Yeah, he has a unique style, though I hear a lot borrowed from Mitch Hedberg. I guess if you're gonna borrow, borrow from the best, right? Also, I find his hair distracting.
The Sister (2020) A happily married man hears a knock on his door late one night. It's his old friend Bob who he hasn't seen for ten years. Plays like one of the remakes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents mixed with Woody Allen's Match Point.
Aquarius (season 2) Charles Manson meets Dennis Wilson and the family moves in. Season 2 is a complete mess with totally unnecessary subplots. Despite that the subject's really interesting so it's worth watching.
We finally finished the Australian drama Glitch on Netflix. You could call it a tweak on the "zombie" trope, where people start coming out of graves - all cogent, innocent and trying to remember why they died. The local police chief has to wrangle them, and protect them from various, um, challenges. Interesting group dynamics, and a lot of issues get raised. Maybe not all of them responded to. Still, a satisfying ending after three seasons, but I did have to put up with my wife yelling at the screen on occasion. Why can't some people just give the showrunners the latitude to tell the story they want to, with the message they see fit? You wanna tell the story differently...you go to school, learn to write, get a gig in television production, and do it your way. Me, I'm simply trying to follow the dialog.
Generation Kill. During the second Iraqi war a group of soldiers in a hummer drive from town to town sing pop songs and say the most racist, sexist, homophobic dialogue ever laced with every possible conspiracy theory. You have to really watch this twice, the first time for the shock value, the second to really appreciate the rhythm of the dialogue and the brilliance of the storytelling.
The Twilight Zone - Doomsday For Mr. Denton. One of the very best episodes in my opinion. Starring Dan Duryea as the town drunk in an old west setting, with Martin Landau bullying him as it opens. A magnificent story. Spoiler Rod Serling sure believed in second chances. In the underdog. In JUSTICE. That's what made The Twilight Zone one of the greatest shows of all time. The show was mostly NOT about science fiction. This was also the first thing I had seen the great Dan Duryea in, before I discovered all the film noirs and my love for those - and I think this may still be the BEST thing I've seen him do, acting-wise.
Am late to the game on this one, but midway through season 1 of The Mandalorian. Caught the first 2 episodes when it first launched, and while it didn't impress me at the time, it has since grown on me and am enjoying it as a change of pace for the Star Wars universe; like a 'cowboy' and his traveling companion in the old west, going from place to place on various adventures. You can really see shades of older shows from the 70s like Kung Fu in this one, and I think they have done a pretty good job of adhering to the original trappings of the original SW universe while introducing new things to viewers. It does have a slight slow-burn quality to it, but overall it's refreshing to see the familiar and new. I understand season 2 to be even better, so looking forward to it as I'm starting to run out of 'newer' shows to watch!
Uh,too many history documentaries.Very depressing.Humanity has been inflicting bad things upon one another for hundreds of years.Perhaps even longer.
