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Post by Deeky on Oct 7, 2024 10:05:00 GMT -5
Recently caught both the "punk rock menace" episodes of both CHiPs and Quincy M.E. Wow. Punk rock is really dangerous! Ever seen the "punk rock" episode of WKRP in Cincinati? It's intentionally funny most of the episode, but when hear the band play we realize the producers have no idea what punk rock sounds like. 😆 Come on, that sounds like Foreigner. |
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Post by Marxo Grouch on Oct 12, 2024 5:08:34 GMT -5
Recently started watching The Good Fight, the spin-off of The Good Wife. I could write a lot about TGW - it was a show that worked on many levels - but I'm not going to do that now. In extreme shorthand, TGW is about Alicia Florrick (Julianna Marguiles), wife of Illinois's states attorney (Chris Noth), who finds herself in the public eye when he's arrested, tried and sent to prison under a scandal that included cheating on her with hookers. She subsequently goes back to work as a lawyer, landing at the firm where her almost-was back in college is a name partner (Josh Charles), all the while publicly standing by her man, despite very mixed feelings about doing so.
The Good Fight takes place fairly soon after when TGW left off. It focuses on the other name partner from the firm in TGW, Diane Lockhart (Christine Baranski), who finds herself simultaneously financially screwed as the result a Ponzi scheme enacted by good friends of hers and frozen out at her firm. She takes an offer from an old friend (Delroy Lindo) to come work at his firm, which is the only majority African-American firm in town and has a reputation for litigating police brutality cases. Oh, right, and it all takes place just after DFiT's inauguration, and the showrunners are not shy about making it clear that the show is, at its heart, a reaction to that horrifying event.
As I mentioned, there's a lot I could write about both of these shows. But for now, I'm just going to indulge my secular fetish for profanity. I get this odd delight from hearing actors or, even better, characters from network shows swearing. The filthier, the better. Seeing them escape the yoke of the FCC just tickles me somehow. TGW aired on CBS, so no overtly offensive words (although they could get creative in that respect from time to time), but TGF was produced for CBS's streaming service, so I wondered before I started it whether they would be taking advantage of having slipped the yoke. That question was answered immediately when, at the end of the cold open of the first episode, having just been informed by phone that she has lost a ton of money and her plans for the future have gone up in smoke, Diane, who is a very elegant woman in many respects, barks "FUCK!!"
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Oct 20, 2024 9:18:07 GMT -5
I've mentioned how I'm watching old The Night Gallery episodes elsewhere. Well, last night's had one called "The Dark Boy" by August Derleth. I bring it up because there's a lot of hubbub about "folk horror" these days and I'd say this short fits the description.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Oct 21, 2024 15:18:16 GMT -5
Three of the The Night Gallery episodes (that I've viewed thus far) have referenced H.P. Lovecraft. There was a very short comedic bit called "Miss Lovecraft Sent Me" that was actually a vampire skit. Another slightly longer piece was called "Professor Peabody's Last Lecture" and also had a slightly humorous angle. And last night I watched their rendition of "Pickman's Model, which took a commendably serious approach to the source material.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Oct 22, 2024 8:34:24 GMT -5
And what do you know? A night later I saw another H.P. Lovecraft inspired The Night Gallery short called "Cool Air".
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Post by Marxo Grouch on Oct 25, 2024 5:09:30 GMT -5
I mentioned that the creators of The Good Fight made it clear where they stood on Shitler's "presidency". Take, for instance, the credit sequence.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Oct 25, 2024 13:52:08 GMT -5
More Night Gallery madness last night. First, Rod Serling kicked me in the feels with "The Messiah of Mott St" (with the great Edward G. Robinson), and then I watched Zsa Zsa Gabor get eaten by dinosaurs in "The Painted Mirror".
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Oct 27, 2024 22:30:25 GMT -5
Besides my nightly Night Gallery episode, I watched my first episode of Gravity Falls tonight. I may make a habit of that and see the rest.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Oct 30, 2024 9:55:18 GMT -5
Last night's Night Gallery was "Green Fingers", "The Funeral", and "The Tune in Dan's Cafe". Was so delightful seeing "Green Fingers" again. Of course Elsa Lanchester was great, but I forgot how good Cameron Mitchell was in it. When I was younger, I didn't care as much for the humorous ones like "The Funeral", but now I love them. "Dan's Cafe" was really good, too.
It looks like I'm not going to make it all the way through the first and second seasons of Night Gallery, so I suppose I sort of failed my October viewing challenge this year; but it didn't fail me.
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Post by Deeky on Nov 3, 2024 0:38:55 GMT -5
It's Florida, Man A docuseries about Florida men and their adventures.
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Post by Deeky on Nov 11, 2024 14:44:08 GMT -5
English Teacher Comedy about a gay high school teacher in Texas.
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Post by Deeky on Nov 22, 2024 12:55:30 GMT -5
The Manhattan Alien Abduction An okay doc about aliens in NYC.
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