Carol Baskin is going to be on the next season of Dancing With The Stars. Brilliant. Wonder if she will kill her partner.

Wife and I watching Sons of Anarchy. Really like it. In season 5 and we just got to a huge death and my wife is a puddle.

I wasn't going to watch it before, but now that Carol Baskins will be in it I am going to turn the channel if a commercial for it comes on.

I started watching "Tree of Life" because of the primo casting and the good reviews but couldn't get past the first 15-20 min. Boring as heck.

They should force her to dance to the Carol Baskins Song.

Anyone planning to pay the $30 to watch Mulan? Let us know if it was worth it if you do.

Netflix has "Away" about 5 astronauts going to Mars. Watched 3 episodes so far and enjoying it. IMO it's nicely balanced between character development (a tad too much about main character's kid though) and the crisis that pop up on their journey.

Highly recommended for anyone into sci-fi and space travel.

And The Boys s2 is out. Looking forward to watching it this weekend.

We may today.

In case you didn't know, they only released 3 episodes of The Boys. They are releasing the rest weekly.

Thanks. No I did not know. I may wait the 8-12 weeks until its all available.

Finished "Away" s1. There was still too much about the kid but everything else was pretty good albeit somewhat predictable.

However, if NASA really runs their missions like in this series (hopefully not!), if the astronauts are this dysfunctional/undisciplined, inadequate backup systems, lack of readily available Plan C & D etc. we'll never make it to Mars.

It was really well done. The whole family liked it. A few concepts had to be explained to the 7 year old, but well worth it.

Thanks.

I'm personally not that interested (if it was Top Gun 2, yeah I would pay it). It's the wife's call.

I would have liked Mulan better if I hadn't seen Hero back in 2002. For me it was probably a 5 or 6 out of 10, and I would have preferred to just watch an early Wuxia film rather than a lite Disney take on the genre.

The way I look at these movies being released for $30, Mulan, Trolls 2, etc...it is still cheaper than it would be in the theater and we would have gone to see them.

In the case of Mulan we can watch it anytime now. If you wait and don't pay the $30 you have to wait until 12/4.

The animated version is my favorite Disney movie. I dont think a live action version is going to impress me as much as the animated version. And I can wait 3 months. This movie is not the greatest movie of all time that you must see RIGHT NOW.

We usually go to the movies 1-2 a month so with a 7 and 10 year old we are starving for any new content like the real thing. We make popcorn, the off the lights, get candy, etc.

My thoughts also but if you have kids at that "age", I think it'll be worth it.

I say this as I look at my DVD/BR collection of kids movies that will unlikely be watched again until there are grandkids.

I finished the first season of that new Perry Mason. It was OK, all the acting was good but the conclusion was unsatisfying, which seems fitting, in its own way, for Opposite Perry Mason.

...I also want to reiterate how unnecessarily dark this show was. A dead baby with its eyes sewn open is a prominent character, from like 5 minutes into episode one, until the end.

I’ve been watching Band of Brothers this last week - I’d seen the first 2-3 episodes before, but never the whole thing.

Just seen Episode 9 - Why We Fight, where they discover the concentration camp... Wow. My eyes are still tearing up half an hour after it ended.

I’ve been to two camps in the past, one as a teenager and then Auschwitz earlier this year, but seeing it in colour and with characters that I ‘knew’ has knocked me for six

It might be the single best hour of TV I have ever seen

Love the series and remember that episode. They had the towns people go to see the camp and help clean up.

FWIW, in the first set of episodes they were training at Camp Toccoa which is near Toccoa, GA (north-easterly from Atlanta). Been to Toccoa but didn't know the tie in until later, otherwise I would have visited Currahee Mountain.

I live about 15 miles from Aldbourne, where Easy were based in the UK, and even closer to Chilton Foliat, where Captain Sodel (Ross from Friends) was reassigned for paratrooper training - Chilton Foliat is a village I regularly go through on bike rides.

FWIW I also regularly ride/run around Greenham Common, which is only a mile from home, and was the old US base where they had about two thirds of the US nuclear weapons in the UK.

I remember the "laundry service" part where the soldier went to pick up his stuff and was asked to take the laundry of the other service men that died.

You've made me want to watch the series (and the Pacific War one) all over again.

The Pacific was indeed also amazing - I ended up buying A Helmet For My Pillow and With The Old Breed, and they were very much worth reading, even after watching the series.

When visiting the WW1 battlefields last year, I picked up a book called Somme Mud by Edward Lynch, which is also worth a read

The last episode has got me too. Not in the same way, but I’m a bit teary again...

