We enjoyed it too. Was great seeing some of the early acts that he showcased.
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I thought Shogun was awesome. And I remember the first one! (Kind of.)
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Cool. I’m just about to start episode 8. I have a theory in my head about why Lady Ochiba no Kata hates Toranaga so much and is determined to have him killed.
You’re probably right.
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Gave up on Too Much. It was just… too much 
Trying to find a new series to sink our teeth in, I had the choice between a French, Italian or German show. Well, that was easy! No subtitles for me haha!
Kleo is a fun spy series about a former Stasi collaborator who’s framed and sent to prison in 1987, only to be released in May of 1990. She plans to take revenge on those who put her in prison. It doesn’t take itself overly serious (like the insufferable Dark), and the jabs coming from both Ossies and Wessies (former East Germans/West Germans) against one another are entertaining. There’s apparently 3 seasons of it. Bonus: a lot of it is filmed in Berlin.
Also watching S16 of Taskmaster, which we are kind of watching out of order since it doesn’t matter, and it’s particularly funny. What a great show!
OMG. I almost forgot that we watched The Phoenician Scheme, which I had resisted forever bc I have a visceral reaction to Wes Anderson’s movies, and not in a good way.
I find his characters & the way he presents them to consist almost entirely of mannerisms, the dialog exhaustingly “clever,” and the same style of framing shots overly precious.
The last one (whatever it was called) almost left me angry. What a waste of a brilliant cast!
In any event. This was nice and short, and Benicio del Toro helped ignore most of what annoys the hell out of me about his movies. Glad we got that out of the way 
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Shogun is amazing. It deserved all the awards. The production design in particular was jaw dropping.
I will be very curious what they’ll do in S2, since S1 basically finishes the contents of the book, but of course there is much more history involving the real people the story was based on.
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Is Dark that weird time-revel paradox one? It DID take itself terribly seriously, but I really enjoyed puzzling through the various loops and switchbacks.
Then again, I’m one of those people that watched Primer over and over for a week trying to see if it really all matched up. (Spoiler: it does).
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We enjoyed the first season. But the utter lack of levity or sense of humor (those Germans and their lack of humor!!! j/k), the pathos, the whispering in the background… it was all just a bit to clunky for us.
Not to mention the familial relations and keeping up with characters. Nah.
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For a light-hearted thriller series, we enjoyed the first 7 episodes of Irish Blood starring Alicia Silverstone.
My DC I watch TV with is tired of the BritBox and Acorn crime procedural stuff I like, and I’m not too keen on Westerns and Romantic stuff she prefers, and we haven’t been having an easy time finding stuff we both like lately.
I feel very much the same about Wes Anderson although I didn’t like (tolerate?) The Phoenician Scheme as much as you did.
Anderson can get to be…. A lot. If he’d evolve or change a bit it’d be one thing. You can recognize a Coen Bros or Kubrick movie, but they certainly don’t all look alike.
Its like Anderson has undergone his own personal flanderization. He’s come to be defined and, frankly, limited, by his all encompassing commitment to “quirk”. I think the last feature of his I watched was The Grand Budapest Hotel, though I did watch and generally enjoyed ahis series of Roald Dahl adaptations on Netflix.
Though if we’re putting limited Netflix series in competition, I prefer the Coen’s’ The Ballad of Buster Scruggs.
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“Like” is a strong takeaway from my review. I didn’t find it insufferable as the most recent one, so that was a low bar 
I prefer Paul Thomas Anderson, although I also absolutely hated Licorice Pizza.
I’ve noticed this one of PTA’s is kinda divisive. I liked it myself, but having lived through that era (though younger) I recognized a lot that felt right. And as we know, I am a sucker for production design and such.
What is it you dislike? Genuine question.
It was a red letter day for me on Netflix. (I imagine some of you wiseacres could rightfully claim that EVERYDAY is a red letter day at Netflix). Anyway. First up was the Chris Smith documentary about DEVO, which I thought was great. If you’re a fan (as I am) there’s so much to enjoy. Lots of archival footage, their origin story was of particular interest to me ( started as a conceptual art collective while at Kent State), lot of screen time with Mark Mothersbaugh and Jerry Casale who explained their intentions to spread the word about devolution (prophetic given current events), well-edited, covered the majority of the band rise and fall with aplomb, and the 90 minutes just flew by. Two monkey thumbs up.
Next, Season 3 of Dinner Time with David Chang had it’s first episode tonight. I’m sure many of you are already familiar with it and it’s more of what you saw in seasons 1 and 2. Tonight’s show was about sandwiches.
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I hated everything about it. The actors, the plot, the music. I don’t remember any deetz, tho, bc it seems like we watched this a decade ago…
Last night we watched the excellent Magpie. Cannot recommend it enough.
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Big thumbs up for the quirky funny Fisk on Netflix that just dropped its third season. It’s an Australian comedy and I really enjoyed the first two seasons.
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Rewatched Blue Velvet last night. It’s been ages since my last viewing and I forgot how good/weird/creepy Dennis Hopper was 
Mommy!!!
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