TV Series Binge Watching

[sean92008]

I mildly like Three Stooges and Laurel and Hardy stuff.  Some are great, some aren't, and if I watch too much it gets boring because a lot of the gags are repetitive. A week or a month apart doesn't seem so bad like in the old days.

Something I have discovered in the last few months is a series of Hal Roach Studios shorts by Thelma Todd and ZaSu Pitts. Thelma Todd is best known for her suicide under strange circumstances. She was not only a successful actress, and successful in business, she was dating some mob guy. Ageless beauty too.

[KSM]

Paramount Plus has a series called Fatal Attraction that is based on the movie of course.

I gave it a shot, made it 5 episodes in and it just doesn't grab like it should. The chick who is playing Glenn Close's character just doesn't cut it. There are other problems, she's just one of them. And the new thing that series are doing by bouncing from past to present in every episode is fucking annoying. Who suddenly thought this is a good idea? @TigerLily I gave Yellowjackets a shot but that too bounces around from past to present. Hate it. Doesn't need to be that way.

And if you want to argue about it we will.

[TigerLily]

Paramount Plus has a series called Fatal Attraction that is based on the movie of course.

I gave it a shot, made it 5 episodes in and it just doesn't grab like it should. The chick who is playing Glenn Close's character just doesn't cut it. There are other problems, she's just one of them. And the new thing that series are doing by bouncing from past to present in every episode is fucking annoying. Who suddenly thought this is a good idea? @TigerLily I gave Yellowjackets a shot but that too bounces around from past to present. Hate it. Doesn't need to be that way.

And if you want to argue about it we will.

You just want to argue because you think it will end up in wrestling. Yellowjackets jumps back and forth between two decades but it is good despite that. I had to watch the whole first season over again and there are very few shows I would be willing to do that with. But it is well written, mysterious, spooky and great acting even if the two decade old actors don't often look like themselves. It's good to watch it with someone so you can go, "Wait. What just happened?"

[TigerLily]

I mildly like Three Stooges and Laurel and Hardy stuff.  Some are great, some aren't, and if I watch too much it gets boring because a lot of the gags are repetitive. A week or a month apart doesn't seem so bad like in the old days.

Something I have discovered in the last few months is a series of Hal Roach Studios shorts by Thelma Todd and ZaSu Pitts. Thelma Todd is best known for her suicide under strange circumstances. She was not only a successful actress, and successful in business, she was dating some mob guy. Ageless beauty too.

Sexy sassy Hot Toddy. I know her from her Marx Brothers movies and other comedies. She was connected (so to speak) with gangster Lucky Luciano and died a mysterious death. I bet @Rikki Gins would know the scoop (which I missed points on) about Thelma Todd

[Rikki Gins]

Sexy sassy Hot Toddy. I know her from her Marx Brothers movies and other comedies. She was connected (so to speak) with gangster Lucky Luciano and died a mysterious death. I bet @Rikki Gins would know the scoop (which I missed points on) about Thelma Todd

@TigerLily, as much as I hate to admit it, I'm sorely lacking when it comes to actresses from the 1930s.  Except for one, Fay Wray, and I don't know anything about her except that she's in two of my favorite 1930s classic movies, Doctor X and The Mystery of the Wax Museum.  I found her to be highly attractive and I would have fallen in love with her, had I been alive back in those days. 

[KSM]

You just want to argue because you think it will end up in wrestling. Yellowjackets jumps back and forth between two decades but it is good despite that. I had to watch the whole first season over again and there are very few shows I would be willing to do that with. But it is well written, mysterious, spooky and great acting even if the two decade old actors don't often look like themselves. It's good to watch it with someone so you can go, "Wait. What just happened?"

I WANT to argue with you? Because I think it would turn into wresting?

I'm pretty sure I can whoop you Lily.

So you're wrong. Just like you're wrong about yellowjackets. Perhaps you wish you could wrassle me?  Oh yeah.. dreams of me pinning you with my beautifully developed forearms as I work my behemoth manthing deep inside lady-town like the new sheriff riding into town. THRUSTING! GRUNTING! GRRRAAAAWWWWHHH

I dunno..  whatever   carry on

@TigerLily

[TigerLily]

I WANT to argue with you? Because I think it would turn into wresting?

I'm pretty sure I can whoop you Lily.

So you're wrong. Just like you're wrong about yellowjackets. Perhaps you wish you could wrassle me?  Oh yeah.. dreams of me pinning you with my beautifully developed forearms as I work my behemoth manthing deep inside lady-town like the new sheriff riding into town. THRUSTING! GRUNTING! GRRRAAAAWWWWHHH

I dunno..  whatever   carry on

@TigerLily

You're funny

[Walks_At_Night]

FreeVee has the greatest TV show there ever was, is or ever will be available: The original Hawaii Five-O.

