Mrs W and I have been watching Kim’s with great enjoyment and we are about midway through season 5 (the final season).
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We loved Kim’s Convenience, although the last season was kind of disappointing.
loved the 1st couple of episodes. thought it sagged in the middle, but the ending was perfect!
Haven’t finished season yet, and we see your point. The show is sort of an inverse Mrs. Maisel for the 1960s, with way better soundtrack (but no Musso & Frank).
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Is it funnier than Mrs. Maisel? I could never get into that one.
We know Mrs. Maisel’s act and Los Angeles much better than we do Funny Woman’s act and 1960s London (except, maybe, some of the music). We like both the sense of late 1950s Los Angeles and 1960s London – then and now, so both shows have resonance.
We’re dead sure that we’ll be back [cue Arnold] to both Los Angeles and London for all sorts of reasons including (since this is a food site) Mrs. Maisel’s Musso & Frank (if it’s still there next time we’re in the neighborhood). (As for Funny Woman food and drink, neither is on the radar.)
But it took place mostly in New York.
Got that. In the show the setting for the alte kakers doing their business is Musso & Frank likely almost unchanged from 1950s Los Angeles (and the prototype waiter careful not to spill is a good sport in real life):
Aren’t you confusing it with The Kominsky Method?
Pretty sure that’s the Stage Deli.
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Right you are ! Thank you.
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Got too many good shows mixed up.
I rarely confuse two shows, but I often completely forget what happened in an episode as soon as I’m done with it.
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I think recaps were made for us (or a patient partner who has a better memory for these things).
But seriously, I am the same way. It wasn’t always like that, but I seem to have less and less brain space for tv content - so much so that I’ve suggested movies to watch… only to learn that we’ve already watched them 
Last night we watched What Keeps You Alive, and my PIC was convinced we’d seen it already, tho neither of us remembered the plot. It’s from 2018, so it’s absolutely possible we did, though I would hope I would’ve remembered a disturbing flick about a psycho lesbian 
And yet, I can remember meals from several decades ago. Go figger.
Absolute necessity for me.
And songs. What necessary information has been jettisoned to make room for Sister Christian?
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I surprise myself all the time when lyrics almost automatically come out of my mouth singing along to some obscure, 30 year old pop song I’ve not heard since.
Old phone numbers, too.
So valuable on a resumé! 
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I loved the Kominsky Method. It was the show about my favorite part of Barry-Henry Winklers acting class and the people who took those classes. Rest of Barry got way too violent for me. Mrs. Maisel which I enjoyed for the first two seasons got repetitive and a bit too cutesy for me.
I’m a sucker for most shows set in LA. Bosch is one of my favorites.
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Out if Darkness (2022) - dir. Andrew Cumming
45,000 years ago, a small band of prehistoric people wash up on a mysterious shore, hoping they have found a new home. But the night is dark, and full of terrors. And nature is indeed very red in tooth and claw.
Essentially a survivalist thriller riff on A Quest for Fire, it’s also performed entirely in the constructed language of Tola, a combination of Arabic and Basque.
There’s real tension here, as we are steadily reminded that danger to the group doesn’t always come from without, and some really fabulous acting and character work. The ultimate twist here is rather underwhelming and pretty easily predicted, but that doesn’t really lessen the fun.
There is a particular meal of note that occurs here. No points for guessing what it is, but it definitely provides ample room to show character evolution.
Spears up.
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