Television

[Martina]

This is a thread to discuss anything you want about television shows. Anything from House of Cards to CNN. There is a thread for your TV lineup, but nothing where you can talk more about what you are watching.

Some random thoughts --

A friend got me to watch House of Cards. I am in Season 1, and I am so annoyed by the innacuracy and improbability re education legislation and the teachers' union that I am having a hard time enjoying it. But I am not going to stop. There's something about it. (How's that for some deep discussion.)

I saw this in a review of HoC. I think it's true -- "It’s a typical product of our current golden age of television—dark, expertly directed and acted, and about five times better than the average Hollywood film."

I agree. Good TV is so much better right now than most of the films I see. It encourages me (a little) to know that Big Bang Theory is one of the most popular shows on TV. It is smart. It does not insult its audience. It is not hostile toward any group. It's a delight.

I am like many people. I don't think there has been better TV than The Wire although it is a sad and disturbing watch.

I have not watched Downton Abbey yet. Not even one episode.

[ProfPacker]

I understand what you mean about House of Cards but...still compelling TV and good to see Wright and Spacey.

See Downton and suspend commentary on class...another show that is better than film

YOu know, I am embarrassed to say: never saw The Wire, might have to binge about it

[imperfect_cupcake]

I loved house of cards. Loved it. The original UK version was good but for the first time ever, I think I like an American version of something better!
I love the relationship dynamics and the dark interactions. It turned me the hell on and I love Kevin spacey.

Downton is a fave of mine.

I don't watch tv, but I do have BBCiplayer and netflix. Most of the stuff I watch is on BBCiplayer so I would likely be a conversation of one for me lol

I love QI, Nevermind the buzzcocks and Mock the Week. Have I got news for you is good too.

I go nuts for well done period drama on the beeb like bleak house or great expectstions
They also did and amazing show last year around the war of the roses.

I love any of the science history series presented by professor Jim kahlili Everything and Nothing rocked my word and my favourite investigative programs are Panorama and Horizon.

For those who want to get the beeb out of country it's 8.99 a month and you get bbci player global.

[ProfPacker]

well, season 2 is just as sexy, love Spacey but also love Robin Wright. watching it now as I write this, great chemistry

Does Netflix put the shows up in Canada at the same time. If so,take some down time and suggest you watch it

[ProfPacker]

no spoilers, because I suspect in Canada you are already done with season 4

[imperfect_cupcake]

No I downloaded it off pirate proxy. Seasons four and the Christmas special. Binge watched the whole thing over Christmas with mum!

[imperfect_cupcake]

I'm afraid downtime isn't really an option lolololol

[ProfPacker]

well, when it is, this season is intense. watch it while I work, but no spoilers but Wright just did a doozy, something to look forward to...haha

I might like femmes but I wouldn't turn Robin Wright away...

[ProfPacker]

still watchingParker (a guess you Canadians must know her).

As a character said in House of Cards..."it's your voice, it does something to me".

what could that something be?

hmmmmm

[*Anya*]

Wrote this before carefully read the intent of the thread, hope not a derail from that intent.

True Detective on HBO. Matthew McConaughy and Woody Harrelson. Outstanding. Brilliant acting, very creepy.

The Walking Dead. :zombie:I just think it is so well done. More about human relationships than the Z's.

Looking. new series HBO. Waiting to see how I feel about it. A quick 30 minutes of entertainment.

Sherlock-love this. A 21st Sherlock with OCD and anal as hell.

Really guilty TV:

The Worst Cooks in America. New season this week. Makes me feel like a gourmet cook.

Helix. SyFy channel. Kinda bad. Don't know why I am watching it.

:scarytv:

[Martina]

There is no way to derail this thread. Anything television related. I have heard about True Detective. I will check it out at some point.

I love, love, love Sherlock.

Did anyone try Ray Donovan? I couldn't finish the first season. I loved all the fixer stuff. But I hated Micky so much that I wanted to kill him.

I love Scandal, speaking of a fixer. I also used to love The Good Wife, but got bored.

I am looking forward to the new season of Suits starting. Not a great show. But I like the unexpected twists and turns.

[homoe]

It's a British detective drama series with two women as the lead characters ! It's on PBS on Thursday nights. Season two just ended tho and I have no clue when season3 will start~

[C0LLETTE]

My 2 all-time fave televised shows: The Wire and Deadwood.

I loved The Wire cause it was so gritty, intense, well-written, and I could barely understand a word being said, which seemed as it should be given it was set in the drug/gang/police world of Baltimore.. as foreign to me as Beijing (maybe even more foreign).

As for Deadwood? Well Deadwood has a forever- and- ever first place in my heart for one huge fact. Yes it's well written and excellently acted and you do get to see pigs eat poor unfortunates who piss this or that person off, BUT it was a confession by the writer-director to his use of a clever but cheap trope that really cemented my heart to this series.

Knowing he had some 100 or so years of history to cover in this "loosely- based- on- history " saga, and knowing his audiences' collective eyes would glaze over if he tried to stick it all in there, he did something brilliant. Every time he had a few years of history to fill in in order to move the plot along, he had one of the prostitute characters fellate the hero as he "thinks" about the current and passing events. Fact laden decades roll by but I doubt very many people got up to get nachos during these "pendantic" moments.

And I never suspected a thing.

[silkepus]

I dont have a television and I havent had one since I moved out from my parents, but what I do have is wifi and my mums netflix password;D

Lately I've been watching Bobs Burgers and I love it. I think Louise might be my spirit animal:p

I also love british comedy like Black Books, Black Adder, the IT crowd and Spaced.

[C0LLETTE]

I posted this, just today, in the CIJS thread but it's probably more appropriate here so if no one objects too much, I'll paste it here and hope it's ok. I apologise for the redundancy and just wish I'd known about this thread.

"I'm becoming a devoted fan of the TV series "Lost Girl" which "follows the life of a bisexual succubus named Bo". The plots aren't too thick but the dialogue is snappy and it's nice to see girls kissing girls on cable tv. Seems it's been around for 4-5 years now. Where was I? "

Any other fans?

[Martina]

"I'm becoming a devoted fan of the TV series "Lost Girl" which "follows the life of a bisexual succubus named Bo". The plots aren't too thick but the dialogue is snappy and it's nice to see girls kissing girls on cable tv. Seems it's been around for 4-5 years now. Where was I? "

Any other fans?

I love it, but, strangely, I am rooting for Bo to choose the guy and not the girl. Dyson is so hot, and the doctor is such a whiny drip.

[fatallyblonde]

I haven't really watched Big Bang Theory myself but have read lots of criticism of it from POV of ableism, racism and sexism... I guess everyone's milege varies. personally I think the 'perfect show' completely free of isms simply doesn't exist in this world so I tend to put the hyper critical part of my brain to one side when I enjoy television... for the most part. Sometimes it gets too much... I stopped watching this season of American Horror Story because of the racialised violence and misogyny and whilst I used to love Game of Thrones the sexual/misogynistic violence by the end of season 3 was starting to get to me and I'm not sure if I'll go back... we'll see.

I am a big Sherlock Holmes fan from way back but haven't watched Sherlock... but I LOVE LOVE LOVE Elementary. It is sooooooooooooooo good. One of the most enjoyable shows out there. I love a good crime procedural. Another really good show is The Bletchley Circle, a British mini series set in the 1950s and following a group of women solving crimes. I enjoyed the first season of Orange is the New Black and also recommend a similar but more serious in tone Australian show, Wentworth to anyone who liked Orange. I am two seasons behind on Sons of Anarchy and really have to catch up!!! I have got the first season of Vikings to watch, which is supposed to be pretty good. Based on what people are saying here I have added a few shows to my list! I really recommend My Cat From Hell... it's awesome if you love happy ending animal focused reality tv.

Older shows I've been enjoying lately include Beauty and the Beast, Jonathan Creek, X Files...

... this is all making me want to marathon some serious fuckn tv XD

[Martina]

I couldn't watch much of Bletchley Cir. I can't watch a lot of the more realistic 50s and 60s period tv shows because of how trapped the women are. Even if some characters break out of it, I just find it so claustrophobic to view.

I was reading today about a Chemist, who in fact won the Nobel Prize (in 1963), but who worked for years attached to her husband's lab because no one would hire her. Eventually she was given her own lab and office, but not paid. Only in 1960 was she actually given a lab, a title, and a salary.

There's an article in the Times today about an old woman, a legitimate artist, meaning she had training and talent, whose life -- raising step-children and nursing a sick husband -- caused her to put her work on the back burner for decades. Now for the last thirteen years, she has been on fire. She filled a New Jersey suburban house with art work. She has had only a little luck getting things into galleries, but an appraiser said, "'She’s no amateur housewife painter. Her style is very confident and quite good, but she never had the contacts to promote her into the prominent galleries.'" She probably missed her moment to have some kind of modest but meaningful success, the opportunity to be relevant. I don't know.

Anyway, the Masters and Johnson show on Showtime, Mad Men, all those -- even though there are powerful women breaking through barriers, just seeing how claustrophobic it was is not my idea of entertainment. And with Bletchley, you get the dreary world of Post-War England too. Just too much. I felt like I couldn't breathe.

[*Anya*]

There is no way to derail this thread. Anything television related. I have heard about True Detective. I will check it out at some point.

I love, love, love Sherlock.

Did anyone try Ray Donovan? I couldn't finish the first season. I loved all the fixer stuff. But I hated Micky so much that I wanted to kill him.

I love Scandal, speaking of a fixer. I also used to love The Good Wife, but got bored.

I am looking forward to the new season of Suits starting. Not a great show. But I like the unexpected twists and turns.

Thanks about not derailing. :)

I just could not get into Ray Donovan. I really tried. Right after (or before-can't remember) is Shameless.

I could not get into Shameless either. Hard to watch the father fucking up his kids. I always had an overwhelming urge to put the father (played by Wm. Macy) on a 5150 as gravely disabled due to chronic alcoholism and get him into rehab and a 12-step program.

Suits is fun and entertaining. No strain on the brain when escapism is needed.

[C0LLETTE]

House of Cards needs more blondes. I can't tell all the brunettes apart. No problem with the bald guys.

[ProfPacker]

I like brunettes, lol

[silkepus]

House of Cards needs more blondes. I can't tell all the brunettes apart. No problem with the bald guys.

Blondes rule boys drool!


femmepacker I like brunettes, lol

Me too.

And blondes, and red heads, green hair, blue hair, pink hair, women with black hair and women with no hair.

[silkepus]

I posted this, just today, in the CIJS thread but it's probably more appropriate here so if no one objects too much, I'll paste it here and hope it's ok. I apologise for the redundancy and just wish I'd known about this thread.

"I'm becoming a devoted fan of the TV series "Lost Girl" which "follows the life of a bisexual succubus named Bo". The plots aren't too thick but the dialogue is snappy and it's nice to see girls kissing girls on cable tv. Seems it's been around for 4-5 years now. Where was I? "

Any other fans?

Is it worth getting into? I tried to watch the first episode but didnt like it much, does it get any better?


Oh and I forgot to mention Firefly and just about everything else by Whedon, lord of nerds.

I havent really gotten into the new agents of shield though. All the characters seem really flat and one dimensional.

[ProfPacker]

I didn't say I didn't like blondes, I do, but I guess blondes are one kind of turn on for me and brunettes another. My all time top though are flaming red head with lots of hair...that's it for me

[Martina]

I saw the first episode of the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. I like him. His thank you to his parents, his general introduction, was very nice. It seemed genuine. Otherwise, it was just like a regular Late Night episode. There's no reason to change a good thing.

[ProfPacker]

Felt the dame way. It was sweet. Couldn't stay up for the whole thing though because it started late because ofOlympocs

[ProfPacker]

Find Jerry Seinfeld offensive...waiting for Kristin Wii and Gaga

[Bèsame*]

Find Jerry Seinfeld offensive...waiting for Kristin Wii and Gaga

I found myself rolling my eyes and chuckling at times :)

[ProfPacker]

Kristin Wiig yay

[Bèsame*]

What will Gaga wear? HmmmmmKristin Wiig yay

[ProfPacker]

Gaga is sedate...I like it

[Bèsame*]

Gaga is sedate...I like it

I agree! I'm glad she is performing more with out her face covered up.

[ProfPacker]

She is also showing the depth of her talent more

[Queenie]

At this very moment I am watching last night's ep of, Pretty Little Liars.
I do love awful and I do mean AWFUL teenage dramas.
After Pretty Little Liars I might watch, Girls or I have an ep or two of General Hospital to watch.
Oh the life of a bored housewife is very boring!

[homoe]

Really, that was the best he could come up with?

[ProfPacker]

At this very moment I am watching last night's ep of, Pretty Little Liars.
I do love awful and I do mean AWFUL teenage dramas.
After Pretty Little Liars I might watch, Girls or I have an ep or two of General Hospital to watch.
Oh the life of a bored housewife is very boring!


