I bought "Taxi: The Complete Series" on Tuesday & had to watch one of my favorite episodes. "Reverend Jim: A Space Odyssey" I crack up every time I see this part:
I figured out that Hill Street Blues is free with Amazon Prime so I'm starting over with season one. Man, the prostitutes don't hesitate to kill cops in that town.
During season one and two the show doesn't have any good female characters other than Joyce Davenport. Officer Bates (Betty Thomas) does nothing in the first season but paperwork at the station, Furillo's harpie ex-wife just screams and acts insane in every single episode (she points a fake gun at officers!), and Grace Gardner (Barbara Babcock) does... what does she do other than act strange with Sergeant Esterhaus in every scene? I remember Bates has a lot of great scenes in later seasons.
I'm awaiting the entrance of Det. Sal Benedetto and then Lt. Norman Buntz played magnificently by Dennis Franz.
I started "HSB" right after completing "N.Y.P.D. Blue." Both outstanding shows (I favor the latter) but the differences were a little jarring at first.
Never checked out NYPD Blue. I believe that show I get a laugh when Chief Fletcher Daniels refers to her as your "ex-tuna" to Frank Furillo. Talk about using your position to push the limits of what you can get away with saying.
Rome (2005). Thought I'd watch it again after the untimely death of Ray Stevenson, who is great in it. So many great British actors in it. Apart from the HBO logo at the start you wouldn't know it wasn't a British show. Co-incidentally reading SPQR by Mary Beard about Rome and just got to the part about Caesar / Pompey. James Purefoy as Mark Antony is on fire too.
We re-watched two episodes of Ren & Stimpy last night. It’s crazy that was broadcast as a kids’ show on a kids’ network… there’s just so much dark and twisted humor I don’t think kids were possibly understanding when watching it. I sure wasn’t. Yet somehow I loved watching it as a kid (and it was pretty funny watching last night, now that I get more of the jokes…).
I'm watching Two and a half men again on TV and as usual am laughing at just how stupid Alan is, and how cool and charismatic Charlie Harper is.
‘From” still. It keeps reminding me of all the bad elements of “Lost’. It’s not a train wreck yet. We’ll see how they resolve some of this.
any time this Hall of Fame Badass is on the oldies channel, it's for sure taped and going back to his scenes a few times... we got him and the US government lets him go... AGAIN!!!!
I always though the best part of that show was how nice his house is. That bar he goes to sometimes looks like fun, too.
