Anybody watching The Other Two on Comedy Central, or Miracle Workers (with Steve Buscemi and Daniel Radcliffe) on TBS?
Or did anyone else catch Fallon's homage to Gary Shandling on his 5th anniversary show? I never watch but happened to catch it. Brilliant!
HAven't seen either but the "Miracle Workers" looks promising...
Daniel Radcliffe was in a very short series on Netflix called "A Young Doctor's Notebook", based on short stories by Mikhail Bulgakov. Radcliffe plays a young doctor with brilliant academic credentials but little common sense, stuck in the hinterlands of Russia during the Bolshevik Revolution. Jon Hamm plays the same doctor later in life who tries to warn his younger self against becoming addicted to morphine and other failings.
The series is funny but at times the humor gets very, very dark.
Good versus evil gets weird, in the best way. Season 2 of The Tick is coming April 5.
Always liked The Tick. Especially when Patrick Warburton was The Tick.
I like the old cartoons too. I was worried about the Amazon reboot, but they have done really well with capturing the spirit and picking up a new narrative.
It has some really interesting portions and an attempt at a wrap-up. Alas, it wasn't Lost.
Still, glad I watched it. I love the idea of the minister, insistent on proving that some of the vanished were horrible people - to prove to the ones left behind that it wasn't the rapture of the good. A difficult and complex idea that it was brave to tackle.
SO glad "The Leftovers" isn't "Lost" which had possibilities but pissed them away with inconsistencies in character development, pointless subplots (or more annoying, subplots FAR more engaging than the main story arc), and no clue as to what kind of story they wanted to tell. I sat through the entire series and just wanted to set Damon Lindelof on fire. I actually went into watching "The Leftovers" expecting to walk away after the first couple of episodes, but we're in the midst of season two and I'm completely engaged. Huge step up over "Lost" as far as I'm concerned.
Lost was (likely unintentionally) a reworking of Push, Nevada. Man, I loved the concept of that show. Like Lost, there's the "good" guy with the enigmatic beautiful woman, and something is going on that confuses him - but he's got to figure it out.
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It has some really interesting portions and an attempt at a wrap-up. Alas, it wasn't Lost.
Still, glad I watched it. I love the idea of the minister, insistent on proving that some of the vanished were horrible people - to prove to the ones left behind that it wasn't the rapture of the good. A difficult and complex idea that it was brave to tackle.
SO glad "The Leftovers" isn't "Lost" which had possibilities but pissed them away with inconsistencies in character development, pointless subplots (or more annoying, subplots FAR more engaging than the main story arc), and no clue as to what kind of story they wanted to tell. I sat through the entire series and just wanted to set Damon Lindelof on fire. I actually went into watching "The Leftovers" expecting to walk away after the first couple of episodes, but we're in the midst of season two and I'm completely engaged. Huge step up over "Lost" as far as I'm concerned.
I have this weird habit: I can not go to sleep unless I curl up I bed with all the lights off and watch an episode of Bananza before I fall asleep.I usually fall asleep before it's over anyway. but it something I absolutely have to do. True story.
But Counterpoint was a great series. 5 yellow stars form me.
"I have this weird habit: I can not go to sleep unless I curl up I bed with all the lights off and watch an episode of Bananza before I fall asleep."
Hey, if it works for you. Dan Blocker approves.
"But Counterpoint was a great series. 5 yellow stars form me."
Do you mean Counterpart? Sounds cool. Reminds me of the emerging main story arc for season 3 of "The Main in the High Castle"—this show blows me away.
I might be seriously behind the curve and all but "Westworld" season 1 is the bomb. If you're into philosophy of the mind and free will, this is your wet dream. Like "The Good Place", the show has all sorts of philosophical questions underpinning a great storyline. I've read some complaints that season 2 of Westworld went seriously off the rails... People talk about The Golden Age of Television happening in the 50s but hell I say it's now.
I have this weird habit: I can not go to sleep unless I curl up I bed with all the lights off and watch an episode of Bananza before I fall asleep.I usually fall asleep before it's over anyway. but it something I absolutely have to do. True story.
But Counterpoint was a great series. 5 yellow stars form me.
I have this weird habit: I can not go to sleep unless I curl up I bed with all the lights off and watch an episode of Bananza before I fall asleep.I usually fall asleep before it's over anyway. but it something I absolutely have to do. True story.
But Counterpoint was a great series. 5 yellow stars form me.