If u like bad teen drama come to my house where we are watching all seasons
Of 90120

[Paradox]

Not sure of how my list of recent past and present will come off.

I love shows with great writing but also present with a really diverse 'strong' cast.
I find shows that illustrate dysfunction, entertaining while at the same time sadly more ways realistic.
Plus some quirky drama, light fun, aside from history or science shows.

Anyways here goes;
Dexter - I will definitely miss.
Breaking Bad - I will miss.
Ray Donovan
Sherlock (UK version)
Mentalist
The Walking Dead (I need to catch up)

Sleepy Hallow
Rizzoli and Ilses
Grimm
Once Upon a Time
My Cat From Hell (Mentioned earlier. Great to see something for the felines).

I heard about Spacey and Macy shows. For whatever reason - I haven't gather the interest, but I love to watch both of these guys act. Maybe later.

[puddin']

I enjoyed the first season of Orange is the New Black and also recommend a similar but more serious in tone Australian show, Wentworth to anyone who liked Orange.


man oh man i LOVE wentworth. can't wait fo' season 2 to start ova here in nz.

i don't own a tv so watch shows on demand. otha favourites o' mine include:
hot in cleveland (love me some betty white!)
ncis (not even sure why, as i don't much like mark harmon, but i love it!)
the blacklist
once upon a time (adore the twists and turns they've taken wit' it)
the graham norton show (number 1 favourite show, full stop!)
and the one and only soap i watch is shortland street (though it's an on again, off again relationship i have wit' it! lol)

[Venus007]

I just finished season 2 of the US version of "House of Cards" last night.
LOVE that show. Now I am going to quietly go through twitchy withdraw waiting for season 3

I also love
"Downton Abby", really can't get enough of this
"Sherlock" (UK),
"Continuum",
"Being Human" -most definitely the UK version I can't stand the US one
I am also a "Lost Girl" fan it is cheezy but oh so good and I agree with Martina, Dyson is hot hot hot
The de rigueur "Orange is the New Black"

[ProfPacker]

House of Cards: Evil people, lol

How does one get Robin Wright's abs? Serious working out, I presume, lol

[ProfPacker]

All I can say is that I find Naya Rivera (Santana Lopez, Glee) insanely hot. Just saying, it is what it is.

[C0LLETTE]

Somewhere along the way someone here recommended "Justified" as a series I might enjoy on Netflix. Unfortunately I cannot remember who it was but I'd like to thank them. I'm happily watching it now.

[puddin']

hannibal
once upon a time
cis anathang
call the midwife (yes i dis just admit that)

[Bèsame*]

Its a party every night with the shenanigans on Jimmy Fallon. I find myself cracking up! Lol lol

[homoe]

THE BLETCHLEY CIRCLE follows Susan, Millie, Lucy and Jean, ordinary women with extraordinary ability to break codes, a skill honed during World War II when they worked undercover at Bletchley Park, site of the United Kingdom’s main decryption establishment. Now, in 1952, the four have returned to civilian life, keeping their intelligence work secret from all, including family and friends.

Even if you missed the 1st season I don't think you'll have much trouble following these women on their adventures in crime solving!

[Martina]

*hangs head in mock shame*

I have just finished all nine seasons of Grey's Anatomy. I can't recommend it. But I certainly enjoyed it.

[ProfPacker]

well, Grey's, Private Practice, etc. is really cheesy television but I find I like the "eye candy" and it is fun to see them running in and out of the stock rooms after screwing.

[Martina]

I watched the season finale of Grey's Anatomy tonight on Amazon. It was the last episode with the character Christina Yang.

I have loved that character, and I have loved watching Sandra Oh play her. Oh has the most expressive and luminous face.

I will miss the character. I will miss seeing Sandra Oh's beautiful face.

[Martina]

http://37.media.tumblr.com/706e8e714dca684d02da3f9551177341/tumblr_mj9cnuJMOG1qak78ro2_500.gif

[Okiebug61]

We just finished watching "Rectify" a Sundance original series. It is very intense and has us wondering who really did what.

I do recommend that before anyone watches this to read about it. There may be some who may not want to watch this because of what it is about and I surely would not want anyone to be harmed by the contents.

I think someone mentioned "Deadwood" as being one of their favorites. Red and I have actually been to "Deadwood" when we went to Mt. Rushmore. It's a cool little town and I won some money at the Deadwood saloon.

Orange is the new Black is one we really like. Hell on Wheels is another.

Mostly we use our TV for local news. I cut our satellite down to the bare bones until I can get the Digital Antenna installed.

We stream, Netflix and Prime for the most part. And utilize the Netflix DVD's for shows that are not available to stream.

[ProfPacker]

rewatching Orange is the New Black and it is just as good the second time around. 7 Days to go for Season 2

[Soon]

watching the Diane Sawyer interview with Hillary Clinton

[ProfPacker]

What is this contradiction: Watching Teen Choice Awards on TV and surfing BFP on the internet. lol. mashup

[*Anya*]

Watching Rectify on Sundance.

Great series.

[*Anya*]

Can't believe that I am watching it but the GF loves shows like Running Wild with Bear Grylls.

I do draw the line at that one.

She also watches the Deadliest Catch, Mountain Men, Naked and Afraid :|

[HoldMeSteady]

Watching Rectify on Sundance.

Great series.

I liked the first season but I loved the second. It had more plot and still had the character development. And the music helped build the mood but wasn't too manipulative.

[puddin']

"body of proof", "mike & molly", "the good wife", "the graham norton show"

[A. Spectre]

how it's made. through the wormhole. most programs on the science channel

[Kobi]

A thriller series about a team of CDC scientists thrust into a potentially life-or-death situation after being deployed to the Arctic to secretly investigate what could be a viral disease outbreak.

-------


I am enjoying the science involved. Others might like the gore and zombiesque aspects of it.

[afrcnqueen]

I am so loving my shows right now and watch religiously.
My line up:

Grey's Anatomy (since the first episode)
Downton Abbey (just finished season 5)
Scandal (love, love Kerry Washington)
How to get away with Murder (3rd Shonda Rhimes show..that woman is ridiculously talented)
Lost Girl (oh so cheesy but I loved it)
Black List (just started watching, I have been a fan of James Spader)
House of Cards ( also just started watching, Kevin Spacey is a sick actor)
Game of Thrones (what can I say)
Orphan Black

Black Sails (lesbian pirates, need I say more)
Shameless US (watching the UK version as well)
Orange is the New Black (waiting for new season)
Dr. Who ( all seasons except the new one. not liking the new Dr)
The Fosters (not many lesbian families on tv so you must support)
America Horror Story

And I think I am done for now LoL...hadn't realized it was such a long list.

[HoldMeSteady]

YOu know, I am embarrassed to say: never saw The Wire, might have to binge about it

Stop being embarrassed and binge it. It's so good and appropriate for the current police brutality. I'm thinking of rewatching it. Or perhaps Mad Men - to gear up for the final season.

[HoldMeSteady]

I love Scandal, speaking of a fixer.

I love Scandal too. And I'm a total freak about it. It's the only show I watch in real time so that I can read the Scandalistas and Scandalrati FB group on the commercials and then listen to Jaha Night's You Tube video on Friday.

[HoldMeSteady]

hannibal
cis anathang
(yes i dis just admit that)

I like Hannibal. What is cis anathang?

[puddin']

I like Hannibal. What is cis anathang?

csi: the original, ny, l.a., miami. haven't seen new orleans yet...

[puddin']

csi: the original, ny, l.a., miami. haven't seen new orleans yet...


holy moly, i'ma mergin' csi's and ncis'. lol

[HoldMeSteady]

holy moly, i'ma mergin' csi's and ncis'. lol

That's pretty funny.

[JDeere]

American Horror Story
Sons of Anarchy
Downton Abbey
HGTV House Hunters

[*Anya*]

American Horror Story
Sons of Anarchy
Downton Abbey
HGTV House Hunters

There is only one more episode of Sons of Anarchy!

It has been an amazing show and this week's episode was a true classic.

I will not say more, because some folks may not have seen it yet.

[Daktari]

There is only one more episode of Sons of Anarchy!

It has been an amazing show and this week's episode was a true classic.

I will not say more, because some folks may not have seen it yet.

I gave up on SOA after that act of female/female violence that left me feeling sick in the last episode of the previous season. Started this final season and felt that it's trying to out-do BreakingBad on the escaslation of violence and has suffered because of it. :|

So disappointed with the turn it took that I don't know that I'll bother watching the entirety of the final season.

[HoldMeSteady]

Is anybody watching The Affair on Showtime? I'm eagerly awaiting the finale on Sunday.

[JDeere]

There is only one more episode of Sons of Anarchy!

It has been an amazing show and this week's episode was a true classic.

I will not say more, because some folks may not have seen it yet.

I know and it saddens me that the show is over. I however still have my American Horror Story but I am hoping that does not end.

[*Anya*]

Is anybody watching The Affair on Showtime? I'm eagerly awaiting the finale on Sunday.

Yes, we are watching it.

Eagerly? I wouldn't exactly use that word for us.

We veer between cursing the cheater Noah, to disliking Alison (and that she is also a cheater, among other things) and being engaged in the story overall.

There is a lot of talking to the TV during this show. We have watched every episode (though we kinda wonder why we are, most of the time) and are really waiting for the outcome of the murder and "who-done-it".

Ambivalence is the theme of our house and the show: "The Affair".

We are watching it; however conflicted we are about the show.

[Jedi]

I Love OITNB.......Pitbulls and Parolees.......Hell's Kitchen.......Madam Secretary.......

[HoldMeSteady]

Yes, we are watching it.

Eagerly? I wouldn't exactly use that word for us.

We veer between cursing the cheater Noah, to disliking Alison (and that she is also a cheater, among other things) and being engaged in the story overall.

There is a lot of talking to the TV during this show. We have watched every episode (though we kinda wonder why we are, most of the time) and are really waiting for the outcome of the murder and "who-done-it".

Ambivalence is the theme of our house and the show: "The Affair".

We are watching it; however conflicted we are about the show.

I hear you. Sometimes I truly hate Noah. However, I'm interested in some of the themes - can it really be true love between Noah and Alison or are they both just trying to escape? What is the show saying when the father-in-law said he thinks about his student that made him come alive everyday even though his affair was decades ago? Is Noah SUPPOSED to "go for it?" Why can't Noah talk to his wife about what bothers him about his life? Would she really be able to listen? She seems to want to listen to him but would she be able to change her life? I guess I'm also invested in Alison, Noah and Helen and I want to see what happens ... will the affair make their lives better or worse in the end? And, of course, "who-done-it."

[Luv]

Anyone watch Z Nation? Its the only Zombie show I like:hangloose:

[HoldMeSteady]

I've just binged watched the craziest U.K. series called Utopia. It's about people obsessed a graphic novel and conspiracy theories. I'm pretty psyched to watch the second season. http://www.channel4.com/programmes/utopia Anybody else seen it?

[*Anya*]

We are getting ready to watch season 3 of House of Cards.

The GF is a little too excited about getting to see Robin Wright again.

Can't say I actually blame her... Robin is kinda femme and kinda butch.

:love1:

[*Anya*]

NEWS/ The X-Files Is Officially Coming Back With David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson—The Truth Is Still Out There!

by CHRIS HARNICK Today 9:30 AM PDT

The truth is still out there and The X-Filesis back to expose it. That's right, it's official: David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson are suiting up once again as Mulder and Scully 13 years after the series ended for a new season of the Fox series. Mulder will yell "Scully!" once again on your television and Scully will exclaim "Oh my god" and everything will be right in the TV world.

Series creator Chris Carter is on board to helm the "six episode event series," Fox officially announced.

"I think of it as a 13-year commercial break," Carter said in a statement. "The good news is the world has only gotten that much stranger, a perfect time to tell these six stories."

The series is set to begin production this summer with a premiere date to be determined.

"We had the privilege of working with Chris on all nine seasons of The X-Files—one of the most rewarding creative experiences of our careers—and we couldn't be more excited to explore that incredible world with him again," Fox's Gary Newmanand Dana Walden said in a statement. "The X-Files was not only a seminal show for both the studio and the network, it was a worldwide phenomenon that shaped pop culture—yet remained a true gem for the legions of fans who embraced it from the beginning. Few shows on television have drawn such dedicated fans as The X-Files, and we're ecstatic to give them the next thrilling chapter of Mulder and Scully they've been waiting for."

Chatter of an X-Files revival started gaining steam in early 2015 when Fox bosses confirmed they had started conversations about bringing back the beloved series that ran for nine seasons from 1993-2002 and spawned two movies.

