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shadowkat1. First, I attempted to watch "Dancing with the Stars Juniors" and got offended. The dancing has always been rather "sexy" with an emphasis on sexy moves, and scanty costumes for many of the contestants, which in the adult version is equal opportunity. But in the kid version? We have scantily clad girls and little boys. They have the girls with short skirts and short tops, showing off plenty skin and they are emphasizing the sex appeal.
You can do dancing without doing that. It is possible. This feels exploitative and made me squirm.
Not helped by the fact that Sara Palin's grandson is one of the featured dancers.
So deleted that right off the bat. No. You can watch it. But I have standards.
Dancing with the Stars - Adult Version
Eh, I don't understand why Grocery Store Joe is still on this show and the Blind Olympian got booted. I would have booted Mr. Stiff as a board. Yeah he's pretty, but he's boring and a horrid dancer.
And yes, we have the ringers...and I found myself agreeing with Len about Tinasha, which is every single one of her dances is exactly the same. She does the same acrobatic rock star back up dancer routine each time. It's boring.
My favorites to date, weirdly, aren't the ringers:
* Eva "Luna Lovegood" Lynch...who has improved a great deal, and was almost unrecognizable in the last two dances, not to mention inspired.
* Bobby Bones...who has an astonishing amount of energy. He does appear to be the son of Elvis Costello and possibly Jerry Lee Lewis.
* Nancy McKeon who is such a trooper. I loved Cirque Du Soleil Russian number. Also, she doesn't do the whole sex bit.
Of the ringers?
I like Pablo (surprising jump from sexy salsa to Frank Sinatra) and the Zombie kid the best (memorable subway cha cha). Both were different this week and took risks.
Never been much of a Mary Lou Retton fan, she annoys me for some reason. I've no clue why.
I also like poor John Schneider, who is being a good sport about the whole thing.
Tinasha and the NFL Football player -- I find rather boring and predictable. And I cannot stand
the Prima Ballerina Social Media Influencer/Model and Grocery Store Joe.
2. Remember how I posted about the argument I had with former roommate about books being better than television on FB? And she along with my mother made me see the error of my ways? Well, I ended up finding myself on the opposite side of that conversation with another social media friend on FB, where they said books were better than television.
Proof that sooner or later you will find yourself on the opposite side of every argument you ever have. Although usually there's a few years between conversations not two months.
I found it amusing. I think I already post the conversations. Can't remember.
Anyhow...if you think there's nothing good on television? You aren't looking. Which is okay, there's so much cultural stuff out there...we all get burned out on it and have to take a breather.
I admit, I'm a culture junkie. And I love television.
3. Watching PBS Great Performances - the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Awards honoring people like Neil Diamond, Emmylou Harris, Tina Turner, some drummer for the Beach Boys and various bands, Queen, John Williams, among others.
Emmylou did a shout out to PBS stating she hoped they didn't go anywhere. We need them in these chaotic times. They are a breath of fresh air. Too true.
The for-profit news channels can be rather toxic.
They've already done a couple of my fav's:
* Sweet Caroline and I'm a Believer (with Mickey Dolenz who made it a hit)
* Proud Mary and What's Love Got to do with It. (I love Tina and I love a couple of the belters, not all of them. Can't stand Celine Dion and Michael Bolton, both cause nausea, but I adore Whitney Houston and Tina Turner and Aretha Franklin. I like the ones who can go deep down and high.)
The tribute to John Williams is truly beautiful. Violinist and harpist playing one of his compositions. I think from Schindler's List.
4. Of the medical melodramas...the only two I'm enjoying are:
9-1-1, which is the most realistic and possible the best written of the fire-fighter/emergency series. It's run by Minear/Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuck, starring Angela Bassett and Peter Krause.
(I have a huge woman-crush on Angela Bassett. I love her.)
New Amsterdam, which is the most realistic and best cast of the hospital melodramas. It stars Freema Agyee, the husband from the Black List, among others. It's diverse. It's gritty. And it's kind.
I don't want to throw rocks at the television set during it (looking at you, Resident).
