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Season 2 Rings of Power. Saw some negative comments but I think it's been good so far. My wife hates how arrogant Galadriel is, but I can pretty much forgive Morfydd Clark just about anything. Plus, Galadriel is right. She's pissed because Sauron duped her and others aren't reacting properly to the threat. Introduction of Tom Bombadil is nicely done. Also the backstory on the Istar is interesting, we don't know which wizard the stranger is.
 
storrsroars said:
Is bingeing out? Seems everything I'm watching now is weekly release. Bad Monkey, Slow Horses, The Old Man, and now the Aaron Hernandez movie (wasn't expecting it to be as interesting as it is, guy who plays AH is doing a terrific job. Edsall is portrayed in a couple of scenes as kind of a sleazeball).

Also tried out High Potential last night. Not sure I'll stick with it as it seems a typical formulaic crime drama, but will say Kaitlin Olsen does a great job with the lead role. The difference between this and the litany of super-crime-solving-outsiders that came before is how ridiculous her family life is, which is the more appealing arc of the debut show.
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I decided to watch High Potential with minimal expectations. I thought it was pretty good as well and will definitely go back.

My experience with ABC shows are that they frequently start out strong, with a unique hook but then lose focus once the concept gets tired or is outgrown by the narrative. (E.g., The Good Doctor's autism coupled with hyper analytical skills or The Rookie's hook of being a middle-aged rookie cop.) This one seems ripe for that. The whole engine that drives this is how incongruous Olsen's character is in a police investigation. Eventually, that's not going to work as she gains more and more experience investigating.

Also, it's a little formulaic in that they seem to be setting up a narrative of initial dislike, followed by begrudging respect, followed by effective partnership, followed by inevitable romance with the lead detective she's working with.

All that said, I'm still in.
 
CL82 said:
I decided to watch High Potential with minimal expectations. I thought it was pretty good as well and will definitely go back.

My experience with ABC shows are that they frequently start out strong, with a unique hook but then lose focus once the concept gets tired or is outgrown by the narrative. (E.g., The Good Doctor's autism coupled with hyper analytical skills or The Rookie's hook of being a middle-aged rookie cop.) This one seems ripe for that. The whole engine that drives this is how incongruous Olsen's character is in a police investigation. Eventually, that's not going to work as she gains more and more experience investigating.

Also, it's a little formulaic in that they seem to be setting up a narrative of initial dislike, followed by begrudging respect, followed by effective partnership, followed by inevitable romance with the lead detective she's working with.

All that said, I'm still in.
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Agree with all that, which is why I think going forward, a lot of storylines will need to focus on how she balances family with job. It was interesting in Ep1 how her eldest daughter doesn't have the brain power of Olsen's character or her son's (don't recall about the other daughter). That's gonna come into play at some point. And it seems an important subplot will be her missing partner. So my opinion on this series is that for it to find lasting appeal, it has to be more about her personal life than the crime solving gimmicks.
 
Now "High Potential" is taking a couple week break after only 2 episodes. Really?
 
nwhoopfan said:
Now "High Potential" is taking a couple week break after only 2 episodes. Really?
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ABC doing baseball playoffs?

Watched Ep2 today. Still interested. Really liking KO in this role. As of yet, haven't really developed much of a care for any of the other characters who mostly seem out of central casting.
 
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storrsroars said:
ABC doing baseball playoffs?

Watched Ep2 today. Still interested. Really liking KO in this role. As of yet, haven't really developed much of a care for any of the other characters who mostly seem out of central casting.
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I've definitely seen Daniel Sunjata play the same character before. I don't know if it's the only character he ever plays, that's possible. I think there is the potential for the older daughter to be interesting.
 
storrsroars said:
ABC doing baseball playoffs?

Watched Ep2 today. Still interested. Really liking KO in this role. As of yet, haven't really developed much of a care for any of the other characters who mostly seem out of central casting.
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Wait, Kevin Ollie had a roll in this TV series?