"If this happens, it will be with David and Gillian reprising their roles. Chris is interested, both David and Gillian are interested. Scheduling it is very different," Gary Newman told press at TCA. "David has his shows and Gillian is doing something in the UK, so it's a little hard. I really don't know how fast it can happen because of that. But there are ongoing conversations happening.
The projects Newman referred to are Duchovny's NBC series Aquarius and Anderson's BBC projects including a recently announced third season of The Fall and a War and Peace miniseries.

She's also a series regular on NBC's Hannibal. Carter was attached to an Amazon series, but it was canceled before it had its proper series debut.

The X-Files revival is similar to what Fox did with 24: Live Another Day. The network revived the Kiefer Sutherland series years after its cancellation to much success. NBC is bringing back Heroes for another go and there's even rumors of more Law & Order in the wings. Basically nothing stays canceled! Except Freaks and Geeks.

Now say it with us: I want to believe!!

http://www.eonline.com/news/638454/the-x-files-is-officially-coming-back-for-6-episode-series-the-truth-is-still-out-there

[JDeere]

Woohoo X files is back! Can't wait!

Gillian is hubba hubba lol

[*Anya*]

Want to see if your favorite TV show is coming back or if it has been canceled?

The Washington Post has listed the currently renewed and canceled shows. They will update the list the rest of the week:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/wp/2015/05/07/is-your-favorite-tv-show-canceled-a-guide-to-whats-renewed-and-whats-gone-for-good/?tid=trending_strip_3

[ProfPacker]

Season 3 of House of Cards was different than the others. Robin Wright hit her stride (I wouldn't mind hitting her stride either, lol). The last episode was awesome.

Just finished Grace and Frankie. Jane F and Lily T were outstanding. Enjoyed it.

[HoldMeSteady]

Season 3 of House of Cards was different than the others. Robin Wright hit her stride (I wouldn't mind hitting her stride either, lol). The last episode was awesome.

Just finished Grace and Frankie. Jane F and Lily T were outstanding. Enjoyed it.

Yes, Robin Wright was very good in the third season.

I was on the fence about trying Grace and Frankie. I guess you pushed me off of it ;-)

[JDeere]

Anyone read up about American Horror Story Season 5?

[Bèsame*]

Mad Men!!!!

[Nat]

Okay y'all - this isn't television but check out the New Deep South reality web series - the first episode has a rather darling and very young lesbian couple who are trying to have a baby - it's like lesbians in Eden before the fall - hope they make it but wow they are young - http://www.thefront.com/new-deep-south-series-episode1-instababy/

[QueenofSmirks]

Season 3 of House of Cards was different than the others. Robin Wright hit her stride (I wouldn't mind hitting her stride either, lol). The last episode was awesome.

Just finished Grace and Frankie. Jane F and Lily T were outstanding. Enjoyed it.

I thought Season 1 of House of Cards was awesome; not so much Seasons 2 and 3. I'm not even sure I would/will watch if there is a Season 4.

[QueenofSmirks]

I've just binged watched the craziest U.K. series called Utopia. It's about people obsessed a graphic novel and conspiracy theories. I'm pretty psyched to watch the second season. http://www.channel4.com/programmes/utopia Anybody else seen it?

I was watching the U.S. version of the show; it didn't make it unfortunately. I was rather caught up in it so was sad to see it end.

[QueenofSmirks]

man oh man i LOVE wentworth. can't wait fo' season 2 to start ova here in nz.
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Wentworth is amazing, but so far I haven't been able to find Season 3.

[QueenofSmirks]

I understand what you mean about House of Cards but...still compelling TV and good to see Wright and Spacey.

See Downton and suspend commentary on class...another show that is better than film

YOu know, I am embarrassed to say: never saw The Wire, might have to binge about it

The Wire -- I caught it somewhere in the middle of it's run, went back and caught up; and then binge watched it again earlier this year!

[QueenofSmirks]

My 2 all-time fave televised shows: The Wire and Deadwood.


I really liked Deadwood as well, quite different from the "aw shucks, ma'am" Westerns we normally see.

[QueenofSmirks]

From the past: Six Feet Under - probably my favorite series of all time (HBO).
Also loved E.R. ... way back in the day.
Rome (HBO)
Deadwood (HBO)
The Following (Season 1)
The Newsroom (HBO)

Current favorites:
The Walking Dead (AMC)
The Leftovers (HBO)
Hell's Kitchen
Master Chef
Top Chef
Project Runway
The Good Wife
The Amazing Race
Next Food Network Star
Chopped
Throwdown with Bobby Flay
World Series of Poker
World Poker Tour
Law and Order SVU
Face Off

[QueenofSmirks]

...Looking. new series HBO. Waiting to see how I feel about it. A quick 30 minutes of entertainment.

...

I caught a few minutes of this show and it looked like something I would like to watch. I'll have to figure out a way to catch up on all of the episodes.

[gotoseagrl]

Dark Shadows (1966-71) is one of the best shows ever created. It still takes my attention from most of the stuff that is out today. So does I Love Lucy!

[QueenofSmirks]

Dark Shadows (1966-71) is one of the best shows ever created. It still takes my attention from most of the stuff that is out today. So does I Love Lucy!



I have fond memories of it!

I also loved Night Gallery

[*Anya*]

Looking. new series HBO. Waiting to see how I feel about it. A quick 30 minutes of entertainment.



I caught a few minutes of this show and it looked like something I would like to watch. I'll have to figure out a way to catch up on all of the episodes.



As per my usual TV luck: I read recently HBO is cancelling it!

:(

[ProfPacker]

For somer reason I resisted starting to watch this show. Totally excellent

[QueenofSmirks]

For somer reason I resisted starting to watch this show. Totally excellent

It's really an excellent show, much better than I actually expected.

[Martina]

I haven't resumed watching my shows this Fall for some reason. I haven't really caught Arrow or The Flash or The Good Wife. I guess I will catch up at some point. I haven't checked out Grey's Anatomy this season either. I can't believe they killed off Derick. I will start watching The Americans when it comes back on in a couple months. And Person of Interest.

I am watching The Voice and The Great British Baking Show. Vet School. Trying to think what else? Not much. More stuff on Netflix. And I am reading more. I rewatched all of Charmed on Netflix a couple months ago. For like the ninth time. And before that all of Leverage. I like to watch shows on Netflix that I already know. Not sure why. Watching Buffy now.

[QueenofSmirks]

I recently "cut the cord", so I no longer have cable. Now I stream everything through Roku or my Wii. I binged watched Girls on HBO. I think this is the last season of it, which suck, because I LOVE the show!!

[*Anya*]

I don't think I have posted about this before.

There is a really absorbing series on Sundance TV called Gomorrah. It is in Italian with English subtitles. If you have a chance to catch it, it is worth a watch, from the beginning.

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[*Anya*]

I wasn't going to watch it. I thought the trailer looked a little lame but must confess that it kind of made me jump (scary actually) in a few parts, especially towards the end. It really was well-done. I added it to my DVR to regularly record.

Free 1st episode on Vudu.

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[homoe]

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American Housewife

[*Anya*]

I just found HBO showing a mini Larry Sanders Show marathon.

What a find. I loved that show.

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[Orema]

I watched some episodes of this and really like it. Below is a review from the NYTimes.com that says it better than I ever could...

Atlanta’ Walks a Line Between Magic Realism and Keeping It Real (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/23/arts/television/atlanta-has-brilliant-characters-and-some-of-the-best-acting-on-tv.html?_r=0)

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Donald Glover, left, and Keith Stanfield in the FX series “Atlanta.” Eccentrics and bit players steal the show. Credit Guy D'Alema/FX

In the presidential debates and at campaign rallies, Donald J. Trump has indulged a fondness for the equation of black life and hell: Happiness is scarce, and misery, poverty and violence afflict all. That’s a certain white man’s view of black life, as seen on his TV set — in 1989, when the Huxtables were the only prominent African-Americans visible amid proliferating news images of “dangerous” black people. Television in 2016, with its bounty of black shows, both rebukes and complicates that dehumanizing assessment. And the show doing that with the most farcical tang, at the moment, is “Atlanta,” now in its first season on FX.

The premise is otherwise sitcom standard: A Princeton dropout named Earn (Donald Glover) comes back home to Atlanta and tries to manage the rap career of his weed-dealer cousin, Alfred (Brian Tyree Henry), and help raise a toddler with his baby mama, Van (Zazie Beetz). It’s the old wayward-son-returns model. But the show, which Mr. Glover created, doesn’t obsess over that premise nearly so much as explore its felicitous human topography. This is a sitcom that, in devoting an entire episode to a day in the life of Van, managed to twist a very good episode of “Girlfriends” into hungover, guns-holstered Tarantino. Elsewhere, if the sideways Atlanta rap acts Goodie Mob and OutKast were to write for “Seinfeld,” you might get something like the episode set on a fake, black cable network’s fake, black “Charlie Rose”-style show and situated around questions of sexual and racial authenticity.

“Atlanta” is rigorously attuned to the comedy of being alive. A lot of that life springs from the craziest sources: accents, T-shirts, cartons of glowing food, a pudgy school kid in whiteface, jail. But mostly it comes from the bit players of “Atlanta.” A lot of them are played by actors who actually hail from the city or nearby, and, all together, they’re the boxes under a Christmas tree. The writing does a lot of the work here, as does the directing, most of which is by Hiro Murai, who is Japanese. But for a show that combines low-key naturalism and a steady helping of the surreal, you also need actors who don’t seem as if they’re “working.” That’s a long way of saying that “Atlanta” is one of the best cast and most brightly acted shows of any kind on TV.

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Brian Tyree Henry, left, with Bret E. Benson in “Atlanta.” Credit FX

Earn proves less magnetizing than the people he hangs with and the strangers who accost him, a constellation of cops, school principals, city-bus passengers, D.J.s, children, frenemies, inmates, stoners and bizarro celebrities. The lowly lumps of suffering that Mr. Trump imagines he’s talking to when he presents himself as black America’s white savior (“What the hell have you got to lose?”) don’t exist on this show. Anybody expecting a pathological monolith gets, instead, a kaleidoscope of personalities and class, of parents — married, single and somewhere in between. Violence and poverty are part of this world, but neither defines any of its characters. Even the jailhouse wino owns a rich inner life.

The entire cast helps give the show this strange, almost spiritual union of the urban and rural; of the broke, the baller and the bougie; of keepin’-it-real and magic realism. It’s full of actors most people, including myself, have never seen, like Mary Kraft, who’s marvelous as Alfred’s huffy, rumpled, white academic adversary on that phony talk show. And they’re really good. Mr. Henry’s low-key charisma is even better than that. He keeps his face somewhere between wonder and weariness. The brilliant trick of his acting is to make you forget he’s acting at all. To which I can hear the Tony and Olivier winners of the world scream, “But that’s acting!”

With an established star, you know what you’re getting. I never know what to expect from Mr. Henry. Yet the culture has trained us to know what to expect of the character he’s playing, whose nom de rhyme is Paper Boi. More than 40 years of movies, TV and music have told us who Paper Boi should be — macho, street smart and made of onyx, musk and cardboard.

But Mr. Henry opts to work with flesh and blood and a brain. He’s not playing Paper Boi. He’s playing Alfred, and Alfred is complicated — a thug indifferent to thuggery, a self-conscious introvert whose ego can overtake him, a teddy bear with a loaded gun. Even by the standards of black men on television in 2016, in the era of “Empire,” “Power” and “Ballers,” Mr. Henry has invented something new: this amusing tempest of vulnerability, exasperation and warmth. Some of the funniest television I’ve seen this year has required his virtuosic subtlety — the way his body jiggles in anger as he taps up a text storm, or the way he mumbles and pulls on Alfred’s country twang.

Earlier, I almost typed “weird” to describe this guy. But that’s also a word for Alfred’s permanently stoned sidekick, Darius, whom Keith Stanfield plays as a nincompoop visionary. He’s wonderful, too, a snoopy, Snoopy-looking guy, who can’t be upstaged by high-on-drugs costumes (a Bedouin turban and a T-shirt, say). He, Alfred and Earn are weirdos to one another and to other black people, too. On any other show, they’d be played by fitter, hotter actors. But “Atlanta” isn’t going for sexy. It’s going for a warped kind of real — and sometimes winds up at sexy anyway.

The most inevitable description of “Atlanta” tags it as another one of those shows about nothing. But that actually frees it to do anything.

Episode 2 might be the best example of what this show’s acting can do with its smart writing. The primary set piece is the jail Earn and Alfred wind up in after a shooting in a parking lot. And after a while the episode ceases being TV and starts to resemble a social-realist mural, with different elements of the jailhouse brought to life, in part by the superb casting director Alexa L. Fogel, a veteran who found the faces and personalities for great shows like “The Wire” and “Banshee.”

