The TV thread

“True Detective” off to a good, mysterious and creepy start.

And I’ve been digging this season of “Fargo.” I love Chris Rock but that season never clicked with me and didn’t finish.

 

Fargo finale was not a mere formality. Not simple or boring.

 

The In Memoriam was about the best one I've ever seen done. The music and camera work was perfect, the segue to the Friends song, the open with Reiner and Struthers and Lear's hat - maybe "the list" of names added to the magnitude (jeez, 2023 took some absolute legends who delivered so many impactful moments in my lifetime), even the photos given the same treatment looked great. The applause for some....eh - I'd rather people just start clapping from the beginning and keep it going.
I look forward to the SAG Awards in memoriam because there are a ton of "that guys" they include who you don't know their names, but you know their faces.

In Memoriam: 75th Emmy Awards

 

She's funny. Good call.

 

Caught this. Sort of half-watching but caught some funny bits. Tomlinson clips have been popping up on my IG. She’s definitely funny.

I never saw the Comedy Central show this was born from. There was some roughness to the format, like any new show. And and hour seems too long … might be better as a half-hour.

Basically, it’s stand-up comics riffing. Which is in my wheelhouse. I have doubts this lasts very long. Might have too narrow an audience. And the level of talent it attracts could be the make or break.

 

Yes, please

 

Agreed. I might give it a shot.

 

Is The Night Agent worth watching? Someone on a work call whose opinions I usually trust raved about it.

 

And nothing like I’ve ever seen before.

 

I believe it is a middle of the road action-thriller, so it kind of depends on where your bar is for that kind of content. It is on the long list of stuff for my wife and I to watch, if we run out of other stuff. Since my wife loved the latest season of Fargo, it got pushed back in the queue, since she now wants to try the movie and the previous seasons of Fargo before anything else.

 

Indeed, it bordered on surreal.

 

I burned through it a few weeks ago. It was … fine. I liked “The Killing” and “The Fall” better. Gillian Anderson, in the latter, gets better with age. Lordy.