Season 3 of Clarkson’s Farm just dropped on Amazon Prime. It’s getting some coverage and is rated highly on IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes.
You should watch it anyway. Think of it as a real-life version of Green Acres, but with much better production values.
Scavengers Reign coming to Netflix.
If you have Netflix and are open to something different, watch Scavengers Reign. Don’t bother reading up on it or watching a Youtube review. The music and animation are fantastic. The world is creative and surprising. There isn’t much dialogue and the characters aren’t memorable. It just a beautiful show to experience.
NYT: The Comfortable Problem of Mid TV
NYT: The Comfortable Problem of Mid TV
This NYT article makes some good points, but without a good conclusion. Many TV shows are good, but not great. It is suggested that actors who were in great shows are used to make new, uninspired shows.
In February, Glover and Erskine returned in the action thriller “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” on Amazon Prime Video. It’s … fine? A takeoff on the 2005 film, it updates the story of a married duo of spies by imagining the espionage business as gig work.
If you’ve played Fallout, then you are already watching this show, and know that it pays off.
Fallout is a TV show based on a game series with 9 editions. I haven’t played the game, but didn’t have any trouble figuring out what’s going on. Fallout takes place in a post-apocalyptic alternative universe that is similar to ours until the 1950’s, when computer chips weren’t invented. The technology and culture advance, but with a retro feel. The show, like the game, is satirical. It can be plenty violent, but in a quirky way.
The plot isn’t complicated. The show focuses on the three main characters as they work their way through the post-apocalyptic world to get what they want. Lucy is good and attractive, Ghoul is corrupt and mutated, and Maximus a regular guy who wants to be heroic.
Fallout looks and sounds great. Much effort went into making it seem like a plausible 1950’s world with technological advances. It seems like a show that I will be rewatching.
One aspect of Monarch: Legacy of Monsters that hurt the show is that the young characters aren’t appealing. They aren’t attractive, charismatic or clever. One Asian girl, Cate, is petulant, whiny and aloof. I wasn’t familiar with the actress, Anna Sawai, so couldn’t tell if it was the writing or the actress.
When watching Shogun, I didn’t realize it was the same actress. The character, Toda, is alluring, strong and sympathetic even though she is rarely talking or even doing much. For Sawai to do so much, so subtly, she should get an Emmy.
The writers and director for Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, clearly want us to not like or be sympathetic to the young characters. I don’t know why. That could have been a good show.
Shogun, on ABC and Hulu, is one of those rare TV shows that gets my full attention when I watch. It’s along the lines of Game of Thrones, but without the dragon fantasy. Palace intrigue shows suffer if everyone is too grim and earnest, and the line between good and evil is too clear. That’s what Shogun and Game of Thrones gets right.
This isn’t a TV show review, but a complaint.
While cleaning up the hard drive, I was checking out the TV show, Once Upon a Time, to see if it was worth burning to a disk.
The premise is a bunch of characters from the Enchanted Forest live in a little town in Maine called Storybrooke. Initially, none of them know they are from the Enchanted Forest, but they figure it out as the story progresses.
All the supporting female characters are hot brunettes with heaving bosoms. All the supporting male characters look kind of like Keanu Reeves. It’s kind of hard to tell them apart.
It’s the main characters where they missed the boat. The actor in the blue sweater isn’t even supposed to be a guy. That’s Snow White. She has little charisma and isn’t a handsome woman. Her worst feature is her protruding ears. Why she’d sport this hair cut is anyone’s guess. The male antagonist is a weaselly fellow with greasy hair.
There is a 10 year old boy who is the center of attention. He is an unbearable little prick. I blame the director.
Mr & Mrs Smith just dropped on Amazon Prime. It shares the name of the Brad Pitt/Angelina Jolie movie
I wrote about here. This isn’t an homage or remake, it just shares the name and is vaguely related to spies.
This is a show intended for Donald Glover fans.
I started watching the TV show, Reacher, a couple of months ago, and really enjoyed it. On social media, it gets criticized quite often. That’s fine, not everyone likes the same shows, but the review in The Atlantic is illuminating. Sophisticated people don’t like Reacher.
Amazon’s Reacher, the second season of which wraps up this week, is among the most-watched shows in the country.
I like it, and so do a lot of other people. It’s got an 8.1 rating on IMDB.
It’s as if our collective imaginative power source, its fuses blown, has switched over to some kind of small, noisy backup generator. Enough with nuance, enough with finesse.
You get it? The popularity of Reacher is indicative of a malfunction in America. How could a show that doesn’t address contemporary issues, politics or anything controversial, be such a threat to the deep-thinkers?
Reacher is pure masculinity, so the opposite of a Progressive. Reacher has a strict moral code that he lives by. He doesn’t force anyone to live like him. He doesn’t talk about it, he just does it. He is not a victim or a victimizer. Everything he is, is the opposite of Progressives and the political elite.
It helps that the casting, directing and writing are well-done.
I guess I’m not a Doctor Who fan.
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