In the opening long shot, Earn and Alfred sit in one of the waiting areas. The steady brilliance of the episode’s 23 minutes starts with the interplay of the characters’ sense of humor with the dreariness and callous bureaucracy of the jail. The show can sense a vaster misery and untreated stress that for some of these characters has become a feature of the day-to-day. But this is Earn’s first time, and he’s cavalier about it. For everybody else, it’s some variation of “I hate this place,” which becomes a refrain.

There’s a small, spiky moment between Alfred and a clerk (Angela Ray), a pane of security glass separating them. He asks the clerk whether Earn is going to be released, and she says they’re keeping him until his bail’s been posted. Alfred asks what the charge is, and the clerk looks up, leans back, widens her eyes and switches the code from accommodating to aggravated in exactly one second. “What’s the charge?” she asks, using the N-word. “This ain’t no movie. You better wait till he’s in the system.”

Really, you have to hear her say it, but she makes you hear a record scratch. She taps her pen on the counter and keeps her eyes on Alfred until all he can do is bend down to the window’s opening and whisper, “Man, I hate this place.”

Darius meets Alfred at the jail, and on their way out, a police officer (Bret E. Benson) — a black guy, handsome, ecstatically loud (the name tag says “Sandy”) — runs up to Alfred, throws an arm around him and says a variation of the show’s running motif: “Eh! You that Paper Man, right?” He heard there was a rapper on the premises and can hardly contain himself.

A dozen details make this moment funny, disturbing and disturbingly funny. There’s the incongruity of the context — what cop could summon this much alacrity in a facility this drab? And the deadened, disbelieving look on Alfred’s face is like a wall the cop doesn’t notice that he keeps crashing into. Anyway, how easy would it have been to make the officer white? His being black makes his enthusiastic indifference all the more insulting to Alfred and therefore all the more farcically sad.

This encounter lasts for less than a minute, and for most of it the cop never forgets who’s in charge. He blithely tells a dumbfounded Darius when to snap a photo and directs Alfred to come closer and stand back to back with him.

But the pose before that made my jaw drop. The cop’s arm is around Alfred’s shoulders. When Darius takes the picture, Sandy uses his free hand to suggest a gun that he points at Alfred. The joke is that he thinks that imaginary gun is a joke. That scene captures an aspect of the disjunction between black life and American law enforcement. Officer Sandy doesn’t really know Paper Boi from a paper bag. He’s just one of the many black perps who cycle daily through the system he’s paid to uphold.

What makes the exchange so devastating is that each actor has to be not only on a different page but also in a different book in a different part of the library. As the cop, Mr. Benson does a combination of throwing lines away and italicizing them, making power and privilege something to play with. His throwaways are where the threat lies.

Mr. Henry, of course, provides a mighty anchor, summoning an uncanny trauma: one part exasperation, one part fear. A lifetime of humiliations like this constitute a little death. But Mr. Stanfield offers the grace note. When Officer Sandy bounces off and Alfred restates how much he hates this place — the way you loathe, say, a trip to the dentist or the D.M.V. — Darius casually, earnestly asks “Why?” This is “Atlanta” in 48 seconds, a riot about simmering rage that’s chillingly easy to shrug off.

Everything about this episode is funny or cute until the amusement hits a moral or emotional boundary. Stress is a staple of lots of good television. But usually it’s a function of the plot: Now what? On “Atlanta,” stress isn’t lifestyle. It’s an emotion, and to carry it off, you need actors as skillful as the ones here, vibrant people who make you wonder what took TV so long to find them, people who leave you praying that executives and producers continue to trust black storytellers to keep going. What the hell have they got to lose?

[FireSignFemme]

...executives and producers continue to trust black storytellers to keep going.

Wouldn't that be refreshing.

[storyspinner70]

Most of the things I watch are online but there are two things I watch on "real TV". lol

Shameless - I hate every single character on this show but like two (and they're small children); some more than others. But that's kind of the point of the whole show. It's too gritty and shitty and real for me. But I can't seem to look away.

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Blacklist - I have always had a thing for James Spader and his voice...lol

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[C0LLETTE]

900 channels and all i watch is CNN and Law and Order on the "Crime Channel"...surely there is more to life than this.
You know how some people can mouth all the words to The Rocky Horror Picture Show? I can do that with every episode of L and O ever made.

[Kätzchen]

I've been watching TV shows with my elderly roomie, Shirley.

Last night we watched Shark Tank....both of us weighing in on dilemmas presented by 'sharks' .... often noting the outrageous mindset behind their reasons of denial or approval of business proposals. Sometimes we'd look at each other with knowing silent glares...sometimes it was gigantic eye rolls, lol. : /

We always watch Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune. That's our nightly 'church ' service. LOL

Shirley got me hooked on the TV show called The Voice.

I don't have TV at home, so returning home might be slightly awkward feeling after enjoying nearly a month of TV.

I need a TV now, with bunny ears.

[*Anya*]

The new season of Top Chef started this week. :chef:

It is one of my favorite shows but I am kind of missing my ex-girlfriend because we used to have a running commentary throughout the whole show.

I just have to remember all the things that she used to do that pissed me off instead.

:scarytv:

[*Anya*]

I'm watching Nightwatch on A&E.

It is a really good reality show about the EMS, PD and FD on the night shift for New Orleans.

The EMS picked up an older man that called because he was having a lot of pain in his foot and he was having trouble walking.

Turned out, he worked nights at WalMart in a part of town that doesn't have buses run at night so he leaves 5 hours earlier than his shift to walk the 15 miles to his job at WalMart every day.

The paramedic said: "There are people that can walk and won't walk 5 blocks and this guy walks 15 miles".

The guy wasn't complaining, he was very matter-of-fact about it and said: "Well, I can't be late for my job every day".

He made me teary.

:watereyes:

[JDeere]

Currently watching Kindred Spirits on TLC. Paranormal show.

[Orema]

I like ten-best lists and here's another one from Vulture (http://www.vulture.com/2016/12/10-best-new-tv-shows-of-2016.html). I've only watched a few shows on this list (American Crime Story, Atlanta, Strange Things), but I agree that all were top-notch shows I'm glad I watched.

Ten Best TV Shows of 2016 (http://www.vulture.com/2016/12/10-best-new-tv-shows-of-2016.html) from Vulture.com

If there's one thing all Americans might agree on, it's this: 2016 was an exceptional year for television. More specifically, it was an incredibly rich year for new scripted shows. Below, Vulture counts down the ten very best of those rookie series.

A few notes before you dive in: There were so many strong debut seasons that it was tough to cap a list at just ten, so I added a few honorable mentions that just missed the cut. Also, there's some inevitable overlap between this list and my picks for the year's best TV shows. Finally, I locked in this list for Uproxx's TV critics' poll, so I'm leaving it as it was when I shared it for that purpose.

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Let's get to it, shall we?

1. American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson: Yes, this was technically a limited series, but there will be a second season of American Crime Story that focuses on Hurricane Katrina, so, in that respect, The People v. O.J. established what is possible for a show of this particular, precarious sort. It retold a very real story, using actors in a way that raised the viewing experience far above the typical reenactment. Although there was a salacious element to reliving the Simpson trial, the quality of the performances and the high level of work throughout — from the writing to the spot-on sense of period detail — gave The People v. O.J. a surprising intelligence and emotional heft that didn't seem possible until you started watching. For Ryan Murphy & Co., the bar has been set even higher for next season.

2. Atlanta: This comedy knew what it was from minute one. That's true of a number of shows on this list, but it's most striking in regard to Atlanta. That's partly because Donald Glover's textured exploration of racial and economic frustration displayed such immediate confidence, but also because what "it" was so often changed. One week, the show would focus on Earn and his attempt to help his cousin Alfred navigate his rising hip-hop status. Then the next it would side-trip into an episode solely focused on Van and her relationship with narcissistic bestie Jayde, or temporarily turn into a talk show interrupted by fake commercials. Glover has said that Hiro Murai, who directed seven of the season's ten episodes, didn't necessarily know what was "normal" for a TV show, so they just did what felt right. You could say they were reinventing the wheel. Really, they were coming up with a whole new way to manufacture the car.

3. Better Things: The family sitcom has been imagined from new vantage points for decades, which is why it's such an achievement that Better Things still felt so entirely fresh. By giving Pamela Adlon the opportunity to dig into the genre from her specific perspective, we got a series that felt deeply personal, relatable to parents and frustrated teens alike, and unafraid to let moments of warmth or utter cruelty develop with natural spontaneity. Watching Sam, her three girls, and her dotty mother deal with their daily dramas was akin to viewing a livestream of a single mom's existence, except with better editing and a deeper commitment to thematically intertwined storytelling.

4. The Good Place: It's hard enough to make a network sitcom that's genuinely funny right out of the gate. With The Good Place, creator Mike Schur managed to do so while simultaneously building an inventive and specific version of the afterlife. In the process, this NBC half-hour slyly morphed from mere mistaken-identity farce into a mystery that asks significant questions about what it really means to be the change you wish to see in the world.

5. Stranger Things: Netflix's '80s sci-fi throwback dragged nostalgia into a new realm. Yes, it was a blatant callback to early Spielberg, Stephen King, and John Carpenter, among many others. But it was also a compelling series in its own right, which built a sense of eerie, must-binge Demogorgon suspense while making it very clear that it could do so because it had learned how from the greats.

6. Search Party: This TBS series also hooked in audiences by creating a sense of mystery around a character who suddenly disappears, but where Stranger Things steeped itself in '80s sci-fi monster scares and good ol' government conspiracy theory, Search Party marinated in the now, critiquing contemporary tech-obsessed society and all the ways it enables young adults to disappear into their social-media feeds — especially the kind of young adults who live in Brooklyn. It was Gone Girl mixed with Girls. Which I guess makes it Gone … Girls?

7. Fleabag: In a year of increased television experimentation and more (though still not enough) opportunities for women, Phoebe Waller-Bridge's Fleabag was a particularly explosive, gutsy, unapologetic look at a floundering feminist's attempt to disassociate from grief and guilt. Like Search Party, it also was a gut-punching portrait of narcissism. Is it narcissistic to appreciate so many shows about narcissistic people? Discuss amongst yourselves, preferably while staring in a mirror!

8. High Maintenance: Like Issa Rae's Insecure, this new HBO series proved it was possible to skillfully transition from web series to premium cable show. The main reason I included it here over Insecure — which was an extremely tough call — is because it surprised me more often. In keeping with the other comedy-drama hybrids on this list, High Maintenance defied categorization and typical TV conventions. It was a weekly Richard Linklater or Robert Altman movie, where one vignette flowed purposefully into the next and moving moments could emerge from something as wondrously simple as witnessing the secret life of a pet.

9. Speechless: This ABC sitcom is an excellent case of high-wire humor. By focusing on a disabled teen and the ways in which everyone around him tries to be sensitive to his needs, but not too sensitive, it sets itself up for a fall from great heights every week. But so far, it's mostly kept its feet moving forward on that thin piece of twine, which feels especially refreshing when networks like CBS skip the high-wire act entirely and go straight for the clown car.

10. The Crown: My time as Vulture's Downton Abbey recapper confirmed that I can be a sucker for a good British period piece. The Crown was a very, very good one that made sumptuous use of its reportedly significant budget, offered excellent performances (Mr. Lithgow, please report to the podium so you may collect your Emmy), and also was sneakily educational. I probably should have known more about the smog that overtook London in 1952, but I didn't. That episode, among others, both informed and riveted me.

Honorable Mentions:

Insecure: As previously noted, I almost had it in my top-ten new shows, but then removed it. Then I put it back again, then I removed it again … you get the idea. The point is, it's a terrific new series that introduced Issa Rae and her vital voice to a wider audience. That's always worth celebrating.

The OA: Since the Netflix series just started streaming on Friday, I didn't factor it into my year-end lists. But, as noted in my review, I was pretty wowed by it.

Pitch: The problem with TV right now is that it's hard to keep up, even if it's your job. I've fallen a few episodes behind on Pitch, so I didn't feel like I could include it on this list. But what I have seen, I've liked. A scripted show on network television about a female athlete? Yes, and more of them, please.

[*Anya*]

Netflix

December 30, 2016

Bill Nye the Science Guy!!

History is full of iconic, distinguished men and women of science, but there’s only one Science Guy. Bill Nye was a smart, quirky, and memorable science ambassador for a generation of PBS-watching millennials, and fans were delighted to learn that his signature bowtie would be coming back to screens in 2017 for a new Netflix show, Bill Nye Saves the World. Of course, that was before Donald Trump — about as anti-science as a politician can get — won the presidency. Now, with truth and the fate of the planet seemingly on the line, the title of Nye’s show seems a little more urgent.

Netflix announced Nye’s show in late August, before Trump’s stunning upset in the election, but from what we know about it, Netflix seems to be eerily prescient. “Each episode will tackle a topic from a scientific point of view, dispelling myths, and refuting anti-scientific claims that may be espoused by politicians, religious leaders or titans of industry,” a Netflix press release explains. Nye has said that he wants the new show to be entertaining, sure, but he really wants to educate and, if possible, change minds.

