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.
Pluribus is currently the number one TV show streaming on Apple TV and is getting a lot of attention from science fiction fans. Vince Gilligan, the show runner, also created Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul. The main character, played by Rhea Seehorn, crushed it in Better Call Saul.
The show sucks. I just watched the season finale, and don’t get why my nerdling friends rave about this series.
Fox News: Gil Gerard, actor who played Buck Rogers, dies at 82
Back when science fiction could be sexy, Gil Gerard was Buck Rogers.
We’re watching Stranger Things. Sparky doesn’t like it so much.
The Wheel of Time was cancelled before I bothered to watch it.
At $15 million per episode, it was expensive to produce, but got quite a bit of buzz and has an IMDB rating of 7.2. Just look at that promotional poster. Why would I bother?
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