Grey's Anatomy is feeling its age and Station 19 is just not believeable. And I can't watch anything by Dick Wolf. [I know a lot of professional fire fighters due to my work. I'm hiring a firm to design fire alarms and dealing with the fire marshalls and fire engineers for the Railroad. These are big guys. They have to carry 400 pounds. The people on Station 19 cannot carry 400 pounds. On 9-1-1, I believe they can. Also the cops on Station 19 aren't that big or tough. I'm doing a lot hand-waving since it takes place in Seattle not NYC or LA, but still.]
[Note, I get how nurses and doctors can't watch these things. Feel the same way about legal and criminal procedures for the same reasons. If you know too much, it's hard to hand-wave stuff.]
5. The sitcoms I'm sticking with are:
The Good Place
Not as good the premier. (I've seen Adam Scott who plays Trevor somewhere before, and I don't like the actor. I find him annoying. I'm guessing I'm supposed to?) Also a lot of the jokes did not work for me. This show's at its best when it is making fun of metaphysics and philosophy. At it's worst when it makes fun of pop culture or ethics.
That said, Kristen Bell's snarky sense of humor saves it.
Jason: Does the MRI have radiation?
Simone: No there's no radiation in an MRI.
Jason: No even a little? (He's holding his hands together in a fist.)
Eleanor: Jason, are you holding a spider?
Jason: Yes.
Eleanor: Do you actually think that if you get zapped with radiation with the spider in the MRI, you'll get super-powers?
Jason: It could happen. It just needs to bite me. See? It's already bitten me several times already.
That works. Eleanor and Jason are comic gold.
But the Trevor jokes just annoyed me. Luckily he was kicked back to hell by the Judge, failing miserably. The Dick Tracy Jokes -- due to the dumb custom Michael was wearing, got old fast. As did the poop joke. For some reason Americans love scatological humor, I can live without it. Little boys? Grow up. Poop or Shit isn't funny. It's just shit.
The ethical dilemma about it being unprofessional for Chidi to become friends with one of his subjects while necessary to the plot arc, seemed a bit silly.
Not as good an episode. I only laughed during the Jason/Eleanor bit.
* The Neighborhood -- biggest laughs of the week for the pilot. Let's see if the second episode holds up.
It is sort of a reverse Archie Bunker/The Jeffersons, modernized.
* Murphy Brown
Candice Bergen pretty much sells the show. Her interactions make me laugh. Maybe because the actress much like Kristen Bell shares my sense of humor.
You can do dancing without doing that. It is possible. This feels exploitative and made me squirm.
Not helped by the fact that Sara Palin's grandson is one of the featured dancers.
So deleted that right off the bat. No. You can watch it. But I have standards.
Dancing with the Stars - Adult Version
Eh, I don't understand why Grocery Store Joe is still on this show and the Blind Olympian got booted. I would have booted Mr. Stiff as a board. Yeah he's pretty, but he's boring and a horrid dancer.
And yes, we have the ringers...and I found myself agreeing with Len about Tinasha, which is every single one of her dances is exactly the same. She does the same acrobatic rock star back up dancer routine each time. It's boring.
My favorites to date, weirdly, aren't the ringers:
* Eva "Luna Lovegood" Lynch...who has improved a great deal, and was almost unrecognizable in the last two dances, not to mention inspired.
* Bobby Bones...who has an astonishing amount of energy. He does appear to be the son of Elvis Costello and possibly Jerry Lee Lewis.
* Nancy McKeon who is such a trooper. I loved Cirque Du Soleil Russian number. Also, she doesn't do the whole sex bit.
Of the ringers?
I like Pablo (surprising jump from sexy salsa to Frank Sinatra) and the Zombie kid the best (memorable subway cha cha). Both were different this week and took risks.
Never been much of a Mary Lou Retton fan, she annoys me for some reason. I've no clue why.
I also like poor John Schneider, who is being a good sport about the whole thing.
Tinasha and the NFL Football player -- I find rather boring and predictable. And I cannot stand
the Prima Ballerina Social Media Influencer/Model and Grocery Store Joe.
2. Remember how I posted about the argument I had with former roommate about books being better than television on FB? And she along with my mother made me see the error of my ways? Well, I ended up finding myself on the opposite side of that conversation with another social media friend on FB, where they said books were better than television.
Proof that sooner or later you will find yourself on the opposite side of every argument you ever have. Although usually there's a few years between conversations not two months.
