels really unlikely at this point.
Farscape is really original for a sci-fi show, plus we get more Claudia Black. I never got around to watching the last season. Reckon it's got to be tough to find these days.
Farscape is really original for a sci-fi show, plus we get more Claudia Black. I never got around to watching the last season. Reckon it's got to be tough to find these days.
I'm about to finish my rewatch of Penny Dreadful and I just love this show so much. It can be a bit much at times, but I really love Eva Green in this. She's such an underrated actress. I ended up purchasing the complete series because I enjoy it so much.
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