“We’ll discuss the complex scientific issues facing us today, with episodes on vaccinations, genetically modified foods and climate change,” Nye said in a statement. “With the right science and good writing, we’ll do our best to enlighten and entertain our audience. And, perhaps we’ll change the world a little.”

[*Anya*]

Giant Prozac pill now holds the ashes of Carrie Fisher, noted mental health advocate

The HBO film "Bright Lights" follows the mother and daughter pair, who died within a day of each other in December 2016, as Fisher prepares to start work on "Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens" and Reynolds performs in Las Vegas aged 83. Fisher and her mother, who starred in "Singin' in the Rain," lived next door to each other in Beverly Hills.

Using personal family films, "Bright Lights" gives a revealing insight into the lives of the eccentric pair. It premieres on HBO Saturday, Jan. 7. HBO Documentary Films.

An outspoken advocate for those suffering from mental illness, actress Carrie Fisher had her ashes placed inside a giant Prozac pill.

Her brother Todd Fisher confirmed the decision in an interview with Entertainment Tonight. Fisher was spotted carrying the urn in Twitter photos from at a private memorial service for his mother, Debbie Reynolds.

The 60-year-old Carrie Fisher, an author and actress best known as Princess Leia in the “Star Wars” movies, died on Dec. 27 after suffering a heart attack a few days earlier on a flight from London to Los Angeles. Reynolds, her 84-year-old mother and an accomplished actress, died the next day.

“Carrie’s favorite possession was a giant Prozac pill that she bought many years ago. A big pill,” Todd Fisher said in an interview. “She loved it, and it was in her house and (Carrie’s daughter) Billie (Lourd) and I felt it was where she’d want to be.”

A private memorial service was held for Carrie Fisher on Thursday.

Some of Carrie Fisher’s ashes were also buried with her mother, according to multiple accounts.

Carrie Fisher battled bipolar disorder, depression and addiction in her life, battles that she was very public about.

“I outlasted my problems,” Fisher told ABC’s Diane Sawyer in 2000. “I am mentally ill. I can say that. I am not ashamed of that. I survived that, I’m still surviving it, but bring it on. Better me than you.”

Fisher was diagnosed with bipolar II, which combines both manic and depressive symptoms at the same time, in her late 20s, she told USA Today, though she began experiencing symptoms when she was 14 or 15. In 2013, she told People Magazine that others should seek treatment.

“The only lesson for me, or anybody, is that you have to get help. It’s not a neat illness. It doesn’t go away,” Fisher said.

Read more here: http://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article125081249.html#storylink=.


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[Orema]

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Days before the inauguration of the 45th American president in January 2017, PBS’ FRONTLINE documentary series will premiere “Divided States of America,” a four-hour, two-night documentary miniseries that looks back at events during the Obama presidency that have revealed deep racial divisions in the USA, and examines the America the next president will inherit. Promising an in-depth view of the partisanship that gridlocked Washington and charged the 2016 presidential campaign, the rise of populist anger on both sides of the aisle and the racial tensions that have erupted throughout the country, “Divided States of America” is set to air Tuesday and Wednesday, January 17-18, 2017, 9-11pm EST on both nights (check local listings).

"Divided States of America" premieres Tues. Jan. 17 and Wed. Jan. 18 from 9-11 p.m. EST / 8-10 p.m. CST on both nights, on PBS and online.

http://www.pbs.org/show/frontline/

[*Anya*]

For any Twin Peaks fans, Showtime is running a marathon right now of all the original episodes, leading up to their new Twin Peaks mini-series on May 21st.

It always was a little too quirky for me and I would always fall asleep watching it but the long-term ex loved it.

Anyway, FYI.

:scarytv:

[QueenofSmirks]

I usually love watching the news, but I am SICK of reading/hearing/watching about Trump and his family!!!!

[homoe]

Last night on Showtime I watched Disgraced!

I was not moved by Coach Bliss crocodile tears a bit! And why on earth would Southwestern Christian University hire him after the fiasco at Baylor and possibly NCCA violations at other universities he coached at is beyond me.....

oh wait sports and winning at any costs that's why!

[Orema]

Watching Oregon and North Carolina go at it with the sound off while listening to a Curtis Mayfield and Mavis Staples duet.

:bow:

[Kätzchen]

A close friend of mine is totally hooked on watching HBO's latest dark comedy drama series called Big Little Lies.

It just debuted a few weeks ago and already my friend says she hopes they make a second season. Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon and several others star in this weekly show. The music tracks in each episode lend to the titillating discoveries of lies among families featured in the show's storylines.

If you haven't seen it, here's a link and a trailer.

My friend is dvr'ing the first season for me, so I can watch it over Memorial weekend.

LINK: https://g.co/kgs/C7uRuQ

Trailer:

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[*Anya*]

A close friend of mine is totally hooked on watching HBO's latest dark comedy drama series called Big Little Lies.

It just debuted a few weeks ago and already my friend says she hopes they make a second season. Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon and several others star in this weekly show. The music tracks in each episode lend to the titillating discoveries of lies among families featured in the show's storylines.

If you haven't seen it, here's a link and a trailer.

My friend is dvr'ing the first season for me, so I can watch it over Memorial weekend.

LINK: https://g.co/kgs/C7uRuQ

Trailer:

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I am so glad to see you post this!

It was absolutely fantastic!

I just loved it.

For the entire series, I would sit and say to myself, "This is so good, there is nothing like this on TV"!

One of the biggest things that I loved about it was that the women actors were front and center. The males, though they had an important role in the series, really were secondary to the women.

That, in itself, is so very rare in any TV show or series. The women are usually in periphery to the males. An exception, of course: Law and Order, SVU or Supergirl but you get my point.

The stars, to name a couple of the big ones: Reese Witherspoon, Laura Dern, Nicole Kidman. They were phenomenal.

I hope that there is a second season but can't figure out what they would do since the major thrust of the story was completed.

I actually bought the soundtrack because the music was also terrific.

I think I will post the opening credit song on the listening thread. I probably played it 10 times yesterday.

Gee, can you tell that I loved the series?!

[Kätzchen]

I am so glad to see you post this!

It was absolutely fantastic!

I just loved it.

For the entire series, I would sit and say to myself, "This is so good, there is nothing like this on TV"!

One of the biggest things that I loved about it was that the women actors were front and center. The males, though they had an important role in the series, really were secondary to the women.

That, in itself, is so very rare in any TV show or series. The women are usually in periphery to the males. An exception, of course: Law and Order, SVU or Supergirl but you get my point.

The stars, to name a couple of the big ones: Reese Witherspoon, Laura Dern, Nicole Kidman. They were phenomenal.

I hope that there is a second season but can't figure out what they would do since the major thrust of the story was completed.

I actually bought the soundtrack because the music was also terrific.

I think I will post the opening credit song on the listening thread. I probably played it 10 times yesterday.

Gee, can you tell that I loved the series?!

That's what my close friend said, too! She's addicted to this show and she said I'd absolutely love it. I want the sound track too! :) :cheer::cheerleader:

[homoe]

LOVED LOVED LOVED Big Little Lies as well but the ending, unless you read the book, may of left some scratching their heads and with some unanswered questions IMHO!

[homoe]

Has anyone else been watching First Dates? It airs on Friday nights on NBC and is produced by Ellen.

I've caught the first couple episodes and rather enjoy it:hangloose:

[Kätzchen]

Has anyone else been watching First Dates? It airs on Friday nights on NBC and is produced by Ellen.

I've caught the first couple episodes and rather enjoy it:hangloose:

No, but I will add this to my list of TV shows to watch.
Thanks for your post about Ellen's dating show.

[Gemme]

Has anyone else been watching First Dates? It airs on Friday nights on NBC and is produced by Ellen.

I've caught the first couple episodes and rather enjoy it:hangloose:

I've seen it and like it very much.

[homoe]

Someone posted in a thread they were avid Bee Gee fans! Tonight there is a Grammy Salute to the music of the Bee Gees. It airs on CBS at 8'oclock.

[Chad]

Someone posted in a thread they were avid Bee Gee fans! Tonight there is a Grammy Salute to the music of the Bee Gees. It airs on CBS at 8'oclock.

I will be watching and most likely dancing!

:dance1:

[~ocean]

basketball playoff ~ Boston & Chicago :)))) RIP Issah Thomas's sister Chyna Thomas died in a fatal car accident in Washington State yest. morning Issah is a Boston Celtic.

[Kätzchen]

No TV today, but I've got a growing list of shows to watch.
Thanks to all who post what they watch, soon. I recently got to watch every episode of Big Little Lies, and I'm on the list to check it out at the library, when it becomes available. Looking forward to reading the book. : )

[cathexis]

Am watching _12 Years a Slave_ which is very well acted.

Last week we watched _Hidden Figures_. Well acted and well worth watching.

[Orema]

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HISTORY will investigate 5 decades of "America's War On Drugs" in epic 8-hour documentary starting June 18 ...

Called “the new Jim Crow,”the war on drugs has cost America $1 trillion in a bizarre history that spans five decades. It has also had a most devastating impact on the Black community from decades of biased law enforcement, from President Nixon to the draconian Rockefeller Drug Laws, to the emerging above-ground marijuana market that is poised to make legal millions for wealthy investors doing the same thing that generations of people of color have been arrested and locked up for.

http://shadowandact.com/2017/04/21/history-will-investigate-5-decades-of-americas-war-on-drugs-in-epic-8-hour-documentary/

[*Anya*]

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On Showtime: Outstanding documentary about the history of the LAPD and the African-American community in south LA.

It chronicles the move by blacks from the south in the 40's and the rise of racist police chief William Parker (the police central headquarters is the still-named Parker Center in LA) from approx. 1950 until he died of a heart attack a year after the Watts riots.

It does not flinch from the overt and brutal racism leading up to the Watts riots.

Who takes over after Parker dies?

The guy that used to be his driver; racist Darryl Gates.

Again, it does not flinch from the overt and brutal racism that never stops- Rodney King and the resultant riots.

It is soberingly and profoundly sad that not much has been learned.

[Orema]

Back on June 20.

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[*Anya*]

I can't stress enough how awesome Fargo is! It is smartly funny, well-written, and all-around excellent television.

There is just one episode left in this season. If you like smart and funny TV, you can't go wrong with any of the 3 seasons and they are all different.

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[*Anya*]

One of my most favorite shows of all-time is ER.

This weekend, I found that a cable station named POP is running the series.

It is just as good as I remembered.

Some older shows just don't hold up but this one does.

:scarytv:

[*Anya*]

I am so enjoying this 4 part documentary directed by Allen Hughes, called The Defiant Ones. It is really good. Part 1 was Sunday night, 2 on Monday, 3 Tuesday and 4 tonight. I am sure it will be repeated (as HBO always does).

It chronicles the early beginnings of Dr. Dre, his partnership with Jimmy Iovine, who started Interscope Records, the evolution of hip hop and how their partnership transformed contemporary culture.

Billboard says: "If you're a fan of hip-hop, it's the rap version of when Lennon met McCartney."

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[*Anya*]

New season of Game of Thrones starts tonight!

:scarytv:

[Kätzchen]

I am so enjoying this 4 part documentary directed by Allen Hughes, called The Defiant Ones. It is really good. Part 1 was Sunday night, 2 on Monday, 3 Tuesday and 4 tonight. I am sure it will be repeated (as HBO always does).

It chronicles the early beginnings of Dr. Dre, his partnership with Jimmy Iovine, who started Interscope Records, the evolution of hip hop and how their partnership transformed contemporary culture.

Billboard says: "If you're a fan of hip-hop, it's the rap version of when Lennon met McCartney."

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oh, sounds good, Anya, I'll see if I can find it, this week!

[*Anya*]

I just caught this on TV, somehow I had missed it.

I needed a laugh after the healthcare vote today.

I think she is really great and always enjoy her,

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[Orema]

Fall 2017 TV Preview: Some Lesbian and Bisexual Characters For You

https://www.autostraddle.com/fall-2017-tv-preview-some-lesbian-and-bisexual-characters-for-you-391985/

by Riese & Heather

Pumpkin spice is in the air and you know what that means: It’s time for fall TV. After Lexa’s death on The 100 and the waves of lesbian and bisexual TV character deaths that followed, summer TV rebounded in a pretty satisfying way this year. Wynonna Earp, The Bold Type, Orphan Black, Doubt, Stitchers, The Handmaid’s Tale, Master of None; even The Fosters has gotten back on track. But now it’s time to say goodbye and look toward the tempestuous embrace of traditional network TV. The news out of the Television Critics Association’s summer press tour wasn’t great. There seem to be very few new shows with queer TV characters this year. There are some returning favorites, though, and just a handful of fresh offerings.

