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12 minutes ago, Dan Gilmore said:

My son just got back from the White House. He was performing as part of the Marine Band in a celebration of the 25th anniversary of The West Wing. Sorkin and a lot of the cast/crew. He said it was a great event and he especially liked a brief Martin Sheen speech that was kind of Jed Barlett lite.

That’s great.  I saw tweets about it.  My WW claim to fame is seeing Richard Schiff when we were all walking out. I said Hi and he nodded and he gave me the Toby look. Loved it.  

[Deleterious]

First episode of The Penguin was fantastic.  Colin Farrell will win awards for how he is playing Oz.

[boilerfan]

On 7/27/2024 at 8:33 AM, chasfh said:

Is that the deal with the Bear?

One of the podcasts I listen to said that the show runners had always planned for three seasons.  Hulu/FX insisted after season two that they change it to four seasons.  Unfortunately that made season three a drag.

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3 hours ago, boilerfan said:

One of the podcasts I listen to said that the show runners had always planned for three seasons.  Hulu/FX insisted after season two that they change it to four seasons.  Unfortunately that made season three a drag.

interesting.

I've been disappointed with season 3.  I lost the urgency to watch it and now we have 2 episodes left and will finish probably tomorrow night.  It didn't draw me in this time.  The episodes reminded of what TV shows were doing during COVID when restrictions on production meant they often had isolated storylines in order to reduce exposure.   I want more action in the restaurant.  In the one episode when they flashed back to earlier days and you saw them all yelling at each other, that was fun.  It got to the point where I would welcome a commercial on Hulu so I could play on my phone.

 

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Season3 of the Bear was a mess

[boilerfan]

Lets hope that they redeem themselves and get back to the original energy with season 4.

They have also offered insight on the limitations put on Rings of Power.  I knew they only had use of specific parts of the written material, but they are also limited to only 8 episodes per season.  Those limitations come from the Tolkien Estate.  That is why they have had some one hour plus episodes this season.

[boilerfan]

Slow Horses is about to wrap up another really solid season.  They have also finished filming the next season. 

[CMRivdogs]

47 minutes ago, boilerfan said:

Slow Horses is about to wrap up another really solid season.  They have also finished filming the next season. 

This season is finally starting to pick up steam the last couple of episodes. I was a bit disappointed early in the season.

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On 9/21/2024 at 12:48 AM, Deleterious said:

First episode of The Penguin was fantastic.  Colin Farrell will win awards for how he is playing Oz.

Just started watching.

It really is great … and I agree his portrayal is pretty amazing.

[Deleterious]

Watch two minutes from this spot.  I had to look it up and see if Sorkin wrote it or some WW alum directed it.  Negative on both.  Still a nice walk and talk.

 

[Deleterious]

Finished a rewatch of The Shield.  Such an underrated and great show.  Arguably the best series finale ever IMO.  It was the girls first time watching it and she enjoyed it.  A bit shocked since it isn't really her type of show.

[chasfh]

On 10/9/2024 at 10:55 PM, Deleterious said:

Finished a rewatch of The Shield.  Such an underrated and great show.  Arguably the best series finale ever IMO.  It was the girls first time watching it and she enjoyed it.  A bit shocked since it isn't really her type of show.

I watched it for maybe a couple shows and I crapped out, basically because cop shows were never my thing. But I was very impressed with the innovative way they started out building up one of the characters to make you believe he was going to be a main guy throughout the series, and then toward the end of the series premiere episode they unceremoniously killed him off. That got my attention. I may give it another whirl.

[Edman85]

Detroiters is on Netflix.

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33 minutes ago, Edman85 said:

Detroiters is on Netflix.

They feature exterior shots of the Temple Bar, which sadly had some structural damage occur this year and has yet to reopen.  I see pallets of materials out front but they've been there for awhile so who knows... sure hope they reopen. Classic dive bar and a favorite of ours before or after Tiger games.  No nonsense.  

[romad1]

On 10/3/2024 at 9:16 AM, CMRivdogs said:

This season is finally starting to pick up steam the last couple of episodes. I was a bit disappointed early in the season.

The ending was solid.  

[Shades of Deivi Cruz]

3 hours ago, Edman85 said:

Detroiters is on Netflix.

One day later than was promised, but yay! I've actually never seen it, but love I Think You Should Leave. I've watched two episodes of Detroiters already, and I can tell that it's going to work for me.

[chasfh]

Colin from Accounts. Watch it.

 

[Deleterious]

Colin Farrell isn't the only one killing it in Penguin. Cristin Milioti is excellent as Sofia. She does crazy really well.

The one small thing that is sort of odd. Penguin is making moves and Batman is nowhere to be found? I get it's not a Batman show. But how is all this crime being committed in Gotham and Batman is nowhere to be seen?

[Deleterious]

Ken Jennings said Jeopardy will start streaming in early 2025.  It will include the 41 previous seasons as well.  He said mostly likely it will be on Hulu or Prime.  

[chasfh]

Hope they include the Art Fleming seasons.

[Deleterious]

From Wiki:

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Only a small number of episodes survive from Fleming's run as host of Jeopardy!. From the original NBC daytime version, archived episodes mostly consist of black-and-white kinescopes of the original color videotapes.[169]

 

[chasfh]

I'm one of the few people who watched the Art Fleming Jeopardy a lot, particularly in the summer at noon on channel 4 ("WWJ-TV, The Detroit News"), and who is a regular viewer of the Ken Jennings Jeopardy, but who almost never watched the Alex Trebek Jeopardy. 🤷‍♂️

[CMRivdogs]

36 minutes ago, chasfh said:

I'm one of the few people who watched the Art Fleming Jeopardy a lot, particularly in the summer at noon on channel 4 ("WWJ-TV, The Detroit News"), and who is a regular viewer of the Ken Jennings Jeopardy, but who almost never watched the Alex Trebek Jeopardy. 🤷‍♂️

It was frequently on in one of my classrooms while I was in high school. I think it was social studies. A bunch of us would bug out of lunch and hang out there

[Tigeraholic1]

Landman is a fantastic series, really gives you the prospective of the oil bussiness in the Permian Basin.

 

 

[Deleterious]

23 minutes ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

Landman is a fantastic series, really gives you the prospective of the oil bussiness in the Permian Basin.

 

 

The daughter makes me uncomfortable.