I had to mute “Mandelorian” on the Twitter. I’m just waiting for the first season to end and then find an unmarked flash drive sitting on my desk so I can enjoy it at my leisure.
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I have to say, there are some good memes being made.
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Because if he didn’t find those, some other random items laying around might work?
Ok, sometimes it’s a little too convenient. But in a show about a youngish guy who somehow has a college degree, a distinguished career as a bomb disposal tech in Vietnam, and the training and trust to be a secret agent, who somehow always ends up in the right spot to be roped into helping someone survive a life-or-death situation, but also has time to do volunteer work at churches, as a “Big Brother”, schools for the deaf… it’s the random stuff lying around that breaks your suspension of disbelief? 
At least they usually show enough background of an area to attempt to justify what he finds…
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Yeah, that’s one of my pet peeves: somehow all the people in positions of authority, requiring many years of training, are all young and beautiful…and the women wear stilettos while chasing after criminals. Somehow they have enough time for all the things they do after work, too.
There have been a few shows that will have a pileup of papers on the dining room table, or some other small indication that they’re trying to depict a real home with real people, but generally the kids never have tantrums, the spouse always looks perfect and never has coffee breath, and it’s completely normal for someone in their 20s to have the kind of supervisory position that normally requires at least 10-15 years on the job.
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If the plausibility of MacGyver is too hard to accept, my I suggest the most awesome show of the 1980s? Manimal!
Dr Jonathan Chase… wealthy, young, handsome. A man with the brightest of futures. A man with the darkest of pasts. From Africa’s deepest recesses, to the rarefied peaks of Tibet, heir to his father’s legacy and the world’s darkest mysteries. Jonathan Chase, master of the secrets that divide man from animal, animal from man… Manimal!
It bears more than a passing resemblance to Dr Strange now that I think about it.
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WARNING: Puma growling noises.
This is the Russia we should fear? I think this is the Russia we should embrace!
Are they rich, I wonder, to be able to build a house in Russia? Or is it like here, over there, over there?
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Puma drool! I love it.
Except for the wild animal as a pet part. It does look well cared for, but you never know. There are a number of shelters/reserves where big cats go when rescued from lousy people, Tiger Haven for example.
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Most awesome? Manimal? I’ll take something with over twice as many episodes, and one of the most unlikely crime-fighting teams ever… 
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Here’s the explanatory video; things are different in Russia but I don’t think it’s like IN (according to the Lil Bub doc I watched, they have meth labs in one barn and raise big cats in another there).
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I have no memory of that show and yet I am simply stunned with the perfection. The hair, the graphics, the moxy, the sophistication, the animals. Dreamy.
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Oh? Did the Wizard have narration from William Conrad? I don’t think so.
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I love it. Steampunk before steampunk was a thing. Also as stated basically James Bond set in the era. Good if formulaic writing with a cast that knows how to play it just right. And the guest stars are half the fun.
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Anyone else watch clips from award shows and pause 'em to see who’s in the audience?
This one is great, natch, but fucking Jack Nicholson - what an asshole.
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i’d say it’s a toss-up between Manimal an The Man From Atlantis.
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Murder She Wrote has the most fascinating guest stars. The one I’m watching now guest stars Bill Maher as one of the villains.
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I suppose not. But it did have the leader of the Time Bandits, which has gotta count for something.
And I think it’s clear which of the two is on my Plex server. 
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