What are you binge watching?

[Chin Diesel]

Little League World Series.

Complete opposite for me. It's no longer rag tag groups of kids from a local area. These are well-funded year round travel teams. And you can tell these teams look and play different from 10 years ago. And let me throw in the gratuitous shot at ESPN for over commercializing it since they have so little programming the first half of August.

And my personal root cause analysis blames Taiwan Taipei which ran over everyone for a decade using a team of All-star All-stars.

 

[superjohn]

Complete opposite for me. It's no longer rag tag groups of kids from a local area. These are well-funded year round travel teams. And you can tell these teams look and play different from 10 years ago. And let me throw in the gratuitous shot at ESPN for over commercializing it since they have so little programming the first half of August.

And my personal root cause analysis blames Taiwan Taipei which ran over everyone for a decade using a team of All-star All-stars.

Trumbull little league world series champs in '89 who beat Taiwan was all-stars from the town of Trumbull's little league. Fairfield has two little leagues. Fairfield national is all-stars from half of the town of Fairfield with kids living within those school districts. There is also a Fairfield American consisting of kids from the other districts in the town.

Fairfield National Little League > Home

Fairfield American Little League > Home

 

[CL82]

I just started Slow Horses. It seems good.

 

[storrsroars]

I just started Slow Horses. It seems good.

It is. One of the better series of the last couple years. Oldman is good enough to make you think he hasn't showered since Covid.

 

[87Xfer]

Slow Horses is great, Oldman is perfect for the role.

Started watching Mr Robot (Netflix). Seems to have potential. Rami Malek is an interesting watch, that's for sure, but pretty dark characters thus far. Anyone watch it?

 

[superjohn]

It is. One of the better series of the last couple years. Oldman is good enough to make you think he hasn't showered since Covid.

Oldman hasn't showered since State of Grace...

 

[HuskyHawk]

Started Alien Earth. Aside from the very tired "corporations rule the world" trope, it was good through episode one.

Spoiler: I was a little perturbed

that they cast a super cute Ukrainian woman Victoria Masoma and focused on her on the ship, then she just dies

 

[Deepster]

I just rewatched the whole thing too. I think its one of the all time best shows. International Assassin might be the best single episode of anything all time.

I just hit International Assassin last night. Wow. What an episode. Really amazing writing to lead up to that point and deliver that episode. The scene at the well? Good god.

 

[ZooCougar]

I just hit International Assassin last night. Wow. What an episode. Really amazing writing to lead up to that point and deliver that episode. The scene at the well? Good god.

Yeah. Speechless.

The thing I love about the show is how you spend a good part of it thinking that certain characters are awful and irredeemable. And then you learn something critical about the the past and then you know why they were so damaged.

 

[Deepster]

Yeah. Speechless.

The thing I love about the show is how you spend a good part of it thinking that certain characters are awful and irredeemable. And then you learn something critical about the the past and then you know why they were so damaged.

What's also been cool is after each episode I ask ChatGPT to break down all the symbolism in that episode. It gives a GREAT recap of some things and links storylines together. Things like what the wild dogs or the deer Kevin keeps seeing represents. What the Guilty Remnants represent. If Wayne was the real deal or a hoax.