I found it amusing. I think I already post the conversations. Can't remember.
Anyhow...if you think there's nothing good on television? You aren't looking. Which is okay, there's so much cultural stuff out there...we all get burned out on it and have to take a breather.
I admit, I'm a culture junkie. And I love television.
3. Watching PBS Great Performances - the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Awards honoring people like Neil Diamond, Emmylou Harris, Tina Turner, some drummer for the Beach Boys and various bands, Queen, John Williams, among others.
Emmylou did a shout out to PBS stating she hoped they didn't go anywhere. We need them in these chaotic times. They are a breath of fresh air. Too true.
The for-profit news channels can be rather toxic.
They've already done a couple of my fav's:
* Sweet Caroline and I'm a Believer (with Mickey Dolenz who made it a hit)
* Proud Mary and What's Love Got to do with It. (I love Tina and I love a couple of the belters, not all of them. Can't stand Celine Dion and Michael Bolton, both cause nausea, but I adore Whitney Houston and Tina Turner and Aretha Franklin. I like the ones who can go deep down and high.)
The tribute to John Williams is truly beautiful. Violinist and harpist playing one of his compositions. I think from Schindler's List.
4. Of the medical melodramas...the only two I'm enjoying are:
9-1-1, which is the most realistic and possible the best written of the fire-fighter/emergency series. It's run by Minear/Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuck, starring Angela Bassett and Peter Krause.
(I have a huge woman-crush on Angela Bassett. I love her.)
New Amsterdam, which is the most realistic and best cast of the hospital melodramas. It stars Freema Agyee, the husband from the Black List, among others. It's diverse. It's gritty. And it's kind.
I don't want to throw rocks at the television set during it (looking at you, Resident).
Grey's Anatomy is feeling its age and Station 19 is just not believeable. And I can't watch anything by Dick Wolf. [I know a lot of professional fire fighters due to my work. I'm hiring a firm to design fire alarms and dealing with the fire marshalls and fire engineers for the Railroad. These are big guys. They have to carry 400 pounds. The people on Station 19 cannot carry 400 pounds. On 9-1-1, I believe they can. Also the cops on Station 19 aren't that big or tough. I'm doing a lot hand-waving since it takes place in Seattle not NYC or LA, but still.]
[Note, I get how nurses and doctors can't watch these things. Feel the same way about legal and criminal procedures for the same reasons. If you know too much, it's hard to hand-wave stuff.]
5. The sitcoms I'm sticking with are:
The Good Place
Not as good the premier. (I've seen Adam Scott who plays Trevor somewhere before, and I don't like the actor. I find him annoying. I'm guessing I'm supposed to?) Also a lot of the jokes did not work for me. This show's at its best when it is making fun of metaphysics and philosophy. At it's worst when it makes fun of pop culture or ethics.
That said, Kristen Bell's snarky sense of humor saves it.
Jason: Does the MRI have radiation?
Simone: No there's no radiation in an MRI.
Jason: No even a little? (He's holding his hands together in a fist.)
Eleanor: Jason, are you holding a spider?
Jason: Yes.
Eleanor: Do you actually think that if you get zapped with radiation with the spider in the MRI, you'll get super-powers?
Jason: It could happen. It just needs to bite me. See? It's already bitten me several times already.
That works. Eleanor and Jason are comic gold.
But the Trevor jokes just annoyed me. Luckily he was kicked back to hell by the Judge, failing miserably. The Dick Tracy Jokes -- due to the dumb custom Michael was wearing, got old fast. As did the poop joke. For some reason Americans love scatological humor, I can live without it. Little boys? Grow up. Poop or Shit isn't funny. It's just shit.
The ethical dilemma about it being unprofessional for Chidi to become friends with one of his subjects while necessary to the plot arc, seemed a bit silly.
Not as good an episode. I only laughed during the Jason/Eleanor bit.
* The Neighborhood -- biggest laughs of the week for the pilot. Let's see if the second episode holds up.
It is sort of a reverse Archie Bunker/The Jeffersons, modernized.
* Murphy Brown
Candice Bergen pretty much sells the show. Her interactions make me laugh. Maybe because the actress much like Kristen Bell shares my sense of humor.
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Date: 2018-10-22 06:02 pm (UTC)(I wish I had some icons of them)