What tv shows are you watching
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I really enjoyed the 1st Season, a show about a Toronto hospital set in Montreal. It's mostly Canadian actors except Scotsman John Hannah (Spartacus). I see that Sugith Varughese's role in the show has been expanded. As the hospital's Chief Surgeon, he had only three episodes in S1.
Exceptionally good actor.
Wednesday: Netflix’s Addams Family series sets surprising Rotten Tomatoes milestone
Jenna Ortega plays the morbid teenager in Netflix’s new series
I might rewatch this.
- she is the perfect wing person.
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Based on the internationally best-selling novel by Gregory David Roberts, “Shantaram” follows a fugitive named Lin Ford (Charlie Hunnam) looking to get lost in vibrant and chaotic 1980s Bombay. Alone in an
unfamiliar city, Lin struggles to avoid the trouble he’s running from in this new place. After falling for an enigmatic and intriguing woman named Karla, Lin must choose between freedom or love and the complications that come with it.
Some decent EI eye candy
Finished Wednesday. Decent first season with some of the actors finding their characters. Ortega was Fantastic with a newer take on the lead. The writing for the cast was good but I think the story itself could have been a bit better. It did keep me guessing but occasionally the editing and character turns were a bit choppy.
Worth a second season I think.
Worth a second season I think.
I've heard Wednesday is cute but kind of bland. The lead's performance is getting raves though, and seems to be what most people say make it worth watching.
I won't call it a Disney Teen Show. But it strayed close a few times. Different directors on episodes were noticable at times. It is a low commitment of 8 45 min episodes. And she really does make you laugh with the deadpan gallows humor.
I watched it and it was so-so.
The first few episodes are slow, however the last few make up for it.
Disney fired their CEO, the bland crap they produce was not his fault. That's why they bought Fox Entertainment, only HBO rivals FX for quality programming.
The Bear is becoming the most written about show streaming. I can't resist it's call any longer, signing up with Disney to watch it.
The Bear is becoming the most written about show streaming. I can't resist it's call any longer, signing up with Disney to watch it.
With his work on The Bear and Selena + Chef, Matty Matheson has become bankable beyond being a chef. He stays grounded, he and Michelle (the cannabis chef) have breakfast on a frozen lake in Northern Ontario.
Three Pines, based on Louise Penny’s wildly successful novels, arrives on screen
The highly anticipated series debuts Dec. 2 on Prime
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Could this show fill a void in my life
I read a couple of those books and thought they were terrible.Three Pines, based on Louise Penny’s wildly successful novels, arrives on screen
The highly anticipated series debuts Dec. 2 on Prime
Could this show fill a void in my life
I do think it might have been because they were later in the series and probably assumed you already liked those characters and I just couldn't care about them.
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The Old Man: Most underrated series of the year
The thriller, for all its action sequences and cat-and-mouse games, has passion and authenticity
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The story involves an older white male who is required to take dangerous actions that seem unlikely for a man of his age. But this isn’t like one of those movie thrillers in which Liam Neeson is obliged to play the dad as action man. This is a seven-episode drama about the patient pursuit of reconciliation with the past.
Jeff Bridges plays Dan Chase, a man living alone off the radar, with his two dogs. He has dreams about his late wife and his nights are interrupted by multiple trips to the bathroom. He looks grizzled, tired, lonely but intact. Then someone breaks into the house aiming to kill him. He handles the attacker with a blunt but efficient defence. Then he hits the road.
Dan, if indeed that is his real name, is a wanted man. Decades before, he was a CIA operative in several places, but principally Afghanistan where he covertly helped the locals fight the Soviet soldiers after the country was invaded. He killed, supplied weapons, kept secrets and, it seems, became involved with the wife of a powerful man in Afghanistan. His past is very messy and now someone wants him eliminated.
On the road, Dan meets a woman and they seem to like each other. Zoe (Amy Brenneman) is a woman of an age where she’s wise to the selfishness of older men, wary of involvement and suspicious of men who seem to have big secrets. The scenes between the two characters are beautifully done. These are often long scenes, staged quietly, giving the actors space to say a great deal with hesitations and silences.
There is action at intervals, mind you. An early scene in which Dan and Amy are in her car and are stopped by police is a scene that takes your breath away. Thing is, Dan imagines a ferocious way out but we see it, even if it’s in his imagination. And there are further scenes in which you worry about the beating that Jeff Bridges, age 72, is taking, as he obviously does many stunts himself. And you would be further worried if you were aware that during filming, production was shut down when Bridges was diagnosed with both COVID-19 and lymphoma. He has recovered.
Chasing Dan, in a twisted way, is an equally obdurate old man, Harold Harper (John Lithgow), and part of the very coiled plot seething beneath the surface is that Harper worked with Dan in the long ago and he too doesn’t want old secrets revealed. Plus, a secret about the identity of Dan’s daughter, the only person he seems to contact, is revealed to viewers in the early going. Around Harper (Lithgow manages to make the old spy figure both sinister and sympathetic), there are other circles of deception and menace. Harper’s protégé Angela (Alia Shawkat, who played Dory on Search Party) knows too much, while her careerist colleague Raymond (E.J. Bonilla) hasn’t a clue what’s happening.
The intricate plotting (it was adapted by Jonathan E. Steinberg and Robert Levine from Thomas Perry’s more action-focused novel) would irritate were it not for the strength of the performances and the pacing. In particular, the chemistry between Brenneman and Bridges is a thing to behold. The characters are given time to chat, idly, over meals and attempt to learn about each other. Brenneman’s Zoe recognizes the familiar in Dan Chase. She’s old enough to have met men like him, even when he thinks he’s unique.
When the lists for best-of-the year are written, The Old Man should be there. It often amounts to mature characters having mature conversations about youth, passion, aging and vulnerability. That’s so rare these days. Catch up with it while you can.
