Amph What was the last tv episode you watched?

For All Mankind is very good at the alternate history, making things seem mostly plausible. While there are some silly gimmicks

Spoiler: small detail

such as John Lennon escaping the assassination attempt and rediscovering his peace activism

, I don't think you'll be disappointed in that respect.

I watched the first season of Only Murders in the Building. I thought it was funny-- I laughed out loud at least once an episode. Things got really convoluted at the end, so I'm looking forward to seeing if season two can keep it interesting.

 

The Baby, episodes 1 & 2... um WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAt the **** is this insanity?

Barry, season 3 episode 2... Bill Hader is ******* terrifying.

 

Shining Girls.

this is pretty strange , and a bit hard to follow.

 

Rewatching The Stand from the 90's and comparing it to the new one. It's pretty good, a bit more faithful to the book, maybe simpler. Gary Sinese is good in it, right before he became a star.

 

Started Peter Capaldi's run as the 12th Doctor.

Deep Breath
Great episode; a lot going on. Very entertaining. Capaldi is a terrific actor.

Into the Dalek
This is an interesting story. Good/bad dalek. Intense and entertaining.

Robot of Sherwood
Robin Hood episode with Clara.

 

Doctor Who: The Web Planet

The Doctor and his companions become involved in a conflict between basically...giant insect-like races. Probably the worst looking First Doctor serial in terms of costumes.

 

Rewatched all of What If...?, and Loki. Also finished The Defenders

 

Shining Girls episodes 1&2
Elisabeth Moss is the survivor of a vicious assault, who now finds herself seemingly jumping between one reality to another. Meanwhile, her attacker is still out there attacking women, and also seems to be jumping between realities.

It's interesting so far.

 

Just started The Offer on Paramount+ about the making of The Godfather. It's actually not bad, the reviews have been pretty terrible. I'm enjoying it so far, Matthew Goode is pitch perfect imitation of Robert Evans.

 

Doctor Who: The Space Museum

The Doctor and his companions find themselves in a space museum, with their future selves as exhibits. They must somehow find a way to avert the future...

The serial ends with...

Spoiler

the Daleks discovering them and declaring their intention to pursue and exterminate them.

 

I finished the second season of The Great. While it's pretty entertaining and wears its ahistorical nature on its sleeve ("An Occasionally True Story"), I can't help but think that it would've been much better if it had stuck closer to reality. I would argue that what really happened is more absurd than anything a screenwriter could come up with. Other than a few key points that match history, it might as well not be about Catherine or Russia at all. They also did Elizabeth dirty by, instead of making her the reigning Empress who dragged Peter III from his home in Holstein and the one who arranged his marriage to Catherine, she's just... his weird aunt who kinda hangs around and never dreamed of holding the throne.

 

Finished Life & Beth on Hulu. Say what you will about her off screen, I think Amy Schumer is hilarious and talented, and she shows it in this series. The 6.5 rating it’s got on IMDb feels like a bunch of people gave up after the first couple of episodes, which I was tempted to do myself after the pretty bad first impression it gave. But I wound up really enjoying the series. Schumer is great, as is Michael Cera, who capitalizes on his offbeat talents with a character that is extremely awkward, yet oddly magnetic. I recommend it. Just gotta get past those first two episodes.

 

Doctor Who: The King's Demons

The Fifth Doctor, Turlough and Tegan arrive in 1215 England and uncover a plot by the Master to stop the Magna Carta from being drafted and signed by King John.

 

I love that show , it made me forgive Lindeloff for the last season of Lost.

 

The Moon Knight finale was IMO the best episode of the bunch. If you missed the post-credits coda, take a look. It's worth it. At least here, the credits went to an embedded screen with Eternals advertised as soon as they started rolling (which was weird because we've seen Eternals, and Disney knows it) so we had to go back and fast forward through the whole episode to see them. I was a bit surprised, because that doesn't usually happen on Disney+, you usually get the skip credits button if there's a coda. That said, the whole show was very confusing, I could never tell what really happened and what was a delusion. I guess it's a cool gimmick for an episode or two, but I don't think it's enough to carry a whole show. Overall, I must admit that I'm a bit disappointed with MK, because the first episode showed a lot of promise.

