I read his book Amoralman recently, and that spurred my interest in this.

I don’t like the Lakers at all, but found the first 4 episodes of Winning Time to be quite enjoyable.

Wasn’t feeling Halo at all. Maybe I’ll try to check in on it after the rest of the season is over.

I don't know if it was mentioned before but Russian Doll was pretty cool. I won't spoil it for you, season 2 is coming out pretty soon I believe (unless it already is)

I just finished watching the F1 series on Netflix. So, F1 just makes up rules as they go? Some of those decisions from last year seemed super arbitrary and ludicrous. Definitely got me playing Motorsport Manger again, though.

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Adrien Brody def was the MVP as Pat Riley the other night. The guy that plays Bird was so spot on. I don’t care if Winning Time is historically accurate or not…it’s super entertaining

I am watching this Abercrombie & Finch documentary. My 14 year old walked by the TV and caught about five minutes of it. Just based on the look on his face, I immediately felt the need to declare that I did not have any association with that brand growing up.

I've been really liking Slow Horses on Apple TV+, I'm a sucker for the British "serious" spy kind of thing like MI5 and anything John Le Carre. Slow Horses is really well done, and Gary Oldman is great as the crude sidelined boss.

Only bad thing is having to wait til next friday for the last episode.

Lol. I can imagine how that must have been like.

Unfortunately for me, I was a young teen and impressionable in the early 2000s. That documentary really stressed how influential that company was. I remember having all of those silly feelings. Feeling uncool if I didn't have an A&F polo. Awful times haha

Totally agree with this. It's very entertaining and the cast is fantastic.

I dunno about Ozark.

Dola- they maybe needed 3 to 5 episodes to accomplish what it took 14 episodes to do. I think that’s my main beef.

My wife and I are struggling with Ozark. Dragging along.

We're only one episode in to the new Ozark episodes. Feels like the whole season they are too forcefully pulling all the threads together to close it out. I don't think it needed a neat ending, but hey, maybe that's not what we'll get.

I'm really enjoying the Dropout Mini-series on Hulu about Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos. Never a dull moment. And actually very funny at times.

Can't wait.

I tapped out after Season 2. I know people love the show but I hated just about every character and it was slow and repetitive.

Count me among those who love Ozark. Great show.

Oh yay, a fictionalized version of The Staircase. Just what we need is a "based on a true story" version of actual events that were made famous by a documentary filmed as those events unfolded in real time. I wonder if they brought in Oliver Stone to direct the owl scenes...

Just found out that Kids In The Hall is going to have a new season come out on Amazon Prime May 13th. Hyped!

This came out during the pandemic, and was a pretty unique performance. I'd highly suggest as well

We Were Soldiers is the most intense and disturbing war movie ever

I finished the first season of the Flight Attendant and that show is damn good. I had no idea Kaley Cuoco could be such a good actress.

Anyone seen Moon Knight yet? Not a huge Marvel fan but it did interest me. Oscar Isaac is great in everything.

The book is even better IMO. Hal Moore (and Joe Galloway) provided a masterwork in the genre.

Agreed. Movie is fine, little cheesy. Book is incredible.

I guess it was a good bit of story telling if I was actually happy the Lakers won the title on Winning Time.

Aww man! Spoilers!



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I have only watched a couple of episodes of Winning Time so far, but I totally get why certain people are upset by how they are being portrayed.

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I really enjoyed watching this. I sort of binged it over the past two weeks and enjoyed it. That was a little before my time, so I really enjoyed (and thought the best part was) the dynamic between McKinney (who I had never even heard of), Westhead, and Riley. I thought the actor that played McKinney was really good, as was the actor that played Spencer Haywood (even though that part got over the top). The guys that played Bird and Kareem were standouts for me, too.

I had heard the blowback about and from West, but after the first couple of episodes, I thought they actually did a good job of showing him as just being insanely competitive. I think he looked like a caricature at first and then became more and more likable as the season went on. Magic is the one that seems like he came out looking the worst, with all the womanizing and prostitutes. Glad there is going to be, at least, a season 2 because they sure didn't let him get much of a redemption arc.

