What are you watching?

[Mitchell101]

You are the first woman who noticed his face.😀

[Evelyn]

I enjoyed all the Bosch seasons. They were my “download to watch on planes” staple for most of the early part of my basketball travels this season.

[small h]

Adolescence. Fantastic, grueling, and super-impressive for the single-shot camera and the acting, especially the kid.

[relbbaddoof]

4 hours ago, Evelyn said:

Bosch

Big fans, too.

Enough to get, out of curiosity, "Hieronymus  Bosch: The Complete Works." There's some weird shit in there.

[hollywood]

14 hours ago, small h said:

Adolescence. Fantastic, grueling, and super-impressive for the single-shot camera and the acting, especially the kid.

Very intense.

[bloviatrix]

I could never get into Bosch despite reading and enjoying the books.

[hollywood]

Inquiring minds want to know: what is Martin's deep dark secret?  But honestly we are getting bored waiting to find out.

[Wilfrid]

I tried The Studio but shut it down halfway through episode 1. Story just too stupid for the show to be funny. Am I wrong?

[Wilfrid]

Funny? Nasty. 900 dead including countless children and it wasn't Kool-Aid. How is this getting good reviews?

[hollywood]

Just caught up with "Eric" a 6 part procedural and then some on Netflix.  Well acted particularly by Benedict Cumberbatch and McKinley Belcher III.  Set in NYC in 1985, it's got lots of issues: greedy developers, drugs, alcohol, aids, crooked cops and sanitation workers, shameful politicians, pimping at a gay nightclub, murder and a missing boy.  On the positive side, amongst the incredible grit and sleaze and poverty in the city, there's some entertaining puppetry a la Henson.

[StephanieL]

Finishing up "Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light".  Am finding Tudor-era intrigue strangely fascinating.

[splinky]

Chef's Table: Legends on Netflix. The concept of Alice Waters annoys me so much and on such a molecular level that I will have to watch

[Wilfrid]

L'Amour Fou (1969) on Criterion, more than four hours of early nouvelle vague by Jacques Rivette. This is sloooow cinema and I am watching over several nights. I have been in love with Bulle Ogier forever (and she is still with us) and wow the clothes they wore in 1969.

I note that the cast is unfussily diverse, something French cinema has not had a problem with.

[Wilfrid]

A bunch of Rivette on Criterion right now, and he does like to make long films (he has a 13 hour one under his belt, but that's not on the Criterion list).

Now watching the wonderful Pont Du Nord, another one of his glorious tours around Paris with a mystery subtext. Two women, complete strangers, hang out together. The touching thing is that the women are played by mother and daughter, Bulle and Pascale Ogier. Pascale died tragically young. It's convincing that they're strangers because Pascale looked like her father and nothing like her mother. (I first saw her in Ghost Dance and was astounded to discover she was Bulle's daughter.)

[hollywood]

I finished all 13 episodes of "Watson." This is a puzzling show.  It has clever concepts.  It has good acting and good dialogue and nerdy medical talk.  But why?  Why is Watson black and in Pittsburg?  Indeed why is he even alive?  Why is Moriarity Asian (Korean) and alive?  So he wants to screw with Watson because of old grudges and professional jealousy?  You just have to go with the flow and wonder what the chances of a renewal are.  I guess you can line up enough pharma ads to keep things going.

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[Wilfrid]

Just watched the season 2 opener for "Poker Face." Spectacularly good. For all its quirkiness, this is a show that actually bases each episode around a mystery, lays clues, and has the "detective" explain the solution. Like an old Thin Man movie. Plotwise, it has patience.

Layered over the plot, all kinds of wildness. Cynthia Erivo makes the most of her role(s(s)) and Natasha Lyonne is endlessly watchable.

I think there are several more episodes  already available.

 

 

 

[small h]

6 hours ago, Wilfrid said:

Like an old Thin Man movie.

No, like Columbo. The next episodes are just as good.

[Wilfrid]

Columbo, meh.

Episode 2 is just terrifying. No spoiler, but conjures a personal terror for me, then just makes it worse. Jumping out of the armchair saying fuck no sort of thing.

[small h]

How dare you meh Columbo.

[Steve R.]

Retrospectively, Columbo sucked.

We just started watching Season 1 and will now have something to keep us occupied on a binge evening or two (or three).  Only problem is that we have Peacock with commercials and they are brutal.

[small h]

15 minutes ago, Steve R. said:

Retrospectively, Columbo sucked.

It did NOT. I don't remember all of them, but I still love the one with the parachute.

16 minutes ago, Steve R. said:

we have Peacock with commercials

So do we, for an example of something that ACTUALLY sucks.

[Wilfrid]

I'll be honest, I didn't watch Columbo or Cannon or Kojak, etc, so I don't know.

[hollywood]

You can dump on a lot of the old shows notwithstanding certain camp elements. But you have to admire the writing/plotting and the numerous faded guest stars on Columbo and Murder She Wrote.  Why not?

[Evelyn]

I don't know where it might be streamed. But, if you want "camp' (and lots of laughs) go for the original Batman.

[Wilfrid]

1 hour ago, hollywood said:

You can dump on a lot of the old shows notwithstanding certain camp elements. But you have to admire the writing/plotting and the numerous faded guest stars on Columbo and Murder She Wrote.  Why not?

Because I missed them.