Richard Jewell isn't a great movie, but Paul Walter Hauser is really great as Richard.

Watched Hari-Kiri (remake from a 60's classic). It was slow going but I stuck with it and enjoyed it. Not ultra violent with a bunch of killing but probably not one to watch with the wife.

Same guy made 13 Assassins but they are 2 completely different films. Have to re-watch 13 Assassins soon.

Half an episode im I can already say that "Challenger" is both really well done and insanely tough to watch ...
There were other attempts of disseminating it (Like within the docu Series "when we left earth" ) but not quite with this attention to detail.

Finished watching Away s1. Above average series and will definitely watch s2.

Again, way too much on the kid dynamics but enjoying each astronaut's backstory.

Anyone watch I'm Thinking Of Ending Things?

Yeah, I thought it was absurd that Kathy Bates got the Oscar nomination for what I felt was a typical performance at best. The stuff with Olivia Wilde and Jon Hamm was so ridiculously one note. But Hauser and some of the individual sequences were terrific.

Watching the new Blacklist season, I've not seen a "dip" in writing through s1-s7 so it's pretty consistent to me. Enjoying it but am getting tired of the twist and turns re: Red's background.

For the tweens in your family, Julie and the Phantoms on Netflix is a fun series to watch. From the director of High School Musical and Descendants.

The musical performances are put together well, and the comedic chemistry between the main characters work here, even in the most subtle moments.

My 9yo has already played through the series twice and I'm sure has memorized all the lyrics by now.

STNG - The Inner Light. Surely one of the top 10 Star Trek episodes ever, it's the one that I remember to this day.

Mentioned this in the TV thread but it sucks.

Netflix's The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance has been canceled after one season https://t.co/nFs9BpdKR2 pic.twitter.com/yfbNjcIHI1

— io9 (@io9) September 21, 2020

Didn't even know this existed. The original is one of my favourite revenge stories, I'll track down the remake - thanks!

This is the 2012 Hari-Kiri from Takashi Miike, yes? I got intrigued and looked it up and was like "wait I've seen that". It's decent enough...higher production values and less interesting than most of Miike's stuff.

Sorry, I forget if it was Prime, Netflix or HBO. It's one of those 3 where I found it by just looking at "others have also watched". Boring as heck for the first 20 min or so and could have done with a little more action. But still good.

Glad to find other "samurai" genre fans. FWIW, I loved the last 30 min and the Lucy Liu fight scene of Kill Bill vol 1 starting with

https://youtu.be/Xb_rVO7H3g0

Fantastic movie (vol 2 sucked) and it was great they brought back some old MA legends. Only big problems I had was David Carradine (even more so after circumstances of his death) and the initial wake up from coma scene.

I am concurrently watching The Boys, Lovecraft Country & The Umbrella Academy and it's all running together into a single bizarre fever dream about superpowered occult racists in the 60s.

The exact three shows I'm currently watching, though I finished off Umbrella Academy before I started of Season 2 of The Boys. Adding Fargo as of this Sunday!

I am at least a season behind on Fargo.

To be fair, Lovecraft County, by itself, is indeed about superpowered occult racist in the 60s.

So I'm watching Raised by Wolves, The Boys, Lovecraft County, and Ted Lasso as my weekly shows.

And am binging (well, I consider watching an episode every night or so to be good enough for binging): Better Call Saul, Woke (the new Hulu show), and Community (a rewatch).

Just finished Parks and Recreation for the first time. That was hilarious. I'm just pissed that when it came out I stopped watching in Season 2 because I thought it wasn't going to get any better. I also loved all the Biden cameos/jokes considering the 2020 election.

I just plowed through 5 seasons of BCS.

Started watching Santa Clarita Diet w/Drew Barrymore and enjoying it.

Light hearted zombie genre.

One of my favorite Netflix shows. Well written and overall just well done. It's not groundbreaking or anything, just fun to watch.

Timothy Oliphant is very watchable. Somebody needs to get him and Walton Goggins back together.

Anyone had Hulu skip large sections of episodes? I was watching Fargo s2 pretty passively. And I noticed I was on episode 7 already and tbh it didn’t make much sense. Seems like it’s skipping the middle parts of episodes or something.

Teenage Bounty Hunters was a super fun romp.

The Comey Rule was interesting retelling of James Comey's tenor as FBI director.

I just started watching Cobra Kay as I wanted something light to watch while i was running in the treadmill. I must admit that I'm really surprised and ended watching 3 chapters.