I agree very much that the characters all seem to be archetypes. One thing that bothered me about last nights show was
KO's character deducing that the victim was murdered because he had access to different cars at the garage that he worked at and that the victim was providing to an armed robber. When he stopped providing the cars he was killed. The problem with that is that the murderer worked in the same garage in thus would have had access to the cars without the murder victim. So the central point that she used to deduce who the murder victim was was actually irrelevant.

I'm still in though. The show is somewhat entertaining in has the potential to improve as characters are more well defined.

I also like how we got the first clue regarding her first husband's disappearance. I hope they keep that up, eking out one clue at a time. I like that formula of a weekly mystery in case in a larger mystery. Burn Notice use that very successfully.
 
The Perfect Couple. Stars Lieve Schreiber and Nicole Kidman plus a crapload of others. Netflix. It’s a murder mystery set on Nantucket, filmed mostly in Chatham. Super rich, really obnoxious people are there for a weeding. Someone dies. Since most of these people are annoying, you suspect several of them. Not bad so far. Bono’s daughter is the would be bride.
 
Kolumbo said:
LOST (2004-2010)
Is this worth it? Never saw it before and now I am almost done with Season 1. While it was interesting at first, it seems each episode goes into some surprising background of a passenger along with some other storyline. I'm getting kind of bored but I thought this would be intriguing. Perhaps it picks up steam later on? It was highly rated so I'd like to stick with it.
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I am into season 3 and I am really enjoying this adventure. When I first posted about Lost I was only on episode 8 or 9, I didn't realize each season was so long.

The cast is very entertaining. There are some downsides but the adventure keeps rolling along. Some of the deaths don't make much sense but I'm letting the story play out.

Sawyer with his nicknames is probably my 2nd favorite, behind Kate of course. "Advice is free, Murgatroyd," he says to Munson in jail.

 
nomar said:
Just finished Slow Horses season 4. If anything, the show has continued to get better.
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Saving that for tonight. I'm going to be sad having both Slow Horses and Bad Monkey come to an end the same week.

I got into Fight Night last week. It's got too much Kevin Hart for my tastes, but a lot of no-names are pretty good here (especially Sinqua Walls and Myles Bullock), but it's got Samuel L. Jackson as the top bad guy and Don Cheadle as the good guy, both of whom are very good here. Stylistically calls back to a lot of 70s Blaxplotation films but is based on a true story about a robbery at a party during the Ali-Quarry fight in Atlanta that many Black crime syndicate heads were attending. That's also ending on Friday.
 
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I really enjoyed Bad Monkey, even though Bill Lawrence left out a ton of stuff from the book (like the monkey actually disfigured Egg) and added a bunch of other stuff. Unlike what happened with the Striptease movie, Lawrence kept the spirit of what Hiaasen is all about with the new material and it worked.

While not official, it appears Lawrence will do Razor Girl, which was Hiaasen's sequel to Bad Monkey, and keep Vaughn as Yancy along with some other minor characters. Can't wait.

Funny thing to me is that I wouldn't consider either of those to be Hiaasen's best novels. His first book, Tourist Season, Double Whammy, Native Tongue, and Squeeze Me are his best, IMHO. He does have another two-book series featuring a retired investigator as the lead, and a series of eight books that feature Skink, the former governor of FL who quit politics and lives in the swamp, but is never the lead character and sometimes is a very minor character. But now that Lawrence has shown he can bring Hiaasen's work to the screen, there's a lot of material to work with. Bad Monkey was a hit for Apple TV, and I'm hoping Lawrence and others will mine that material and produce other series as good as Bad Monkey was.
 
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nomar said:
Just finished Slow Horses season 4. If anything, the show has continued to get better.
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I really loved Hugo Weaving breaking out his Agent Smith voice for his role. It was a superb season.

@storrsroars I've got two more Bad Monkey episodes left. Might finish it tonight. I am enjoying it as well. Didn't know anything about the book.

For anyone who gave up on Rings of Power last season, watch this season. It made a huge leap in quality and tied in to so many familiar characters and events. The guy playing Sauron is really good, should be up for awards.
 
