I'm finishing watching Stranger Things! Simply a top series, addictive from the first minute.
I'm finishing watching Stranger Things! Simply a top series, addictive from the first minute.
1. Shogun- on episode 3 and holding up nicely.
2. Finished Game of Thrones S1-8. Ebbed and flowed as any 8 season endeavor does. A little too tidy ending.
3. Finished the S1 prequel- certainly solid.
4. Tracker-I wanted to like it because of how good he was in This is Us. Big let down.
5. Fire Country- I wanted to like it because of how good the lead was in Seal Team 6. Not as much of a let down.
6. Abbot Elementary. Married to a teacher so I get a bit more of the inside baseball. Funny enough.
7. Bernie Mac- I forgot how funny he was God rest his soul.
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I'm not going down the debate rabbit hole regarding candidates for our next president in 2024, but I am truly and completely tired of this particular asshole.
-1911nut
My wife and I went to see Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare as an in theatre date night. The movie was entertaining in a lotsa silenced Sten gunning followed by big explosions kind of way. The next morning I see Alan Asshat’s comment about police and immediately regret spending one cent at a movie he’s in.
Black Sails
On Netflix
The wife and I are rewatching Black Sails. It was originally on Starz. We caught it when in came out in 2014, but we're at an age now that we can watch a show 10 years later and it's almost like seeing it for the first time.
The show is a dark prequel to the book "Treasure Island." The main character is Captain Flint for whom Silver's parrot is named in "Treasure Island." We also meet Silver before he became Long John Silver, and Billy Bones. By the end of the series we learn the origin of the treasure in "Treasure Island."
Good writing, great acting, and fantastic sets. It's certainly worth a watch if you haven't seen it.
The opening music is by Bear McCreary and played on a Hurdy Gurdy which give sit a distinctive sound.
I've started a rewatch of Fallout.
Now that I am familiar with the world building I catch a lot more humor, slyness and absurdity.
I'd forgotten the Asian electronics tech who went in dry on Maximus when she repaired his armor doodad.
She was a lot of character for maybe 90 seconds of screen time: The look, the distorted voice, the attitude...the nonconsensual anal.
And Thaddeus is my brother from another mother.
Was surfing on Max and saw the Crisis of Infinite Earths DC animation. So I watched it. Not bad, watching alternate universe superheroes in action. Better than watching House Hunters.
I recall getting the first Justice League comic when I was a tyke. If I had saved that, I could buy a few Staccatos. I still have my baby shoes though.
Cloud Yeller of the Boomer Age
I'm on Season 2 of "Vikings" on Netflix and it's a lot of fun:
"The series is inspired by the tales of the Norsemen of early medieval Scandinavia. It broadly follows the exploits of the legendary Viking chieftain Ragnar Lothbrok and his crew, family and descendants, as notably laid down in the 13th-century sagas Ragnars saga Loðbrókar and Ragnarssona þáttr..."
Has a good historical look and feel, and plenty of sex and violence (these are Vikings, after all) not to mention believable local power politics. Also includes: drinking ale out of animal horns, sacrifices to Odin, animals wandering around in the house, shaman soothsayers, psychedilic mushrooms.
I'd say that JoeBob would say "check it out."
The last couple of seasons focusing on Ivar the Boneless lost me. Up until then it was great.
The show had some seriously hot babes in it lead by Katheryn Winnick.
Inside Man, a four episode miniseries on Netflix, is very entertaining.
www.imdb.com/title/tt10948716
If you decide to watch it, be sure to watch the scene after the credits of the last episode.
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"Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?" Then I said, "Here I am. Send me." - Isaiah 6:8