I'm going in! Starting with the pilot Cocoon:

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In the pilot, some stiff plays the Dan Williams character as Jim MacArthur was not yet cast. Unbelievably the stiff has a scene where he is smoking in Mcgarrett's office!  Something that would be totally unimaginable as the series goes on.
James Gregory, Andrew Duggan, Leslie Nielsen and Nancy Kwan guest star with McGarrett even going out on a dinner date with Kwan's character!  Again something that would rarely happen later in the series. The Chin Ho Kelly character is kind of a goofball in the pilot -
he enters McGarrett's office with "Chin Ho Kelly strikes again!" a couple of times.  Kono Kalakaua takes a huge bite off a sandwich while reporting to McGarrett.  So the main characters really haven't settled into their roles yet. 

It is a two parter and over all a solid start to the series. Wo Fat the Chinese commie is taking down U.S. intelligence agents and McGarrett has got to stop him while battling both the US intelligence community and the Chinese.

The intro to the pilot differs from the one shown through out the rest of Season 1.  No zooming in on McGarrett as he stands atop of the Illikai but the viewer does get to see the hulu dancers face at the 36 second mark - for the only time in the series. All the other intro's
just show her hips:

By the way the hula dancer was Helen Kuoha-Torco. She has said that it took 14 hours of filming to get that scene right and she thought her hips were going to fall off. A hard way to make $150! She ended up obtaining a Phd and became a professor in Business Technology.

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Note: If you think that I know too much about this Mrs. WAN would agree with you.

[Peter Wyngarde]

You just want to argue because you think it will end up in wrestling. Yellowjackets jumps back and forth between two decades but it is good despite that. I had to watch the whole first season over again and there are very few shows I would be willing to do that with. But it is well written, mysterious, spooky and great acting even if the two decade old actors don't often look like themselves. It's good to watch it with someone so you can go, "Wait. What just happened?"

They obviously didn't think much beyond the first season because the last one was a farrago of balls. It's a classic honeytrap for the mentally-less-able (no offence) who get taken in by all these teases that try to fool the poor dears that there's actually an overarching story. In fact they just pump this stuff out without any idea of how to end it and then hurriedly try to tie up all the loose ends when the cocaine runs out in the writers room. If that business with the condom didn't alert you to the fact this show is just mind-bendingly stupid then I don't know what to tell you.

[sean92008]

Until I saw a news article with a building wrapped with a Yellowjackets promotional image in an article discussing San Diego's famed Comic-Con, I didn't know it was a show. For some reason I think about some new car when I hear the name.

Having not even known of its existence as a show until this last few days, @Peter Wyngarde's review of it is perfect... Those very same words could be used in any review of pretty much every show on every streaming service in current day media.
😁😁😁😁😁

[TigerLily]

They obviously didn't think much beyond the first season because the last one was a farrago of balls. It's a classic honeytrap for the mentally-less-able (no offence) who get taken in by all these teases that try to fool the poor dears that there's actually an overarching story. In fact they just pump this stuff out without any idea of how to end it and then hurriedly try to tie up all the loose ends when the cocaine runs out in the writers room. If that business with the condom didn't alert you to the fact this show is just mind-bendingly stupid then I don't know what to tell you.

You are very odd. But in a somewhat interesting way. I don't think I would ever take your show recommendations seriously, though

[PB]

FreeVee has the greatest TV show there ever was, is or ever will be available: The original Hawaii Five-O...

Also one of favorites, and one of the few that isn't so badly dated as to be unwatchable - just the opposite!

Do you know why these networks rerun nearly all the shows for the early and middle years, but skip so many of the last few years?

... The intro to the pilot differs from the one shown through out the rest of Season 1.  No zooming in on McGarrett as he stands atop of the Illikai but the viewer does get to see the hulu dancers face at the 36 second mark - for the only time in the series. All the other intro's
just show her hips:

The kid in the intro was just riding his bike by that day, and got $5 for his part.

[Peter Wyngarde]

You are very odd. But in a somewhat interesting way. I don't think I would ever take your show recommendations seriously, though

Television's not for watching anyway, it's for being on.

[Zetaspeak]

My favorite streaming show of the last couple of years is WandaVision on Disney Plus, I am not even a big Marvel follower, but I am a fan of classic TV and the concept of her going decade by decade going into different TV sitcom eras was a lot of fun, especially the first half of the series where they didn't have much "Cap stuff". Not sure if I had a chance to mention it yet but I liked it a lot and it's only one season.

[Peter Wyngarde]

Has anyone been watching 'Only Murders in the Building'? I just finished the first season and I'm not sure whether the second season is worth bothering with or not. The murderer was ridiculously obvious as soon as they showed up, and there was a pointless sub-plot that was only there to flesh out the narrative. It was good to see Steve Martin and Martin Short but the whole thing felt a bit half-arsed to me. And what the hell's going on with Selena Gomez's voice is baffling, she sounds like a 60 year old woman.