The TV thread

And the amount of self-promotion/house ads is off the charts. It's not only newspapers getting hit hard by canceled advertising.

 

Good thing Michael Bloomberg and Tom Steyer bought all their inventory in the previous months.

 

South Park

 

Oddly enough 9/11 wasn't incorporated in Law and Order or Friends if I remember. There was a general uptick in "terror related" cases in L&O but it was never a focus - and I think Friends may have had the friends wearing a NYFD or NYPD hat here or there, but that's it. Say one thing for Friends - they never did "the very special episode" - West Wing's take on 9/11 was perhaps the worst ep of the series.

 

Just finished season 3 of Ozark. OMFG!

 

Spike Lee's "25th Hour" was the best post 9/11 movie, it captured the feeling so well. I hope he does a post CV-19 movie.

In fact, I can only wish that Michael Moore tells the story of how corrupt, inept and unprofessional the current administration was regarding this crisis.

 

I remember a L&O episode where -- and this might be a very loose plot outline; please correct me if I'm wrong -- the perp murdered her husband on 9/11 and then claimed he died in the towers and made a victims' fund claim.

 

There's a really good Criminal Intent one, hopefully I'm not mixing up the details - Cop 1 lusts after Cop 2's wife. Cop 1 kills Cop 2, using 9/11 as a cover, and marries her, and later finds out that Cop 2 also moonlighted as a hitman for the mob. Eventually, facts come to surface, and it turns out the wife setup Cop 1 to get arrested. She knew Cop 2 was a hitman - she didn't care, because he was always honest with her about. At the end of the episode, she walks away - nothing to charge her with.

 

I don't doubt that - I just meant that there wasn't a "9/11" episode - the series picked up weeks after things fell and stuff calmed down a bit.

To me, the definitive work on post-9/11 life in NYC was Rescue Me.

 

Mrs. OOP and I binged The Stranger on Netflix. It was a solid mystery, though some of the stupidity by a few characters in later episodes stretched the suspension of disbelief. It is only eight episodes, so not a huge time investment.

 

Ozark seasons one and two are good, not great, but, man, it’s worth it so you can enjoy season 3.

 

HBO Now is showing several series for free thru April including The Wire.

I cannot believe it debuted 18 years ago.