The TV thread

I know it’s TV but The Pitt on Max hits such poignant issues that I don’t think I’ve ever cried so much watching TV.

 

I like the show, too. It caught me totally by surprise what happened to the head nurse. (no spoilers).
But, geez, they go right from a kid die from drowning to a man with his body 90 percent burned. Talk about fast-paced.

 

Time Bandits was a lot of laid back fun. Lisa Kudrow is a delight.

 

Apparently Ben Stiller made an absurdist TV show about 20 years ago with Jack Black, Ron Silver, Owen Wilson the talking motorcycle, Mr. Vargas, and the chick who played Marcia in the Brady Bunch Movie. It wasn't picked up but is highly enjoyable.

 

A great "brilliant but cancelled" show of its era, along with Lookwell. (Adam West as a washed up TV detective, written by Conan and Robert Smigel.)

 

It is a lot. I thought my wife was going to lose it a few times, especially during the story about the old man and is son and daughter. Some of the story beats in that one hit way too close to home after we lost her mother this past summer.

 

I'm enjoying Grosse Pointe Garden Society on NBC. It's an easy watch that beckons back to Desperate Housewives and Good Girls.

It does take some getting used to the time jumps back and forth, but it seems a lot of shows are doing that now.

 

Anyone watching Paradise? It's entertaining. Part post-apocalyptic, part Walden Pond, part Air Force One, part Cloverfield.

 

Last night's episode of Severance was slow and boring and stupid as shit.

They have no idea what they're going for anymore.