[Kätzchen]

September 12th, PBS Frontline will air the documentary Abacus. I'll have to find a way to catch this documentary or have my BFF save it for me, so I can watch it next time I'm over at her house!

[homoe]

September 12th, PBS Frontline will air the documentary Abacus. I'll have to find a way to catch this documentary or have my BFF save it for me, so I can watch it next time I'm over at her house!

WOW thanks for posting about this Miss Katz.....looks extremely good:hangloose:

[homoe]

Funny you should start this thread.......I just got done reading my Comcast Cable Guide cover to cover.

I see that NBC is bring back Will & Grace............

I couldn't stand it the first time around so I doubt I'll be watching this remaster one!

[Kätzchen]

Funny you should start this thread.......I just got done reading my Comcast Cable Guide cover to cover.

I see that NBC is bring back Will & Grace............

I couldn't stand it the first time around so I doubt I'll be watching this remaster one!

BUT ..... What will you be watching????? :bow:

[homoe]

BUT ..... What will you be watching????? :bow:

Well IMHO the pickings for TV viewing is slim so I have no idea at present what I might watch :scarytv:

The new season of SNL for sure tho :hangloose:

[*Anya*]

SEPTEMBER (with some Rotten Tomatoes ratings)

Friday, Sept. 1
Narcos: Season 3 (2017) 100% Netflix

Tuesday, Sept. 5
American Horror Story: Cult (2017) 67% 10 p.m., FX

Wednesday, Sept. 6
You're the Worst: Season 4 (2017) 10 p.m., FXX

Friday, Sept. 8
BoJack Horseman: Season 4 (2017) 10 p.m., Netflix
One Mississippi: Season 2 (2017) Amazon

Saturday, Sept. 9
Con Man: Season 1 (2015) 10 p.m., Syfy

Sunday, Sept. 10
Outlander: Season 3 (2016) 8 p.m., Starz
The Orville: Season 1 (2017) 8 p.m., Fox (moves to Thursdays at 9 p.m. beginning Sept. 21)
The Deuce: Season 1 (2017) 100% 9 p.m., HBO
Fear the Walking Dead: Season 3 (2017) 9 p.m., AMC
Top of the Lake: China Girl (2017) 73% 9 p.m., SundanceTV

Tuesday, Sept. 12
The Mindy Project: Season 6 (2017) Hulu

Wednesday, Sept. 13
South Park: Season 21 (2017) 10 p.m., Comedy Central
Broad City: Season 4 (2017) 10:30 p.m., Comedy Central

Thursday, Sept. 14
Better Things: Season 2 (2017) 10 p.m., FX
Riviera, Sundance Now

Friday, Sept. 15
American Vandal: Season 1 (2017) Netflix
Mission Saturn (2017) 9 p.m., NatGeo

Sunday, Sept. 17
The Vietnam War: Miniseries (2017) 8 p.m., PBS
Vice Principals: Season 2 (2017) 10:30 p.m., HBO

Monday, Sept. 18
Dancing With the Stars: Season 25 (2017) 8 p.m., ABC

Wednesday, Sept. 20
The Good Place: Season 2 (2017) 10 p.m., NBC (moves to Thursdays at 8:30 p.m. beginning Sept. 28)
Channel Zero: The No-End House (2017) 10 p.m., Syfy

Thursday, Sept. 21
Gotham: Season 4 (2017) 8 p.m., Fox
American Beauty Star (2017) 10:30 p.m., Lifetime

Friday, Sept. 22
Fuller House: Season 3 (2017) Netflix
Transparent: Season 4 (2017) Amazon

Sunday, Sept. 24
Star Trek: Discovery: Season 1 (2017) 8:30 p.m., CBS

Monday, Sept. 25
The Big Bang Theory: Season 11 (2017) 8 p.m., CBS
The Voice: Season 13 (2017) 8 p.m., NBC
Young Sheldon: Season 1 (2018) 8:30 p.m., CBS (preview)
Kevin Can Wait: Season 2 (2017) 9 p.m., CBS
Me, Myself & I: Season 1 (2017) 9:30 p.m., CBS
The Good Doctor: Season 1 (2017) 10 p.m., ABC
Scorpion: Season 4 (2017) 10 p.m., CBS
The Brave: Season 1 (2017) 10 p.m., NBC

Tuesday, Sept. 26
NCIS: Season 15 (2017) 8 p.m., CBS
Lethal Weapon: Season 2 (2017) 8 p.m., Fox
Bull: Season 2 (2017) 9 p.m., CBS
This Is Us: Season 2 (2017) 9 p.m., NBC
The Mick: Season 2 (2017) 9 p.m., Fox
Brooklyn Nine-Nine: Season 5 (2017) 9:30 p.m., Fox
NCIS: New Orleans: Season 4 (2017) 10 p.m., CBS
Law & Order: True Crime: The Menendez Murders (2018) 10 p.m., NBC

Wednesday, Sept. 27
The Goldbergs: Season 5 (2017) 8 p.m., ABC
Survivor 8 p.m., CBS
Empire: Season 4 (2017) 8 p.m., Fox
The Blacklist: Season 5 (2017) 8 p.m., NBC
Speechless: Season 2 (2017) 8:30 p.m., ABC
Modern Family: Season 9 (2017) 9 p.m., ABC
SEAL Team: Season 1 (2018) 9 p.m., CBS
Star: Season 2 (2017) 9 p.m., Fox
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Season 19 (2017) 9 p.m., NBC
American Housewife: Season 2 (2017) 9:30 p.m., ABC
Designated Survivor: Season 2 (2017) 10 p.m., ABC
Criminal Minds: Season 13 (2017) 10 p.m., CBS
Chicago P.D.: Season 5 (2017) 10 p.m., NBC
Liar: Season 1 (2016) 10 p.m., SundanceTV

Thursday, Sept. 28
StartUp: Season 2 (2017) Crackle
Grey's Anatomy: Season 14 (2017) 8 p.m., ABC
Superstore: Season 3 (2017) 8 p.m., NBC
Will & Grace: Season 9 (2017) 9 p.m., NBC
Great News: Season 2 (2018) 9:30 p.m., NBC
How to Get Away With Murder: Season 4 (2017) 10 p.m., ABC
Chicago Fire: Season 6 (2017) 10 p.m., NBC
Nathan for You: Season 4 (2016) Comedy Central

Friday, Sept. 29
Big Mouth: Season 1 (2017) Netflix
Marvel's Inhumans: Season 1 (2017) 0% 8 p.m., ABC
MacGyver: Season 2 (2017) 8 p.m., CBS
Hell's Kitchen: Season 17 (2017) 8 p.m., Fox
Hawaii Five-0: Season 8 (2017) 9 p.m., CBS
Z Nation: Season 4 (2017) 9 p.m., Syfy
The Exorcist: Season 2 (2017) 9 p.m., Fox
Blue Bloods: Season 8 (2017) 10 p.m., CBS

Saturday, Sept. 30
Versailles: Season 2 (2015) 10 p.m., Ovation

https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/article/2017-fall-tv-premiere-dates/

[homoe]

I know for sure I will be watching football both Saturday and Sunday and perhaps 60 minutes Sunday evening ......:scarytv:

[homoe]

Tonight is the pilot for The Deuce HBO Chronicling the legalization and subsequent rise of the porn industry in New York's Times Square from the early 1970's through the mid-1980's. I did catch the pilot preview they ran prior to tonight's official launch and it really isn't my cup of tea but others may be interested in it.

Sidebar: If you're interested in the porn industry, research a woman named Candida Royalle. She was an producer and director of couples-oriented pornography, a sex educator, sex-positive feminist, and pornographic actress. She realized that porn was made for men by men and they really didn't address women's fantasies. She also saw how men were making all the money so she decided to leave the acting and get behind the camera. She directed 17 movies, several of which we carried at Video Vision and whenever women came in and wanted to rent porn I often directed them to her films. :movieguy:

[Orema]

The Vietnam War

Trailer:
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Review:
Ken Burns and Lynn Novick bring The Vietnam War's horrors to those born too late to witness it

Reviewed by Kevin Pang, at the AV Cllub

https://www.avclub.com/ken-burns-and-lynn-novick-bring-the-vietnam-wars-horror-1803760450

For those of us born after 1975, the Vietnam War is not far enough in the past to feel detachedly academic, not recent enough to form a clear opinion on. What we know of the war is through its images and soundtrack: 16mm film footage of low-flying helicopters grazing the tops of rice paddy fields; the guitar line of The Youngbloods’ “Come Together”; Lieutenant Dan. The Vietnam War, for the generation who didn’t live through it, is an abstract notion that hasn’t demanded our moral outrage.

“No one wanted to talk about it.” So begins Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s magnum opus The Vietnam War (premiering Sunday, September 17 on PBS; new episodes will air Sunday-Thursday until September 28). In talking about it now, a half century after the height of American involvement, Burns and Novick have engineered a staggering feat of filmmaking ambition, so overwhelming and raw it’s sure to rip open still-fresh scabs of those who lived through it. More importantly, it’s a film made for those born after, for whom their comprehension of that era—grainy snippets of late-’60s war iconography—will be supplanted by the incomprehensible tragedy of it all.

This is a film that does not assign a victor. Like the best war literature from that era—Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried, Michael Herr’s Dispatches—Burns and Novick avoid binary labels, understanding that wins and losses, bravery and cowardice, or heroism and villainy can co-exist. Where it doesn’t equivocate is how the war deeply wounded American standing. The narration, written by author and historian Geoffrey C. Ward, uses unsparing language: “America’s involvement in the Vietnam War began in secrecy. It ended 30 years later in failure, witnessed by the entire world.” The war was so messy and complex, the series requires the breathing room of 10 feature film-length episodes so viewers wrap their heads around what happened. (And still some details were glossed over, like post-traumatic stress disorder, given only several minutes of cursory mention in the final episode.) Even at a running time of 18 hours, what emerges from The Vietnam War—culled from 1,500 hours of archival film, 24,000 photographs, and present-day interviews—is utterly compelling.

It is at times an infuriating watch—your blood boils at the mendacity of the war’s decision makers. We see the face-saving stubbornness of government officials who publicly projected rosy optimism, but privately—revealed here in previously unreleased memos and audio recordings—saw no path to victory. (U.S. Assistant Secretary Of Defense John McNaughton wrote in a classified memo: Military action in Vietnam was 10 percent to help the Vietnamese, 20 percent to contain China and the spread of communism, 70 percent to avoid humiliation.) We listen in on phone conversations as U.S. presidents weigh which tactical decisions would bolster their reelection odds. There was the obstinance of Vietnamese diplomats who refused to sit for peace talks in Paris because they couldn’t agree on the seating arrangement at the negotiating table. Endless images of mangled bodies numb our sense of shock, while the on-screen running tally of casualties climb higher with each episode—by the end, 58,000 Americans, 1.25 million Vietnamese troops, and 2 million civilians are dead. A theme emerges: The hubristic motivations by those in charge and the human toll those decisions yielded.

As each episode unfolds, you watch with gnawing dread that things will get worse. The anticipation becomes painful. When a mother in a present-day interview lovingly recalls her son—and photos of this bespectacled, bow-tied, history book-loving boy named Denton “Mogie” Crocker Jr. morph into scenes from a war battlefield—you sense his story will end in certain tragedy.

Rather than allow pundits and political revisionists to present their version of history, Burns and Novick employ the voices of truck drivers, medics, prisoners of war, and troops on the front line—Americans, South and North Vietnamese—to tell the story of war from ground-level. The first-person recounting provides some of the film’s most arresting moments, especially when the filmmakers allow silence and body language to convey the story. When Jean-Marie Crocker—mother of the aforementioned “Mogie”—relates how she and her husband reluctantly allowed their son to enlist in the army, she catches herself in a moment of self-realization. “We tried to believe this was the right thing for him to do,” said Crocker, when suddenly her lips quiver and eyes dart down, knowing the fate awaiting her son. Those two seconds hold the most heartbreaking pregnant pause and tell the story of nearly 60,000 other Gold Star families. There are dozens of moments like it in the film, from grieving Vietnamese and American families, and by those who made choices in combat and now express regret and repentance—without saying a word. Add to it the propulsive, pulsating score by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, whose music provides a haunting, Tell-Tale Heart-like presence.

Burns and Novick’s previous documentaries specialize in the slow-build, panoramic look into Americana, be it jazz, baseball, Prohibition, or our national parks. Where The Vietnam War resonates is its relevancy to the America of 2017. The roots of our divisiveness today can be traced back to Kent State, to downtown Chicago, to the steps of Capitol Hill, when our country was splintering into an us-versus-them mindset, where each side cherry-picked the worst traits of the other and painted them as foe.