I don’t understand how Kareem was bashing it when he easily had the best edit of anyone and the show went out of its way to build up how he was so amazing. Jamaal Wilkes is a Hall of Famer and they could have given him a bit more to do.

One thing they left off, and honestly it’s not a big deal, but the Lakers made some throwaway trade during 79-80 that lead to them getting the #1 pick for Worthy.

Guessing season 2 focuses on 80-81 and at least some of 81-82 because of obvious spoilers.

Haywood is a fascinating guy. This was a good mini-doc about him I watched on YouTube. https://youtu.be/X_khl9Aw7kM

They also bought a book about the Kobe Shaq Lakers so this could eventually lead into that.

I'm guessing the episode one "F*ck off, kid" probably turned him off on the rest of the show.

According to him, though, John C. Reilly is only contracted currently for one more season.

Isn't Kareem a pretty notorious prick toward fans? I know I've heard a few stories of him telling kids to piss off when asking for an autograph.

I don't know about that but I do remember this one time Kareem was piloting a plane and a kid innocently relayed that his old man didn't think Kareem hustled enough. Kareem WENT OFF on the poor little guy.

Not a streaming show, but I'm stoked to see that season 9 of Alone starts May 26. Easily one of my favorite shows.

Artistic license aside, I wonder if it is the portrayal or that we are seeing their 1980's behavior with 2022 eyes and morals.

Also, the Kids in the Hall revival hits Amazon Prime on Friday.

The new Kids in the Hall is way better than I thought it would be. They threaded the needle on self-deprecation/parody, nostalgia and pushing boundaries really effectively.

wasn't so sure about the last couple-ish episodes of Barry but last night was great.

Shoresy on Hulu for fans of Letterkenny.

Obi Wan is solid and I'm excited to see where it's going, but holy shit the child actor for Leia isn't very good. And stop with the terrible chase scenes. I mean, seriously, please stop with the children outrunning adults because the adults are running like they have a plunger up their ass and then run into tree branches right in front of their face and any number of other chase scene tropes that have been horrible since the beginning of time.

Hahaha yeah I said exactly that. I know Stormtroopers are notoriously bad at shooting, but when you have a 10? year old girl outrunning multiple henchmen in the woods because they apparently can't go around branches it felt like a parody.

Also just finished We Own This City. What a gut punch of an ending, glad I didn't spoil it by reading up on the case before.

I simultaneously like and hate the adventures of Baby Leia and Old Ben. Today's episode was a bit too fanfic. Like Vader had wanted to use his version of the “jerk store” come back for too long.

Episode 3 of Obi Wan was really good.

Watched a couple episodes of Obi-Wan and enjoying it. The young Leia is fun.

Watched a couple episodes of Stranger Things and overall enjoying it also. However, the actors "maturity" is a distraction. I hope this is the last season for those characters but wouldn't mind another group of kids to continue.

Finished watching Ozarks. A little disappointed in the ending but overall a great series. Will miss it.

Ug, episode 3 light saber fighting was horrible. Com’on invest in a better choreographer and training.

I never even finished the Boba Fett show, so I don't think I'll even bother with this Obi Wan show, considering the middling reaction here and everywhere else.


Being a Star Wars 'fan' just seems exhausting these days (and I'm not sure I even qualify as one anymore). I just liked some movies from the 70s/80s, I didn't realize I was signing on to a 1000 year commitment to the Sea Org or whatever.

I'll finish watching the series because it's 6 episodes, but the production value difference between it & Mando/Boba Fett is baffling. Did getting Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christiansen take up a huge chunk of the budget or something? Even the writing is leaving huge holes

I watched The Pentaverate with Mike Myers. Should have been FIVE episodes, not six -- PENTaverate. Someone should have been fired there. If you're into Mike Myers, this is your jam. Of the main characters, more are played by Mike Myers than all other actors combined. If you don't like how many times I said Mike Myers in this post, then you're not Mike Myers enough to watch this show. Mike Myers.

While I am only 4 episodes in, I am loving this season of Stranger Things so far. I will never get enough Steve & Dustin.

