A couple of days ago, I stumbled upon the TV show, Ride or Die. I watched two episodes, and know it’s not for me.
The target audience seems to be middle-aged women who haven’t accomplished anything significant and don’t know how to do stuff, but wish they did.
I was looking for new TV shows, and Ride or Die came up. I do some research on IMDB before trying a new show.
Here’s the premise:
Debbie discovers that her friend of 20 years, Judith, is secretly an assassin.
That seems awfully unlikely. If the premise is too outlandish, it’s difficult to suspend disbelief.
Canadians have to be burning something really foul for the air to be hazardous over 400 miles away. Being stuck in the house hating Canadians made me think of Trailer Park Boys. It’s a funny show, but it’s not for people who get offended.
The TV show is about life in a Canadian trailer park. Practically everyone in the show is a charismatic degenerate. I can’t explain it, but it is on Netflix, and is worth at least trying if you are not easily offended.
Scream Queens is campy and fun, but not dumb. It’s a slasher/thriller satire, with sharp writing and a great cast. It came out in 2015, and only ran for two seasons, but each mystery takes about half of a season. The situations are absurd, obeying slasher logic, but sort of plausible.
The Madison TV Show works if you don’t ask questions.
When you and your friend like the same show, you might talk through each episode. This is like that. My brother wouldn’t stop yakking about The Madison, so here we are. I’m more skeptical of Taylor Sheridan’s show.
When someone recommends a TV show, they never explain it properly because they already bought in and accepted the premise.
My brother recommended The Madison, a new Taylor Sheridan series. The premise is that the father of this fancy NYC family goes to Montana every year to fish and do guy stuff with his brother. The father and his brother die in the first episode, so the show is about the fancy wife and the rest of the family going out to Montana to settle mortuary and estate business, while experiencing the back-to-nature lifestyle that the father cherished.
Not plausible. This loving couple is married for decades, and every year, the husband goes off to Montana for the time of his life with his brother, and the wife never goes along?
When she puts in the effort, Milly Alcock is attractive. When she looks rough, people aren’t kind.
I am a sucker for futurism. My X/Twitter feed occasionally gets short movie clips with no context. Of course I am going to look into this futuristic utopia depicted in this Russian movie from 2022.
I’m about half-way through the first season of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. So far, I really like it. The series is based on other books by George R. R. Martin, and is in The Game of Thrones universe, about a century before that series.
Although it takes place in the same world, this series is not as cruel and complex as The Game of Thrones. Some places and family names are shared with GoT, but A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms doesn’t require prior knowledge to enjoy.
Star Trek: Star Fleet Academy should lean into that premise.
Star Trek technology was always based on dilithium crystals as a power source. The Burn, was a catastrophic event in which all the dilithium crystals became inert. All star ships that were deployed lost power, resulting in the deaths of a vast number of Star Fleet personnel.
Star Fleet personnel were always the best of the best, because in a post-scarcity society, people could pursue any career or endeavor that appealed to them. After The Burn, the best of the best were gone, and their courageous and competent genes were gone too.
A hundred years after The Burn, when Star Fleet is ready to reestablish Star Fleet Academy, all they have left are these theater kids.
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