Wow, I forgot about Heroic Trio. Local rep houses in the Bay Area ran HK film series in the 90s.
On that note, want to see Blue Velvet again, now playing after David Lynch passed.
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Resident Alien season 3 is on Netflix! If you don’t already know it, it’s a SyFy channel show about an alien living on earth in the human form of Alan Tudyk (Wash from Firefly). The show itself is a serial of very very light sci fi drama (that is to say, mostly comedy) that reminds me a lot of the old show Eureka. Certainly, if you liked that show, you will like this. But really, the main reason to watch is Tudyk’s absolutely hysterical performance as an alien in human skin. I’m pretty sure the last time an alien was this funny, it required Robin Williams on so, SO much cocaine… Beyond Tudyk, Alice Wetterlund as zany friend D’arcy and Elizabeth Bowen as Deputy Liv Baker are standouts among a fairly strong cast.
Anyway, it’s cute, there are small town laughs, outlandish characters, and a very sentimental, soft n gooey center.
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Someone raved about this show on Pajiba and god knows I’m in the market for funny, warm hearted comedies these day. Thanks for the rec!
I’m finishing up AP Bio on Netflix which has its moments of really quirky great comedy. Also enjoying The Franchise on max which has sadly been cancelled. Great storyline about making a superhero movie filled with good British actors and produced by Armando Iannucci.
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It is one of the funniest shows on TV, with great strong female characters. The most recent season was weaker than the rest, I thought.
I mentioned it a few years ago, apparently (had no idea it started that long ago!)
The original premise doesn’t really work so well at this point.
It’s got a bit of an edge, for sure. It’s no Ted Lasso.
Loved Gomorrah, but the last season was the weakest. 
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Couldn’t like Lasso as much as I tried, watched about 4 episodes and gave up. 
It’s been so long I don’t remember now whether we watched all the seasons 
. I thought Salvatore Esposito was incredible, tho. Fun to see him pop up as a total doofus in Fargo.
I enjoyed the first season of Lasso, but then it lost all its teeth & we couldn’t get through even 2 episodes of the second one. Too saccharine.
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Sisters (1972) - dir. Brian DePalma
DePalma has been at it FOREVER. His career spans more than 50 years at this point, and he’s been looking toward Hitchcock for pretty much all of it.
This very early thriller fits very nicely into that trend, showcasing his frequent themes and touch points that were there from the very start. We open with a game show called “Peeping Toms”, immediately establishing voyeurism as a subject he will return to again and again in his career.
Our lead is Danielle (A young Margot Kidder), a model on the candid camera style show. Charles Durning makes an appearance as a private detective. The film fits in very easily to all the medical thrillers of the era like Coma, while hitting many of DePalma’s Hitchcockian touchstones: Dopplegangers, voyeurism (there are explicit references to Rear Window), confused identities, they are all right here, front and center, a base coat put down before the more polished layers like Dressed to Kill and Blow Out.
The plotting and dialogue are rudimentary, the acting is, let’s say, broad, and the blood is that particular Giallo-esque tempura paint red, all expected hallmarks of 70’s exploitation. It clips along at a tight 93 minutes without feeling as uncomfortably sleazy as many of them do these days.
2.5 out of 5 expository segments about medical curiosities.
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Which season of Fargo was he in?
The one with the Italians 
Chris Rock was in season 4, too, whom I love as a standup, but he’s a bit stiff as an actor — same with Andrew Bird. Brilliant songwriter, singer, violinist… terrible actor. And don’t get me started on Jason Schwartzman.
Highlight: Jessie Buckley. But she’s great in everything.
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Ah, ok. I’m way behind then 
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They’re somewhat uneven. The first one was hard to beat, but I also thought the second season with Jesse Plemons and Kirsten Dunst was great.
Third was weaker, save for David Thewlis, who was positively terrifying in it. Ewan McGregor? Not impressed.
The most recent one, despite Jon Hamm 
and a very good Juno Temple was not great.
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Enjoyed the first season, was so so on second season, gave up on 3rd season about 3 episodes in. Same with shrinking, which everyone seems to love, although that one we only lasted for one or two episodes.
I enjoyed the first season of Shrinking (I would be that kind of “therapist,” which is to say a terrible one — always speaking my mind & sharing my thoughts n 'at 
), but the second was too sincere for us. Too much hugging, bad acting, terrible dialogue. Gave up after the second epi.
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And his voice!
.
I couldn’t get through the first episode of Ted Lasso.
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I forced myself to watch a few episodes
just to say that I gave it a shot 
. I don’t get why it’s so popular
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