I really enjoyed the first episode of Ms. Marvel.

Barry has been absolutely phenomenal this season. Perhaps the best show to date.

I am not loving Obi-Wan. I want to. I really do, but I'm just not feeling it.

First three episodes of The Boys were a delight. Happy to have it back!

Not loving Stranger Things. Half way through ep 5 and I find it to be a slog.

I think they are faithful to the story line. But the maturity of the "kids" is distracting and takes away from what was great in the earlier seasons.

But I'll finish it just for closure.

Barry is so awesome.

Halfway through the latest (last? I think?) season of Peaky Blinders.

Different, but probably better than I feared it might be. Pace feels ... quicker.

I read an interview with Cillian Murphy that indicated this was the final season but a potential movie is in the works.

More here: Why won’t there be a Peaky Blinders season 7? Creator explains | Radio Times

I've watched 2 of the 3 episodes of the documentary The Invisible Pilot so far. Somehow I completely missed the story of Gary Betzner growing up. It's been a complicated watch so far. The story itself is amazing - and I haven't even gotten to the 3rd ep which focuses on his ties to the Iran-Contra stuff. But the dude went from hippie type (free love/drugs) to saying he was doing a service to mankind in bringing illegal drugs to the US and that Pablo Escobar is a legend, both as a smuggler and human being. Ugh.

It's definitely fascinating seeing him and his former wife, both from a small Arkansas town, act so differently than one would expect. He's obviously much older now, but it's weird seeing this old dude talk so openly about doing coke and other drugs.

Anyway, it's an interesting story and only about a 3 hour total watch.

Finished Peaky Blinders S6 tonight.

Quite solid, with a twist I never saw coming.

The feature film put some limitations on what they could do but overall I enjoyed it.

I have that whole series lined up next. For some reason, the name made me ignore it but everyone I talk to says it's great.

I thought Peaky Blinders suuuuuuucked, just to ruin your consensus.

I felt like S5 lagged, S4 to some degree as well. But S6 felt like it regained focus with better performances, writing, and visuals.

I never made it that far, so it may have gotten better for all I know. I didn't enjoy the contrast of all the stylized modern production values vs. the historical setting....which I think is exactly what appealed to everybody else. I felt like I was watching over-the-top cosplay (which is a very fine line, in regards to any kind of acting, I suppose).

We are finishing Ozark right now. We are on the last 4 episodes. The motel they have in town is actually filmed about three miles from where my wife works. She has always been a little flustered thinking her biggest crush, Jason Batemen, has been so close. But now it's "John Boy Walton was right there!"

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I would still like to reiterate that Reacher is great on Amazon. Pretty damn close to the book (they had to modernize some stuff like adding cell phones).

Also For All Mankind is still a terrific show. If you liked Battlestar Gallactica, it's done by the same guy and has a lot of the same style.

I'll second "For All Mankind." I'm only 3-4 episodes into the first season, but it's been great. I've been sidetracked on shows after a bunch of new stuff came out recently - Stranger Things, Ms. Marvel, Obi-Wan, The Boys, etc.

I'll definitely get back to it!

I also enjoyed "For All Mankind" but will wait till all/most episodes are released before watching.

Obi-wan ep 5 was pretty good story wise but the light saber duel was ... disappointingly laughable. I do like the plot twist with you know who.

A couple years ago, I googled on the lake house. Not my style but wonder how much it goes for now.

Finished the latest season of Barry and the latest season of Peaky Blinders. Both excellent.

Our Flag Means Death is so good. So much talent and off the wall shit. It's great. Love it.

I had heard about and didn't realize it is based on Stede Bonnett. Fascinating historical figure.

Loved The Dropout. It is one of those stories that wouldn't be believable if it hadn't actually happened.

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Don't go into it expecting any sort of historical accuracy, just plan to laugh.

Watched one and a half episodes of Moon Knight. Maybe it's like Wanda Vision and I need to watch 3-4 episodes but it didn't catch my interest.

Don't bother. That one certainly did not conclude its first season satisfactorily. Maybe it will come together into something good/great, but there's no reason to buy in until it does.

