Watching Condor, loosely based on Three Days of the Condor. It uses standard action beats with time to develop characters. My one problem with it is that everyone is young, good-looking, and the same. I had to pause and rewind to tell if an assassin and a future girl-friend weren’t the same person. I could tell because the eyebrows were different.
7 Likes
I’ve been watching (out of the corner of my eye) Elementary and Sneaky Pete as I’m painting, because the solve-along-with-us stories don’t require much brainpower to process. That, and I am getting a kick out of seeing regulars from other canceled series in new roles - Dexter, The Wire, etc.
I love playing Character Actor Old Maid.
6 Likes
Just finished the three episodes of “A Very British Scandal” about Jeremy Thorpe. A rather lined and grizzled Hugh Grant is fabulous as Thorpe – not that I know anything about the real one, but he fills the role to bursting with character. Great production, and great writing by Russell T. Davies of Dr Who fame. 
4 Likes
2 Likes
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. Funny, smart, and well-acted. I love the late 50’s style, including the vivid colors, like early Technicolor. The writing is stellar.
4 Likes
I’m re-watching Withnail & I. First time I’ve watched it since you-know-who got elected. The perfect lines pile up as quick as they ever have, but somehow it’s not as funny as usual.
I think it’s all the bits where one says something like “I’m fucked” and the other one says “we all are”. 'Cos we all are.
6 Likes
I watched Chappaquiddick, and then rewatched All the President’s Men today without even mentally connecting them to the summit meeting. APM is still the awesome movie I remember, and gee – so many great actors from that movie are already gone or aged out of the industry.
ETA: I also want to say, one of the things I love so much about APM is how the filmmakers managed a natural-sounding, overlapping conversational style without it being an unintelligible mess. Richard Donner and Robert Altman could have taken lessons from Pakula.
5 Likes
I took my now wife to this on our first date at college!
Talk about a romantic movie . . . 
6 Likes
Love it. From the writer/director of Gilmore Girls.
3 Likes
Somebody gets fridged in Episode 08 of Cloak and Dagger.
The writers are definitely commenting on the trope. Very meta. It looks almost exactly like the death of Alex in Green Lantern, except for one thing.
2 Likes
If I’m reading this right, it’s Quatermass and the Pit, except American. Michael Peña starring moves it up the list for me.
2 Likes
I rewatched every episode of Steven Universe while my spouse watched it for the first time. Unfortunately one of the big holy shit moments was already spoiled for her.
And then she kind of got deeply into the music from the show and played it a lot for several days. (This is a good thing, because now there are about 20 songs stuck in my head instead of just the opening theme. The songwriting is really pretty brilliant in places.)
And we were talking about a couple of things and couldn’t remember exactly what happened in one little detail. And we’ve got an unknown number of weeks before the next Stevenbomb that finishes season 5… and her favorite anime are on hiatus. So she decided she wanted to rewatch the whole thing again to hunt for foreshadowing (there’s a lot of it), and here I am seeing it again for the third time.
(I think the only other series I’ve seen all of more than once is Firefly, and that almost doesn’t count.)
4 Likes
I think you have to bring your concerns to your local preacher of cynical, socialist, God-is-dead atheism, who will put pressure on them through the neighbourhood atheist congregation.
6 Likes
Oh, you should definitely follow up. If your purely imaginary faith leader isn’t willing to act on behalf of his unknowing followers, he should be struck down by the empty pantheon of gods that he professes his lack of belief in.
Also: if you have a belief in nihilism, I think you’re doing nihilism wrong. 
7 Likes
Finally got through Sense8! What a great show. I just wish that they could have had a final season instead of just a 2 and a half hour movie to wrap up the storyline.
7 Likes
For people who were dismayed at the cancellation, we were happy to get that; initially, netflix was just gonna leave us hanging.
But yes, it was a wonderful, beautiful, sometimes implausible show.
The idea of being able to share knowledge, abilities, memories, and experiences directly from mind to mind… that’s a hopeful fantasy of human evolution that I enjoyed seeing immensely.
7 Likes
Well, bigoted Buffy fanboys/fangirls are about to lose their shit, I betcha…
Straight out of ComicCon’s mouth:
11 Likes
Nice. Hopefully it’s not a straight reboot, because a lot of that early-season Angel stuff is just plain creepy in retrospect.
7 Likes
I never actually watched either show; I was in college when they aired, and I had something like a life… but I remember a gaggle of avid fangirls gathered in the common-space of the dorm every week for both of them…
6 Likes
Maybe not, since there have been several black Slayers in the canon.
Now, if the Slayer was of Native American descent, then bigots would lose their shit (Whedon doesn’t have the best track record with native representation or depictions either, yeesh).
4 Likes