HuskyHawk said:
I really loved Hugo Weaving breaking out his Agent Smith voice for his role. It was a superb season.

@storrsroars I've got two more Bad Monkey episodes left. Might finish it tonight. I am enjoying it as well. Didn't know anything about the book.

For anyone who gave up on Rings of Power last season, watch this season. It made a huge leap in quality and tied in to so many familiar characters and events. The guy playing Sauron is really good, should be up for awards.
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Just watched episode 7 (I think) of Bad Monkey last night. It's a popcorn show. Light and breezy, just like the Keys.
 
HuskyHawk said:
I really loved Hugo Weaving breaking out his Agent Smith voice for his role. It was a superb season.

@storrsroars I've got two more Bad Monkey episodes left. Might finish it tonight. I am enjoying it as well. Didn't know anything about the book.
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My initial reaction to Weaving's voice was, "this is a bit much". I didn't really think of Agent Smith, more like Darth Vader ("Luke, I am your father!"). But as the episode wore on, it grew on me.

I read a great interview with Bill Lawrence (caution: spoilers) last night on how and why he adapted a book that's an easy and brisk one or two day read into a 10 part series. Turns out he's also a huge Hiaasen fan.
 
nomar said:
Just watched episode 7 (I think) of Bad Monkey last night. It's a popcorn show. Light and breezy, just like the Keys.
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Absolutely. Meanwhile, I haven't watched the new season of The Bear precisely because it's not. I will get to it, but it's not always pleasant.
 
storrsroars said:
My initial reaction to Weaving's voice was, "this is a bit much". I didn't really think of Agent Smith, more like Darth Vader ("Luke, I am your father!"). But as the episode wore on, it grew on me.

I read a great interview with Bill Lawrence (caution: spoilers) last night on how and why he adapted a book that's an easy and brisk one or two day read into a 10 part series. Turns out he's also a huge Hiaasen fan.
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SPOILER ALERT!!!
 
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nomar said:
SPOILER ALERT!!!
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What, on Weaving? Was just trying to think of a quote and that's the first I thought of. I put spoiler alert on the Bad Monkey interview.
 
storrsroars said:
What, on Weaving? Was just trying to think of a quote and that's the first I thought of. I put spoiler alert on the Bad Monkey interview.
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Yes on Weaving! :)
 
Tried The Fall of the House of Usher. Couldn't make it through 1.5 episodes. Turned it off. I don't know what they were going for with this, but it's awful.

Tried Tulsa King and two episodes in we like it. I don't know if it is still on or has ended, but Stallone is really solid in the role. Lots of good supporting performances too.
 
HuskyHawk said:
Absolutely. Meanwhile, I haven't watched the new season of The Bear precisely because it's not. I will get to it, but it's not always pleasant.
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But always good.
 
HuskyHawk said:
Tried The Fall of the House of Usher. Couldn't make it through 1.5 episodes. Turned it off. I don't know what they were going for with this, but it's awful.

Tried Tulsa King and two episodes in we like it. I don't know if it is still on or has ended, but Stallone is really solid in the role. Lots of good supporting performances too.
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I stopped watching Usher but I sort of intended to pick it back up. Flanagan’s stuff is usually good—Midnight Mass was awesome.

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I made it through 4 episodes of "High Potential," but I think I'm done. It's just too hard to overlook the complete disregard for police procedure by the consultant, among other things. Eps 1-2 were intriguing to me, but 3 was a dud and 4 wasn't much better. Oh well.
 
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nwhoopfan said:
I made it through 4 episodes of "High Potential," but I think I'm done. It's just too hard to overlook the complete disregard for police procedure by the consultant, among other things. Eps 1-2 were intriguing to me, but 3 was a dud and 4 wasn't much better. Oh well.
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I was debating watching Ep3 last night but went to another episode of the Aaron Hernandez doc instead. Guess that was a good decision.
 
Just got a trial subscription to Apple TV+. Which show should be tge first to watch ?
 
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