The TV thread

Anybody watch Counterpart?

 

While cleaning today I started watching Criminal Minds on Netflix to see what the fuss was about. Couldn't stop. These procedurals are addicting shit. What a formula they came up with; the ones that work grab you and don't let go and go on forever.

Although I do have to say through the Season 1 episodes I've seen, there are no real compelling bad guys. It's mostly nuts ir dweebs or just nasty rapists. No one to really appeal to the dark side of the viewer who maybe wants the good guys to get knocked down once in awhile.

And does their use of a fancy plane to fly around the country change as the national debt rises through the years. That seems pretty excessive. I bet Mulder and Scully always flew coach and there were only the two of them. These guys take a half-dozen people. Then they're all working only the one case, so god forbid two serial killers strike at the same time. But then they sent the one agent to Texas on a train just so it could be taken over by a mental patient. Why didn't they fly her on their fancy plane?

 

I wondered if their Escalades were on the plane, too. They always seemed to have them wherever they might wind up.

 

I've only seen sporadic episodes in various seasons, but they do run into some "better" villains as the series goes on. I imagine it's because if you're a famous or good actor, you've fine signing up to play a genius serial killer, but probably less game to play the Masturbating Killer.

 

We are working our way through Season 2 of The Crown. It's tremendously well acted if starting to get just a bit repetitive.

We are also watching Grace and Frankie, which is slightly better than average but nothing special.

In terms of network shows, it's a shame that The Good Place ends for the season this Thursday. It's a smart show.

 

Working my way through "The Pacific". So emotional to think of what those guys went through in WWII. I believe if more people were honest and reflected back on how the country endured WWII, etc. they'd realize we need to come together not segregate ourselves to be great.

 

Rami Malek (I Robot) is fantastic in The Pacific. Just finished the second season of Colony on Netflix. Toby Huss is in that as well. His character is so different I didn't realize it was him even though he looks exactly the same as he did in Halt and Catch Fire.

I was kind of disappointed to hear the "jump ahead" of The Crown would mean Claire Foy and Matt Smith were being replaced, but having Olivia Coleman and Paul Bettany take over (each a decade or so older) helped ease that a bit.

 

Toby Huss pops up in so many things, and he's a pleasure in all of them. I like Brooklyn Nine Nine anyway, but of course he made it better playing the warden in a couple episodes. And, thanks to Wikipedia, I know now that he played Artie in The Adventures of Pete and Pete. Definitely a "That Guy!" Hall of Fame member.

 

Huss has an amazing collection of credits, comedy, drama, voice work. He was the hockey player whose injury caused Jerry Maguire to rethink the profession.

 

My wife was watching The Good Doctor just now, and I stumbled in while the title character was stabilizing a liver for transplant.
On the side of the road.
In the open air.
After, apparently, cooling it with a blue slushy because they were out of ice.
I'm not a doctor, but I'm pretty sure that's not how it works. That liver is now the equivalent of the backseat of a 5-year-old minivan of a woman with three kids. The poor guy is going to wake up with a new liver that has a hairy lollipop stuck to it.

 

If it was a sugar-free slushy, no sticky!

 

Ducking.....I enjoy Black Lightning. While corny and non-subtle, it has writers who are familiar with African-American culture. Hell it had a the hero's daughter in a thoughtful, well acted, lesbian scene in the second episode.

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2018/01/2...-a-black-girlfriend-and-people-are-loving-it/