The TV thread

Finally watched Veronica Mars. I'm now on a VMars hiatus while I process it. Also, the most torturous thing was being 20 minutes from the end of the penultimate episode and having my internet go down for an hour and a half. #FirstWorldProblems

If you want to chat about it though, send me a PM.

I also finished Big Little Lies. Overall, I wasn't a fan of this season because I didn't like how they brought in Meryl's character to try to justify the abuse that Celeste went through. But mostly, I felt because season 1 was actually based on a book, it was better thought out, it was more tightly written and plotted, and the second season was all over the place. You didn't know where it was going to go, or, at times, what story it was trying to tell.

 

I was reading a couple of recaps and the reviewer said that the show was a mood and not dependent on plot. That’s when I should have bailed.

Bad acts committed in season 1 are seemingly forgotten in 30 seconds.

 

Finished Stranger Things 3 which I liked a lot more than 2. Robin and Steve should be given a spinoff series.

 

If you liked baseball cards, “Jack of All Trades” on Netflix. Cool story.

 

Posted on the movies thread. I thought it was terrible.
Almost a scripted reality documentary.

Hated it.

 

Hennesey was the best. I think it went downhill after 9/11 when they started doing terrorism episodes. It didn’t help when they added the sopranos guy, I didn’t like him at all. And the old detective from Chicago sucked too. Honestly, briscoe and McCoy held everything together, and the guy who replaced McCoy in the courtroom was the final straw for me, which ruined the end of my 5th favorite tv show, behind 1. Deadwood, 2. Sopranos, 3. West wing, and 4. Freaks and geeks

 

Starting final season of OITNB tonight.

 

It was rough no doubt but I liked that it was about baseball cards.

 

Saw it. Pretty good. I hope that Piper isn't the focus of the entire final season.

 

I really enjoyed the first two seasons. I quit at then end of season 3 or 4 and never went back.

FYI... good Aussie version of OINB called Wentworth on Netflix.

 

Michael Cutter. My pet theory about him was that if the show went on, McCoy would have fired him and promoted Connie Rubirosa, and maybe even moved Det. Lupo into the DA's office. Throughout the last or second to last season, you find out: 1) Cutter never actually got his law degree and 2) Rubirosa generally seems more competent than him, even besting him in a contrived scenario where she has to become a public defender and 3) Lupo is working on getting his law degree and 4) Lupo and Cutter are both sweet on Rubirosa. (Also: The last few seasons of Law & Order aren't as good, mostly because of Cutter, but there is some good stuff in there between McCoy becoming DA, Van Buren fighting cancer, and Jeremy Sisto and Anthony Anderson, pre-Blackish, as detectives.)

 

Sisto and Anderson were the third best pair of detectives, trailing Ohrbach and Noth and Paul Sorvino and Noth.