Guess it'll be the last season? Poor Renner.

Yeah that was a freak accident trying to do a good deed

Very strange, watching the show "Alert" on Fox, it is a 10pm show but they said the F word. I don't care but, I am pretty sure that is the first time ever I heard that on Network TV. I know there are different rules on FX, etc.

Aubrey Plaza hosting SNL this week.

Using the F word used to be a no-no on basic cable as well. It was just premium channels like HBO/Showtime/Cinemax that would use such vulgarity.

Of course there's a first for everything right? Remember when NYPD showed Dennis Franz's ass on network tv back in the 90s? Not even sure what the point of that was other than to generate some buzz, which certainly worked. In the scene he was taking a shower, and I suppose one is naked when taking a shower. Thing is, it wasn't like they were just showing him from a distance taking a shower. They were showing his top half taking a shower and then they decided to pan down to show his ass lol

White Lotus s2 was somehow even better. Incredible show. Definitely the best show of 2022 for me.

Ted Lasso back in spring, time to feel good again

The Borgias - Loosely based on the real life Italian family. Enjoyed it a lot, felt like a mini-GoT with lots of murder and debauchee, with a bit of incest thrown in. Looked great so I wasn't surprised to find it was cancelled for being too expensive.

perfect analysis of mike white

i adored his early show enlightened despite that it never went anywhere and eventually got canceled

I like it but can't get past the fact he still doesn't understand anything about soccer - it's just lazy writing where it's so easy to write in jokes around his lack of knowledge

the villain heel turn was so terribly done but at least now we know why West Ham United is doing so poorly this year

they also failed to do a number of basics regarding managing a soccer team - idea that they can get demoted and then not need to make any sweeping changes with the dramatic drop in revenue is just silly, they should have at least prepared for this casting a few guys who'd barely get screen time only to be the guys they had to sell to keep from going under

saw this when it came out, i enjoyed it but it got a little over the top towards the end and was really bad at tying plot points together, it really felt the writers were cobbling it together on the fly with various side plots that they'd introduce then never get back to - which would have worked if it were historically accurate and they followed the actual events but they weren't doing that at all and it was rather loosely based on the accounts - which are themselves suspect because they were largely written by his enemies after he got out of power - so very likely he was just another run of the mill corrupt pope rather than an extreme outlier

but i'm a huge sucker for historical dramas, there's also a spanish or italian language version of it that preceded the english one that I plan on watching at some point

good historical drama list, i claudius and the cleopatras used to be available on youtube but can't find now, perhaps try with a vpn in various other countries?

I, Claudius (1976) - I've written about this a lot here and I won't stop until you all see it. based on the novel of the same name by Robert Graves, it's stagesque production with very low budget but extremely talented cast, many went on to very big things - super slow burn, requires a lot of patience and active watching but many consider it the best tv show ever made and I fully agree


The Cleopatras BBC (1983) - follows a few generations of cleopatras (most of the queens were given that name but yes it also involves the famous one) was an attempt at capturing the triumph that was I, Claudius, they made it a bit gauche in style though but it's understandable given the characters themselves were probably all a bit of obscene wretches given they were the product of multiple generations of brother sister marriage much like the targaryans - still found it very enjoyable and plenty of gratuitous titties along the way

The White Queen - story of the war of the war of the roses - focuses far less on the queen than the title and trailer implies - incredibly good, never understood why this wasn't better received, i blame the marketing as you'd expect a historical romance and not the tale of brutal civil war politics of vying factions


Rome - has lots of inaccuracies but they are all understandable from the perspective of storytelling and overall the main narrative is correct - fantastic show



Halt and Catch Fire - not really super historical but a really good story about a very interesting time and superbly cast


Pirates of Silicon Valley - fun made for tv movie about the apple/microsoft early days - they leave out some stuff and change some things but it's interesting


John Adams - miniseries about the american revolution from his perspective


Band of Brothers - speaks for itself, you're insane if you haven't watched this yet and don't


The Tudors - Henry VIII from youth to his late years - launched a number of careers


Generation Kill - following a platoon in Iraq - doesn't really go anywhere but really captures the essence of it


deadwood - first time watching couldn't get into it, only on second attempt did i appreciate it



meaning to get around to watching wolf hall and the crown, anyone seen wolf hall?

Tulsa King Three episodes in and it’s a lot different than I was expecting. It’s more of a comedy than anything else. I like it so far but I hope it continues to balance the drama with some comedy.

Cheers for the list, seen quite a few, but will check others out. Wolf Hall is very good.
I enjoyed Last Kingdom too, but it's a bit more of slog. Certainly helped me shock a few people with my knowledge of our days of yore.

this was excellent series i really liked it , i wathed when it came out so never mentioned before as i was thinking it was a known series

also

Halt and cath fire is in my top 5 shows

i dunno sometimes its lags/ but its a really great series maybe its my age

Your Honor, though it didn’t and shouldn’t have had a 2nd season, started off interestingly enough. A couple of goofy moments, but the war between the Baxters and Destiny has potential.

don't know much about the last kingdom other than vaguely believing it was going to be a comic book historical drama like vikings or 300 - i get that realism is boring, i understand while braveheart didn't even remotely attempt to accurately portary the events, mel gibson running around yolo style with a sword and kilt looked a lot cooler than a slow moving pike formation - braveheart is a pretty awesome movie, but my panties really get into a bunch when they just follow the rule of cool, braveheart worked because it was masterfully put together

i had such high hopes for vikings but couldn't get past season 2 as it just started trying to do cool things instead of going along with original plan

will check out last kingdom though

like i really admired borgias/tudors/cleopatras because they wanted things to be wild but did so within the reasonable confines of their time - tudors went all out at times to become a sex and violent romp of guilty pleasures but they remained grounded enough to stand by.

although the treatment of gunpowder like it was this bewildering new thing really pissed me off, it'd been around in europe for over a century by then and the pope had plenty of cannons of his own at that time as well and they treat it like some crazy brand new tech that only one side had

nvm

I've been meaning to start "I, Claudius" for like 2 years and just haven't pulled the trigger yet on watching the first episode. I've been meaning to watch Band of Brothers since like 2001 smh.

band of brothers is the greatest thing ever made for TV.

generation kill is fantastic a must watch.
it's incredibly faithful to the source material (book written by an embedded reporter) and really well made (was made by david simon n ed burns so not surprising) and doesn't feel the need to make up a bunch of Hollywood nonsense.

sadly, this is what probably prevented that masterpiece from being a mainstream hit - no big last stand nor heroid sacrifice but just an accurate portrayal of the war where there's a lot of lulls and when things do happen you don't even see the enemy because they are concealed and not nearby

ie even band of brothers took some liberties to make the story more compelling - notably killing off real life people who didn't die. For example, they fabricated that blithe (the guy who had hysterical blindness) died of his wounds when in reality he lived, went on to be a career soldier and is buried in arlington

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Blithe

Do I need to have watched That 70s Show to watch That 90s Show? The 70s are of absolutely no interest to me, but the 90s are of mild interest to me, although I would rather watch That 80s Show. FWIW, I thought Kurtwood Smith was incredible in Robocop.

At this point I wouldn't watch either, the new show sucks and the old show was decent. Too much other good stuff these days.

I just finished the Book Dick Winters did for Audible. Doing the Band of Brothers on Audible now too. As good as the show is, man the book is surreal. Audiobooks are chill too.

We couldn't finish 3 pines. You knew the killer immediately on almost every episode. The cheesy Canadiana was like over the top.

"It's racoon excrement!"

ya, turn it off