I absolutely adored Julia. I want a petition to get Bebe Nuewirth and David Hyde Pierce in everything. They play off each other so well.

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How do you screw up a big budget show with Oscar Isaac as your lead?

Obi-wan finale was the best of all the episodes.

By simultaneously deciding to take a 'slow burn' approach to a superhero show, while also deciding to make the season 6 episodes long.

It was. It had some good moments, but, also, some dumb moments. Overall, I didn't love it.

I finished the first 7 episodes of Season 4 of Stranger Things. Loved it. So, so good. I can't wait for the final two episodes.

I really enjoyed the first two episodes of "The Old Man" on Hulu.

Really enjoying Ms. Marvel. Super fun show that makes me smile.

Season 3 of "The Boys" has been fantastic so far.

Excited to get into Season 3 of "The Umbrella Academy."

So much quality TV.

Slow Horses on Apple TV is really good if you like old school British spy stuff with some comedy thrown in.

Netflix's Lincoln Lawyer was entertaining. I felt the last episode to tie up (most) of the multiple "cases" was a little rushed but overall worth the time.

Also Bosch Legacy was pretty good. Didn't like the cliff-hanger but am looking forward to next season.

I absolutely loved the first two seasons of Barry. They are among the best in television comedy ever. Season 3 to me as a disappointment. It went from dark-comedy to just dark.

Same. I was utterly underwhelmed by Obi-Wan as a series. It was so mid, it hurt

I'll "third" it. I just renewed my Apple TV+ subscription to begin watching season three. I'm fascinated by the way they mesh real-life historical figures with fictitious ones, and the timeline that has recognizable major historical events, plus new ones that are plausible with the divergent timeline.

I've watched the first 3 episodes of Love Fraud on Showtime. DirecTV gave me 3 free months of Showtime, so I found a few things of interest and DVR'd them.

I hadn't heard about this docuseries but it apparently came out about 6 months after Tiger King and it's got that same kind of "this can't be real" vibe to it. It's about this dude who repeatedly scams middle aged women into thinking they are getting married (or sometimes getting married) before he takes off with as much money as he can get and then moves on to the next one. The crazy thing is, he does most of his damage in the KC/Wichita areas.

It even features a female dog the bounty hunter-type who helps the women track him down, although most of the people involved in the story are sad/gullible types and not over the top trashy characters, so in that way, it's superior to Tiger King. It's been pretty good at balancing humor with the story of women who've lost everything, and the storyline/pacing makes it something of a thriller. I'd recommend it if this is something that interests you.

Thanks for this. It's crazy. I keep saying, wtf?!

Finished the last 2 episodes of Stranger Things. Enjoyed both even though I had to suspend belief on how "young/dorky" the "kids" looked. Nice action, good tension, and playing the metal music was classic!

Looks like there'll be another season to close it out.

I think critics are mixed on the Terminal List.

But I enjoyed it even though the conspiracy is a little too outlandish. Good action, no need to over analyze. There were a couple episodes that seemed the production was off? It was too dark (?) and hard to see on my TV.

I've just competed Invasion on Apple TV +. It was quite possibly the worst series I've ever seen, no idea how I made it to the end.

Nicely shot, nicely acted (in the main, one of the main characters is a bit awful), but a slow, disjointed, terrible storyline full of plot holes. And they're making season two too!

I made it half way through the first episode of Invasion. The TV version of a game with amazing graphics and awful gameplay.


4 episodes into British drama The Night Manager starring Tom Hiddlestone and Hugh Laurie, really enjoying it - a kind of spy/espionage drama.

Just finished Peaky Blinders. Love the show. This season I thought was great with some excellent twists at the end.

Season 4 of For All Mankind is just as good as the others. Thought it might lose some of its charm with the time jumps and it does move a little fast, but a really unique and great show.

For All Mankind has been really good

Definitely not a metal head but happy to read this ...

I have always loved that song.

New Beavis and Butthead movie was real good.

The Master of Puppets scene was one of the best TV scenes I've seen all year. Well done Stranger Things! Also, it's nice to see Master of Puppets flying up the charts because of it. It's always been a fav of mine.