Watching "Rush" and thinking of our HC F1 crew.

nvrm

Edited November 6, 201411 yr by blessingx

Finished binge-watching HBO's "Olive Kitteridge". Superb performances all around, but Frances McDormand is simply perfect.

 

More than a bit depressing themes though. So we had to chase it down with this week's ep of "The Graham Norton Show".

Add Forever and Gotham to my list, totally enjoying them. Gotham just (ep 3) turned into a black comedy, and I just really like Ioan Gruffudd and would watch him in anything. He's just got that posh British accent that I could listen to for hours. Really liked him in Ringer, which was the first place I saw him.

You might like Haratio Hornblower then.

Horatio, if you please. But yes.

He's in all sorts of things (really)

http://youtu.be/blVsgv0OISY

Maybe 'Haratio' is a reboot/reincarnation?

 

Aye keed, aye keed...

 

Losing interest in Gotham, turning into the same old/same old, contrived situations and contrived solutions.  Will still watch it, if for nothing else, just to see Barbara and Gordon get married.  One of the cool things about reboots is seeing how they play relationships -- they've already introduced the Penguin and Riddler characters, but they're not supervillains yet, one of them even works for the police.  So knowing how things turn out, I can't help but be curious where they are going with this.

http://vimeo.com/97765630

Finished binge-watching HBO's "Olive Kitteridge". Superb performances all around, but Frances McDormand is simply perfect.

 

More than a bit depressing themes though. So we had to chase it down with this week's ep of "The Graham Norton Show".

Finished watching this as well. Very good indeed.

 

Live curling on youtube..

^ Thanks. This and a Manhattan may help relax after a very long day.

Favorite quote so far (50 min in): "That's the great thing about curling - you see something new every day."

Edited November 14, 201411 yr by blessingx

A short NYTimes RetroReport on the 'Dingo Ate My Baby' case - http://t.co/9vKwhLFE1I

Catch-22

Watched Frontline's new episode "Firestone and the Warlord" on Firestone Tires and their latex plantation in Liberia during the rise of Charles Taylor.

 

As with basically everything Frontline does, it was terrific. I highly recommend it.

 

Edited November 21, 201411 yr by TMoney

Continuing down the rabbit hole. American Experience's Annie: It's a Hard Knock Life, From Script to Stage on the PBS app (also on site).

http://youtu.be/35z_vMFOfAk

Thanks the the HBOGo app on the XBone I was able to finish the last season of Boardwalk Empire over the weekend.

 

 

This show really needed its last season. Boardwalk has always been a difficult show to get through and the ending didn't deviate from that formula. Like the rest of the show, its conclusion is depressing, but oddly satisfying.

 

I also really enjoyed reading along with the history I watched the show. As usual, the truth of these characters is both stranger and often far more interesting than how they are portrayed in the show. What a fun period of history to look back on.

 

This wouldn't be the first HBO show I'd recommend to people, but if you do get in to it you won't be disappointed.

 

4/5

The '79 CBS pilot for a sci-fi comedy series called Starstruck. Lets play a game - how far can you get through it?

http://youtu.be/nPLEoZ1TtZM

Edited November 26, 201411 yr by blessingx

25 minutes (until the song) -- but to be honest I blacked out for a bit.

6:10 -- purely arbitrary

 

And Mikey?  The song was at the beginning.

Not THE song.

Not THE song.

There's another one?

Archer

Bastard chef episode

Wong wong wong

Wongwongwong

Wongwongwongwongwong

Listening to the (RED) concert in the background.

 

http://youtu.be/HzI_UN8_MOo

Watched a couple more episodes of The Knick and will probably watch the rest. Still have to avert my eyes from the gory surgeries but otherwise entertaining.

Two extra good episodes coming up.