Kolek planning to go pro
I started watching Election with my daughters on Saturday night. I had forgotten how many scenes there were in that movie that were...ummm...awkward to watch with your children.
This season of Brockmire is a little too on the nose right now. Tough timing for them to begin it in the middle of a pandemic.
Started watching this old kid's TV show from well before I was born....H.R. Pufnstuf. Episodes can be found on youtube.It's pretty stupid, but it has me laughing, so I'll keep watching.
We tried Tiger King last night to see what all the fuss was about. Forced ourselves through two episodes and turned it off.
C’mon. Were you not entertained?
OK, I finished Ozark. Mild spoilers ahead ...I will say that I was not stunned by the ending, in part because of the little bit I had read here. It's not TAMU's fault, but him saying, "Season's ending was perfect" made me think about midway through the episode that what eventually happened was what was gonna happen. It was still a great ending to a fine season. A logical ending, too.I thought this season started a little slowly but really picked up steam when Marty was tortured in episode 4. That wasn't always easy to watch, but I loved Marty's eventual reaction.All in all, I thought the season was very good. As some have said, just a tick behind 1 but better than 2 -- and 2 was pretty darn good.I agree with those who weren't thrilled with Ben's character. Most of the season, he bothered me. But as I said to my wife while watching episode 9, "He's kind of grown on me these last couple of episodes." I thought the actor who played him, Tom Pelphrey, was pretty blah the first 6-7 episodes, almost sounded like he was reading his lines at times. But late in the season, I thought he was quite believable as a bipolar guy whose world suddenly was crumbling around him.As usual, Julia Garner's star shined brightly, but I also loved Janet McTeer as Helen; really came off as wonderfully sinister, though we also got to see her vulnerable side in the way she protected her daughter. (She also was very good in Damages on FX several years back.) I also thought both the Charlotte and Jonah characters came into their own very nicely; I was especially impressed with the actress who played Charlotte.And how 'bout that March-November romance? Amazing. Wyatt meets Ben for the first time and, totally deadpan, asks Ruth: "Isn't he a little old for you?" That's great stuff.Bummed that we're done watching Season 3 -- wanted more! Already looking forward to Season 4.
We're enjoying it. You can't invent that kind of crazy.
Personally, I dont get the desire to watch this kind of stuff. I dont get the allure of making fun of weirdos. They're just living their best life, i say let em get as weird as they want.Maybe don't murder a guy, but you take my point.
Yeah, we watched Episode 2 and weren't sure we wanted to keep watching it either, kind of for the reason you give here. I mean, we never watch any of the dopey reality TV shows or the daytime shows where the weirdos fight each other, or anything like that.But we decided to give it one more episode and then the crime aspect got a lot more interesting to us.It is one effen bizarre show.
My biggest laugh-out-loud moments were every time Joe was being shown in one of his music videos. The fakeness of his voice in those recordings was perfectly captured in Ep 4 when he was singing along to it in the car. His real voice was SO bad ... we had to pause it because we were laughing so hard.
I saw a tweet after it came out that basically said a country band recorded all "Joe's music" and he just softly sang over it. Similar to a live singer with a backing track that is mixed 2-3x louder than their own vocals. So its not even studio magic, he just wasn't the vocalist on the track in actuality.
Some of those songs were really catchy though.
Haven't seen this show for at least 40 years, but I can still hum the theme song and probably get most of the lyrics right.
Just finished Ozark. Spot on review, Mike. Wasn’t a big fan of Ben either (early), but when he came undone it was powerful. And Laura Linney’s agony during their road trip and its aftermath was so real it was hard to watch.Can’t wait for next year, either.
After running through so many new series and movies, I decided to get the family on some classics. Rushmore, Casablanca and The Apartment, so far. B+, A, A+. (I had not seen The Apartment. Outstanding.)