Now, decades after the U.S. withdrew from Vietnam and Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese, the passage of time begins to offer perspective. An anti-war protester who invoked “baby killer” at returning troops is now remorseful of her words and actions. “I was a kid too,” she says, in tears. A Marine named Bill Ehrhart says he was most ashamed of soliciting a young prostitute in exchange for C-rations. A North Vietnamese soldier ponders the senselessness of his country engaged in civil war: “We ate the same rice, drank the same water, had the same culture and music.”

Viewers of these 18 wrenching and breathtaking hours are left with an impossible question: To what end? In a recent interview with Vanity Fair, director Lynn Novick said: “There’s no agreement among scholars, or Americans or Vietnamese, about what happened: the facts, let alone whose fault, let alone what we’re supposed to make of it.” What The Vietnam War movingly shows is something more humanistic: how man emerges from the hell of war. Many P.O.W.s find their marriages fall apart once they return home, others submit to vices, some experience newfound empathy with their former enemies. And in perhaps the most devastating segment of the film, there are those who lay eyes on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial for the first time and collapse to their knees.

Five U.S. presidents—Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford—would preside over America’s involvement in Vietnam, and there was a phrase all five would continuously intone. They would assure Americans that there is a “light at the end of the tunnel.” On the day Saigon fell to North Vietnamese forces, it would be left to America’s most-trusted journalist, Walter Cronkite, to inform us of the awful truth: “In Vietnam, we finally have reached the end of the tunnel and there is no light there.”

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Directed by
Ken Burns and Lynn Novick

Written by
Geoffrey C. Ward

Debuts
Sunday, Sept. 17 on PBS

[Orema]

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Jay Pharoah stars as Floyd Mooney, an African-American comedian whose star is on the rise. But the path to stardom is a minefield that Floyd must navigate to maintain his credibility while trying to become "white famous." Don't miss the series premiere of White Famous on Sunday, October 15th at 10PM ET/PT on SHOWTIME.

[homoe]

I don't think it starts until next Monday but I'm looking forward to Young Sheldon a sort of kinda spin-off of The Big Bang Theory.

[*Anya*]

Emmys 2017: Riz Ahmed Wins Lead Actor in a Limited Series for “The Night Of”

He won the award over Benedict Cumberbatch, Robert De Niro, Geoffrey Rush, John Turturro, and Ewan McGregor

[*Anya*]

Emmys 2017: Donald Glover Wins Lead Actor in a Comedy for “Atlanta”

He won over Zach Galifianakis, Anthony Anderson, Aziz Ansari, William H. Macy, and Jeffrey Tambor

Whoops! Left this off:

Donald Glover also won for directing episode. Series is so worth watching. I missed it on FX and paid for 5 episodes on VuDu before I caught up with all on Hulu!

Emmys 2017: Donald Glover (“Atlanta”) Wins Outstanding Directing for a Comedy

For his work on “Atlanta”’s “B.A.N.” episode

[homoe]

Feud: Bette And Joan didn't win an Emmy but if you get a chance to see it please do:hangloose:

Bette and Joan, tells the story of the legendary rivalry between Joan (Jessica Lange) and Bette (Susan Sarandon) during their collaboration on the Academy Award®-nominated thriller What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, and well after the cameras stopped rolling. The series explores how the two women endured ageism, sexism, and misogyny while struggling to hang on to success and fame in the twilight of their careers.

In addition the cast includes Alfred Molina as the film’s director Robert Aldrich, Stanley Tucci as studio titan Jack Warner, Judy Davis as gossip columnist Hedda Hopper, Jackie Hoffman as Crawford’s housekeeper Mamacita, and Alison Wright as Aldrich’s assistant Pauline.

Notable guest stars include Dominic Burgess as Crawford and Davis’ co-star Victor Buono, Catherine Zeta-Jones as film star Olivia de Havilland, Sarah Paulson as Geraldine Page, Kathy Bates as Joan Blondell and Kiernan Shipka as B.D., Bette Davis’ daughter.

[C0LLETTE]

Queen of the South is the most confusing series on tv. Even "the good guys" are creeps.

[homoe]

Curb Your Enthusiasm returns tonight......:hangloose:

[*Anya*]

I think I posted about this series last year:

Animal Kingdom

From IMDb:

The series centers on 17-year-old Joshua "J" Cody, who moves in with his freewheeling relatives in their Southern California beach town after his mother dies of a heroin overdose. Headed by boot-tough matriarch Janine "Smurf" Cody and her right-hand Baz, who runs the business and calls the shots, the clan also consists of Pope, the oldest and most dangerous of the Cody boys; Craig, the tough and fearless middle son; and Deran, the troubled, suspicious "baby" of the family.

That was the first season description. Second season, the boys are breaking away from mom and running their own jobs.

Stars: Ellen Barkin, Scott Speedman, Shawn Hatosy, Ben Robson

Primarily filmed in Oceanside and LA.

Gritty, violent and excellent, if you like action (and I do).

:scarytv:

[*Anya*]

This is a really good documentary about George Michael. I had forgotten how long his career was and all the great music that he had made.

What a voice!

It is running on Showtime

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[Dita]

I've been watching walking dead season 8...so far I'm a bit bored with the beginning episodes but I hope it gets better.

[*Anya*]

I've been watching walking dead season 8...so far I'm a bit bored with the beginning episodes but I hope it gets better.

Hi Dita! We have a Walking Dead thread and would love for you to post your thoughts on episodes or the show in general!

Butch Femme Planet (http://www.butchfemmeplanet.com/forum/index.php)

- CELEBRITY, MUSIC, TELEVISION, INTERNET CULTURE (http://www.butchfemmeplanet.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=97)

- - The Walking Dead: spoiler alerts please! (http://www.butchfemmeplanet.com/forum/showthread.php?t=8497)


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[*Anya*]

Next Monday night at 8:00PM on HBO:

Baltimore Rising

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[Kätzchen]

I've been watching TV shows with my elderly roomie, Shirley.

Last night we watched Shark Tank....both of us weighing in on dilemmas presented by 'sharks' .... often noting the outrageous mindset behind their reasons of denial or approval of business proposals. Sometimes we'd look at each other with knowing silent glares...sometimes it was gigantic eye rolls, lol. : /

We always watch Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune. That's our nightly 'church ' service. LOL

Shirley got me hooked on the TV show called The Voice.

I don't have TV at home, so returning home might be slightly awkward feeling after enjoying nearly a month of TV.

I need a TV now, with bunny ears.

Last year (Nov. 2016) Shirley and I were roommates at the nursing home....but she passed away last June (2017). Shirley had an very interesting hobby: she was a local celebrity in her hometown, as part of an acting troupe, putting on theater shows to raise money for local women's shelters and for disadvantaged children. Toward the end of my stay at the nursing home, I met her only daughter, who carries on in her mother's memory, directing projects to raise money via the theater troupe for Shirley's favorite local charities.

I miss her, we had such fun watching TV shows together after the supper hour.

[*Anya*]

I have watched Survivor since the very first episode.

A lot of the seasons I did not really like part of the cast but always wound up enjoying it when the numbers got down to 6 or 7.

I usually root for the underdog but only if they have nerves of steel, a backbone (i.e., not like our current Congress and Senate) and are not cruel towards others (same).

Deception is part of the game but cruelty is not.

Ben the Marine.

Boy, did I feel an infinity for him. He is an Iraq war vet that came back with PTSD. He was tough as nails, was always focused on his mission but allowed his vulnerability to slip through; usually in reference to his wife and children. He would talk about how he was "in the gutter" when he came back from Iraq and how his wife "saved" him. His bright blue eyes would fill with tears and it would choke me up.

Yep. Hooked on Ben.

Blogs and articles did not think that he would win (and did not want him to) but he always knew that he really had no alliances, that everyone in the game wanted him out and that he could only count on himself.

He was relentless. He would search for idols for hours. I loved the 3 episodes when the other 4, 5, or 6 were so smug thinking that "we got him this this time" and no, no, they did not. It was classic.

It was beautiful to watch.

I guess, in some way, for me; goodness won out this time and I don't see much of that happening in our world these days.

[Kätzchen]

I couldn't find the forum thread for documentaries, but I'm watching the documentary about Moms Mabley, hosted by Whoopi Goldberg and other Afro-American celebrity stand up comedian's. Excellent doc and SO VERY informative. If you've never heard of Moms Mabley, I highly recommend watching this documentary. :)

[homoe]

I couldn't find the forum thread for documentaries, but I'm watching the documentary about Moms Mabley, hosted by Whoopi Goldberg and other Afro-American celebrity stand up comedian's. Excellent doc and SO VERY informative. If you've never heard of Moms Mabley, I highly recommend watching this documentary. :)

Yes, I agree very interesting indeed!

[homoe]

For anyone interested ........

CNN will premiere the critically-acclaimed ‘RBG,’ for television Monday, Sept. 3, at 9:00pm and 12:00am Eastern (6:00pm and 9:00pm Pacific) on CNN/U.S.

The film, directed by Betsy West and Julie Cohen, explores the singular legal legacy and life of U.S. Supreme Court Justice, and multigenerational pop culture icon, Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

[homoe]

Candice Bergen, 71, is set to return as the show's eponymous main character.


The reboot of the 18-time Emmy Award-winning series will feature the smart, straight-talking TV journalist, but this time in a "world of cable news, social media, fake news, and a very different political and cultural climate,". This time around, Murphy will anchor a cable morning show called Murphy in the Morning.

As far as I can tell the first episode airs on Thursday September 27th.

[homoe]

If someone has already posted about this in another thread please forgive me but I just caught the second installment of this last night and it's wonderful!
The first installment is available to watch online at PBS.org

This series features entertaining and informative documentary segments, with compelling testimonials from celebrities, authors, notable Americans and book lovers across the country. It investigates how and why writers create their fictional worlds, how we as readers are affected by these stories, and what these books have to say about our diverse nation and our shared human experience.

If you're a book lover you'll enjoy this series!

[homoe]

If someone has already posted about this in another thread please forgive me but I just caught the second installment of this last night and it's wonderful!
The first installment is available to watch online at PBS.org

This series features entertaining and informative documentary segments, with compelling testimonials from celebrities, authors, notable Americans and book lovers across the country. It investigates how and why writers create their fictional worlds, how we as readers are affected by these stories, and what these books have to say about our diverse nation and our shared human experience.

If you're a book lover you'll enjoy this series!

I neglected to mention Meredith Vieira hosts this..

[homoe]

If someone has already posted about this in another thread please forgive me but I just caught the second installment of this last night and it's wonderful!
The first installment is available to watch online at PBS.org

This series features entertaining and informative documentary segments, with compelling testimonials from celebrities, authors, notable Americans and book lovers across the country. It investigates how and why writers create their fictional worlds, how we as readers are affected by these stories, and what these books have to say about our diverse nation and our shared human experience.

If you're a book lover you'll enjoy this series!

This airs on Tuesday evenings but double check your listing on PBS

[ProfPacker]

Atypical is an amazing show. Although it is focused on Neurotypical folks, it is really a show for all. I am sad that the second season is over for me. I can't wait for season 3, if there is a season 3.

[homoe]

Documentary A&E Sunday Nov 18th (6 parts) ..............

With "The Clinton Affair," Monica Lewinsky is ready to revisit the 1998 sex scandal that nearly unraveled Bill Clinton's presidency, and she hopes by doing so she can retire the term "Lewinsky scandal" once and for all.

"I think 20 years is enough time to carry that mantle," the former White House intern, now 45, writes in a new Vanity Fair essay published Tuesday.


Sidebar: Blair Foster, the doc’s director, says nothing was off-limits. President Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton declined to participate.

[homoe]

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor will be on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert tonight.

[homoe]

Escape At Dannemora (Showtime) Benicio Del Toro, Patricia Arquette, Paul Dano, Bonnie Hunt


An employee at a prison in upstate New York becomes romantically involved with a pair of inmates and helps them escape.

Arquette is wonderfully cast in the role of Tilly & Del Toro is his usual creepy self.... so far I'm enjoying it.......:hangloose:

[Orema]

Watching the Petrified Forrest with Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, and Humphrey Bogart on Turner Classic Movies.

[homoe]

Escape At Dannemora (Showtime) Benicio Del Toro, Patricia Arquette, Paul Dano, Bonnie Hunt


An employee at a prison in upstate New York becomes romantically involved with a pair of inmates and helps them escape.

Arquette is wonderfully cast in the role of Tilly & Del Toro is his usual creepy self.... so far I'm enjoying it.......:hangloose:

This is so good IMHO...it's airing on Showtime on Sunday Evening!

Sidebar: This is based on a true story

[ProfPacker]

I am taking a break from grading, only 20 more to go. I am watching a totally sick show on HBO: Sally4Ever

[ProfPacker]

I take it back, it ended up being a little to gross and demeaning to lesbians.

[ksrainbow]

It may not be TV but it was on Netflix...

Ellens first stand up in 15yrs.