TOS: What Are Little Girls Made Of? is probably my favorite first season TOS episode. Sure it was sexist, but by no means as bad as some other episodes, and it raised some interesting questions about artificial sentience. The spinning platform where they replicated Kirk reminded me a lot of the machine that turned humans into... something else in The Black Hole. I wonder if that was inspired by this episode.

TNG:
The Chase. Solid entertainment, with a great in-universe explanation for the number of intelligent bipedal humanoids in the galaxy. Great to see a Klingon scientist, as well.
Frame of Mind. Absolutely brilliant acting by Jonathan Frakes, reminded me a lot of Picard in Chain of Command.
Suspicions. Interesting to see a Ferengi scientist, and another Klingon one, a woman at that.
Rightful Heir. Interesting take on the effects of religious belief on a society (Klingon in this case), and how people use the heartfelt personal belief of others to remain in power or to get there.

SW: Resistance. We're about halfway through the second season, and this show's really improved by leaps and bounds. If you gave up watching early on in the first season, the beginning of the second one's already much better and it keeps improving.

 

Regarding Suspicions, I think that was the first TNG that didn't treat a Ferengi as either a villain, slapstick comic, or a combination of both. That Ferengi was treated more in line with how Deep Space Nine would handle them as a species and culture.

 

TNG: Second Chances. One of my favorite episodes, one Riker is good, two Rikers are even better!

 

Make sure you watch the DS9 episode "Defiant."

 

Candy Episode 1

This has 47% RT, but I can tell you the dark humor and 1980s repressed suburban housewife atmospherics are top notch, but what sold me on the first episode was a parking lot scene after a viewing of Empire Strikes Back. Absolutely wicked. I know when you think of Jessica Biel's post 7th Heaven career, it's mostly as a string of failures, but she's convincing here. I'm not sure she's quite up to the quality of Melanie Lynskey, who carried a whole lot in the first episode almost without saying a word.

I'm surprised critics have been unkind. The first episode is devious.

 

Episodes 2 & 3 of For All Mankind. I'm enjoying it. So far, the way history is diverging is fairly believable.

 

Oh, I will, when we get there.

TOS: The Dagger of the Mind. This is one of those episodes that I clearly remember watching in reruns as a kid in the mid-80s, and it has stayed with me ever since.

TNG:
Timescape. Another of those episodes where something weird is happening to time. I enjoyed this episode, though.
Descent pt 1 & 2. One of the most interesting Borg episodes, IMO, even if they weren't particularly menacing in this one. I was a bit surprised at how quickly the crew, especially La Forge, forgave Data for his behavior while under the influence of Lore's manipulations.

 

The first episode of Around the World in 80 Days starring David Tennant. It's been decades since I last read the book, but this miniseries of eight 45-minute episodes looks promising. Great production values and a fun story. Phileas Fogg is a bit of an idiot at times, but a charming one. Passepartout is Black, which is a credible change (I don't remember any mentions of his skin color in the book), and there's no Detective Fix on his trail, but instead a young intrepid journalist, Abigail Fortescue, traveling under her professional pseudonym, Abigail Fix, travels with them.

 

Taxi Driver Series 1

I really enjoyed this.

A Korean series that sees a group who have all lost loved ones to crime, they decide to go after criminals who cheat the system.

What follows is a tale with some epic fight sequences, car chases, a killer soundtrack and an excellent sense of balance.

It also is a 16-episode complete tale. There's no final few minutes cliffhanger that blights so many series now. This is a story that knows how to develop and then conclude, albeit with a good few twists along the way.

Going to be looking out for the next series.

 

Kids in the Hall 2022 (Amazon Prime) Ep 1