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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.

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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.

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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.)

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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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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.

 

 

 

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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