Totally enjoyed her renewed stand-up show :)

Ks-

[ProfPacker]

I enjoyed Relatable also, laughed hard at some part

[Orema]

I am hooked on the crime series Ray Donovan (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2249007/?ref_=nv_sr_1) shown on Showtime.


Jon Voight (whose acting I avoid like the plague these days) is damn good in this series. I’m surprised at how good he is because I forgot how good he could be (i.e., Midnight Cowboy, Runaway Train). All of the actors are good in this series, but I think Voight is the glue that holds this show together.

Most of the women are bad asses. And not in a gun-toting, kick-ass way. But, unlike the women on the Sopranos or most crime dramas, these women know who they are and how they fit into the world they live in. There is no pretense nor self pity with them. They know how the world sees them and there is no shame in how they see the world.

This show is more honest about race and sexuality than most shows. In some ways it reminds me of The Americans in this regard. The similarity with The Americans is that both of these series removed the rose-colored glasses often used in love and romantic scenes.

It’s also an indictment of the Catholic Church and how the church looked the other way while priests abuse children (sometimes all of the children in one family!). I often think of the film Spotlight (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1895587/) when I watch this series.

Alan Alda joined the cast this season as a psychiatrist. Alda has Parkinson’s disease (https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2018/07/31/alan-alda-reveals-he-has-parkinsons-disease/869856002/) in real life and it’s not hidden nor highlighted (at least not yet) on the show. I LOVE THAT. We see Alda shaking and the camera doesn’t shy away nor linger.

It’s violent, racist, brutally honest, sexually open, funny and the best thing since the series The Wire (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0306414/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1) as far as I’m concerned.


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[cathexis]

Television? I always thought that box was for playing Music Choice Smooth Jazz or listening to rock.

[homoe]

During the holidays, a friend asked if I'd ever seen A Place To Call Home because she heard they were making some more episodes. Later that evening when they all headed to the casino I did a search on Comcast and found it. I watched the first two episodes back to back and couldn't wait to view three!

[charley]

I just watched America's Got Talent: The Champions on E!...2nd episode
um, what can I say - perhaps, if I would have kept up with the skipping rope, or the the yo-yo, or even the hula hoop, I coulda been a contender... right?

:formalbow:

[ksrainbow]

530am to 800am: Morning Joe ( may flip to CNN )

12 Noon (if home) Local news -

5pm to 6pm Local news-

6 pm to 9 pm: News and more news

Exceptions to above schedule ^^^:
Rachel Maddow/CSPAN/MSNBC:

However: BIG BANG THEORY trumps all of the above (bazinga)

[ProfPacker]

Loved, Loved, Loved (did I say Loved?) this season of Grace and Frankie

[charley]

Well, local live theatre sucks here, so I am presently watching Peter Wright's "The Nutcracker" (Tchaikovsky) on a regular station - Knowledge Channel (K:HD). It gets good (for me) once the Spanish Dancers begin... what would Xmas be without seeing The Nutcracker? Choreography is brilliant, stage scenario so beautiful. Had a few ripples of ecstasy inside. Love the music. Seeing The Nutcracker once a year during Xmas does it for me.

I must say, though, as a small child, having seen Sleeping Beauty live once, ballet was never a favourite choice for me. I wondered during the beginning of this production, like wow, I never had any dreams like that as a child. Anyways, I am also taping this, and will most likely watch it a second time. To me, this ballet ranks the best in terms of what to watch during this holiday season. :)

[homoe]

~~
Eddie Murphy was host and he hasn't lost his comic genius a bit IMHO!

His little jab about Bill Cosby was priceless. I don't know how many of you are old enough to remember when Bill slammed Eddie for being a bit to dirty in his comedy act to which Eddie's reply was something like have a coke and a smile and shut up.

I happened to have caught Murphy on a couple talk shows earlier in the week and he mentioned about wanting to get back out and do some more stand-up.

[homoe]

I'll be tuned in to..

Jeopardy! The Greatest Of All Time

The three most successful players in the game show's history — James Holzhauer, Ken Jennings, and Brad Rutter, with combined winnings of more than $10 million — will square off on Jeopardy! The Greatest of All Time (premieres Tuesday, January 7, 8/7c, on ABC). Hosted by Alex Trebek over multiple consecutive nights, this will be the first primetime match-play battle royal since 1990.

[Chad]

Homoe I could not find the old movie thread I was hoping that you could point it out.

We are watching "A Star is Born" 1954 with Judy Garland. I am a huge fan.

[firegal]

Ok I must admit I like reality tv!

[Bèsame*]

I just caught the last half of Flirty Dancing. It was sooo cute. Perhaps there is romance in a new way.

[charley]

Watching the 77th Golden Globes on TV now, with Ricky Gervais hosting :)

[homoe]

Watching the 77th Golden Globes on TV now, with Ricky Gervais hosting :)


Us as well.....:hangloose:

We didn't get to see the complete Red Carpet arrivals because of CBS's Football, but just the glimpse they showed, IMHO Portia de Rossi didn't pull off that whole slicked backed hair & tux look as well as others have.

[charley]

I'll be tuned in to..

Jeopardy! The Greatest Of All Time

The three most successful players in the game show's history — James Holzhauer, Ken Jennings, and Brad Rutter, with combined winnings of more than $10 million — will square off on Jeopardy! The Greatest of All Time (premieres Tuesday, January 7, 8/7c, on ABC). Hosted by Alex Trebek over multiple consecutive nights, this will be the first primetime match-play battle royal since 1990.

I watched Jeopardy! The Greatest of All Time, HA! I am not sure but I think I was unable to know at least 98% of the answers, if not all of them; I knew Chariots of Fire, but was slow to think of it, etc.

All the players were wearing a purple ribbon (which I had to google) - to show their support of certain illnesses such as pancreatic cancer, which Alex Trebek suffers from.

I used to like watching Jeopardy!, but I've changed because of the meditation, when my mind deliberately contacted my brain and told it not to record anything which isn't a real need - good idea, since it created more space inside and gives me the opportunity to approach things anew and be in the moment. Jeopardy! was okay, but I guess trivia just isn't my thing anymore. :)

[homoe]

Gentleman Jack season 2 plot: what's it going to be about?

"I'm utterly delighted that we've been recommissioned," said Wainwright in a BBC statement, "because there are so many more big, bold stories to tell about Anne Lister and Ann Walker."

We left them literally at the very start of their lives as a married couple, as they walk out of church having taken Communion together, a symbol to them of their unconventional (and legally impossible) marriage.

So married life would seem the obvious theme for series two.

"They move into Shibden [Hall] together in series two," Sally Wainwright told Digital Spy, "and it's about how they negotiate their married life, conspicuously in public, and how they deal with their detractors and the effect that has on their relationship as well… Obviously we've got season two, which is fantastic, and I hope it will continue on after that. There's no end of stories."

To RT, Wainwright added: "Even though Anne Lister seems like this absolute powerhouse with this iron will, Ann Walker had a real streak of stubbornness – and of course she had all the money. So there was a real interesting dynamic and a real interesting power dynamic between them, which I’m really looking forward to exploring a bit more fully."

In real life, the couple travelled extensively, so we could see more location shooting next time around. There's also the unresolved issue of the coalmine to address – will Anne finally get the better of the Rawson brothers, and will Vincent Franklin's repellant Christopher Rawson get his comeuppance?

https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/a28321013/gentleman-jack-season-2-release-date-cast-plot-trailer/

[Lecheloco]

Anyone else watching the new season of Married At First Sight?

I watched the specials this week for it and the match making episode , wow the couples look like it’s going to be an eventful season lol

[Orema]

Anyone else watching the new season of Married At First Sight?

I watched the specials this week for it and the match making episode , wow the couples look like it’s going to be an eventful season lol

I haven’t seen this one, but have seen the ads for it. Some I can wrap my head around and some I can’t. Might check it out. Thanks for the tip.

Ok I must admit I like reality tv!

Me, too. I like the before and after reality shows like Kitchen Nightmares and Bar Rescue. Bar Rescue rescued a bar that serves food in my city that was popular with co-workers.

I haven’t ventured into any of the housewives shows, but came across Love & Hip Hop on PLUTO TV and was mesmerized ... till I wasn’t.

I’m also diggin’ the game show Black Card Revoked, According to Him and Her, and Mancave that are all found on BET on PLUTO TV. These aren’t reality shows, but are real people talking about real things. And all of them are usually lighthearted and fun to watch.

[Lecheloco]

You should check it out Orema

I have been watching the weather channel since my brother left it on that station when he came up for a visit last month lol you should check out the new series weird Earth I believe it’s called

[Orema]

Started watching Crooked Hearts (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101629/?ref_=ttfc_fc_tt) on the EPIX DRIVE-IN station. Came midway into the film. Good cast, but looks cheesy. Still, gonna check it out.

[Ginger]

I just started a movie, The Mountain, on Hulu, with Jeff Goldblum. I'm fascinated by the fifties realism and horrified at the misogyny, but can't look away. Jury still out.

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-mountain-2019

[homoe]

FX ---- Chris Rock Jason Schwartzman


In 1950 Kansas City, two criminal syndicates fighting for a piece of the American dream have struck an uneasy peace. Together, they control an alternate economy of exploitation, graft and drugs.

I've read mix reviews on it. NPR loved it while CNN Entertainment was lukewarm.

[homoe]

Showtime Jeff Daniels (as Comey) Brendan Gleeson


The relationship between FBI Director James Comey and President Trump during the first months of the Trump presidency.

[homoe]

Stacey Abrams emerged as a real-life hero in 2020, both because of her tireless (and successful) efforts to expand access to the ballot box in Georgia, and her devotion to genre television. Social media lost its collective mind when Abrams disclosed that she was a fan of shows like Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Supernatural, and the list doesn’t stop there. Speaking with Yahoo Entertainment, incoming Batwoman star Javicia Leslie reveals that Abrams is a big-time Bat-fan as well. “She’s been very supportive,” says the actress, who takes over the cape and cowl in Season 2 from Ruby Rose, after she famously exited the Batcave at the end of the show’s freshman year. “So shout out to Stacey Abrams! I think she’s going to love this season, and I hope we make her proud.” (Watch our video interview above.)

But why should Abrams just watch the show when she could be on the show? Leslie agrees that Abrams should visit Gotham City during the second season, which premieres on Jan. 17 at 8 p.m. on The CW. “Let’s suit her up as a hero,” she says, before switching gears to another, even better pitch. “How about this? Let’s suit her up as an anti-hero! That would be fun. A super-villain: I think we should go through the comics and find one we want to bring to Gotham and go ahead and suit her up. And don’t even reveal it’s her! Go awhile before we take off the mask and see that it’s her.”

[Kätzchen]

I am like many people. I don't think there has been better TV than The Wire although it is a sad and disturbing watch.



You are missed in the community Martina and I agree with you about...
The Wire.

We are binge watching this series of TV shows and the man who plays Omar Little is definitely quite the actor!

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[Kätzchen]

We don’t watch much tv but we sometimes like to browse the channels over at gusto.tv (which is free).

https://www.distro.tv/

[Stone-Butch]

We lost UFC to the pay channels and now they have brought it back with a vengence for free. One hour twice a week and Thurs. for three hours. Lots of women fighting its good to catch up on who is who and their standings. Right after that we have Swamp People back although the season is almost done it is good to see two of my favorites back. CSI SVU is still going strong, just watched it and now in here for a change.

[Stone-Butch]

A run of CSI NY for 7 shows today then 3 hrs of new UFC. I like tv *S

[Stone-Butch]

UFC as usual. CSI SVU, CSI NY, Cops.

[Kätzchen]

As soon as I can find all the seasons of this show, in DVD boxed set, I’m buying it :)

https://youtu.be/wRnG3VkdQo4?si=2ADlUV9D3fk-NNFE


https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/julia_louis_dreyfus_veep_premiere_nyc_h_2015.jpg

[Orema]

Possible triggers .....

I broke down and got Max. Started watching True Detective (https://www.metacritic.com/tv/true-detective/) and I'm really enjoying it. I've always liked Woody Harrelson, and Matt McConaughey is much better than I imagined he would be. Even though the murders (in the first season) seem to be of a sexual/religious nature, the crimes aren't made to look alluring and sexy (they only do this when the crime is against a woman, it's never sexy and alluring when the crime is against a man). I like that very much.

I will also watch Laverne Cox and George Wallace in Clean Slate (https://www.metacritic.com/tv/clean-slate/) at Amazon Prime. Bezos is at the top of my shit list, but I heard Ayesha Rascoe interview George Wallace and it sounds like it's worth watching.

Also on Prime is season one of A League of Their Own (https://www.metacritic.com/tv/a-league-of-their-own-2022/). I hear there is good LGBTQ+ representation so I better catch it before Bezos chumps out and removes it from Prime.