This makes me happy: https://deadline.com/2022/02/docu-s...ob-odenkirk-david-cross-paramount-1234923990/
Started watching Invasion on Apple + this past week. Overall I like it and like many alien invasion stories it's far more about the reactions of humans towards the invasion than about the aliens themselves. For those who saw the Epix War of the World it feels very similar to that with sprawling multiple stories that may or may not be connected and is fairly dark and negative. Definitely not a pick me up show. The complaints I have about it are that like a lot of shows it goes out of the way to inject interpersonal drama rather than just let things play out. It's not enough these are humans facing the end of the World we have to get them worked up over things like affairs and high school bullying. Another complaint comes from that shows about alien invasions the aliens are often very poorly thought out and even though they are so advanced they have figured out how to cross interstellar distances they act like just brute animals. That was for me what really doomed Signs.
Binge watched The English Game on Netflix. Fantastic story, great writers, and great acting. I don't even like soccer that much, but couldn't stop watching this series.
I started the new Jack Reacher series on Prime the other night. It seems to be closely following one of the novels. The actor is certainly better suited for the role that Tom Cruise, but god if he isn't taking his clothes off constantly. Aside from that annoyance, it's a pretty good action show.
So after finishing Last Chance U about JC football, my wife was agreeable to starting the Last Chance U about JC basketball. Glad she was... we have only seen a few episodes of season 1 but to me its way better than the football one (and more like the final season based on Laney College). More interesting (and likeable) players and a way better (and much more likeable coach... certainly compared to Stephens and Brown... Beam was a huge improvement at Laney).
Is anyone out there besides me still watching regular TV? Probably not.. March - a reality show on CW about the Prairie View marching band. Interesting to me because I'm a total band geek (duh) and I love all the HBCU bands. I also worked at the PV campus for a while back in the late 90's and it's amazing how much that little campus has changed. They have a nicer football stadium than Sam Houston.... It's a little MTV Real World-ish at times, but still a fun show if you were ever in a marching band.
It’s also suspenseful and a violent mystery. Surprisingly good, in my opinion. I’ve read several of the Reacher novels by Lee Child, and unlike the couple of Tom Cruise films (talk about miscast!), this series is very much like the novels. Alan Ritchman, who I had never heard of before this, is perfectly cast as Jack Reacher. In the novels, Reacher is 6’5” and around 250 lbs, incredibly smart, utterly ruthless, someone as good in a fight as Ritchman’s character is here, and essentially a good guy. Like Reacher in this series. Reacher, on Amazon Prime, is clearly “season one” of what Amazon hopes will be an ongoing and successful series. There is a lot of Reacher’s background shown at different points in the episodes, so the viewer will hopefully understand where Reacher is coming from. That’s a little overdone, in my opinion, but Amazon clearly thought it was necessary. I think Amazon struck gold here. They have an unknown in the lead (saves on expenses and he’s perfect for the role), each season will be based on a novel (this one was based on Child’s Killing Floor), Reacher travels around the country having a variety of violent adventures, usually with a woman involved (all very well written in the novels), so there isn’t a lot of very expensive special effects, and if the scripts remain as good as this initial season, I think they’ll get several seasons of Reacher for fans to enjoy. In my opinion, of course.
It reminds me of Banshee: same gratuitous violence, fewer boobs, ridiculous storyline, big fun all around.
Haven't seen it, but found that it should be on HBO/Max, so I'll check it out sometime. What I liked about Reacher was how closely it followed the character in the novels, after the Cruise version bore little resemblance to them. That made a difference for me.
I'm rewatching The Expanse. It's much better on the second run when you can binge it and know all the characters. It makes following the politics and plot lines much easier and interesting.
After watching a series of documentaries and dramas on Netflix it is time to re-engage in a guilty pleasure... Love is Blind, Season 2. A self described "social experiment" to see if people can and will make the right choice of spouse when all they can go by is the sound of their voice. The contestants converse with each other in "private pods" where they are separated by a wall and smoked glass. The shows starts out with a huge number of men and women but focuses on the most interesting (looks, personality, personal stories). Last season the ones that do pair up and get engaged then have to go through actual dating which often breaks them up. So mindless... perfect after a bunch of true crime, the two series of Last Chance U, and more serious dramas.
No, not in the pods (the glass doesn't let any light through). They only see each others silhouettes after the proposal in a special room where even then there are two frosted glass doors that allow them only to see the silhouettes just before the doors open. It will be interesting this season because they did have two women who are overweight. So the guy that proposed will have a short glimpse of the silhouette before the reveal and reaction. btw, the still shot in the trailer above is the room where they meet after the proposal.
Funny you should ask. Not directly, after al, its a "social experiment" to see if "love is truly blind" and I am sure the producers drill that into contestants. Once in a while they get close to asking. For example, one Indian guy was blabbing about he likes to date small thin blonde girls and asked the woman if he would be able to put her on his shoulders. She should have said... "if you had any muscles". Turns out she was an Indian woman, way more attractive than him, obviously not blonde, and she said she lost 70 pounds (one of two contestants that went through 70 pound weight losses). He sorta came to the awareness he was being a jerk asking. The contestants do sorta ask questions or give answers that get close like "I like to work out every day". A good portion of the contestants are very attractive/handsome as you might expect on a television show.
My wife is watching that Love is Blind show as she's out of other content to watch. It's silly, but I don't judge because I loved my share of trash before my time got limited.
