TV Series Binge Watching

[sean92008]

Watching This Old House on Roku this morning... Before the producer, Russell Morash, died, he sold the rights to the show over to Roku.

First thing I see is a tile guy not putting mortar down properly on a fancy tile mosaic installation...

The tile guys were a family business and the main guy was originally Joe Ferrante. I saw the last episode that he died later that day. Before learning of his death on the show, I had thought to myself he sucked. At the end of the episode, I thought that he was just having a bad day before dying.

I was wrong.

This guy sucked all the time apparently. He just wasn't doing a good job and I bet the installation failed within a couple of years.

[Walks_At_Night]

I'm a pretty big fan of the old cop shows.  Hawaii Five-O is my all time fave but shows like Dragnet, Columbo, Streets of San Francisco, etc are fun to watch as well.  I've never watched Ironside before and just came across it and thought I would give it a watch.  Man, Ironside is such a grouchy dick. LoL!  Hard to believe that his minions haven't pushed his wheelchair down Lombard Street.

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[sean92008]

I'm a pretty big fan of the old cop shows.  Hawaii Five-O is my all time fave but shows like Dragnet, Columbo, Streets of San Francisco, etc are fun to watch as well.  I've never watched Ironside before and just came across it and thought I would give it a watch.  Man, Ironside is such a grouchy dick. LoL!  Hard to believe that his minions haven't pushed his wheelchair down Lombard Street.

I like a really old cop show, Gunsmoke. I've been watching it on Pluto TV on demand.

I have googled many of the guests who have made appearances on the show, so far, I have found two who have been buried a few miles north of me.

I watched Adam 12 and Dragnet a ton, in the last decade. I loved how many of those businesses and apartment buildings were still in existence a decade ago.

[Smokin Hot Bob]

Peter Gunn, still worth watching. The series represents for me an interesting transition from post WWII film noir to the more stylish Bond era.

https://www.thearchive.tv/shows/peter-gunn

[sean92008]

I would like to add that whoever has restored the gunsmoke library has done one hell of a job. Watching it in 4k has been a pleasure.

[Smokin Hot Bob]

M Squad, another good one with often interesting casting in retrospect.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujUBXusvHIo
M Squad starring Lee Marvin (1959) with James Coburn and Leonard Nimoy

[sean92008]

It was an accident, a suggestion on my anonymous YouTube account... Think Falkie or miller-like delusions, but with an effort being made. NYC

[sean92008]

Gunsmoke. I've always sworn that the half hour episodes were always the best. Minus two episodes, one because the streaming service got them messed up and the other I fell asleep during, I've watched the first five seasons. I'm starting season 6 this morning.

Streaming on Pluto TV, the picture quality. It's great. Sometimes it's a little grainy, but it's film being upscaled to 2K or 4K. The graininess is more noticeable in the studio shots, the outdoor ones are fine.

Although there's a few commercials featured in two different breaks, I find that the Pluto on demand is actually a better quality than watching it on one of their channels.

[sean92008]

...I made it to the beginning of Gunsmoke's episode 15 of season 7. The one-hour episodes just drag and the repetition gets harder to get through...

[The_Snoopy_Phone]

I'm probably posting this in the wrong place because this is not a television show, but I've been binge watching
this guy's videos on YouTube. I wanted to share this one because I found it to be excellent. It presented to me some things
I didn't already know and I didn't think even one minute of this was boring.

At one point he shows a clip of a woman in her own
apartment having to feed quarters into a machine the landlord hooked up to her washing machine...
but this is not in the apartment complex's laundry room, this is actually inside her own apartment unit.
So right inside her own unit, she has to put in some quarters just to be able to do a load of laundry.

Also if I understood right, somebody was saying that those fancy heated seats that come in some vehicles are not something
you just pay for once and then you can use "forever" anymore...now companies are actually making you pay an ongoing
subscription rate / fee for the heating feature in the seats. Again, if I heard correctly, that is.

Then also he said something about buy now, pay later entities like Pay In Four and Klarna teaming up with Doordash or some such,
to allow people to buy food on credit because that's how very costly food has gotten.

He touches on and shows clips and comments on the subject of how maddeningly high and ridiculous prices have gotten on all sorts of different things,
which we all already know about, but he shows things you may not already be aware of. I highly
recommend watching this video. And you may want to check out the enormous gouge going on in Connecticut where apparently they are making
people pay for the electricity bills of other people...I think somebody in comments said that's a lie, they say on the bill you're paying
for the electricity bills of poorer people or something, but the money's really going into the bank accounts of the high-ups in the company.

[Uncle Duke]

I'm probably posting this in the wrong place because this is not a television show, but I've been binge watching
this guy's videos on YouTube. I wanted to share this one because I found it to be excellent. It presented to me some things
I didn't already know and I didn't think even one minute of this was boring.

At one point he shows a clip of a woman in her own
apartment having to feed quarters into a machine the landlord hooked up to her washing machine...
but this is not in the apartment complex's laundry room, this is actually inside her own apartment unit.
So right inside her own unit, she has to put in some quarters just to be able to do a load of laundry.

Also if I understood right, somebody was saying that those fancy heated seats that come in some vehicles are not something
you just pay for once and then you can use "forever" anymore...now companies are actually making you pay an ongoing
subscription rate / fee for the heating feature in the seats. Again, if I heard correctly, that is.

Then also he said something about buy now, pay later entities like Pay In Four and Klarna teaming up with Doordash or some such,
to allow people to buy food on credit because that's how very costly food has gotten.

He touches on and shows clips and comments on the subject of how maddeningly high and ridiculous prices have gotten on all sorts of different things,
which we all already know about, but he shows things you may not already be aware of. I highly
recommend watching this video. And you may want to check out the enormous gouge going on in Connecticut where apparently they are making
people pay for the electricity bills of other people...I think somebody in comments said that's a lie, they say on the bill you're paying
for the electricity bills of poorer people or something, but the money's really going into the bank accounts of the high-ups in the company.

Reminds me of pay toilets back in the day.  One day for want of a dime, I wound up making a solid deposit in the sink of a bar's men's room.  The worst part was wiping with the paper towels.

[The_Snoopy_Phone]

Reminds me of pay toilets back in the day.  One day for want of a dime, I wound up making a solid deposit in the sink of a bar's men's room.  The worst part was wiping with the paper towels.

Well I guess they should have known better than to make it a pay toilet.
If they wanted to keep homeless people from slamming in there, they could have instead made it token accessible.
Many years ago a friend of mine said at the university in which he was living and attending, he'd go into the restroom
and see that somebody had pooped in the shower and the maids / housekeepers would leave notes saying they don't want to clean it up.