Just started watching Season 4 of Beverly Hills 90210. Had some good times in the early and mid nineties and this show reminds me of those days.
It's fun, and nicely made. The DNA of Alias and Dollhouse runs through it. There's a lot of shooting, of the general standard of imperial stormtroopers, and it takes itself a little too seriously. It's an easy watch, nothing profound.
Just finished watching the newest series of Shetland. (BBC ) Very disappointing. Much of the execution seemed leaden and hackneyed, the plot far-fetched and contrived, and the dialogue wooden and inauthentic. (reminded me of some of the stuff some of my fellow hobbyist class-mates used to dream up when on that creative writing course I attended a few years back) I don't think I'll be watching any more. On the other hand, inspired by another thread on this forum, we've started watching S1 of the Wire. Only seen 2 episodes so far but we're totally hooked.
Currently watching season 5 of Endeavour on Netflix. It seems to be slowly jumping the shark, coming up with more and more contrived plot points, with the murderer more often than not dying in some spectacular fashion related to his crime than them taking him/her into custody. The last episode I watched, Colours, featured a military training academy that featured a poorly delineated *live mine field.* Because live mine fields are great for training troops?!?!? Of course it comes into play at the end of the episode, with the murder awkwardly chasing Morse around with a giant WW2 era carbine.
Project Blue Book - History Channel - great take on the UFO cover up. After Life - Netflix - possibly the best thing Ricky Gervais has ever done. After that, the TV is usually on the MotorTrend channel for background noise while I work or practice guitar........ Late night it's: Mannix 77 Sunset Strip Cannon The Untouchables All on MeTV.
Last night we watched Survivor. After a couple of so-so seasons we are liking this season quite a bit. Followed by about half of Amazing Race. Very boring so switched over to Hulu on our Apple TV and watched Pickers. We know how to live!
I've been watching re-runs of "MXC: Most Extreme Elimination Challenge" on the TUBI-TV app. In case you don't remember this early '00s cult classic (which aired on the now-defunct Spike-TV), it uses footage from a Japanese physical-challenge game show from the '80s called "Takeshi's Castle," and dubs over it with new, funny English dialogue that mostly deals with suggestive and/or scatological references. It's dumb as a box of rocks but it's a nice, goofy way to finish off an evening with a few beers. "Don't... get... eliminated!"
'Home Improvement'(s)... Nothing More Than Feelings, Overactive Glance, Let’s Did Lunch, Off Sides, and The Vasectomy One.
I'm poised to begin watching The Man in the High Castle. I've heard good things of it, and alternative history stories have the potential to be quite thought-provoking, I've found. Neal Stephenson, Stephen Baxter, and Gregory Benford all spring immediately to mind as just three storytellers who have successfully mined the sub-genre.
Colditz (BBC 1972 - 74) DVD boxset. Episodes 4 & 5 Each episode is like a mini-play. Superb series, I well remember watching it in the early 70s. Compulsive viewing then, and it still is. Strong writing throughout, and a very strong cast.
