I tried, knowing many a woman who absolutely obsessed over it. Struck me as soft-core for the middle-aged and up lady crowd (so I’m mos def in the focus group 
), but I couldn’t get through more than one episode.
Oh wow!!! That’s incredibly cool.
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This is my favorite story about him:
He tasked us with making “A film about cows. In New York, is so much cows.” This was confusing, but it was early days, and we were all a little nervous about asking for clarification. So some of the students rented a car and drove out of the city, found some cows roaming around a field, and made a film about them. I went to the grocery store and shot some footage of the various beef products, which I thought might be good enough. Turns out Vojtech was not saying “cows.” He was saying “chaos,” which makes a lot more sense.
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My sister was watching, she had read the books. She kept trying to get me to watch, I said no way I don’t do fantasy. Then along came covid, desperate times. I got hooked, I love men in kilts. Same thing happened with GOT, but it took me several tries before I got interested.
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I catch 10 minutes here and 15 minutes there. Just enough to be thoroughly confused about the plot. I know better than to ask Mrs. ricepad more than a couple questions - Who’s that? Is the other guy dead? - else she’ll tell me to watch it with her if I want to know more. She’s got Outlander, while I have Peaky Blinders.
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We just watched The Greatest Night in Pop too. The storytelling drew me in and I didn’t expect that. Marvelous details, including one interaction between Stevie Wonder and Bob Dylan that I would never have imagined. (Shhh, wouldn’t be fair to spoil it.)
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I loved Peaky Blinders.
Weather remains gloomy, and now I’m watching “Bodies”. I try to avoid series, but so far I’m watching.
That’s a wonderful story. None of my movie stories are nearly as charming. While many of them are quite amusing most of them involve various flavors of bad/disrespectful behavior. Certainly no adorable cross-cultural malapropisms.
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We watched the first episode of the new Mr. and Mrs. Smith on Prime last night. It took most of the whole episode to get to where this is going but it looks like it’s going to be good. We hadn’t seen the Jolie/Pitt version, and it’s been ages since the original, so we weren’t sure. We are now.
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I didn’t watch the Grammys last night, but I did see Joni Mitchell’s performance, on YouTube.
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I thought that was a fun and intriguing series.
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@ernie_in_berkeley I didn’t watch either but after I heard about Tracy Chapman’s performance, I booked it to find a full version. I guess this toes the line between the what are you watching/listening threads. Because you have to see her.
She’s still so relevant. Seeing her again made me feel hopeful somehow.
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Odd, neither of my browsers displays the video on that page. Possibly because I’m on Linux.
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What the heck? Now the full video that I could watch/listen to (albeit low-fi) and was showing my 9-year old, stops mid-way. Gah—I can’t find it right now but this is the kind of thing that should be open access.
Some sites require browsers that support a particular version of DRM. HBO Max used to, but then they allowed it again. Peacock also blocks me.
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I was right. The video comes right up on Windows Firefox. I’ll watch it later.
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Just finished The Bear. Both seasons. Boy, what a great show. Ayo Edebiri is fantastic. I am especially impressed with the music choices.
I love the Chicago references, though I was slightly peeved at one detail: They made a whole moment out of the chef at what I think was supposed to be Alinea going out to Pequod’s to get a customer a deep dish pizza that they zhuzhed up into an appetizer.
But they cut the frico cheese edge off!!! That’s the whole POINT of a Pequod’s pizza instead of Lou’s or Gino’s or any of the hundred other places. Humph.
I’m very curious who the real chefs were that made appearances. Does anyone have a pointer to all the inside-restaurant-baseball Easter eggs there are?
In more disappointing news, we recently started season 2 of Reacher on Amazon Prime. Only two episodes in but it’s not nearly as fun as the first. The writing is thudding and it feels dumbed down, a trick for a show that was pretty much ‘good guy punches bad guy’. Reacher’s supposed romantic lead has something like the opposite of chemistry with him on screen.
The last line of ep 2 was “We’re going to need more guns.” Hopefully, that bodes some fun action and explosions, because they caper part of this is really NOT working thus far.
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Just started on the series Sexy Beast, presumably somewhat related to the Ben Kingsley movie of the same name, but it’s been so long I don’t remember most of it. Was ready to turn it off after the first 30 min, but glad we gave it more time. Things really get going in the second episode. Like… really 
With Stephen Moyer from the pulpy True Blood, and the amazing Tamsin Greig (from the brilliantly funny Black Books, and the equally hilarious but underrated Episodes with Matt LeBlanc).
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That performance was breathtaking. Tracy Chapman came out with her guitar and her amazing voice and it was perfect and simple and powerful. So glad that Luke Combs has made it a monster hit. Now we need Talkin Bout A Revolution to get reissued. Relevant then and now.
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