Of course on the surface it's just the same scheme of the old movie but I like the nostalgia touch for these of us that watch the original as kids but also a good parody of today's kids and parenting and the current society generating soft kids. To see it form the "bad" guy eyes is also a fun twist, didn't thought I'd like or recommend this show.

Started watching Van Helsing s4. Not great acting, not great plot etc. but somewhat entertaining and close enough to the zombie genre.

Enola Holmes was enjoyable. More family friendly type thing.

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We really liked Enola Holmes a lot. The age of the viewers were 18, 20, 27 and 55. Really liked the job Millie Bobby Brown did.

Yup. It's quite good. Watch closely and be prepared to watch it a 2nd time.

Wife and I were bored and re-watched "Jason Bourne" (5th in the series, 4th by Matt Damon) last night.

Writing and plot was not near as good as the first 4 IMO (e.g. Deep Dream angle was unnecessary and distracting) but enjoyed it. I know Matt Damon is at the point in his career where he can pick and choose but if I was him, I would do more Bourne movies and really milk the franchise, come out with a Bourne movie every 2-3 years. Arguably, Bourne can become/is better than the James Bond franchise and equal Wick.

My favorites of the genre are Wick > Bourne > Bond.

Started watching "A Year in Space", documentary on Scott Kelly and his year on the space station. First several episodes were on training and on how his family adjusted to him leaving.

Kinda boring but fascinating also. Enjoyed the episode where he was at the Russian Star City, his quarantine, and visiting the tree that Gagarin planted which started a tradition that all the other cosmo/astronauts do also).

If you ever dreamt of being an astronaut, recommend you watch it.

Realised only have 1 month of free Disney+ so might as well watch those Marvel movies I never watched (I stopped using before Age of Ultron). Kind of fun they upconverted them to Dolby Vision. It definitely looks great. And it's been long enough that my fatigue with Marvel movies may be over :D (though I did see and enjoy the two Guardians of the Galaxy and Black Panther in the interim). Maybe it was the character of Iron Man that bored me?

Utopia on Amazon was very strange but enjoyable. Lots of twists and turns.
Emily in Paris is good if your estrogen levels are really high.

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Been watching Prime Japan on Amazon Prime. It does a deeper dive into Japanese stuff such as sushi, ramen, swordsmithing, tea ceremony etc.

It's more of a 'stylistic' documentary but enjoying the different presentation. See new and different types of sushi which was pretty cool (really want to spend a week or so in Kyoto and experience the more traditional stuff). Didn't learn too much about Ramen that I didn't already know. Creating swords was cool.

The tea ceremony episode brought me back to Ralph Macchio scene in Karate Kid II.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7azhcBE3Go

Just finished Sons if anarchy. What next?

The Wire. If you've watched it already, watch it again.
The Americans
Justified
Lost
Bosch
Ray Donovan

Went with Cobra Kai and 3 episodes in extremely happy with our choice.

Watching Schitt's Creek. It's good, but not great. I'm not seeing why it was so amazingly lauded that they felt they needed to have it sweep all the Comedy awards at the Emmys.

I admit I just watched the first couple eps, but it reminded me of some crappy TBS comedy that is just filler between Seinfeld reruns. I don't get it but maybe it got much better.

Fwiw I'm at the end of season 1 and it has its moments but never seems to take off. I've heard it gets better with each season but I haven't seen enough to push forward.

We're at the end of Season 2 of The Good Place and I highly recommend it. It's from Michael Schur of The Office and FJM fame.

We're almost at the end of Season 3. The characters get better and more empathetic, but I am not sure why people thought it was 'due' after it's end more than The Good Place which is a far better show IMO.

We've been watching The Vow on HBO. I didn't know much about the group, only the sensationalist headlines. Keith Raniere came up with a unique blend of multi-level marketing and sex cult that focused on seemingly successful, but deeply unhappy people.

And then somehow convinced some of them to move to Albany.

Watched 4 more episodes of Cobra Kai last night.

This show is borderline perfection. Hits all the right notes and brings back all the nostalgia.

Watching Derek. My goodness, this was way more heart-wrenching than I expected.

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Derek is freaking awesome. Way better than you think it's going to be. Gervais' writing is fantastic.

We finished The Haunting of Bly Manor tonight. It's not what I thought. It has a slow burn, and very deep story that's very confusing, has a number of weak spots, character holes, and an ending I didn't care for, but I was pretty riveted for most of it.

Still going through the Marvel movies I missed. Age of Ultron was meh. Ant Man wasn't bad. Captain America Civil War is good so far (pro Sokovia, while I tend to dislike Stark, and I bet this series is going to do the whole oversight over vigilantes is bad thing). I enjoy watching them in Dolby Vision. But I also enjoy playing on my phone while watching them - so I'm glad I didn't pay to watch on the theater.

I got bored after the first couple episodes when I tried it before. Felt no desire to push through like I did with Community, which also had a creaky start.

Started The Expanse tonight.

Finished season 1 of Raised By Wolves. I enjoyed it, I'll be back for season 2, but it's already got the feeling of something that'll be canceled before it reaches a proper ending.

This is pretty decent. I've started reading the books.

My wife is a Schitt's Creek fanatic. Has watched the whole series at least 10 times. Yet I haven't really found it to be amusing when I'm in the room.

Tried Community as well, but it wasn't doing it for me.

Did anyone else see that Netflix cancelled the final season of GLOW?

Considering it only had one season left and was well loved, it leaves a sour taste in my mouth.

Yeah, kinda lame.

NOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!

They had started filming the final season in February but it got COVID'd and everything got shut down. It was an expensive show to produce and COVID restrictions were going to make it even more expensive because of the large cast, the physicality involved, etc. There's been a few other Netflix show cancellations for the same reasons. Another COVID culture blow.

I know there's some push for a wrap-up movie down the road, and Netflix has the flexibility to do something like that if there's enough support for it.

Teenage Bounty Hunters also got canceled for COVID reasons.

Glow had the other issue of the characters have to be physically close to each other during filming. So keeping the actors on the payroll to not film anything would have been prohibitively expensive.

I'm curious about how 2021 is going to go, re: TV shows. Nothing is being filmed right now. And the things that have come out where filmed pre-COVID and have just been being edited during the last few months.

Actually, there's a lot of filming right now. I was just approached this week for a location rental for shooting a CBS show in early November.

But things are going to look different. SAG is pretty strict on physical separation at all times.

I really need to sit down and watch that.

Huh. I wasn't aware studios had begun filming again. I remember everything was shut down for months... but I wonder if it's just because some studios are filming in safer areas and not places like Georgia...

I know Yellowstone is filming now just across the border from here in Montana. You can Airbnb a place on that ranch when they're not filming.

But everything is just more tenuous and expensive, so it's probably the stuff on the fringes that is the most impacted, and the stuff that already has strikes against it - like bigger casts, indoor sets, scenes requiring close contacts. And the set can be shut down at any time. I know the new Jurassic Park was filming and got shut down over some positive tests.

I think the studios are just willing to take the risk because they are running out of material. I was approached by a show that mostly films in NYC and the surrounding areas. There are a lot of new procedures that I'm sure slow things down and add costs, but networks need the content.

I'm only two episodes in, but I'm definitely still on-board at this point.

The Expanse is great, though Season 4 was pretty bad (of course Book 4 is pretty bad as well). Season 5 should be much better (the book is fantastic).

I read about that GLOW cancellation on sportsdigs.

Thoroughly enjoyed Schitt's Creek <3

Well Captain American Civil War was mindless fun, but there are a few things that just make little sense to me:

I had heard about Glow, but Teenage Bounty Hunters? They show was such fun. That just sucks.

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I passively watched Teenage Bounty Hunters as my wife binged through it and it was almost shockingly not awful at all. Actually quite entertaining at times.

Dexter's coming back for another season with the original show runner.

I don't watch much TV these days, and I don't watch anything weekly as it comes out - I think Breaking Bad and Dexter were the last two shows I remember looking forward to the night they aired.

maybe they can retcon the last 4 seasons?

Watching Moneyball again on Netflix. Kinda went down the rabbit hole a bit and reading about the proposed Stephen Soderbergh version is insane.

Steven Soderbergh's planned film adaptation of Moneyball would have featured an animated version of James as a "host".[32] This script was discarded when director Bennett Miller and writer Aaron Sorkin succeeded Soderbergh on the project.

Just finished Cobra Kai, man, took a direction I did not expect,

Halfway through the Haunting of Bly Manor. Enjoying it quite a bit, a more subtle type of horror than you normally get in these shows (so far, at least).

E! has been running Las Vegas reruns after years of NBC not releasing it. I love it, this show is the perfect guilty pleasure. It is so good.

Amazon Prime has The World Wars on now.

It was on the History channel I believe. Tells the story of the great WW2 leaders from their roles in WW1 through the end of WW2. Great show.

It is a 3 part series. Each part is 1 1/2 hours long.

I'm actually pretty excited about this one.